March 10, 2022 • 39 mins
My guest on this podcast is Lahana Vigliano. She’s the CEO of Nuvitru Wellness and a board certified clinical nutritionist. Lahana has a Bachelor of Nutrition Science degree and a Masters of Human Nutrition + Functional Medicine. She’s passionate about women's health, especially gut health & hormones! She’s passionate about natural remedies, research, reading, weight lifting, and cooking. Outside of work, she’s a wife and mother of two. Her family is the inspiration behind Nuvitru and continues to encourage her through everything.
Nuvitru is a team of functional certified nutritionists + dieticians that specifically focus on balancing women's hormones, restoring gut health, and more through comprehensive lab testing and using food as medicine!!
Nuvitru is a team of functional certified nutritionists + dieticians that specifically focus on balancing women's hormones, restoring gut health, and more through comprehensive lab testing and using food as medicine!!
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Hi, I'm Wendy Loie Sloane,and this is What's Up with Wendy's Podcast.
I just wanted to tell you alittle bit about myself. I began
my career in New York City asa television producer for talk show legends Phil
Donahue and Heraldo Rivera, and forthe last decade, I've used these experiences
to create my unique style in interviewinghundreds of a list celebrities, newsmakers,
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comedians, musicians, reality stars,fitness and nutrition experts, best selling authors,
and so much more. So.I hope you enjoy this wide variety
on my podcast. I hope you'llshare and subscribe, and again, thanks
for tuning in. Welcome to thisedition of What's Up with Wendy's Podcast.
If you've ever struggled with gut health, hormone and balanced mood swings, or
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you're just curious about any of thisand even poop, We're going to be
talking about my guest today. She'sthe CEO of nu Vitrue Wellness. She's
board certified clinical nutritionists. She's passionateabout women's health, especially gut health.
We're going to be talking about everythingto do with the gut, also hormone
imbalances, and foods to support hormones, and so much more. Mahanna Bigliano
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is going to be joining me.You won't want to miss this episode.
My special guest today, CEO ofnu Vitru Wellness and Boards, hertified Clinical
Nutrition is she is passionate about women'shealth, especially gut health. We will
also be talking about women's hormones,hormone imbalances, and food to support hormones
and so much more. This isso right up my alley and every single
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person that I know. We alwaystalk about our gut, our stomach.
Why are we having bloating, what'sgoing on with our hormones, what's happening
to us, what's happening to ourbodies. There's so much to talk about.
Some thrill to welcome to my showfor the first time. Lohana Bigliano,
Hi, I'm so excited to behere. Me too. My husband
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jokes I can't get into a conversationwith anyone without talking about a bodily fluid,
which is which is semi accurate.I don't want to really say that
an introduction, but I think we'regoing to talk about hoop too. Yeah,
but before we get into all that, because I have so many questions
for you, and I'm sure youhave so much information to give us,
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can you take us back to tellus a little bit about you. I
know you're a mom of two andyou're married, and I just want to
hear how this passion of years startedand how it all began. Yeah.
So I was originally premed because Iknew I wanted to be in healthcare since
I was like five, Like Iknew I just loved helping people with their
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health. In my eyes, Iwas like, I want to be a
doctor. So I was premed allthe way up until I think I was
I don't know, maybe like ayear and a half in and I really
started realizing what was being taught waslike a pill for every ill and I
functional medicine, naturopathic, all thatstuff really wasn't a thing. It makes
me sound old, but it wasn'ta thing as it is now like everyone
knows, Oh, there's like integrativeoptions. So I was just like,
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well, I don't want to dothis, Like I don't want to just
give pills to people to basically puta band aid on their health issues.
But other pivot that really helped mequestion. You know, my long term
goals was becoming a mom at seventeen. So I don't don't. I don't
even know. Like me and myhusband, we like, look, they're
like, why did we Why dowe do that? I have no idea.
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We just we just happened, okay, which we which we love.
I actually absolutely adore being a youngmom. It's one of my favorite things.
I think in the world I canstill be in. You know,
my son's friends thinks I'm the coolestI think anyways. And so being a
mom so young, I wanted tostart raising a family. I wanted my
kids not to be another statistic inthe world. I don't know. I
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think that just maternal instinct kind oftook over. So that with kind of
what I was being experienced in premed shifted me into how can we prevent
things? And that's where I foundnutrition and honestly food, it's medicine and
herbs and there's just more natural things. And I think it's amazing because there's
so much evidence behind it too.And so that's really what shifted me into
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where I am today. It's sointeresting and I you know, I think
back, I'm like I mean,I was like, okay, i'll tell
you my backstory a little bit.So a few years ago, I mean,
I'm a little older than you.But a few years ago, I
was having like all these problems withmy stomach, my gut, my belly,
like bloating, not feeling right,like feeling so much pressure down there,
and kept going a doctor after doctor. This is probably everybody's story,
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kept going a doctor, doctor,this doctor, that doctor. Oh it's
fine, Oh it's age, Ohit's this, Oh, eat better,
diet, exercise, all that otherstuff. Okay, but I don't think
that's enough because I think that sometimesdoctors, regular doctors don't pull back all
the layers and get to the rootof the issue, so they just like
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put a band aid on something.So this was going on and on for
me. So right before COVID Idid my gas or doctor did finally say,
you know, I think you havea dairy in dairy intolerance. So
I got off dairy. Within thetwo weeks later, I was literally down
eight pounds in my gut. It'seight to ten. It was like remarkable.
