What You Think You Need To Detox Vs What You Actually Need To Detox
SLOW YOUR ROLL GIRLFRIEND. Before someone tells you “oh girl you just need to detox” you tell them to hold their horses! You have a whole lot more work that needs to be done before you stress out your body with some trendy cleanse or diet. I don’t give a fuck how many testimonials there … …
Salt Sugar Saturated Fat
Bring these stress reducing, metabolism boosting, hormone and digestively supportive super foods back into your diet! I know. “But Laura I was told salt will cause high blood pressure” “Saturated fat causes high cholesterol” “Sugar causes insulin resistance, cancer and disease” How is it that these foods that we have been consuming since the dawn … …
What Doctors Tell You About Hormone Balance Vs What You Should Actually Do
Period problems? PMS? PCOS? Endometriosis? Acne? Weight gain? Mood swings? Fatigue? Sore breasts? Night sweats? Low libido? Anxiety/ depression? Migraines? Let’s just put you on birth control, spironolactone, and metformin (the basic bitch package for hormonal health). Not into that? You head to a holistic doc. You are told to take DIM, Zinc, Vitamin D, … …
Your Body Will Never Feel Safe Until
Safety is an absence of fear. Everything we do (or don’t do) is due to fear. Fear of dying. Fear of getting fat. Fear of disease. Fear of cancer. Fear of xyz symptom. Fear of not being loved. Fear of losing something or someone. What if we stopped living in fear and actually started living? … …
Plant Based Diets Were Never About You Health
The videos of women on plant-based diets bragging about not getting their periods. Some even claiming that we as women don’t need periods. WHAT DA FUCK. Keep telling yourself that you are some spiritual being from another planet that can’t handle meat and animal products or that killing an animal doesn’t work with your “spiritual … …
The Dangers of Soy, Flax, and Plant Estrogens
“We are inundated with propaganda that tells us we can “stay young” with bio-identical estrogen, flax, and soy based products, when in fact these recommendations are literally killing women. Excessive estrogen is the main culprit of breast cancer, yet estrogen therapies have become the mantra for breast health” – Wendy Sellens The medical industry can … …
Has Diet Culture Wrecked Your Gut?
Diet culture. When eating a traditional, nutritionally supportive diet goes out the window and all that matters is whatever the next trendy physique is in style. Whatever the next most profitable and trendy way of eating is that will give you false promises that you will reach your health and weight loss goals. Restrictive diets. … …
The Health Benefits Of Sugar
Alright ladies. Let’s set this straight. Sugar is not evil. Back in the 1950’s sugar was being blamed for all types of disease including cancer, heart disease, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Interestingly enough this was around the time that saturated fats were being demonized and vegetable oils were being promoted. How is that sugar, the … …
Nutrients/Support Needed On A Plant Based Diet
It’s no secret that a plant- based diet is filled with anti-nutrients, heavy metals, estrogens, and high in PUFAs. Plants are also not nearly as bio-available as a traditional animal-based seasonal diet. Throw in the highly processed plant-based meat/dairy alternatives and you have yourself a malnourished, toxic shit storm. It is also no secret that … …
Everything You Have Been Told About Health Fitness Nutrition + Weight Loss Is A Lie
WORK WITH YOUR BODY. NOT AGAINST IT. I’l say it over and over again but diets don’t work. Those supplements, meds, diets, workouts, mainstream nutrition advice, yup it’s all advice based on studies and trials done on men. And we wonder why our hormones are so f’d up? Even women’s hormone replacement therapy studies have … …
Friends Don’t Let Friends Go Low Carb
Tis the season for sugar detoxes, low carb diets, whole 30’s, paleo, keto, carnivore, intermittent fasting and everything in between. You’re having a hard time losing weight, you notice carbs don’t make me feel well or you have some symptoms you are trying to fix so hey why not do a reset! Maybe you try … …
Health And Fitness Words And Phrases to Ditch
✓ Negative self-talk ✓ Disordered thoughts around food ✓ Glorified eating disorders ✓ Restriction ✓ Shame and guilt That is all these words and phrases are promoting. Talking poorly to yourself and about food creates unnecessary chronic stress, lowers self-esteem, feeds anxiety and depression, creates digestive distress, and has a massive impact on your overall … …
