Health Benefits of Going OFF-GRID with Doug & Stacy

hey guys it's carolyn with homesteading family and welcome to this week's episode of the pantry chat today we're obviously not in the pantry no we are in utah and i'm here with stacy from off grade with doug and stacy i'm really excited to have you i know it's so nice to finally meet you you know it's kind of neat you know you see these people on youtube and on videos and things and it's like you get to meet them you know face to face that's really cool yeah well and you guys know that when we're recommending other youtube channels doug and stacy is one of the ones that we recommend because you guys are actually living the lifestyle and it's so value so many just like you so many channels are out there and we love them we think they're great but a lot of times they're learning themselves or they're kind of just taking you along on their journey and that's great we love those things they show some of the beginning mistakes and all of that but if you're actually trying to learn how to live the lifestyle it's great to be learning from people who are actually doing actually immersed in it and um doug and stacy have been living seriously off-grid for how long now let's go on 13 years this year 13 years so um for those of you guys who follow the pantry chat every week you know josh and i have been talking about off-grid we've been talking about kind of this misnomer that just throwing up some uh solar panels takes you off grid right and about all the different types of off-grid that we really need to look at it's not just the electrical grid right right it's basically like we say off-grid it's we don't have any public utilities right so we don't have any bills coming to our house because we don't have we are like our own sewer person we are an electric person we're on a gas person we just do it all that is amazing and it's very rare to be able to find somebody who's living it to that level um and so i'm really excited to today be talking about some of the practicalities like what is that like to actually live day to day but first we can't forget the chitchat because that's my favorite part especially when we have a guest on um so i wanted to share with you guys right now we are here in redmond utah i don't think that's the actual technical city we're in but we're here at the redmond salt mines is that what you would say and we've been having a blast we're here for the homesteaders summit and uh learning a lot about salt but we also yesterday went down to 800 feet oh yes into mine i mean it was so cool and we were surrounded by saw that was just amazing it was so beautiful and what i thought was really interesting is the entire mine is salt they said go lick the walls like everything in here is sold yeah you're driving on it and you're driving i thought oh my gosh you're driving on it the walls all the way above i mean it was it's just so cool it really is it's a different experience to be down there that dude big big caverns that they've opened up so it's really been a lot of fun to be down here and get to hang out with some other people um and really learning a lot about salt i think i'm gonna have a video coming out for you guys just about the health of salt i know a lot of times every time i mention something like use healthy salt for this people push back and they're like salt's just sodium chloride that's all it is no it's and i got oh no it's not and i'm really learning about that here has been very interesting oh it's wonderful i mean it's just it's amazing how i think over the years how the media and people things that are good for us you know they make it bad for us and then people are getting sick because they're not doing these things you know because salt is good for us we need it your body is made up of those those trace minerals that we need the human body needs those and then this unrefined salt like the red and salt is filled with it and your body needs it it's so so important um as opposed to an iodized salt or a refined salt that's been high heat processed has any caking agents in it and it's just terrible for the body and body doesn't know what to do yeah he thinks it's getting minerals and it's not getting anything so it's so crucial for our bodies well and i was just learning that a lot of our table salt actually has sugar in it um especially in canada it actually will say it right on the label that it has sugar added into it and i guess it has to do with the anti-caking or just different parts of it and it's you know this is so great because they were sharing here yesterday that the redmond salt has over 20 trace minerals that your body needs i think it's even more than that i bet it's more than i think it's like 60. it's amazing and so you're getting all these great things especially since we've lost it from our food supply and from a lot our soils that we're growing i know even for us every day we drink you know we have water we we live 100 off of rainwater that we catch off our barn um and i'll put a pinch of salt in our water every single day so that way you're getting those trace minerals it's really important for the body that is so good so much fun okay so just for a little bit more chit chat though what have you i know you've been up to being here and you actually drove the ways to be out here we did we drove utah is a long ways you're very long driving over a little over 18 hours but what have you been doing on your