June 11, 2025 • 46 mins
Get ready to dive into a world of holistic health with Jayne Williams! We’re chatting about the importance of addressing those sneaky underlying health issues, understanding your personal biomarkers through functional testing, and finding balance between mind, body, and spirit in nutrition. It's time to toss out the strict 'diet' mindset and embrace a lifestyle filled with mindful eating and habits that truly nourish you—because let's be real, who needs perfection? We’ll also touch on the often-overlooked fiber deficiency, especially among women and kids, and share some practical tips to boost your nutrition game, like checking labels and adding trace minerals. Plus, we’ll explore the power of mindfulness and breath—trust me, your mood and energy levels will thank you. So, grab a snack (maybe something high in fiber?) and let’s get into it!
Takeaways:
- A holistic approach to health means understanding biomarkers and addressing mind, body, and spirit for overall wellness.
- Mindful eating is about creating a lifestyle of health rather than chasing perfection or fad diets.
- Women and children often face fiber deficiency, so aim for 30-35 grams of fiber daily to support gut health.
- Practical nutrition tips like reading labels and incorporating electrolytes can help enhance your diet and energy levels.
- Mindfulness practices, such as meditation and breathing techniques, can significantly impact your mood and mental clarity.
- Small, consistent changes in your health routine can lead to long-lasting improvements, so embrace the journey!
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Hey there, it's Robin, andyou're listening to Healthy Habits
for a Healthier Home.
I'm here to help you create ahealthier life one simple shift at
a time.
If you're a mama ready toditch toxins, clean up your family's
nutrition, and build dailyhabits that support your well being,
you're definitely in the right place.
Each episode is packed notonly with education, but practical
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tips and tools to help youtransform your health in your home
without that feeling of overwhelm.
So let's take this journeytogether to create a thriving, low
tox home for you and your family.
If you're ready, say, I am ready.
Now let's get into this episode.
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Hey, everyone.
Welcome back.
I'm super excited today tohave Jane Williams on.
She's a functional clinical nutritionist.
But.
But more interesting than thatis we're neighbors.
We're.
We live so close, and wehaven't even gotten to meet in all
these years that we've bothlived here.
So welcome, Jane.
I'm so excited to have you here.
What's going on with us?
It's about time.
That's what I have to say.
I'm so excited to connect withyou and your community today.
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Robin, thank you so much forhaving me.
Absolutely.
Thank you so much for coming on.
So I just want to start byhaving you tell us a little bit about
yourself and how you've gottento where you are today, and then
we'll just take it from there.
Yes.
Well, my story starts, youknow, now you.
You always connect the dots bylooking backwards, right?
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That's.
That's how life is with all of us.
So it's amazing through thework that we do with ourselves as
we get older, how so clearlywe can now see past experiences,
how they have affected wherewe've become.
Right.
What we've become and where wewere in our lives that got us to
this point.
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So for me, my parents gotdivorced when I was five years old
and, you know, kind ofshifting between mom and dad.
I have a younger sister, andit was just a very stressful situation
for me.
I was the oldest.
Kind of being caught up in it,I would say at a young age, I felt
stress.
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And I couldn't have told youat that time what stress meant, even
what the, you know, what, howstress was defined.
But I carried it in my gut.
And that was something that Ialways, like growing up.
In my teens, I always hadstomach pains.
I always felt bloated.
I always, you know, I hadpooping issues.
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I mean, all of these piecesthat nobody ever talked about, right?
Especially like, I'll say ourgeneration, our generation is kind
of like you keep your headdown, you just keep moving forward.
You know, it wasn't like anopen topic, but I did, I carried
a lot of stress and thatstress manifested itself in physical
pieces.
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So when I got into my 20s, Iactually, I got very sick and had
to go to the emergency roomand had to go through tons of testing.
They thought maybe I hadirritable bowel disease.
My gut was a disaster, my dietwas a mess.
But again, you know, notsomething that we ever talked about.
And gut health back in thosedays was, was not even at the forefront.
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So I remember getting told Ineeded to go see a gastroenterologist,
a GI doctor, and they would beable to put me on some sort of protocol.
So I was put on medication andbasically told to take a pill every
day.
Nobody ever talked about diet.
My diet was never questioned.
And pretty much, here you go,this is kind of your course of treatment
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for the unforeseeable future.
And I lived like that forabout six years.
And at the time or in theprocess of all of that, I had, you
know, met the man that I wouldmarry and we started talking about
wanting children and all ofthose pieces and we started trying
to have kids and I gotpregnant and then I had a miscarriage
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and couldn't get pregnant andstill on this medication and just
started to just.
I was living in a state of notfeeling great.
You know, I think, yeah, 100%.
And I meet a lot of women thatare like that.
You know, we, we have kind ofan acceptance piece.
And I think there's a lot ofwomen who are caregivers who, again,
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that acceptance piece of thisis life, you know, and we kind of
just go with that.
And I believe that mindset wise.
I lived in that state of mindfor way too long until it affected
other pieces of my life in theway of not being able to get pregnant.
We really wanted to have a child.
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And then I started to do somedeep diving.
You know, I, I'm a smart woman.
Like, why am I notinvestigating this a little bit further?
And one of the things Istarted to investigate was nutrition.
You know, can nutritionactually affect infertility or my
fertility?
Can nutrition affect my gut health?
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Like what, what's the thing?
I remember this fat free crazeand oh, you know, it's low fat.
And can nutrition all that fatfree stuff that I love to consume
or I'm told to consume, couldthat be affecting me in negative
ways.
My gut, my stress, all ofthose pieces, I don't know.
So I started to deep dive intoit, and that's when I found this
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practice called fun Functional nutrition.
This idea that our body is allinterconnected, that our body is
not in silos.
And I found it incredibly fascinating.
I'm like, wait a minute.
So you're telling me thestress that I'm having that I believe
is in my brain could beaffecting my gut?
And that's crazy.
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And wait, Dopamine andserotonin, those feel good chemicals
that you believe are in yourbrain, are actually also produced
in your gut.
Like, that's wild to me.
Wait, your immune system isactually located in your gut.
I mean, it was all like, thesecrazy aha moments, and it turned
into this, like, amazingpassion of mine.
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I need to get off this medication.
Can I get off this medication?
Is this gonna start to affectmy life in a positive way?
So I started to slowly makethese changes, and I started to feel
really good.
My health changed, My skin changed.
I lost weight.
I.
My.
I didn't know that I wasliving with this fatigue and this
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brain fog, but I was in aconstant state.
It was just something that I felt.
I just always knew.
And I started to feel better,clearer, and it helped me to make
better decisions.
And so it was just all theselittle light bulbs that I think go
off for us when we start tomake those shifts.
And I know you use that wordearlier, I love the word of a shift.
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And I too, am a firm believerthat those bite size, those very
small shifts will make massiveimpact in your life if you are very
consistent with them.
There's no such thing asperfect, but consistency wins every
single time.
So that's what I did.
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That's what I did.
That's amazing in my life.
And it changed my entire world.
It truly did.
I think what's so fascinatingis the first thing you said is, is
looking back and alwayslooking back in hindsight to see
what things were like and whatthe causes were.
But your story is much like alot of people's stories, right?
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When you're little, we don'thave the autonomy to make choices.
We are put in situations inwhich we just cope with and we learn
to just get by.
And our body is so smart andresilient that it will help you to
scrape by, right?
It will give you sort of thetools just to cope.
But in reality, it can only doso much for so long until your body
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starts to break down.
And I Think most people whoend up going the functional route,
going an alternative route, itis because they hit wall after wall
after wall.
They've been told, take this pill.
They don't really see an endresult because they're really not
addressing the root cause.
And so I think that your storyis common for a lot of people and
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a lot of listeners, becauseeverybody has things that have happened
to them that have created thelife that they're living currently.
But we do now, at an olderage, have the ability and the choice
to make different choices andchoose differently.
And if we're not choosing,we're accepting.
Right.
And so we have to really digand figure out first what's our story.
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What's our story and how doesit relate to where we are today.
And then does that story stillmake sense to us?
And maybe it doesn't.
And maybe you have to come upwith a different story in order to
move, to take those littletiny steps.
But.
Right.
The functional part is so important.
And all those little lightbulb moments that you had about,
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well, of course everything's connected.
Right?
But we're never taught that.
We are taught you go to theheart doctor for the heart.
You go to the gut doctor.
Well, back then, there was nogut doctor.
But if you had a stomachache,you went to the gastro person.
If you broke your bone, you go here.
Everything was very departmentalized.
And we're now coming into anage where the science, right.
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And people out there areshowing that everything is connected.
Your gut, brain, health is.
It is what it is.
Right.
It's not like they're justmaking things up, but the science
has finally caught up withlooking at how our body actually
functions.
So when you decided to gointo, like, functional nutrition,
because functional isdifferent than just being a nutritionist.
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It's different than beingsomebody who just puts somebody on
a diet.
There's.
There's a whole.
Functional is very intriguingto me because the testing is uber
important.
And anybody I work with who'swilling to deep dive into that, I
always send them to somebodywho's functional because those tests
tell a story.
And from my experience, thestool test, Whoa.
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That was like, for my kids,was the beginning of, you know, a.
A massive breakthrough.
Yes, for sure.
Talked about a little bitabout the functional side for people
who might be listening, whodon't understand or know or have
ever heard of functional testing.
