Stress affects virtually every aspect of our health, from our waistlines to our sleep quality, but few of us truly understand the physiological mechanisms at work. Nancy Masoud from LockedIn Wellness takes us on a fascinating journey into the science of stress, explaining how the fight-or-flight response triggers cortisol release and creates what she calls "double trouble" for our bodies.
When cortisol levels rise, we experience increased appetite (particularly for comfort foods) while simultaneously storing more fat around our midsection. This explains why stress often leads to weight gain even when we're conscious about our eating habits. Rather than simply accepting this as inevitable, Nancy offers a refreshing approach focused on identifying and addressing the root causes of stress.
The conversation explores innovative testing methods like Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA), which reveals critical information about mineral imbalances that contribute to stress responses. These imbalances can manifest as anxiety, fatigue, emotional eating, and even addiction, as demonstrated in the powerful story of a 24-year-old client who overcame severe anxiety and alcohol dependency through targeted nutritional interventions.
Nancy also addresses the complex relationship between hormones and stress, particularly during perimenopause and menopause. From hot flashes triggered by food sensitivities to sleep disturbances that elevate morning cortisol levels, she offers practical insights for managing these challenges naturally. The holistic approach at Locked In Wellness—combining nutritional support, acupuncture laser therapy, and personalized protocols—provides hope for anyone struggling with stress-related health issues.
Want to transform your relationship with stress and reclaim your health? Contact LockedIn Wellness in Alpharetta at 404-809-4161 or visit their website to schedule a comprehensive assessment and discover personalized solutions for your unique needs.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, where local
businesses and neighbors cometogether.
Here's your host, StaceyPoehler.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hey everybody.
We're excited today to betalking to Nancy from Locked In
Wellness.
Welcome, Nancy.
Hi Stacey, how are you?
I'm good.
I know today we're going to doa deep dive into stress and a
little bit with nutrition andhormones and how Locked In
Wellness is really helpingpeople address these issues in a
very natural way.
Maybe you can start byexplaining some effects of
(00:35):
stress on the body, like at thephysiological level, and talking
about that whole flight orfright response and how that all
works.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm super excited to talk about this subject because
stress is stress.
Who's not stressed right?
It can be any form.
Stress itself starts with theactivation of the hypothalamic
pituitary adrenal, hpa and thesympathetic nervous system.
So when the sympathetic nervoussystem kicks in, it plays a
crucial role in the fight orflight response.
(01:07):
So, because it is preparing thebody for more action, which
causes, of course, the adrenalsto secrete the cortisol, the
stress hormone, can you?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
talk about cortisol and what it does in your body
and how that might contribute tothings like weight gain and
more stress.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And how that might contribute to things like weight
gain and more stress.
When we're stressed, the bodyreleases cortisol.
When cortisol is secreted bythe adrenals, it tends emotional
(01:49):
eating to cope with stressorsthat they're dealing with.
But also we know cortisol canalso promote the storage of fat.
So particularly around themidsection when people complain
about thickness in the middleit's usually caused by cortisol
in store because it does promotethe storage of fat in that area
.
So we tend to see people gainweight during stress periods and
(02:13):
we're not saying everybodygains weight during stress, but
most people tend to have thatissue and we see a lot of people
with concerns about I wasstressed, I had this situation.
Now I realize I'm an emotionaleater.
I tend to see myself copingwith certain situations through
(02:36):
food.
That's the only thing thatmakes me feel better.
And of course, the side effectsweight gain.
That's when they see thicknessin the middle of the body the
scale starts to increase.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So fight or flight goes back to prehistoric times,
right, people having to hunt andgather their food, and cortisol
was a way to give them thatextra push.
But what you're saying is it'sa double whammy, because
cortisol stimulates yourappetite and makes you store
more fat, causing weight gain intwo ways.
Absolutely, it is a doubletrouble.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Cortisol is supposed to help us with the stress, but
too much cortisol can lead toweight gain.
People tend to complain of that.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Can you talk about some of the ways that you at
Locked in Wellness approach,stress management, and what
kinds of tools and supplementsand things are you using to help
people manage their cortisollevels and stress?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
At LockedIn Wellness we use a holistic approach to
dealing with stress andrecognizing that stress and the
impact of that for the wholebody and as a person, whether
it's mind, body or spirit.
