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Dr. Tabatha (01:23):
Hello, hello! If you are watching me, my nose is
a little red.
I just came inside and it iscold in Michigan, you guys.
And you're probably wonderingwhere the heck is the intro
music?
Here's the deal.
We are skipping the music andall of the things we are trying
to get this episode out to ASAPbecause I was on the Candace
(01:48):
Cameron Beret podcast.
We did a three-part series, andyou guys want to know more
about food noise.
I've heard you, I've listened,and I'm bringing you the truth
about what the heck food noiseis.
So let's dive right into thattoday.
And welcome to the Fast ofFaith podcast.
I'm Dr.
Tabitha, your Christianphysician.
(02:09):
If you didn't know, if you'renew here, I'm here for you.
We are all about health andwellness and gut and hormones
and fasting and faith.
So let's dive into what ittakes to silence the food noise.
We're gonna heal the cravings,balance our hormones, and
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nourish our spirit because it'sall connected, it all ties
together.
So let me ask you a question.
Have you ever felt like food istalking to you like all the
time?
It was for me.
When I was in OBGYN, the donutswould talk to me in the break
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room, the Twizzlers would talkto me at the nurses station or
the MMs in the pre-op room.
Wherever there was food, I wasthinking about it.
And if there wasn't foodaround, then I was dreaming
about what sounded good and whatI could eat next.
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And I didn't realize it at thetime because you can't see the
picture when you're in theframe.
But now I understand that somuch of it had to do with my
lack of energy, my stressed outlife, and my unhealthy gut and
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my dysregulated nervous system.
So we're gonna dive into thewhy behind food noise, and more
importantly, what to do aboutit.
So, food noise, let's let'sdefine it.
First of all, it's intrusivethoughts and cravings that
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dominate your focus, and theyoften lead to frustration,
guilt, and overeating.
So, my best example is Iremember one day there was a box
full of donuts in the breakroom, and I was thinking about
them while I was seeing patientsand specifically thinking, I
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really hope that um one specificlong jawn is still there.
I want that one with thecustard cream filling and the
extra chocolate when I get out,but I'm only gonna eat half of
it because I don't need thewhole thing.
I've been eating too much junklately, and I remember this
entire conversation going onwhile I was seeing a patient,
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mind you, and I should have beenpaying attention to her.
Um, just being real truthfulhere right now.
Um, I was thinking about thisdonut.
So I finally went and ate thehalf a donut, and I ate it
probably in like 30 seconds.
Uh, I barely even tasted it,and that's part of the issue is
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we're trying to satisfysomething, and so oftentimes we
eat really quickly and we don'tsavor it, we don't slow down to
enjoy it.
And then I went on to seeingthe next patient and the next
patient, and all I could thinkabout was that other half that I
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left in the break room, and Iended up going back and shoving
that down my face, and then thefood noise quieted for a minute,
and then I started thinkingabout the other donuts in the
box, and that was the day I knewI had a problem.
Like, this is not normal.
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I started talking to mycoworkers and asking them, like,
do the donuts talk to you?
Because I feel like they'retalking to me, they're they're
distracting me from seeing mypatients.
And at that time, I knew it wasa problem, but I didn't know
why it was happening and Ididn't know what to do about it.
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And unfortunately, it took me afew years to figure that out.
It wasn't until I went throughfull-on burnout, adrenal
fatigue, a broken back, a failedback surgery, Hashimoto's that
I couldn't get into remission,the whole nine yards.
And I went on this healingjourney.
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I found the world of functionalmedicine, and when I started
studying the root cause of whywe have disease, why we have
problems, that is when Iunderstood my food noise
problem.
So I, if you are feeling me inthis story, this episode is for
you.
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So let's dive in because I wantto reassure you, this is not
about a lack of willpower.
It's your body's chemistry,your hormones.
You have hormones that regulateyour appetite, your hunger,
your satiety.
You have stress hormones thathijack your brain, and you have
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a microbiome, an entireecosystem living in your gut
that is creating chemicals andsending signals to your brain as
well.
So we're gonna dive into all ofthat, and I'm going to give you
solutions about how to get ridof this food noise because I'm
here to say happily, six yearslater, I don't have food noise,
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and I haven't for at least fouryears.
When it starts to creep up, Inow know that is a message from
my body that something is offand I need to deal with it, and
I know how to tackle it so itdoesn't get out of control.
So I have broken up with sugarand been off of sugar for over
six years.
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I no longer have the food noiseand all of the struggles, and I
have created a healthyrelationship with food.
I don't use it uh when I'mtired and stressed out and
lonely as much.
Like, let's be truthful,nobody's perfect, just Jesus.
And I still struggle every nowand again.
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I do eat the ice cream at timeswhen I'm lonely, but I at least
acknowledge it and I know whatI'm signing up for.
So I just want to say thatbecause this journey is not
about perfection, it's aboutprogress.
And if I can just instill inyou some tools and resources to
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be able to make forward progresstoward loving your body and
living in harmony with it, withfood, with your environment,
with your life, then you arewinning, right?
So let's dive in.
Like I said, food noise is thatconstant mental chatter or
cravings driven by adysregulated brain-body
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chemistry.
And uh a big part of it is ourstandard American diet.
We call it the sad diet for areason.
It is very sad because it'shigh in ultra-processed foods.
They actually pull out thevitamins and the minerals and
all the necessary things yourbody needs to thrive, and they
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fill it with garbage, withpreservatives, with dyes and
chemicals that are verydestructive to your body.
So it's the sad diet that mostof us are living on.
Sleep deprivation was a hugereason that I had food noise.
I was exhausted.
My body was constantly lookingfor a source of energy, and I
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was giving it fake energy.
Fake energy is like sugar andcaffeine and carbohydrates,
simple carbohydrates.
Whereas real energy comes fromeating proteins and fats to make
ATP in a long, sustainableform.
That is true energy.
And then hormones.
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When your hormones are out ofbalance, it amplifies the food
noise.
So women in particular are morevulnerable to this due to our
cyclical hormonal nature.
We have hormones that arechanging all of the time, and
that contributes to ouremotional well-being.
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We take on the world'sproblems, right?
We are there for our children,for our co-workers, for our
husbands, all the people, andthat leads to us uh neglecting
ourselves a little bit, alongwith chronic stress, chronic
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stress of self-neglect, takingcare of everyone else, not doing
your daily centering practicesof getting still, talking to
God, listening to God forguidance, trying to carry all
the burdens yourself and doeverything yourself, those all
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contribute to food noise.
So there are four root causesthat I want to talk about today,
and then we're gonna talk abouthow to address each one of
those.