Right.
So functional testing is whatI look at as your personal chemical
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biomarkers.
And, you know, we have labwork that we go and get done by our
you know, a lot of people dothat through your general practitioner.
That things like checking yourvitamin D and, you know, checking
your.
Your white and red blood cellcount and, you know, looking at your
cholesterol, looking at yourthyroid, all of those.
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Now, while that's importantand those markers are important,
those markers are actuallyweighed differently than those of
functional markers.
And they're.
They're different types ofmarkers as well.
But just for the sake ofexplaining kind of, you know, common
blood work versus functionalblood work, so when you see those
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ranges, you know, you're.
You go and get your blood workdone, and then you have.
There's these ranges that comeback and you're put into that range.
Those ranges are based on everybody.
They're based on men, women, kids.
They're not finite.
That's like the best way toexplain it.
You're kind of dumped intothis range.
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And so that is the differencebetween functional and.
And, you know, what we kind ofcall the common blood work.
And on the functional side,it's very finite.
It's your.
When I say to people, this isyour body chemistry, this is what
your numbers look like, and tothings like, you brought up the stool
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test, actually looking at yourgut bacteria, what does that look
like?
How is the gut bacteria inyour body diverse?
Like, what does that diversityof strain look like?
So that is very specific toyou, as well as there's different
types of thyroid panels,there's urine profiles that are very
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specific, there's hairprofiles that are incredibly specific.
So it is a very detailed wayof looking at you.
And that's why I always saywhen you choose to go the functional
route, and I hope everybodydoes, because I think it's so important.
I'm not saying that they're.
There's anything wrong withthe traditional route as well.
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I'm actually married to an md,so who's a traditional doctor, but
he.
He sees the lines between, youknow, the need for functional and
traditional.
I think you should have both.
Truly, I think it's.
It's important.
And the best functionaldoctors that I have met and worked
with so far in my careerstarted off as MDs, and then have
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gone back and done thatfunctional training.
So we're talking a high levelof knowledge, and I think that's
really important becauseprotocoling around functional medicine
can become very complex.
The other thing that I thinkis important to know about and understand
about nutrition is that it's ayoung science.
You know, it's constantlyevolving and constantly shifting
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and changing as we learn moreinformation And I love that about
it as well.
You know, we have a lot of information.
We can tell you a lot of information.
We can utilize thatinformation to create healing protocols
and, you know, different typesof blueprints that work for your
body, but we don't.
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None of us have all the answers.
And everybody's body is different.
And so everyone works.
One person doesn't necessarilywork for everybody.
And so I think.
I think that's the mostexciting thing because it really
breaks the mold of all traditional.
Here, take this.
This is how it works.
And it's like, no, that's justnot true.
Because this could be reallyhealthy for one person, but somebody
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else who has a completelydifferent profile, it could not be
healthy.
So it's a matter of uniquenessand bio, individuality.
And I think when people startdown this road, the one, like, piece
of encouragement I want togive them is it is an evolving process.
No matter where you start.
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You know, if you have a testor you don't have a test, if you,
you know, add in a nutritioustype of food or you delete out something,
it's.
It's all a work in progressall the time.
You're never going to have,like, a finish line, per se.
And so that's.
That's beautiful becauseyou're never striving to get somewhere,
right.
You're just striving to keep evolving.
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And so those little shiftsthat we talking about, you know,
they can become overwhelmingwhen you don't break it down into
those little shifts.
Right.
Personally, the functional.
The fascinating thing for me,like, when you said hair, I had.
I've had all these tests, right.
And I'm fascinated by what youcan find from your piece of hair.
You know, it's.
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The stool test was fascinatingto see.
You know, I thought one of mydaughters maybe had add.
She did not.
She had candida overgrowth,and her neurotransmitters were also
out of whack.
And, you know, that.
That was just like a lot oflight bulbs for me was like, oh,
okay, so we can weed out, addin, do all the things and get everything
balanced, which is what we'vedone, you know, and again, it is.
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It's a.
It's not a perfection and it'snot, you know, a complete 100.
Do this, do that.
It is a lot of give inunderstanding your own body.
And stress is huge.
People do not understand theramifications of suppressed stress.
Right?
Absolutely.
Physical things that happen.
I'm hopeful that theconversations that are going to start
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coming out is suppress stress.
Like you.
Like your story from fiveyears old, you know, something that.
It wasn't traumatic.
You.
It was.
It was trauma to you a little,but it.
When people think of trauma,they think of a car wreck or they
think of, you know, being shotor molestation or something giant.
But little things can affectyou just the same as the large things
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and the little things we endup carrying along with us for so
long because we're not even ina state of understanding how that
can affect.
So if somebody has bloatingthat can't be solved or has things,
I always suggest like, well,let's look backwards, let's look
back to see maybe somethingthat happened long ago that you don't
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even remember as beingsomething that could be affecting.
Affecting your gut.
So.
Right.
And trauma comes in many forms.
That's the bottom line.
Yes, trauma comes in manyforms, and we do carry that stress.
And it's a chemical componentas well.
You know, our cortisol isaffected, our adrenal glands are
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affected, your gut microbiome,those prebiotics, those probiotics,
all of that really important.
Those important bacteria are affected.
So we don't recognize thatuntil we're facing something large.
And then we go, gosh, all of asudden, all of a sudden, this just
happened to me.
And then we go, wait a minutenow, Right?
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It wasn't all of a sudden.
You know, you didn't just getan autoimmune, just like you just
don't get skin cancer, right,that years of damage.
So it's the same.
And that's.
You know, that's sointeresting that you say that, because
it's kind of the same thing onthe reverse.
Like when you're working withsomeone, right, and you're giving
them a protocol, or you'regiving them some suggestions or you're
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mapping out something for them.
There's never an expectationthat it has to be changed overnight
because it took you.
I'm using 40 as an example.
But it took you 40 years toget where you are.
Thank you for.
For saying I'm 40.
I'll take that.
I don't even know.
I wasn't even thinking.
You actually looked 40.
Oh, I love it.
All right.
Made my day.
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Thank you.
But, you know, people have togive themselves grace.
They have to give themselvesthe space, an ability to.
To evolve in just the same waythey evolved up that, you know, to
keep evolving.
So I think, you know, we're sohard on ourselves.
Women are so hard onourselves, and we just have to Learn
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to just take a breath and, andgive ourselves grace.
We're not going to be perfect.
And I love that you said that.
Consistency, just that word.
If you can be consistent andeven if you're not consistent 100%
of the time, just consistencyoverall when you're looking at the
big picture is what's going togrow you.
Words I'd love to get rid ofin the English dictionary for women
is perfection and diet.
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Those are two trigger wordsthat we end up carrying even if you
don't know, like consciously.
Consciously we carry that, you know.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
100.
100%.
I think most women are, youknow, they call themselves like recovering
perfectionists or, you know,that was me.
I've learned to let go of someof that.
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It's still, still hard, butstill a thing that you work on on
a daily.
But.
And diet, I don't know whomade up that word.
I really don't because itreally, it irks me because it's like,
no, the diet that you eat isall foods, you know, it's, it's all
the, it's the real stuff.
And I do think the fad,unfortunately we are from a diet
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culture.
Right.
We are from the fat free tothe, you know, to the, the healthy
ones or whatever.
Those, you know, like all the frozen.
Meals, Whole 30 to keto to.
You could go on and on and on.
Yeah.
100.
And some of those have spacesin places if you're doing certain
things, but they're just,they're not the end all, be all.
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You've got to learn how tocreate a lifestyle of health for
yourself.
And if we can somehow moveaway from labeling.
Yes.
And work on creating our ownblueprint and say, this is what I
do, this is what we're me.
There's so much empowerment indoing that.
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And you know, instead of, youknow, running with the crowd, so
to speak, or you know, justhaving to put an actual word that's
attached that has so manyunderlying meanings to us.
So that, that is one of thethings that I love to do when I work
with people, you know,creating a blueprint that feels good
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and belongs to you and thenthat there's so many empowering pieces
and so much of nutrition is amental piece.
Right.
It's emotional, it'scompletely emotional.
And I, I meet so many womenand men and even teenagers that I've
worked with that they, theycarry that emotional piece.
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So when we become emotional ina supportive, positive direction
by making those small shifts,that is when we become empowered
around our own plan, our own blueprint.
And watching those shiftshappen within people, amazing lights
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me up every single time.
That's right.
So if you're someone that'slistening right now and you're of
the mindset, you know, well,Sally did this and she looks a certain
way.
And so I want to know whatSally's doing.
And we're telling you to maybepause for a second, take a deep breath
and ask yourself, you know,what would work for you?
Not what Sally's doing, notwhat Jenny's doing, not with whoever's
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doing, but what feels alignedto you.
Because if you're restrictingyourself to a point where you're
not, where you're sad andyou're feeling restricted and you're
stressed and, I mean, you'redoing yourself a disservice.
So we always talk about likeadding in something nutritious.
We're not talking aboutripping everything away from you
in an instant.
Eventually that will justnaturally occur if you just start
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adding in some of thewholesome, healthier whole foods
rather than doing somethingthat has zero fat in it or doing
something that speaks to onelittle population of people.
So.
Right.
I like the blueprint idea.
I love that.
I think we should all have ourown because we are, we are all bio
individual.
