dairy Archives – Wild Lyons Wellness

Before taking a food sensitivity test try this…

Time + time again I have clients come to me with a lot of digestive distress, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, headaches, brain fog, fatigue, skin issues, acne + other various digestive related symptoms.

One of the most common questions I get is, “do you think I need to take a food sensitivity test?” + my answer is pretty much always no.

Food sensitivity tests are absolutely useless unless you are addressing the root of the sensitivity. It’s not the foods fault. It’s your F’d up digestion + sluggish metabolism.

In my opinion, food sensitivity tests just lead to restriction + food fear.

The same pattern always occurs, you run a food sensitivity test + find out you are highly sensitive to dairy (or another food). This then causes you to eliminate the dairy FOREVER because you are too afraid to add it back in. You start using dairy alternatives like nut milks, skipping meals for relief, + restricting foods because your digestion is so wack you can only find relief if you just don’t eat. I know, this cycle all too well, I’ve been there, I was once so afraid of food I ate the same 5 foods for 2 years straight.

What does restricting, skipping meals/ fasting, starving yourself for the sake of your digestion, + swapping superior foods out for inferior alternatives, have in common?

Stress + nutrient depletion.

Like I mentioned before, in times of stress your blood gets diverted away from your digestive system + stress hormones are released since your bodies main concern is survival.

Stressed out body = poor digestion + absorption of nutrients.

You are left in a worse place than before and your metabolism has only gotten more + more sluggish. Sure, maybe you feel better initially eliminating these foods but this is only a bandaid, the root cause is your sluggish metabolism. What do you need to support your metabolism? Lots + lots of nutrients.

Digestion requires a lot of energy + nutrients to do it’s job.

The last thing we need to be doing is skipping meals, eliminating foods + especially replacing them with anti-metabolic foods like nut milks.

Before taking a food sensitivity test + restricting food work on increasing your metabolic rate.

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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.

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.

Superior Foods vs. Inferior Foods

When it comes to nourishing your cells, balancing your hormones + healing your gut there are superior foods + inferior foods. No, these inferior foods are not inherently “bad” but here’s the deal…

If I had a quarter for every time I heard someone day “Why do I feel worse or why am I not getting better eating ‘clean’ – my digestion sucks + my hormones are wack!”

There is no such thing as clean foods or dirty foods. There are however foods that supply your body with an abundance of energy, nutrients + minerals that it needs to thrive.

From a biological standpoint there are foods that are superior to others. And are you shook? It’s none of those foods society associates with eating “clean.”

When it comes to healing your metabolism, balancing your hormones, + fixing your digestion your body needs A LOT of energy. All of these processes are highly energy intensive.

Everything we put in our mouths sends a signal to our bodies about its external environment. Provide your body with loads of nuts and seeds your body will think you are trying to go into hibernation. Provide your body with loads of low energy foods like raw vegetables, your body will assume you are in a famine + not feel safe.

If you remember from biology class, our cells require minerals + nutrients to do their jobs. Unfortunately, you won’t get these from plant foods. Animal foods are FAR superior to plant foods. Plants contain anti-nutrients, PUFAS, heavy metals from the soils and tap water they are grown in, not to mention the nutrients are not as bio-available as animal foods and they can wreck havoc on your digestive tract.

Animal foods supply your body with bioavailable nutrients like amino acids, saturated fat, calcium, copper, zinc, Vitamin A, selenium, choline, B vitamins and the perfect combo of protein, carb and fat.

Don’t ditch all the inferior foods but pay attention to how they make you feel + incorporate more superior foods into your diet. It’s about balance but most of us have started making these inferior foods staples.

It all comes down to nourishing your cells appropriately. Girlfriend, put down the bird food, last time I checked we were living breathing powerhouses.

What Social Media Tells You to Do to Be Healthy

I’ve been there.

I fell for each and every one of these at some point in my health journey. I tried them all only to be left more depleted, more confused than ever, and sicker than before.

“I need to be eating more vegetables and less carbs”

“I should only eat red meat once a week”

“I better get rid of dairy, it’s causing my acne”

“I gotta get in a HIIT workout or else I didn’t work out hard enough”

“I’m still hungry but it’s past 7pm, I can’t eat”

“I ate so much tonight, but it’s okay i’m fasting in the morning”

Vegan propaganda, marketing, social media and diet culture has done a great job at making us all so confused about what is right for our bodies but from a biological standpoint, this is what our bodies need to thrive. This is what our bodies need to have healthy hormones, thyroids, adrenals, and menstrual cycles.

Nutrition doesn’t have to be complicated and confusing. Eat an abundance of real food without restriction, choose superior foods that will give you an abundance of energy and are loaded with nutrients and honor your bodies needs and signals.

How many of these fads have you fallen for?