June 12, 2025 • 38 mins
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We explore how healing through food works by comparing our body to a city where hormones are cars and food functions as traffic lights directing these messengers throughout our system.
• Feeling unwell has become normalized despite common symptoms like migraines, bloating, and fatigue not being normal parts of aging
• Understanding food as the traffic lights that direct hormonal communication helps explain why simply treating symptoms doesn't solve underlying problems
• The conventional medical approach often addresses the "cars" (symptoms) rather than fixing the "traffic lights" (food and lifestyle factors)
• Naihomy shares her personal healing journey after COVID weakened her immune system, leading to yeast issues manifesting in different ways
• Healing often means temporarily removing trigger foods that feed problem conditions—like eliminating sugar to address yeast overgrowth
• The body typically needs 7-10 days to show improvement when making dietary changes, and sometimes you feel worse before feeling better
• Conditions like PCOS, painful periods, skin issues, and fatigue can be significantly improved through targeted nutrition and lifestyle adjustments
• Learning your body's specific needs creates a foundation for long-term health rather than constantly treating recurring symptoms
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello friends, welcome back to Wealthy
Generation, that isW-E-L-L-T-H-Y.
Today's episode is actually anIG live that I did on Instagram
and I'm just giving you thislittle intro so you know what's
going on.
And I give an analogy to helpexplain how healing through food
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works.
And I give a personal exampleas to how I've been using food
to heal my body, because I feltlike I have been on the health
struggle bus for like two monthsnow.
That might be familiar, I know.
Sometimes my clients are likeugh, like why is the one thing
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after the other, like is thiseven worth it?
And I'll say is this even worthit, as in the lifestyle, or do
like trying to feed yourselfwell and live a lifestyle rooted
in wellness?
And my answer is always yes.
Yes, it is worth it becausethere are much more.
There's much more time not onthe struggle bus than on the
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struggle bus, and sometimes itjust comes all at once where
there's a lot of thingshappening at one time and then
it just kind of eases up.
Also, I feel like the recoverytime is faster and not as bad as
it can get if your wellness isnot good, like at a good level,
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right.
So I hope you enjoy it.
I'm also going to put the linkto the live on the show notes,
because one of the examples Igive is this rash that I have on
my neck.
So if you want to, you can popinto the IG live and see it
there.
So again, if you have anyquestions, if you want to reach
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out, feel free to do that as areminder before I let you go
listen to the IG live, I want toshare that.
If you're interested inone-on-one food and hormone
health coaching in a very, verypersonalized approach, I still
have spots available for mythree month offer.
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It is great to be in healthcoaching in the summertime
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You're going on vacation,you're enjoying life, and this
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There's going to be alldifferent seasons, all different
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about it.
Okay, I hope you enjoy thisepisode.
Bye, hello friends, how are you?
If you do not know who I am, Iam Naomi Jerez.
I am a food and hormone healthcoach.
I support women of color inusing food and lifestyle to
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redefine weight loss, heal theirbodies and, ultimately, live
their best, best life.
Okay, and today I want to havea conversation about healing
through food.
What does that look like?
What does that mean, I want togive you a very practical
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example, like real life example,that you can relate to, and how
does that affect your body?
And then I'll give you anexample of how I'm going through
that right now and how I amhealing myself through food.
Well, a combination of the two,okay.
So I posted recently on mystories, or maybe it's still up.
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Do you understand what it meansto heal through food?
I know I say that a lot, but alot of times you might not
understand what that is or whyis it important or why does it
matter.
So the first thing is that weare so used to feeling a certain
way, our baseline, that wedon't understand most of the
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time what it feels like to feelwell in our bodies.
I know I didn't.
And a lot of times when we'resuffering from things like
migraine and bloating and painand fatigue and exhaustion, it
is kind of glossed over asnormal just because it's common
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is not normal.
I want you to know that.
So it's like, oh, you're agingand that's why, or you're
getting older, that's why I meanthat's the same thing.
Or you are working a lot andyou're tired and you have so
many responsibilities and, yeah,you can be tired from those
things and, yes, we are agingand that impacts us at a certain
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capacity, but it doesn't meanthat we're always, always,
always not feeling well orthere's something happening in
our body that we're like we haveno control over.
I want you to know that thereis a way not to have migraines
all the time, not to be bloatedall the time, not to be in pain,
tired all the time, and usuallywe can dictate a lot of that
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through the food that we'reeating.
It is so important.
Imagine that your body is a city.
It's a very busy city.
There's a lot of things goingon.
If you live in a big city, youknow exactly what I mean.
There's a lot of thingshappening.
Now your body's a city, andthen I want you to imagine that
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the cars in this city are yourhormones and they're making
deliveries.
They're all Uber drivers orwhatever taxis.
They're going from one place toanother making deliveries,
giving directions, picking up,putting down, and they're all
over your city.
Now the food is the trafficlights.
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So I want you to imagine thatthe traffic lights are not
working in a busy city full ofcars.
What is that going to cause?
A lot of accidents.
Okay, there's going to be a lotof accidents happening, a lot
of braking and screeching andspeeding up and slowing down,
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and it must be stressful to be ahuman driving this car, because
there's not no self-drivingcars.
There's a human person drivingthis car and it's probably
pretty stressful for that persondriving the car because they
are always on high alert.
They don't know where anothercar is going to come from.
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Everything is very disorganized.
You need to watch all sides ofyou but you only have eyes to
look in one direction, exceptfor your mirrors, right, and
it's really hard to navigate andto have control over what
you're doing when everythingaround you is chaos or
disorganized and there's nothingreally giving appropriate
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direction.
Sound familiar, anyway, movingright along, okay, so no traffic
lights for these cars to havedirection, all right.
So, oh, oh, nevermind.
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I thought that my mic was noton, but I never connected it, so
I'm assuming you guys hear mebecause there's the mic on the
phone.
That's why I was like oh, whatis happening?
Anyway, back to the story.
So what happens usually in thiscity is that how they try and
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solve this problem is that theyalways address the car.
