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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 are.

I see so many people with zero energy, in a super depleted state being advised to detox whether that is cleansing, supplementing, fasting or some special diet.

EXCUSE ME? Let’s really think about that. Do you really think some aggressive detox is going to be the answer to your prayers without addressing any foundational work?

I will tell you right now some single metal, parasite or toxin is not the root to all your symptoms.

The real question to ask is.

HOW DID IT GET IN THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Your undernourished, mineral depleted, stressed out body of course.

How can you possibly expect your body to take care of heavy metals, parasites, chemicals, toxins, or whatever else is in there when you are not giving it the energy it needs to do so?

Fasting and cleanses, depriving your body of vital nutrients and energy for the sake of detoxing? Give me a break!

You need energy, lots of energy for your body to be able to detox and heal in the first place.

Focus on building up your system not breaking it down.

Your body is intelligent and knows exactly how to heal and how to detox on it’s own as long as it has the nourishment it needs to do so. Forcing metals and toxins out of the body is unnatural and not necessary. Your body has it’s own order of healing. Trust it.

It always comes back to the foundations. Nourishment with a traditional diet, mineral balancing, blood sugar balancing, digestion, stress, sleep and toxin elimination from your environment.

In my opinion the only shit you need to be detoxing from is your toxic habits, toxic people, and toxic environment.

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 of time are the most demonized to this day? MIND BLOWN.

We are blaming a traditional diet on modern day diseases.

It’s scary that we have become so lost as a society on what to eat when innately we know what we are eating is not working – this modern day processed plant based alternative garbage.

I will forever be baffled that consuming salt, sugar, and saturated fat is controversial.

Diet culture has embedded it in our head. Still to this day every time I eat sugar, salt, or red meat there is this little voice in my head that brings be back to the days everyone said you would die of a heart attack for eating a burger or scrambled eggs cooked in butter and salt or some ice cream.

How many times do I tell a client to add more salt to their diet and their eyes open wide with fear.

So what’s the real culprit?

1. Not choosing quality sources of salt, sugar and saturated fat (see slides)
2. Eating a processed food, standard american diet, processed plant-based foods rather than the real deal
3. Blood sugar imbalances
4. PUFA consumption
5. Diets that don’t support our physiology
6. Demonizing food groups
7. Mineral depletions from all of the above

What do all of these do? Create unnecessary stress on the body. What do salt, sugar, and saturated fat do? Decrease stress in the body.

Girl, ditch the sugar detoxes, stop demonizing salt and fearing dairy and red meat.

This is just made up bullshit to stress you out more and have you consume garbage that will just make you sicker.

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, Vitamin C, eat high fiber, low carb and load up on the cruciferous vegetables. You are told to eliminate dairy, meat and saturated fat, watch the salt and eat more PUFA! Start seed cycling and let’s also start you on a HRT cream from a compound pharmacy, why not, it’s natural and bioidentical, no harm right?

WHAT DA?! 🤯Now we are talking about the alternative health basic bitch package.

I’ve said it before and I will say it again, your hormonal issues are not hormonal at all.

Absolutely none of these recommendations gets to the root cause of your hormonal issues.

Seed cycling, nuts and seeds? Talk about a rancid, estrogenic, toxic, shit storm.
DIM and cruciferous vegetables let’s destroy our thyroid and metabolism while we are at it.

Low carb, high fiber? Why are carbs a problem in the first place and fiber? Gut irritation station.

More exercise? Let’s just add to that stress bucket that got you here in the first place.

Zinc, Vitamin D, Vitamin C? Sure let’s just create more mineral imbalances.

HRT? Hormones work in balance with one another and can work against each other.

So what to actually do?

Eat a traditional diet that supports your physiology. This includes eating seasonal – root vegetables and tubers, fruit, honey, grass-fed/ pasture-raised meats (nose to tail), eggs, dairy and wild caught fish.

Address mineral and nutrient imbalances.

You will never heal hormones without addressing digestion and detox. I don’t care if you have zero digestive issues.

Balance your blood sugar, the #1 thing you can do. Eat every 3-4 hours. Combine carb, protein and fat.

You can be doing all of the above but if you hate your life, sleep like shit, have no joy, stressed out, over-exercising or under-eating you simply will not get your hormones in check.

Put in the work girlfriend, it will be worth it!

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?

This fear and the actions we take based on these fears are what is making our bodies feel unsafe.

Your body will always fight for safety. A safe body is a healthy body.

Feelings of safety can be achieved through our thoughts and feelings and most importantly our environment and HOW WE REACT AND PERCEIVE these stressors/ fear.

We as women innately know what to do and how to heal, it’s in our bones, it’s in our DNA. We can heal ourselves. And it may be as simple as just listening. Listening to everything your body is telling you about your internal and external environment.

We have never questioned that our bodies can give birth or that we won’t know how to take care of a baby. One of the biggest events of our entire life that we innately know how to do as women but yet we question everything else around us and live in fear.

If the world didn’t tell you how you should be eating or living or the fear it instills, you would most likely be innately drawn to the things that make your body feel safe.

Community.
Engaging in movement you actually love.
Eating frequently and foods you enjoy.
Eating a traditional diet rich in minerals and animal foods.
Combining foods appropriately because they make you feel good.
Not skipping meals and always eating breakfast.
Always having coffee after or with meals.
Getting to bed on time and taking time away from your phone.
Spending days outdoors.

Rather than thinking.

Why me, why my body?

Think.

What is robbing me of safety right now? What if I took a minute to enjoy life rather than focusing on the negatives and what I fear.

What if we looked at our symptoms as a sign of healing rather than something being wrong that needs fixing?

What if you let your life, your environment be your nourishment?

Listen deeply. Your body is just trying to keep you safe. Nobody has the power to make you feel unsafe besides you.

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 vibration” and you require light foods.

Nah girl. Your digestion just sucks.

We all have the same cells that require the same nutrients from a variety of traditional foods, proteins, carbs and fats.

Stop fighting your bodies own innate wisdom and nutritional needs as a human being for some false belief that you will save the planet, need to be smaller and eat less.

Eating nose to tail has been something we have been doing since the dawn of time. These foods are sacred and contain an abundance of easy to digest nutrients that the body requires to thrive, is required for fertility, reproduction and ensures the womb supplies ample nutrition to the growing baby.

Meat eating has always symbolizes strength, intelligence (a bigger brain) and good health for men and women.

The plant-based problem:

An increase in cruciferous vegetables, nuts and seeds, legumes, soy, processed nut milks, processed dairy, butter and meat alternatives, containing…

Anti-nutrients
PUFAs
Synthetic vitamins
Estrogens
Poor digestibility
Anti-thyroid
Poor protein sources
Disordered eating habits
Nutrient and mineral deficiencies

This post is in no means saying there does not need to be work done on the agricultural front or that we don’t need to put in the effort to help the planet out.

Our cells require a lot of energy. Energy from a variety of foods. You simply will not get that from a plant-based diet or worse what will eventually be a man-made fake food factory farm.