homestead for the last week before you jumped in the van let's see move out here well we were getting a little good weather i always tried to get my onions and potatoes in by march 17th that's my goal always so i got quite a few and i'm going to probably put more in i had a bag i had acquired a few bags of yukon potatoes that i had gotten from the amish and they were really sprouting so they were getting tried to get rid of them really quickly and so i bought a bunch of organic potatoes so i put up some extra yukon golds this year because i do the kennebecks and i also do the red pontiac i like those a lot too so um what are your favorite potatoes you know so we always do a russet a yukon gold and a red but i cannot tell you the variety of the red that we're growing right now okay because we have this great local organic farm so it grows mostly but where we're at in north idaho we do root veggies really well sure because they can handle the frost yeah you can ever use like you've got to be able to put something in that's not too sensitive sure and so um we just they also sell seed potatoes so we just went and got whatever they had in the label the varieties weren't labeled but they've done so well for us that we're just like they're just the red potatoes we don't know what they are there's a new orleans it's called red norland those are the two good red ones i think the norlin and the pontiac i feel like they might be pontiac but i am not 100 sure but they're good we don't have an actual root cellar or a great place to store them and so we're still working on that part of our storage so i had to translate them to their next life you know they went from root storage into the freeze dryer and into uh you know some stews and different things that went into jars on the shelf so keeping that going that's good good yeah so you're already planting things out in the ground and that's exciting just a few yeah and i also did um my shirt one thing with the sugar snap peas oh yeah you have to get them in a few weeks before your last frost date you know a lot of times people wait and sometimes it's like why aren't they growing it's because they don't like the heat at all so i did some sugar snap peas and i'm trying to think i did i went ahead and planted some seeds like cilantro because i know it'll pop up it'll take a little bit it needs a little warmth but it'll pop up because it likes the cool weather yeah and you know some herbs parsley some arugula i did oh i had some red romaine huh yeah just a few things because you know i you never know because sometimes you get earlier season and i just plant extra things and sometimes if it gets too cold and they're going to die you know then i'm going to plant some more again at least i know i'll have some extra because we have cold frame too so i have a cold frame in front of the house which is a box made out of tough text panels and uh it's just made out of cedar that made and it works out great i just go ahead and i'll plant things and many of my things will last throughout the winter in there oh like some of your kale and even my parsley i have my parsley parsley's a rock star right so uh i have a little bit of that right now too so it's it's going good i'm just getting excited for that and then i'm model feeding a lamb which is a lot of work but i'm getting them down to two bottles a day so that'll help me out a lot wow so you have somebody at the farm yes right now yes bottle feeding for you yeah it's a good time to go yeah she's just getting me a picture so it's good so good that's good well i figure early spring planting is the kind of gambling i like to do it's like that the odds are pretty much in my favor i kind of have a 50 chance of winning right sure i put the seeds out and if if i lose and they all get frozen a packet of seed cost three bucks so we're experimenting and you can plan it you can plan it again because that's what i do a lot of people are like oh i planted this and it died i'm like well i always plant extra like for zucchini you know you never know those squash bugs are all over the place so i'll plant three or four as opposed to just one and then i have garden beds and i'll plant them all over the place so you know it just depends like i companion plant so i'll plant maybe you know a variety of tomatoes peppers or whatever and herbs and one and maybe i'll do eggplant you know i just kind of mix it up and then that way if i have a tomato plant over here maybe that had some problems and then over at this one it may not and the same for the squash bugs and for my kale and my broccoli or cruciferous vegetables i just kind of move them around because some of them do better than others yeah because i learned the hard way we had a i've had a mulch pile kind of close to our garden and you're not really supposed to have your mulch pile close to your garden okay because those squash bugs can overwinter in very very cold temperatures underneath your your compost because it stays warm and then when you uh get ready to plant again and you're planting kind of near it it'll be inundated by their bugs they're like oh look i have more fun to eat so i learned the hard way that i don't want to have my my mulch pile near my where i put my garbage yeah that would make sense yeah yeah good well my main garden is still under snow last when we left i still have a nice probably inch of snow on the main crop garden the cottage garden though is completely