So we do look at all of thoseaspects there.
So the way we look at it, ofcourse we do a lot of testing,
different testing, specificallyto pinpoint the cause of stress,
(03:53):
because the stress can beemotional stress and can be
physiological stress, so it canbe both sides.
Not necessarily all stress arelinked to emotions, it can be
other factors too.
We dig deep into the root causeof stress and how is that
impacting the body?
So for us, instead of simplygiving medication to cope with
(04:15):
stress, we look at the corecause.
We balance that with whethernutraceutical sorry, yeah,
nutraceutical, sorry,nutraceutical products, or
sometimes it's diet, controlledas well.
So it depends on the person andthe results of the testing that
we do.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Can you talk us through that testing, describe
what it is, what it measures andhow you use that to guide
decisions in patient care?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Absolutely.
One of the tests that wecommonly use is called HTMA,
which is a hair tissue mineralanalysis test, and this test can
offer very valuable insightsinto how stress affects the body
by analyzing mineral levels andratios.
Prolonged stress can disturbthe body's delicate mineral
(05:02):
balance, which then we can seeimbalances in certain minerals.
That causes the impact or thephysical stress on the body.
The adrenal glands are crucialfor managing stress.
Utilizing those minerals likemagnesium.
When we look at magnesium onthe HDMI test, we know that
magnesium is an essentialelement in that test.
(05:26):
That helps with stress andhelps you, helps the response of
that stress, because that helpspromote the stress produces the
stress hormone.
So this test will show us a lotof different factors there, but
we look at all the differentminerals in there and the ratios
of these minerals.
That can also give us more ofan overall insight of how does
(05:51):
that impact the body and themetabolism, insight of how does
that impact the body and themetabolism.
So because we know stress canimpact your metabolism, as we
talked before we that, we knowcortisol can be a factor in
storing fat and visceral fat ingenerally speaking.
Now we know that also thesewhen we people stress, we tend
to see imbalance on thoseminerals and then we are when we
(06:11):
look at the test.
We are able to define thoseimbalances in balance through
supplementation or detoxing, orsometimes also can be diet
different eating, different kindof lifestyle, changing the
lifestyle or eating habits.
When we look at this HMA, wealso are looking at I'll give an
(06:34):
example calcium to phosphorusratios on that test because that
test also when we see thoseratios, this is a major
indicator for energy productionand stress response.
If calcium and phosphorus arenot balanced well, then we know
this person has issues withenergy and also stress.
We look at also sodium andpotassium levels, crucial to
(06:59):
adrenal activity.
If not balanced, we'll see moreanxiety.
People have more anxiety, moreemotional eating, more muscle
tension, fatigue.
That test is crucial toidentifying the root causes of
stress for each individual.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You mentioned looking at people's diet.
Are some symptoms of stresscaused by food sensitivities?
Is that something you look atto figure out what might be
causing inflammation in thatresponse?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Absolutely so.
As we know, food sensitivity isnot don't directly cure stress.
We know if we eliminate thosefoods is not going to be the
cure for stress, so that's notthe way we look at it.
But when we identify thosefoods that are trigger to
inflammation, it would thereduction of inflammation.
(07:50):
It does help the physical sideof stress impact on the body,
because we know foodsensitivities can cause
inflammation and disturb the gutmicrobiome linked to mood and
anxiety.
Removing the problem foodsmight reduce inflammation and
improve, of course, the guthealth, which potentially
leading to calmer nervous systemand it will decrease the stress
(08:11):
response nervous system and itwill decrease the stress
response.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
What modalities or strategies do you use to help
your clients deal with stressand to help them through this
process of healing?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We use a couple things.
So we also do acupuncture laserto help support the adrenals as
well.
So we do that.
But I also do just recentlystarted doing this urine test
and this test goes to the laband it targets amino acids in
the body that are actually helpsus look at the catecholamine
(08:45):
response in the brain, stressresponse, fat how the body
deposits fats or store fat, andwhat the key essential minerals
help offset issues or factorsthat could be linked to stress
as well.
