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Lisa Garcia: Our body doesn't
know the difference between
being in a carpool lane late to
pick up our kid and being
charged by the daycare or being
in trouble with a teacher or us
being chased by a lion. It has
no it does not discriminate on
it doesn't know the difference.
It doesn't care. It's going to
put you in that fight or flight
who just stops your digestion so
that your energy can go to your
arms and legs and you can fight.
Morgan Franklin: Welcome to
Better Together with Kosta
Yepifantsev, a podcast on
parenting business and living
life intentionally. We're here
every week to bring you
thoughtful conversation, making
your own path to success,
challenging the status quo, and
finding all the ways we're
better together. Here's your
host, Kosta Yepifantsev.
Kosta Yepifantsev: Hey y'all,
it's Kosta. Today I'm here with
my guest, Lisa Garcia, owner of
Cleanse Wellness Spa, National
Board Certified Health and
Wellness Coach, national board
credentialed colon
hydrotherapist and a certified
electrical lymphatic therapist
from California Coastal
cleansing Institute in San
Diego, Lisa, more than 80% of
our immune system is in the gut.
And when your gut isn't healthy,
your immune system and hormones
can't function properly. In your
experience, what are the real
life consequences of having a
poorly managed digestive system?
Lisa Garcia: So Kosta - I'm I'm
looking at so many different, a
myriad of health issues, right?
So nutritional deficiencies is a
huge one. So it's not absorbing
your guts not absorbing
nutrients properly. And so that
malabsorption is causing all
kinds of problems because the
essential vitamins and minerals
and nutrients are not getting
where they need to be. And so
that causes fatigue, it causes a
weakened immune system, which
our immune system is, it's our
number one fan is what it is,
and it's supposed to keep us
healthy. But with an imbalanced
gut and nutritional
deficiencies. We already have
compromised food, right? So
already our food is not
nutritious, but when you eat
anything, any vitamins and
minerals have gotta go where
they need to be in your gut. And
so that's one of the biggest
things. So the weakened immune
systems if the fatigue and of
course, it impairs growth of
stem cells and other things in
your body. That's a big one,
digestive disorders. They're
huge. They're running rampant.
Everyone has reflux that
gastrointestinal, you know,
disorder, GERD, irritable bowel
syndrome, IBS, almost all of my
clients have some sort of IBS
symptoms. There's inflammatory
bowel disease, like Crohn's and
Ulcerative Colitis. And that is
very dangerous, can cause leaky
gut as well. So that's when the
poisons are coming through,
right? So the blood is not clean
anymore, because the mucosal
membrane of the colon is not
doing its job. So
Kosta Yepifantsev: is there a
hole in the colon essentially,
that causes leaky gut, like I've
always heard that term, but I've
always wondered what it was.
It's
Lisa Garcia: not a whole, it's
more like little tears. Okay, so
our mucosal melt membrane in our
colon is very, very thick, and
it's got a thick layer of mucus
that's supposed to protect us
from all of the poisons and
toxins because our colon is the
most toxic place in our body.
When our gut is compromised.
That mucosal membrane can thin
out and little tears can present
themselves, and toxins can
escape into our bloodstream
through the colon. And that's
leaky gut, and that can cause a
whole host of other problems.
Kosta Yepifantsev: Why do more
people not know that a proper
diet is going to affect their
overall quality of life? Like
why do people just focus on
exercise myself being one of
them, and not necessarily
focusing on eating the right
things?
Lisa Garcia: I feel like people
think that they can get away
with it. Okay, like, that's
really I feel like, I think that
they can get away with it. And I
feel like it used to be at 8020
was, you know, pretty, okay. 80%
of the time you're eating
balanced meals, you're you're
not shoving food down your
throat without chewing properly.
You're not eating right before
you go to bed and snacking,
people that are health conscious
for people that want to feel
better. They were doing those
things. But people are so busy
now and the quality of food that
they have at their fingertips is
so compromised. And even organic
things can't really be trusted
to have A lot of organic
ingredients, but only a portion.
So I feel like more people are
just thinking that they can get
away with it. They're thinking,
Well, you know, I had a couple
of salads this week. And they
don't realize that all the
animal products are so hard to
digest. And I'm not saying that
you can't digest them. I'm
saying that it's harder to
digest. A true carnivore has a
digestive system from mouth to
anus of nine feet. And small
intestine by itself is 23 feet
or colon six feet, it doesn't
even count the esophagus. And so
people are gulping their food
down and expecting our body to
do miracles. And our bodies are
miraculous, but they can only do
Kosta Yepifantsev: and I'll be
honest, I mean, the last few
months, especially I've noticed
myself getting tired, if if I
don't get all eight hours of
sleep, I'm exhausted. And I
exercise daily, you know, I'm
running a lot, usually about six
miles a day. And I'm trying to
do intermittent fasting. But
because I've been so busy, I've
been eating late, like sometimes
at 11 o'clock at night, just
because I'm so hungry, and I
need something in my stomach
before I fall asleep. And I wake
up the next day, and I feel bad.
So what happens when you eat
late, and then you go straight
to bed.
Lisa Garcia: So if you eat
within two to three hours of
going to bed, your digestion is
slow. So it's supposed to be
slow, based on the rhythm of our
bodies. In a perfect world, you
should be asleep by 10 o'clock
PM, that's what your body is
meant to do. So you shouldn't be
eating past six or seven,
because it goes into a rest and
digest mode. And then that rest
and digest mode. It's a repair
mode. So if you fill your body
with food, and expect it to
mitigate that food and digest
that food at the same as in the
middle of the day, it's not
going to do that. So when you
wake up, you're essentially
still digesting food, and you
didn't get any repair work done
at all. Really?
Kosta Yepifantsev: Yes. Okay. So
see, these are all things that I
don't know, because I think I'm
doing everything right. I think
I'm getting eight hours of
sleep. I think I'm working a
lot. I think I'm exercising
regularly. So you know, I should
be fit as a fiddle. And but my
body is still performing
relatively well. You know, I
mean, granted, maybe I'm 34. So
I'm sure it probably still has a
little bit of runway. But what
happens long term, if you don't
follow those types of
guidelines, you know, if you go
to sleep super late, it's not
just focusing on a diet, but
just generally don't diet at
all, what's your body going to
do when you turn 65? Way before
Lisa Garcia: 65, you're going to
start getting low level
inflammation in your body, and
your body is going to fight
back, it's going to fight
against itself. That's why so
many people have autoimmune
conditions right now. And
there's a whole host of them. We
have been told in our family,
from our grandparents that
you're supposed to eat
breakfast, like a king and lunch
like a queen and dinner like a
poor person. And that's really
true. So we should not be eating
our heaviest meal. And we don't
need three meals a day, by the
way. I mean, my grandparents
were eating three meals a day,
because that's what they were
trained to do. But in reality,
if you study the Blue Zones
book, which is you know, gut
health was the number one thing
that everybody had in common in
that book. So from wherever they
were from, whether they were
Eskimos that had no vegetation,
and they only ate fish and seal
or whatever they were in Italy,
certain places in Italy, they
would eat fish, and some people
wouldn't they would you see
pasta and cheese, but based on
their DNA and where they were
from the indigenous people,
their gut health was perfect.