defrosted and i was out there starting my battle against the grass i have because it's my perennial garden and i'm i'm trying to work out we have grass walkways in it which i kind of keep thinking i don't think this was the most brilliant idea to put grass walkways next to my heart do i time okay i just did a video about herbs too okay time is good you can put that in here just well and that's interesting because i do have lots of time in there but maybe just line the plant the water is coming up yeah yeah so it's it's pretty large and i'm thinking about putting the edging in all the way around the walkways okay as much as that would be a lot of work and then getting all the grass out of there and putting flagstones down and then i love the little ground cover um chamomile oh yeah yeah all the way in there that's is that the roman i that's the road i can never keep the two ones shorter the short one is one and then there's the tall the german is the taller one and the roman is the pokemon and so the german is the annual that's the one yeah that's the one but chamomile is just crazy because i learned that the hard way too i would a lot of my stuff i like to do easy gardening so i just like things but chamomile has seeds that are so tiny they'll just like poof you just blow it away there's like so little they float they go everywhere and then the first year this is many years ago i just kind of let it go to see that i had chamomile going it was like over by our house i had i have it growing everywhere which is nice i like it because you can pull it up and transplant it where you want and it works out good but uh just know that it will do that but yes luckily in our climate we have things don't tend to be as invasive because they have such a hard winter so i also have my chamomile self sewing and it's actually is behaving itself nicely you have better temperatures there are a lot of other things in my cottage garden that are not behaving and i've gotten to where i don't have to plant anything pretty much now but i i am pulling them up by the bucket full like you know my ella campaign is spreading like crazy i all of it all of it and then of course i've got a big wall of hops and that just wants to take over everything and so it's it's kind of fun but i figure i've gone from that stage where you're planting and putting in to the stage where i'm just ripping it out giving it to your friends don't you want to grow this don't you want a girl i'm like facebook you know in the local groups anybody come take out you know shovelfuls of herbs whatever you want just come take it so that that's kind of my thing so i've started that annual war that i have going of just like keeping things in their place and keeping the grass out of it right yeah it is hard with that grass but you do have to kind of dig it out you do because and it gets down there pretty deep yes yes and so i like go through the enti and it is a big garden and i go through the whole thing once this spring and like try and rip out sure you have to do that otherwise you're going to be in a mess in a few weeks because you're going to have too much grass everywhere okay so we're going to move on to the question of the day now which i can't remember who it's from and i doubt i can pull it up that fast but somebody was asking about how to get clean unwashed eggs and if you've watched my video on egg preservation you'll know that there's different methods of egg preservation and some of them require you to leave the bloom on the eggs which is that protective waxy coating that comes out naturally from the chicken that allows your eggs to just sit on the counter alone for weeks on end months many months if you have cooler temperatures yeah like because we live off grid and yeah hi my eggs are sitting out all the time so i could keep um in winter where it's cool i could keep them many many months right when they're fresh as opposed to in the heat like you know you think about it people in these hot countries you know all over the place they're just having their eggs out i leave my eggs out but when it's very very hot and humid and let's say our cab is like 100 degrees and it's really really hot they're not going to last as long right they might get a little more runny when you crack them open um and that time you know they may all be good for a couple months but generally they will last a while don't wash the loom off because that's and then a lot of people wash when you wash the bloom off that bacteria that you get could go inside so you have to be careful how you do it now our viewers who are in other parts of the world like europe think we're kind of crazy because they don't even the commercial eggs are not washed just because of the health protection sure of having the bloom on the eggs but here in the united states commercial eggs are required to be washed so if you want to use some of these old-fashioned preservation methods like just leaving them out on the counter you know what i think of a lot so this is you know when a woman has a baby and the woman has the the baby naturally so they're getting that their immune system they're just being washed you know as they come out of the birth canal and it's kind of the same thing for the egg you know you're getting that protective coating so it kind of helps the child it helps the egg and it just helps kind of helps all of it yeah it really is good but you don't want to have poop on your eggs no you don't