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We all have, we learned in myschooling primary and secondary foods.
And so secondary being thefoods on your plate, but primary
being everything that feedsyour soul off your plate.
And without those being inbalance, it doesn't matter what you're
doing on your plate.
It's.
It's just not.
You're not going to create ahealthy lifestyle because the chaos
that runs rampant on the otherside is just raising that cortisol.
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It's doing all the stress.
It's physically damaging youin other ways.
Right.
Mind, body and spirit.
There's a reason why it's,it's even categorized that way.
Right.
Starts with mind, body andthen spirit.
So, yes, I can't state that.
Who's coming in for the firsttime, who's never like dipped their
toes into the functional side?
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If they were to come to you,what is your first, like, plan of
attack to helping them tocreate that blueprint?
Yeah.
So first of all, I do anextensive history because again,
like we've said a few timesalready, you've got to connect the
dots backwards to go forwards.
Yeah.
So I do an extensive history.
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I get to know them asindividuals and then before I do
any work.
And this is also a tool thatI'd love to give to everybody.
And I actually, I have thattool on my website as well.
And I'm happy.
In your show notes, we canabsolutely make sure it's included.
I want to pattern out what'sgoing on, so I think it's really
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important.
And this is, again, a veryempowering piece for people.
And, you know, if you'relooking for a place to start, I always
look for patterns.
And it's funny.
So I have so many people thatwill come to me and say, this is
a common one.
Yeah, I don't have any addedsugar in my diet.
Yeah, right.
That.
That's.
That's a big one.
And, you know, and I don'tlaugh at it.
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I mean, it's not laughable.
They're working really hard.
I'm sure they're being duped, though.
They're being brainwashed alot of the times.
Exactly, exactly.
And we just don't realize.
Yeah, we just don't realizehow much we have.
So pattern or I don't tend tohave gut issues will be another one.
You know, maybe they're comingfor some.
For another reason.
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And I'll say, okay, we're.
We're.
Before we do anything else,I've got this great little guide
with a food journal in there.
It's a lifestyle journal,really, because it's beyond food.
I do look at, you know, I wantto know about your pooping.
I want to know what you'reeating in a day.
I want to know what you're drinking.
I want to know how you're exercising.
I want to know how you're sleeping.
I want to know how you're feeling.
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So all of those pieces.
And then when people start topattern things out, they tend to
notice.
I would say, nine times out of10, I'm going to give it a pretty
high rating.
There are some noticeablepatterns that they have never noticed.
And that is where the.
The slight.
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Aha.
Potential shift starts to happen.
Oh, my gosh.
I have this in my diet.
Wait a minute.
I didn't realize this wasaffecting me the way that it has
been.
Oh, my gosh.
It's been a week and a halfsince I pooped.
That's an extreme one, but,yes, it does happen.
Yeah.
So we start to see some littlepieces or we recognize certain food
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groups being attached tocertain issues, symptoms, and all
of a sudden, we can startconnecting dots.
And so that is first andforemost, before I even meet with
somebody, I will have thempattern that out for me so that I
can do a deep dive and havethose initial conversations with
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how Are we going to addressall of this?
So that's a piece of it.
Can I stop you just for onesecond about the food log?
Because I think it's sooverlooked a lot of times as just
an activity or just an exercise.
But when you do start to seethose patterns, I also encourage
people to.
How do you feel 90 minutesafter you eat?
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Like, what are the emotionalfeelings that come up?
Because again, a lot of timesyou will see the foods or the meals
that you're having that giveyou energy, and then the foods and
the meals that you're havingthat make you feel like you need
to get on the couch and watcha show, you know, so it's like there's
also that emotional andfeeling part to food that people
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totally dismiss.
And so I think that food logis really the first step for anybody.
Even if you're not going to gosee a functional person or work with
a health coach, it.
It's your own first step.
You can do it all by yourself.
But notice those thingsbecause they're very powerful.
Right.
When creating that change.
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Yes.
And I would definitelyencourage you to utilize.
Utilize one like that I havecreated that is not just food, but
it asks you additionalquestions so you can start to piece
together those patterns.
That's important to actuallysee the full picture.
And to your point about foodand how it affects us, sometimes
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we don't recognize it, but thefood that we started our day with,
breaking our fast, orbreakfast, as it's called, can affect
decisions we're making laterin the day and how we're feeling
around those decisions as well.
And we don't connect the dotsaround all of that, but I love that
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because nine times out of 10,even making those slight modifications
for somebody, all of a sudden,they start to feel a bit better.
And when they're doing that consistently.
Okay, now I'm ready to go.
Now, what else do we, youknow, what's the next thing we need
to do?
Right.
So that's exciting.
And then they're totally onboard because they see, they can
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feel it.
They can see and feel, youknow, this.
These changes and how it'saffecting every piece of their body.
Yeah, it's so interesting is.
It's.
It's really a very simple exercise.
But to me, what it showed meyears ago when I very first did it
was, do I know myself?
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Like, do I actually know?
Like, I can tell you all thethings about my job, and I can tell
you all the things about howto do X, Y and Z and how.
But I'M doing all these thingsand I don't even really know how
that's working for me or notworking for me.
And that for me, that was abig like, okay, I need to get to
know myself a little bit better.
And when people used to say,you know, what, what are you doing?
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What diet are you on?
What are you?
And I'm, I'm not.
I'm just doing things thatwork for me, that make me feel my
best.
And then the other thing thatused to happen is, oh, she's not
going to eat that.
She'll never eat that becauseit has X, Y and Z.
And I said, I can eat it.
I just am choosing not tobecause I know that I'm not going
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to feel my best and then I'mgoing to show up terrible for my
children and my husband andall the other things.
And I'm choosing to make theother choice that makes me show up
better for myself and my family.
So here's another littletidbit around when you're looking
at that food log that would behelpful for someone who's, you know,
really wanting to pattern outa few things because they know something
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isn't right.
A lot of times we look for thethings that are in our diet, but
many times we don't look atthe things that aren't in our diet.
Right.
We have to flip it too.
So that's really important.
And what I find, again, I'mgoing to give it a high rating of
9 times out of 10.
But we are fiber deficient.
Huge.
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Especially women.
And I'll say one more thingabout women too, just so we know
what we're looking for.
But fiber is a big one.
And just things that fiberactually is very complicated.
And I think it gets a littlebit confusing for people too.
We've got this soluble fiber.
We have insoluble fiber.
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We need both.
They process differently inthe body, they work differently in
the body, they feed different things.
We need different types offiber to feed different types of
bacteria, all of those pieces.
Now, not everybody needs toknow all of that, but you need to
have, right?
You need to make sure thatyou've got the proper balance of
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all of that fiber and you'regetting enough fiber.
Typically, on average, womenget between 8, 10 grams of fiber
a day.
We should have upwards of 30to 35.
Just to give you an idea ofhow fiber deficient we are.
We are truly fiber deficient.
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And kids are too.
Kids are hugely fiberdeficient teenagers.
I think that's a lot becauseof all the processed food that gets
ingested.
And most processed foods arenot high in fiber.
Unfortunately, when you'releaving today's episode one, two
very easy things, right offthe bat is going to Jane's website,
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getting her little food log,trying that on, seeing how it feels,
seeing what you can discoverabout yourself.
But also just get curious andsee, like, how much fiber are you
ingesting in a day.
And if you're curious and wantto know about insoluble.
Insoluble, you guys canresearch that also.
But just out of curiosity, howmuch do you ingest?
And then see where you cantweak it, because, again, that's
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in your control.
Right.
And I know if you're somebodythat has little fiber in your diet
and you need to add fiber,please do it slowly.
Slowly.
Yes.
That is.
You will bloat.
That is very important.
Yes.
And then I have people whosay, I couldn't do it, forget it.
So, yes, you want to slowlyincrease your fiber intake.
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And I have all kinds ofresources, materials.
If you guys do want to do adeep dive into fiber.
Even in the guide that I givefor free, it's not just a food journal.
There's a lot of additionalinformation in there.
Smoothie recipes.
I created a nutritionalmethodology called the fundamental
five.
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Five things that you want tomake sure are on your plate, in your
smoothie, in your bowl, atevery meal.
So I'd like to keep it simple.
I want to say one more thingbecause I think this is really important.
I know your audience is womenand that age group of things we're
being concerned about withbeing moms, hormonal health, change
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of life, all of those pieces.
Another massive piece thatwomen are incredibly deficient in
is minerals.
We talk about macronutrients,which are incredibly important.
Protein, fat, carbs, all of that.
But micronutrients.
Magnesium, potassium, sodium,you know, chloride, silica.
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All of these pieces that wedon't really talk a lot about.
It's an electrolyte piece, andthat is something.
Again, I have a lot of womenwho come to me with hormone issues,
thyroid conditions, thingslike that.
We always look at theirmineral piece first.
So it could be that you aremineral deficient.
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You're not sleeping well, you're.
You're dealing with headaches,things like that.
You may just need to add insome electrolytes.
So that's another veryimportant piece.
And there's certainly there'stesting around minerals as well.
I think that was part of myhair panel.
When I did my hair panel, that was.
And I.
That was iodine.
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Yes.
That was so enlightening.
She was explaining to me how afew of the minerals, the copper and
all that, how their levels andthey were backwards almost.
And so that was a cause forsome of my perimenopenopause things
that were happening and all.
