Before I talk about kiwi—the fruit—I have a quick reminder: If you're using our essential oil-free products, I'd love for you to try the versions with essential oils to see that you're safe here.
So, with any essential oil-free order this month, you'll receive a free mini sample of the same product with essential oils to try. After this month, the essential oil-free versions will be discontinued (as I explained in my previous email. Read/listen here).
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Let's get to kiwi.
So, why don't you see me cutting a kiwi in half or some other exotic fruit and using it in our balms or elixirs? Not only is it so satisfying to watch those behind-the-scenes videos of how skincare is made, but also kiwi is healthy, right?
I know it is healthy if you have read my story "Ezgi's Healing Journey", which I updated recently; you know how much care and attention went into feeding my mom while she was paralyzed in bed for 19 years.
She had to eat healthy for her body to resist cancer cells.
A kiwi a day!
My dad's rule.
A kiwi a day!
She ate a kiwi a day and many other things ofcource.
I eat a kiwi a day, for it has the highest source of Vitamin C. Vitamin C means immune health. You become immune to viral infections like the flu.
I never really liked it, though :). It tastes so strange next to Turkish breakfast :). The cheese, the olive, the honey, the butter, the eggs dancing with parsley, sourdough bread, drinking the olive oil and kiwi wants to join.
Dear kiwi, you arrived like a stranger at the feast, but you stayed.
Because Dad said, eat a kiwi a day.
So we ate :).
My mom's immune system was fierce, almost otherworldly, so wild that she was stronger than us, even though she was lying in that bed without moving a muscle on her own. What took her from us was the damage that radiotherapy did to her brain to stop cancer from spreading.
Dead neurons made her paralyzed.
I didn't know what I knew now. No food, no herb, no exercise could rewire her severed brain.
We needed something beyond the visible to the human eye—beyond the 3D world.
We needed energy.
The unseen.
The medicine of vibration, of frequency, of light.
It took my own journey with MS to understand. You cannot shift a chronic illness like cancer, like MS, with physical tools like food and exercise. You suppress symptoms; you elongate time. Thats all.
You need spirit. You need the unseen. You need to learn to manipulate the invisible energy field around you to change the 3D world like a severed brain. Her severed brain from cancer or my once severed brain from MS.
So, despite all this knowledge and experience with kiwi, you don't see me cutting it in half and using it in balm.
Why?
Cut a kiwi in half and leave it on the countertop in the kitchen for a day.
It would rot.
Bacteria and fungi (especially moulds and yeasts) —life's tiny recyclers—will gather. They'll slip through small wounds in the skin of the kiwi and begin to colonize the surface.
Natural decomposition process. That's how nature works.
So, If I want to use a kiwi in my balm, I would have to fight nature, meaning add preservatives to kill the bacteria before they rot the kiwi in my balm.
But here's the problem;
You are a kiwi, meaning you are nature. Your skin is home to a thriving forest of friendly bacteria, your microbiome, your first shield, your quiet army.
These bacteria have a role. They communicate with your immune system on a moment-to-moment basis to protect you from the outside world. That's what the skin does—a shield of protection. But now the soldiers on it = microbiome is dead because of my preservative; you are prone to skin problems, and, on top of it, your immune system is now compromised. You need that immune system to live a healthy life. If you read my story, that's why I stopped my MS medications, which were suppressing my immune system. It didn't make any sense.
As if being human is easy, as if you don't have to deal with so many things in life, now you have lost your soldiers on your skin.
I am heating up. But I will carry on writing for you :)
You are open to danger.
As if this is not enough, the pH of a kiwi is acidic between 3/4. But your skin's PH is 5.5, not that acidic. So, I have to bring the pH up to a healthy level for you; otherwise, you will burn from acidity, which means redness and itching.
Ok, so I added a PH stabilizer next to my preservative.
The thing is, the skin surface is a waxy substance = sebum. It is not craving for a kiwi. Sebum is craving nature's oils, and the microbiome is asking for whole plants. But not their fresh parts.
You can't just randomly use fresh plants. Fresh plants have water in them, so they will rot, too, just like the kiwi. You will still need a preservative.