So, number one, gut dysbiosis.
The wrong bacteria controllingthe cravings.
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So if you have the wrongbacteria living in your gut,
they will send chemicals to yourbrain that make you crave the
foods they want to eat.
Yeast in particular love sugar.
So if you have yeast overgrowthin your gut, you're gonna crave
sugar all the time until youkill those yeasts off.
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And I want to remind you or letyou know if you didn't know,
that 90% of the serotonin thatwe make, we make in our gut.
Serotonin is our feel-goodneurotransmitter.
That is the messenger that isactivated with antidepressants.
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They're called SSRIs,serotonin, selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitors.
So they help the serotonin stayat the receptor longer because
you're not making enough of ityourself.
And it's most likely becauseyou don't have the right
microbiome to make your ownserotonin.
Another one is dopamine.
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This neurotransmitter is reallyimportant in reward and
satisfaction.
And we all know about thedopamine hit, right?
That is scrolling throughTikTok and Instagram, and you
feel satisfied because you'regetting these dopamine hits like
scroll, scroll, scroll,dopamine, dopamine, dopamine.
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You get that same result withchocolate and sugar and gluten
and a lot of things in yourfood.
And so some people they are lowon dopamine because they don't
have a healthy microbiome andthey are looking for that
feel-good neurotransmitterbecause 50% of that is made in
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your gut and travels up thevagus nerve to talk to your
brain, and then it tells yourbrain to create more chemicals
that talk back to your body.
But if that is interrupted, ifyou're not making those
neurotransmitters, then yourbrain is gonna tell you, give me
some of this, give me some ofthis, and it will tell you to
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eat those horrible foods.
So, number one is you want tofigure out what's going on in
your microbiome.
When I first studied functionalmedicine, I did a stool test on
myself, a functional stooltest.
It shows you your entire gutmicrobiome, the good bacteria,
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the bad bacteria, the differentkinds of yeast, uh, parasites,
worms, and then it shows you thefunction of your gut.
Is your immune system actingappropriately?
Do you even have enough of animmune system response?
Are you making your digestiveenzymes?
Do you have active leaky gutthat needs to be healed?
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All of these things show up onthe test, and you can actually
actively heal your gut, shiftyour microbiome, kill off those
bad guys.
And that is how I broke up withsugar and started to silence my
food noise.
So healing your gut isprofound.
It is so helpful.
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We can try empirically to dothis by getting rid of the
standard American diet.
Stop eating out of boxes andbags, focus on real foods that
God gave us, real animalproteins, healthy fats,
vegetables, fruits.
If it looks like what it waswhen it grew or came out of its
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mama, then you can eat it.
If it is processed and it's gotan ingredient list that you
can't even pronounce, you shouldnot be eating it.
It's contributing to your foodnoise.
So cut out thoseultra-processed foods, break up
with sugar, start eating fiber,protein, healthy fats, all those
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good things, your microbiomewill start to shift.
But I do I mentioned the stooltest because some people really
clean up their diet.
They are eating so clean and sohealthy, but they have yeast
overgrowth that if it doesn'tget killed off with actual herbs
or medications, they can'tshift their microbiome.
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So sometimes testing isnecessary.
I just wanted to throw thatpiece in there, and for me it
was because my gut dysbiosis hadgone on so long that changing
my diet just wasn't gonna cutit.
It wasn't enough, honestly.
And then we want to useintermittent fasting
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strategically to reset ourmicrobiome because when we
starve off those bad guys, wedon't feed them, they will die
off, and then the good guys canstart to multiply and take over.
And so fasting is one of thequickest ways to actually break
up with sugar and reset yourmicrobiome.
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I love intermittent fasting,but there are a couple issues
with it.
If you have insulindysregulation, cortisol
dysfunction, then it might bechallenging to fast.
So if you have struggled tofast, I want you to stay and
listen to number two and numberthree of the root causes of why
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we have food noise, because it'shard to fast if you're dealing
with these next two things.
And I wanted to mention FirstCorinthians 10, 31, because a
lot of us we eat our feelings,and what scripture says is
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whether you eat or drink orwhatever you do, do it all for
the glory of God.
So we glorify God when we feedour bodies the food that he gave
us to nourish ourselves with.
We do not honor him and glorifyhim when we eat all of these
processed Franken foods, I callthem, because they're not real
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foods.
We just took food parts and putthem all together in a new way
and created Franken foods likeFrankenstein.
And it's very depleting to ourbody.
Our body actually has to expendenergy to handle all of these
toxins and food dyes andpesticides and preservatives.
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It actually has to use energyto process all of that.
So you're not helping yourenergy levels, you're making
them worse, especially whenyou're like eating fast food,
pop, all of that kind of stuff.
That's taking it to a wholenother level.
Okay, so number two, stresshijacks your cortisol hormones.
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So cortisol and adrenaline arereally important when we talk
about food noise.
And chronic stress createschronic excess cortisol
production, which sticks you ina fight or flight sympathetic
dominant state.
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So your nervous system isalways upregulated, ready to
fight or flee, or run, or hide,and then you get stuck in this
vicious cycle of now you'rewired.
And so every time you haveanother stressor come on, you
pump out more cortisol, moreadrenaline, and that keeps you
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stuck in fight or flight, andyou can't get into rest, digest,
and repair.
That is sympathetic dominance.
So your nervous system getsinvolved and you get nervous
system dysregulation from thischronic cortisol adrenaline
situation.
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And let me just mention thatstressors don't have to be
emotional or mental.
It doesn't have to be youfighting with your boss or your
spouse or you running late forwork.
It can be a gut infection.
That is an internal stressorthat tells your adrenal glands
to produce more cortisol andyour nervous system to get
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upregulated, and then it tellsyour immune system like it's
time to fight and they getupregulated.
So it's like this horribledomino effect that really
happens.
So I want you to understandthat piece.
It's it's not always about theexternal stressors.
Maybe it's an infected rootcanal, or like I mentioned,
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yeast overgrowth, things of thatnature, or hello, just the
perimenopausal transition, justthat natural decline of our
hormone production is a hugestressor on our body because
estrogen regulates all thesystems in our body, keeps our
immune system calm and stable,and when estrogen continues to
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decline, our body getshyper-responsive.
We see an upregulation or inautoimmune conditions, new
diagnoses of rheumatoid, lupus,Hashimoto's, these different
autoimmune conditions, they popup at menopause.
More women have shinglesoutbreaks and um Epstein bar,
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chronic fatigue that pops up,and new things that they never
dealt with before because ofthat decline in hormones.
So these internal stressors arehijacking your nervous system,
and that affects your ghrelinand your leptin.