And that was very enlightening.
Once I kind of got that undercontrol, things shifted for me.
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So it is a true piece.
It's.
I've lived it, yes.
My only thing that I do wantto touch on is electrolytes.
There are a lot of companiesthat are capitalizing on making electrolytes,
and you have to know how toread your labels.
I'm like a preacher of thelabel reading because, yes, they
put stuff in it to make ittaste better.
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They put stuff in it so thatyou want to keep drinking it, because
the more you drink, the morethey make.
You know, it's.
It's.
It's a business.
All right, so before we end,is there any, like, little piece
of wisdom that you want toshare that we haven't gotten out
yet?
Because I.
I mean, I know this episode isof kind to bring a lot of people
a lot of light bulbs and Ttips and tools and tricks and things
that they can start working onif they choose to.
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To see.
To see where they're at.
And I think all of the thingsthat we've shared today are little
steps that you can try onagain to see how they feel for you.
And then when you seesomething very small work, then you'll
add on the next thing.
So don't overwhelm yourselfand try to do everything in a day.
Just pick and choose onelittle thing to start with.
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That's right.
You know, we're.
I'm not sure when this iscoming up, and this is the time to
actually double down on doingthose small shifts.
Not to make these big planswith, you know, multiple goals.
Just those small, slightshifts that you can tackle every
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single day, that you can addinto your feel good routine, if you
want to call it feel goodrituals, even better, because that
feels even better to us towant to do.
But how can you set yourselfup for success by making sure that
you are just consistent,putting you on the calendar, making
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sure that you are getting yourmovement in, whatever that looks
like for you.
Is that, you know, daily.
That's optimal.
Is it three times a week?
That's awesome.
You know, is it even startingtwo days a week?
But make sure you are in yourcalendar and.
And set an alarm.
You are as Important, if notmore important than any other piece
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that you've got on there.
And we all know you've got thekids schedules on there.
You've maybe of your partner'sschedule on there.
You've got the dog schedule on there.
Why aren't you on there?
Right, right.
That's right.
I love it.
Because you are the mostimportant thing.
Yes.
That is incredibly important.
And don't be afraid to start.
There's no right or wrongplace to start.
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We innately, even if we're nottapped in right now, we do know when
something starts to feel off.
I want you to pay attention tothat signaling when it is a whisper
and not yelling at you.
Because our bodies talk to us.
Absolutely.
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And you can very easilyreverse it.
You can solve it if you get onit right away versus it turning into,
blooming into something else.
So disease or chronic something.
That's right, you know.
And again, when she's talkingabout the whispers, I want you to,
to go deeper than my stomach hurts.
I want you to go to, you know,my stress level has been high for
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a week, you know, and I can'tseem to shake it.
You know, it's those, it's thedifferent things, it's the things
that you might not even thinkare related to wellness.
Those are your whispers, right?
Those are the things where youdon't feel like getting out of bed
or you're moody for a week,you know, like those are the little
whispers that your body'ssaying, you know, maybe you're dehydrated,
maybe you haven't eatenappropriately for yourself that week.
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There's.
So don't miss what she's saying.
She's not saying wait tillyour stomach hurts or wait till you
know you, you literally are ina ball and can't get out of bed.
She's saying get those littlefine tuned little whispers and then
start getting curious, like,what is that?
Why is that happening?
What, what is my body tryingto tell me?
And if you're someone that youknow, you're constantly on the go
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or you don't feel like you'rehearing them, you need to get quiet.
And how you do that is to gofor a walk, give yourself some breathing
room, right?
Go outside, sit and do somedeep breathing, practice a little
mindfulness or meditationsession if that calls to you.
It can even be if you are, youknow, somebody that is go, go, go
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in the car.
It can be at a stoplight, youknow, just don't close your eyes.
But it can be at a stoplightit can be deep breathing.
It can, you can turn off, youknow, the loud radio, all of those
pieces.
You can find little places totune in.
And we need to give that to ourselves.
You deserve.
I do think our breath is very overlooked.
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I think it's overlooked asjust something that we do because
we do.
And really your breath is somuch power behind it.
And I, for anybody for thisyear, I hope, if nothing else, they
get in tune with their breathand they realize that their breath
is so powerful because it canchange your mood, your energy level,
your, your chaos in your mind.
You know, all of that just ona dime.
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And it's a good practice andit's simple and it's free and it's
easy and you can do it anywhere.
So before we end, well, firstof all, for my local people that
are listening, I'm so excitedbecause now I can add Jane to my
referral list.
And of where, you know, ifyou're looking for somebody on the
functional side, I wouldhighly recommend, you know, looking
her up.
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If you are, if somebody is outof state.
Do you do virtual or do youjust do it?
I do, yes.
I work, I work with people all over.
Yeah.
Okay.
Amazing.
Don't overlook taking thatfirst step, that next step, and diving
a little bit deeper this year.
So before we end, I love toask all of my guests, what are a
couple of non negotiables thatyou've created for yourself that
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you do on a daily basis tolive your best, you know, life well.
Oh, I love it.
And I asked my guests the same question.
I love that you do that.
I think it's so importantbecause, you know, we're preaching
a lot.
But what do you practice?
I want to hear what you practice.
That's right.
And my health is incrediblyimportant to me.
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I practice what I preach everysingle day.
So when I get up in themorning, non negotiable.
I have a 20 ounce glass ofwater and I put in my trace minerals.
I love light show aloe and alittle bit of squeeze of lemon.
And before I break my fast, Istart with my water.
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I take a probiotic, which I'vebeen doing for a long time.
Sometimes I switch up thatprobiotic depending upon what's going
on.
And then I work out.
I always work out before Ibreak my fast.
And you know, I try to do thatevery day.
You know, life happens.
It doesn't always happen everyday or I have to shift some things,
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but I always make time formyself because I know I can't give
from an empty cup.
So I have to start by fillingmy own.
And so I fill it, all the puns intended.
I drink it, and then I fill itagain by working out.
And then I break my fast.
And I am a creature of habit.
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I love my fundamental fivesmoothie that I created.
I break my fast every singlemorning with a fundamental five smoothie.
And I make sure that I'mgetting in the protein, fat, fiber,
the greens and the superfoodsthat my body needs.
And I've designed many asmoothie for many a client, and that's
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a passion of mine too, to makesure that your fundamental 5 includes
what you need.
I love it.
And if you're not a smoothieperson, if you're already saying,
well, I don't like smoothies,the five things that she just mentioned
can be food on your plate too.
That's.
So it comes in a variety ofshapes and forms and you can do what
works for you.
Right.
But a smoothie, if you're in arush or a quick or if it's just your
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thing.
Right.
That's an amazing way.
And just so we're.
We're clear too, I've turnedactually a lot of people who believe
they weren't smoothie peoplebecause they didn't feel satiated,
they didn't feel full.
I say, number one, a smoothieis different than a meal smoothie.
A meal smoothie is different.
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And I'm all about the chew.
So I believe you need to chewto get those digestive enzymes going
and to help feel satiated.
So when I create a smoothie,you're chewing.
That's amazing.
I love that.
Going to try yours?
I.
I am a smoothie person.
I just know that there arepeople out there that.
And also think people buildtheir smoothies incorrectly.
Yes.
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And therefore they're notsatiated and they're not really feeding
themselves what they need inthe morning to have that best morning
when they're breaking their fast.
So, okay, so those are greatnon negotiables.
I don't know if you have anyother ones you want to throw out,
but I love those.
Those are tangible things thatmake sense.
You know, pouring into yourself.
You can't pour from an emptycup is, is very true.
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I know it's an analogy, but itis truth.
And I think however you needto fill your cup, if you're out there
listening, maybe one of thethings that, you know, Jane does
might resonate with you andmaybe something else does.
But try anything.
You know, you've got to trylittle Things I do know, simple,
easy, free.
When you first come to, youknow, awake, the first, you know,
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five, ten minutes, you'restill like kind of in your subconscious
world, you know, positive,talking to yourself.
Just whatever you're doing forthe day, you know, thinking about
breaking your fast and whatyou're going to do.
Thinking about how you'regoing to pour into yourself.
Thinking about the positivethings as you come up into your conscious
state.
You're going to have a betterday no matter what you do.
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So that's right.
That's absolutely right.
And even journaling if thatcalls to you.
Positive affirmations,positive self talk, reminders.
Remember, it's always out ofsight, out of mind.
So what can you do?
Set yourself up.
Put your shoes, your runningshoes by the door.
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You know, make sure the fruitis in front of your face on the counter
we have a big three tieredrack of stuff that I put out.
So the first thing, somebody'shungry, they're reaching for what
is in front of them.
Put.
Set up your water by yourbedside in a nice little mason jar,
you know, can be as easy as that.
Right.
So when you wake up in themorning, it's ready for you.
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You can do all of those thingsto make your life easier.
And that's just a few.
I mean, I've got, I've gotlots of fun little tips, but that's
awesome.
Well, I definitely will haveyou back on at some point because
I know we have so much more tocover that we are not going to have
time to get to today.
Yeah.
So.
But I want to thank you somuch for, number one, taking the
time out of your day to comeon to my show and to educate my listeners
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and to drop your little, youknow, nugget bombs that I call.
And I'm just so happy thatwe're so close to each other in distance.
So I look forward to.
I love that you as well.