But we do, like I said, that'sa new test that we started doing
for stress to test and makesure that the body is
(09:09):
controlling stress properly.
Negative impact what can stresscause in the body?
The acupuncture laser is a hugefactor here.
We tend to see people feelbetter when we do those
acupuncture lasers because theydo help calm the body down.
It is driven by frequencies andthose frequencies help calm the
(09:30):
central nervous system.
That's the target here ourcentral nervous system.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
People talk about stress and weight gain, aging
and going into likeperimenopause and menopause.
We're hearing so much aboutthis on the news.
Everybody's talking about it.
Can you talk about how stressrelates to that and how you're
helping women go through thoseprocesses?
And a little bit less stressfulyeah?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Hormone imbalance at any age can cause physical or
emotional stress.
It doesn't have to be somebodywho's going through
perimenopause to menopause orpostmenopause, but hormone
imbalance is definitelycontribute to increased appetite
and decrease kind of wellbeingor health or energy or
(10:13):
motivation to do other thingslike exercising, being outside.
People tend to feel run down,heavy.
I've had a lot of clients comein and heavy in themselves and
they never felt that before.
Now, of course, everybody'sdifferent, so we don't we can't
say everybody looks the same buteveryone is different and their
body's response is different.
So we don't.
We can't say everybody looksthe same, but everyone is
different and their body'sresponse is differently.
(10:36):
But many individuals also turninto emotional eating as a
coping mechanism, as we talkedabout consuming unhealthy
comfort foods to help withtemporary relief of hormone
imbalances.
Because we tend to go through alot of mood swings through
hormone changes and for females,some people, their whole body
(10:56):
changes.
Sometimes we lose stamina ormotivation to do things we love.
Hormone imbalance can causephysical and emotional stress.
One person can be very active.
Suddenly, with hormone changes,hot flashes comes in weight
gain even though they're eatingvery healthy.
They get thicker in the middle,cortisol is increasing.
(11:18):
Their FSH level starts toincrease.
They're depressed, just don'tunderstand what is happening in
their body.
They see a change but don'trealize the differences,
(11:38):
especially if it's perimenopause.
And then when we get intomenopause, with the hot flashes,
night sweats, interruptivesleep, people get headaches, a
lot of symptoms to menopause.
Those symptoms can go from oneside to another joint pain, hip
pain, knee pains.
We get lots of that withmenopause.
That leads to stress, becauseif this person is very active
and they always play tennis, forexample, and suddenly now they
(12:02):
have these pains and aches andthey're not able to play well,
they will feel stress thatimpacts their activity level.
Calories they're burning on adaily base, which can lead to a
game.
Even if they are consciousabout their eating habits,
they're not necessarily eatingpoorly.
They may be very consciousabout what they're eating,
(12:22):
counting calories, macros,micros, doing all their homework
.
But because of menopause stagescan lead to weight gain without
understanding why.
We analyze and figure out whythey're gaining weight, what's
the cause of that and if it ispart of the menopause phase for
females, we look at the stressimpact on the body and help them
(12:45):
balance it all.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Can nutrition and supplements help manage?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
symptoms, especially hot flashes.
I had a client today.
She said I found out my hotflashes are linked to what I eat
.
I said okay, tell me more aboutthat.
She said every time I eatsomething in my food sensitivity
test I get a hot flash.
If I'm good, I don't have anysymptoms.
(13:11):
She was talking about that.
She said wow, it's amazing howmy body responds to food
sensitivities.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Any other client stories about how you help them
work through stress?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Absolutely.
Actually I have a client.
It's a male.
He was 24 years old, so I sawhis mom previously for weight
loss.
One day she contacted me shesaid can you please give me a
call?
So I gave her a call and shesaid Nancy, I need your help.
And I said what's going on?
She said my son.
We don't know what is going onwith him.
(13:42):
His anxiety is off the charts.
He's always been a good kid,suddenly anxious, worried, heavy
drinker.
She's like I don't evenrecognize my son anymore.
She's like he's depressed, hedoesn't do anything.
He's about to lose his job.
He just graduated, got a job.