And that's how they were so
healthy for so many more years
than we are. So it is not
necessary for us to even eat
close to three meals a day. How
many meals are you supposed to
eat? I believe it's really
healthy to do a variation of
intermittent fasting, okay, it
depends on what you're doing. So
if you're doing an 18 hour fast,
you could probably do lunch and
a light dinner. If you're doing
a 12 hour fast, you could do
three meals that they should be
small. Then there's the ADF
fasting that I've talked about
which alternate day fasting,
which is really great for
fighting disease, inflammation
in the body, rejuvenate stem
cells. 36 hour fasts are amazing
as well. You know, a 36 hour
fast is like the premium
fasting, if you could do one of
those a week along with some
different intermittent fasting,
I feel like you would really
supercharge your body because
you're giving your body a chance
to repair it cannot be in a
repair mode and digest food at
the same time. It won't do that.
Kosta Yepifantsev: And it's like
a car. If you drive your car 24
hours a day, seven days a week,
every minute of every day,
eventually the car is going to
blow up and our digestion is no
different. So if we just keep
feeding ourselves, you know,
over and over and over again.
It's going to have negative
negative implications on our
health.
Lisa Garcia: It does and
actually putting that much
strain on our body has been
linked to so many things
dementia, any type of low level
inflammation, like I said before
autoimmune diseases obesity and
Anyone is so sick. I mean, in a
country where we have so much
food at our disposal, people are
eating nonstop. 24 hours a day,
gas station food, fast food. And
we're really not supposed to be
doing that. We're supposed to be
giving our body a break. We're
supposed to be eating like
handful our stomach is like the
size of our fist. So the fact
that we sit down and meet at
Texas Roadhouse, first of all,
we're gonna it's an appetizer of
some fried onion. And I'm like,
Oh, my gosh, and help, please
no. And then I just ate with my
daughter's in laws recently. And
I was like, stop. Oh, yeah, stop
eating for sure. A fried onion,
just big giant fried onion, and
then a big fat piece of steak
with loaded mashed potatoes with
all kinds of pork products on
those. And then of course,
they're drinking two glasses of
sweet tea or coke. And I'm like,
your insulin, your insulin, your
your your pancreas.
Kosta Yepifantsev: Where did
where did we learn this
behavior, though? I mean, my
parents. I mean, they bought
soda. But when I got older, I
was just like, Yeah, I don't
think I should be drinking this
much soda. I don't. It doesn't
make me feel good. And I listen
to my body. So I mean, I'm
assuming that people listen to
how their body is doing just
generally on how they feel. And
they make adjustments.
Lisa Garcia: No, that's what you
do. Because you're smart. And
you're health conscious. People
actually do not do that. They
come to me, and they've got
brain fog and fatigue, and they
don't feel good, and they're
gassy. And they, they have no
idea to what they're eating,
they have no idea that they
don't understand it at all. And
they're super smart people, but
they're always eating on the go.
They're never chewing their
food. I mean, I'm I'm doing
colonics and I'm looking at
whole pieces of food come out of
people. I'm like, so you had
tomatoes and kale, that's good.
I can see a hot dog. It's like
you can see these people what
they're eating. Right now not
long hotdog, but chunks of food
should have been digested by the
stomach, which or not.
Kosta Yepifantsev: And if they
don't get digested by the
stomach, then the nutrients can
be absorbed.
Lisa Garcia: Well, the stomach
is responsible for chemical
digestion. So there's a small
amount of chemical digestion
that goes on in the mouth. So
you've got the proteins, you got
different enzymes in your mouth
that breaks down fats and
sugars. But then you're supposed
to chew your food like 25 times
and nobody's doing that. And
then the food passes along.
Yeah, exactly. Everyone's in a
hurry that the food passes down
the esophagus. It's called a
bolus. And then it goes into
that chemical digestion of the
stomach, which is chyme. And
then it's put through the small
intestine, which is 23 feet
long. There's no bacteria in
there, its only job is to use
the microvilli and absorb
nutrients, nothing is absorbed
nutritionally in the stomach, or
in the colon. It's all done in
the small intestine. So if you
are going your food down hole,
and you've got low stomach acid,
your pH is off. So a lot of
people when they get heartburn,
they don't realize you have low
stomach acid, not too much. Your
body's not pH balanced properly.
So it's it's pushing through
seeing things through the small
intestine. And most of the
things that people are eating
these days have no nutritional
value. I mean, like a McDonald's
cheeseburger, like where's the
nutrition and there's nothing
popcorn is I mean, it depends.
Kosta Yepifantsev: I mean,
that's kind of a go to in our
household. That's why I ask and
I've heard that popcorn doesn't
have any nutritional value, it
just has calories. Well,
Lisa Garcia: it doesn't have
nutritional value. It's an empty
carb, and especially if it's a
genetically modified popcorn,
that's microwave in a microwave
bag, which is so bad for your
health and people are just
eating it. My husband and I we
fist fight over it. I'm like
Tim, that your hands. He's like,
No, I love it. It's butter
lovers. I said you're gonna use
this kind and I bought it the
Amish store. You know the GMO,
non GMO, and they will and I'm
telling you something, I
actually had a woman come in and
get a colonic for me. And it was
like her second or third colonic
and she called me in there. She
was buzzing the buzzer. And I
came in and she goes look at all
that corn. And I said, Well Corn
is Green it. It's got an outer
shell it doesn't really digest
properly. She goes No, I haven't
had corn in two weeks since my
daughter's baby shower. We had a
Mexican corn salad. And I
haven't had corn at all. And she
had already had three colonics
with a ton of waste come out. So
what does that mean? It just
means that her food is not being
properly digested or processed.
The corn is probably stuck in
the diverticulitis, which is the
little ridges inside the colon.