Well, we will have to set up asmoothie date.
Yes.
I love it.
So for you guys listening, Iwill definitely drop all of Jane's
information into the shownotes or link to her website.
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All the goodness and thelittle tips and things that we've
talked about will be there for you.
So because if you're driving,walking, you're not having a space
to write any of this down, itwill be in print for you so that
you can go back and refer toit when you need to.
If so inclined, check out mywebsite, my elevated wellness podcast
and on Instagram, I'm alwayssharing my favorite tips.
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Yay.
Definitely we'll do all ofthose things.
All right everybody have agreat day and we will see you guys
next week.
Bye.
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Hey, everyone.
Welcome back.
I'm super excited today tohave Jane Williams on.
She's a functional clinical nutritionist.
But.
But more interesting than thatis we're neighbors.
We're.
We live so close, and wehaven't even gotten to meet in all
these years that we've bothlived here.
So welcome, Jane.
I'm so excited to have you here.
What's going on with us?
It's about time.
That's what I have to say.
I'm so excited to connect withyou and your community today.
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Robin, thank you so much forhaving me.
Absolutely.
Thank you so much for coming on.
So I just want to start byhaving you tell us a little bit about
yourself and how you've gottento where you are today, and then
we'll just take it from there.
Yes.
Well, my story starts, youknow, now you.
You always connect the dots bylooking backwards, right?
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That's.
That's how life is with all of us.
So it's amazing through thework that we do with ourselves as
we get older, how so clearlywe can now see past experiences,
how they have affected wherewe've become.
Right.
What we've become and where wewere in our lives that got us to
this point.
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So for me, my parents gotdivorced when I was five years old
and, you know, kind ofshifting between mom and dad.
I have a younger sister, andit was just a very stressful situation
for me.
I was the oldest.
Kind of being caught up in it,I would say at a young age, I felt
stress.
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And I couldn't have told youat that time what stress meant, even
what the, you know, what, howstress was defined.
But I carried it in my gut.
And that was something that Ialways, like growing up.
In my teens, I always hadstomach pains.
I always felt bloated.
I always, you know, I hadpooping issues.
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I mean, all of these piecesthat nobody ever talked about, right?
Especially like, I'll say ourgeneration, our generation is kind
of like you keep your headdown, you just keep moving forward.
You know, it wasn't like anopen topic, but I did, I carried
a lot of stress and thatstress manifested itself in physical
pieces.
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So when I got into my 20s, Iactually, I got very sick and had
to go to the emergency roomand had to go through tons of testing.
They thought maybe I hadirritable bowel disease.
My gut was a disaster, my dietwas a mess.
But again, you know, notsomething that we ever talked about.
And gut health back in thosedays was, was not even at the forefront.
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So I remember getting told Ineeded to go see a gastroenterologist,
a GI doctor, and they would beable to put me on some sort of protocol.
So I was put on medication andbasically told to take a pill every
day.
Nobody ever talked about diet.
My diet was never questioned.
And pretty much, here you go,this is kind of your course of treatment
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for the unforeseeable future.
And I lived like that forabout six years.
And at the time or in theprocess of all of that, I had, you
know, met the man that I wouldmarry and we started talking about
wanting children and all ofthose pieces and we started trying
to have kids and I gotpregnant and then I had a miscarriage
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and couldn't get pregnant andstill on this medication and just
started to just.
I was living in a state of notfeeling great.
You know, I think, yeah, 100%.
And I meet a lot of women thatare like that.
You know, we, we have kind ofan acceptance piece.
And I think there's a lot ofwomen who are caregivers who, again,
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that acceptance piece of thisis life, you know, and we kind of
just go with that.
And I believe that mindset wise.
I lived in that state of mindfor way too long until it affected
other pieces of my life in theway of not being able to get pregnant.
We really wanted to have a child.
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And then I started to do somedeep diving.
You know, I, I'm a smart woman.
Like, why am I notinvestigating this a little bit further?
And one of the things Istarted to investigate was nutrition.
You know, can nutritionactually affect infertility or my
fertility?
Can nutrition affect my gut health?
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Like what, what's the thing?
I remember this fat free crazeand oh, you know, it's low fat.
And can nutrition all that fatfree stuff that I love to consume
or I'm told to consume, couldthat be affecting me in negative
ways.
My gut, my stress, all ofthose pieces, I don't know.
So I started to deep dive intoit, and that's when I found this
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practice called fun Functional nutrition.
This idea that our body is allinterconnected, that our body is
not in silos.
And I found it incredibly fascinating.
I'm like, wait a minute.
So you're telling me thestress that I'm having that I believe
is in my brain could beaffecting my gut?
And that's crazy.
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And wait, Dopamine andserotonin, those feel good chemicals
that you believe are in yourbrain, are actually also produced
in your gut.
Like, that's wild to me.
Wait, your immune system isactually located in your gut.
I mean, it was all like, thesecrazy aha moments, and it turned
into this, like, amazingpassion of mine.
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I need to get off this medication.
Can I get off this medication?
Is this gonna start to affectmy life in a positive way?
So I started to slowly makethese changes, and I started to feel
really good.
My health changed, My skin changed.
I lost weight.
I.
My.
I didn't know that I wasliving with this fatigue and this
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brain fog, but I was in aconstant state.
It was just something that I felt.
I just always knew.
And I started to feel better,clearer, and it helped me to make
better decisions.
And so it was just all theselittle light bulbs that I think go
off for us when we start tomake those shifts.
And I know you use that wordearlier, I love the word of a shift.
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And I too, am a firm believerthat those bite size, those very
small shifts will make massiveimpact in your life if you are very
consistent with them.
There's no such thing asperfect, but consistency wins every
single time.
So that's what I did.
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That's what I did.
That's amazing in my life.
And it changed my entire world.
It truly did.
I think what's so fascinatingis the first thing you said is, is
looking back and alwayslooking back in hindsight to see
what things were like and whatthe causes were.
But your story is much like alot of people's stories, right?
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When you're little, we don'thave the autonomy to make choices.
We are put in situations inwhich we just cope with and we learn
to just get by.
And our body is so smart andresilient that it will help you to
scrape by, right?
It will give you sort of thetools just to cope.
But in reality, it can only doso much for so long until your body
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starts to break down.
And I Think most people whoend up going the functional route,
going an alternative route, itis because they hit wall after wall
after wall.
They've been told, take this pill.
They don't really see an endresult because they're really not
addressing the root cause.
And so I think that your storyis common for a lot of people and
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a lot of listeners, becauseeverybody has things that have happened
to them that have created thelife that they're living currently.
But we do now, at an olderage, have the ability and the choice
to make different choices andchoose differently.
And if we're not choosing,we're accepting.
Right.
And so we have to really digand figure out first what's our story.
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What's our story and how doesit relate to where we are today.
And then does that story stillmake sense to us?
And maybe it doesn't.
And maybe you have to come upwith a different story in order to
move, to take those littletiny steps.
But.
Right.
The functional part is so important.
And all those little lightbulb moments that you had about,
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well, of course everything's connected.
Right?
But we're never taught that.
We are taught you go to theheart doctor for the heart.
You go to the gut doctor.
Well, back then, there was nogut doctor.
But if you had a stomachache,you went to the gastro person.
If you broke your bone, you go here.
Everything was very departmentalized.
And we're now coming into anage where the science, right.
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And people out there areshowing that everything is connected.
Your gut, brain, health is.
It is what it is.
Right.
It's not like they're justmaking things up, but the science
has finally caught up withlooking at how our body actually
functions.
So when you decided to gointo, like, functional nutrition,
because functional isdifferent than just being a nutritionist.
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It's different than beingsomebody who just puts somebody on
a diet.
There's.
There's a whole.
Functional is very intriguingto me because the testing is uber
important.
And anybody I work with who'swilling to deep dive into that, I
always send them to somebodywho's functional because those tests
tell a story.
And from my experience, thestool test, Whoa.
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That was like, for my kids,was the beginning of, you know, a.
A massive breakthrough.
Yes, for sure.
Talked about a little bitabout the functional side for people
who might be listening, whodon't understand or know or have
ever heard of functional testing.
Right.
So functional testing is whatI look at as your personal chemical
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biomarkers.
And, you know, we have labwork that we go and get done by our
you know, a lot of people dothat through your general practitioner.
That things like checking yourvitamin D and, you know, checking
your.
Your white and red blood cellcount and, you know, looking at your
cholesterol, looking at yourthyroid, all of those.
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Now, while that's importantand those markers are important,
those markers are actuallyweighed differently than those of
functional markers.
And they're.
They're different types ofmarkers as well.
But just for the sake ofexplaining kind of, you know, common
blood work versus functionalblood work, so when you see those
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ranges, you know, you're.
You go and get your blood workdone, and then you have.
There's these ranges that comeback and you're put into that range.
Those ranges are based on everybody.
They're based on men, women, kids.
They're not finite.
That's like the best way toexplain it.
You're kind of dumped intothis range.
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And so that is the differencebetween functional and.
And, you know, what we kind ofcall the common blood work.
And on the functional side,it's very finite.
It's your.
When I say to people, this isyour body chemistry, this is what
your numbers look like, and tothings like, you brought up the stool
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test, actually looking at yourgut bacteria, what does that look
like?
How is the gut bacteria inyour body diverse?
Like, what does that diversityof strain look like?