(14:02):
She's like I don't know what'sgoing on.
So I said Okay, we need to dosome testing.
I spoke with the kid.
There was a lot of stress.
I did the testing and found amajor mineral imbalance.
Something shifted all hisminerals.
And when we started, of courseI had to start him on a couple
supplements.
We I had him come off certaininflammatory foods.
(14:24):
You would not believe theturnaround Within weeks back to
the gym, lifting stamina off thecharts.
He's happy and not on anymedications.
He was admitted to the hospitalbecause his kidney functions
went crazy.
Liver functions were high, sothey had him admitted to the
hospital for further testing andthey couldn't find anything
(14:45):
higher enzymes.
When he got home, his momcalled me and we connected.
It was amazing the response hisbody had and he's doing amazing
since then.
It was just a few things we hadto change and balance in his
body.
He had a low sodium, lowpotassium and very high calcium
magnesium markers and a lot ofsome of the inflammatory markers
(15:07):
was high on the test as well.
But we also did the urine testto take him side by side to make
sure to confirm what is whatwe're dealing with here.
And, yeah, we were able toexactly give him the right
product that his body needs to.
That will give him the bestbenefits, and he sure did.
And he feels amazing and he'svery happy.
(15:29):
Yeah, so now I he's speaking tothe world about it, so that's,
and he's very happy about how hefeels.
Right now he's not drinkinganymore.
So the stress caused him.
He thought drinking was thecoping mechanism to his stress.
That's the only way for him tode-stress was a few glasses of
(15:53):
alcohol at night.
That turned into more,unfortunately, more drinks, more
cocktails and things like that,because he thought he was
helped.
That was helping him cope withthe stressors, and then, before
he knew it, he couldn't stopdrinking.
So he doesn't drink, he doesn'tcrave alcohol anymore.
His story is phenomenal.
(16:13):
We're very happy and proud ofhim.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I imagine if he was drinking that much he was
probably dehydrated.
Another thing I've heard youtalk about causing a lot of
stress on the body.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Dehydration causes anxiety because the body's under
attack, not hydrated.
That also we have seen majorlink to anxiety and dehydration.
Completely, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I want to go back to one thing you mentioned.
You talked about sleepdisturbances.
As people age, women and mendon't sleep as well as they did
when they were younger.
What are some ways you have ofhelping people get some women
and men don't sleep as well asthey did when they were younger.
What are some ways you have ofhelping people get some rest and
prevent?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
additional stress.
Stress can disturb sleeppatterns.
Some people sit there and tossand turn.
They worry about life.
Some of those worries can becontrolled because they're like,
oh, I'm worried, I have an examtomorrow.
I hope I do.
Did I study enough?
Or it could be something that isnot controlled, okay.
So, for example, I had a clientthat came in and she's like
(17:11):
Nancy, I sit there, stare at thewall and worry about the
neighbor's house, the color oftheir door.
She's like who cares what theirhouse door look like and what
color is red?
I can't control that.
So I'm like, worrying aboutthat paint he put on the door at
his house.
What is this?
I can't do this.
(17:32):
I have my own stress and nowI'm worried about the neighbor's
paint.
It's funny, but it's true it'svery agitating because she has
no control over that.
Stress can disturb sleeppatterns.
When we do testing, we look atroot causes of sleep
interruption worry, overthinkingwhy the brain is not shutting
down, why is it not slowing down?
There's also a link that'slinked to the liver as well,
(17:55):
sometimes the over secretion ofglucagon, and so resistance can
be a factor there.
So there's way more impact orroot causes of sleep
interruption.
If you don't sleep well, you'renot rested in the morning,
cortisol is worse, you start offday high, which is not a good
(18:15):
pattern.
People should go into deep sleep.
The people now use the auraring to manage their sleep and
how deep they sleep and theyknow they've had a good sleep so
their day will be good If inthree days they had only 30
minutes of deep sleep.
They know they have to addressthat because you can't just go
(18:36):
30 minutes of deep sleep atnight because you won't be
refreshed and recover.
This is where healing happens.
If you don't sleep deep, it'shard to reset.