Okay, so the cars have brokenbumpers and broken taillights
and it's all in disarray and thesolution is to go to the auto
body shop and get your car fixed, to go back out.
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Most of the time, this is howillnesses, things that are going
on with your body, is addressedhere.
Okay, so they're not reallylooking at what's causing you to
get hurt all the time.
Why do you always have a brokenbumper and taillights?
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Those are the only things Iknow about cars, whatever.
Anyway, why is your car alwaysbroken?
That's never the question.
The question is, you show upand it's like oh here's, let's
fix it, let's patch it up, let'spaint it, let's get you a new
piece.
This is very true a lot of timesit's not all the time, okay,
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but a lot of the times where wego see a medical professional
and they give us a pill or creamto address the itchiness or the
upset stomach or theindigestion or your joint pain.
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And that's good to a certainextent, because you do want some
relief.
You're not feeling well, sohaving some relief can help you,
in a sense, continue to liveyour life, find another solution
and hopefully, what youprobably want is to heal, for
this not to keep on happeningagain and again, and again.
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But that doesn't necessarilyhappen because the main issue,
which is the traffic lights,haven't been fixed.
And now you're also under a lotof stress because you're
driving around in this car notknowing what's going to happen
and you keep getting intoaccidents.
So then you keep going back tothe repair shop and you keep
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getting these solutions.
So I want you to imagine youtake your car to the shop about
15, 20 times.
No matter how much you keeprepairing it and replacing
pieces and painting it, and allof that, it's not really going
to look the same anymore or asnew or as nice, right?
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Unless you're repairing thewhole outer shell, which then it
kind of defeats the purpose.
So that's the same thing thathappens with us, where it's like
the band-aid approach right,let's put on this cream, let's
try this lotion, let's try thismedication and and that
medication, and it's notnecessarily solving the root
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cause of it.
Okay, so imagine if we fix thelights, if we go to and fix the
lights, that way the cars havedirection as to where to go or
how to drive or what to do.
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So now these traffic lights isthe food that you're eating.
The food that you're eatingcommunicates with the rest of
your body.
It is full of nutrients, it isfull of minerals, it is full of
things like amino acids, whichare proteins, fiber, so many
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things good, healthy fats foryou.
So hormones are like littlecommunicators, little chemical
messengers in your body, and,like the cars, they're little
chemical messengers in your bodyand they need to be directed as
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to what to do, either by otherhormones a domino effect but
usually you can direct them fromthe outside in as to mostly how
you eat, but also otherlifestyle factors like how you
manage your stress, how's yoursleep, things like that.
So I want you to consider goingand fixing the traffic lights
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in your body, which again islike the food, to then address
the problem of the cars who keepon crashing to each other.
That's how I want you to startthinking about it.
So how can you direct things inyour body so that things are
always not clashing your body,so that things are always not
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clashing?
You're always not feeling notyour best.
Okay, and like I said in thebeginning, a lot of times we
don't know this information, weare not aware as to how much
autonomy we have A lot of timeswhen it comes to our health and
things that we can do to improveour wellness overall, and that
most of the time we're going toget support, but it's not the
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in-depth support that we need,and a lot of the times, the
institutions that we go to don'thave the time or maybe don't
have the knowledge or theeducation to go as deep with you
to understand what is wrongwith the traffic lights, what is
wrong or what's happening withthe food that you're eating.
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How do we repair this?
You need specific tools to goahead and repair the traffic
lights, and a lot of times thatis the whole knowledge base
that's missing.
Not knowing understanding food,although it's supposed to be
something super simple.
You just eat, but it's not justyou just eat, it's how you eat
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that really dictates what'shappening inside of your body,
and I hope that this analogy washelpful because I know a lot of
times it helps me understandconcepts better, and one way
that I'm doing this myself isthat I've had like a I don't
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know a wave of stuff going onwith me right.
So it started in March when Igot COVID for like two months,
and then it took me not twomonths, two weeks.
It took me a while to heal fromthat and again lots of.
I did use over-the-countermedication to help me feel
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better.
But I understood that the waymy body was going to heal was
from my own immune systemsupporting me to whatever was
happening.
So what I did when I feltbetter was I made myself things
to eat or I rested to give mybody the tools that it needed so
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that it can heal me while I wasfeeling okay taking these
over-the-counter medications.
So that happened.
That was a big knock to myimmune system and then I ended
up with a yeast infection.
I believe I think I know whathappened.
Another thing I do is I startto see what am I doing different
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, what am I not doing, what am Iskipping?
And it helps me.
What were the outliercircumstances that happened
within the last two weeks tohelp me piece together what
might have caused this and whatcan I do to prevent it in the
future?
Right, preventative care.
And it was really mind blowingto me because it had been about
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17 years that I had notexperienced the yeast infection.
So I was like what in the worldis happening?
What had changed?
Another thing I kept in mind isperimenopause.
Okay, because as a hormonefluctuation habit that can be a
cause of it, but also there werea lot of factors in my life
that could have contributed tome getting a yeast infection.
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So, then again,over-the-counter medication,
combined with what I know,supports my body.
To knock this out, one of themain things that yeast loves is
sugar.
Okay, so immediately I did anoverhaul of how I was eating and
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what I was putting into my body, in addition to rest.
I was extremely tired in orderto start to heal myself, and
these are very specificscenarios where there's a very
specific problem that I'm tryingto solve for.
But on the day to day, I tryand communicate with my body in
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a way that is supportive of myoverall wellness, and clearly, I
was probably doing things thatmy body was not handling so well
, and that's okay.
That is just a redirection,that is just a reminder, that is
just a reset.
Also, my immune system took areally big hit, getting COVID.
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But it's this good reminder ofwhat I do, how I eat, how I
interact with myself, has directeffects with what happens to me
.
What is going on Not all of thetime, right, it's really hard.
This is speculation, almostright.
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I am not scientificallygathering information, but when
you start to look at thepatterns and what happens, then
this starts to make sense.
One time I told my clientsometimes we don't know exactly
what the root of it is, but wecan work on the solution.
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We can work on the solution ofit.
So that got right.