So that is very specific toyou, as well as there's different
types of thyroid panels,there's urine profiles that are very
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specific, there's hairprofiles that are incredibly specific.
So it is a very detailed wayof looking at you.
And that's why I always saywhen you choose to go the functional
route, and I hope everybodydoes, because I think it's so important.
I'm not saying that they're.
There's anything wrong withthe traditional route as well.
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I'm actually married to an md,so who's a traditional doctor, but
he.
He sees the lines between, youknow, the need for functional and
traditional.
I think you should have both.
Truly, I think it's.
It's important.
And the best functionaldoctors that I have met and worked
with so far in my careerstarted off as MDs, and then have
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gone back and done thatfunctional training.
So we're talking a high levelof knowledge, and I think that's
really important becauseprotocoling around functional medicine
can become very complex.
The other thing that I thinkis important to know about and understand
about nutrition is that it's ayoung science.
You know, it's constantlyevolving and constantly shifting
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and changing as we learn moreinformation And I love that about
it as well.
You know, we have a lot of information.
We can tell you a lot of information.
We can utilize thatinformation to create healing protocols
and, you know, different typesof blueprints that work for your
body, but we don't.
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None of us have all the answers.
And everybody's body is different.
And so everyone works.
One person doesn't necessarilywork for everybody.
And so I think.
I think that's the mostexciting thing because it really
breaks the mold of all traditional.
Here, take this.
This is how it works.
And it's like, no, that's justnot true.
Because this could be reallyhealthy for one person, but somebody
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else who has a completelydifferent profile, it could not be
healthy.
So it's a matter of uniquenessand bio, individuality.
And I think when people startdown this road, the one, like, piece
of encouragement I want togive them is it is an evolving process.
No matter where you start.
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You know, if you have a testor you don't have a test, if you,
you know, add in a nutritioustype of food or you delete out something,
it's.
It's all a work in progressall the time.
You're never going to have,like, a finish line, per se.
And so that's.
That's beautiful becauseyou're never striving to get somewhere,
right.
You're just striving to keep evolving.
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And so those little shiftsthat we talking about, you know,
they can become overwhelmingwhen you don't break it down into
those little shifts.
Right.
Personally, the functional.
The fascinating thing for me,like, when you said hair, I had.
I've had all these tests, right.
And I'm fascinated by what youcan find from your piece of hair.
You know, it's.
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The stool test was fascinatingto see.
You know, I thought one of mydaughters maybe had add.
She did not.
She had candida overgrowth,and her neurotransmitters were also
out of whack.
And, you know, that.
That was just like a lot oflight bulbs for me was like, oh,
okay, so we can weed out, addin, do all the things and get everything
balanced, which is what we'vedone, you know, and again, it is.
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It's a.
It's not a perfection and it'snot, you know, a complete 100.
Do this, do that.
It is a lot of give inunderstanding your own body.
And stress is huge.
People do not understand theramifications of suppressed stress.
Right?
Absolutely.
Physical things that happen.
I'm hopeful that theconversations that are going to start
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coming out is suppress stress.
Like you.
Like your story from fiveyears old, you know, something that.
It wasn't traumatic.
You.
It was.
It was trauma to you a little,but it.
When people think of trauma,they think of a car wreck or they
think of, you know, being shotor molestation or something giant.
But little things can affectyou just the same as the large things
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and the little things we endup carrying along with us for so
long because we're not even ina state of understanding how that
can affect.
So if somebody has bloatingthat can't be solved or has things,
I always suggest like, well,let's look backwards, let's look
back to see maybe somethingthat happened long ago that you don't
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even remember as beingsomething that could be affecting.
Affecting your gut.
So.
Right.
And trauma comes in many forms.
That's the bottom line.
Yes, trauma comes in manyforms, and we do carry that stress.
And it's a chemical componentas well.
You know, our cortisol isaffected, our adrenal glands are
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affected, your gut microbiome,those prebiotics, those probiotics,
all of that really important.
Those important bacteria are affected.
So we don't recognize thatuntil we're facing something large.
And then we go, gosh, all of asudden, all of a sudden, this just
happened to me.
And then we go, wait a minutenow, Right?
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It wasn't all of a sudden.
You know, you didn't just getan autoimmune, just like you just
don't get skin cancer, right,that years of damage.
So it's the same.
And that's.
You know, that's sointeresting that you say that, because
it's kind of the same thing onthe reverse.
Like when you're working withsomeone, right, and you're giving
them a protocol, or you'regiving them some suggestions or you're
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mapping out something for them.
There's never an expectationthat it has to be changed overnight
because it took you.
I'm using 40 as an example.
But it took you 40 years toget where you are.
Thank you for.
For saying I'm 40.
I'll take that.
I don't even know.
I wasn't even thinking.
You actually looked 40.
Oh, I love it.
All right.
Made my day.
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Thank you.
But, you know, people have togive themselves grace.
They have to give themselvesthe space, an ability to.
To evolve in just the same waythey evolved up that, you know, to
keep evolving.
So I think, you know, we're sohard on ourselves.
Women are so hard onourselves, and we just have to Learn
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to just take a breath and, andgive ourselves grace.
We're not going to be perfect.
And I love that you said that.
Consistency, just that word.
If you can be consistent andeven if you're not consistent 100%
of the time, just consistencyoverall when you're looking at the
big picture is what's going togrow you.
Words I'd love to get rid ofin the English dictionary for women
is perfection and diet.
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Those are two trigger wordsthat we end up carrying even if you
don't know, like consciously.
Consciously we carry that, you know.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
100.
100%.
I think most women are, youknow, they call themselves like recovering
perfectionists or, you know,that was me.
I've learned to let go of someof that.
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It's still, still hard, butstill a thing that you work on on
a daily.
But.
And diet, I don't know whomade up that word.
I really don't because itreally, it irks me because it's like,
no, the diet that you eat isall foods, you know, it's, it's all
the, it's the real stuff.
And I do think the fad,unfortunately we are from a diet
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culture.
Right.
We are from the fat free tothe, you know, to the, the healthy
ones or whatever.
Those, you know, like all the frozen.
Meals, Whole 30 to keto to.
You could go on and on and on.
Yeah.
100.
And some of those have spacesin places if you're doing certain
things, but they're just,they're not the end all, be all.
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You've got to learn how tocreate a lifestyle of health for
yourself.
And if we can somehow moveaway from labeling.
Yes.
And work on creating our ownblueprint and say, this is what I
do, this is what we're me.
There's so much empowerment indoing that.
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And you know, instead of, youknow, running with the crowd, so
to speak, or you know, justhaving to put an actual word that's
attached that has so manyunderlying meanings to us.
So that, that is one of thethings that I love to do when I work
with people, you know,creating a blueprint that feels good
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and belongs to you and thenthat there's so many empowering pieces
and so much of nutrition is amental piece.
Right.
It's emotional, it'scompletely emotional.
And I, I meet so many womenand men and even teenagers that I've
worked with that they, theycarry that emotional piece.
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So when we become emotional ina supportive, positive direction
by making those small shifts,that is when we become empowered
around our own plan, our own blueprint.
And watching those shiftshappen within people, amazing lights
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me up every single time.
That's right.
So if you're someone that'slistening right now and you're of
the mindset, you know, well,Sally did this and she looks a certain
way.
And so I want to know whatSally's doing.
And we're telling you to maybepause for a second, take a deep breath
and ask yourself, you know,what would work for you?
Not what Sally's doing, notwhat Jenny's doing, not with whoever's
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doing, but what feels alignedto you.
Because if you're restrictingyourself to a point where you're
not, where you're sad andyou're feeling restricted and you're
stressed and, I mean, you'redoing yourself a disservice.
So we always talk about likeadding in something nutritious.
We're not talking aboutripping everything away from you
in an instant.
Eventually that will justnaturally occur if you just start
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adding in some of thewholesome, healthier whole foods
rather than doing somethingthat has zero fat in it or doing
something that speaks to onelittle population of people.
So.
Right.
I like the blueprint idea.
I love that.
I think we should all have ourown because we are, we are all bio
individual.
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We all have, we learned in myschooling primary and secondary foods.
And so secondary being thefoods on your plate, but primary
being everything that feedsyour soul off your plate.
And without those being inbalance, it doesn't matter what you're
doing on your plate.
It's.
It's just not.
You're not going to create ahealthy lifestyle because the chaos
that runs rampant on the otherside is just raising that cortisol.
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It's doing all the stress.
It's physically damaging youin other ways.
Right.
Mind, body and spirit.
There's a reason why it's,it's even categorized that way.
Right.
Starts with mind, body andthen spirit.
So, yes, I can't state that.
Who's coming in for the firsttime, who's never like dipped their
toes into the functional side?
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If they were to come to you,what is your first, like, plan of
attack to helping them tocreate that blueprint?
Yeah.
So first of all, I do anextensive history because again,
like we've said a few timesalready, you've got to connect the
dots backwards to go forwards.
Yeah.
So I do an extensive history.
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I get to know them asindividuals and then before I do
any work.
And this is also a tool thatI'd love to give to everybody.
And I actually, I have thattool on my website as well.
And I'm happy.
In your show notes, we canabsolutely make sure it's included.
I want to pattern out what'sgoing on, so I think it's really
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important.
And this is, again, a veryempowering piece for people.