So you get on this hungerroller coaster because if you
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disrupt leptin, your satietyhormone, you never feel full or
satisfied.
And if you disrupt ghrelin,your hunger hormone, like err
ghrelin, then you get thesefalse hunger signals.
And so it's really importantthat we regulate our nervous
system, get our adrenals torespond more appropriately, and
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help calm the roller coaster ofperimenopause and menopause as
much as we can.
Symptoms that this is one ofyour food noise root causes is
belly fat.
If you're starting to gainweight around the belly, that
means your cortisol is out ofcontrol.
Or if you're feeling wired andtired, like you're dragging all
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day and then you're up at nightand you can't sleep, that's
often a cortisol issue.
So we need to shift yournervous system and calm down
your adrenal glands.
That looks like micro breaks.
Put in five minutes of prayerin the morning.
What I do with my Fast of Faithwomen, if you're not in the
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group, oh my goodness, you needto be in the group.
But we do Lectio Divina.
That is meditating on onescripture for five to ten
minutes, and we journal about itand we talk to God about that
one scripture, and that puts youin a parasympathetic rest,
digest, and repair state tostart your day.
That way you're not in fight orflight and you're not pumping
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out excess cortisol.
Breath work works the same way.
Walking, gratitude journaling,so powerful.
And let's talk about some otherthings.
Prioritizing sleep.
So sleep is a whole notherepisode, but if you are getting
good quality sleep, then you canstart to heal your adrenals and
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your cortisol production andyour nervous system.
That's super important.
You want to limit yourcaffeine.
Did you know?
Every time you drink a cup ofcoffee, you produce cortisol.
Cortisol is a response to thatcoffee you drink.
And so if you're already makingtoo much cortisol in the
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morning and then you're addingcaffeine and coffee on top of
it, you're gonna produce moreand more.
And some women, they're like,why do I feel so jittery?
Why is my heart racing?
Why do I have palpitations?
Why am I exhausted bylunchtime?
It's because they've beenpumping out cortisol all
morning.
So try and stick to one cup ofcoffee or less and be done by
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noon.
That will help substantially.
And then the last thing is ifyou incorporate a fasting
practice, we want to focus onthe healing properties of
fasting and not the deprivation.
This is not about deprivingyou, it's about supporting your
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body's healing ability.
That is what that is why Godcreated our bodies to fast, to
heal your nervous system.
So this reminds me of Matthew11, 28.
Come to me, all who are wearyand burdened, and I will give
you rest.
If you meditate on thatscripture for five minutes in
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the morning, just give it a trytomorrow.
You will start your day so muchbetter.
Your adrenals will thank you,your nervous system will thank
you, and you will put a break onthat food noise.
That will help so much.
Okay.
Number three root cause forfood noise insulin resistance
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and blood sugar spikes.
And a lot of you have this andyou don't even know it.
It's estimated that 96 millionAmericans, holy cow, have
pre-diabetes and insulinresistance.
And most of us don't know itbecause our doctor doesn't do
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the labs to check it.
So you want to get a fastinginsulin level and you want to
get a hemoglobin A1C level.
That is an average blood sugarover the past three months.
And you want your fasting bloodsugar to be like 80 to 90.
So if your hemoglobin A1C isabove five, then that usually
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means your average blood sugarhas been too high over the past
three months.
Insulin should also be aroundfive or less in a fasted state.
So think five and five.
And do it fasting at least 12hours.
If your levels are higher thanthat, we need to consider this
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as a root cause for your foodnoise.
You are on this blood sugarroller coaster.
So you eat, you can eatcarbohydrates and they turn into
sugar.
You can drink them.
And it doesn't have to be tablesugar, it doesn't have to be
straight up candy or pop.
Carbohydrates like bagels andcrackers and baked goods or
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those fancy coffee drinks,they're all full of
carbohydrates.
As soon as they go into yourmouth, they turn into sugar.
So your blood sugar increaseswhen you do that, and then your
body has to make insulin fromyour pancreas, send it out, and
insulin takes that sugar andknocks on the door of your cells
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and said, Please store this oruse this to produce energy.
And if your cells are alreadyfull and there's too much sugar
to process or store, then yourcells won't listen to the
insulin signal.
Or if your cells are inflamedbecause of a high toxic burden
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or gut infections or otherthings, they also won't hear the
insulin signal.
And so what your pancreas doesis it makes more insulin.
It says, let's flood thosereceptors because we're
obviously not yelling loudenough and we need to yell
louder.
So you make more insulin totake that sugar out of the
bloodstream.
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And eventually you create thisinsulin resistance where your
insulin is high, your bloodsugar is high, nothing is moving
or going where it's supposedto.
And that leads to food noise.
So get those labs done, supereasy to do.
You don't even need a doctor toorder order them anymore.
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You can go to ultalabtest.comand get those lab tests
yourself.
So the other way that yourblood sugar can be elevated is
from cortisol.
Again, when you wake up firstthing in the morning, you have a
natural cortisol awakeningresponse.
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That's a good thing.
That is how we get out of bedand we get moving for the day.
It's like our body's naturalcup of coffee.
But we also produce glucose orsugar in our liver and put it in
the bloodstream to get moving.
So you don't have to eatcarbohydrates or sugar in the
morning for your blood sugar toincrease.
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It is a natural thing that yourbody does to get you going.
And then if you add the cup ofcoffee, it can increase it more.
So I actually take care of alot of women who tell me they
don't eat at all in the morning,yet they're so stressed out
that their cortisol is so highthat their blood sugar is high.
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So I'm I hope this correlationmakes sense to you.
And for some of you, this isgonna be like the game-changing
golden nugget.
Oh my gosh, that's my problem.
So there are ways to deal withthis, I promise you.
We have to get off the stressroller coaster.
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We have to get realistic andevaluate what is your body even
doing.
So I say test, don't guess.
Let's figure it out.
Let's look at that hemoglobinA1C and fasting insulin.
Get a 24-hour cortisol pattern,see what your cortisol is doing
in the morning and throughoutthe day, and then we can create
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a plan to help you shift.
Okay.
So high insulin levels theylead to blood sugar crashes.
So your blood sugar can bereally high and then it can drop
really low.
And if you're like mostAmericans, you are eating every
two hours or so.
You're putting candy in yourmouth, or you're sipping on a
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pop or a soda, um, you'resipping coffee with stuff in it
all throughout the day.
You're constantly topping offyour blood sugar.
It's staying high, and yourpancreas is constantly producing
insulin.
And anytime it starts to drop,you feel hangry, you feel
irritable, you you are like, ohgosh, I don't like how I feel.