And when that happens, then
you're starting to get
diverticulitis, diverticulosis
and other problems with your
digestion that can cause major
inflammatory bowel problems in
your body. What
Kosta Yepifantsev: are some long
term diseases that come from not
taking care of your body not
taking care of your gut? Well,
Lisa Garcia: of course we know
about Crohn's disease and we
know about what actually
matters. So Crohn's disease is
an inflammatory condition of the
bowel, and it's when the bowel
stays chronically inflamed. And
it's actually really dangerous
because an inflammatory bowel
disease like Crohn's or colitis,
which is another thing
ulcerative colitis, it thins the
wall of the colon. So you're
more apt to need colon removal
surgery so that you will have
part of your colon removed or
that inflammatory part is. And
some people I mean, I met a
woman from Knoxville at 38 years
old, that their doctor, her GI
doctor wanted to put an
ileostomy bag. So they were
removing part of her ilium,
which is the last part of the
small intestine going into that
part of the bowel, right the
beginning of the bowel. And they
sent her to me to get empty,
because she had been on
laxatives for her whole life,
and her colon would not empty on
its own. And they couldn't do
the surgery properly, because
they were afraid that she would
die of sepsis because as soon as
you rip that colon open, and the
waste goes into the bloodstream,
it's over for you mean you die,
you can die very quickly, she
would have rather have had that
than give me a chance to revive
her colon with like 12 colonics,
even though I offered to give it
to her at half price. Why?
Because she wanted to believe in
that medical procedure, that
that would save her life. And
she thought, well, I won't be
constipated anymore. I can just
poop in this bag. And she know
what happened. She never came in
at all. Okay, we have a lot of
phone conversations. And she
never came in
Kosta Yepifantsev: at all. You
don't know if she made it
through the surgery or not. I
don't know. I mean, you can't
live Can you live with half a
colon, you
Lisa Garcia: can live but it's
not going to be a good quality
of life. And it's not going to
be a full long life. It's not
going to be because it continues
to breach. I mean, there are
people that have had partial
parts of their colon removed
from colon cancer. Chris Wark,
he's a big colon cancer
survivor. He has a book in a
coaching program called crispy
cancer, he had stage three colon
cancer at 26 years old. And he
did have surgery to remove, I
believe part of the colon. But
since then he went on a vegan
diet, he didn't do any type of
chemotherapy or anything like
that, or radiation and he is
still surviving, I think it's
almost 20 years later. So he's
got a coaching protocol for
that. And a lot of people are
finding that they're living
longer, because you can't do
medical, colon cancer treatment,
and expect to have a long term
lasting result without making
dietary changes and lifestyle
changes including stress.
Kosta Yepifantsev: So with
regards to colon cancer, and
stomach cancer, I mean, my
father in law had cancer. And
I'm sure he doesn't mind me
sharing this, but he had
radiation and chemotherapy on
his throat, because he had
throat cancer, and he lost. He
lost his tastebuds. And he can't
taste food. So imagine getting
to 72 years old, and not being
able to taste food. And the guy
was a great cook, too. So what
type of overarching impact as
radiation and chemotherapy have
when it's being beamed into your
midsection? Well,
Lisa Garcia: I'll tell you,
people after surviving such a
huge ordeal, the trauma to the
body of having part of your
colon removed, and then having
chemotherapy and then having
radiation. It is not a happy
life after that, and they never
are normal. They're never back
to the way they were. And as far
as your father in law goes,
here's someone that that is a
cook, you said a good cook.
Yeah. And part of our senses,
part of the enjoyment of life
food is to be enjoyed. And like
in our country, we eat it really
fast, and we're cognitive down.
But in other countries, a meal
will take three hours, I mean,
they'll just be there together
and the socialization piece, and
just the community piece in the
fellowship with their family or
friends. And the taste of the
food is a huge deal. Like
they'll spend hours preparing a
meal. And it's a whole, it's a
whole big thing that they do to
get all their senses satisfied,
not just eating to be full and
overly full. So your poor father
in law now has lost that ability
to really taste some of his
favorite things, all of his
favorite things. It's just
napalmed his body. Yeah, and and
I'm glad that he's still alive
in this country, when they ring
the bell, because you're cancer
free after they're doing, you
know, cancer treatment on you.
You're considered a cure, if you
can live after that bell is rung
for five years. But if you die
five years, and a week later,
they still considered you a
cure, and they're gonna check
off that box, that you got
breast cancer, and they cured
you from breast cancer with this
type of chemo, and radiation.
But you'll be dead in the sixth
year. Let's just say they still
cured you.
Kosta Yepifantsev: So we're
talking about all the issues and
the diseases that come from not
taking care of your gut. So
let's change course and talk
about the flip side. How can we
repair our gut and prevent these
types of illnesses? And how does
all of that work?
Lisa Garcia: Well, I want to
make sure that people know that
it's not just a physical
problem. A lot of mental
problems happen because the gut
is imbalanced because of the gut
brain connection that gut brain
access. If things are not being
properly absorbed, then we're
not feeling great. And if we try
to take a Prozac or is involved
or something else to try to fix
that. It's not going to fix it.
So a lot of people are
presenting with depression and
anxiety, especially anxiety. I
have people that come to me and
they're constipated, and they're
very anxious people, very
anxious. And they've had anxiety
disorders and through a series
of colonics for a couple of
years, even, they're completely
medicine free, and they're happy
and they're healthy. And because
they're not constipated, and
they're moving their bowels
properly and things are not in a
dysbiosis state. Now your
question was, how can we take
care of our guts. So number one,
slow down when we're eating, and
be mindful of what you're
eating, and read, be mindful of
what time of the day you're
eating, and don't eat in a
stressed state. Because when
you're in a stressed state, so I
have people that come in to me,
and they eat really well. And
they drink a lot of water, and
they exercise, but they're still
having issues with their
bloating or brain fog, or
constipation, or whatever. And
their problem is that they're
coming in for a colonic, and
they're putting their laptop on
their lap while they're doing
their colonic. And there's
lawyers, I mean, lawyers are the
word, I'm sorry, to my clients
that are lawyers, I'm not gonna
give your name, I'm gonna tell
you, they just they and they
just don't have the ability to
turn off that fight or flight.
So when we are in a stress,
place it our body doesn't know
the difference between being in
a carpool lane, late to pick up
our kid and being charged by the
daycare being in trouble with
the teacher, or us being chased
by a lion. It has no it does not
discriminate on it doesn't know
the difference, it doesn't care,
it's going to put you in that
fight or flight what just stops
your digestion so that your
energy can go to your arms and
legs and you can fight I mean,
that's what it thinks you're
doing. It's you're you're
running away. And so that's why
intermittent fasting is so
amazing as well, because it puts
your body in a state of ease.
