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I’ve got 99 problems but healing my digestive system solved like 98 of them

👆🏻Actual footage of me confident AF after all my problems resolved by working on my gut health.

But really tho.

Most of you have heard my story. The reason I became a nutritionist was because I healed my digestive system and in turn every other symptom or ‘diagnosis’ I had. My clients will likely tell you the same.

Got blood sugar issues? Get your gut in check.

Got anxiety? Get your gut in check.

Skin probs? Get your gut in check.

Thyroid issues? Get your gut in check.

Hormones wack? Get your gut in check.

I made all the mistakes and tried all the restrictive therapeutic diets hoping to see some relief but only got worse. None of these diets are sustainable and the second I tried adding foods back in I would react with a massive histamine shit storm, as any body would after restricting foods and food groups for a period of time.

I now can confidently say I eat all foods, animals and plants without any repercussions. As a human should.

WE ARE OMNIVORES.

This is why I will forever be passionate that therapeutic diets are detrimental and will never get to the root of your problems but will likely create a more unhealthy environment in the long run.

PS. That is what ALL diets are, they were created to help those with chronic diseases and symptoms like seizures short term, not long term use by an average human being.

It has been my mission ever since to help women heal without restricting foods.

Let this sink in. It only takes one diet to mess with your metabolism for life.

Healing your gut is not about going on a special diet, taking a probiotic or some fancy digestive supplement that whoever the F is promoting on instagram claiming it healed every ailment under the sun to make a few bucks.

There is so much more to it and requires lifelong nourishment and healthy lifestyle.

And I might as well get this out of the way…

Eating to support your metabolism or what people would call pro-metabolic just means pro-real food.

Eating REAL food, as we should have been all along. It’s a bummer we are being bombarded with BS nutrition advice all the time that eating real food is so revolutionary, controversial and evil.

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What you think you have vs. What is actually going on

Skipping meals.

Forgetting to eat because you are too “busy.”

Waiting too long to eat.

Using substances during the day to cope with your mental health issues.

Girlfriend. Get yo’ shit together + eat.

You are riding the blood sugar rollercoaster all day but for some reason don’t expect your moods and mental health to ride along with you?

Stable moods require stable energy.

Waiting too long to eat, not combining foods appropriately or not eating enough sets off a stress response…ALERT! ALERT! I’M IN A FAMINE! HELP!

Your body literally panics.

What does this look like?

Blood sugar drops > Cortisol rises > If not given the food it needs your body goes through a stressful process of tapping into protein stores to turn them into glucose (a survival mechanism) > the more this happens your body ends up in chronic fight or flight mode continuously pumping out stress hormones

This then depletes your body of minerals. The very minerals we need for good mental health.

Your digestion then suffers due to not getting the energy it needs to break down food well.

Your hormones are trashed due to lack of nutrients, minerals and a compromised liver/ gut.

Your thyroid and metabolism suffer because your liver is too busy trying to make glucose out of other resources (and air) rather than converting thyroid hormones.

Your mental health then goes down the toilet.

Ways to balance your blood sugar:

+ Eat before you get hungry
+ Always combine carb, protein and fat
+ Eat every 3 hours, for some this might be every 2
+ Eat upon waking
+ Move your body often throughout the day
+ Caffeine after a meal always!
+ Limit alcohol
+ Get your minerals, gut and hormones checked!
+ Eat food that actually nourishes you, not what diet culture tells you to eat

Anxious or depressed? Eat more + often.
ADHD and PMS? Eat more + often.
Moody? Eat more + often.
Stressed? Eat more + often.

There are MANY layers to mental health and this is just one that is so often overlooked.

Don’t suppress with alcohol, psychedelics, CBD, or whatever other substance you are using to cope. It will come back ten fold in other ways. Your body is speaking to you, listen.

Not medical advice. Nutrition POV.

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.

8 Reasons Why You Can’t Seem To Tolerate Carbs

Girl, I will say it over and over again. It is NOT the carbs fault.