I actually went to my doctorbecause I wanted to make sure
that everything was okay.
I know that those things aresensitive, so I just really
wanted to make sure and havesome evidence of a test that she
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ran and things like that thatthings were okay.
Now, a week ago, I got a funlittle rash on my neck.
You can still see it here and Idon't suffer from eczema or
psoriasis or other skinconditions.
It is just this isolated pieceof rash right here on the left
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side of my neck and I instantlyknew that it was related to
something inside of my body.
Now what's the first thing thatsomeone would do when they have
a rash on their skin and it'sitchy?
They go to the dermatologist,okay, or they grab some sort of
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lotion to try and make it goaway.
Me, knowing what I know, I knowthat if I go to the
dermatologist, they're going togive me steroid creams.
It's just, it's what everysingle other person has shared
has happened.
It is what has happened with me, with my son, because he does
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suffer from eczema and everytime I would take him with
breakouts, they would be likehe'll grow out of it.
Oh, he'll grow out of it.
Oh, here's steroid creams,here's stronger steroid creams
for him.
So my immediate thought with myrash was there's something
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inside that's not okay and it'smost likely part of my digestive
system.
And I waited a few days and itgot better, but it didn't fully
go away.
And then I decided to reach outto a health coach friend of
mine who is an expert on stuffon the skin, like things that
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are going on on the skin, andshe was like, oh, it looks like
a yeast rash.
I didn't tell her anything butshow her a photo.
Okay, and then I was like, oh,that's interesting, because I
had a yeast infection two weeksago and it is still in my body.
And it made so much sensebecause the funny thing with
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healing, especially somethinglike this, is that it starts to
get a lot worse before it startsto get better.
And that's exactly what Istarted to experience Now when
my friend confirmed that thiswas yeast.
I really took it into high gearto start to adjust even more
what I was eating and how I waseating it in order to give my
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body the space to heal, to movecertain foods around or abstain
from having certain foods inorder to give your body the
space to heal, because what Idon't want to do is to continue
to reinforce whatever is notokay in my body.
For example, if you're tryingto reverse your prediabetes,
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it's probably not a good idea tokeep consuming sugar in high
amounts.
You want to be smart about that.
If you want to heal yeast, youprobably don't want to have
sugar at all, because it's oneof the main things that feeds it
.
If you are having issues withyour gut right and certain
people, consuming gluten ordairy might be a very hard
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stressor on the gut or consumingcruciferous vegetables or beans
things like broccoli andcauliflower and cabbage might be
too much at that moment.
It doesn't mean.
For some people, yes, it meansthat every time they have it it
will be upsetting, and for somepeople, it just means that you
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need to give your gut orwhatever's going on in your body
, time to heal before youreintroduce these things again.
Okay.
So it's not this all or nothingthing happening here.
So I started removing a lot ofthings that I normally eat, like
dairy.
I tried to cut out as much aspossible.
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What else?
Sugar nothing added at all,including high sugar fruits.
The only thing I'm having issmall portions of, let's say,
rice or sourdough bread or acomplex carbohydrate, like maybe
a little bit of sweet potato orsomething like that, or
plantains.
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But even then, I'm being veryreserved with what I'm having
and I'm adding in things that Iknow help heal yeast, like
coconut oil, like turmeric, likeapple cider vinegar.
These are things that I have inmy home already, but I'm not
necessarily using it as often asI'm doing now.
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I'm really making sure I'mgetting my water in and
hydrating.
I also added in aloe vera orsabila.
It is really good for yeast.
It is really good for cleaningout your gut.
So I'm not normally having thesethings on a regular basis, but
now my body really does needthat for the healing of my body.
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So when this is over and it isclearing up a lot, it used to be
a lot redder and it used toitch all the time, and now it's
less.
So I'm giving myself theopportunity and the time for my
body to heal, and something Ialso read was that there's, like
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I mentioned before, this effectof you feeling worse before you
start feeling better, and Ifeel pretty crappy right now.
Um, I have mild migraine and Ifeel very fatigued and very
tired, even though I am sleepingwhen I'm supposed to be
sleeping.
So, in a sense, oftentimes too,we get confused in the healing
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process of what it's supposed tolook like or what it's supposed
to feel like, and we're notpatient enough for the body to
do its thing.
And I know from like,historically speaking and just
in general, that it takes thebody about seven days, about
seven to 10 days, for you tostart to feel better or see the
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changes or the differences, andso that's exactly what's
happening.
That's exactly what's happening.
This is how I'm using food, oradjusting food so that my body
has the opportunity to heal.
Am I going to reach out forsupport if I need to?
And this doesn't go away 100%.
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We also want to be smart, right, and do continue to have a
relationship and be incommunication with different
medical providers to make surethat you're healing and the
process is going well.
In my opinion, a lot of times Iwent to the doctor.
She gave me antifungalmedication, which I did take
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when I had the yeast infection,right.
But also what I know is that mybody might need support and
things might be gunked up inthere.
I need to make sure my liver isworking well and all the other
organs in there are doing well.
Therefore, I also know thatoftentimes when I go to the
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doctor like when I went to thedoctor she didn't ask me all
these questions about what I waseating and what I was doing.
She was just like here.
Here's the prescriptions, whichI'm thankful for, and I did
take one of them.
But at the same time, I knowthat this is not fixing the
traffic lights.
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If I don't change what I'mdoing and if I don't give my
body the opportunity to heal,then I might continue running
into this problem, and that issomething I don't want.
So I also have my holistichealth coaches on the other line
, being like what else do I needto do to make sure that the
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insides of me are great or arehealed, or what do I need to do?
Because I am really great insome areas and there are other
areas where I also need support.
I am human as well, so I hopethis was helpful.
I want you to know that thisapplies to just about everything
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If you're suffering from PCOS,if you have IBS, if you suffer
from migraines, from bloating,from hyperpigmentation that's
related to prediabetes.
What else?
Painful periods, certain typesof infertility, um, skin
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conditions like eczema andpsoriasis and things like that.
