Our world is a different place today as compared to six months ago. We are living in fear and I see it in people when I go to the grocery store or other places as Costco. People are reading and watching the news and trusting the media on their facts as well as scientific evidence. Why do we trust and have faith in the media or our politicians?
Sadly, we can’t trust them as our only source- we need to do our own investigation into scientific research or find others who we can trust that do think out of the box.
- Do you know how our immune system actually works?
- Do you know how the virus spreads?
- Do masks stop the virus from spreading?
- Do you need to wear a mask when outside in an open environment while exercising?
I know I have so many questions but who do you ask, who do you trust… and where to do you look for the answers?
Five years ago, I published my first book on Amazon to share my personal story that CHRONIC Stress impacts all of you. My book, “LIFE IS NOT A RACE” was written to help my own self understand how and why my life changed from an ambitious elite age group high performing athlete to an overweight, tired, and stressed out individual. I was addicted to busy-ness and always multitasking each day- “living life as a race” from the time I woke up (too early!), until I hit the pillow at night (too late)- burning the candle at both ends leading overtime to an internal domino effect of breakdown and burnout.
Over the years, I have become a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and more recently (finally!) a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDNP). I am making my purpose and passion into my mission – to help other driven, high performing individuals who are doing all the “right” things but continue to struggle with chronic fatigue, weight gain, and other unexplained symptoms. Now as a practitioner, I am able to investigate the “root causes” and collect clues to a client’s mysterious puzzle. I help guide the client to collect their missing pieces of their health puzzle to identify their sources of CHRONIC stress- we have external ongoing chronic stressors and then we have these stubborn HIDDEN Internal chronic stressors that you don’t know about unless you run functional lab testing to find out if any…
- Hormone imbalances
- Immune dysfunction
- Digestion dysfunction
- Detoxification
- Energy systems- mitochondria, oxidative stress
- Nervous systems- NT and PNS/SNS imbalances
Do you want to get your body and vibrant self back again? I know I don’t want to feel tired, overweight, and struggling to have enough energy to workout. Our current way of living could be a positive or a negative…depending on how busy you were before March 2020. You may benefit from slowing down and creating a new work/life/training schedule. I do believe this time in our world is a wake-up call to work on our health and wellness. Just because you workout each day – doesn’t mean that you are actually healthy as the immune system is influenced by chronic stress and overtraining/over doing life!
What does be healthy mean to you?
To me, I think of being healthy as having a strong immune system, being resilient, feeling energetic and thriving each day. I am healthy when I have energy to exercise, my sleep is deep, and my mood is happy!
If you don’t wake up feeling energetic and thriving each day then we should investigate WHY… what is causing you to feel drained, exhausted, and unhappy?
Are you experiencing an overload of CHRONIC stressors overfilling your “Beaker of Stress” which then creates a domino effect of health imbalances- also known as “METABOLIC CHAOS®”?
For years, I felt burned out and broken down but I only have felt healthier since I identified my main contributors to my chronic stress overload from external sources and investigated the internal chronic stressors with well-chosen functional lab tests.
In Functional Medicine- practitioners look at the WHOLE person and investigate the WHY… why do you feel this way or why do you experience these Functional lab tests are important to building your health – instead of constant guessing if you are healthy including your gut health, nutrient balance and microbiome bacteria balance.
Did you know that 70-80% of your immune system resides in your gut?
So while we are staying at home and supposedly “staying healthy”…we should be striving to improve our health and to become health optimizers -especially since most everyone is not as healthy and resilient as they think they are.
Here are a few of my favorite quotes I often tell clients, write in my blog, or share on my podcast:
- You are what you eat…but also what you can breakdown and absorb!
- You can’t out exercise a poor diet.
- You can’t out supplement poor lifestyle habits.
- Life is NOT a Race… chronic stress impacts everything and the WHOLE you from the inside out.
- Quality SLEEP does matter!
Dr. Ben Lynch, the author of DIRTY GENES and the founder of SEEKING HEALTH, share that “immune support starts with the basics of healthy living…
- eating whole foods
- getting restorative sleep
- stress management
- maintaining a healthy (positive) mindset
- reducing toxin exposure
Since our quality of food, minerals in our soil and toxins in our environment, we do need to add specific supplements into our diet and lifestyle with immune boosting nutrients as:
