Caitlin Sinclair: Botox Isn’t the Problem… Pressure Is | DSH #1779

If you're doing something because it makes you feel good and you feel like it enhances

your natural beauty or whatever you want to embody, then do it. If it makes you feel happy.

But for some of these girls that were messaging me, Sean, it was because they felt pressured.

Because they felt like they had to be like other girls. And the only reason I feel like I need it

is because society's telling me, oh, you're almost 30. Of course you need Botox all the girls have.

Especially in your industry. Exactly. But no, for me, right now that's not the right thing,

because I would only be doing it because society is telling me to do it.

Okay, guys got Caitlin Sinclair here. She just spoke this morning about Maha. How was the conversation?

You said it was packed. Packed to the momentum in this Maha movement is incredible. So

I the personal health journey. And I'll tell you and your listeners, I've been in this

MAGA world conservative movement for six, seven years now, worked in media, Trump campaign.

I just kind of shifted over to the Maha side because of my health story last year when this

all came into the national stage. And it was actually Charlie that asked me last year,

can you share your health story at one of our events on stage? And I was like, I don't think anyone's

going to care. But sure, instead of talking about my journey as a conservative, I'll tell my

health story. I could I was blown away. I could not believe how many people related came up to me,

message me afterwards saying, not only did it mean so much to them, but I was sharing something

so personal, but they related. So that's kind of what we spoke about today, right? Just being

don't underestimate how powerful your one voice is. And this health movement, it is affected so

many people to be able to have these conversations that for I was having, like seven years ago,

talking about what's in our water, natural deodorant, I was called like a crazy,

like yeah, exactly. People thought I was crazy. And now to have these conversations on a national

scale, it's so powerful, so full circle for me, but it was not just me, everyone in the room had a

story. So the speech went amazing. I'm so excited for where this movement's headed.

Times are changing. I feel like people really value health now. Yeah, it's like, okay, health is

the new wealth, right? If you have time, you are spending it at the gym.

Saunas, the sober curiosity movement, all of this is blowing up wellness social clubs

everywhere. I live in New York and you spending time on the weekends at a bar, for example,

is like so passe. The new cool thing to do, the new way to show that you're an affluent person

is actually investing in your health, having the cold plunge, the sauna in your home. So this

really is the future. And I'll tell you, I was fortunate enough to travel with Charlie

across his college campuses last year. And the media wants to tell us that young people are lazy,

they're disenfranchised, they don't care. No, the young people actually care so much about their

health. And you know, it's been so amazing to witness as a female is the women, the women reclaiming

agency over their health, asking about hormonal birth control. What the heck am I putting in my

body? It's just these norms that we've been told questioning our medical institutions. I think

if COVID taught us anything, it's that having blind trust in our health care system is the actual

dangerous part that silence is dangerous, asking questions is actually what we should be doing. So

it's like this beautiful revolution that's not only about health, but it's like the spiritual awakening

that we're having. I can see that. And the young people on college campuses, they're all about it,

they're all in, they want answers, they're trying to make healthier decisions, they're trying to

have families, they're actually asking why is my generation more sick, anxious, more depressed,

suffering from higher levels of metabolic dysfunction, autoimmune conditions, infertility

than any of the previous generations, what the heck is going on. So we're finally bringing those

questions to a national stage. And it's really the younger cohort of voters that cares the most,

actually. Yeah, the infertility one scares me a lot. It's insane. People in their 20s.

People in their 20s. So having this conversation with my girlfriend last week, and about how many men

are having to take things like Viagra? Yeah. In their down point. Yeah, look, what's going on? This

was not happening a decade ago. Yeah. Like our parents generation was not suffering from these

insane levels of infertility. And it sounds fringe and cliché to talk about this, but it

truly is the inflammation, right? And I think for the first time, our generation's finally saying,

no, we're not just accepting these levels of chronic anxiety, depression, and inflammation as,

oh, that's just the norm. That's just part of getting older, right? It's not. And I think it's

amazing how social media has played a role in this make America healthy again space, the wellness

space in general. I asked earlier in the room, I said, how many of you trust a influencer or wellness

person that you follow on X or Instagram over a physician that you would go to in your local

hometown? And almost everybody in the room raised their hand. There is like a plethora of

information that we are getting from wellness influencers. It is such a tight knit community that

people, it's people that really care, right? Yeah. These are politicians. It's not a right or left

issue. It's good people that have most likely been through something their own dark odyssey when

it comes to health. And they want to just share the information. Yeah. It's an interesting question

because you'll see videos of Paul Saladino at the grocery store or trying to help you out. You'll

see him at the gym. So you kind of build this trust with him. Right. He's genuinely trying to help

you, right? But you don't see your doctor making those same videos or you don't see actually a lot of

doctors are unhealthy. If you look at the studies there. Yeah. And one of the conversations we've

been having with the Maha team that I'm a part of is it's not the doctor's fault, right? It's

it's the system that has taught them backwards. There's no requirements for physicians to take a

nutrition class. Sean, how do we get there? Yeah. Like you don't you want to go to a doctor that

doesn't understand what you're putting in your body is actually affecting everything about your

organs or inflammation, your skin, your anxiety, your infertility. Yeah.