If your hair is falling out, ifyou're constantly tired, if you
have joint pain all of thesethings are 100% issues and
challenges that can be addressedwith food and lifestyle and you
can feel well in your bodyagain.
And sometimes it might feellike you're in the struggle bus,
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like I have felt for the pasttwo months really and then your
body settles back down and youlearn from those experiences and
you take note of.
These.
Things are super helpful for me.
I should introduce these thingsinto my body every once in a
while.
And, oops, maybe I should pay alittle bit more attention of
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what I'm having, because when weget super busy, like I have
been in the past two months, Ikind of lose track too and I'm
like okay, well, I'm eating out.
More often than not, I'mmissing the mark on hydration,
I'm feeling tired, but I'm likeokay, well, I'm eating out more
often than not, I'm missing themark on hydration, I'm feeling
tired but I'm not resting, andthis is a really good reset and
reminder for me of like no bitch, you need to slow down.
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We need to actually continue topay attention and go back to
the basics of what you knowworks for you, and I want you to
know what the basics are ofwhat works for you.
My heart hurts and I getexhausted from I don't actually
get exhausted, but it's just sosad to continue to hear the
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struggles that the women in ourcommunity are going through with
their health and their wellnessand not knowing, like you don't
know what you don't know thatthere are absolutely things that
you can do about it throughjust your wellness, through how
you're eating, through howyou're resting, managing your
stress, managing your sleep, andmost of the time it's just
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information missing.
Like in the analogy I gave inthe beginning.
It's like you need instructionson how to fix those traffic
lights so all the cars are notcrashing into each other all the
time and that can take you avery, very, very long way.
So if you're interested in,let's say, fixing your traffic
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lights, understanding the carsin your body and understanding
the traffic lights and if you'rehere towards the end, then I'm
going to put the replay up orI'm going to also put this in my
podcast so that you guys canlisten to it but essentially is,
how do you communicate withyour body from your inside out?
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I gave the analogy that yourbody is a city and the cars are
your hormones in your body,giving messages here and there,
but the traffic lights are notworking and the traffic lights
are the food and the cars keepcrashing into each other and
instead of fixing andunderstanding that the traffic
lights are the main issue,because the cars then won't be
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crashing into each other andwill be more organized, the
solution that happens is thatyou take your car to the auto
body shop a hundred times, everysingle time you crash, to get
it repaired and you start tokind of look like a little hurt
out in these streets, instead ofbeing like oh, if we fix the
traffic lights aka your food andlifestyle we wouldn't be
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crashing in the first place, thefirst place, okay.
So I want to invite you tolearn more about yourself, to
learn more about why.
Are you not feeling well?
What's contributing to you notfeeling well?
What can you do so that you canfeeling well?
What's contributing to you notfeeling well?
What can you do so that you canfeel better, that it's not just
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always that you're gettingolder?
Do not wait for that diagnosisto happen.
Be like oops, oh, my gosh, look, you are diagnosed with a XYZ
Because, as I mentioned, there'sa lot of things that you can do
with how you communicate withyour body from the outside, in
how you manage your food, yoursleep, your stress, your
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movement all play a big role asto how your body's doing and is
responding.
And if you want support in that,that is exactly what I support
you with and I arm you with theknowledge base, with the skills,
with the tools that arepersonalized to you and your
lifestyle and what you like,instead of it being some generic
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plan out in the streets that isoverwhelming enough to follow.
We make it so that it'ssustainable for you, so it's not
stressful for you, because thatdefeats the purpose, and you're
armed with knowledge of why areyou making those decisions?
And you're armed withself-awareness of oh, I'm
getting this rash.
What might it be?
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Oh, my stomach is hurting, Ihave diarrhea, I have
constipation, my periods havechanged and have that curiosity
innately be reborn within you sothat you can go ahead and then
address it in the best way thatyou need to.
Maybe that is a doctor, maybethat is holistic wellness, maybe
it is analyzing what's beengoing on in your life and how
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have you been eating.
But if you are this big agealready and you have not found a
solution or do not know anymore than you did five years ago
, 10 years ago, about what isgoing on with you, then we
should have a conversation withme, because it might be just
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arming you with that knowledgeand understanding of how to
communicate with your own self,with your own body.
And you can do that throughjust sending me a DM on
Instagram.
Right here you can go ahead andbook a free consultation call
with the link in my bio.
That is also available and wecan get the process rolling.
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I currently have my three monthprogram available, where we
meet on a weekly basis it's justyou and me on Zoom.
We talk it out, we see what'shappening, how you're feeling,
what you're struggling with, andthen I start to arm you with
tools, knowledge, information asto how to help yourself feel
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better, and resources as well.
Again, sometimes we don't knowwhat we don't know and sometimes
the resources is how do youcommunicate with your doctor?
What questions do you ask yourdoctor?
What can you request from yourdoctor?
That's part of the process aswell.
It's not just a one-sided thing.
This is why it is a holisticapproach.
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So, aside from that, you haveaccess to me 24-7 on WhatsApp.
We have a nice, fun littleconversation.
I want you to always besupported.
You definitely do not gethandouts and it's like bye-bye,
figure it out, because I'm sureyou're tired of doing that shit.
Right, you're actually going tobe supported in a way that's
culturally relevant, in a waythat's attuned to the
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environment we're living in andin a way that is approachable.
Right, like, being culturallyrelevant, not only in food, but
in lived experiences, is areally big deal, and that's
exactly why I'm here for you.
All right, someone found mebecause they were looking for a
nutritionist and they were likeevery single person I found was
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white, and then I bumped intoyou.
Okay, and now we're workingtogether, all right.
So I invite you, let's connect.
If this deeply resonated withyou and you're like damn, I've
never thought about addressingthe deeper part of what might be
happening with me, or evenconsider that it can be healed,
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then this is for you.
I invite you to contact me andI cannot wait to speak to you
Again.
I am Naomi Jerez.
I'm a food and hormone healthcoach and I support women of
color in how to heal theirbodies through food, how to
redefine weight loss, what thatactually means for you, and how
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to actually live your best liferooted in wellness.