We look at the causes of sleepinterruption and the main causes
of those interruptions and welook at the levels or how can we
optimize the duration of deepsleep so that person can wake up
(18:58):
feeling refreshed in themorning, which will help with
the stress response people aregoing to want to get their
personal assessment and solvetheir stress problems.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Can you share the best way for folks to find you?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You can give us a call.
We are located in Alpharetta,Lockton Wellness.
Our phone number is404-809-4161.
Again, that is 404-809-4161.
You can also find us online atwwwblogtanwellnesscom, and we
are also on all social mediasFacebook, Instagram.
(19:33):
You can also find us there,LinkedIn, and we love to see
everyone.
We look forward to helpingeveryone get their health and
well-being to an optimized level, preventative to any issues or
inflammatory response and risksfor their health and well-being.
We're excited to have everyoneget the test, the baseline of
(19:55):
what their body's doing, andoptimize their health.
Please call 404-809-4161.
Thank you, Nancy.
Thank you.
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hey everybody.
We're excited today to betalking to Nancy from Locked In
Wellness.
Welcome, Nancy.
Hi Stacey, how are you?
I'm good.
I know today we're going to doa deep dive into stress and a
little bit with nutrition andhormones and how Locked In
Wellness is really helpingpeople address these issues in a
very natural way.
Maybe you can start byexplaining some effects of
(00:35):
stress on the body, like at thephysiological level, and talking
about that whole flight orfright response and how that all
works.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
I'm super excited to talk about this subject because
stress is stress.
Who's not stressed right?
It can be any form.
Stress itself starts with theactivation of the hypothalamic
pituitary adrenal, hpa and thesympathetic nervous system.
So when the sympathetic nervoussystem kicks in, it plays a
crucial role in the fight orflight response.
(01:07):
So, because it is preparing thebody for more action, which
causes, of course, the adrenalsto secrete the cortisol, the
stress hormone, can you?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
talk about cortisol and what it does in your body
and how that might contribute tothings like weight gain and
more stress.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And how that might contribute to things like weight
gain and more stress.
When we're stressed, the bodyreleases cortisol.
When cortisol is secreted bythe adrenals, it tends emotional
(01:49):
eating to cope with stressorsthat they're dealing with.
But also we know cortisol canalso promote the storage of fat.
So particularly around themidsection when people complain
about thickness in the middleit's usually caused by cortisol
in store because it does promotethe storage of fat in that area
.
So we tend to see people gainweight during stress periods and
(02:13):
we're not saying everybodygains weight during stress, but
most people tend to have thatissue and we see a lot of people
with concerns about I wasstressed, I had this situation.
Now I realize I'm an emotionaleater.
I tend to see myself copingwith certain situations through
(02:36):
food.
That's the only thing thatmakes me feel better.
And of course, the side effectsweight gain.
That's when they see thicknessin the middle of the body the
scale starts to increase.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
So fight or flight goes back to prehistoric times,
right, people having to hunt andgather their food, and cortisol
was a way to give them thatextra push.
But what you're saying is it'sa double whammy, because
cortisol stimulates yourappetite and makes you store
more fat, causing weight gain intwo ways.
Absolutely, it is a doubletrouble.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Cortisol is supposed to help us with the stress, but
too much cortisol can lead toweight gain.
People tend to complain of that.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Can you talk about some of the ways that you at
Locked in Wellness approach,stress management, and what
kinds of tools and supplementsand things are you using to help
people manage their cortisollevels and stress?
Speaker 3 (03:30):
At LockedIn Wellness we use a holistic approach to
dealing with stress andrecognizing that stress and the
impact of that for the wholebody and as a person, whether
it's mind, body or spirit.
So we do look at all of thoseaspects there.
So the way we look at it, ofcourse we do a lot of testing,
different testing, specificallyto pinpoint the cause of stress,
(03:53):
because the stress can beemotional stress and can be
physiological stress, so it canbe both sides.
Not necessarily all stress arelinked to emotions, it can be
other factors too.
We dig deep into the root causeof stress and how is that
impacting the body?
So for us, instead of simplygiving medication to cope with
(04:15):
stress, we look at the corecause.
