1
00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:04,000
Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Bounce Forward with me.

2
00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:07,480
Speaker 2: Tip Paul, I'd like to acknowledge your traditional custodians of

3
00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:10,480
Speaker 2: the land on which I'm recording this podcast, who were.

4
00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,080
Speaker 1: Under people of the Pooler Nation.

5
00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:18,480
Speaker 2: I pay my respects to elders, past and presents. Sue

6
00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,320
Speaker 2: came to me with a great question. I would love

7
00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,079
Speaker 2: to know your thoughts on juice detoxes, tiff or any

8
00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,639
Speaker 2: type of detoxes. Do they actually work, do they have

9
00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,120
Speaker 2: a place in a routine at all? And I want

10
00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,279
Speaker 2: to touch on a few TikTok trends and things in

11
00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:37,960
Speaker 2: this little chat, But the concept of detox diets.

12
00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000
Speaker 1: Wow, you know they're there to.

13
00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,879
Speaker 2: Eliminate toxins from the body, and it's popular, definitely in

14
00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,960
Speaker 2: wellness circles. But I know a lot of medical experts

15
00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:52,479
Speaker 2: and professionals and dietitians and sensible pts will say to

16
00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:54,000
Speaker 2: steer away from detoxes.

17
00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,320
Speaker 1: But I thought I would start by.

18
00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,520
Speaker 2: Sort of doing some of the pros of detoxes because

19
00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,440
Speaker 2: a lot of peop people bash them, and there are

20
00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:03,240
Speaker 2: some pros.

21
00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:04,560
Speaker 1: The first one.

22
00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,160
Speaker 2: Is that it does encourage you to be more aware

23
00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,920
Speaker 2: of your healthy eating habits, so you're increasing consumption of

24
00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,600
Speaker 2: fruits and vegetables. So if you're blitzing you know, your

25
00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:18,119
Speaker 2: favorite fruits and veggies into a green juice or whatever,

26
00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,880
Speaker 2: there's a lot of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants in there

27
00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,200
Speaker 2: that are good for your health, so it's not a

28
00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,520
Speaker 2: no no. And then you've got the reduction in processed food,

29
00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:31,160
Speaker 2: which is great. You're reducing unhealthy fats, sugars, additives.

30
00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,960
Speaker 1: That's a good pro You've got that focus on hydration.

31
00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:40,319
Speaker 2: Fluid intake is so important and it really emphasizes you

32
00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,360
Speaker 2: to measure your fluid intake and know exactly how much

33
00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,920
Speaker 2: you're drinking and that's great for your kidney function and

34
00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,440
Speaker 2: your overall health. And then you've got a really good

35
00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:58,480
Speaker 2: mindful eating aspect here that you can you know how

36
00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,760
Speaker 2: different foods affect your body and potentially lead to long

37
00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:06,160
Speaker 2: term you know, choices. You may recognize that you're having

38
00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,440
Speaker 2: way too much coffee and want to detox from the

39
00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:13,320
Speaker 2: coffee or something like that. So there are some pros there,

40
00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,240
Speaker 2: but let's have a look at the cons as well.

41
00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:21,800
Speaker 2: So h number one, there's a lack of scientific evidence.

42
00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,040
Speaker 1: It's a pretty big one.

43
00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:27,440
Speaker 2: There is little clinical evidence to support the effectiveness of

44
00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:33,000
Speaker 2: detox diets and eliminating toxins. The human body is already

45
00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:35,920
Speaker 2: equipped with organs like the liver and the kidneys and

46
00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:40,840
Speaker 2: the lungs and the skin that effectively detoxify and eliminate waste.

47
00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:44,120
Speaker 2: So I don't know, there's not a lot of evidence

48
00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:46,239
Speaker 2: to say that we even need to do a detox.