It's not, it's not overworking.
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that I can get all of this
energy out of my body because if
I can't, like I didn't run
today, because I had a busy day.
And it's just it doesn't feel
the same. I don't feel as
relaxed because I just have all
this. You say not to eat in a
stress state? Well, well, I
mean, like when you're super
busy, you know, you're just kind
of stressed. You know? And and
when you said that I was
thinking to myself, Okay, let's
see, what am I going to eat
today? I guess I'm not going to
eat some stressful
Lisa Garcia: and busy is is the
worst curse word anymore.
Because busy is what's keeping
us from enjoying life. Yeah,
you're absolutely right. Eating
fermented foods is a huge thing.
If you can't eat yogurt, because
you can't eat dairy, then eat
some sauerkraut make your own.
You don't even have to have the
processed stuff at the grocery
store. It's super easy. It's
like salt and cabbage and water.
Okay, or something like I mean,
you can Google it. Yeah, so
fermented foods like kefir,
kombucha, sauerkraut, even
pickles, that really helps the
gut microbiome to reproduce,
especially after any type of
antibiotics. Take a good
probiotic, but take a prebiotic
probiotic that. So you got to
feed the probiotic gotta feed
the good bacteria what they want
to eat, so they can thrive. But
I'm not really into the pill,
you can get anything you need. I
mean, a good probiotic is really
great for people nowadays,
because everyone's eating on the
run, and everyone's eating a lot
of dead food. And so their
enzymes are low, and there's all
kinds of stuff with that. But if
you're eating consciously, if
you're eating purposely, and
stop eating too late, we talked
about that and keep your body
hydrated. And also fiber fiber
fiber fiber, there's no fiber in
a cheeseburger, there's none,
that little piece of lettuce and
that little slice of tomato is
not going to do it for you.
That's why in many countries,
and even here, we're supposed to
eat a salad first. Those are
those natural enzymes that are
kicking our bodies in to help us
digest and break down that food
if we only the carnivore diet.
Where are we getting the and I'm
not saying it's a bad diet.
Everyone's like, oh, I beat
cancer with a camera or diet.
You probably did. That's great.
But that's not for everybody.
Remember, we talked about the
blue zones. So everyone's diet
is not the same. You're from
Russia. So if you've got
grandparents that lived to be
100 years old, what did what did
they eat? What was their
lifestyle? Like?
Kosta Yepifantsev: I mean,
everybody that I can picture in
my family that lived in Russia
were very active because they
couldn't afford a car. So they
had to walk everywhere. Or if
they took the train, it was
like, you know, you get off at
the stop and then you got to go
walk a mile to wherever you're
wherever you're going. Um, but
that's in Germany too. That's
all across Europe and Asia. And
we ate a lot of salted food,
preserved food. We ate a lot of
salt. But nobody was taking like
high blood pressure meds. Yep.
And nobody was suffering from
hypertension. I mean, not like
significantly to the best of my
knowledge. It's just like when
we're talking about this, I'm
trying to think in my mind like,
Okay, well, when am I going to
be able to find time to be able
to do this balanced diet the
right way. So the only thing
that I can assume from from my
vantage point is just fast. Just
don't eat
Lisa Garcia: fast thing is very
good. But when you refuel, make
sure you have something good
because here like you were
saying, the walking right here,
somebody will circle the Walmart
parking lot for 20 minutes to
get that close spot to the door,
right? Instead of just parking
in the back and walking, it
takes two minutes. And why would
you want to shop at Walmart
anyway? I mean, they do have an
organic section. I'm kind of
excited about that. I mean, I'm
from California. So whenever I
can get organic fruits and
vegetables. I like the farmer's
market here. They sell all year
round. We have tower gardens
growing in our downstairs, which
are like hydroponic tower
gardens. I have like so much
kale. My family's like, I'm not
eating all that kale. And I
said, Yes, you are. So we have
to figure out ways to do it. Be
creative. You don't have to, you
know, eat like a bird. Fasting
is amazing. But you're going to
want to keep your strength up
because you do a lot of
exercising, right. So like we
said, if you fail to plan you
plan to fail, what can you put
together for yourself? I mean,
meal planning for someone that's
not overeating can probably take
a couple of hours on a weekend.
If you're a busy baby on a
weeknight, maybe the kids could
help you hey, let's look at some
stuff online and see, what can
you help me with? You know, can
you help me cut the vegetables?
Can you help me make the soup or
whatever it is? Having good food
from your house, that source at
home? That's whole food based.
And not with a bunch of
preservatives, if it's got more
than five ingredients in it, and
you can't pronounce it, I would
keep it to that. That was at 20
I would keep it to that 20% But
if you walk around in a grocery
store right now, and you see
what people have in their carts,
it's no wonder all the kids are
medicated and everyone is
feeling lousy with brain fog and
everything
Kosta Yepifantsev: and wait, so
no more eating cereal for
breakfast cereals like the
worst. Okay, bad you hear that?
No cereal is
Lisa Garcia: there's no protein
in it. First of all, we need
protein to keep our muscles up.
And there could be some fiber,
but I feel like it hits your
body really quickly. Because
it's a carb. It's a simple carb.
Usually. I mean, I know they
tried to say that there's
healthy cereals but
Kosta Yepifantsev: oatmeal.
Yeah, oatmeal is good rolled,
rolled. Oh, that's
Lisa Garcia: a slow burning car.
Yeah, you can put some fruit
inside of it. Berries, low
glycemic, you know, maybe put a
little bit of flaxseed on the
top that'll help you move it
through that colon.
Kosta Yepifantsev: So last
question, and then we're gonna
move on to the treatments, we're
gonna move on to cleanse if I
was somebody listening to the
show, and I was like, You know
what, today's the day, I'm going
to start fasting. And I'm going
to start eating healthier, so
that my gut is healthier. And
I'm gonna love myself in that
category. Do you start by just
like eating soup and bread? Or?
I mean, what would you recommend
would be a good way to have the
most impact on the health of
your gut? through food? Not
necessarily anything else that
we could implement today? What
type of food would that be?
Well,
Lisa Garcia: it wouldn't be
coffee, first thing in the
morning, I would be awake for at
least an hour, hour and a half
before I had any coffee. And you
might want to, after your hot
shower, turn the cold water on
and get that lymphatic system
going help process that coffee
because otherwise, you're going
to create a cortisol spike. And
I would definitely would start
out your breakfast with protein.
