295 ✨ Midlife Weight Loss & Menopause Relief with Lori Balue

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>> Lori Balue (00:00):
If you just lose the first 20 pounds, put your brain

(00:02):
back on, then figure out what the next step
is. You don't have to go into this thinking, oh, I need to lose 100
pounds and then feel frustrated because it didn't
happen. You focus on the first 10 to 20
pounds, dial in your minerals, dial in your
digestion and you just get started.
Because this is our life. We're just going to live it and make it

(00:23):
better every day. We don't have to just say, I'm on a diet
and I'm going to lose £20 and then that's it.
You add to it. That's what made my weight loss
successful.

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One bite, one breath, and one belief at a time.
Lori Ballou is a certified functional
diagnostic nutrition practitioner who
specializes in helping women finally lose
the weight, calm the chaos of menopause, and
reclaim the vibrant second act they
deserve. With a deep focus on hydration,
digestion, and mineral balance, Lori's approach

(04:09):
is all about working with your body
instead of fighting against it. In today's
episode, we're diving into how low carb nutrition
can be freeing, not restrictive, and how
optimizing your adrenal and thyroid health can
reduce inflammation, ease menopause symptoms,
and reignite your energy. If you

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betrayed you in midlife, this episode is here to
offer hope, healing, and a whole new perspective. Please
welcome Lori to the show.

Thank you. That was an awesome introduction, and I
love your. The way you just
put it out there, that resonates with people because that's
truly what we need to get across, is that
you can take back the power of your life, that you can
reinvent yourself and have transformation. I
was so repressed, depressed. I'm sick

(05:01):
throughout my life, and the only
thing that saved me was low carb nutrition
because it pulled me out of that depression, pulled me up and
out of being repressed so that I could. Could reinvent myself.
So if you've got that body type, it may not be something
everybody needs to do that deeply, but if you
have, if you're stuck, even just a challenge

(05:22):
for 30 days will really get you out of there and find your vibrancy,
because all of a sudden, your brain turns back on and you can get excited
about life. And that's what we need to do, is just get excited
about life. I know. Yeah.

You know what I think? I feel like I was just talking about this the other
day with someone that, I feel like when you're in your 40s
and 50s especially that you
realize how much your physical health
affects your mental health.
And of course your mental health can affect your physical health too. Right.
But then when you're feeling good
physically, that can help your, how you feel

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internally. And so it's just this
nice beautiful harmony that,
that can happen within you. And
that's just magnificent. And I, I know you, I
know you know this already, but girl, you
lost £100.
That is like so cool and

(06:16):
amazing.

Thank you. Sometimes I forget that. So people need to re
restate it because. And it's not just the
fact that I lost it. I probably lost it several times.
It's keeping it off where the magic happens.

Yeah.

And that was what I couldn't accomplish in the
past with just dieting. And so I just threw dieting
out the door. Jumped into the keto lifestyle plan with a
bulletproof coffee and really it saved my life. Life.
Yeah. Ah. Being diabetic, it turned my
brain back on. I reversed my risk for disease.
So if you want to talk about that, I can bring it up. My own personal

(06:50):
challenge there. But I don't have any
symptoms at 62. No medications, no diseases. And
it's like, it's not just weight loss. So when I
go into this whole process, it's a weight loss and diabetes
solution because you can reverse your risk for disease
and you just have to focus on whole body health.
And it's not, it's not something that you have

(07:10):
to do strictly all the time.
You create your own carb code and you create the
lifestyle you want to have based on who you are and what you need
to do and what your body needs at any specific
time. And so it's always adjustable in it. And
that's how we want to look at it as a health hobby. And that's why
I look at it as a health adventure.

When, when did you begin to struggle with your
weight?

Oh, back when I was 11 or 12. Before.
Before Junior high. During junior high? Yeah, during
junior high. But I remember getting chubby in sixth
grade. And I was
probably always sensitive to wheat and dairy
because that was a problem. And then
I know that I had solved. My mom helped me

(07:55):
solve my weight loss problem at that time because she put me on
Atkins. But I was severely depressed
so bad that when I gained weight I would gain the depression.
It would be really bad. And
so she took me to a psychologist. I remember not talking to
them. I remember just being like really silent and just
stuck in my head and so she couldn't do

(08:15):
anything. Medical system couldn't help me. So my mom put me on
the Atkins diet, and that solved my
depression. And my weight, I dropped 50 pounds.
It really helped me get through junior high
and high school and get to the point where it gave me
information for later to use. I didn't know it needed to be
a lifestyle at the time. I was too young. I needed to go through

(08:35):
all the diets and figure everything out and then
get to the point where I was at rock bottom. So
225 pounds. I was at rock bottom. I come
home from an afternoon with my son, and my husband doesn't even
look at me. He's sitting on the sofa and
he just says, when are you going to lose the weight?
Yes, now. So that's when my

(08:56):
weight loss journey truly started. And
really kind of, kind of shook me up. Woke me up,
I guess you could say. And yet looking back at the same
time, I'm like, I don't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
I mean, you know. And it did shake me up. It woke me
up and made me think about what it is that I could do for my body.

Yeah, you. And just thinking back,
like you said, you were, what, in your, your teen years, that was
probably what the.

I think it was high because I remember,
I remember having a friend in junior high and we would walk to
school together, and she was gorgeous. She had, she had
that red, hair, skinny pink jeans.
I was like, envious of those pink jeans. And,
she tried to lend me a shirt and it was too big
or too small. And I. So I was gaining

(09:42):
weight in seventh grade and I must have gained the weight
in eighth grade. But then I went on the diet. So by the time
I got to high school, I was down £50. So
that's just what I remember specifically.

But then that's like, that's when,
during that time, the 70s and 80s especially,
that's when all the fad diets kind of came along. And you're
kind of like, okay, this is what I should be doing. And then
as a teenager, you're dealing with
hormonal issues, going through puberty, going
through.