We balance that with whethernutraceutical sorry, yeah,
nutraceutical, sorry,nutraceutical products, or
sometimes it's diet, controlledas well.
So it depends on the person andthe results of the testing that
we do.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Can you talk us through that testing, describe
what it is, what it measures andhow you use that to guide
decisions in patient care?
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Absolutely.
One of the tests that wecommonly use is called HTMA,
which is a hair tissue mineralanalysis test, and this test can
offer very valuable insightsinto how stress affects the body
by analyzing mineral levels andratios.
Prolonged stress can disturbthe body's delicate mineral
(05:02):
balance, which then we can seeimbalances in certain minerals.
That causes the impact or thephysical stress on the body.
The adrenal glands are crucialfor managing stress.
Utilizing those minerals likemagnesium.
When we look at magnesium onthe HDMI test, we know that
magnesium is an essentialelement in that test.
(05:26):
That helps with stress andhelps you, helps the response of
that stress, because that helpspromote the stress produces the
stress hormone.
So this test will show us a lotof different factors there, but
we look at all the differentminerals in there and the ratios
of these minerals.
That can also give us more ofan overall insight of how does
(05:51):
that impact the body and themetabolism, insight of how does
that impact the body and themetabolism.
So because we know stress canimpact your metabolism, as we
talked before we that, we knowcortisol can be a factor in
storing fat and visceral fat ingenerally speaking.
Now we know that also thesewhen we people stress, we tend
to see imbalance on thoseminerals and then we are when we
(06:11):
look at the test.
We are able to define thoseimbalances in balance through
supplementation or detoxing, orsometimes also can be diet
different eating, different kindof lifestyle, changing the
lifestyle or eating habits.
When we look at this HMA, wealso are looking at I'll give an
(06:34):
example calcium to phosphorusratios on that test because that
test also when we see thoseratios, this is a major
indicator for energy productionand stress response.
If calcium and phosphorus arenot balanced well, then we know
this person has issues withenergy and also stress.
We look at also sodium andpotassium levels, crucial to
(06:59):
adrenal activity.
If not balanced, we'll see moreanxiety.
People have more anxiety, moreemotional eating, more muscle
tension, fatigue.
That test is crucial toidentifying the root causes of
stress for each individual.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You mentioned looking at people's diet.
Are some symptoms of stresscaused by food sensitivities?
Is that something you look atto figure out what might be
causing inflammation in thatresponse?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Absolutely so.
As we know, food sensitivity isnot don't directly cure stress.
We know if we eliminate thosefoods is not going to be the
cure for stress, so that's notthe way we look at it.
But when we identify thosefoods that are trigger to
inflammation, it would thereduction of inflammation.
(07:50):
It does help the physical sideof stress impact on the body,
because we know foodsensitivities can cause
inflammation and disturb the gutmicrobiome linked to mood and
anxiety.
Removing the problem foodsmight reduce inflammation and
improve, of course, the guthealth, which potentially
leading to calmer nervous systemand it will decrease the stress
(08:11):
response nervous system and itwill decrease the stress
response.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
What modalities or strategies do you use to help
your clients deal with stressand to help them through this
process of healing?
Speaker 3 (08:21):
We use a couple things.
So we also do acupuncture laserto help support the adrenals as
well.
So we do that.
But I also do just recentlystarted doing this urine test
and this test goes to the laband it targets amino acids in
the body that are actually helpsus look at the catecholamine
(08:45):
response in the brain, stressresponse, fat how the body
deposits fats or store fat, andwhat the key essential minerals
help offset issues or factorsthat could be linked to stress
as well.
But we do, like I said, that'sa new test that we started doing
for stress to test and makesure that the body is
(09:09):
controlling stress properly.
Negative impact what can stresscause in the body?
The acupuncture laser is a hugefactor here.
We tend to see people feelbetter when we do those
acupuncture lasers because theydo help calm the body down.
It is driven by frequencies andthose frequencies help calm the
(09:30):
central nervous system.
That's the target here ourcentral nervous system.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
People talk about stress and weight gain, aging
and going into likeperimenopause and menopause.
We're hearing so much aboutthis on the news.
Everybody's talking about it.