We all deserve that, and thisis something I want for you.
So I'll see you later.
Bye.
Hello friends, welcome back to Wealthy
Generation, that isW-E-L-L-T-H-Y.
Today's episode is actually anIG live that I did on Instagram
and I'm just giving you thislittle intro so you know what's
going on.
And I give an analogy to helpexplain how healing through food
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works.
And I give a personal exampleas to how I've been using food
to heal my body, because I feltlike I have been on the health
struggle bus for like two monthsnow.
That might be familiar, I know.
Sometimes my clients are likeugh, like why is the one thing
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after the other, like is thiseven worth it?
And I'll say is this even worthit, as in the lifestyle, or do
like trying to feed yourselfwell and live a lifestyle rooted
in wellness?
And my answer is always yes.
Yes, it is worth it becausethere are much more.
There's much more time not onthe struggle bus than on the
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struggle bus, and sometimes itjust comes all at once where
there's a lot of thingshappening at one time and then
it just kind of eases up.
Also, I feel like the recoverytime is faster and not as bad as
it can get if your wellness isnot good, like at a good level,
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right.
So I hope you enjoy it.
I'm also going to put the linkto the live on the show notes,
because one of the examples Igive is this rash that I have on
my neck.
So if you want to, you can popinto the IG live and see it
there.
So again, if you have anyquestions, if you want to reach
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out, feel free to do that as areminder before I let you go
listen to the IG live, I want toshare that.
If you're interested inone-on-one food and hormone
health coaching in a very, verypersonalized approach, I still
have spots available for mythree month offer.
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It is great to go through thesummertime, as much as you don't
think it is great.
It is great to be in healthcoaching in the summertime
because it will only speed upyour learning more or less
because you're probably not inyour regular routine.
Your schedule is a little bitall over the place.
You're going on vacation,you're enjoying life, and this
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is a really fun opportunity todo hands-on learning and be
supported.
I don't want you to think like,oh, I'm going to live my best
life and then I'm going to startover in the fall or whenever it
is.
I want you to start thinking ofhow are you going to make this
a lifestyle?
There's going to be alldifferent seasons, all different
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circumstances, and how do yougain the skills and the habits
to support you through eachsection?
Okay, and I know summer can bekind of a tough one, but the
great part is that you're goingto be supported, we're going to
be together and you always haveWhatsApp access to me in the
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times where you're like oh, Ican't wait till our next weekly
call, I need support right now,or I want to share my win right
now, and that's exactly what youhave access to.
Okay, if you have any questionsabout the program, I invite you
to book a free consultationcall, with the link in the show
notes as well, or send me amessage and we can chat more
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about it.
Okay, I hope you enjoy thisepisode.
Bye, hello friends, how are you?
If you do not know who I am, Iam Naomi Jerez.
I am a food and hormone healthcoach.
I support women of color inusing food and lifestyle to
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redefine weight loss, heal theirbodies and, ultimately, live
their best, best life.
Okay, and today I want to havea conversation about healing
through food.
What does that look like?
What does that mean, I want togive you a very practical
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example, like real life example,that you can relate to, and how
does that affect your body?
And then I'll give you anexample of how I'm going through
that right now and how I amhealing myself through food.
Well, a combination of the two,okay.
So I posted recently on mystories, or maybe it's still up.
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Do you understand what it meansto heal through food?
I know I say that a lot, but alot of times you might not
understand what that is or whyis it important or why does it
matter.
So the first thing is that weare so used to feeling a certain
way, our baseline, that wedon't understand most of the
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time what it feels like to feelwell in our bodies.
I know I didn't.
And a lot of times when we'resuffering from things like
migraine and bloating and painand fatigue and exhaustion, it
is kind of glossed over asnormal just because it's common
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is not normal.
I want you to know that.
So it's like, oh, you're agingand that's why, or you're
getting older, that's why I meanthat's the same thing.
Or you are working a lot andyou're tired and you have so
many responsibilities and, yeah,you can be tired from those
things and, yes, we are agingand that impacts us at a certain
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capacity, but it doesn't meanthat we're always, always,
always not feeling well orthere's something happening in
our body that we're like we haveno control over.
I want you to know that thereis a way not to have migraines
all the time, not to be bloatedall the time, not to be in pain,
tired all the time, and usuallywe can dictate a lot of that
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through the food that we'reeating.
It is so important.
Imagine that your body is a city.
It's a very busy city.
There's a lot of things goingon.
If you live in a big city, youknow exactly what I mean.
There's a lot of thingshappening.
Now your body's a city, andthen I want you to imagine that
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the cars in this city are yourhormones and they're making
deliveries.
They're all Uber drivers orwhatever taxis.
They're going from one place toanother making deliveries,
giving directions, picking up,putting down, and they're all
over your city.
Now the food is the trafficlights.
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So I want you to imagine thatthe traffic lights are not
working in a busy city full ofcars.
What is that going to cause?
A lot of accidents.
Okay, there's going to be a lotof accidents happening, a lot
of braking and screeching andspeeding up and slowing down,
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and it must be stressful to be ahuman driving this car, because
there's not no self-drivingcars.
There's a human person drivingthis car and it's probably
pretty stressful for that persondriving the car because they
are always on high alert.
They don't know where anothercar is going to come from.
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Everything is very disorganized.
You need to watch all sides ofyou but you only have eyes to
look in one direction, exceptfor your mirrors, right, and
it's really hard to navigate andto have control over what
you're doing when everythingaround you is chaos or
disorganized and there's nothingreally giving appropriate
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direction.
Sound familiar, anyway, movingright along, okay, so no traffic
lights for these cars to havedirection, all right.
So, oh, oh, nevermind.
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I thought that my mic was noton, but I never connected it, so
I'm assuming you guys hear mebecause there's the mic on the
phone.
That's why I was like oh, whatis happening?
Anyway, back to the story.
So what happens usually in thiscity is that how they try and
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solve this problem is that theyalways address the car.
Okay, so the cars have brokenbumpers and broken taillights
and it's all in disarray and thesolution is to go to the auto
body shop and get your car fixed, to go back out.