have dirty eggs especially if you're doing something like a lime solution where you're storing the eggs in a bucket for extended periods of time you really don't want to be putting manure chicken manure into those solutions um so how do you get a clean unwashed eggs to some people that sounds like a misnomer right like aren't all clean eggs washed no no they don't have to be what are your tricks for keeping your eggs clean well i think the big thing with when your eggs is to keep your nesting boxes full of straw or some type of matter so because if they have a nice nesting box because just like you do you want to sleep in a bed you know that you have all wrinkled pillows and your sheets are all messed up you know it's kind of the same thing so when i keep my nesting boxes full of straw um they are happy to go in there and then they lay them and then when it's very nice and clean the eggs are gonna stay clean because a lot of times if they're in there they're gonna poop in there whatever so you just make sure you just keep it nice and um tidy you know putting that straw in there and another thing that i've been doing is i grow a lot of perennial herbs like you i grow a lot of mint and i do have some mint that has gone kind of crazy i decided to experiment around my blackberries to put it between the blackberries just to help well it took over but it was good for me because i'm using that for my chicken coops so it grows pretty tall so in the middle of summer i'll go ahead and cut it from the bottom and then i have all these you know tall pieces and then i'll just kind of break it apart cut it up and throw it in the coop so it deodorizes it in the summer months and then i also will put it in their nesting boxes because the smells they just love i also will toward the end of the season i'll cut it i just let it drop and then i'll let it dry or i'll hang it either either way whatever i'm doing because for some of you guys that don't know that's a herb that will dry very nicely for teas because it's full of essential oils and it will keep its flavor throughout the season as you dry it so i go ahead and i'll tie it and i'll hang it until it dries and then i'll use that and crunch it and i'll put it and throw it in the coop because it's going to help against pests deter against you know mites and parasites and things like that and also the smell helps them makes them happy the chickens they love it um it makes them want to lay more right and i just keep that also in their nesting boxes so it's just another thing to help so that's great that's so good to get those because you have the insect repellent sure aspect of that too and your cups and then the cookie smells great when you're in the middle of something like mud season if you live in a place where you have mud season it can mean that you have to put fresh nesting material everyday every single day um and i know they're feeling they're muddy that that's just the way it is as the summer progresses and things dry out you shouldn't have that kind of problem people ask me all the time what about duck eggs i'm sorry duck eggs are dirty but they they are i think they're made though to be like that because they're out in the you know dirt in the mud all the time and so they have a thicker shell because it's much harder to break so i think they're a little bit more protected over some of the others because some of them i know they've been out i've gotten them around our pond and you know they've been there for a while and you'll crack them and you think oh they're going to be bad but they're still good yeah well and the thing with the duck eggs too and even the chicken eggs it's important to remember you don't have to worry about a little bit of mud like that's not bad that's not a problem in fact you probably end up with protective elements but if you have good bacterial content in your soil but what you're really looking to avoid when you're bringing it into the kitchen and storing it for long term is the manure that's what you're really looking for so don't be too thrown off by little streaks of mud or little bits like that that's not happening well another one too is when you get a cracked egg yes which is so annoying because you'll have this beautiful nest of maybe a dozen eggs and then there's one cracked one and it ruins all of them and it gets it all over so the big thing for that is don't let your eggs you know sit there for a long time make sure you're collecting your eggs because then they'll stand on them and they can break them and that really causes a problem or those are the eggs that you're going to eat right away yeah if they get like that there you go good thoughts okay well let's jump into the topic of the day i'm really excited to be talking to you about it because we've never gone completely off the power grid personally we have focused on developing the skills and the infrastructure to allow us to be able to just go completely off-grid at some point and not kind of the hybrid like you know generate our own power of course in our own home and so again it's just super rare to be able to discuss with somebody who's actually doing it what that's like day to day um i know there's a glorified version of that right there's the romantic version that says i want to sit in the rocking chair by by uh you know my entry wide and like oh that'd be so wonderful but there's also the day-to-day reality that you are actually doing life every single