And look at our food pyramid. How backwards is our food pyramid? Why are we not updating that?

So there's there's so many questions as to how we can tear back the system. How we can actually

add firepower under these doctors that want to help. And it's not all of their fault. I come from

a family of physicians. It's not their fault. This is what they've been taught. The medical schools

don't provide more than a week about learning the food pyramid, even teaching about

diet and nutrition and all of that and and getting back to this ancestral way of living,

which you mentioned Paul earlier, someone like him as a great wellness influencer talks about all

the time, getting back to Whole Foods and how our ancestors lived, getting out in the sun,

not injecting to the women, all of this Botox every single month and caring so much about your

outward appearance and focusing on the wrong things. This movement has ways to go, but

think about how much headway we've already made just from people posting things online. And now

having that one disruptor, Secretary Kennedy, that's in office, thanks to Donald Trump, of course,

that's making some great headways with with the farmers. He just announced seven billion dollars

going to regenerative farming, which is the future, right? Food supply. What's what's in our food supply?

Why is all why are why are young people basically allergic to air? Everyone is gluten free,

nut free, can't even step outside, right? Can have alcohol. People are so curious and we love that,

but our young people can drink anymore because they're so unhealthy that they can't handle the

extra level of inflammation. That wasn't happening with our parent generation and our grandparents

generation. They were like chain smoking, doing whatever they wanted, right? When we were in school,

maybe one kid had a peanut allergy, exactly. Like peanut butter allergy, whatever. Now people are

allergic to strawberries, blueberries, like it's crazy. And it's so hard for the young moms.

And this is what I think this movement is all about, right? I think both sides right now,

the left and the right are whining. They're like, what are the women? What happened to the women?

Why didn't they show up to vote? And the answer, in my opinion, my humble opinion, is because you

did not meet the women where they are right now. The young mothers where they are, which is in the

kitchen, in the doctor's offices, trying to find healthy lunches for their kids, meet them where

they are, which is maha. You want the midterms? What maha on the ballot? And the women will deliver

you midterms. This is what young moms care about. This is what the women care about. We're trying to

figure out why our skin's breaking out all the time, why our hair is shedding, what's going on with

our menstrual cycles, why our lives and bodies are consistently unraveling. And I don't think

enough of, in these general elections, these candidates were focused on that, right? So we have

this one disruptor in office. And I think there's ways to go. But a lot of these conversations are

new for people. People are really scared of this movement. It's overwhelming for that person that's

just getting started, just figuring out, okay, I need to learn how to read labels or let me maybe switch

out my shampoo or my deodorant to a natural one or organic tampons or maybe let me look at what my

kids are eating for lunch and their school cafeterias are not necessarily the best and healthy food

for my kids. So for those new folks that are just, there's this new technology floating around that

people cannot stop talking about. It's called the light system. Before you roll your eyes, it's not

some gadget you strap on or supplement that promises the world. Every once in a while, I come across

something that actually stops me in my tracks and the light system is one of those things. This isn't

a supplement, it's not a biohack, it's a full-on energy environment built to help your mind and

body synchronize, recharge and operate at a higher level. It uses light patterns, color frequencies,

and coherent energy fields, all the stuff that your body naturally responds to to create a

coherent, energetic field around you. People are saying they feel more clear, more centered,

more alive in their environment and honestly the science behind it is fascinating. As I've seen

a lot of wellness tech, but the numbers coming out on this new study of the light system are actually

insane. Researchers measured human chic cells before and after sitting in front of the system

and get this. A 30-minute session boosted cellular conductivity by 61%, the study even showed

increased conductivity in isolated DNA, which is associated with stronger structure and better

repair pathways. The result, more clarity, more balance and more alignment. You could say $500

now if you go to the lightsystems.com and use discount code Sean. Getting involved or just starting

to ask questions, I would say don't get overwhelmed. Just baby steps, baby information, and the good

news is the information is actually online. We're not being canceled and censored like we were five

years ago. You can kind of YouTube anything these days and get the information. You can actually

ask chat GPT, how do I detox from a vaccine and you can actually get that information. Yeah,

that's cool. I just threw my blood work in there. Give me a lot of advice. Yeah, that's great.