49
00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:52,040
Speaker 2: Then there's the restrictive nature and nutritional deficiencies, which I

50
00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:56,160
Speaker 2: get worried about. Many detox diets are extremely restrictive and

51
00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:01,840
Speaker 2: can lead to an extended period of just being silly

52
00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:05,040
Speaker 2: with your food and not having enough nutrients. It results

53
00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:09,360
Speaker 2: in low energy, breaking down that precious muscle which is

54
00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:13,640
Speaker 2: the fountain of youth, and decrease in immune functions. So

55
00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,440
Speaker 2: you don't want any of those things. And I remember

56
00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:21,200
Speaker 2: I had a client once who had anorexia, and I

57
00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,960
Speaker 2: was trying to help her, and one day she said,

58
00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:29,240
Speaker 2: I'm on a juice cleanse without the juices, and I

59
00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,040
Speaker 2: was like, oh, okay, this is dangerous. Like she would

60
00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:35,840
Speaker 2: do these detoxes and cleanses until the point where she

61
00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,080
Speaker 2: was just actually not eating and not even doing the juices.

62
00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:44,280
Speaker 2: So it does put you in potential harm because you're

63
00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:49,400
Speaker 2: not having those healthy eating patterns. There's also unregulated products

64
00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:53,839
Speaker 2: out there, detox products. They're not regulated by the health authorities, right,

65
00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,520
Speaker 2: so you don't know what's in them. And I always say,

66
00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,760
Speaker 2: stiy clear from you know, so skinny tea and I

67
00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,720
Speaker 2: don't know what others, But yeah, not great. You could

68
00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:08,960
Speaker 2: see some short term weight loss, but you've got to

69
00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,480
Speaker 2: remember it's water weight, not fat loss. So you're going

70
00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:17,240
Speaker 2: to be dropping lots of weight due to the detox

71
00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,040
Speaker 2: typically because it's the fluid loss, not fat loss, and

72
00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:25,320
Speaker 2: it's quickly regained once you start eating food, so it's

73
00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,960
Speaker 2: it's just not really worth it. And then I go

74
00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:31,080
Speaker 2: back to my other point, which is the risk of

75
00:04:31,360 --> 00:04:32,400
Speaker 2: disordered eating.

76
00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,880
Speaker 1: It's extremely restrictive.

77
00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:40,239
Speaker 2: It promotes you to feel deprived and therefore crave things,

78
00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:45,160
Speaker 2: and so I worry a lot about the disordered eating patterns.

79
00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:46,760
Speaker 1: And it's expensive as well.

80
00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:51,480
Speaker 2: Detox programs detox products are very expensive with a lack

81
00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:55,680
Speaker 2: of proven benefits and not really anything to justify the

82
00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,280
Speaker 2: outcomes of them than the results.

83
00:04:57,279 --> 00:04:58,680
Speaker 1: So you've got to think where am I going to

84
00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:05,320
Speaker 1: put my money? Do they work? Well? You know, like

85
00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,720
Speaker 1: I said, nutrienting intake.

86
00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,720
Speaker 2: I think adding a green juice or smoothies into your

87
00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,880
Speaker 2: diet is a great thing, but you also need to

88
00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:15,440
Speaker 2: be having food. You also need to be eating your

89
00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:18,159
Speaker 2: regular meals and having lots of fats and fiber and

90
00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:21,920
Speaker 2: things like that. They can be good for blood sugar levels, definitely.

91
00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:25,000
Speaker 2: Fruit based juice is grape to spike blood sugar levels.

92
00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:28,039
Speaker 2: That's awesome. Weight loss, I reckon take that off the

93
00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:31,800
Speaker 2: table because you're just going to lose fluid. It's not

94
00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,960
Speaker 2: really going to help fat loss, i'd say. And I

95
00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:39,560
Speaker 2: don't know about detoxification, Like the scientific evidence is just

96
00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,960
Speaker 2: it's very controversial. So then there's potential risks as well

97
00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:52,080
Speaker 2: of digestive health issues, unsustainable weight loss, eating patterns, nutritional deficiencies.

98
00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:56,200
Speaker 2: You know, those things are really scary. And I found

99
00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:59,839
Speaker 2: this statistic that a new survey of gen z users

100
00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,880
Speaker 2: found that fifty six percent of them go to TikTok

101
00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,800
Speaker 2: for health and wellness advice, and one in three make

102
00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,320
Speaker 2: it their main source of health knowledge. And that just

103
00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:14,280
Speaker 2: freaked me out. No, fifty six percent of them. So

104
00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:18,440
Speaker 2: social media has significantly influenced the popularity and the perception

105
00:06:18,640 --> 00:06:22,480
Speaker 2: of various health trends, including these juice detoxes, and so

106
00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:27,960
Speaker 2: whilst they are marketed as beneficial for health, the portrayal