day in this place and so talk to us about just the challenges the benefits what you've learned along the way um well so we've been doing this about 13 years and when we first moved out there i mean we moved you know from the air conditioning we moved from having lights until 11 o'clock at night you know we had all that so when we moved out there there was a little transition you know it it was it was cool i mean we had to work hard at the time we didn't have running water at all we hadn't figured out our systems we hadn't put them in place um and you know we had to wear your headlamps and you know have to do everything that you're going to do and in the middle of winter you know at 4 30 it starts to get dark you know so you have all those hours you're going to do things if you're going to prepare your food you're going to do whatever so that took a little adjusting but i'll tell you over because we have the lanterns and you have to get ready you know for the lights to kind of dim but really your body is made you know your circadian rhythms to kind of slow down the sun starts to go down and those dim lights so it started changing our health is the big thing so i started noticing we were sleeping better uh that our health was better just everything about it because our circadian rhythms were really kind of getting back in sync again yeah so you get tired at a certain time you know like nine o'clock eight o'clock you're like you know oh my gosh it's time to go to bed i dug would be like oh it's you know i'm tired let's go to bed and be six o'clock but you know over time you know you kind of your body adjusts to that and it's like no big deal for me now like i'll go places and it's kind of dark yeah people like turn the lights on i'm like because it doesn't bother me i'm i'm used to that and uh it was just one of those kind of things that you just do it day after day and you just started to get start to get used to it and it's caught and another big part was getting into with nature yeah i think a lot of us you know even let's say you do have a farm and you're raising chickens or you're having a garden and all that there's a lot of people that just stay inside all the time you know they're staying inside hanging out doing their things they might just go outside and come back in but i think a big component of this and especially if you want to talk about our health and you being into with nature is being outside and being outside and it's really important to be outside first thing in the morning especially before nine o'clock because you want to kind of get your eyes set to the sunlight because that will set your circadian rhythms it will help your serotonin levels it's going to help you to sleep better it's going to help your hormones all over to get that sunlight especially you know getting it on your skin because that's the best way about 20 minutes or so to help absorb you know getting that vitamin d and then eating good foods you know you're growing a garden so it's not just eating foods it's all of it it's getting out in nature it's you know getting good sleep so for some of you guys that don't live off-grid like i do you know maybe having candles or lantern that you can dim the lights or if you have a lamp that you can dim the lights the big thing in the studies show you know we get our sun from the sky right and it sets down on you so in your home when you have those bright lights shining down on you that's what's going to cause the problem where your cortisol levels are gonna go up you know when it's time for bed and then you're watching these screens in front of you so it's really important to keep that light denim where it's like lower you don't want it above you because that's gonna affect you so i've read about how people even um you know in the 40s and the 50s even when they started having electric lamps they didn't have the big full room lighting necessarily and they would often keep the rooms dimmer the rest of the house would be dark so even though they had electricity they were still kind of implementing some of those things and that they just they weren't used to what we're used to which is you know these glaring bright led lights over us and lighting everything all the time and so it's a very different thing for your health and it's really interesting well and a lot of people are like oh i can't lose weight i'm having problems you know i eat good i even exercise what's wrong why can't i lose weight for a lot of you guys and people think ah you know it's really nothing your sleep is a huge compl a huge component to your health huge i mean i can't tell you enough you want to get that good deep sleep you know you go up and down your cycles you know like five six times you know you want to get into that good deep sleep and by setting just doing simple things like you know uh putting your filter on that blue light filter on your phone or your computer uh don't have the screen in front of you at least an hour before you go to bed dim the lights you want to set the mood and especially you don't have your your phone or anything like that electrical by your head because those electromagnetic frequencies are going to affect your brain waves you know it's very important that you set the stage you should have a nice little nest in your room don't have any of that technical stuff near you at all by your head at all put it in the kitchen get it away from you and then you'll sleep because if