And, you know, if you'relooking for a place to start, I always
look for patterns.
And it's funny.
So I have so many people thatwill come to me and say, this is
a common one.
Yeah, I don't have any addedsugar in my diet.
Yeah, right.
That.
That's.
That's a big one.
And, you know, and I don'tlaugh at it.
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I mean, it's not laughable.
They're working really hard.
I'm sure they're being duped, though.
They're being brainwashed alot of the times.
Exactly, exactly.
And we just don't realize.
Yeah, we just don't realizehow much we have.
So pattern or I don't tend tohave gut issues will be another one.
You know, maybe they're comingfor some.
For another reason.
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And I'll say, okay, we're.
We're.
Before we do anything else,I've got this great little guide
with a food journal in there.
It's a lifestyle journal,really, because it's beyond food.
I do look at, you know, I wantto know about your pooping.
I want to know what you'reeating in a day.
I want to know what you're drinking.
I want to know how you're exercising.
I want to know how you're sleeping.
I want to know how you're feeling.
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So all of those pieces.
And then when people start topattern things out, they tend to
notice.
I would say, nine times out of10, I'm going to give it a pretty
high rating.
There are some noticeablepatterns that they have never noticed.
And that is where the.
The slight.
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Aha.
Potential shift starts to happen.
Oh, my gosh.
I have this in my diet.
Wait a minute.
I didn't realize this wasaffecting me the way that it has
been.
Oh, my gosh.
It's been a week and a halfsince I pooped.
That's an extreme one, but,yes, it does happen.
Yeah.
So we start to see some littlepieces or we recognize certain food
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groups being attached tocertain issues, symptoms, and all
of a sudden, we can startconnecting dots.
And so that is first andforemost, before I even meet with
somebody, I will have thempattern that out for me so that I
can do a deep dive and havethose initial conversations with
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how Are we going to addressall of this?
So that's a piece of it.
Can I stop you just for onesecond about the food log?
Because I think it's sooverlooked a lot of times as just
an activity or just an exercise.
But when you do start to seethose patterns, I also encourage
people to.
How do you feel 90 minutesafter you eat?
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Like, what are the emotionalfeelings that come up?
Because again, a lot of timesyou will see the foods or the meals
that you're having that giveyou energy, and then the foods and
the meals that you're havingthat make you feel like you need
to get on the couch and watcha show, you know, so it's like there's
also that emotional andfeeling part to food that people
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totally dismiss.
And so I think that food logis really the first step for anybody.
Even if you're not going to gosee a functional person or work with
a health coach, it.
It's your own first step.
You can do it all by yourself.
But notice those thingsbecause they're very powerful.
Right.
When creating that change.
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Yes.
And I would definitelyencourage you to utilize.
Utilize one like that I havecreated that is not just food, but
it asks you additionalquestions so you can start to piece
together those patterns.
That's important to actuallysee the full picture.
And to your point about foodand how it affects us, sometimes
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we don't recognize it, but thefood that we started our day with,
breaking our fast, orbreakfast, as it's called, can affect
decisions we're making laterin the day and how we're feeling
around those decisions as well.
And we don't connect the dotsaround all of that, but I love that
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because nine times out of 10,even making those slight modifications
for somebody, all of a sudden,they start to feel a bit better.
And when they're doing that consistently.
Okay, now I'm ready to go.
Now, what else do we, youknow, what's the next thing we need
to do?
Right.
So that's exciting.
And then they're totally onboard because they see, they can
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feel it.
They can see and feel, youknow, this.
These changes and how it'saffecting every piece of their body.
Yeah, it's so interesting is.
It's.
It's really a very simple exercise.
But to me, what it showed meyears ago when I very first did it
was, do I know myself?
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Like, do I actually know?
Like, I can tell you all thethings about my job, and I can tell
you all the things about howto do X, Y and Z and how.
But I'M doing all these thingsand I don't even really know how
that's working for me or notworking for me.
And that for me, that was abig like, okay, I need to get to
know myself a little bit better.
And when people used to say,you know, what, what are you doing?
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What diet are you on?
What are you?
And I'm, I'm not.
I'm just doing things thatwork for me, that make me feel my
best.
And then the other thing thatused to happen is, oh, she's not
going to eat that.
She'll never eat that becauseit has X, Y and Z.
And I said, I can eat it.
I just am choosing not tobecause I know that I'm not going
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to feel my best and then I'mgoing to show up terrible for my
children and my husband andall the other things.
And I'm choosing to make theother choice that makes me show up
better for myself and my family.
So here's another littletidbit around when you're looking
at that food log that would behelpful for someone who's, you know,
really wanting to pattern outa few things because they know something
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isn't right.
A lot of times we look for thethings that are in our diet, but
many times we don't look atthe things that aren't in our diet.
Right.
We have to flip it too.
So that's really important.
And what I find, again, I'mgoing to give it a high rating of
9 times out of 10.
But we are fiber deficient.
Huge.
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Especially women.
And I'll say one more thingabout women too, just so we know
what we're looking for.
But fiber is a big one.
And just things that fiberactually is very complicated.
And I think it gets a littlebit confusing for people too.
We've got this soluble fiber.
We have insoluble fiber.
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We need both.
They process differently inthe body, they work differently in
the body, they feed different things.
We need different types offiber to feed different types of
bacteria, all of those pieces.
Now, not everybody needs toknow all of that, but you need to
have, right?
You need to make sure thatyou've got the proper balance of
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all of that fiber and you'regetting enough fiber.
Typically, on average, womenget between 8, 10 grams of fiber
a day.
We should have upwards of 30to 35.
Just to give you an idea ofhow fiber deficient we are.
We are truly fiber deficient.
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And kids are too.
Kids are hugely fiberdeficient teenagers.
I think that's a lot becauseof all the processed food that gets
ingested.
And most processed foods arenot high in fiber.
Unfortunately, when you'releaving today's episode one, two
very easy things, right offthe bat is going to Jane's website,
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getting her little food log,trying that on, seeing how it feels,
seeing what you can discoverabout yourself.
But also just get curious andsee, like, how much fiber are you
ingesting in a day.
And if you're curious and wantto know about insoluble.
Insoluble, you guys canresearch that also.
But just out of curiosity, howmuch do you ingest?
And then see where you cantweak it, because, again, that's
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in your control.
Right.
And I know if you're somebodythat has little fiber in your diet
and you need to add fiber,please do it slowly.
Slowly.
Yes.
That is.
You will bloat.
That is very important.
Yes.
And then I have people whosay, I couldn't do it, forget it.
So, yes, you want to slowlyincrease your fiber intake.
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And I have all kinds ofresources, materials.
If you guys do want to do adeep dive into fiber.
Even in the guide that I givefor free, it's not just a food journal.
There's a lot of additionalinformation in there.
Smoothie recipes.
I created a nutritionalmethodology called the fundamental
five.
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Five things that you want tomake sure are on your plate, in your
smoothie, in your bowl, atevery meal.
So I'd like to keep it simple.
I want to say one more thingbecause I think this is really important.
I know your audience is womenand that age group of things we're
being concerned about withbeing moms, hormonal health, change
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of life, all of those pieces.
Another massive piece thatwomen are incredibly deficient in
is minerals.
We talk about macronutrients,which are incredibly important.
Protein, fat, carbs, all of that.
But micronutrients.
Magnesium, potassium, sodium,you know, chloride, silica.
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All of these pieces that wedon't really talk a lot about.
It's an electrolyte piece, andthat is something.
Again, I have a lot of womenwho come to me with hormone issues,
thyroid conditions, thingslike that.
We always look at theirmineral piece first.
So it could be that you aremineral deficient.
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You're not sleeping well, you're.
You're dealing with headaches,things like that.
You may just need to add insome electrolytes.
So that's another veryimportant piece.
And there's certainly there'stesting around minerals as well.
I think that was part of myhair panel.
When I did my hair panel, that was.
And I.
That was iodine.
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Yes.
That was so enlightening.
She was explaining to me how afew of the minerals, the copper and
all that, how their levels andthey were backwards almost.
And so that was a cause forsome of my perimenopenopause things
that were happening and all.
And that was very enlightening.
Once I kind of got that undercontrol, things shifted for me.
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So it is a true piece.
It's.
I've lived it, yes.
My only thing that I do wantto touch on is electrolytes.
There are a lot of companiesthat are capitalizing on making electrolytes,
and you have to know how toread your labels.
I'm like a preacher of thelabel reading because, yes, they
put stuff in it to make ittaste better.
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They put stuff in it so thatyou want to keep drinking it, because
the more you drink, the morethey make.
You know, it's.
It's.
It's a business.
All right, so before we end,is there any, like, little piece
of wisdom that you want toshare that we haven't gotten out
yet?
Because I.
I mean, I know this episode isof kind to bring a lot of people
a lot of light bulbs and Ttips and tools and tricks and things
that they can start working onif they choose to.
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To see.
To see where they're at.
And I think all of the thingsthat we've shared today are little
steps that you can try onagain to see how they feel for you.
And then when you seesomething very small work, then you'll
add on the next thing.
So don't overwhelm yourselfand try to do everything in a day.
Just pick and choose onelittle thing to start with.
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That's right.
You know, we're.
I'm not sure when this iscoming up, and this is the time to
actually double down on doingthose small shifts.
Not to make these big planswith, you know, multiple goals.