And I must have been always pcos because my period was
always, low or always,
intermittent. And. And so it
really wasn't working. And so I'm pretty sure I was
PCOS for most of my, you know, from when I
started my period and through my 30s,
so 40s, because I did get,

(10:31):
diagnosed with PCOS. In mid-30s.
Wow.

And now you're, and now you're healthy.

Yeah. No problem at all.

You lose, lose the weight and you lose the diseases
and all of the.

If you do it correctly, like if you do it with a
low calorie starvation process, you
don't turn off that insulin response and you
don't actually correct your risk for disease
specifically. It kind of maybe depends on your body because if you're still
eating a lot of carbohydrates that are raising your
insulin load and you're getting 300 carbs a day, you've

(11:04):
got, you've got your disease risk turned on. And that's how I look at
it epigenetically, is because for
my body, for my DNA
propensity and for what happens in my family,
everybody in my family has either diabetes or cancer or both,
or they're trying to reverse it. And yet I'm the
only one that actually did reverse it. But

(11:24):
then I was sicker sooner. I almost look at it this like it was a
benefit for me to be sick early on because I've had more
time to address it, but. And yeah, and then you were
just a lot of pain growing up,
you know, and it was really hard. And being
an introvert, I was super repressed and depressed
and just didn't have a life. And I just felt like I lost my

(11:45):
30s and 40s. And I don't think anybody should have to do that because there
is a solution for that weight loss and
to correct the, the brain. Because when you lose
the weight, you feel great. Because your
brain will start working when you get the right nutrition for your
brain, when you get the right protein and amino
acids and you get your neurotransmitters fixed. I actually
have a hypothesis about why

(12:07):
people are always on antidepressants. Well, what do
women do? They're starving their bodies. They're only eating
carbohydrates, they're not getting any protein. There's no
neurotransmitters to the brain. And
they're low stomach acid because they're low fat. It's
therefore you can't break down your protein, you can't absorb your minerals. All of
these things are happening and that's what I look at and what
I support right off the bat with my clients. Because

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it's amazing when you add amino acid,
preformed amino acids back into the brain,
magic happens.

Yes. I mean, you wake up in so many different
ways in your life and what were you doing?
what were you doing? Before, like, before you had lost
the weight career wise, what were you doing? Is it similar to
what you.

I was, I was. I was working with word
processing, and that was basically what
I had learned to do. But what I had done was,
well, I had stayed home for 10 years with my. With my two
younger children. And then I went back to work
locally at a natural food store because that was where
my. I was studying, you know, natural

(13:09):
health. And so it was exciting for me to get a job at the
natural food store. I started with the computer side and then ended
up out in the store and just like, oh, my gosh, this
is so much fun. This is easy. I went to all the vitamins, trainings. I
learned all about vitamins and, I. And it was just a natural
proclivity, you know, something natural that I just fell into.
And I got really good at it. And then I started

(13:29):
to really understand ancestral health
there and become a vitamin consultant.
I became the keto specialist. I was ordering the
specialty foods and essential oils. So everything I started to
study, I just dived in and like, how can this help
me? And how can I help others do this
as well? And so I just got, you know, the. Oh,

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the thing I've noticed in the last year or so is the excitement.
The more I studied something and got excited about
it, there was not like anything restrictive
or anything punishing about it. It was like, wow, I want
to do this. Wow, this is exciting. If this can help me
stop have asthma, why wouldn't I do it?
Right? And so that was one of my goals, was to get rid of the

(14:10):
asthma because, you know, as long as I
was on the, wheat, the sugar and the dairy, I had asthma.
And when I got rid of those three things, there's no
more asthma. And yet my doctor told me I
would always be on an inhaler because that's what was normal
for him and his clients or his patients.
But I didn't accept it. So I don't know why.

(14:30):
I'm a little bit more different than that, but I'm like, okay, I'm going
to try these supplements. That's not working. It helps with the
symptoms. But it didn't actually. And I didn't realize
I was curing my asthma.
And then I threw away my breathing machine.

Wow.

I don't have a breathing machine. No more inhaler.
I don't ever, you know, get the congestion
or have trouble sleeping at night. You know, there used to always be
congestion, and I don't any congestion in the
Middle of the night anymore. I don't have trouble sleeping.

It's fascinating how losing the
weight, you gain so much in your life, in
even your purpose and your sense of
fulfillment in every which way. How
do. Yeah, go ahead.

Well, it's inflammation. When you lose the inflammation
and you lose the weight, that stores the inflammation in
your fat tissues, you know, and that could take a while too.
Like that sometimes you drop the first £20 and your body has
to do some healing. Because I lost 20 pounds and then nothing for three
years. I had to reverse all the
inflammation, balance my gut,

(15:35):
balance my hormones, figure out what my body
needed. And it needed, maybe it needed to
bring in the collagen. And then it was also getting
rid of the oils out of your cellular system. The
vegetable seed oils don't give you energy. You have to
purge all of that and it could take two years to purge that out of your
cellular system for energy. So it depends on how energy
depleted your body is and how your brain is functioning.

(15:58):
So my, my brain was always dysfunctional, functional
with the standard American diet. And that's why
I love this process and why it helps
so many people, especially when we're exhausted in
menopause and we're just don't know what's the next step
and nothing else is working. It's a really
good process to bring the brain back on. And when

(16:19):
you bring your brain back on, your body will follow.

When, when you lost, you had said you lost 20
pounds in that first year and then you didn't lose anymore for
a couple years. How did you stay motivated? How did you
not be like, what the heck, this isn't working?