I mean, obviously still run it by a licensed doctor too, but the going to a physician and the old

school way that the traditional way that we're used to doing and bringing blood work, they miss

everything. From someone that lived through this broken medical system, I can tell you, it's so

disheartening when you are trusting this institution to give you answers and instead you walk away

with confusion, heartbreak and more suffering. Blood work is one of those things, for example,

like your thyroid. Yeah. And that's so big for the women. They are not taking into consideration

the conversion of that D3 and I think it's like T3, T3 and T4. Yeah, so your thyroid T3, T4,

there's a conversion there. And a traditional medical doctor is just looking at the total thyroid

number and they're like, check, check. They just look at that little range, right? They're in the range,

they're in the range, cholesterol is another one of those. Yep. Make butter healthy again, right?

Bring butter back. I love butter. All of these fats are actually good for us. You need saturated fats,

you need something like an avocado in your diet. And for so long, my family, for example,

like our cholesterol is off the charts according to these doctors, they look at me like, oh my god,

you're going to have a heart attack. And it's like, no, you're just looking at that range,

you're taking my blood work and you're just looking at a range and checking off a box.

They pay you to normal range, but American range, unhealthy people. And using something like

ChasGVT, which I'm not against, or going to a holistic doctor, a naturopathic doctor,

they're able to go way deeper into that. Okay, let's break this down further. Is your thyroid

converting properly? And if it's not, okay, what do we need to put you on as a supplement?

Is your cholesterol levels too high? Or are you just consuming healthy fats that are actually

helping your metabolism and helping young people with something like metabolic dysfunction?

So there's a lot of, I guess there's a lot of different ways to read blood work. And I think

we're finally realizing the traditional style of reading blood work doesn't actually get us the

information that's helpful. They also don't measure a lot of stuff on like regular blood work.

You have to like specifically ask your insurance to like, you have to beg your insurance

companies to like get what you actually want. It's crazy. I, at 18, I was like a freshman or

sophomore in college and my body just started to unravel. I just started to fall apart.

From there, I was traveling the entire country to go to these world-renowned institutions

that we hear about all the time, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, specialists after specialists.

And my story is very similar to a lot of Americans. No answers, medication after medication,

antibiotic after antibiotic, which we know is destroys your gut lining. And when that didn't work,

invasive surgeries, which led to two of my organs being permanently removed.

Oh, yeah. I was a full victim to our broken system, which is why I'm so passionate.

My God. I was treated like a guinea pig. Not one of these specialists ever stopped to say,

why is this young woman's body suddenly attacking itself? No one looked at me as a whole person.

And so it was then we're not only did all of this, of course, change my body.

And my anatomy, quite frankly, but it changed my view on the medical system, on medicine as a whole,

on womenhood. Why is women's health so underresearch and underfunded? Why are we pretending that women

are the same as men? Why am I being treated the same way that you would treat a male? Because

we're not the same. And I think that's actually part of what this movement has shown over the past

few months, right? In the past year, across the wellness space, if you follow any of these podcasts,

this entire national conversation, there's a term that people are using and it's women returning

to divine femininity. And what does that mean, right? I think it means returning to how our ancestors

used to live and teaching young females that strength and softness can coexist. And look at the

girl boss movement that's gone today. So divine femininity, I think, is part of making America healthy

again. I agree. Divine masculinity, having men return to their roles as a provider, as being that

strong person, the anchor for the female to lean on, we need to return to these gender roles. I

think it's really all part of the health and wellness culture and the spiritual awakening that I

alluded to earlier. And I know that some of this sounds cuckoo to some of those folks that have

no idea what we're talking about. And they're new to this space. But it's so important. And so now,

when I share my story, I have hundreds of young people coming up to me like, this is what I'm

going through. And another part of the conversation is, do you recommend I only treat myself holistically?

And my answer is no, because for me, I think everyone has a gut feeling, right? You need to sit

with yourself. You need to tune into those gut feelings. And what we've learned, if anything,

from COVID, is that there's no one-size-fits-all approach. So holistic medicine works for a lot of

people. Cancer patients, for example, juicing works really well for them. They need to kill off those

poisonous cells or lack of a better word and recalibrate their entire system. But for someone with

Crohn's or ulcerative colitis, having raw vegetables and raw juice might not be the best thing

for them. So in this space, it's easy to get lost in the information, the plethora of information,

and then people telling you, do this, because this is what works for me. Doesn't work for everyone.

You still have to tune into your gut and do your own research. And I'm a recovering vegan.

I recover. But I don't shame. I don't believe in shaming when it comes to this space either,

because again, there's not a one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to health. So what works for you

will not work for your boyfriend or your husband. The cold plunging stuff, the carnivore diet,

that works really well for the men. It doesn't work that well for the women. So actually,

when you're trying to make babies or you're ovulating, do not get in that cold plunge,

do not try to compete with your husband. Same with fasting for women, I heard.