Now, because of this kiwi, to fix this fragile thing I've made. I must go to a lab. Because I know your body will sense the lie and fight with this balm. I must conjure a formula that tricks your skin into staying "soft" and "stable."
And still, I must add more. It must smell beautiful. Because marketing tells me you decide with your nose. So, I pour in a heavy dose of essential oils. There is nothing healing here; the smell has to be strong—Lavender. Always lavender. Because everyone loves her.
Now your balm carries:
a preservative,
a pH adjuster,
a chemical cocktail,
and a high concentration of essential oils.
a preservative,
a pH adjuster,
a chemical cocktail,
and a high concentration of essential oils.
You are already compromised. The microbiome is dead.
And they say, "Essential oils are dangerous".
They cause allergies.
Really?
I mean, really.
Abusing nature's name, "the kiwi", to manipulate human beings is dangerous.
Profit over people is dangerous.
Now, does it make a difference if this balm carries a label of a bunny that says "cruelty-free"?
Does it make a difference if the company does the biggest cruelty-free protests ever seen?
Does it make a difference if this balm says "Vegan, plant-based"?
Does it make a difference if this balm says "Organic"?
This balm is abusing human skin and compromising human health.
A label is a label.
It's like when you see people seem to care so much about Palestine but fight with their partners, friends, and neighbours and torture their employees.
You have to "become the label."
"They must be making peace out there. It's their fault."
No!
I have to "become my label."
Ezgi is the label for Earth To You. In my daily interaction with every human, plant, or animal I will ever see, when none is watching, I have to act like my label.
Period!
I am the skin of a human being. My nature is a waxy substance called "sebum," and a vast galaxy of beneficial bacteria live in it.
You, the human who is wearing me; all I am asking is that you help me balance my sebum and feed me with more healthy bacteria because I will lose them due to environmental stressors, pollution, your eating habits, stress, but do not kill my existing bacteria while you introduce more healthy bacteria! When you use a serum or anything that includes preservatives, you are killing me.
Don’t believe them when they cut a kiwi on camera and say it’s skincare.
But eat the kiwi.
The human skin can not digest kiwi. It doesn't know how to work with the kiwi or any fruit.
A slowly compromised immune system leads to chronic illness. Healing a chronic illness requires "energy". You can not heal a chronic illness with the tools of this 3D world. With medicine, food, and exercise, talk therapy,
We tried.
I tried.
It doesn't work.
You will need to create an enormous amount of energy to heal.
But the idea is not "let's learn how to heal with energy"; the idea is, let's thrive and have the best human experience here on Earth."
Recently, someone in our building was diagnosed with cancer. I had never met him. But my body burned to speak. I paced the halls, scratching my head, wondering how to say: “You don’t have to die. There is another way.
Why was I so nervous? Because the truth takes courage, persistence, and determination.
Why was I so nervous? Because the truth takes courage, persistence, and determination.
It is not like "I am an energy worker".
It's not just meditation.
It's not just knowledge.
I know what it took for me to change. My entire paradigm shifted. I became a different person.
Every meditation I did to heal MS was to change myself and my beliefs, the fears that I held so tightly.
An enormous amount of energy went into changing Ezgi.
The brand-new Ezgi doesn't have MS.
Because MS belongs to the old Ezgi.
The old Ezgi created that illness through imbalance.
It's not me anymore.
Could I have used this enormous amount of energy to thrive instead of trying to heal from an illness? I could.
Anything that throws you out of homeostasis = balance big or small: chemically, emotionally and physically, is a NO. Whether this is a balm made with kiwi or you "arguing with your co-worker". Both compromise your immune system.
Not only do you suffer, but everybody around you suffers with you.
I keep myself in balance not only for myself but for every human, plant, animal, and rock on a mountain.
You are not just a piece of meat. You emit energy.
A balanced human being not only thrives and has the best human experience on Earth but also spreads the medicine of vibration, of frequency, of light- the kind of unique light that the world has never seen before.
Essential oils are NOT dangerous.
Abusing nature's name to manipulate human beings is dangerous.
Profit over people is dangerous.
"You" out of homeostasis is dangerous.
Keep yourself balanced not only for yourself but for those around you.
with all my love,
Ezgi