So if you're going to be eating
in the morning at all, I would
probably wait till after 11
o'clock if you were going to eat
but if you can't, I would eat
protein eggs. Okay, something
like that. I don't know. So
doesn't necessarily have to be
bacon and eggs, but eggs with
some vegetables in it an omelet
for Tata, something like that.
And if you have to be quick, a
protein bar of some sort that's
really sustainably sourced,
right? A protein bar that has
really clean ingredients in it
is good. But don't just start
out with that coffee because
it's going to spike that
cortisol right up. And that
starts you into that fight or
flight for the day. What if it's
used for pre workout? Pre
Workout? Well, pre workout is
great. If you're trying me and
my son is all into pre workout.
Gosh, I have to pry it out of
his hands. But like
Kosta Yepifantsev: instead of
using the mix, just use coffee
from pre workout. Is that okay?
Coffee
Lisa Garcia: on an empty stomach
when you first wake up in the
morning is going to cause a
cortisol response which is going
to eventually burn out your
adrenals Okay, there you go. I
mean, put some MCT oil or
something in that thing so that
it can regulate some sort of
little fat and that's another
thing when you take vitamin D
certain vitamins, especially
vitamin D, which is so important
for your health. You got to take
it with a fat so don't take a
vitamin D pill. I have one that
I buy this vitamin d3 k two that
I put under my tongue and it's
mixed with the MCT oil. And
that's what it's supposed to be
doing.
Kosta Yepifantsev: I mean I feel
like I need to just quit my job
and focus completely on my
nutrition.
Lisa Garcia: You don't have to
be that rash. But I think you're
doing great. But I do think like
what you said you're 34 years
old to age is on your side. So
Kosta Yepifantsev: let's just
say somebody decides to do
intermittent fasting middle of
the day, they have a big lunch
and then they have a small
dinner, right? Okay, that
Lisa Garcia: they can do that.
Or they can have a big lunch and
no dinner. Okay, that's called
omad. The one meal a day is very
advantageous as well, as long as
you stop eating before five,
six,
Kosta Yepifantsev: a good friend
of mine, who I work with, he has
a client that we care for that
lives in adult foster care. He's
103. He's eaten one meal a day.
That's right, though. Matt is
amazing. Yeah, one meal a day.
And he says that a lot of people
that you know, are in the Blue
Zones, I guess. Yeah. They also
just eat one meal a day, because
we don't I mean, at the end of
the day, just imagine if you
filled your car up every single
day. You know what I'm saying?
That just wouldn't make any
sense.
Lisa Garcia: We are sick because
we're overeating. The food
supply is awful. The water
supply is awful. That's all
true. But we're also gorging
ourselves with way too much
fruit that one meal a day is a
huge benefit to the body. All
right, let's
Kosta Yepifantsev: talk about
cleanse. We all want to look and
feel our best for women,
specifically, hormonal
imbalances caused by the gut can
be life changing and body
altering. How can colon
hydrotherapy reset the colon and
your body and what's involved in
this procedure? So
Lisa Garcia: I'll just say that
I have a lot of women that come
to me for weight loss, and they
find it. But it's not just it's
not fat that they're losing.
They're losing waist that stuck
in their bodies. I mean, even
the women that come to me and
they say Oh, well, you know, I I
go the restroom twice a day. And
then they'll come in for a
colonic, and by their second or
third colonics. They're like,
wow, like a Buick just came out
of me. Like I can't believe all
the stuff that's in the more
colonics you do in the
beginning, the more stuff comes
out. It's just the way it works.
Stuff is caked on. And so as far
as the hormones go, a lot of
women are having hormone issues
right now. And a lot of the PCOS
and all the other stuff that's
happening right now. And what's
PCOS, polycystic ovarian
syndrome. And it's where the
women are selling their ovaries
just under ovaries, unexplained
weight gain, low level
inflammation, autoimmune stuff
happening to very young girls.
So we're talking like 1012 years
old, all the way up to like its
childbearing years is what it
is. And I won't even go on the
rabbit hole for that. But I will
tell you that it balances
hormones in women, just because
the gut microbiome is able to
reregulate itself. And so when
you reregulate yourself, your
whole body regulates, right, but
that's how it works. So if the
center of health, I think
poverty is, as I said, like the
center of all diseases in the
gut, so the center of all health
would be in the gut, too. Yeah.
So I feel like women come in to
me and they want to lose weight.
A lot of our clients were navy
seals in San Diego, they would
come in to make weight, or
regular people in the military
were coming in to make weight
and they would be doing
intermittent fasting, they would
be doing meal replacement shakes
as well. And they would be doing
colonics. And they do two a week
over a six week period of time,
and they would drop 25 pounds.
But we want to do like the long
haul the long term benefits of
colonics. Right? So especially
for women, yeah, they're losing
impaction. But they're also
losing cravings for sugar, which
I'm seeing. We have a big
ozempic and semaglutide. A lot
of women that are taking that
right now.
Kosta Yepifantsev: How's that
going? Can you like can we just
stop right there and just park
and tell me what your thoughts
are on ozempic and semaglutide.
Lisa Garcia: I am usually a
nonpharmaceutical kind of gal.
That being said, the thought
behind the semaglutide. It's a
peptide shot, right. And so I
feel like it's not all that bad.
If you've got insulin resistance
and other things going on with
your body. I don't think it's
like the worst that you can do.
But part of the problem with it,
and part of how colonics fits in
with it is that it slows down
your digestion, which is why
you're not eating as much. So if
you're not eating as much and
you're obese or you have insulin
resistant, or you have other
things going on, it's really
great for you to stop taking in
so much food, but then you get
constipated. And then you're
feeling lousy, because then your
body is like at a snail's pace,
right so that natural
peristalsis of the colon is not
happening. It's not squeezing
your Colin's whole job is to
squeeze liquid that comes from
the small intestine after it's
done absorbing all the nutrition
and squeezing that liquid out
and forming a stool. That's what
our job is.
Kosta Yepifantsev: I've had
friends who have been on the
ozempic Manjaro shot and they
have terrible stomach issues
terrible.
Lisa Garcia: And that's because
their body is in a slow motion.
Are
Kosta Yepifantsev: they so is it
genetics that they are just not
a good candidate for this shot?
Or can they change their diet to
be able to take the peptide shot
and not have the stomach issue
Lisa Garcia: barring food
sensitivities to certain things
on the Mediterranean diet, I
would assume based on everything
that I've read that
Mediterranean diet is very
healthy for people on the
semaglutide, the G it's called
the GLP. One is what it is. And
that's is that encompasses the
ozempic and the Waco V and
Manjaro. And all that stuff.