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Most of the time, this is howillnesses, things that are going
on with your body, is addressedhere.
Okay, so they're not reallylooking at what's causing you to
get hurt all the time.
Why do you always have a brokenbumper and taillights?
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Those are the only things Iknow about cars, whatever.
Anyway, why is your car alwaysbroken?
That's never the question.
The question is, you show upand it's like oh here's, let's
fix it, let's patch it up, let'spaint it, let's get you a new
piece.
This is very true a lot of timesit's not all the time, okay,
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but a lot of the times where wego see a medical professional
and they give us a pill or creamto address the itchiness or the
upset stomach or theindigestion or your joint pain.
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And that's good to a certainextent, because you do want some
relief.
You're not feeling well, sohaving some relief can help you,
in a sense, continue to liveyour life, find another solution
and hopefully, what youprobably want is to heal, for
this not to keep on happeningagain and again, and again.
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But that doesn't necessarilyhappen because the main issue,
which is the traffic lights,haven't been fixed.
And now you're also under a lotof stress because you're
driving around in this car notknowing what's going to happen
and you keep getting intoaccidents.
So then you keep going back tothe repair shop and you keep
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getting these solutions.
So I want you to imagine youtake your car to the shop about
15, 20 times.
No matter how much you keeprepairing it and replacing
pieces and painting it, and allof that, it's not really going
to look the same anymore or asnew or as nice, right?
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Unless you're repairing thewhole outer shell, which then it
kind of defeats the purpose.
So that's the same thing thathappens with us, where it's like
the band-aid approach right,let's put on this cream, let's
try this lotion, let's try thismedication and and that
medication, and it's notnecessarily solving the root
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cause of it.
Okay, so imagine if we fix thelights, if we go to and fix the
lights, that way the cars havedirection as to where to go or
how to drive or what to do.
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So now these traffic lights isthe food that you're eating.
The food that you're eatingcommunicates with the rest of
your body.
It is full of nutrients, it isfull of minerals, it is full of
things like amino acids, whichare proteins, fiber, so many
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things good, healthy fats foryou.
So hormones are like littlecommunicators, little chemical
messengers in your body, and,like the cars, they're little
chemical messengers in your bodyand they need to be directed as
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to what to do, either by otherhormones a domino effect but
usually you can direct them fromthe outside in as to mostly how
you eat, but also otherlifestyle factors like how you
manage your stress, how's yoursleep, things like that.
So I want you to consider goingand fixing the traffic lights
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in your body, which again islike the food, to then address
the problem of the cars who keepon crashing to each other.
That's how I want you to startthinking about it.
So how can you direct things inyour body so that things are
always not clashing your body,so that things are always not
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clashing?
You're always not feeling notyour best.
Okay, and like I said in thebeginning, a lot of times we
don't know this information, weare not aware as to how much
autonomy we have A lot of timeswhen it comes to our health and
things that we can do to improveour wellness overall, and that
most of the time we're going toget support, but it's not the
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in-depth support that we need,and a lot of the times, the
institutions that we go to don'thave the time or maybe don't
have the knowledge or theeducation to go as deep with you
to understand what is wrongwith the traffic lights, what is
wrong or what's happening withthe food that you're eating.
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How do we repair this?
You need specific tools to goahead and repair the traffic
lights, and a lot of times thatis the whole knowledge base
that's missing.
Not knowing understanding food,although it's supposed to be
something super simple.
You just eat, but it's not justyou just eat, it's how you eat
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that really dictates what'shappening inside of your body,
and I hope that this analogy washelpful because I know a lot of
times it helps me understandconcepts better, and one way
that I'm doing this myself isthat I've had like a I don't
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know a wave of stuff going onwith me right.
So it started in March when Igot COVID for like two months,
and then it took me not twomonths, two weeks.
It took me a while to heal fromthat and again lots of.
I did use over-the-countermedication to help me feel
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better.
But I understood that the waymy body was going to heal was
from my own immune systemsupporting me to whatever was
happening.
So what I did when I feltbetter was I made myself things
to eat or I rested to give mybody the tools that it needed so
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that it can heal me while I wasfeeling okay taking these
over-the-counter medications.
So that happened.
That was a big knock to myimmune system and then I ended
up with a yeast infection.
I believe I think I know whathappened.
Another thing I do is I startto see what am I doing different
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, what am I not doing, what am Iskipping?
And it helps me.
What were the outliercircumstances that happened
within the last two weeks tohelp me piece together what
might have caused this and whatcan I do to prevent it in the
future?
Right, preventative care.
And it was really mind blowingto me because it had been about
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17 years that I had notexperienced the yeast infection.
So I was like what in the worldis happening?
What had changed?
Another thing I kept in mind isperimenopause.
Okay, because as a hormonefluctuation habit that can be a
cause of it, but also there werea lot of factors in my life
that could have contributed tome getting a yeast infection.
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So, then again,over-the-counter medication,
combined with what I know,supports my body.
To knock this out, one of themain things that yeast loves is
sugar.
Okay, so immediately I did anoverhaul of how I was eating and
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what I was putting into my body, in addition to rest.
I was extremely tired in orderto start to heal myself, and
these are very specificscenarios where there's a very
specific problem that I'm tryingto solve for.
But on the day to day, I tryand communicate with my body in
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a way that is supportive of myoverall wellness, and clearly, I
was probably doing things thatmy body was not handling so well
, and that's okay.
That is just a redirection,that is just a reminder, that is
just a reset.
Also, my immune system took areally big hit, getting COVID.
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But it's this good reminder ofwhat I do, how I eat, how I
interact with myself, has directeffects with what happens to me
.
What is going on Not all of thetime, right, it's really hard.
This is speculation, almostright.
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I am not scientificallygathering information, but when
you start to look at thepatterns and what happens, then
this starts to make sense.
One time I told my clientsometimes we don't know exactly
what the root of it is, but wecan work on the solution.
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We can work on the solution ofit.
So that got right.
I actually went to my doctorbecause I wanted to make sure
that everything was okay.