Can you talk about how stressrelates to that and how you're
helping women go through thoseprocesses?
And a little bit less stressfulyeah?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Hormone imbalance at any age can cause physical or
emotional stress.
It doesn't have to be somebodywho's going through
perimenopause to menopause orpostmenopause, but hormone
imbalance is definitelycontribute to increased appetite
and decrease kind of wellbeingor health or energy or
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motivation to do other thingslike exercising, being outside.
People tend to feel run down,heavy.
I've had a lot of clients comein and heavy in themselves and
they never felt that before.
Now, of course, everybody'sdifferent, so we don't we can't
say everybody looks the same buteveryone is different and their
body's response is different.
So we don't.
We can't say everybody looksthe same, but everyone is
different and their body'sresponse is differently.
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But many individuals also turninto emotional eating as a
coping mechanism, as we talkedabout consuming unhealthy
comfort foods to help withtemporary relief of hormone
imbalances.
Because we tend to go through alot of mood swings through
hormone changes and for females,some people, their whole body
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changes.
Sometimes we lose stamina ormotivation to do things we love.
Hormone imbalance can causephysical and emotional stress.
One person can be very active.
Suddenly, with hormone changes,hot flashes comes in weight
gain even though they're eatingvery healthy.
They get thicker in the middle,cortisol is increasing.
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Their FSH level starts toincrease.
They're depressed, just don'tunderstand what is happening in
their body.
They see a change but don'trealize the differences,
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especially if it's perimenopause.
And then when we get intomenopause, with the hot flashes,
night sweats, interruptivesleep, people get headaches, a
lot of symptoms to menopause.
Those symptoms can go from oneside to another joint pain, hip
pain, knee pains.
We get lots of that withmenopause.
That leads to stress, becauseif this person is very active
and they always play tennis, forexample, and suddenly now they
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have these pains and aches andthey're not able to play well,
they will feel stress thatimpacts their activity level.
Calories they're burning on adaily base, which can lead to a
game.
Even if they are consciousabout their eating habits,
they're not necessarily eatingpoorly.
They may be very consciousabout what they're eating,
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counting calories, macros,micros, doing all their homework
.
But because of menopause stagescan lead to weight gain without
understanding why.
We analyze and figure out whythey're gaining weight, what's
the cause of that and if it ispart of the menopause phase for
females, we look at the stressimpact on the body and help them
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balance it all.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Can nutrition and supplements help manage?
Speaker 3 (12:51):
symptoms, especially hot flashes.
I had a client today.
She said I found out my hotflashes are linked to what I eat
.
I said okay, tell me more aboutthat.
She said every time I eatsomething in my food sensitivity
test I get a hot flash.
If I'm good, I don't have anysymptoms.
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She was talking about that.
She said wow, it's amazing howmy body responds to food
sensitivities.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Any other client stories about how you help them
work through stress?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Absolutely.
Actually I have a client.
It's a male.
He was 24 years old, so I sawhis mom previously for weight
loss.
One day she contacted me shesaid can you please give me a
call?
So I gave her a call and shesaid Nancy, I need your help.
And I said what's going on?
She said my son.
We don't know what is going onwith him.
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His anxiety is off the charts.
He's always been a good kid,suddenly anxious, worried, heavy
drinker.
She's like I don't evenrecognize my son anymore.
She's like he's depressed, hedoesn't do anything.
He's about to lose his job.
He just graduated, got a job.
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She's like I don't know what'sgoing on.
So I said Okay, we need to dosome testing.
I spoke with the kid.
There was a lot of stress.
I did the testing and found amajor mineral imbalance.
Something shifted all hisminerals.
And when we started, of courseI had to start him on a couple
supplements.
We I had him come off certaininflammatory foods.
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You would not believe theturnaround Within weeks back to
the gym, lifting stamina off thecharts.
He's happy and not on anymedications.
He was admitted to the hospitalbecause his kidney functions
went crazy.
Liver functions were high, sothey had him admitted to the
hospital for further testing andthey couldn't find anything
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higher enzymes.
When he got home, his momcalled me and we connected.
It was amazing the response hisbody had and he's doing amazing
since then.
It was just a few things we hadto change and balance in his
body.