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So you go and you grab moresugar, and that is a setup for
disease and a setup fordisaster.
But that is how I lived for 40years of my life.
And and I just want to put thiscaveat kids can live that way
because they're going nonstop.
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At least, you know, mydaughter, she's busy, physically
active from dusk until dawn.
And so she burns through allthose carbohydrates she puts in
her body.
But if you're not physicallyactive and burning through all
of that, then you have to storeit as fat.
And the first place it goes isyour liver around your vital
organs, which increases yourrisk of heart disease.
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And that gives you that muffintop that you don't want.
So there are ways to get youback into sync.
And that's the whole ideaaround the Fast to Faith program
is leading with healthy fatsand protein to get you out of
this sugar burning mode.
I've talked about this onmultiple episodes, but we want
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to increase that insulinsensitivity again.
Get those blood sugars down.
That will start to calm downyour food noise.
And here's some encouragingwords from 1 Corinthians 6 12.
Everything is permissible forme, but not everything is
beneficial.
I will not be mastered byanything.
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So when you regulate yourbody's chemistry, your food
stops being your master and itbecomes your fuel.
Meaning, you can eat whateveryou want, but that doesn't mean
you should.
And I'm gonna give you thistough love because I did it
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myself and it shiftedeverything.
So I know you can do it.
I broke up with gluten, withsugar, all the things, and my
life has never been better.
The fourth reason behind ourfood noise is actually emotional
hunger and spiritual hunger.
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So many cravings are actuallyemotional needs.
I mentioned this at thebeginning: comfort, peace,
connection, control.
We're looking for all of thosethings.
We're lonely, we're frustrated,we're we're overwhelmed, we're
too busy.
All of that, those areemotional needs not being met.
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And when we numb with food,which we often do, we don't get
to hear from our soul.
We aren't asking, we're notgiving it what it's really
asking for.
Our soul, our spirit wantsrest, love, reassurance,
connection, all of those things.
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And we numb those achingfeelings with food.
And unfortunately, it onlylasts 20 to 30 minutes.
So that's why we end up wantingto eat all the time, and and we
just have this food noise goingon in the background.
So, again, I love fast to faithbecause fasting quiet that food
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noise long enough for you tohear your heart and ask God to
shift your heart and make youmore Christ-like, and you can
actually start to hear from Godagain and nourish your soul and
give it what it needs.
So here's what you can dobefore you eat, you feel the
hunger, you go reach forsomething, pause and ask
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yourself, am I hungry or am Ihurting?
And then journal your waythrough those emotions.
You'll be amazed at what comesout onto the paper.
You will shock yourself.
I promise you, give it a try.
It is so worth it.
And then ask God to help youthrough this, help to give you
the strength to overcome yourfleshly desires.
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If you can start to replacethose emotional eating moments
with spiritual nourishment andGod and his love and his
presence and his joy and hispeace, then you will shift.
That is why God says in theBible to pray incessantly all
throughout the day, nonstop.
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You a great thing that I loveto do, I not only meditate on
scripture and like study theBible and and learn the stories
to see how God works throughpeople's lives, but I oh, there
goes my estrogen drop.
I just had a brain fart.
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Um, I memorize scriptures, Imemorize the word of God so that
when I am in a time ofstruggle, I can pull that up and
start speaking it over my bodyand over my mind and get control
over those fleshly desires,over those cravings.
So just even five scripturesthat feel powerful to you, if
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you memorize them, that is likeum a sword.
It is your protection.
God tells you to gear up and toguard yourself and guard your
heart, and that is how you doit.
So Matthew 4:4 is an amazingscripture to memorize.
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Man shall not live on breadalone, but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.
That's an easy one.
I know you can memorize that.
And if you do, and you startspeaking it over yourself when
you hear that food noise and askGod to change your mind.
Renew my mind, Lord, like youtell us to in Romans 12, 2.
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You command us to renew ourmind.
He will do it.
You will stop that food noise.
I promise you.
Okay, we're gonna tie it upwith this.
I created a three-stepfaith-fueled reset.
There is a little guide thatyou can download.
It's free, and it's gonna teachyou how to fast with intention,
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how to feed your body withpurpose, and how to faith it
forward.
Okay, so we're gonna fastintentionally.
A lot of us fastunintentionally, meaning we just
forget to eat because we're sobusy and life just lifes on us.
That's not what we're gonna do.
We're gonna have control overour body and our decisions of
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when and what we're going toeat.
And then give your body andspirit grace and space to heal.
And then we're gonna feed withpurpose.
We're gonna choose faith foods,I call them.
These are foods that God hasgiven us since the beginning of
time to nourish our bodies, notFranken foods.
And then lastly, we're gonnafaith it.
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You're gonna replace thosenoise cravings, those food noise
cravings with the stillness ofprayer and truth.
I have a whole faith it method.
You can see it if you'rewatching the video.
F is fast for focus, a is askfor guidance, ask God, ink it
for clarity.
Thank God for what he hasn'teven given you yet.
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Hear his plans for you,initiate action, and trust his
timing.
I go through the faith itmethod in my book, in the fast
to faith program.
It is so powerful once you putit to work.
Okay, so some journalingprompts.
You can come back to thislater, and that's why I love the
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podcast because the recordingis always there.
So tomorrow morning or to thisafternoon, when you have that
food noise, you can journal andask yourself, what am I craving
right now?
What might this really mean?
Where do I feel empty or out ofcontrol?
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And how can I invite God intomy hunger?
Journal on those things, itwill be eye-opening, okay?
And then meditate on Psalm 46,10.
Here's another one to writedown Be still and know that I am
God.
When the noise gets loud,stillness is your medicine.
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God will heal you, I promise.
Okay, so let's close this upbecause food noise isn't your
fault, it's just a message.
Your body's trying to tell youit's out of balance, and your
spirit is reminding you it'stime to return to peace.
So I hope this uh blesses you.
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Download the food noise guide,follow it, consider joining us
in the Fast of Faith Sisterhood.
We would love to support youand give you nutritional
guidance and all of the supportfor your gut, your hormones, all
of the things pray with you,help you get on stock.
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Let's end with prayer todaybecause I just I'm feeling so
convicted about this because Ihave overcome food noise, and I
know that you can.
You absolutely can.
You just have to do the workand invite God to do it with
you.
So let's pray, Lord.
Help us tune out the noise ofthese cravings, this chaos, this
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confusion.
Help us tune into your voice,the voice of truth, of peace,
and of healing.
We're so grateful for you, foryou, Lord.
We praise you in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Thank you, ladies.
I will see you next week.