Because I felt better. I was excited, my brain was
working and I felt better than I'd ever felt my whole
life. And so for me, it was never, I mean,
I always wanted to look better, but I wanted to feel better.
And there was less chaos in my brain, in my body, even
though I still had that roll, I had that roll around
my stomach forever and I couldn't get rid

(16:55):
of that. And it was just an inflammation. Now I don't have any
fat around my upper chest or my neck
or my face at all. All the inflammatory visceral fat
there is gone. But it took years
to purge that, to get my body
to let it go and to just get rid of it.
And so that, you know, we always have to look at how are

(17:15):
we feeling, what's going well and
you know, and how can you look at life
as, you know, as a way to thrive
and find something different and reach your dreams. Because if you just
focus on weight loss, you're going to get frustrated.
You know, I work with someone, you know, I have three and six month
programs and it's like the three month program. Sure, it's cheaper,
but it doesn't give me enough time to work with you. And then it's like,

(17:38):
well, I want the weight loss now. Well, I'm like, you have
candida pylori, you have inflammation,
you've got constipation, you need to detox. There's
only so much we can do in three months, you know,
and yeah.

I think is nowadays we expect
a very quick response on anything
our phones. in society, we want everything right
now, right now, right now. And if it's not happening within,
you know, a second or a day, then we're just like, well, I guess it's just not
good enough, you know?

Right, right.

But I love that you said that about.
It was you were focusing on how you felt, you
felt better and you were just focusing on the number on
the scale where I think a lot of people would just give
up hope and like, ah, the heck with this. This isn't working. I'm going
back to the, to the cookies.

Well, I was a baker, my grandmother was a baker. So I would
just bake keto cookies and I made keto bread. And I,
you know, I did overdo the bulletproof bars. They were
del. But it gave me a lifeline. It
helped me get out, helped me, I call it
the food bridge process. It helped me get out of the standard
American fare, off of processed foods,

(18:44):
into the low carb realm where I, my rule
was to keep it all low carb. And so that's kind of what I
advocate. I mean, you could be anywhere on this realm
from low carb to carnivore, but basically you don't
get out of that side because that's where the healing takes
effect. If you want to do a cheat day and you're not, and you're,
you're an adult, ah, I mean, you're a moderator and you could take a

(19:04):
bite and then, fine, that works. I'm not, I could
not eat anything without raising my insulin levels and
bringing the, you know, the, the,
the cravings back. So that's what I like about this too,
the food freedom. And when you no longer have hunger and
cravings and you can control it. I mean, if I'm busy, I could
go all day without eating. And I sometimes just stop to eat because I'm like

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Well, I need to eat something and I know I need more protein, but
I mean, if I'm busy, it's not going to bother me. It's not going to
be something where the cravings take over and you have hangri.
I used to feel that way, but now it's just. It's
easier. And that's the other thing I liked about it. I have
control over what I want to eat, and yet
I get to eat.

Yeah.

So I love that part. That's food freedom.

You're learning your body, what your body
wants specifically. So I would guess then, then
it's not like some type of cookie cutter approach. It's going to be
something different for everyone.

Yeah, it's always different because there's different food
sensitivities. There is the mineral imbalances
and like, what is your mineral imbalance? That's why I love to
run an htm. A hair tissue mineral analysis
is so simple, but it's going to let us know what your calcium
is doing. Like, is your calcium being absorbed in your body? I have a
client who, has osteoporosis. They give her that,

(20:18):
you know, those really bad drugs, that
many problems, and yet she's not absorbing her calcium.
Her hair tissue mineral analysis shows her calcium in
a calcium shell well up over close to 300,
which means you're not absorbing calcium in your body.
And so what needs to happen, you need your potassium and
sodium to be elevated and you need more magnesium and

(20:39):
you need D3 and Boron to absorb
calcium. And so that's what was going on
with my body too. I wasn't absorbing my calcium,
but it spent. It took me a couple of years to break my
calcium shell, bring my minerals up and get my
body balanced. And what was interesting too is because I would go up to visit
my mom in Pinedale, Wyoming, and I would always get altitude
sickness. I think it was because my salt

(21:02):
potassium were too low and I would always be
dehydrated. And so once I got those
thresholds up, I'm no longer dehydrated. I could walk
and hike at 10,000ft and not a problem at all.

Yeah. Wow.

So it's really interesting to see the differences when you run
the labs. And especially something as simple as
mineral, imbalances, it's. It's
huge. I mean, another client has the H.
Pylori is pretty prevalent, but she had H. Pylori and some
Candida and totally dehydrated. The minerals were
totally off track. And she could feel when she would take
extra Potassium and even the extra amino acid, she would just

(21:36):
have more energy and she was able to reduce the fatigue
and the depression she's had forever because
of just hydration. But absorbing that
hydration.
Getting it into the body.

I think it's fascinating that the
knowledge that you have, which is so obvious that,
and there's a difference, I believe, between knowledge and wisdom.
There's knowledge that you can read from a textbook and then
there's wisdom that you've. You've lived the knowledge
and you lived it. I mean,
would you think. I mean obviously you've lived your life and you

(22:10):
only know you as you. But would you know
firsthand about all of this information
if you had not had that experience of
gaining the weight? Losing. Gaining, losing. Yeah.

I wouldn't be here today to be able to help women,
inspire them and give them hope and bring them their lives
back on track because you have to go through the
pain and you have to pull yourself out of it, get that
lived experience, to be able to pass it on in
wisdom to other women. So, you know, that's the one
thing I, love about this is because,

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you know, I never gave up on myself. And
I just kept looking for my weight loss solution, but I
didn't realize it was a disease solution. I didn't realize it was going
to bring me my brain. Brain back on. So now I'm reinventing
myself because I did get excited and because I can.
And I'm not accepting being broken or
not being able to thrive. I want to thrive,

(23:03):
not just survive. And so there's so many things that we can
do. And so, yeah, without what I went through,
I wouldn't be able to really understand
what it is that women need to do to get out of it.
And a lot of people might think low carb is scary, that you have to
do it forever and that you're always going to feel restrictive.
But for me, it was freedom.