I know that those things aresensitive, so I just really
wanted to make sure and havesome evidence of a test that she
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ran and things like that thatthings were okay.
Now, a week ago, I got a funlittle rash on my neck.
You can still see it here and Idon't suffer from eczema or
psoriasis or other skinconditions.
It is just this isolated pieceof rash right here on the left
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side of my neck and I instantlyknew that it was related to
something inside of my body.
Now what's the first thing thatsomeone would do when they have
a rash on their skin and it'sitchy?
They go to the dermatologist,okay, or they grab some sort of
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lotion to try and make it goaway.
Me, knowing what I know, I knowthat if I go to the
dermatologist, they're going togive me steroid creams.
It's just, it's what everysingle other person has shared
has happened.
It is what has happened with me, with my son, because he does
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suffer from eczema and everytime I would take him with
breakouts, they would be likehe'll grow out of it.
Oh, he'll grow out of it.
Oh, here's steroid creams,here's stronger steroid creams
for him.
So my immediate thought with myrash was there's something
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inside that's not okay and it'smost likely part of my digestive
system.
And I waited a few days and itgot better, but it didn't fully
go away.
And then I decided to reach outto a health coach friend of
mine who is an expert on stuffon the skin, like things that
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are going on on the skin, andshe was like, oh, it looks like
a yeast rash.
I didn't tell her anything butshow her a photo.
Okay, and then I was like, oh,that's interesting, because I
had a yeast infection two weeksago and it is still in my body.
And it made so much sensebecause the funny thing with
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healing, especially somethinglike this, is that it starts to
get a lot worse before it startsto get better.
And that's exactly what Istarted to experience Now when
my friend confirmed that thiswas yeast.
I really took it into high gearto start to adjust even more
what I was eating and how I waseating it in order to give my
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body the space to heal, to movecertain foods around or abstain
from having certain foods inorder to give your body the
space to heal, because what Idon't want to do is to continue
to reinforce whatever is notokay in my body.
For example, if you're tryingto reverse your prediabetes,
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it's probably not a good idea tokeep consuming sugar in high
amounts.
You want to be smart about that.
If you want to heal yeast, youprobably don't want to have
sugar at all, because it's oneof the main things that feeds it
.
If you are having issues withyour gut right and certain
people, consuming gluten ordairy might be a very hard
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stressor on the gut or consumingcruciferous vegetables or beans
things like broccoli andcauliflower and cabbage might be
too much at that moment.
It doesn't mean.
For some people, yes, it meansthat every time they have it it
will be upsetting, and for somepeople, it just means that you
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need to give your gut orwhatever's going on in your body
, time to heal before youreintroduce these things again.
Okay.
So it's not this all or nothingthing happening here.
So I started removing a lot ofthings that I normally eat, like
dairy.
I tried to cut out as much aspossible.
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What else?
Sugar nothing added at all,including high sugar fruits.
The only thing I'm having issmall portions of, let's say,
rice or sourdough bread or acomplex carbohydrate, like maybe
a little bit of sweet potato orsomething like that, or
plantains.
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But even then, I'm being veryreserved with what I'm having
and I'm adding in things that Iknow help heal yeast, like
coconut oil, like turmeric, likeapple cider vinegar.
These are things that I have inmy home already, but I'm not
necessarily using it as often asI'm doing now.
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I'm really making sure I'mgetting my water in and
hydrating.
I also added in aloe vera orsabila.
It is really good for yeast.
It is really good for cleaningout your gut.
So I'm not normally having thesethings on a regular basis, but
now my body really does needthat for the healing of my body.
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So when this is over and it isclearing up a lot, it used to be
a lot redder and it used toitch all the time, and now it's
less.
So I'm giving myself theopportunity and the time for my
body to heal, and something Ialso read was that there's, like
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I mentioned before, this effectof you feeling worse before you
start feeling better, and Ifeel pretty crappy right now.
Um, I have mild migraine and Ifeel very fatigued and very
tired, even though I am sleepingwhen I'm supposed to be
sleeping.
So, in a sense, oftentimes too,we get confused in the healing
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process of what it's supposed tolook like or what it's supposed
to feel like, and we're notpatient enough for the body to
do its thing.
And I know from like,historically speaking and just
in general, that it takes thebody about seven days, about
seven to 10 days, for you tostart to feel better or see the
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changes or the differences, andso that's exactly what's
happening.
That's exactly what's happening.
This is how I'm using food, oradjusting food so that my body
has the opportunity to heal.
Am I going to reach out forsupport if I need to?
And this doesn't go away 100%.
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We also want to be smart, right, and do continue to have a
relationship and be incommunication with different
medical providers to make surethat you're healing and the
process is going well.
In my opinion, a lot of times Iwent to the doctor.
She gave me antifungalmedication, which I did take
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when I had the yeast infection,right.
But also what I know is that mybody might need support and
things might be gunked up inthere.
I need to make sure my liver isworking well and all the other
organs in there are doing well.
Therefore, I also know thatoftentimes when I go to the
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doctor like when I went to thedoctor she didn't ask me all
these questions about what I waseating and what I was doing.
She was just like here.
Here's the prescriptions, whichI'm thankful for, and I did
take one of them.
But at the same time, I knowthat this is not fixing the
traffic lights.
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If I don't change what I'mdoing and if I don't give my
body the opportunity to heal,then I might continue running
into this problem, and that issomething I don't want.
So I also have my holistichealth coaches on the other line
, being like what else do I needto do to make sure that the
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insides of me are great or arehealed, or what do I need to do?
Because I am really great insome areas and there are other
areas where I also need support.
I am human as well, so I hopethis was helpful.
I want you to know that thisapplies to just about everything
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If you're suffering from PCOS,if you have IBS, if you suffer
from migraines, from bloating,from hyperpigmentation that's
related to prediabetes.
What else?
Painful periods, certain typesof infertility, um, skin
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conditions like eczema andpsoriasis and things like that.
If your hair is falling out, ifyou're constantly tired, if you
have joint pain all of thesethings are 100% issues and
challenges that can be addressedwith food and lifestyle and you
can feel well in your bodyagain.
