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 … …
Basic Bitch Health Drinks That May Not be So “Healthy”
Who here feels personally victimized by the diet industry? Influencers? Marketers? Ya. Me too. Let’s stick with the “basic bitch” theme shall we? A basic bitch is most likely a toxic bitch and also a REAL good marketer. Throw any good looking chick in front of the screen claiming something healed their skin, their hair, … …
The Basic Bitch Starter Pack To Destroying Your Health
I get it. I was once on the basic bitch starter pack too. You’ve made the switch from the processed junk food we all grew up on to a “healthy” diet and lifestyle. The diet and lifestyle that everyone and their mother wants to sell you on through MLMs and social media with no knowledge … …
Is Your Cell Phone Making You Fat
You wake up and the first thing you do is start scrolling and before you know it time has gone by and your morning routine or workout plans are out the window. Hell, you can’t even go pee mid day without bringing it with you to scroll for those .2 seconds. You cook dinner and … …
What Do Your Hormone Lab Results Mean?
“Laura, I was told I have low progesterone and high estrogen but the supplements and cream didn’t work” “I have high testosterone! But I have no idea what to do about it” “I was told my estrogen is low but I have all the symptoms of excess estrogen! They want me to take HRT!” Well … …
What You Learned About Your Menstrual Cycle In School
Girls have a vagina and boys have a penis. Anyone else feel like that is the extent of what we learned in school about our bodies? I remember sitting in a room with all the other girls in my grade while we gathered to watch a super uncomfortable video in the dark on a box … …
Cruciferous Vegetables + DIM Won’t Balance Your Hormones
So you walk into your holistic docs office with hormonal complaints of breast tenderness or pain, migraines/ headaches, heavy or irregular periods, cystic acne, PMS, anxiety, low libido, fatigue, fibroids, endo, PCOS, and/or weight gain. They either runs some testing, most likely a blood panel that won’t tell you anything or they just tell you … …
No, You Don’t Need to Supplement Vitamin D Just Because It’s Winter
If I had a dollar for every time I had a client tell me they are low in vitamin D I would be one rich bitch. Or I love when someone has been supplementing high dose vitamin D and their levels never get better and their symptoms get worse. I would be an even richer. … …