I never felt better in my life. Fast forward, I'm still off
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dairy, and now I'm back towhere I used to be, So I
don't understand the problems. Yeah,and I have these hormone issues, and
I have imbalances, and i'm youknow, through men upon all that stuff,
and I have issues going to thebathroom if we're going to be honest
about everything. So it's so difficult, and I think for women especially because
our bodies changed so much, youknow, during when we're younger than during
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child bearing years and then after wehave our children and so on and so
on. Right, Oh my gosh, your story is like one in a
million, like not what well,no, I did said that wrong?
Your story is very common. Ihear this really really often and a lot
of the times, and I knowwe can get into this, but a
lot of times when we want touse diet, we started taking away certain
foods and they do make us feelbetter. We takeaway we or dairy or
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whatnot, but it really doesn't solvethe root of why you're even tagging these
foods as dangerous or why you're evenreacting to these foods. Why are they
producing inflammation? And that's kind ofwhat we do, Like with comprehensive stool
testing is like really peeling back oflike what the microbiome looks like. But
outside of that, I think too, that is something we have to keep
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in mind as women. We aretruly on a roller coaster. Definitely on
a roller coaster when we're in thatreproductive stage of life. Literally every week
is different whatever part of the rollercoaster will be on. Are we killing
it? Are we like all theway down to the bottom. But in
our life too, yes, weare on a roller coaster because that the
classic saying of what worked for youwhen you were twenty won't work for you
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today, and that's absolutely correct,and so that's why it's well, my
diet didn't change or this didn't change, but like your body, stool changes,
your hormones change, like all thesethings change, and we need to
be able to I think this iswhere the saying came from. But we
really need to go with the flowbased on where we are at in life.
And that's another reason why we can'tcompare our journey to your Facebook friend
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Kathy of like, why did thisdiet or whatever work for her but it
didn't work for me, is becauseyou're totally too individual people with different bodies
and potentially maybe in the different seasonof life too, right, And what
do you think about before we getinto all the other stuff, like all
the juice cleanses and that all thesediets, like the shake oology and those
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kind of things. What are yourthoughts on all that. I think some
of the stuff, especially women,it has like really nutrient dense ingredients.
I don't think it's technically bad perse, but I really think it kind
of deviates away from some of thefoundational things to do of like using a
shake to replace a meal, likehonestly to make sure I eat enough,
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and that's a huge problem. I'llprobably talk about that I see in women,
I need three meals and a shake, and so I just think it
deviates away from that bioindividuality a littlebit. And for us in our practice,
we definitely are not extreme, andlike the diet spectrum from Veganto Carnivore,
we're somewhere in the middle. I'mvery, very find it rare that
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people need to be in one ofthese like really extreme categories potentially potentially for
like a healing season maybe, buteven we haven't had to put someone that
extreme. I just think it reallyjust confuses people because there's so many options
out there. And like half thetime, like people don't need that,
Like people don't need keto. Isee so many women who are stressed beyond
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beyond and they are like trying tobe low carb and that's only hurting them
and they thyroid in future. Idon't know. It's just there's so much
more gray area with nutrition, andI think I don't know if it's social
media, but I think we tryto diy it and we need to realize
like it's so nuanced, Like there'sso many like customizations that you should be
giving yourself to help you live optimally. Let's talk about the role of gut
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health and how it plays in hormonesin our mood. First of all,
let's talk about the gut, Like, let's tell us about the gut.
I love guy because their gut isthe foundation to so many things. It
houses our immune system, It createsneurotransmitters or serotonin or dopamine, and you
know those influence mood. So itis, oh my gosh. It is
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where we digest foods and is wherewe absorb our nutrients. It is where
everything truly starts, which is whywe like to like look at that first,
even before touching like sex, hormonesor all these other things. The
gut is housing. Honestly, we'rejust a big walkie bacteria. But it's
housing like a ton of bacteria,and it's really its own community, and
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we have to make sure that weare nourishing that community correctly because it definitely
influences so many things, autoimmunity,like you said, our moods, how
we feel, even outside of GIstuff. I see people with like chronic
migrants, and they have got issues, and once you focus on gut issues,
migraines are gone. Like it Ithink just really connects all the different
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parts of the body. And Ithink that's where like western med kind of
fails a little bit. Is thatso focused on like deviating the body,
like dividing it up into like brain, heart, gut, when really like
they all kind of come together.So you have to make sure that you're
addressing and looking at everything. ButI just love the gut because it's truly
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where everything starts. I love thegut too. I just wish it was
I could heal it. Yes,and that looks a little different for everyone,
but in the sense of how itconnects to hormones. Going back to
the microbiome. There is an enzymecalled beta glu granadase, and when your
bacteria, we call it disbiosis,but it basically is just an imbalance of
like your good bacteria, which islike your probiotics, and then you're we
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call them opportunistic bacteria because they willalways be in your gut E Coli.
