EPISODE 168

Hanna Mehrabani and Sahba Sizdahkhani: Persian Health Secrets

When you apply cremes, soaps or liquids on your body, do you think about where all of the ingredients came from?

Hanna Mehrabani and Sahba Sizdahkhani describe the nuts and bolts of creating skin care products derived from organic soils in this fragrant Living 4D conversation.

Stay tuned for a special musical performance by Sahba, that fuses jazz and improvisation with Persian Classical Music.

Learn more about Hanna and Sahba on Instagram here and here. Listen to Sahba’s music on his website.

For Living 4D listeners: Save 10 percent on any plant-based, skin and self-care products Hanna sells on her Seeb and Solace website by using the code LIVING4D at checkout.

SHOW NOTES

  • How Hanna transitioned from fracking for the oil and gas industry to formulating skin/animal care products. (9:45)
  • Hanna chooses between fearing everything or having faith and slow breathing. (15:45)
  • Sabha’s journey to become a musician with a Persian focus. (21:56)
  • Sahba expresses musically the experience of using their self-care products with a santur. (33:36)
  • “Anything we put in or on our bodies is essentially soil. Soil is our skin. Soil is our body.” (41:05)
  • Your skin care regimen allows your body to breathe or suffocates it. (52:44)
  • Sahba expresses organic soil musically. (1:09:09)
  • Washing your hands too much? (1:14:10)
  • Pregnant women eat frankincense (designed to be consumed) in Iran. (1:30:00)
  • How much saffron is enough? (1:40:01)
  • Incremental detox. (1:54:11)
  • Love and respect your liver! (2:07:42)
  • “Fifty percent of what I’m feeling is collective anxiety, and the rest is mine.” (2:12:28)
  • Paul performs a song he created with Angie. (2:21:01)

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