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Freedom from food cravings, from the hunger, from the
pain, from the depression, and from
feeling helpless and hopeless that I couldn't lose the weight and keep it
off because I would lose weight and people would say, oh, you
look really great. And then I'm like, okay. I never accepted that
because I knew the weight was coming back on. I didn't know how to
keep it on. And so once I learned

(23:43):
that I could keep the weight off this way and not gain the weight back.
So when I lost that 20 pounds, I never gained about back
m. That was the first time in my life that I never gained the weight back.
And so I may not have thought about it, but it was
empowering to know that that weight didn't come back
on. So I knew I was on to something and that was going to help
me. And plus, when I first went on the keto

(24:04):
diet, I went to the keto, I went to the bulletproof conferences
and I met a man there that was a 10 year brain
cancer survivor. 10 years.

Wow.

And I'm like, well, there's something to.
As I'm looking at it not as weight
loss, but as how can I get my brain to function
better so I could be the best person that
I want to be? And so I'm still reinventing myself
as a practitioner, as a woman in my 60s
trying to date. I mean, I feel beautiful in my body.

(24:33):
This little. Love it
on any pants. I just have my legs, you know, and I'm like, my
legs look good.

Wow. Well, yeah, you, your life is really
changed. I mean, has changed and changing.

Right, right, right. In it, in it. And I outgrew
my relationship with my husband. You know, he couldn't,
couldn't grow and change with me and that things like that happen,
as sad as they are. And you know, we just,
we never really were a great fit and so
changing and me looking, you know, he asked me to change. He asked me
to lose the weight.

I was gonna say, like, be careful what you
wish for, succeed.

Until I was about 60 and by then we
were already divorced. So he didn't wait for me, you know.

So let me ask you something. Was that ever in
the back of your mind, did you ever. You. And I have
no idea. I'm just wondering because I kind of relate to this a little bit,
but it's something different that. Did you not
want to lose the weight and feel really, really good?
Because maybe that would mean that marriage might
end or maybe that.

I don't think I ever thought about it that way.
I. I wanted to find my weight
loss and lose the weight, and I did.
And I had two more children once I started to lose the
weight. So that did make a difference with the pcos and the
fertility. And yet I would just gain it back
each and every time because unless
I was dieting, I was, you know, if I wasn't dieting, I

(25:59):
was gaining weight. And that was the only way that's. I mean, many
women live that way. And I didn't know that, but that was just
normal. But because I was also, when I would gain
weight, I would get depressed. And so it was Harder for
me to feel happy. Yeah, I just
wanted to feel.

It's just like a vicious cycle. Just kept going and
going.

And then maybe not everybody gets that brain
dysfunction, you know, But I did with the wheat
and the dairy. And I'm highly sensitive to.
You know, I ran my food sensitivity test, so it gives me. It gave me a
lot of inflammation, information after the fact. But
I. There's like red, yellow and green and so
on the mrt, if you're red, you're highly sensitive and you're going
to have an antigen response response, and you're going to have a lot of inflammation

(26:40):
and you're going to have a lot of congestion, and that could lead to more
asthma and other inflammatory responses in the body.
And so my wheat and dairy were
red. And I can, even to this day, I will still, you
know, you still keep a little bit of cheese in. I'll get a
little bit of sneezing and congestion from cheese, but I
can't have very much of it. I can't eat yogurt.

(27:01):
And, and, I just minimize dairy. So
it's, you know, wheat is a complete no
for me. I can't handle it at all. And
so those are the things that probably caused me to have that
depression. That's how my body is wired.
Some people will get depression. Bipolar, schizophrenic. You
take the wheat out, you take the inflammatory foods out. There's no

(27:21):
schizophrenia, there's no bipolarism. There's a really good
book out there called brain energy by doctor.
What's his name? Dr.
trying to think of his name. It's called Brain Energy. Chris Palmer.
Okay, Chris Palmer. And he's a metabolic
psychologist. Psychologist, psych.
Psychiatric doctor. And he

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noticed, treating a psychiatric patient that
had schizophrenia and other things, more than just one.
This gentleman just wanted to lose the weight, so he put him on a keto diet.
And then the schizophrenia went away. Wow.

I believe that.

Now.

I had studied a lot about gluten years ago when I.
I owned a integrative medicine practice. And
I'd studied a lot about gluten and dairy.
And it's pretty fascinating the
changes that can occur, the positive
changes in your body when you just remove some of those
things.

And it's always good to have that challenge, like take those things
out for 30 days. How do you feel?
How does your brain. How do you want to feel?
You know, and it doesn't have to necessarily be never,
have it again, but do you really want to have it
right other Things we could eat. I. When I went up to
visit my mom, I took keto brownies. I made cookies
while I was there. I made her some biscuits. I

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made her my, protein pudding and trying to get
her to eat more protein. So there's so many things we can do,
which is in my recipe book, which is free to any of the
clients, any of your followers. Yeah,
because it. Once you understand that you can
empower yourself and make different choices and
you're not a slave, that you get that food
freedom, then you can make more changes

(28:58):
and you can customize the lifestyle that you want to
have based on your vision and how your body acts.
But that's why we just got to get, you know, fix the minerals.
Huge. Huge. To fix them in. You
wouldn't think so, but the minerals, the digestion, the
hydration, and figuring out what your food
sensitivities are, that all happens in the very first month when I

(29:19):
work with clients. And it just puts. Puts their life back on
track. It's. It's really, astounding.
I love it. It just lights my light up.

For, for those that are not familiar with keto, what exactly
is keto?

