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What you are told is causing your health problems vs. What is actually causing your health problems

Girlfriend. Listen up. It’s not that simple.

Eliminating dairy, sugar and meat to try and fix your symptoms is LAZY.

You heard me. It’s lazy. It likely won’t solve your issues but certainly puts a nice sparkly bandaid on them for the time being.

Well that is, until these eliminations stop working and you are eliminating hundred other foods or jumping from one diet to another in hopes of finding relief and #health.

Then when all fails you finally go hire someone to help you after you have completely ignored the signals and signs of what your body is telling you it ACTUALLY needs (hint hint everything on the right).

Do you really think your body is telling you to eliminate 3 of the most nutrient dense foods on the planet for the sake of your health? Give me a break.

Acne? Eliminate dairy. Insulin resistant or diabetes? Eliminate sugar. Inflammation and hormonal? Eliminate meat.

If you work with a practitioner and their solution to your problems is eliminating food groups and macronutrients without putting proper assessment into anything on the right, they are LAZY.

These blanket recommendations are wild, are you sick of them yet?

99% of your problems will be fixed simply by:

1. Eating a traditional nutrient rich diet
2. Ditching processed, PUFA filled garbage
3. Getting enough sleep, sunshine, and joy
4. Eliminating negative self-talk and toxins
5. Getting stress in check and living a simple life
6. Always supporting digestion and minerals

And for the love of whatever you believe in stopping obsessing over everything that goes in your mouth and every symptom you experience. Your body is always evolving, changing, being exposed to things, adapting and finding homeostasis. It’s OKAY to have symptoms. Congrats, you are human.

Due to the overwhelming amount of bullshit on the internet being fed to us and sold to us on the daily it has become impossible to actually listen to our bodies and understand what they need and are craving.

We would rather starve ourselves of our own innate needs and then continue to deprive ourselves by now eliminating dairy, meat and sugar – the three MVPs that we were given on earth to keep us thriving.

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9 Lies You Have Been Told About Health and Your Body

Talk about confusing and stressful as hell.

If we followed all this advice we would be loaded with synthetic hormones, energy deficient, eating loads of PUFAs, ridden with disease and digestive issues, starving and malnourished AF.

So what’s the actual truth?

Birth control is classified as a carcinogen. Yes, it’s that harmful and does not get to the root of your symptoms but rather masks them with synthetic hormones.

No you can not get pregnant all month long! You have a tiny window you can get pregnant each cycle, learn the FAM method and ditch the birth control.

Meat, diary and saturated fat are some of the most nutritious foods on planet earth. You could sustain life and thrive off of dairy alone if you needed to, it is that nutritious.

Plant based diets are void of so many bio-available nutrients, are highly estrogenic, loaded with rancid PUFAs, and simply do not work for our physiology.

Sugar and carbs? They are your body’s preferred fuel source. Without it your body will have to go through a super stressful process to create it’s own from other resources. Eliminating sugar and carbs does not fix insulin resistance but actually makes you more insulin resistant.

Seed cycling and cruciferous veggies, take about adding to the estrogenic, hormonal shit storm you are trying to fix in the first place.

Dairy is causing your acne? Come on. Not eating quality dairy, having a history of low carb dieting or an estrogenic plant based diet and that wrecked gut of yours is likely the culprit.

No. You can not lose weight and reverse symptoms in 30 days with some detox or cleanse. Stop falling for that BS and stop using bandaid diets to help with symptoms.

Imagine starving yourself willingly? Fasting is a massive stressor on the female body and will wreck havoc on your hormones. Every study done on fasting and the benefits is done on men. Men don’t have menstrual cycles.

The blanket advice to eat less and exercise more. Talk about ruining your metabolism.

This is why knowledge is power. All this advice seems to work short term, until it doesn’t and you are back at square one.

Once you understand how your body works the rest is history.

The Harsh Truth: Nobody actually gives a shit about you because they are too damn worried about themself.

Stop letting the fear of what other people think about you determine your life.

I know. You are thinking what the heck does this have to do with nutrition.

Well everything.

A lot of the reason we as women are so sick is because we have lived our lives caring so much about what others think.

All of the diets we have been on. All our poor nutrition choices. It all comes down to how we look. We see someone on social media that appears to have it all with a “great” body so they must be doing it right.

We have been sold that certain diets will promise us great skin, beautiful hair and thin figures for centuries.

I mean hell, in the 1920’s we were told the cigarette diet was the way to go and there were no repercussions.

Just like any diet nowadays, we are only told all the good, we are promised we will be thin goddesses with glowing skin, tons of energy and it will fix all our problems in life and we will live forever!

Because being thin will make you happy right? Being thin does not fix your health problems, your stress levels, your toxic relationships, honestly it fixes nothing about your life or your health.

And truthfully, ALL diets, this desire to be thin and look a certain way out of fear of what other people will think is destroying our hormones, guts and metabolism. If diets worked there wouldn’t be so many.

You are too afraid to go out with friends or see family because you put on a few pounds or you have some acne on your chin or maybe your hair and skin is not up to your standards.

Whatever insecurity you are struggling with. I can guarantee whoever you are with has just as many or more insecurities (even if they won’t admit it).

Stop letting the fear and anxiety of what other people think determine your life and stomp your joy, because truly, they don’t give a shit about you and once you fully understand this, it’s so freeing.

Be honest with yourself, is everything you are doing out of fear of what others think? Or are you truly doing it for your own joy and happiness. This includes the diet that you keep, the decisions you make around money + relationships, and where you put your energy.

The less fucks you give the more you will truly live.

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.

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 skew any study, review, or research depending on what their intention is and what will be the most profitable.

The saddest part.

We are all being played.

How many times have you heard that soy + flax are fantastic for your hormones?

I’l never forget the day I walked into the ND office riddled with estrogen symptoms and was told to add more soy and cruciferous vegetables and seed cycle with flax, as well as take DIM supplement. After I had already been on the birth control pill for 12 years. Holistic healthcare can be dangerous.

Here’s the deal. We live is a highly estrogenic world. We are all ridden with estrogen and most of our hormonal problems come back to an imbalance between estrogen and progesterone.

If you were vegan, fed soy milk or formula as a baby, seed cycled for “hormone balance” took birth control pills or bio-identical estrogen, added flax to your smoothies, took DIM supplements, and ate all the plant estrogens this is not to scare you!

You know better you do better. First step. Knock it off.

Next step. Evaluate your estrogen burden.

That includes the phytoestrogens above as well as those found in skincare, makeup, tap water, plastics, cooking utensils, cleaning supplies, etc…

Third step. Eat a metabolically supporting diet that works for YOUR physiology, address mineral imbalances and get your gut in check.

Girlfriend, you are smarter than this.

Stop being fooled into thinking this garbage will balance your hormones. Your body knows best, really truly listen to it. I can guarantee it’s not jumping for joy every time you give it that man made soy milk or vegan burger and that flax seed waste product.

Your breasts don’t lie. Dr. Hobbins spent his career studying the impacts of these such things on breast health using thermographs.

Not medical advice.