107
00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,600
Speaker 2: and social media can have lots of negative impacts. So

108
00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,800
Speaker 2: you've got to be aware of misinformation and unrealistic expectations,

109
00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:40,520
Speaker 2: misleading claims, oversimplification, and then you've also got to be

110
00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:43,960
Speaker 2: really aware of the lack of essential nutrients and insufficient

111
00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,719
Speaker 2: fiber and all those health risks that I mentioned of

112
00:06:47,839 --> 00:06:52,320
Speaker 2: having maybe even developing a detox dependency where you're regularly

113
00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:56,400
Speaker 2: participating in these detoxes that lead to an unhealthy cycle

114
00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:01,560
Speaker 2: of extreme dieting followed by binge eating because you feel

115
00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:07,040
Speaker 2: so restricted. There's also psychological effects body image issues, pressure

116
00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:11,760
Speaker 2: and anxiety. The economic impact, I mean it is huge.

117
00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,800
Speaker 2: So I say, you've got to check your sauce, check

118
00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:20,640
Speaker 2: the credentials, check their experience. Is this person an expert

119
00:07:20,720 --> 00:07:25,200
Speaker 2: in their lane, Like if it's a cardiologist spooking, you know,

120
00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,320
Speaker 2: detox juices, You've got to think, well, that's not really their.

121
00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:30,800
Speaker 1: Expertise, you know.

122
00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,600
Speaker 2: And are these fitness professionals or wellness influencers qualified? Do

123
00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,960
Speaker 2: they even have qualifications? Can you dig deep into them

124
00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,480
Speaker 2: and find anything at all? Are they being paid to

125
00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:47,040
Speaker 2: give you advice? You've got to take all this on now.

126
00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:47,680
Speaker 1: TikTok.

127
00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,520
Speaker 2: Fads are particularly harmful, and I see a lot of them.

128
00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,520
Speaker 2: There is a new fad diet called the Rice Challenge,

129
00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:59,400
Speaker 2: which sees people soak rice in hot water and add

130
00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,880
Speaker 2: lime juice before drinking the leftover liquid first thing in

131
00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:07,000
Speaker 2: the morning, and the drink is meant to suppress your appetite.

132
00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,680
Speaker 2: In my opinion, it is not a great supplement or

133
00:08:10,760 --> 00:08:14,600
Speaker 2: meal replacement. There is not enough nutrients, no dietary fiber,

134
00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,800
Speaker 2: no fat, no central nutrients like macro or micro and

135
00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:22,080
Speaker 2: it's essentially just carbohydrate water, which you can actually buy

136
00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,000
Speaker 2: on the market. You can get like a powder which

137
00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:28,160
Speaker 2: is pure carbohydrates that you add to water. There is

138
00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:31,320
Speaker 2: no protein. You know, this is not good for you.

139
00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:34,120
Speaker 2: And people are claiming that they're losing a lot of

140
00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,040
Speaker 2: weight on the Rice Challenge just really drinking the starchy water.

141
00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,640
Speaker 2: But again, what weight is it? Is it water weight?

142
00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:44,520
Speaker 2: Is it lean muscle mass? It's not fat loss. I

143
00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:48,360
Speaker 2: can guarantee that you know, generally for sustainable weight loss,

144
00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,600
Speaker 2: you want to be losing about half a kilo a week.

145
00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:54,720
Speaker 2: Anything more than that it's not going to be sustainable.

146
00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,199
Speaker 2: And I really worry because there is a clear correlation

147
00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,520
Speaker 2: between social media and eating disorders, and things like the

148
00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,400
Speaker 2: Rice Challenge being promoted on platforms such as Instagram and TikTok.

149
00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:09,720
Speaker 2: It's really targeting children and young people in their twenties

150
00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:11,839
Speaker 2: and in late teens, and.

151
00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:13,640
Speaker 1: I worry about that.