So basically it is a. It's low carb.
So keto is a little bit more strict. Keto might be a higher
fat, moderate protein with, like 5%
carbs, which might look like anywhere from 20 to 50 grams
of carbohydrates, where low carb may be
anywhere from 100 to 50 grams of carbohydrates
a day. So that's always a better place for people to start

(29:53):
to see what's comfortable for you. Because a lot of times you're,
you know, we're in that. You mentioned it in one of your podcasts, the Fight
and Flight freeze response. It's like,
we're scared we're gonna panic. The brain is gonna
panic. Like you're gonna change something. Get out of your comfort zone.
It's hard. And so if you just,
you know, leave in the fruit, but take out the ultra processed foods, take

(30:14):
out the sugar and the refined grains and, you
know, wheat actually raises your insulin levels higher
than sugar. Table sugar. Well, and so maybe even
getting a cgm. I had a client that, she just, she
couldn't make the full change to low carb.
And she just kept thinking she could
just, you know, eat all the things and maybe fast. But

(30:34):
the next year she put on a cgm. she goes, oh, my God, look at all the
things I'm wearing. Reacting to. And
so some People do need that information, like what they're
reacting to that's raising your insulin levels. Because
if your insulin levels are spiking well up over
120 all the time, all day long, you're
damaging your tissue and leading to autoimmunity. And
so you want to think about that is like if you

(30:57):
know, it's not just like are you having high
blood sugar that's going to be pre
diabetes or PCOS if you're still cycling
and then is that going to lead to Alzheimer's and diabetes? Because
we want to be able turn off our risk for disease.
That's how I look at this turning risk for
disease. Because I could have melanoma. That was my future.
I had that bullet after me, but I detoxed

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it one year into my keto diet.

Wow.

And it's never come back. And so that is something
that I believe happened to me
because I don't have any symptoms anymore and I
get plenty of sunlight. I, I don't actually so used
to sunlight. It's like a battery for me. If I'm not
grounding and getting sunlight, I could barely operate anymore because I
know what I it feels like and I need that type of

(31:44):
energy. And so for me getting out in nature, it
just turns on my batteries and helps me feel
my best and feel more joyful. So if I
get stuck in a dark room, it's really hard for me to
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And now back to the show. How
much, how much easier is it for you now
to, to move your body and to
exercise and do all the things compared to
before?

Oh my gosh, it's like 360
basically because I would like, I liked
getting out in nature, so I liked walking, but I had
asthma, so there was, it was really hard to
breathe. And then I would get nausea too
if I didn't have the right hydration. So now that I got my
minerals balanced and my energy and my
ATP and mitochondria are functioning with the right

(34:30):
fats for my body, I could do half marathons. I
can hike up mountains. I hiked across
the grand canyon for my 60th birthday,
24 miles. And you know,
it did hurt my knees a little bit, but that's a lot of wear and tear
on the body and it took about, about six months
for that to repair. And now I'm fine. I've ran, the
first half marathon I ran within that six month period. I

(34:53):
did, my knees did lock up and they didn't, they weren't functioning
yet. But I ran another half marathon last
September and I just finished one about two weeks a week ago
in Glacier, National park. And there was no problem with my knees
at all. And it's so, it's not that
we need knee surgery or hip surgery. It's like, did you
turn off the inflammation to your body? When

(35:13):
you turn off the inflammation to your body, it works better, your brain works
better and you get more energy. So that's why I've been thinking about
that. I'm like, if you just lose the first 20 pounds, put
your brain back on, then figure out what
the next step is. You don't have to go into this thinking, oh, I need
to lose 100 pounds and then feel frustrated because
it didn't happen. You focus on the first 10 to

(35:34):
20 pounds, dial in your minerals, dial in your
digestion, and you just us get started
because this is our life. We're just going to live it and make
it better every day. We don't have to just say, I'm on a
diet and I'm going to lose £20. And then that's it.
Yeah, you add to it. That's what might made
my weight loss successful. I just,

(35:54):
I mean, I would think.

It'S, it's knowing your why. Your why
very, very strong. It wasn't just lowering the number
on the scale. It was beyond that.

Right.

And you're living proof. You can rewire your
brain. You can rebuild your, your
body and your life.

Right. You can. We are not
broken. We can rebuild our body.
And we just have to look at nutrition. There's just too many
people are not eating the right amount of protein or getting the right type
of fats. And, and, you know, the medical system and the
news doesn't tell you what it is that you need to do unless
you're listening to the right people. And so it's very
confusing. And so that's why, my

(36:33):
message can be so powerful because I lived through it. You know, I
went through the fire. I came out bronzed and on
fire and excited about life because
I had to take out the food sensitivities to get my brain
to work. And it might seem like a simple thing, but
if you've got leaky gut and you're continually to have food sensitivities,
it's just going to be a vicious cycle. We have to turn

(36:54):
off inflammation to reset the
metabolism, to reset our energy levels
to thrive. Because if, you're stuck and you're
inflamed, you're. And you stay at home and you're not
excited about life and you don't get out and make and go have
adventures, your brain will shrink, the
hippocampus shrinks. And if you're not getting energy to
your brain, that is how we end up with Alzheimer's and

(37:16):
dementia.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's scary, but it's. It, it's. What makes
me sad and frustrated is that most people just
don't know this. That's why I appreciate you letting me on your podcast,
get this message out, because is helping one person at
a time, you know, and more women
just waking up, everybody and letting them know that we have hope.
There is hope. There are choices. Low

(37:38):
carb nutrition is a tool. Whether you need to do it
for life depends on your body and how your brain
reacts to the food that you're eating.

And also with low carb. Okay,
silly question, but carbs would
be even the vegetables
or, well, again.