If you find that you can’t tolerate carbs whether they make you tired, they cause gas and bloating, or weight gain it is not the carbs fault but an underlying reason to WHY your cells are not able to use glucose for energy in the first place

If we can’t use carbs well, we need to address our body as a whole. Going low carb to fix insulin resistance only leaves you more insulin resistant. WE NEED CARBS! Our bodies main source of energy is glucose after all!

Let’s talk about the hormone insulin real quick. First of all, insulin is not bad, it in fact helps glucose (sugar) get into our cells to use for energy.
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Where it goes wrong: your body starts over producing insulin when you are under chronic stress. Eventually your cells stop responding to these high stress demands and become resistant to insulin overtime. Your body produces higher amounts of cortisol (the stress hormone) which makes your cells resistant to insulin. When this happens too much sugar builds up in the blood instead of being used by our cells. Insulin resistance simply means your cells are having a hard time absorbing glucose.

What causes chronic stress? All of the above. Let’s take a look.

Minerals like magnesium, potassium, calcium, copper, + sodium are needed to let blood sugar into the cell and are necessary for thyroid function.

All carbs are not created equal. Focus on roots, tubers, dairy + fruit.

Always pair carbs with a protein + fat. Fructose, the sugar found in fruit helps us use glucose from starchy carbs like potatoes better. Consider pairing the two.

Excess estrogen will cause the pancreas to over produce insulin, so you can’t burn fat efficiently. Also leading to low progesterone, the hormone needed to balance blood sugar.

Eating loads of PUFA’s interferes with cell signaling inhibiting the conversion to glycogen.

Bacterial overgrowth in the gut causes inflammation + deficiencies worsening insulin resistance.

Studies show a direct correlation with fluoride + insulin + it impacts the way our cells take in glucose.

All our problems can be brought back to our relationship with carbs and how we use them.

Are You Estrogen Dominant?

I used to be that girl.

I went to the tanning salon, I was on birth control for 12 years, loved my MAC makeup + perfume, burned those candles, loved the smell of a clean house, drank out of plastic water bottles or tap, cooked on non stick pans, heated up my perfectly counted pre-prepped macro meal in plastic in the microwave (but I was being healthy right guys?), ate all the PUFAs + conventional foods.

No wonder why I ended up with every estrogen dominant symptom in the book! I was not only getting estrogen endogenously but also exogenously with all these external sources.

I also had gut issues galore preventing me from not being able to eliminate estrogen appropriately.

I was stressed to the max depleting my body of progesterone, the most important hormone of them all and the only thing that could keep my estrogen in check.

There are 2 types of estrogen dominance. Straight up estrogen dominance- an excess of estrogen but other sex hormones like progesterone are in normal range and relative estrogen dominance- when estrogen is high in relation to low progesterone levels.

Symptoms:
Allergies/ histamine intolerance
PMS
Dry skin
Infertility
Fibroids, cysts, cancers
Sore breasts
Low sex drive
Difficulty losing weight
Varicose veins/ cellulite
Blood sugar swings
Osteoporosis
Heavy periods
Cramps
Cyclical headaches, migraines + acne
Fatigue
Water retention
Gut issues – SIBO, IBS, Bloating
Anxiety/ depression
Thyroid dysfunction

But Laura, I got my labs and it shows i’m low in estrogen but I have all the symptoms of estrogen dominance.

Welp, girlfriend that lab doesn’t account for all that excess estrogen being stored in your tissues. If your body is stressed the F out cortisol will be high and estrogen builds up in your tissues.

If you feel estrogen dominate but your labs are normal or low, chances are that you probably are.

One thing that grinds my gears, women that are told to take DIM but never address why they are estrogen dominant in the first place or if their detox pathways are open. This is harmful.

The first thing you can do is avoid endocrine disruptors + toxins that are mimicking estrogen in your body then address elimination.