Women's hormones, gut + metabolism

Are all those smoothies doing you dirty?

I know. Every influencer on IG is posting their daily green smoothie, juice or pretty salad. 🙄

For whatever reason, the second you go on a health kick or decide to eat “clean” (don’t get me started on this term) you start thinking you need to consume smoothies and salads every damn day (the greener the better) and if you don’t you’re a failure.

I mean any “health food” store or restaurant you come across will be glorifying the smoothie loaded with greens and super foods.

Well what if I told you that shit is overrated and probably doing more harm than good? Girl, I’d rather you go to a pub and order a steak and potatoes than get a green smoothie or salad at the juice bar 🙂

A few reasons why I don’t love a smoothie:

Smoothies put out your “digestive fire,” think of your digestive fire as the stomach acid, enzymes and bile needed to break down your food. What is an easy way to put out a fire? Cold liquids.

Not only that, digestion starts in the brain with the sight and smell of food and the production of saliva while you chew. This sends a signal to the brain that it’s time to eat and to start producing digestive juices.

Even if your smoothie is liquid, you still need to break it down + absorb + assimilate the nutrients from the food with these juices that no longer exist due to your cold lifeless smoothie.

No fire / no juice = digestive distress

Smoothies are loaded with thyroid suppressing ingredients like nut butters, nut milks + raw leafy greens.

Mmmmm who doesn’t want a nice big glass of rancid nuts, estrogen, heavy metals+ toxins?

I’l have 2 please! Because you know damn well you’ll just be starving an hour later because of how unsatisfying it was.

Not only that but the very process that smoothies are made (blended) allows pathogenic aerobic bacteria to thrive- you are just encouraging it.

If you insist on having a smoothie…

– Make sure you chew it + smell it + its not freezing cold
– Ditch the raw vegetables + nut butters
– Consume it with a meal. Smoothies are not meals.
– Make sure you include protein.
– Include fruit, collagen, dairy…

But in all honesty, for the love of your digestive system ditch the smoothies!

Your Breakfast Will Make or Break You

I know. “BUT I heard fasting in the morning is SOOO BENEFICIAL and working out fasted is even better”… 🙄
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The number one thing you can do to balance your hormones is to eat breakfast. SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK! Yes, I am talking a nice balanced nutritious breakfast consisting of carb and protein within an hour of waking up. No this does not include some bullshit coffee with a fat bomb in it to hold you over until lunch.
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“But why Laura? I feel so good when I fast in the morning.” 🙄
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Give it some time Girlfriend- you are running on stress hormones and eventually your body will crash.
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We have always heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day until recently when the fasting community decided we no longer needed to nourish ourselves after ALREADY fasting for 10 hours a night. Excuse me? Talk about adding fuel to the stress fire. As if our hormones are not already out of wack because of day to day life stressors why not make our body feel even less safe and secure by STARVING it.
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Blood sugar balance is the NUMBER ONE thing we can do to balance our hormones and eating breakfast. Reason being is our bodies are completely depleted from fasting overnight. Our liver can only hold on to glucose for 8-10 hours until it has to start making it’s own.Talk about stressful. And if our liver is compromised at all from things like low carb diets and nutrient deficiencies then it will run out of glucose even sooner. When your body has to make its own glucose that’s when the stress hormones kick in – cortisol and adrenaline. What do these guys do? The lower progesterone and increase estrogen causing a hormonal shit storm- moodiness, PMS, PCOS, headaches, HA, acne, and poor thyroid function.
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Eating breakfast when you wake up prevents your body from having to do this super stressful process and keeps your hormones in check.
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No appetite in the morning? That is a clear sign your body is conserving energy and suppressing your hunger, digestion, and reproduction.
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Don’t drink coffee on an empty stomach, quit fasting for 12-16 hours a day, and ditch the fasted workouts. And remember you are not more worthy because you don’t eat breakfast.

What Does Your Face Say About Your Hormones?

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What do all of these have in common?

You got it girl, YOU NEED TO SUPPORT YOUR METABOLISM.

The foundations of a pro-metabolic lifestyle for hormone balancing:

1. Mineral Balancing
2. Blood Sugar Balance
3. Digestion
4. Detoxification
5. Toxin and chemical elimination
6. Stress management
7. Sleep
8. Light
9. Movement
10. Most importantly, happiness + enjoying life fully

Keep in mind, we all have some, if not all of these beautiful flaws. Give yourself some grace and don’t be so hard on yourself. Our bodies go through seasons, our hormones ebb and flow, you are a cyclical creature.