you start getting good sleep because it'll help everything because if you're not getting the right sleep then your cortisol levels are raised your hormones everything gets whacked out and then your body's thinking oh it's fight or flight and you're gonna store body fat and it's just not good so if you're in bed between between like 10 10 30 no later than 11 and then you know you get up because we're used to going to bed shortly after the sun goes down and getting up when the sun's coming up you'll notice a lot of health benefits if you're consistent with that so it's not it's not crazy you need to start doing stuff like that because it will it will help make it different it really does and then you may even notice you start losing weight if you're storing weight certain places it's huge that's really interesting and that's kind of like one of those just side benefits of going off grid like that's not even something most people are thinking about but just it naturally controls how much electricity you can use and so it's sure you're controlling your light but that's just a side effect right i think that's really neat so what would you say the number one like on a day-to-day basis the biggest challenge with being off grid i want to call it like off off grid because i think we really have to define the difference between being off grid where you're just mimicking being on grid because you have all the power generation that you want sure and that's it's a big difference well and that's a big thing for a lot of people because they go off grid thinking that they're going to have everything that they had before you know they're having all the plugs or having the air conditioning because air conditioning you have to have a lot of solar i mean it's not going to be like a ten thousand dollar unit for solar you're going to have to have 50 60 70 000 i mean if you want to have everything that you had on grid so that's what a lot of people do see we went off grid not having anything so if i get a little bit of something it's good but you know it is it is definitely um something i think anyway you were talking about the health aspects of it but besides just the sleep it's changed my whole life it helped between dog and i just changing from the foods getting out in nature lowering the stress getting the sleep i mean it was a whole full circle then we go barefoot so we're grounding with earth people are wearing shoes all the time you need to be connected to the earth letting go of the you know electricity static electricity in your body and that will help ground you because people are used to wearing those shoes so you have that rubber soul that is putting you away from the earth and we are like one with the earth so you'll notice and there's thousands of studies that show um people who are grounded or walk barefoot against some type of natural you know like rocks or grass or the ocean and then when you add water to it it really helps you to heal and helps with inflammation and pain and a lot of people like i am not going to go barefooted and walk around well you don't have to you could sit in a chair no matter how old you are take your shoes off put them in the ground especially dewy grass or something like that and see if you start noticing doing that every day for 15 20 minutes read a book or do something like that and see if your pain or inflammation lowers so it's all these things put together that totally helped our because we knew where our food was coming from it totally changed our health you know at first when we moved here you know doug suffered he had kind of some allergies i had a little bit of allergies you know we're out in nature that in the foods we're eating everything just changed so we are healthier now than we were in our 20s and our 30s well when you think about things like off-grid food preservation you're probably going heavily and i know you just from watching your videos heavily towards the fermentation like that is that is like the off-grid preservation and it is amazing we've really put that in this box of little condiments that you have to keep in your fridge like mentally and i've started doing so much with long-term fermentation oh my gosh of course i mean it can sit in my pantry shelf for a year and a half and i can pull it off and eat it and it's great and very very very probiotic at that point like very alive and so you know just making those changes right there moving away from so much you know we love our canned food it has a place in our preservation toolkit sure but when you start moving away from some of that and adding in a lot of these live foods it's really it does stuff to you it does amazing things to your health oh and that's my thing like if i don't have my sauerkraut or some fermented vegetable every day i mean it makes me feel happier because you know you have billy or trillions of bacteria in your in your gut so most people have too many bad bacteria and that's what causes disease and sickness and things like that so if you incorporate that into your the good bacteria into your gut it's very helpful and it does affect because your second gut is in your brain yeah or no your sex your exams yeah so it's really uh it makes me i feel happier if i have a ferment you go to the bathroom regularly it just is just one of those things that everything is just functioning much better so i try i know i have my salsa last a long time i've had some of them i've got two years i