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#brainfog

Unpopular Truths in Nutrition

How many times has someone told you:

Eliminate carbs, sugar, + dairy they are causing inflammation + insulin resistance!

Get in more veggies! They are so much better for you than meat!

Make sure you are eating enough nuts + seeds to get in your healthy fats + balance your hormones!

Take vitamin D, C and zinc to boost your immune system!

EYEROLL 🙄

What’s really going on…

Glucose (sugar + carbs) is the preferred source of energy for almost every cell in the body. Forcing our body to create sugar on it’s own is downright stressful + should only be a backup process during a time of famine. Forcing the liver to do this takes away from other important things it needs to focus on like ya know, balancing our hormones, keeping our thyroid in check, eliminating toxins, among other important things.

Nuts and seeds are PUFAs that oxidize + become toxic when exposed to heat + oxygen aka the human body, not only that they are estrogenic. Nuts + seeds are the last thing you should be consuming if you are looking to balance your hormones or hell, balance anything at all. They also prevent us from being able to use glucose. You think you can’t handle carbs well? Look at your PUFA intake.

Taking Vitamin D, C, and zinc lead to a deficiencies like Copper which is for more important when it comes to a healthy immune system. Ascorbic acid reduces cerulopasmin that helps your body be able to use copper. Low Vitamin D is most likely a magnesium deficiency.

Dairy is almost never the problem but more so your bodies inability to digest it from poor gut health, quality and type. . A good quality dairy is going to be one of the most nutritious foods you can consume.

Our soils are depleted AF, you will never get all the nutrients you need from plants plain + simple. Leafy greens + cruciferous veggies are intelligent creatures, they don’t want to be eaten so they create anti-nutrients to keep us away from them that harm us + our thyroid. Ditch the raw, eat them well cooked and treat them as a side. Go for root veggies + fruits.

We all have the same cells + physiology that require a steady stream of sugar, balanced minerals, healthy gut + liver + non toxic environment to thrive.

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”… 🙄

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.

“But why Laura? I feel so good when I fast in the morning.” 🙄

Give it some time Girlfriend- you are running on stress hormones and eventually your body will crash.

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.

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.

Eating breakfast when you wake up prevents your body from having to do this super stressful process and keeps your hormones in check.

No appetite in the morning? That is a clear sign your body is conserving energy and suppressing your hunger, digestion, and reproduction.

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.

Are You in Survival Mode?

Some mornings you get up around 6am maybe 8am, slam out a HIIT workout, maybe eat your breakfast around 9/10am but you try to push having to eat for as long as possible. Maybe you even go for a walk or put in a double workout to get your mind off eating because you hear you need to fast in order to lose weight and feel great.

Your breakfast consists of a smoothie or protein shake of some kind because, you just “can’t stomach eating that much in the morning.”

You head off to work for the day and tend to “forget to eat” lunch because you are just too damn busy. But you feel good about it because that means you can eat more when you get home.

Girlfriend, WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING.

And we wonder why our hormones and thyroids are FUCKED and we don’t feel well. Why we experience PMS, horrible periods or no periods at all, acne, digestive issues, and every symptom under the sun related to poor thyroid function.

GIRL, YOUR BODY IS IN SURVIVAL MODE. Your body doesn’t give two shits about your reproductive system when it’s trying so damn hard just to survive.

Your body will not produce hormones, secrete digestive juices, or basically do anything it needs to do because it does not feel safe to do so. And just forget about losing weight, your body is going to hold onto that safety weight for dear life because it has absolutely no idea when it’s next meal is. Your body is on the blood sugar roller coaster and cortisol is at an all time high. If your appetite sucks we need to fix that, it’s not something to be proud of.

A few tips to help your body feel safe:
✖️Create a morning and night routine and go to bed and wakeup at the same times everyday (yes, even the weekends)
✖️Eat the goddamn carbs! Don’t add that extra stress onto the body and force it to create it’s own glucose.
✖️Eat at the same times every day and often, find times what work best for you.
✖️Eat within 30 minute of waking up in the morning
✖️Never drink coffee on an empty stomach and always add cream and sugar, never black.
✖️Ditch the fasting!
✖️Ditch the HIIT and intense workouts in the morning on no fuel, honestly WTF is the point of working out if you are not going to fuel properly?

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