152
00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:18,000
Speaker 2: And the real problem for parents is that it's using

153
00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:22,320
Speaker 2: food that are staples in the pantry, So you're not

154
00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,960
Speaker 2: going to really realize that your daughter or son are

155
00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,000
Speaker 2: doing anything really dangerous by just drinking this, you know,

156
00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:32,520
Speaker 2: rice water, because it's just something in the pantry. It's

157
00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,160
Speaker 2: not a new food or they're not Yeah, it's hard

158
00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,240
Speaker 2: for parents to identify that. I've also seen something else

159
00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:43,920
Speaker 2: on TikTok, and it's a young girls adding weighted wristbands

160
00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,600
Speaker 2: to their risks to do blow dries so that they

161
00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:52,520
Speaker 2: get toned arms. So I asked myself, can weighted wristband

162
00:09:52,600 --> 00:09:58,200
Speaker 2: blow dryouts really tone your arms? So let's look at

163
00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,400
Speaker 2: it in detail, because I just think that doing it

164
00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:05,160
Speaker 2: for attention, Honestly, arm burn from blow drying your hair,

165
00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,120
Speaker 2: wearing wrist weights isn't going to tone your arms because

166
00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,600
Speaker 2: emotion isn't really isolating the triceps or the biceps or

167
00:10:11,640 --> 00:10:14,439
Speaker 2: shoulders or really working them in a proper way. So

168
00:10:14,480 --> 00:10:18,000
Speaker 2: to get the burn of the muscles working, you need

169
00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:22,280
Speaker 2: a proper movement. So you need eccentric and concentric movement,

170
00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,720
Speaker 2: which is the contraction of the muscle. And you need

171
00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:27,119
Speaker 2: these proper movements.

172
00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:29,280
Speaker 1: Right, just kind of holding.

173
00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,640
Speaker 2: Your hands up and blow drying your hair, you might

174
00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:35,319
Speaker 2: get a bit of an isometric hold and a bit

175
00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:38,920
Speaker 2: of endurance, and teeny bit of endurance and maybe a

176
00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,120
Speaker 2: teeny bit of lean and toned muscle, like just a

177
00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,440
Speaker 2: tiny insy bit just from holding your arms up, and

178
00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:50,440
Speaker 2: it's more endurance. But to get toned arms, you really

179
00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,520
Speaker 2: need that progressive overload, which is more of a principle

180
00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:58,960
Speaker 2: of increasing the load in your strength training over time

181
00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,800
Speaker 2: and continuously stimulating that muscle adaptation and growth over time.

182
00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,800
Speaker 2: So this can't be achieved by just putting weight wristbands

183
00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,079
Speaker 2: on your wrists and blow drying your hair.

184
00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,400
Speaker 1: And I actually tried it this morning.

185
00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:17,040
Speaker 2: I washed my hair fresh because I knew I had

186
00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:19,920
Speaker 2: a day of podcasts and stuff on today. I have

187
00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,719
Speaker 2: the wristbands and I put them on my wrists and

188
00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,240
Speaker 2: my arms ached. They felt heavy from holding. It was

189
00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:29,720
Speaker 2: a bit of an endurance hold, but honestly, it's not

190
00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,800
Speaker 2: enough to stimulate the muscles into changing or adapting or

191
00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,920
Speaker 2: burning fat or anything like that. I think that it's

192
00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:43,120
Speaker 2: another TikTok trend that is just seeking attention and putting

193
00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:46,600
Speaker 2: out misinformation out there. And young girls now are feeling

194
00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:51,120
Speaker 2: like they have to go buy wristbands to risk weights

195
00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:52,480
Speaker 2: to dry their hair.

196
00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:54,040
Speaker 1: It's just so ridiculous.

197
00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:57,640
Speaker 2: So I think the moral of this story is to

198
00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,120
Speaker 2: have your eyes wider open when you're on social media,

199
00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:08,160
Speaker 2: to ask credentials, ask yourself questions, and never just do

200
00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:12,040
Speaker 2: a diet or a detox because someone tells you to.

201
00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,559
Speaker 2: I think that they can be very harmful and that

202
00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:19,480
Speaker 2: the pros the cons absolutely outweigh the pros in this scenario.

203
00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:22,840
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening to Bounce Forward.

204
00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:25,679
Speaker 2: I love having your company, So please dm me on

205
00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,040
Speaker 2: Instagram at Tifpaul Underscore XO and let me know what

206
00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,600
Speaker 2: topics you'd love me to cover and send me all

207
00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,559
Speaker 2: your questions. Don't forget to rate and review me on

208
00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:36,440
Speaker 2: the podcast at speak Soon.

209
00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:37,520
Speaker 1: Happy Days,