Go be Christ and sister.
Hello, hello! If you are watching me, my nose is
a little red.
I just came inside and it iscold in Michigan, you guys.
And you're probably wonderingwhere the heck is the intro
music?
Here's the deal.
We are skipping the music andall of the things we are trying
to get this episode out to ASAPbecause I was on the Candace
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Cameron Beret podcast.
We did a three-part series, andyou guys want to know more
about food noise.
I've heard you, I've listened,and I'm bringing you the truth
about what the heck food noiseis.
So let's dive right into thattoday.
And welcome to the Fast ofFaith podcast.
I'm Dr.
Tabitha, your Christianphysician.
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If you didn't know, if you'renew here, I'm here for you.
We are all about health andwellness and gut and hormones
and fasting and faith.
So let's dive into what ittakes to silence the food noise.
We're gonna heal the cravings,balance our hormones, and
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nourish our spirit because it'sall connected, it all ties
together.
So let me ask you a question.
Have you ever felt like food istalking to you like all the
time?
It was for me.
When I was in OBGYN, the donutswould talk to me in the break
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room, the Twizzlers would talkto me at the nurses station or
the MMs in the pre-op room.
Wherever there was food, I wasthinking about it.
And if there wasn't foodaround, then I was dreaming
about what sounded good and whatI could eat next.
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And I didn't realize it at thetime because you can't see the
picture when you're in theframe.
But now I understand that somuch of it had to do with my
lack of energy, my stressed outlife, and my unhealthy gut and
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my dysregulated nervous system.
So we're gonna dive into thewhy behind food noise, and more
importantly, what to do aboutit.
So, food noise, let's let'sdefine it.
First of all, it's intrusivethoughts and cravings that
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dominate your focus, and theyoften lead to frustration,
guilt, and overeating.
So, my best example is Iremember one day there was a box
full of donuts in the breakroom, and I was thinking about
them while I was seeing patientsand specifically thinking, I
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really hope that um one specificlong jawn is still there.
I want that one with thecustard cream filling and the
extra chocolate when I get out,but I'm only gonna eat half of
it because I don't need thewhole thing.
I've been eating too much junklately, and I remember this
entire conversation going onwhile I was seeing a patient,
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mind you, and I should have beenpaying attention to her.
Um, just being real truthfulhere right now.
Um, I was thinking about thisdonut.
So I finally went and ate thehalf a donut, and I ate it
probably in like 30 seconds.
Uh, I barely even tasted it,and that's part of the issue is
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we're trying to satisfysomething, and so oftentimes we
eat really quickly and we don'tsavor it, we don't slow down to
enjoy it.
And then I went on to seeingthe next patient and the next
patient, and all I could thinkabout was that other half that I
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left in the break room, and Iended up going back and shoving
that down my face, and then thefood noise quieted for a minute,
and then I started thinkingabout the other donuts in the
box, and that was the day I knewI had a problem.
Like, this is not normal.
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I started talking to mycoworkers and asking them, like,
do the donuts talk to you?
Because I feel like they'retalking to me, they're they're
distracting me from seeing mypatients.
And at that time, I knew it wasa problem, but I didn't know
why it was happening and Ididn't know what to do about it.
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And unfortunately, it took me afew years to figure that out.
It wasn't until I went throughfull-on burnout, adrenal
fatigue, a broken back, a failedback surgery, Hashimoto's that
I couldn't get into remission,the whole nine yards.
And I went on this healingjourney.
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I found the world of functionalmedicine, and when I started
studying the root cause of whywe have disease, why we have
problems, that is when Iunderstood my food noise
problem.
So I, if you are feeling me inthis story, this episode is for
you.
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So let's dive in because I wantto reassure you, this is not
about a lack of willpower.
It's your body's chemistry,your hormones.
You have hormones that regulateyour appetite, your hunger,
your satiety.
You have stress hormones thathijack your brain, and you have
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a microbiome, an entireecosystem living in your gut
that is creating chemicals andsending signals to your brain as
well.
So we're gonna dive into all ofthat, and I'm going to give you
solutions about how to get ridof this food noise because I'm
here to say happily, six yearslater, I don't have food noise,
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and I haven't for at least fouryears.
When it starts to creep up, Inow know that is a message from
my body that something is offand I need to deal with it, and
I know how to tackle it so itdoesn't get out of control.
So I have broken up with sugarand been off of sugar for over
six years.
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I no longer have the food noiseand all of the struggles, and I
have created a healthyrelationship with food.
I don't use it uh when I'mtired and stressed out and
lonely as much.
Like, let's be truthful,nobody's perfect, just Jesus.
And I still struggle every nowand again.
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I do eat the ice cream at timeswhen I'm lonely, but I at least
acknowledge it and I know whatI'm signing up for.
So I just want to say thatbecause this journey is not
about perfection, it's aboutprogress.
And if I can just instill inyou some tools and resources to
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be able to make forward progresstoward loving your body and
living in harmony with it, withfood, with your environment,
with your life, then you arewinning, right?
So let's dive in.
Like I said, food noise is thatconstant mental chatter or
cravings driven by adysregulated brain-body
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chemistry.
And uh a big part of it is ourstandard American diet.
We call it the sad diet for areason.
It is very sad because it'shigh in ultra-processed foods.
They actually pull out thevitamins and the minerals and
all the necessary things yourbody needs to thrive, and they
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fill it with garbage, withpreservatives, with dyes and
chemicals that are verydestructive to your body.
So it's the sad diet that mostof us are living on.
Sleep deprivation was a hugereason that I had food noise.
I was exhausted.
My body was constantly lookingfor a source of energy, and I
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was giving it fake energy.
Fake energy is like sugar andcaffeine and carbohydrates,
simple carbohydrates.
Whereas real energy comes fromeating proteins and fats to make
ATP in a long, sustainableform.
That is true energy.
And then hormones.
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When your hormones are out ofbalance, it amplifies the food
noise.
So women in particular are morevulnerable to this due to our
cyclical hormonal nature.
We have hormones that arechanging all of the time, and
that contributes to ouremotional well-being.
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We take on the world'sproblems, right?
We are there for our children,for our co-workers, for our
husbands, all the people, andthat leads to us uh neglecting
ourselves a little bit, alongwith chronic stress, chronic
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stress of self-neglect, takingcare of everyone else, not doing
your daily centering practicesof getting still, talking to
God, listening to God forguidance, trying to carry all
the burdens yourself and doeverything yourself, those all
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contribute to food noise.
So there are four root causesthat I want to talk about today,
and then we're gonna talk abouthow to address each one of
those.
So, number one, gut dysbiosis.
