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Nutrients/Support Needed On A Plant Based Diet

It’s no secret that a plant- based diet is filled with anti-nutrients, heavy metals, estrogens, and high in PUFAs. Plants are also not nearly as bio-available as a traditional animal-based seasonal diet. Throw in the highly processed plant-based meat/dairy alternatives and you have yourself a malnourished, toxic shit storm. It is also no secret that humans on a plant-based diet end up with anxiety, depression, acne, increased aging, digestive issues, hormonal probs due to all the nutrient deficiencies and imbalances it creates. I see it everyday in my practice. Humans were designed to eat seasonally the way nature intended. The idea that we would consume plants all year long is due to modern availability. And shocker but most plants and cruciferous vegetables are man-made, nature never intended for you to eat them in abundance in the first place. Guess what is available all year long in all areas of the world? Animal derived foods like meat, dairy, and eggs. Fruits and vegetables should be eaten seasonally. Why? Because this is how nature intended for us to eat. Animals have different stomaches to break down toxins and absorb nutrients from plants so we don’t have to. We live in a highly influenced world were people only have the desire to be thin and everyone just wants to be something, they want to be seen, they want to have a label, and sometimes that involves a diet label – these desires are interfering with our physiology as humans. But Laura, I feel so good on a plant based diet (a girl covered in acne, anxiety ridden, bloated, a slave to her digestive system and missing her period) Keep in mind there is a big difference between fat loss, muscle loss and your body eating itself + artificially suppressing symptoms. People think plant-based diets “saved them”, keep telling yourself that, hit me up in a few years. Eating should be simple, intuitive and traditional as it always was before diets and the industrial revolution decided to fuck things up. It shouldn’t take a scientist to turn plants into things they were never intended to be. Stop fighting your physiology and eat according to nature.

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What Do Your Hormone Lab Results Mean?

“Laura, I was told I have low progesterone and high estrogen but the supplements and cream didn’t work” “I have high testosterone! But I have no idea what to do about it” “I was told my estrogen is low but I have all the symptoms of excess estrogen! They want me to take HRT!” Well girl, this post is for you. First, we simply CAN NOT get laser focused on a single hormone. I see this all the time. This intense need to eliminate estrogen or increase progesterone or lower androgens. Our hormones have an intimate relationship and need to be in balance with one another. Isolating one hormone out over the others won’t get anyone anywhere! Second. You can be taking all the supplements, running all the labs, but if you don’t get the foundations down, you will NEVER get your hormones in balance. I think one of the biggest disservices practitioners can do is run hormone labs without addressing the foundations. Every aspect of your life influences your hormonal health: Stress Metabolism Nutrition Digestion Movement Sleep Light Blood Sugar Balance Mineral Balancing Toxin Exposure etc… After all these are the things that got you to this hormonal shit storm in the first place. Swipe right to learn more 👉🏻

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Ready to join a community of like-minded women ending the war on their bodies and breaking free from diet culture? Ready to finally balance your hormones, understand your body, and become your own health advocate? Ready for unfiltered and uncensored wellness talks? Then you’re in the right place! Click here to learn more + enroll.

What Does Your Face Say About Your Hormones?

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What do all of these have in common?

You got it girl, YOU NEED TO SUPPORT YOUR METABOLISM.

The foundations of a pro-metabolic lifestyle for hormone balancing:

1. Mineral Balancing
2. Blood Sugar Balance
3. Digestion
4. Detoxification
5. Toxin and chemical elimination
6. Stress management
7. Sleep
8. Light
9. Movement
10. Most importantly, happiness + enjoying life fully

Keep in mind, we all have some, if not all of these beautiful flaws. Give yourself some grace and don’t be so hard on yourself. Our bodies go through seasons, our hormones ebb and flow, you are a cyclical creature.

Superior Vegetables vs. Inferior Vegetables

“Do you eat vegetables?”

The #1 question I get asked.

I know. I am that crazy lady that always talks about eating meat, dairy and fruit. But YES, I am all about the vegetables, sometimes.

No the foods on the right are not inherently bad. But there are some things you should know before throwing a bunch of raw leafy green veggies into that smoothie or consuming tons of vegetables in the name of health.

Green leafy vegetables + cruciferous vegetables are low energy foods, have low digestibility + absorbability + simply are not that satiating.

The main reasons I say to avoid having an abundance of these vegetables:

+ Their defense mechanisms aka anti-nutrients that interfere with nutrient absorption

+ They are great at sucking up heavy metals from the soils

+ Their impact on thyroid health due to goitergens and toxicity

+ They are estrogenic and contain PUFAs

+ Glyphosate and chemicals they are sprayed with (yes, even organic)

+ Causes digestive distress due to anti-nutrients and overall being really hard to break down

You will get way more bang for your buck consuming animal proteins, dairy, fruit + peeled root vegetables, they do not contain the same anti-nutrients since they are protected from predators (animals, insects and humans).

So what’s a girl to do? I get it, sometimes you just want a veggie.

+ Never raw! Cook them REALLY, REALLY well to help with anti-nutrients and digestibility. Boiling is best.

+ Chew your smoothies + ditch the greens

+ If you must have a salad massage it and let it sit for 30 minutes of more to help break up some of the fibers and make it digestible

+ Vegetables should be considered a condiment not a whole dish

+ Eat them only when you crave them

+ Check in with your metabolism- check your temperature after eating such foods, do they warm you up?

+ Consume organic (that doesn’t say much these days)

+ Find a local farmer or grow yourself

+ Check Dirty Dozen

There is a huge difference between having them occasionally + trying to meet your protein and carb needs through them.

And girl, ditch the green smoothies already! They are NOT giving you the energy you need to be the badass bitch that you are!

Pro-Digestion Foods vs. Anti-Digestion Foods

Are you shook?

Yup, the same foods that are pro-metabolic are also pro-digestion.

You see. Digestion requires lots and lots of nutrients and energy to do its job and keep that digestive fire burning.

If you metabolism is sluggish due to nutrient deficiencies then your digestion will be too whether it be bloating, constipation, diarrhea, gas, etc… it is always a metabolic issue.

The problem is when you have digestive issues the first thing you want to do is restrict food in hopes of feeling better which in the end is just contributing to more nutrient deficiencies.

By supporting your metabolism you are in turn supporting your digestion.

Bone broth, collagen + gelatin: supply the body essential amino acids that are therapeutic to the digestive tract and they bring down inflammation in a muscle meat heavy diet.

Fruit + orange juice: Easy to digest carbohydrates full of minerals like potassium and magnesium. Potassium helps send signals from the brain to the digestive system to churn and digest food.

Beets: stimulate bile flow to break down fat

Cooked mushrooms: help the intestines break down food, disinfect, suppress bacterial growth and absorb toxins plus they are aromatase inhibitors and help balance hormones

Raw Carrots: are anti-microbial and anti-fungal and help to clean the intestines of bacteria, fungus and endotoxins

Coconut oil: contains lauric acid which is antiviral, antibacterial, anti-fungal and easily digested

Dairy: “Besides being an ecologically favorable source of calcium, protein, sugar, and fat, the composition of milk causes it to be digested efficiently, supporting the growth of bacteria that are safe for the intestine and liver, and reducing the absorption of endotoxin.” – Dr. Ray Peat.

All the foods in the anti-digestion column are gut irritating, hard to digest, inflammatory and contain anti-nutrients that make them even harder to break down and assimilate nutrients from.

They are stressful to the digestive tract and it’s all about bringing down stress in the body.

Stress = less blood flow to the digestive tract.

At the end of the day support your metabolism so you in turn support your digestive system.

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