Mediterranean diet is very
balanced, it's very advantageous
for people on that it, it helps
because it's got a lot of
fibers, a lot of fruits and
vegetables and legumes, they're
going to want to eat smaller
portions, obviously, if you go
into greens first or wherever
these places are that serve
Mediterranean food in the area
and you order five giant falafel
play. I mean, like, because
here's the problem with people
that are taking those shots,
too, is that they're not getting
any type of health coaching or
behavior or lifestyle changes.
So they will overeat. I mean, in
the beginning, yeah, they'll
start losing the weight and
everything, but they eventually
will overeat. Because if you're
eating for a reason, other than
hunger than food is not the
answer. Right? So that's just I
want to say that right off the
bat like that, they will stuff
themselves just like somebody
that's had gastric bypass will
stuff themselves.
Kosta Yepifantsev: And I think
we've established that you don't
need that much food, you do not?
Yeah,
Lisa Garcia: you do not. You
need about three handfuls of
food a day, why you will not be
sick, and you will not be
starving. My grandparents were
like, Oh, you have to eat
everything on your plate in
these giant meals because they
grew up in the Depression. Sure.
And they were all afraid of
starving to death, right? For
real, and I understand it. But
when they're raising me as a
Portuguese girl, and I'm so fat,
I'm like a butterball and I'm
like, This can't be right. I'm
eating the same amount as my
grandfather like, Oh, you're so
cute. Are you hungry for your
third breakfast? And it's like,
like, they're all happy because
they can afford to feed me.
That's
Kosta Yepifantsev: it right
there. Because they have the
money to be able my grandparents
were the exact same when they
came to America. All they did
was just asked me if I wanted
some food. And I was like, No,
I'm not hungry. We just ate.
They're like you sure you don't
want anything else? Yeah, you
sure you don't want anything
else? And it was just like, it
was their way of showing how
much they loved me by feeding
me. Right.
Lisa Garcia: But the problem is,
is that is that now we're all
running around? And we're not I
mean, like how much exercise to
the average teenager get. I
mean, if they're into sports,
okay, great. But a lot of the
teenagers that I'm seeing have
like these little purple circles
under their eyes, and they're
just attached to their phones,
and they don't really want to do
much. They're playing video
games. And so it's one big giant
recipe for disaster because
we're supposed to be exercising,
and we're supposed to be
spending time in the sun. And
we're supposed to be grounding,
which is take your shoes off and
walk across your grass and the
bare feet. It takes inflammation
out of our bodies. But instead,
people are sleeping with
grounding mat. I mean, there's
so much stuff going on with our
health. But I feel like as far
as women in weight loss go, yes,
colonics are very helpful with
that. And especially with the
monitor arrow and all those
shots because it helps clean the
colon. I have a woman that's
coming to me right now. And
she's coming to me because it
makes it gives her energy
because the colon absorbs water.
And so just like an IV will give
you energy, the colon is a great
way to hydrate your body. It's
arguably even better than an IV
in some circumstances. So you
leave very happy and very up. I
mean, of course, if you have an
impaction problem, and you're
having a really big event full
colonic with me, right?
Sometimes you might be tired.
But that's a person that's tired
after coming into me anxious,
I'll take it. You want to be
tired, you want to be relaxed.
Okay, well, that's how it's
affecting you. But most people
are very energized, because it's
very hydrating for their body.
Kosta Yepifantsev: How does it
work? You know, like to it's a G
rated show, but you know, I
mean, I'm assuming that somebody
like a Is it like a prostate
exam?
Lisa Garcia: Not at all. In
fact, it's really private. So a
colonic, we use FDA regulated
class to intimate devices and
our open colonic system. The
insertion is so small, it's like
the size of your pinkie, you
know, it's much smaller than a
stool, and it's not
uncomfortable. So it's already
set up when you come into the
office. And so your room is set
up, you come in, you get
undressed, you have a clean
gown, you're given a glove, and
you're given lubricant, and you
lubricate your body and the end
of the little nozzle, and you
lay on the equipment and you do
the insertion and you call me
and I come in and you're
completely covered. And I give
you hot water ball and do a
little bit of a belly massage
and belly exam. And I turn the
water on so slow. So anyone
that's ever had an enema, that's
like more of a of a hard
squeeze, you know, and it's only
a certain amount of, of liquid.
So it only goes up to the four
to seven inches of the larger of
the colon. And that's all there
is because that's the the rectum
and it'll maybe empty out the
rectum and small amount of the
sigmoid colon, but this is like
16 liters over a 45 minute
period of time. So it's a warm
water it's micron filtered for
the for, you know, for the city
water, it's got UV lighting, for
microorganisms, it's got
temperature control and backflow
prevention and flow control, it
can't blow your colon, we vet
you to make sure that you are a
candidate that safe right, we
keep it to 45 minutes because
you're getting so much water and
so great for you but you've got
to process that for your
kidneys. So if you're somebody
with renal insufficiency is
you're not a candidate for colon
hydrotherapy, but it's very
private and I put the water on
very slow and low Oh, and you
just hold yourself closed. Like
as if you were holding an enema
N and is 30 seconds or a minute,
two minutes depends on the
person. And when you feel full,
you simply release the waters.
If you're having a bowel
movement, the insertion stays in
you the whole time because
you're in it, then you based on
your proximity to it, and you
see the water and waste come out
and you're watching it all
unfold. Wow, a lot of young
people are seeing this on tick
tock and because, you know, they
don't care that they wasted it
right. Oh, yeah. I mean, I'm
telling you, it's people end up
loving it. And Leonardo DiCaprio
and Kim Kardashian talked about,
you know, other people that are
in the public eye, they want to
they want to extend their lives.
But Mae West did colonics all
the time, Princess Diana was big
into colonics. So I mean, these
are people that want to extend
their life, and they want to not
have things sitting in their
body for too long.
Kosta Yepifantsev: How'd you get
into this? I mean, like, I know
that you weren't growing up
thinking I know what I'm going
to do when I grew up. So how I
mean, how did it happen?
Lisa Garcia: I was a legal
assistant for a long time, okay.