The wrong bacteria controllingthe cravings.
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So if you have the wrongbacteria living in your gut,
they will send chemicals to yourbrain that make you crave the
foods they want to eat.
Yeast in particular love sugar.
So if you have yeast overgrowthin your gut, you're gonna crave
sugar all the time until youkill those yeasts off.
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And I want to remind you or letyou know if you didn't know,
that 90% of the serotonin thatwe make, we make in our gut.
Serotonin is our feel-goodneurotransmitter.
That is the messenger that isactivated with antidepressants.
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They're called SSRIs,serotonin, selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitors.
So they help the serotonin stayat the receptor longer because
you're not making enough of ityourself.
And it's most likely becauseyou don't have the right
microbiome to make your ownserotonin.
Another one is dopamine.
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This neurotransmitter is reallyimportant in reward and
satisfaction.
And we all know about thedopamine hit, right?
That is scrolling throughTikTok and Instagram, and you
feel satisfied because you'regetting these dopamine hits like
scroll, scroll, scroll,dopamine, dopamine, dopamine.
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You get that same result withchocolate and sugar and gluten
and a lot of things in yourfood.
And so some people they are lowon dopamine because they don't
have a healthy microbiome andthey are looking for that
feel-good neurotransmitterbecause 50% of that is made in
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your gut and travels up thevagus nerve to talk to your
brain, and then it tells yourbrain to create more chemicals
that talk back to your body.
But if that is interrupted, ifyou're not making those
neurotransmitters, then yourbrain is gonna tell you, give me
some of this, give me some ofthis, and it will tell you to
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eat those horrible foods.
So, number one is you want tofigure out what's going on in
your microbiome.
When I first studied functionalmedicine, I did a stool test on
myself, a functional stooltest.
It shows you your entire gutmicrobiome, the good bacteria,
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the bad bacteria, the differentkinds of yeast, uh, parasites,
worms, and then it shows you thefunction of your gut.
Is your immune system actingappropriately?
Do you even have enough of animmune system response?
Are you making your digestiveenzymes?
Do you have active leaky gutthat needs to be healed?
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All of these things show up onthe test, and you can actually
actively heal your gut, shiftyour microbiome, kill off those
bad guys.
And that is how I broke up withsugar and started to silence my
food noise.
So healing your gut isprofound.
It is so helpful.
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We can try empirically to dothis by getting rid of the
standard American diet.
Stop eating out of boxes andbags, focus on real foods that
God gave us, real animalproteins, healthy fats,
vegetables, fruits.
If it looks like what it waswhen it grew or came out of its
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mama, then you can eat it.
If it is processed and it's gotan ingredient list that you
can't even pronounce, you shouldnot be eating it.
It's contributing to your foodnoise.
So cut out thoseultra-processed foods, break up
with sugar, start eating fiber,protein, healthy fats, all those
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good things, your microbiomewill start to shift.
But I do I mentioned the stooltest because some people really
clean up their diet.
They are eating so clean and sohealthy, but they have yeast
overgrowth that if it doesn'tget killed off with actual herbs
or medications, they can'tshift their microbiome.
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So sometimes testing isnecessary.
I just wanted to throw thatpiece in there, and for me it
was because my gut dysbiosis hadgone on so long that changing
my diet just wasn't gonna cutit.
It wasn't enough, honestly.
And then we want to useintermittent fasting
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strategically to reset ourmicrobiome because when we
starve off those bad guys, wedon't feed them, they will die
off, and then the good guys canstart to multiply and take over.
And so fasting is one of thequickest ways to actually break
up with sugar and reset yourmicrobiome.
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I love intermittent fasting,but there are a couple issues
with it.
If you have insulindysregulation, cortisol
dysfunction, then it might bechallenging to fast.
So if you have struggled tofast, I want you to stay and
listen to number two and numberthree of the root causes of why
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we have food noise, because it'shard to fast if you're dealing
with these next two things.
And I wanted to mention FirstCorinthians 10, 31, because a
lot of us we eat our feelings,and what scripture says is
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whether you eat or drink orwhatever you do, do it all for
the glory of God.
So we glorify God when we feedour bodies the food that he gave
us to nourish ourselves with.
We do not honor him and glorifyhim when we eat all of these
processed Franken foods, I callthem, because they're not real
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foods.
We just took food parts and putthem all together in a new way
and created Franken foods likeFrankenstein.
And it's very depleting to ourbody.
Our body actually has to expendenergy to handle all of these
toxins and food dyes andpesticides and preservatives.
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It actually has to use energyto process all of that.
So you're not helping yourenergy levels, you're making
them worse, especially whenyou're like eating fast food,
pop, all of that kind of stuff.
That's taking it to a wholenother level.
Okay, so number two, stresshijacks your cortisol hormones.
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So cortisol and adrenaline arereally important when we talk
about food noise.
And chronic stress createschronic excess cortisol
production, which sticks you ina fight or flight sympathetic
dominant state.
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So your nervous system isalways upregulated, ready to
fight or flee, or run, or hide,and then you get stuck in this
vicious cycle of now you'rewired.
And so every time you haveanother stressor come on, you
pump out more cortisol, moreadrenaline, and that keeps you
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stuck in fight or flight, andyou can't get into rest, digest,
and repair.
That is sympathetic dominance.
So your nervous system getsinvolved and you get nervous
system dysregulation from thischronic cortisol adrenaline
situation.
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And let me just mention thatstressors don't have to be
emotional or mental.
It doesn't have to be youfighting with your boss or your
spouse or you running late forwork.
It can be a gut infection.
That is an internal stressorthat tells your adrenal glands
to produce more cortisol andyour nervous system to get
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upregulated, and then it tellsyour immune system like it's
time to fight and they getupregulated.
So it's like this horribledomino effect that really
happens.
So I want you to understandthat piece.
It's it's not always about theexternal stressors.
Maybe it's an infected rootcanal, or like I mentioned,
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yeast overgrowth, things of thatnature, or hello, just the
perimenopausal transition, justthat natural decline of our
hormone production is a hugestressor on our body because
estrogen regulates all thesystems in our body, keeps our
immune system calm and stable,and when estrogen continues to
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decline, our body getshyper-responsive.
We see an upregulation or inautoimmune conditions, new
diagnoses of rheumatoid, lupus,Hashimoto's, these different
autoimmune conditions, they popup at menopause.
More women have shinglesoutbreaks and um Epstein bar,
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chronic fatigue that pops up,and new things that they never
dealt with before because ofthat decline in hormones.
So these internal stressors arehijacking your nervous system,
and that affects your ghrelinand your leptin.