Just those small, slightshifts that you can tackle every
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single day, that you can addinto your feel good routine, if you
want to call it feel goodrituals, even better, because that
feels even better to us towant to do.
But how can you set yourselfup for success by making sure that
you are just consistent,putting you on the calendar, making
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sure that you are getting yourmovement in, whatever that looks
like for you.
Is that, you know, daily.
That's optimal.
Is it three times a week?
That's awesome.
You know, is it even startingtwo days a week?
But make sure you are in yourcalendar and.
And set an alarm.
You are as Important, if notmore important than any other piece
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that you've got on there.
And we all know you've got thekids schedules on there.
You've maybe of your partner'sschedule on there.
You've got the dog schedule on there.
Why aren't you on there?
Right, right.
That's right.
I love it.
Because you are the mostimportant thing.
Yes.
That is incredibly important.
And don't be afraid to start.
There's no right or wrongplace to start.
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We innately, even if we're nottapped in right now, we do know when
something starts to feel off.
I want you to pay attention tothat signaling when it is a whisper
and not yelling at you.
Because our bodies talk to us.
Absolutely.
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And you can very easilyreverse it.
You can solve it if you get onit right away versus it turning into,
blooming into something else.
So disease or chronic something.
That's right, you know.
And again, when she's talkingabout the whispers, I want you to,
to go deeper than my stomach hurts.
I want you to go to, you know,my stress level has been high for
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a week, you know, and I can'tseem to shake it.
You know, it's those, it's thedifferent things, it's the things
that you might not even thinkare related to wellness.
Those are your whispers, right?
Those are the things where youdon't feel like getting out of bed
or you're moody for a week,you know, like those are the little
whispers that your body'ssaying, you know, maybe you're dehydrated,
maybe you haven't eatenappropriately for yourself that week.
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There's.
So don't miss what she's saying.
She's not saying wait tillyour stomach hurts or wait till you
know you, you literally are ina ball and can't get out of bed.
She's saying get those littlefine tuned little whispers and then
start getting curious, like,what is that?
Why is that happening?
What, what is my body tryingto tell me?
And if you're someone that youknow, you're constantly on the go
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or you don't feel like you'rehearing them, you need to get quiet.
And how you do that is to gofor a walk, give yourself some breathing
room, right?
Go outside, sit and do somedeep breathing, practice a little
mindfulness or meditationsession if that calls to you.
It can even be if you are, youknow, somebody that is go, go, go
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in the car.
It can be at a stoplight, youknow, just don't close your eyes.
But it can be at a stoplightit can be deep breathing.
It can, you can turn off, youknow, the loud radio, all of those
pieces.
You can find little places totune in.
And we need to give that to ourselves.
You deserve.
I do think our breath is very overlooked.
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I think it's overlooked asjust something that we do because
we do.
And really your breath is somuch power behind it.
And I, for anybody for thisyear, I hope, if nothing else, they
get in tune with their breathand they realize that their breath
is so powerful because it canchange your mood, your energy level,
your, your chaos in your mind.
You know, all of that just ona dime.
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And it's a good practice andit's simple and it's free and it's
easy and you can do it anywhere.
So before we end, well, firstof all, for my local people that
are listening, I'm so excitedbecause now I can add Jane to my
referral list.
And of where, you know, ifyou're looking for somebody on the
functional side, I wouldhighly recommend, you know, looking
her up.
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If you are, if somebody is outof state.
Do you do virtual or do youjust do it?
I do, yes.
I work, I work with people all over.
Yeah.
Okay.
Amazing.
Don't overlook taking thatfirst step, that next step, and diving
a little bit deeper this year.
So before we end, I love toask all of my guests, what are a
couple of non negotiables thatyou've created for yourself that
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you do on a daily basis tolive your best, you know, life well.
Oh, I love it.
And I asked my guests the same question.
I love that you do that.
I think it's so importantbecause, you know, we're preaching
a lot.
But what do you practice?
I want to hear what you practice.
That's right.
And my health is incrediblyimportant to me.
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I practice what I preach everysingle day.
So when I get up in themorning, non negotiable.
I have a 20 ounce glass ofwater and I put in my trace minerals.
I love light show aloe and alittle bit of squeeze of lemon.
And before I break my fast, Istart with my water.
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I take a probiotic, which I'vebeen doing for a long time.
Sometimes I switch up thatprobiotic depending upon what's going
on.
And then I work out.
I always work out before Ibreak my fast.
And you know, I try to do thatevery day.
You know, life happens.
It doesn't always happen everyday or I have to shift some things,
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but I always make time formyself because I know I can't give
from an empty cup.
So I have to start by fillingmy own.
And so I fill it, all the puns intended.
I drink it, and then I fill itagain by working out.
And then I break my fast.
And I am a creature of habit.
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I love my fundamental fivesmoothie that I created.
I break my fast every singlemorning with a fundamental five smoothie.
And I make sure that I'mgetting in the protein, fat, fiber,
the greens and the superfoodsthat my body needs.
And I've designed many asmoothie for many a client, and that's
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a passion of mine too, to makesure that your fundamental 5 includes
what you need.
I love it.
And if you're not a smoothieperson, if you're already saying,
well, I don't like smoothies,the five things that she just mentioned
can be food on your plate too.
That's.
So it comes in a variety ofshapes and forms and you can do what
works for you.
Right.
But a smoothie, if you're in arush or a quick or if it's just your
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thing.
Right.
That's an amazing way.
And just so we're.
We're clear too, I've turnedactually a lot of people who believe
they weren't smoothie peoplebecause they didn't feel satiated,
they didn't feel full.
I say, number one, a smoothieis different than a meal smoothie.
A meal smoothie is different.
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And I'm all about the chew.
So I believe you need to chewto get those digestive enzymes going
and to help feel satiated.
So when I create a smoothie,you're chewing.
That's amazing.
I love that.
Going to try yours?
I.
I am a smoothie person.
I just know that there arepeople out there that.
And also think people buildtheir smoothies incorrectly.
Yes.
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And therefore they're notsatiated and they're not really feeding
themselves what they need inthe morning to have that best morning
when they're breaking their fast.
So, okay, so those are greatnon negotiables.
I don't know if you have anyother ones you want to throw out,
but I love those.
Those are tangible things thatmake sense.
You know, pouring into yourself.
You can't pour from an emptycup is, is very true.
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I know it's an analogy, but itis truth.
And I think however you needto fill your cup, if you're out there
listening, maybe one of thethings that, you know, Jane does
might resonate with you andmaybe something else does.
But try anything.
You know, you've got to trylittle Things I do know, simple,
easy, free.
When you first come to, youknow, awake, the first, you know,
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five, ten minutes, you'restill like kind of in your subconscious
world, you know, positive,talking to yourself.
Just whatever you're doing forthe day, you know, thinking about
breaking your fast and whatyou're going to do.
Thinking about how you'regoing to pour into yourself.
Thinking about the positivethings as you come up into your conscious
state.
You're going to have a betterday no matter what you do.
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So that's right.
That's absolutely right.
And even journaling if thatcalls to you.
Positive affirmations,positive self talk, reminders.
Remember, it's always out ofsight, out of mind.
So what can you do?
Set yourself up.
Put your shoes, your runningshoes by the door.
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You know, make sure the fruitis in front of your face on the counter
we have a big three tieredrack of stuff that I put out.
So the first thing, somebody'shungry, they're reaching for what
is in front of them.
Put.
Set up your water by yourbedside in a nice little mason jar,
you know, can be as easy as that.
Right.
So when you wake up in themorning, it's ready for you.
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You can do all of those thingsto make your life easier.
And that's just a few.
I mean, I've got, I've gotlots of fun little tips, but that's
awesome.
Well, I definitely will haveyou back on at some point because
I know we have so much more tocover that we are not going to have
time to get to today.
Yeah.
So.
But I want to thank you somuch for, number one, taking the
time out of your day to comeon to my show and to educate my listeners
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and to drop your little, youknow, nugget bombs that I call.
And I'm just so happy thatwe're so close to each other in distance.
So I look forward to.
I love that you as well.
Well, we will have to set up asmoothie date.
Yes.
I love it.
So for you guys listening, Iwill definitely drop all of Jane's
information into the shownotes or link to her website.
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All the goodness and thelittle tips and things that we've
talked about will be there for you.
So because if you're driving,walking, you're not having a space
to write any of this down, itwill be in print for you so that
you can go back and refer toit when you need to.
If so inclined, check out mywebsite, my elevated wellness podcast
and on Instagram, I'm alwayssharing my favorite tips.
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Yay.
Definitely we'll do all ofthose things.
All right everybody have agreat day and we will see you guys
next week.
Bye.
That episode had so many great takeaways.
I hope you feel inspired andmore empowered to make small 1% shifts
on your wellness journey this week.
I'd love to hear whatresonates if you want to leave a
review.
Share your thoughts and let meknow how you're going to be implementing
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these 1% shifts into your life.
And don't forget to subscribeand share this episode with another
mama who could use a littlewellness love.
Want to stay connected?
Join me on Instagram andFacebook balanced with Robin.
Check out mywebsite@livelifebalancedwithrobin.com for
more resources and grabyourself some freebies while you're
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there.
Until next time, I hope youfind peace, love and light by breathing,
being present and allowing forall possibilities to come your way.
See y' all next week.
Love to y' all.
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