Yeah, the intermittent fasting. I was doing that for a while. And so what it does is it spikes your

cortisol for women. And it's really hard, once your body's in that fight or flight mode,

it's really hard to actually get back down to it. But again, for women, you need to be tracking

your cycle. There are certain points in your cycle, like when you're menstruating or when you're

ovulating, that you should not be doing that. But in your follicular phase, for example, you might

have more energy and you can do that. Or when you're ovulating, you actually feel like you can

work out harder. And you're craving different food. There's just so much that goes into these

things. And I think for so long, we pretended that women were men and we are all built the same.

And talking about our broken medical institution, right, that's how we were treated. That's how I

was treated. Like just another number and not a whole body. And it's so sad to see some of these

institutions that we just blindly trust. That's how they treat you. So I think the revolution

is starting and people are demanding better health and better health care and better answers

and the truth. And this movement has such incredible people that are so willing and open to

share the information. So I'm just happy about that. Absolutely. You're getting thousands of

messages from women. What are the biggest health issues you're seeing from women right now?

Autoimmune condition autoimmune autoimmune. So autoimmune is really just your body attacking

itself. Inflammation and Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, lupus. The other main question

women ask me a lot is what is your take on? I had a few girls message me for Miami last week saying

I live in Miami. There's a lot of girls down here that are getting BBLs, a lot of plastic surgery,

a lot of Botox filler. As a young girl, what like what is your advice or do you think that that's

ever allowed? And I actually have to really think about that because I mean, I really try to eat

healthy. I'm really into health and fitness and taking care of my body and I have to for my own

health conditions. But I'm also a girl that wears makeup and I get my nails done. And it's not

any of none of that is natural stuff. So I think if you're doing something because it makes you

feel good and you feel like it enhances your natural beauty or however whatever you want to

embody, right? Then do it. If it makes you feel happy. But for some of these girls that were

messaging me, Sean, it was because they felt pressured. Because they felt like they had to be

like other girls. And I think once a week, my boyfriend rolls his eyes because once a week,

now I ask him, do I need Botox? Should I get Botox? Look at these lines. I'm on TV every day.

Is this weird? I don't have Botox and I have smile lines and forehead lines. Kind of a lot.

Look at this. And I realized that when these girls are reaching out to me,

wait, the fact that I have to keep asking him, should I get Botox? And the only reason I feel

like I need it is because society's telling me, oh, you're almost 30. Of course, you need Botox.

All the girls, especially in your industry. Exactly. But no, for me, right now, that's not the

right thing because I would only be doing it because society is telling me to do it. But,

you know, I've gotten filler before. I'm not going to lie. It makes me feel good about myself and

my look. Like I said, I get my nails done. I wear real makeup, not that natural stuff, self-tanner,

all of that because it makes me feel good. And so that's really my answer. Don't feel pressure

because of the other women that you're around or whatever industry you're in or because society

tells you to because Instagram makes you feel like you have to have a filter on it all times.

Do what's right for you individually. That makes you feel good. I do see that from woman. I think

a lot of them, especially the younger ones, their values on their, their looks in their opinion,

right? So they'll like compare themselves to the hottest girl and their stupid girl or whatever.

It's really hard. And you know what? Obviously, social media has been a, played a large role in that.

Yeah. And it's crazy to me for these young kids. Like when you and I were younger or maybe in

high school, we have maybe had Instagram, but it wasn't anything like it is now. Yeah.

None of this chronically living online for these young kids. I've, someone's had this me recently

and I was mind blown because I haven't thought about it like that. Not only do they know who like

the hottest or most good looking person is in their class, they know who the hottest person is

in their entire city and their entire state. Like the young guys can name you like who the,

because of social media. That's crazy. And so then you have a number of girls looking

as whoever this like hot, the hottest girl is and they feel like they have to be exactly like them

and the ozempic culture right now. The Kardashian filters. It's, it's really tough. It's really tough

to navigate. And again, I'm not big on shaming. So I don't want to shame, you know, Ariana Grande

for being extra skinny right now. If that's what works for her and that's maybe her natural body,

who cares? But it's the online, the living chronically online in a highly curated world makes it

really, really hard for young girls to say true to themselves. Absolutely. And I think just overall

we need better role models. We need better role models for these young girls and the young

men to look up to to say I'm going to run my own race. I'm going to beat to my own drum. And

just because someone else is doing something and ozempic and Moderna will work for them doesn't

mean that I'm going to feel pressured to do that to my own body to get the Botox and to adhere to

that highly curated culture, you know, or pale and it's been a pleasure. I'm from Jersey. So I

think we get along because of the East Coast. But where could people find you? I know you're

launching a show next year, right? Yes. So in the new year, it's been a long time coming. It's

going to be in partnership with Newsweek, my own podcast. And so I love any tips from you. But

everyone will be able to get it wherever they get their podcasts. And you can follow me right

now at Caitlinson Claire. Awesome. Check her out guys. See you next time.

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