So you get on this hungerroller coaster because if you
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disrupt leptin, your satietyhormone, you never feel full or
satisfied.
And if you disrupt ghrelin,your hunger hormone, like err
ghrelin, then you get thesefalse hunger signals.
And so it's really importantthat we regulate our nervous
system, get our adrenals torespond more appropriately, and
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help calm the roller coaster ofperimenopause and menopause as
much as we can.
Symptoms that this is one ofyour food noise root causes is
belly fat.
If you're starting to gainweight around the belly, that
means your cortisol is out ofcontrol.
Or if you're feeling wired andtired, like you're dragging all
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day and then you're up at nightand you can't sleep, that's
often a cortisol issue.
So we need to shift yournervous system and calm down
your adrenal glands.
That looks like micro breaks.
Put in five minutes of prayerin the morning.
What I do with my Fast of Faithwomen, if you're not in the
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group, oh my goodness, you needto be in the group.
But we do Lectio Divina.
That is meditating on onescripture for five to ten
minutes, and we journal about itand we talk to God about that
one scripture, and that puts youin a parasympathetic rest,
digest, and repair state tostart your day.
That way you're not in fight orflight and you're not pumping
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out excess cortisol.
Breath work works the same way.
Walking, gratitude journaling,so powerful.
And let's talk about some otherthings.
Prioritizing sleep.
So sleep is a whole notherepisode, but if you are getting
good quality sleep, then you canstart to heal your adrenals and
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your cortisol production andyour nervous system.
That's super important.
You want to limit yourcaffeine.
Did you know?
Every time you drink a cup ofcoffee, you produce cortisol.
Cortisol is a response to thatcoffee you drink.
And so if you're already makingtoo much cortisol in the
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morning and then you're addingcaffeine and coffee on top of
it, you're gonna produce moreand more.
And some women, they're like,why do I feel so jittery?
Why is my heart racing?
Why do I have palpitations?
Why am I exhausted bylunchtime?
It's because they've beenpumping out cortisol all
morning.
So try and stick to one cup ofcoffee or less and be done by
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noon.
That will help substantially.
And then the last thing is ifyou incorporate a fasting
practice, we want to focus onthe healing properties of
fasting and not the deprivation.
This is not about deprivingyou, it's about supporting your
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body's healing ability.
That is what that is why Godcreated our bodies to fast, to
heal your nervous system.
So this reminds me of Matthew11, 28.
Come to me, all who are wearyand burdened, and I will give
you rest.
If you meditate on thatscripture for five minutes in
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the morning, just give it a trytomorrow.
You will start your day so muchbetter.
Your adrenals will thank you,your nervous system will thank
you, and you will put a break onthat food noise.
That will help so much.
Okay.
Number three root cause forfood noise insulin resistance
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and blood sugar spikes.
And a lot of you have this andyou don't even know it.
It's estimated that 96 millionAmericans, holy cow, have
pre-diabetes and insulinresistance.
And most of us don't know itbecause our doctor doesn't do
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the labs to check it.
So you want to get a fastinginsulin level and you want to
get a hemoglobin A1C level.
That is an average blood sugarover the past three months.
And you want your fasting bloodsugar to be like 80 to 90.
So if your hemoglobin A1C isabove five, then that usually
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means your average blood sugarhas been too high over the past
three months.
Insulin should also be aroundfive or less in a fasted state.
So think five and five.
And do it fasting at least 12hours.
If your levels are higher thanthat, we need to consider this
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as a root cause for your foodnoise.
You are on this blood sugarroller coaster.
So you eat, you can eatcarbohydrates and they turn into
sugar.
You can drink them.
And it doesn't have to be tablesugar, it doesn't have to be
straight up candy or pop.
Carbohydrates like bagels andcrackers and baked goods or
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those fancy coffee drinks,they're all full of
carbohydrates.
As soon as they go into yourmouth, they turn into sugar.
So your blood sugar increaseswhen you do that, and then your
body has to make insulin fromyour pancreas, send it out, and
insulin takes that sugar andknocks on the door of your cells
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and said, Please store this oruse this to produce energy.
And if your cells are alreadyfull and there's too much sugar
to process or store, then yourcells won't listen to the
insulin signal.
Or if your cells are inflamedbecause of a high toxic burden
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or gut infections or otherthings, they also won't hear the
insulin signal.
And so what your pancreas doesis it makes more insulin.
It says, let's flood thosereceptors because we're
obviously not yelling loudenough and we need to yell
louder.
So you make more insulin totake that sugar out of the
bloodstream.
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And eventually you create thisinsulin resistance where your
insulin is high, your bloodsugar is high, nothing is moving
or going where it's supposedto.
And that leads to food noise.
So get those labs done, supereasy to do.
You don't even need a doctor toorder order them anymore.
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You can go to ultalabtest.comand get those lab tests
yourself.
So the other way that yourblood sugar can be elevated is
from cortisol.
Again, when you wake up firstthing in the morning, you have a
natural cortisol awakeningresponse.
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That's a good thing.
That is how we get out of bedand we get moving for the day.
It's like our body's naturalcup of coffee.
But we also produce glucose orsugar in our liver and put it in
the bloodstream to get moving.
So you don't have to eatcarbohydrates or sugar in the
morning for your blood sugar toincrease.
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It is a natural thing that yourbody does to get you going.
And then if you add the cup ofcoffee, it can increase it more.
So I actually take care of alot of women who tell me they
don't eat at all in the morning,yet they're so stressed out
that their cortisol is so highthat their blood sugar is high.
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So I'm I hope this correlationmakes sense to you.
And for some of you, this isgonna be like the game-changing
golden nugget.
Oh my gosh, that's my problem.
So there are ways to deal withthis, I promise you.
We have to get off the stressroller coaster.
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We have to get realistic andevaluate what is your body even
doing.
So I say test, don't guess.
Let's figure it out.
Let's look at that hemoglobinA1C and fasting insulin.
Get a 24-hour cortisol pattern,see what your cortisol is doing
in the morning and throughoutthe day, and then we can create
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a plan to help you shift.
Okay.
So high insulin levels theylead to blood sugar crashes.
So your blood sugar can bereally high and then it can drop
really low.
And if you're like mostAmericans, you are eating every
two hours or so.
You're putting candy in yourmouth, or you're sipping on a
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pop or a soda, um, you'resipping coffee with stuff in it
all throughout the day.
You're constantly topping offyour blood sugar.
It's staying high, and yourpancreas is constantly producing
insulin.
And anytime it starts to drop,you feel hangry, you feel
irritable, you you are like, ohgosh, I don't like how I feel.