It depends on your food sensitivities,
what kind of condition your body has, even what your
bacteria is in your body if you have a lot of autoimmune
bacteria, you might need to take out more vegetables than
you can handle. And so it's finding out which
food sensitivities you have, what conditions
you have. And, that's what I do. I
customize nutrition and personalize it based on

(38:19):
lab work so that we can dial in the minerals,
take out the food sensitivities, reduce the inflammation, put your
brain back on, reduce the fatigue and bring back your energy.
And M that is so powerful to get to that point. But
if you don't do this step, if you skip it, if you go straight to,
GLP1s and don't address this, you're not going to
get the weight to stay off once you do start a

(38:40):
GLP1. So what I like the idea that I like to do, which is
what one client is doing, is she did all the work.
She got rid of her parasite, she dialed in keto
and reduced her cognitive dysfunction.
And then now she's layered in the
GLP1 is finally losing the rest of the
weight that she wanted because she, her insulin levels were stuck

(39:00):
on and her cortisol levels were too high
because of her job. And so once she actually
was able to manage reducing the insulin resistance with the
GLP1, it like flipped a switch.
But she may not have been able,
if she had started there, keep that weight loss
off. And as soon as she started, you know,

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I actually customized exactly what she needed to do the
right amount of protein to eat so that she doesn't lose
muscle while she's doing it. And then that's, you know, where you want
to really layer it in and microdose it if you're going to use it. But
don't start there because you want to
correct your health at the root level.
And then do you even need it? Because

(39:41):
they don't know yet what the side effects are. They're saying it
damages your heart. Your heart's a muscle. If it's, you're losing muscle
too much on a low calorie starvation diet, what
is that doing to your body? That's not going to give you
longevity. It's just going to make you feel good in the
moment. Or some people don't even feel good. But,
you know, it is definitely a lifeline that is very

(40:02):
attractive. But what can we do in addition to
support your body so that you don't really need
that? What about getting your body to create GLP1 naturally,
which is what protein does.

Yes.

Yeah.

If you're sensitive to a certain type of
food. Are you always sensitive to that food?

Not necessarily. I just ran another MRT with a
client that had her sensitivities changed
over the years, you know, but it still
reflected Candida, which was interesting. So she still had
Candida. we ran another GI
map test and it definitely showed her bacteria
increasing. The ones that were bad
pathogenic ones were increasing. And so she definitely has

(40:41):
a big dysbiosis in inflammatory
dysbiosis condition that is contributing to
problems with her body. So she's
definitely needs to course correct even though some of her
foods have changed. Because what happens is
when you stop eating something and it's out of immune
memory, you may or may not be able to
eat it again depending on how your body reacts at the antigen

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level. Like with wheat, it's a, it, it's almost like
a forever food. And if you have a thyroid or, or
a Hashimoto's condition, you really shouldn't eat wheat
because it's going to contribute to that inflammatory load always
because the wheat protein looks like your thyroid and your
body will attack it. And so wheat
is like a B cell antigen response in the body. As long

(41:24):
as you react to that, you will always react to it.
And it may be, it's going to be. If it's, if
it's severe for you, you react to dairy as well.
And then the other one is corn. They're all similar.
Your body can't tell the difference. And I got, I got the
trifecta. And so I don't eat any of those things
unless dairy is hard. I will do a

(41:44):
little bit of cheese, but I say
cream or any cream cheese for holidays and
special treats. But I don't do them on a daily basis.

What I love about this is that you actually, you take the
guesswork out for people.

Yeah. You know, it collapses the time to get.

Yeah, exactly. Because a lot of people, I mean, and
there's so much information out there nowadays which is
great, but it's also very overwhelming.
And sometimes it can be paralyzing to the point you're like,
oh, okay, I'm going to try this. Oh, I don't know if I should try, should I get this?
And you try all these different things and then they don't work
and just, and then you just give up. But what's nice
about this is that you're actually giving them a

(42:24):
picture of inside their body of
what's going on. And you're saying here, do
this. And that is
so Nice. Just to be able to relax
and go, okay, all right, I'm gonna just give
this a shot. And. And then you have someone
with you along that journey, which is, which

(42:44):
is nice because I'm, I'm sure
for people, right?

I followed, Dave Asprey, and I held on to that
like a lifeline. I, listened to every single podcast he
put out there, and I learned as much as I could
about what I needed to do for my body.
And that was empowering. And so I think that was m. The other thing
that helped me stay attuned was that I didn't do it by myself. I
followed somebody. You know, it wasn't something where

(43:08):
I actually paid to have him help me one on
one, which would have been quicker. I mean, it did take me 10
years to lose that hundred, you know, to lose the weight and keep
off that hundred pounds. So when you
do, when you follow the steps and run six
diagnostic labs, figure out exactly what the
hidden healing opportunities are and your weight loss block blocks,

(43:28):
you can correct them quickly in six months and get
your life back on track. And in a year,
rather than for me, it took my lifetime to
figure.

Out what, what exactly is
bulletproof?

it. The bulletproof diet is pretty much what started the
keto. the keto diet kind
of jump started the keto diet. So Dave Asprey was the
inventor of the bulletproof diet, and he wrote a book about it and
using the bulletproof coffee and it used ketogenic
nutrition. And, so that what I
was following at the time to help me. But
overall, the way I look at this, and I start all my

(44:05):
clients in a low carb nutrition, so I
have my holistic low carb method that I use
because, you know, sometimes people want to be more strict
or they might want to be less strict. It depends on. I work with
you exactly where you're at and where you need to go. So I take you where
you need to go. But I'm not going to push the
envelope if you're not quite ready to get there. You just need to

(44:25):
feel better to make that final push push and to make the
decisions to get the extra healing.
And usually if women are motivated and they want the weight loss,
you know, and they come into me because they want the low carb nutrition and they're
ready to dial this in. And so that's where I
help them. You know, I had. I had a Carnivore client that
was gaining weight for a whole year, had depression,

(44:46):
couldn't figure out, what was going wrong, but she felt like she was
eating right, but she didn't feel right in her body.
And as soon as I worked with her, I just, you
know, the first, very first call we had, it was so exciting. I said
I had been researching what she needed to do, so I spent a whole
week researching how I can help her. Because, you know,
it's a little bit overwhelming even for me. She came into me
130 pounds and wanted 10 pounds of weight loss. I'm like, okay, I've got a

(45:08):
lot of work to do here, you know, can I even help her?
Very first week, she lost two and a half pounds after gaining
five pounds for a year on what she was doing. And I just
helped her course and, you
know, change things up, but give her that accountability and
support and guidance that she needed. She dropped ten pounds
and got her summer body back, you know, and I'm like, wow, that

(45:29):
is pretty cool. And then, then her sister
came on board and her sister's doing something similar and
losing the weight and I'm like, okay, this is really,
you know, really dialing in those minerals is huge.
And just actually having the accountability to know
exactly what it is you can do and to take out those food
sensitivities. It's a big, big. It's a big reset.

