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The new online trend: “Hot girls have the worst stomach issues” Let’s talk about it…

We have all seen the new trend all over Tik Tok and social media.

#hotgirlshaveIBS #hotgirlshavestomachissues

I appreciate the recognition that people are struggling with digestive issues but this ain’t it.

Did their “hot girl” behaviors get them to this place?

Waking up bright and early to drink your black coffee, get in a fasted HIIT workout followed with a green smoothie with almond butter, dairy free milk and pea protein powder.

Lunch is a kale salad with nuts and seeds and a lean protein source.

Snack is a high fiber protein bar and green juice.

Dinner is a lean protein source with greens and cauliflower rice.

Ya know. Just doing hot girl shit. But actually dying inside.

I have an upset stomach just reading this meal plan and this has unfortunately become the new norm for “healthy” eating for the stereotypical desirable figure.

If you were a bird this sounds great but you are a grown ass woman that requires nutrients from easy to digest sources.

It’s no surprise that 98% of those diagnosed with an eating disorder are diagnosed with a Functional GI Disorder.

I remember I once used my “healthy” restrictive diet to get rid of digestive symptoms as a disguise for my disordered eating, food fear, and weight loss attempts.

Rather than popping pepto and tums 🥴eliminating foods and going on restrictive diets void of nutrients for the sake of your digestive system get to the root of the problem and evaluate what started the digestive issues in the first place.

– poor childhood diet
– under-eating
– over-exercising
– stress and nervous system dysregulation
– sluggish metabolism
– nutrient and mineral deficiencies
– estrogen and iron
– poor sleep
– how you eat + prep foods
– blood sugar regulation
– etc…

In my course Rewild Your Gut, I dive deep into all these topics and give you the tools you need to nourish your digestive system and eliminate those digestive symptoms without eliminating a bunch of foods and in turn wrecking your metabolism, hormones and digestive system further. Get ready to unlearn everything you have learned about digestion.

Your digestive system requires nourishment to thrive. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

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Is your masculine energy impacting your hormones?

Throughout the day you are laser focused on your to-do list accomplishing one task after another, pushing yourself and/or others to get shit done.

You’re so busy during the day that you forget to eat or you’re rigidly following a diet plan that is not satisfying.

You pick your workouts based on your fitness goals for the month, you push to do them regardless of how you feel.

After work you just want to talk about what you accomplished that day, multi-task and make your next to-do list.

You are engaging in unhealthy behaviors like fasting or working out on an empty stomach at the expense of your health.

Things like cooking a nourishing meal for your family seems like a burden and spending time on hobbies seems like a waste of time and unproductive.

Does this sound like you? This is all too familiar to me, they don’t call me the queen of productivity for no reason. If you answered yes to most of these you are radiating masculine energy.
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The constant need to get shit done and GO GO GO can lead to pushing ourselves too hard at the gym and work, skipping meals, creating poor sleep habits, and making poor food choices. This can lead to blood sugar issues, adrenal burnout and a cascade of hormonal issues.

Unfortunately, in some cases this masculine energy can make you start to ignore your menstrual cycle or want to eliminate it completely with birth control so you can keep on keeping on without discomfort or feelings.
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THIS IS NOT HOW OUR PHYSIOLOGY WORKS AS WOMEN.

This is creating a disconnection to your female body.

Masculine energy makes you feel disconnected from emotions, base your worth on material success, tend to have poor communication skills to build deep relationships and makes you feel isolated and unsupported.

Feminine energy you let projects develop at a natural pace while enjoying the creative process, you love to create community and work with others, you connect to your emotions and you relate with others by listening and sharing.

The key is balancing the two, this new idea being pushed of what feminism means and the ongoing push to be the ultimate “boss babe” in competition with others has come at the consequences of our health.

The majority of women ages 16-65 are unknowingly struggling with estrogen dominance

How many times have you said “It must be hormonal.” Ehhh likely not.

Like I always say. Your hormonal issues are not actually hormonal.

Hormones are downstream, you never ever address hormones first. And if someone recommends aggressive supplements like DIM without considering your lifestyle, digestion, thyroid, cortisol and minerals RUN!

I am seeing younger and younger woman suffering with estrogen dominance symptoms. Girls as early as 9 starting their periods and women going through menopause at 40. Most children being born estrogenic from birth.

Women suffering with painful, heavy periods, cysts, fibroids, sore breasts, migraines, headaches, PMS, anxiety, depression, mood swings, weight gain, bloating and low libido. Breast cancer is at an all time high.

We live in a highly estrogenic world and it’s only getting worse. Our environment is flooded, our food supply and water is no longer safe, all our personal care and cleaning products are bombarded. We are now injecting and putting toxic substances in our bodies all for some made up beauty standard or cultural norm. All at the sake of our health and thyroids.

We are working jobs we hate and spending days under fluorescent and blue light screens rather than outdoors.

We are all so stressed out that we can’t even make dinner for ourselves or think about all the other things that might be impacting our health. Looking for quick fixes.

We are transitioning to eating fake man-made foods, most of us consuming them our whole lives through processed garbage. None of this works with our physiology and is impacting our digestion, minerals and health.

Our lifestyles and diets are trash. We are no longer living true to ourselves and being bombarded with conveniences that are harming us.

And we are experiencing green washing at an all time high. Companies are allowed to call things organic, safe, or clean when they are far from. No regulations.

Some of these things we simply can’t change but you can certainly start supporting your body nutritionally to become more resilient. Get back to nature, eat real food, avoid the cultural norms “they” have created. It doesn’t have to be this way.

6 foods I incorporate daily to support my hormones now that I understand my unique female physiology

I dont know who needs to hear this today but you can be the girl slaying the raw milk, raw carrot salads, boiled mushrooms, sipping bone broth, adrenal cocktails, and organ meats even if your family and friends think you are absolutely insane.

They likely got a little lost and caught up in diet culture drinking their nut milks, demonizing orange juice and sugar, limiting salt, and going more plant-based while the thought of eating red meat is a no go, let alone adding in organ meats and eating nose to tail.

Sugar free, gluten free, dairy free, free, free, free….

I dunno about you but I prefer FREEdom while understanding how my body works and what foods are most superior giving me the most bang for my buck.

When it comes to supporting your female physiology it all comes down to nourishment and bringing down stress in the body with minerals and nutrients. The more stress on your plate the more minerals and nutrients you deplete.

Unfortunately, we live in an overly stressed world, consumed by diet culture and quick fixes. We have been depriving ourselves of true nourishment for far too long, for some of us since birth and our hormones are taking a massive hit.

I remember in high school reading poetry by Sylvia Plath and she wrote about drinking bone broth to heal her menstrual cramps. I remember being 16 and thinking how strange is that just take midol 😂 I also have no idea why this has stuck with me all these years but she was on to something and intuitively listened to her body. Something we are so far removed from.

We need to forget everything we have been told and get back to nature with the food that we eat and the lifestyles that we keep to support our body in this modern day stressful, estrogenic shit show.

Keep in mind, you do not need to be having symptoms or hormonal issues to support your body and focus on nourishment. Listen to your body now before it screams.

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.