shouldn't say but some things that i haven't eaten but it is it is one way because we moved out there and i don't i still don't really have refrigeration um we have the root cellar now but before you know we have to think of some creative ways to keep things cool and um fermenting was definitely the way and some things of course aren't going to last as long some things will last longer and you know through practice and trial and error you learn a lot but you can ferment a lot of things and they will last throughout the season so and it's good for you it's not dead it's in a live food it's really exciting it's really exciting okay so i'm going to come back to the question though what is the most challenging day today in terms of living um living completely off grid like that oh see now it's hard question i don't know if i could even it's done okay so what about when you first started what was the hardest thing to adjust to uh air conditioning you live in a really hot humid area so that that i mean of course it you know anybody the air conditioning is tough i mean it was tough because our first it's not tough anymore but our first full year down there we had a drought and it was over a month it was over 100 degrees and it didn't cool off it was like 85 at night i mean it was terrible and uh we had grown uh started a 10 000 square foot garden with belgians we didn't really know much of anything and we didn't have water source so we were hauling water from the pond we had to do the garden and it was so hot you get up in the morning and you just pray that for night the sun would go down so that was that was a little challenging so we said after that if we could do that and make it through that summer we could do anything and then since then it's just been great we we've figured out ways to stay cooler um you know you have more trees you know the shade and just different things to do we put another building next door that gives you a little shade you know and then you kind of know what to do and in the morning you do your work in the afternoons you might rest or do something where you're not moving around too much and then the evening when the sun goes down you do your work again so you just kind of you know learn to work around it yeah but yeah air conditioning is a problem and i think for a lot of people especially what if something happens and the power grid goes down and you don't it's the middle of summer you know a lot of you guys are gonna you know freak out you know you know start doing little experiments at home maybe don't have air conditioning on or spend some time outside because you're used to staying in the same temperature all the time and you know going from your car going from work you know going here and not having that temperature fluctuations it's really important to have the differences um and feel the temperature changes you know if it's too hot if it's too cold your body needs that your nervous system needs it and when we get too used to the same things you get soft and it's not good for your health and then when you do get hot you get overheated you can get heat stroke so these things you know just take things you know a little at a time you know we take cold showers that's another thing that totally saved our lives too because it's so good for your immune system so we were taking cold showers and a lot of people think you're crazy about cold showers too um but it started our health my skin was better my hair was better my immune system was better your nervous system is better because your body knows you're going to go in this freezing cold water and it gets better so for some of you guys the challenge for you is to possibly you know take a shower take your warm shower and at the end maybe for start 15 seconds 30 seconds a minute put it on a cold shower and it totally will wake you up get the brain fog away and it's just amazing so wow well that's great you see we have a lot of people headed out our way so i think i think we're about to be right back on a tour i think we're going to a bison ranch today and all sorts of interesting and we're going to learn some stuff yeah about some of these things so thank you so much for coming on today i think it's been really helpful for people just to look at what are the different benefits really that you may not even be considering when it comes to going off grid sure i love the health aspect of that i think that i know that's totally that that's totally i think what made it for for us and the byproduct of going off off-grid was making us have a healthier lifestyle and healthy life for all of us it was so nice to finally finally meet you i know it's a good thing to get to actually hang out i know it's really fun we've been kind of geeking out on the health stuff because we both love that so it's been a lot of fun so hey you guys thanks for hanging out with us and we will see you next week for the pantry chat and check us out on off grid with duggan stacy on youtube yeah go check over their videos especially some of their fermented videos go go watch those and see because even if you're not going completely off grid you can still get some of those same health benefits right sure are learning anything about off-grid living periods so come check us out okay thank you guys goodbye we'll see you later

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Length: 34min 20sec (2060 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 06 2022