The Truth About Plants

I can guarantee if you walk into any health professionals office they will tell you to eat more vegetables, as if that is going to solve all your problems! 🙄

Sure, eating vegetables in place of the standard american diet is going to be better, duh! But is it optimal? No. Potentially harmful? Maybe.

Here’s the deal.

Our soils are not what they used to be. The vegetables you are eating today don’t have near close to the same nutritional value as they did decades ago due to all the chemicals they are sprayed with (even organic), toxic tap water they are being grown in, and the heavy metals they suck up from our soils which displace vital nutrients we need as humans.

Leafy green vegetables have a fiber in the form of cellulose. The human body can not digest cellulose. This hard to break down fiber can cause inflammation, irritation, intestinal damage from increased bowel size, and in turn causes constipation, diarrhea, gas or bloating.

Goitrogens are found in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, soy, cauliflower, leafy greens, cabbage, and brussel sprouts. Goitrogens suppress thyroid and metabolic function and are highly estrogenic.

They have protective mechanisms known as anti-nutrients to protect themselves from invaders. Anti- nutrients interfere with how your body absorbs other nutrients.

Yum right? I mean who doesn’t want to load up their plates with toxic, chemical filled, estrogen laden, anti-metabolic, anti-thyroid, malnourished plants that create digestive hell? Me, Me, Me! Seconds please!

Grass eating animals are known as ruminants. They have a different digestive system than us which includes the ruman. This is where cellulose + hard to digest plant matter is broken down. They can digest + assimilate nutrients from plants.

Humans are meat eaters, this is seen through history simply through geography + how our teeth function.

This is not to say to never have plants. Cook them well and know where they are grown.

Animals first, plants later.

You are a grown ass woman who’s body is nutritionally demanding + requires a lot of energy, loading your plate with this toxic, low energy, bird food simply will not give you what you need to thrive.

Stop Blaming Dairy For All Your Problems

“My face started breaking out again Laura, do you think it’s the dairy”

“My eczema and psoriasis flared, I should probably eliminate dairy right?”

“I had a painful period this month, do you think I am eating too much dairy?”

“I put on 10lbs in the past year, do you think I need to cut out the dairy?”

“I look 9 months pregnant because I am so bloated at night, I def need to stop eating dairy”

Girl, stop blaming the dairy.

How many symptoms have you blamed on dairy? Why is it the second a symptom pops up we immediately blame the dairy?

Oh silly me, I know why. We all became terrified and brainwashed due to vegan propaganda, biased documentaries and outdated studies on conventional dairy milk. All dairy is not created equal.

Did we have some weird epiphany in the past decade? Oh the one food we have been consuming since the dawn of time is now causing all illnesses and diseases? I think not.

It makes SO MUCH sense to milk an almond, soy bean or cashew and then throw a bunch of synthetic vitamins and minerals and gums into the mix 🙄

Funny, the people demonizing the dairy fail to mention anything about the quality of dairy we consume and what has happened over the years that is making us all sick and intolerant to so many foods.

The introduction of PUFAs in the forms of vegetable oils (canola, sunflower, rapeseed, etc..), synthetic iron laden foods, processed foods, the vegan, raw vegetable/ nut and seed paleo craze that is putting our digestive systems in such disarray that now we are intolerant to basically everything as we continue to consume all these gut irritating foods.

It has just been so engrained in us to blame the dairy when it’s not the dairy at all. It’s our wrecked guts. How many times have you eliminated dairy and found relief from your symptoms? Probably never because you end up switching over or consuming in more abundance the very things that were causing your issues in the first place.

 

The worst part. If you don’t consume it, you lose the ability to digest it. I can understand eliminating dairy short term, key word SHORT TERM, to help relieve a symptom while working on the root cause (most likely your gut) but you need to add it back in girlfriend. We can not be living in food fear for years and then expect to add it back in without issues.

Dairy is one of the most nutrient dense foods you can consume. You could literally survive and thrive just off of dairy if you needed to, that is how amazing this superfood is. YES, consider dairy a superfood, not some lame ass green smoothie loaded with synthetic green powders.

Before you go blaming the dairy, work on getting your gut in check. I suggest once you are ready and you have gone down the gut healing journey try adding it back in starting with goat or sheep milk/cheese in small quantities, then make your way to cow milk/cheeses. Remember quality matters, grass fed always, raw is best.

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