He had a low sodium, lowpotassium and very high calcium
magnesium markers and a lot ofsome of the inflammatory markers
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was high on the test as well.
But we also did the urine testto take him side by side to make
sure to confirm what is whatwe're dealing with here.
And, yeah, we were able toexactly give him the right
product that his body needs to.
That will give him the bestbenefits, and he sure did.
And he feels amazing and he'svery happy.
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Yeah, so now I he's speaking tothe world about it, so that's,
and he's very happy about how hefeels.
Right now he's not drinkinganymore.
So the stress caused him.
He thought drinking was thecoping mechanism to his stress.
That's the only way for him tode-stress was a few glasses of
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alcohol at night.
That turned into more,unfortunately, more drinks, more
cocktails and things like that,because he thought he was
helped.
That was helping him cope withthe stressors, and then, before
he knew it, he couldn't stopdrinking.
So he doesn't drink, he doesn'tcrave alcohol anymore.
His story is phenomenal.
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We're very happy and proud ofhim.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I imagine if he was drinking that much he was
probably dehydrated.
Another thing I've heard youtalk about causing a lot of
stress on the body.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Dehydration causes anxiety because the body's under
attack, not hydrated.
That also we have seen majorlink to anxiety and dehydration.
Completely, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I want to go back to one thing you mentioned.
You talked about sleepdisturbances.
As people age, women and mendon't sleep as well as they did
when they were younger.
What are some ways you have ofhelping people get some women
and men don't sleep as well asthey did when they were younger.
What are some ways you have ofhelping people get some rest and
prevent?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
additional stress.
Stress can disturb sleeppatterns.
Some people sit there and tossand turn.
They worry about life.
Some of those worries can becontrolled because they're like,
oh, I'm worried, I have an examtomorrow.
I hope I do.
Did I study enough?
Or it could be something that isnot controlled, okay.
So, for example, I had a clientthat came in and she's like
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Nancy, I sit there, stare at thewall and worry about the
neighbor's house, the color oftheir door.
She's like who cares what theirhouse door look like and what
color is red?
I can't control that.
So I'm like, worrying aboutthat paint he put on the door at
his house.
What is this?
I can't do this.
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I have my own stress and nowI'm worried about the neighbor's
paint.
It's funny, but it's true it'svery agitating because she has
no control over that.
Stress can disturb sleeppatterns.
When we do testing, we look atroot causes of sleep
interruption worry, overthinkingwhy the brain is not shutting
down, why is it not slowing down?
There's also a link that'slinked to the liver as well,
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sometimes the over secretion ofglucagon, and so resistance can
be a factor there.
So there's way more impact orroot causes of sleep
interruption.
If you don't sleep well, you'renot rested in the morning,
cortisol is worse, you start offday high, which is not a good
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pattern.
People should go into deep sleep.
The people now use the auraring to manage their sleep and
how deep they sleep and theyknow they've had a good sleep so
their day will be good If inthree days they had only 30
minutes of deep sleep.
They know they have to addressthat because you can't just go
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30 minutes of deep sleep atnight because you won't be
refreshed and recover.
This is where healing happens.
If you don't sleep deep, it'shard to reset.
We look at the causes of sleepinterruption and the main causes
of those interruptions and welook at the levels or how can we
optimize the duration of deepsleep so that person can wake up
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feeling refreshed in themorning, which will help with
the stress response people aregoing to want to get their
personal assessment and solvetheir stress problems.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Can you share the best way for folks to find you?
Speaker 3 (19:10):
You can give us a call.
We are located in Alpharetta,Lockton Wellness.
Our phone number is404-809-4161.
Again, that is 404-809-4161.
You can also find us online atwwwblogtanwellnesscom, and we
are also on all social mediasFacebook, Instagram.
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You can also find us there,LinkedIn, and we love to see
everyone.
We look forward to helpingeveryone get their health and
well-being to an optimized level, preventative to any issues or
inflammatory response and risksfor their health and well-being.
We're excited to have everyoneget the test, the baseline of
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what their body's doing, andoptimize their health.
Please call 404-809-4161.
Thank you, Nancy.
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
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