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So you go and you grab moresugar, and that is a setup for
disease and a setup fordisaster.
But that is how I lived for 40years of my life.
And and I just want to put thiscaveat kids can live that way
because they're going nonstop.
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At least, you know, mydaughter, she's busy, physically
active from dusk until dawn.
And so she burns through allthose carbohydrates she puts in
her body.
But if you're not physicallyactive and burning through all
of that, then you have to storeit as fat.
And the first place it goes isyour liver around your vital
organs, which increases yourrisk of heart disease.
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And that gives you that muffintop that you don't want.
So there are ways to get youback into sync.
And that's the whole ideaaround the Fast to Faith program
is leading with healthy fatsand protein to get you out of
this sugar burning mode.
I've talked about this onmultiple episodes, but we want
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to increase that insulinsensitivity again.
Get those blood sugars down.
That will start to calm downyour food noise.
And here's some encouragingwords from 1 Corinthians 6 12.
Everything is permissible forme, but not everything is
beneficial.
I will not be mastered byanything.
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So when you regulate yourbody's chemistry, your food
stops being your master and itbecomes your fuel.
Meaning, you can eat whateveryou want, but that doesn't mean
you should.
And I'm gonna give you thistough love because I did it
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myself and it shiftedeverything.
So I know you can do it.
I broke up with gluten, withsugar, all the things, and my
life has never been better.
The fourth reason behind ourfood noise is actually emotional
hunger and spiritual hunger.
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So many cravings are actuallyemotional needs.
I mentioned this at thebeginning: comfort, peace,
connection, control.
We're looking for all of thosethings.
We're lonely, we're frustrated,we're we're overwhelmed, we're
too busy.
All of that, those areemotional needs not being met.
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And when we numb with food,which we often do, we don't get
to hear from our soul.
We aren't asking, we're notgiving it what it's really
asking for.
Our soul, our spirit wantsrest, love, reassurance,
connection, all of those things.
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And we numb those achingfeelings with food.
And unfortunately, it onlylasts 20 to 30 minutes.
So that's why we end up wantingto eat all the time, and and we
just have this food noise goingon in the background.
So, again, I love fast to faithbecause fasting quiet that food
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noise long enough for you tohear your heart and ask God to
shift your heart and make youmore Christ-like, and you can
actually start to hear from Godagain and nourish your soul and
give it what it needs.
So here's what you can dobefore you eat, you feel the
hunger, you go reach forsomething, pause and ask
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yourself, am I hungry or am Ihurting?
And then journal your waythrough those emotions.
You'll be amazed at what comesout onto the paper.
You will shock yourself.
I promise you, give it a try.
It is so worth it.
And then ask God to help youthrough this, help to give you
the strength to overcome yourfleshly desires.
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If you can start to replacethose emotional eating moments
with spiritual nourishment andGod and his love and his
presence and his joy and hispeace, then you will shift.
That is why God says in theBible to pray incessantly all
throughout the day, nonstop.
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You a great thing that I loveto do, I not only meditate on
scripture and like study theBible and and learn the stories
to see how God works throughpeople's lives, but I oh, there
goes my estrogen drop.
I just had a brain fart.
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Um, I memorize scriptures, Imemorize the word of God so that
when I am in a time ofstruggle, I can pull that up and
start speaking it over my bodyand over my mind and get control
over those fleshly desires,over those cravings.
So just even five scripturesthat feel powerful to you, if
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you memorize them, that is likeum a sword.
It is your protection.
God tells you to gear up and toguard yourself and guard your
heart, and that is how you doit.
So Matthew 4:4 is an amazingscripture to memorize.
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Man shall not live on breadalone, but by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God.
That's an easy one.
I know you can memorize that.
And if you do, and you startspeaking it over yourself when
you hear that food noise and askGod to change your mind.
Renew my mind, Lord, like youtell us to in Romans 12, 2.
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You command us to renew ourmind.
He will do it.
You will stop that food noise.
I promise you.
Okay, we're gonna tie it upwith this.
I created a three-stepfaith-fueled reset.
There is a little guide thatyou can download.
It's free, and it's gonna teachyou how to fast with intention,
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how to feed your body withpurpose, and how to faith it
forward.
Okay, so we're gonna fastintentionally.
A lot of us fastunintentionally, meaning we just
forget to eat because we're sobusy and life just lifes on us.
That's not what we're gonna do.
We're gonna have control overour body and our decisions of
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when and what we're going toeat.
And then give your body andspirit grace and space to heal.
And then we're gonna feed withpurpose.
We're gonna choose faith foods,I call them.
These are foods that God hasgiven us since the beginning of
time to nourish our bodies, notFranken foods.
And then lastly, we're gonnafaith it.
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You're gonna replace thosenoise cravings, those food noise
cravings with the stillness ofprayer and truth.
I have a whole faith it method.
You can see it if you'rewatching the video.
F is fast for focus, a is askfor guidance, ask God, ink it
for clarity.
Thank God for what he hasn'teven given you yet.
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Hear his plans for you,initiate action, and trust his
timing.
I go through the faith itmethod in my book, in the fast
to faith program.
It is so powerful once you putit to work.
Okay, so some journalingprompts.
You can come back to thislater, and that's why I love the
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podcast because the recordingis always there.
So tomorrow morning or to thisafternoon, when you have that
food noise, you can journal andask yourself, what am I craving
right now?
What might this really mean?
Where do I feel empty or out ofcontrol?
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And how can I invite God intomy hunger?
Journal on those things, itwill be eye-opening, okay?
And then meditate on Psalm 46,10.
Here's another one to writedown Be still and know that I am
God.
When the noise gets loud,stillness is your medicine.
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God will heal you, I promise.
Okay, so let's close this upbecause food noise isn't your
fault, it's just a message.
Your body's trying to tell youit's out of balance, and your
spirit is reminding you it'stime to return to peace.
So I hope this uh blesses you.
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Download the food noise guide,follow it, consider joining us
in the Fast of Faith Sisterhood.
We would love to support youand give you nutritional
guidance and all of the supportfor your gut, your hormones, all
of the things pray with you,help you get on stock.
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Let's end with prayer todaybecause I just I'm feeling so
convicted about this because Ihave overcome food noise, and I
know that you can.
You absolutely can.
You just have to do the workand invite God to do it with
you.
So let's pray, Lord.
Help us tune out the noise ofthese cravings, this chaos, this
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confusion.
Help us tune into your voice,the voice of truth, of peace,
and of healing.
We're so grateful for you, foryou, Lord.
We praise you in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Thank you, ladies.
I will see you next week.
Go be Christ and sister.
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