Author: Amanda

The Gut-Eczema Connection

On the are you menstrual? podcast I interviewed Christa Biegler about the connection between skin health and gut health. Even more specifically, we dove deep into eczema, which is what Christa specializes in. Many of my clients struggle with eczema, especially during the healing journey, but it hadn’t hit as close to home until I […]
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Stress Equals Energy Loss

When the body is under stress, it uses up more energy in order to carry out our stress response and give us the best chance at responding to whatever the threat is. Many of us are already dealing with slowed energy production aka a slow metabolism. This is often related to chronic mental or physical […]
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Its not the stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it

Are you resilient to stress? I used to handle stress very poorly. Loud noises would make me jump, I cried easily, took offense to everything, and generally felt exhausted. This made me feel crazy because I was doing so much for my health. Why was nothing enough? Turns out, I was doing too much. Intermittent […]
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How to Balance Estrogen and Progesterone

You’ve probably read a post or heard someone describing symptoms of excess estrogen and resonated with it. I know I have. However, high estrogen isn’t the main problem. Can reducing estrogen in your environment, beauty products, menstrual products, and home help your symptoms? Yes, and I think it’s a piece of the hormone imbalance puzzle, […]
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The absence of disease does not equal health

The World Health Organization defines health as the following: “health is not merely the absence of disease but also a state of complete physical, social, mental well-being.” I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. Just because we don’t have a diagnosis doesn’t necessarily mean we are healthy.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀I think many people can relate to having symptoms, going […]
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Combatting Anxiety

It seems like everyone is battling some degree of anxiety these days, and when you look at all that’s going on in the world, combined with our constant bombardment of modern-day stressors AND the depleted state of our health, it’s not difficult to see why. I myself have been on the anxiety bandwagon for as […]
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3 examples of what can happen when you optimize your minerals

In this blog, I talked about Recommended Dietary Allowances or RDAs and how they were created from data based off of healthy people This is frustrating since many people have health conditions/concerns that they’d like to address using nutrition, but if following the RDAs they may not be able to achieve that goal. In this […]
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My First Pregnancy Journey

During this first pregnancy I have had quite a few questions around what supplements I’m taking, nutrition, lab testing, and so much more so I thought I would do a blog post to cover it all! Preconception Lab Testing & prep Everyone will have their unique concerns and specific areas they want to prep for […]
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How do I know if I need more of specific nutrients

After reading about RDAs you might be wondering how to know if you have a deficiency and might need more than the recommended amount of a nutrient. This is where the tricky and often times frustrating world of lab testing comes in. A logical thought would be to go to your doctor and ask for […]
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How Your Relationship with Food & Body Image Impact Your Health

On the Are You Menstrual? Podcast I did an episode with Dana Monsees about how your relationship with food can affect your gut health. We place a lot of value on food, which is absolutely important for our health, but it can easily become stressful, obsessive, and cause more harm than good. One of the […]
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