And sometimes it might feellike you're in the struggle bus,
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like I have felt for the pasttwo months really and then your
body settles back down and youlearn from those experiences and
you take note of.
These.
Things are super helpful for me.
I should introduce these thingsinto my body every once in a
while.
And, oops, maybe I should pay alittle bit more attention of
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what I'm having, because when weget super busy, like I have
been in the past two months, Ikind of lose track too and I'm
like okay, well, I'm eating out.
More often than not, I'mmissing the mark on hydration,
I'm feeling tired, but I'm likeokay, well, I'm eating out more
often than not, I'm missing themark on hydration, I'm feeling
tired but I'm not resting, andthis is a really good reset and
reminder for me of like no bitch, you need to slow down.
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We need to actually continue topay attention and go back to
the basics of what you knowworks for you, and I want you to
know what the basics are ofwhat works for you.
My heart hurts and I getexhausted from I don't actually
get exhausted, but it's just sosad to continue to hear the
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struggles that the women in ourcommunity are going through with
their health and their wellnessand not knowing, like you don't
know what you don't know thatthere are absolutely things that
you can do about it throughjust your wellness, through how
you're eating, through howyou're resting, managing your
stress, managing your sleep, andmost of the time it's just
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information missing.
Like in the analogy I gave inthe beginning.
It's like you need instructionson how to fix those traffic
lights so all the cars are notcrashing into each other all the
time and that can take you avery, very, very long way.
So if you're interested in,let's say, fixing your traffic
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lights, understanding the carsin your body and understanding
the traffic lights and if you'rehere towards the end, then I'm
going to put the replay up orI'm going to also put this in my
podcast so that you guys canlisten to it but essentially is,
how do you communicate withyour body from your inside out?
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I gave the analogy that yourbody is a city and the cars are
your hormones in your body,giving messages here and there,
but the traffic lights are notworking and the traffic lights
are the food and the cars keepcrashing into each other and
instead of fixing andunderstanding that the traffic
lights are the main issue,because the cars then won't be
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crashing into each other andwill be more organized, the
solution that happens is thatyou take your car to the auto
body shop a hundred times, everysingle time you crash, to get
it repaired and you start tokind of look like a little hurt
out in these streets, instead ofbeing like oh, if we fix the
traffic lights aka your food andlifestyle we wouldn't be
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crashing in the first place, thefirst place, okay.
So I want to invite you tolearn more about yourself, to
learn more about why.
Are you not feeling well?
What's contributing to you notfeeling well?
What can you do so that you canfeeling well?
What's contributing to you notfeeling well?
What can you do so that you canfeel better, that it's not just
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always that you're gettingolder?
Do not wait for that diagnosisto happen.
Be like oops, oh, my gosh, look, you are diagnosed with a XYZ
Because, as I mentioned, there'sa lot of things that you can do
with how you communicate withyour body from the outside, in
how you manage your food, yoursleep, your stress, your
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movement all play a big role asto how your body's doing and is
responding.
And if you want support in that,that is exactly what I support
you with and I arm you with theknowledge base, with the skills,
with the tools that arepersonalized to you and your
lifestyle and what you like,instead of it being some generic
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plan out in the streets that isoverwhelming enough to follow.
We make it so that it'ssustainable for you, so it's not
stressful for you, because thatdefeats the purpose, and you're
armed with knowledge of why areyou making those decisions?
And you're armed withself-awareness of oh, I'm
getting this rash.
What might it be?
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Oh, my stomach is hurting, Ihave diarrhea, I have
constipation, my periods havechanged and have that curiosity
innately be reborn within you sothat you can go ahead and then
address it in the best way thatyou need to.
Maybe that is a doctor, maybethat is holistic wellness, maybe
it is analyzing what's beengoing on in your life and how
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have you been eating.
But if you are this big agealready and you have not found a
solution or do not know anymore than you did five years ago
, 10 years ago, about what isgoing on with you, then we
should have a conversation withme, because it might be just
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arming you with that knowledgeand understanding of how to
communicate with your own self,with your own body.
And you can do that throughjust sending me a DM on
Instagram.
Right here you can go ahead andbook a free consultation call
with the link in my bio.
That is also available and wecan get the process rolling.
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I currently have my three monthprogram available, where we
meet on a weekly basis it's justyou and me on Zoom.
We talk it out, we see what'shappening, how you're feeling,
what you're struggling with, andthen I start to arm you with
tools, knowledge, information asto how to help yourself feel
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better, and resources as well.
Again, sometimes we don't knowwhat we don't know and sometimes
the resources is how do youcommunicate with your doctor?
What questions do you ask yourdoctor?
What can you request from yourdoctor?
That's part of the process aswell.
It's not just a one-sided thing.
This is why it is a holisticapproach.
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So, aside from that, you haveaccess to me 24-7 on WhatsApp.
We have a nice, fun littleconversation.
I want you to always besupported.
You definitely do not gethandouts and it's like bye-bye,
figure it out, because I'm sureyou're tired of doing that shit.
Right, you're actually going tobe supported in a way that's
culturally relevant, in a waythat's attuned to the
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environment we're living in andin a way that is approachable.
Right, like, being culturallyrelevant, not only in food, but
in lived experiences, is areally big deal, and that's
exactly why I'm here for you.
All right, someone found mebecause they were looking for a
nutritionist and they were likeevery single person I found was
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white, and then I bumped intoyou.
Okay, and now we're workingtogether, all right.
So I invite you, let's connect.
If this deeply resonated withyou and you're like damn, I've
never thought about addressingthe deeper part of what might be
happening with me, or evenconsider that it can be healed,
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then this is for you.
I invite you to contact me andI cannot wait to speak to you
Again.
I am Naomi Jerez.
I'm a food and hormone healthcoach and I support women of
color in how to heal theirbodies through food, how to
redefine weight loss, what thatactually means for you, and how
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to actually live your best liferooted in wellness.
We all deserve that, and thisis something I want for you.
So I'll see you later.
Bye.
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