Yeah.

You look at it as a reset, right?

Exactly. And it's worth it.
Yeah.

Oh yeah.

I mean, no matter how long it takes, right? No matter what you have to go
through, it's worth it.

Yeah. And you know, there could be course corrections, but that's something that
I'm going to help you dial in because
we don't know exactly what your body can do and
what exactly are the road box. And then once you
start detour, detoxing and opening things up, you might
feel a little worse before you get better. So I've had my clients
will turn off the pain, the inflammation, the fatigue, and then get into a detox

(46:21):
situation that lasts for a couple of weeks or a month and then they
need to push through that to feel better again. And that's what I'm
noticing as well. But yeah, it's so super
exciting.

Were you, when you were on your weight loss journey in the
beginning of it, were you already in menopause or
perimenopause?

I started my low carb journey at
about 53 when I had just started menopause.
M. So
sometimes I think that menopause is a little easier than
perimenopause because I was a wreck during Perimenopause. Yeah, me
too. I agree.

I was gonna say my perimenopause was awful.

Yeah, it's pretty awful. So I, you
know, I started about 53
because I went to Costa Rica and took all the pads,
whatnot to have a period and the period never came. So
it was it. That's why I remember it stopped at 53.
Never any more bleeding? No. No breakthrough spots. I was
just a flip the switch and it. And so

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I just, started low carb and
never, looked back.

Do you think perimenopause would have been easier knowing what you
know now?

Oh, yeah, yeah. If. That's what I like to say is like
I lost my 30s and 40s to this. If. And, and I.
One of the things I really love is being able to help anybody in their
30s or mid-30s never have to get to the point where they're just
feeling hopeless and never get their life back on track until they
hit menopause. You know, you can flip that switch
off, off, flip your sugar switch off, flip the disease causing

(47:44):
genes off. I mean, people are getting sick and having cancer more often
in their 30s and 40s now than ever before. Why?
Because the insulin levels are too high, processed foods too high,
chemicals are too high, endocrine disruptors are too
high. We need to detoxify and get the junk out
of our diet. And that's what I love about a keto diet. It's
a healthy, holistic, whole foods diet that takes away the

(48:05):
endocrine disruptors, takes away the top toxic
food, and helps your body detox and
get nutrition into our body. So if we look at
nutrition that way, it's not a diet, it's a
lifestyle change where you're creating a
healthier body to turn your disease risk off so you don't
have to have diabetes and Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and all that
crap that happens to people and cancer. I

(48:27):
mean, I don't know what my future
is, but I feel like I've flipped my switch off and it's not going
to come. You study epigenetics and you stop
expressing damaged DNA, then you can have a healthy
body. Yeah, I wake up with no pain in my body. I
can, I don't, I didn't have any pain on my half
marathon. And it's really exciting because I

(48:47):
feel stronger every single time. And this one, you know,
they say it's uphill and it's hard at Glacier national park,
but I did a little bit of walking and jogging as I did the first
five miles and then by the time I got to the
top, my Pandora came on. I started running,
jogging and I started dancing and I just, you know, I
finished in the same amount of time that I did

(49:07):
basically in a flat course in Tennessee. So it's like
I'm stronger and I fueled myself
a little different. I used the ketone IQs, I brought
in my keto bricks and I'm like, I'm always like,
okay, how can I make this work better? What does my
body. And if you go into that and
look at every day as a health adventure and a health

(49:27):
hobby, I think we can solve everything. But yeah,
doing it with somebody else, it definitely collapses the time
so you can get it done quicker and sooner and get your life back
on track. I call it claiming your health. And just
really like you, you said it so well when you first introduced
it. You know, it's really just getting
back on track and having that transformation.

Yeah.

You know, none of us are broken, it just feels like it.
But we, and, and when you feel broken, you just don't have the
hope and you don't understand what to do. That's why
you hire someone to guide you out of it. So
yeah, lose the £20 pounds, get the energy
back, feel better in your body and have that
hope again.

Yeah. And your 90 year old self will thank you.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean I always think about that. I always think about, well we're
training.

For our grandmother body. Really? I love that term. Yeah.
Social media is like I am doing this for my 80 year
old grandmother body, you know and yeah, I'm
doing push ups now and I can only do a half push up
but I could do about three or four half push ups. And my
goal, this is in my 60s is to get stronger
and so I want to do more push ups and really

(50:34):
keep my legs strong so that I can, you know, because
muscle is our longevity factor. If we don't focus on
muscles then we're going to have problems with our
body.

Yes. Yeah. One thing I've, I've done just in the last few
years is incorporate weight training again
because yeah, I mean you, and you
know how much it does help you when you're out walking around
or you're having to climb up a hill or go
upstairs, you're like, okay, thank God I've been doing
some strength training. And I think about again, you know, that

(51:04):
90 year old, you know, Wendy, she'll be
thanking me going oh thank you so much for taking
care of our Body because now I'm able
to play with the grandkids or I'm able to go on
vacation somewhere. Right. So we do
like, what we do today really does affect who we are
tomorrow.

Well, I remember I was talking to somebody over the weekend and she said, I've
been, got five granddaughters and I have to lift that car
seat out of the car and carry that grandkid. And she goes, I need
more muscles. Yeah. And so, you know, really
do have to think about things like that. And
I remember 10 years ago when I first walked down to the
grand, the Grand Canyon, to the bottom of the river, to Phantom

(51:42):
Ranch is a lodge down there or the national
park lodge down at the bottom. And I got
passed up by this 70 year old lady who had legs like the
40 year old and she was not huffing or puffing or
slowing down and, and they didn even leave to like 2 hours
after I left and she just like blew past me and I'm like,
oh my God. That is the goal that I want to have.

