Category: Nutrition

Optimizing Potassium For Healthy Hormones

Potassium is one of those minerals that most people can start supporting without doing any testing and start seeing benefits because of all of the different areas of our health it impacts. Let’s talk about exactly how potassium impacts our hormones, what depletes it, and how you can start supporting potassium levels today. How Potassium […]
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Functional Food Highlight: Organ Meats! ⁣

If there’s anything I want you to know about organ meats, it’s that they are extremely nutrient dense. That’s why I’m highlighting them as a functional food.⁣Liver, kidneys, and heart all contain beneficial nutrients. Liver is definitely the most nutrient dense source, but they all have benefits. ⁣ ⁣Let me put how nutrient dense liver […]
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Nutrition mistakes that can lead to excess estrogen

In my previous blog post, I discussed how when estrogen goes up, cortisol goes up and how this can be hard on our hormone balance. Let’s dig into 5 ways that your food can lead to excess estrogen (relative to progesterone). 1. Not eating enough bio-available proteins that are found in animal foods. Without adequate […]
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Making Decisions On The Healing Journey Part 1

There are many different ways to go about healing. What I am going to share in this blog post is some guidance that you can apply to your situation, but please know that you don’t have to follow this exactly. I think it’s always important to listen to your intuition and what your body is […]
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Meal Prep/Planning Strategy & Tips!

I want to start this off by saying there is no one perfect way to meal prep/plan. I have worked with hundreds of clients over the years and the approach we take to make eating balanced, nutrient dense meals easy is always different. I will be sharing two primary strategies in this blog post, but […]
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How to make bone broth

How To Make Your Own Bone Broth 🦴⁣ It’s actually incredibly easy to make your own bone broth. You really can’t mess it up. Using a pressure cooker like the InstantPot saves a bunch of time too!⁣ Swipe the pictures below to learn how to make your own broth!⁣ You will notice the only flavor/seasoning […]
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Gelatin & Digestion

In this post I want to expand a bit more on why I intentionally choose to eat gelatin on a regular basis. One of the main reasons is because of how gelatin improves our ability to digest food.⁣ One particularly fascinating thing about gelatin is its ability to attract and hold liquids. This allows it […]
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Hormone friendly snacks

What is the key to a hormone friendly snack? 👉🏼 Reducing stress on the body. We can reduce stress on the body by providing it with what it needs to thrive: protein, fats, and carbs (AKA energy)!⁣ When the body doesn’t have enough energy ⁣(particularly carbohydrates), a stress response occurs and we break down our […]
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The importance of glucose in the body

What contributes to excess estrogen? Glucose is the body’s preferred fuel source. We will take fat or protein and turn it into glucose even if we aren’t getting enough glucose from our diet. This is called gluconeogenesis and occurs when our blood sugar drops too low, and the body needs glucose. We store glucose in […]
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How mainstream diet advice reduces your resiliency

The key to healthy hormones long-term is to build a resilient body, which can handle stress. Stress isn’t all bad and can even often be beneficial for us. The issue most people have is that their body’s do not have the resources to respond to stress appropriately after years of being depleted. Stress depletes nutrients, […]
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