And I was around a lot of
lawyers, and I was going to be a
lawyer until I realized that
everyone goes to the noon
meeting at lunchtime. And that's
an AAA meeting. And I'm like,
Why is everybody so stressed out
and angry and smoking cigarettes
at their desks when they're not
supposed to be smoking in here
and, and wires, everybody on
their third wife and their kids
are all sad. And so I decided
not to be a lawyer. Because for
me, I wanted to be a trial
lawyer. So I stopped doing the
legal secretary legal assistant
stuff, and I started trying to
do some self care. And colonics
was something that I wanted to
try because I was gonna go on a
cruise, and they had some group
honestly lose 10 pounds on a
month, or whatever it is. And so
I did it. And I fell in love
with colonics. And so as I
became more health conscious, I
became a health coach first and
I was like, Well, this is a part
of it. My mom has lupus and
other autoimmune conditions,
stuff going on. And colon cancer
was running rampant. And I just
ran into that Chris war person,
and you know, online, and I just
really believed the more I
learned about health, and the
gut, the more I realized that
that was really where it was.
And so I just wanted to do and I
wanted to do a whole new career
change. And that's what I'm
doing. I love it. I love it so
much. It doesn't gross me out at
all. I'll stare right at your
poop and be like, hey, there
goes. And people are like, I
can't believe you do this for a
living. And I said, believe it.
Well,
Kosta Yepifantsev: I mean, so
let's, let's give some advice.
When it comes to anything
related to the colon, rectum, or
but in general, people can feel
a bit skittish No pun intended.
For anyone that's feeling
anxiety about how the insertion
or the evacuation process works,
smells, or feels, what's your
advice?
Lisa Garcia: My advice is to
come in and try it, at least
call me and book a free
consultation to come in, we have
these Discovery sessions that
are 30 minutes long, I'll show
you the whole spa, we'll go
through everything. There are
fans and apparatuses on the
equipment that suck the odor out
of the air, the rooms stay very
clean. They have CDC, FDA
regulated cleaners that I use,
and they're very private. So
that's the thing. I was telling
Morgan, you know, a lot of miles
so 1/3 of my clients are men and
men that are in your position
are not the ones that are
embarrassed, okay, they love it.
They're like, we're doing this
with the older gentleman that
park at the all these parking
lot and walk or walk across the
street. I'm like, here's my guy.
He's like, Frogger he's trying
to like, run and not get hit by
the car. Or the guy that parks
by Dr. Todd at the end of our of
our complex, you know, they tell
me Look, we believe this, you
know, saved our life. We feel so
much better. I can't give you a
review. But I'll give you a word
of mouth referral. And so
that's, that's totally fine.
Sure. They could just say, Hey,
I tried the services and I feel
so much better. But if they
start getting into I was bloated
or I was this or as then people
are going to know what they're
doing. And there's just a real
stigma, especially in the south
here. So in California, if
you're one of my clients in
California and you have $150
extra in your week, you're not
going to get your eyebrows done
or your eyelashes done before a
colonic. Wow, you're just not
Yeah, that's not what we do
Kosta Yepifantsev: all around
the world. People do enemas and
colonics and all that stuff, and
Lisa Garcia: that's how they're
staying healthy. And that's and
that's a big part of alternative
treatment for cancer and other
diseases, other inflammatory
diseases. I have a lot of people
that come into me there inflamed
from tic diseases. So that alpha
gal, the Rocky Mountain Spotted
Fever, the Lyme disease. I have
a naturopath that sending me
people from Franklin or
Brentwood or something. And she
believes I mean, I just had a
woman came in today she had
melanoma and she decided to not
go to traditional route. She's
seeing this naturopath who's
like some sort of a chemist.
She's amazing. Her name is
Tamara. And she sent me this
woman and she said the woman
told me today she goes, I did
the three colonics I'm gonna do
three more. And she said that
she believes the colon
hydrotherapy is a big part of
how my numbers have gone way way
into range like they're supposed
to be. So that's a huge deal for
me to hear that.
Kosta Yepifantsev: So your
office is where? For 20
Lisa Garcia: South low Avenue in
Cookeville. So that's behind the
absolute fitness in the old
days. Yeah, it's
Kosta Yepifantsev: by Baba
Ganges.
Lisa Garcia: It's Yeah, it's
further down towards the big bar
on the same side of the street
as Bubba candies. Nice.
Kosta Yepifantsev: Nice. So how
many of your clients are like
locals? Are they primarily local
people? Or do you get them from
across the state across the
country region,
Lisa Garcia: I get them from
Kentucky and Georgia, I get a
lot of Knoxville people. As a
matter of fact, I I have a lot I
have a good Cookeville
following, and upper Cumberland
following but the place in
Knoxville went out of business
and 2020 or retired or
something. So they were all
going to Chattanooga, but now
they're choosing me because of
my reviews, because I have so
many reviews I have like, and
they're all five star that's
probably between Facebook, Yelp
and, and Google, I think I have
almost 100, which is crazy
because I've I've had over 500
clients, but a lot of practice
filling is or they keep bugging
me to open up there. They're
like you should open up there.
It's so much bigger and you will
be rolling. And every time I
come in here it's It's quiet.
It's quiet, because it's a new
business. It's a new concept. I
have all the faith in the world
that people in Cookeville and
the surrounding counties are
going to catch on. But I do have
a lot of transplants do they
come in? Yeah.
Kosta Yepifantsev: And so this
business opened in 2022.
Lisa Garcia: It opened November
the first part of November 2022.
So yeah, it's very new.
Kosta Yepifantsev: I'm assuming
just from this conversation,
that there's not a lot of
offices that perform this type
of work. I mean, in the state of
Tennessee, how many people do
this Kalon these colonics? Well,
Lisa Garcia: I'm not sure how
many do them in the state of
Tennessee, but I know that
there's only six of us that are
i x certified. Wow. Actually,
sir, because there's an entire
state and regulations for this.
Just because there's no
regulations for it doesn't mean
you shouldn't be certified
because you're dealing with
people's health. And when you're
certified, you can do things
like get malpractice insurance
like I have, or you know, for
like 189 bucks a year like
that's all I pay for $3 million
in coverage because it's so safe
when you know what you're doing.
I know that I'm the only one
doing open colonics in the upper
Cumberland for sure. And I know
that I'm getting a lot of that
Knoxville traffic coming down to
me. So there aren't too many of
us that are certified. There's a
Chattanooga there's a few and
Franklin. Franklin has some
amazing colon hydrotherapist
over there as well. I had a
woman come to me today from her.
She referred the woman to me
because she's only doing
packages, and she's like $250 a
colonic or something. So it's a
lot different to price different
branches a colonic for me a
single open colonic is 125 Nice.