Yes.

Now I can do that more readily. And so it's
empowering to know that my legs are stronger, that I'm
growing muscles, that I'm, you know, and I'm not even strength
training, but I still have better muscular now
than I did 10 years ago.

You're, you're fascinating. I'm.

Oh, thank you. Yeah.

I'm amazed at what you did and how much you pushed through
and then taking again, taking all of that knowledge, knowledge
and wisdom and sharing it.
We need more Lori Blues in the world.

Yeah. Thank you. But it's become, you know, it's become a mission
because it is my pain to purpose,
to passion. And when you look at that, it
drives you and it gives you that purpose in life to really,
you know, lighten up the load and make you feel less stressed
and just to really give you, a purpose
because if you don't, your brain's going to shrink and you're just going to end up with

(52:54):
dementia. People who just sit around in our house and watch
TV during the day, you know, look what happened
to the elderly during COVID They weren't
able to get out. They're sitting around, they went straight into
Alzheimer's and you know, so many people
were sick just because of that. You know,
it's really sad.

Yeah.

What happens. But if you listen to Joe Dispenza, he says you
have to get out of your stress zone. You got to get out and have health
adventures and do different things. So Your brain can
change and grow. You can evolve
and become the person you want to be. But we have to change,
change who we are.

Yeah.

Because, you know, do you want to be where you're at or do you want to be
stuck? Do you want to change and evolve who you are and have
that transformation to be your best person, to be
happy, to have joy again. The other day I just got home
from vacation and first, night in my bed, I
looked out my window and there was a flower growing. And I have felt this
joy bubble up in my body and I'm like, oh my God, I gotta go

(53:48):
outside. There's a flower blooming. But you
know, it's. That bubbles up anytime.
That's what we are missing, missing when we don't feel,
getting that.

Yeah, you're exactly right. When you're in that vicious
cycle of pain and suffering,
then you, you don't see, you don't even notice the
flower outside the window.

You don't feel the joy. Yeah.

All of your attention is on your pain. And then if you
remove that pain, reduce that pain,
then a whole new world opens up.

Yeah. And the pain is physical, emotional, you know.
You know, when I talk about pain, it's like the whole
encompassing depression
repressed. You don't, you didn't grow into yourself, you
just don't feel good. Or maybe you gave up on yourself because you didn't
have a hope. So I mean I, I
hold that hope in front of you and guide you into the
transformation you can have if you choose it. But you do

(54:40):
have to make the choice for health.

Yes. I love it.

It's so exciting.

So how can we find you and tell us a little bit
more about the programs that you offer?

Yeah, I'm on Instagram at Lori Balu weight loss loss
and I'm also on Facebook and YouTube.
I do have a YouTube station again is for the holist.
It's for women over 50,
holistic, low carb weight loss. And it's. The name
is too long and I can't even remember these names half the time.
Social media. Right. So anyways, I'm the

(55:10):
only Lori Ballou out there and that's
B A L U E. I have my website and you
can go on my website and check me out. But I do
have three month and six month programs
as well as a year long mentorship program. And I'm really
excited to offer that because it comes with a
three night inclusive one on one Sedona

(55:30):
retreat. And all the labs are Paid for
double. A double set of labs plus a first set of
supplements. I mean, it's a lot. You, you just pay me once
and I take care of the rest of the things for the next year.

That is so nice.

And so yeah, it's an investment, but you get your life back. I
mean, look at how much money we spend on things that we don't even need. And by
the time you get to menopause, like what the hell do I have this for? Why did
I collect all this stuff? My daughter want anything, you know,
don't save that mom. Get rid of
all that stuff. So it's almost heartbreaking in a way, but what if
you could just invest in your health? Right. Your

(56:04):
life back on track. And so I have all
types of budgets. I have just monthly support without
the labs. I have the three month program and
I always bonus in an extra month
just to get you supported when you do do a pay
in full. So six months is basically what I need
to really get you to the point where you're on your own.

(56:25):
That's what I've noticed, really. But three months will get you
started, but it's not enough time to really get that
transformation. It's just to really get you started and get
you the information you need to do your healing. But I love
being able to run functional diagnostic labs. I remember
after training with Chris Kresser's ADAPT
functional health coaching program and I heard about FDN and
I'm like, oh my God, I could help so many more people, people with

(56:48):
this process. Because I tend
to be an educator and I want to help people and I didn't
want to just, you know, as a health coach, you just
ask questions and talk and I'm like, no, I need to help people
a little bit more thoroughly. Yes. Really
guide them. Because people didn't tell me what I needed to know
when I was 30. I had to. It took me 20 years to figure that

(57:08):
out. I would think too.

What's nice, after someone goes through your program,
then they know what they need, need to do and they're
helping other people.

You know, their husbands are getting benefited from it as
well. Right, right.

They're eating better, they're cooking better than.
That's what the family. Yes. It's amazing.
It's the butterfly effect, right?

Yeah. Yeah. And so it's, it's like when I help one person,
they help their daughters and then
they help their husbands and they help their friends. And it's so
exciting to see the trickle down effect of this process.

Process, yeah. Thank you so much, Lori.

Thank you. It's wonderful to be able to share this vision and
to give women hope, inspiration. I really love
being able to motivate other people. So just come, you know, hang out
with my, on my YouTube station and on Instagram. I'm on
Instagram every day and
posting the food that I'm eating. I posted my,
half marathon road trip vacations in
reals, so that you can kind of get a look at who I am and

(58:06):
what I'm doing.

But.

But, you know, if you don't feel motivated to
get out and exercise and hike, that's okay.
You just gotta move 10 steps at a time. Just do a
mile every day, or even just get on the bike and strengthen your.
Your muscles. But if you're not getting the
right fat and protein and energy to your muscles, they're
not gonna work.

Right. Yeah. Ah. So good.

Just getting started. Yeah.

Thank you so much, Lori.

You're welcome. Thank you for having me on.

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