You can buy two for 200. I have
all kinds of specials and I have
all kinds of memberships that
people do so I do a lot of other
things that are too so they
electro lymphatic drainage, I do
that as well, which is great
before colonic because you can
see the lymph come out in the
colonic and I do far infrared
sauna. Everything I do is to
take toxins out and lower
inflammation in your body.
That's everything I
Kosta Yepifantsev: do. So some
of the things that you're
saying, when I listen to Joe
Rogan. He talks a lot about like
grounding yourself and all that
stuff. I have red light therapy,
so I bought this Juve panel that
I put on my wall, and I stand in
front of it for five minutes a
day on each side. Before I go to
bed.
Lisa Garcia: It's great for
lowering inflammation in the
body for sure. Yeah. And for us,
we don't have a red light panel.
But we have a far infrared
sauna, which is like heats your
body from the inside out like
babies incubator, right? So it
lowers inflammation that way
blood pressure and stuff. And we
have a red light therapy going
on at the same time that gene
therapy is an excellent product.
Yeah,
Kosta Yepifantsev: for sure. By
this point in the episode, there
might be a few people that are
feeling skeptical or thinking
that the body heals itself
naturally, and there's no need
to get in there and mess with
the flow. What's your message to
anyone that's thinking this,
Lisa Garcia: we are not living
in our grandmother's earth
anymore. So we were absolutely
created to fix ourselves. Our
bodies are amazing. But our
bodies are not filled any more
with natural substances. So if
you are living a natural life
and you are not drinking the tap
water and you're not drinking
sweet tea, and you're not
breathing the air with the
chemtrails and all the other
stuff they've got going on here,
and you're living a life where
you're taking time to breathe
and meditate that absolutely
your body is going to be regular
and it's going to heal itself.
But we have a lot of toxins
coming our way that are
engineered and lab and our
bodies were not meant to break
that down. A genetically
modified seed. If you
genetically modified a human, it
wouldn't be a human anymore like
it was supposed to be. So when
you eat an ear of corn and it's
genetically modified, it looks
and smells and tastes like corn,
it's not corn. So we're just
giving our bodies a little bit
of help in getting rid of
chemicals from hair products.
From nail nail product. I mean,
everything has a chemical in it.
So when you're spraying your
hair with hairspray in the
morning, you're ingesting all
that everything gets passed
through the colon everything is
passed to the liver for sure.
And we unburden the liver when
we help with a colonic because
our livers have over 500
functions. It's the hardest
working organ in our body and
the colon is tied directly into
the liver. That's why a lot of
people do come Coffee enemas,
they like to release liver bile,
they like to help the liver to
be a healthier organ. Everybody
has non alcoholic fatty liver,
it seems our livers are just
overtaxed and overburdened. So,
yes, we can assume that our
bodies are created to function
in a healthy way, by themselves,
but that's not the world we're
in our babies are born with,
like 200 and some 1000 chemicals
in their umbilical cords. Even
look that up online. It's
craziness. If they're just it's
just too much, yeah, too much
for us to mitigate. So So I'm
not saying you'll die without a
colonic? I'm just saying that
why not feel your best? Well,
that's
Kosta Yepifantsev: what I'm
saying. So with regards to
feeling your best, what does
that look like for the daily
person when they get a colonic?
Lisa Garcia: Well, I have one
lady that comes in. And she says
to me, she comes in every other
week. And she says, You know how
I know it's time for my colonic
because I can't think straight.
So it really helps her with
brain fog. So not everyone comes
in there because they're
constipated, or they have IBS
symptoms. A lot of people come
in there, because it's just a
way to get rid of the stress in
their bodies get rid of anything
that might be stuck in there,
the brain fog, the fatigue, the
bloating, the gas. And a lot of
it is not just from eating too
fast. A lot of it's from what
you're eating, how you're eating
it, how late you're eating it,
and you're not giving your body
time to process it. So they're
just coming in there to unplug.
And to give their bodies that
little bit of extra energy. Like
I told you, the woman that came
in today, she comes in because
she has so much energy after her
colonics. So everyone comes in
for a different reason. But I
feel like what I mainly hear
from people is they've lost
bloat, they don't feel bloated,
and they don't feel fatigued.
And the brain fog is a huge one.
Kosta Yepifantsev: I mean,
Morgan and I are gonna go do it.
I would love that. And you said
you have to take three days, not
like in a row or you have to
take three days out of the
schedule.
Lisa Garcia: No, we have
packages of three that we we
recommend. So we're not supposed
to recommend because we're not
doctors. But if you're trying to
come in there and you're trying
to do a reset, there would be a
minimum of three in California,
they would tell you 12. But hear
they'll look at you like you're
crazy. So I'm going to say
three, can you just do three,
and we'd like to do maybe a
Monday, Tuesday or Monday
Wednesday because we want to
capitalize on the hydration that
we've given you people almost
always tell me they see more
action, they see more come out
in the second or third colonic
than they do the first one. But
but people come in on their
lunch hours. So you can come in
at 10 o'clock in the morning and
be out of there by 1045. And
you're on your way. It's not
like, you know, you're down for
the count for the whole day
people come in because it makes
them feel better. There's no
like downtime for this. It's
like if you went in for an IV
therapy, you know, Myers
cocktail, or whatever they call
it. And you're and you leave and
you go on your way. I like to
ask that they will do a minimum
of three to six colonics just
because I feel like it's going
to help their health. And I'm
going to get a great review. And
people are going to trust me to
help other people because the
reviews are everything for me.
Right? Because that's what makes
people trust what we're doing.
Kosta Yepifantsev: Yeah,
absolutely. So we always like to
end the show on a high note, who
is someone that makes you better
when you're together?
Lisa Garcia: I would definitely
say my husband, my unsung hero,
my husband is tall and quiet.
And he he built that spa from
the ground up. I mean, that used
to be Spin City studio. So when
I walked in there, there was
black foam on the floor and
there was no walls and him and
his best friend who moved from
California as well. They came
and they they really put their
heart into that place. And so my
husband Ruben Garcia, I love him
very much. And he moved here
because I wanted to and he comes
with me everywhere. He's a good
sport, I drag him to the
Cookeville lifestyle parties
like drag him to everything I go
to for the chamber and you know,
he's going out with the dinner
with me and a client. So he is
somebody that really makes me
better. He has nothing but
patients for me. I sunk my life
savings into this into this
build and he didn't even bat an
eye. He has so much confidence
in me and he's always saying
like I had a billboard by
vertical coffee for a while and
he took a video of it and send
it to our kids of the family
chat. He goes there's my wife,
there's your mom, so I just want
to thank him he definitely makes
me better.
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