All these not I would say,not so great bacteria. They kind of
are, but they will take opportunityto overgrow and throw a party and mess
things up, So we call themopportunistic bacteria. So we need basically more
cops than robbers, that's another wayto say it. But when they get
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overgrown and the balance is off,this is going to increase an enzyme called
beta glucranidise And what beta glubranidise doesis so nicely I think I said in
so much in my life. That'sprobably why. But when we're done with
like our sex hormones, like estrogen, for an example, we push it
through the liver and right we're alldone with it. So it needs to
exit the body. And so oneof the ways to exit the body is
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through pooping, is getting rid ofit. But when you have high end,
this high enzyme. It's kind oflike a one of those people I
loved to party and they never wantthe party to stop. So basically it
opens up the little taxi door talkingto your estrogen, saying, hey,
come back inside the body because it'sjust fun back here. So it's going
to basically unpackage your estrogen, bringestrogen to be reabsorbed into the body.
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And then now we're seeing like alot of estrogen dominance. So estrogen dominance
is like having too much estrogen ormaybe not enough estrogen or not enough progesterone
in regards to how much estrogen youhave. But anyway, so that's like
a connection there of really stopping thatreabsorption, focusing on nourishing that microbiome,
getting it back into balance, andthen being able to, you know,
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let your estrogen leave the body asit should. So that's like a little
connection there, which is which isreally cool. How do you know?
How do you how would somebody knowif you if you have too much estrogen,
too much progestion, too much ofthat in your body? Testing for
sure, because honestly, like whensomeone asked me, what are the symptoms
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for hormonal balances, they're like weightgain, irregular painful cycles, chronic fatigue,
acne and sawnia, low libido,hot flashes, mood swings, hair
loss, Like I mean, thesymptoms are such a big range, and
honestly a lot of them overlap,So you might not have sex hormones,
maybe it's adrenals, maybe it's cybrog, maybe it's ledger, or a lot
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of them overlap. So I'd liketo just take the gas work out of
it and just test and test comprehensive. I think this is where I love
integrative and functional medicine because their labsare so expansive and it shows so much
more than what normal, like whatyou normally would get through a doctor.
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And I love doing like drive you'urinehormone testing. I love doing stool testing,
just really getting to know your body. So testing before guessing for sure,
isn't it interesting Because every doctors like, oh, well just get on
this hormone pill. Well, howyou just get on a hormone pill when
you don't even know if I havetoo much of this or too much of
that that's going to really mess upyour system. Yeah, for sure,
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functional medicine is so much better thanthe regular medicine because they don't really like
we talked before, they don't peelback the layers. Yeah, and I
don't. I don't want to saythat like there's no need for Western medicine
because they're totally is like, don'tcome at me with a broken leg,
like I absolutely will not help you. But I think that talk about your
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gut, and yes, yes,I think that we need to start putting
like nutrition and lifestyle stuff is oneof our first tackles and changes versus like
a pill. But I will say, if you are in menopause, I
so many women comptables like what canI do? How can I revitalize my
hormones? The hot slashes? Unfortunately, your your ovaries do retire, like
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there's you cannot work against mother nature. They do retire. Your adrenals take
over a little bit, so youcan't support your adrenals. If if,
if that is an issue, sometimesit's honestly just because you have low hormones
and that is just season of life. So I will say you will need
to work with um an ob GI N that does like bioidentical hormones.
If you're really struggling with symptoms andyou do need some hormone support, So
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that is something that I'm sorry,we just can't fight against smother nature.
We just can't do it. AndI'm somebody of us complain of bloating and
gas, Like what do we dofor that? It honestly gets down to
the root of like what is yourmicrobiome, what's your bacteria? Do you
have a parasite? Do you havea yeast overgrowth? Are you having issues
digesting your food so an enzyme productionissue? Is it possibly food intolerances,
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food sensitivities. It really just goesdown to what is going on. There's
always a quick fixes of like activatedcharcoal to help us bloating in gas and
all that, but honestly, justlike your story of taking out dairy,
it's not really solving the issue.It is giving you some immediate relief,
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but it's not solving what's going on. And so you utilizing testing knowing what's
going on, utilizing diet reducing stress. Maybe sometimes people need like herbal antimicrobials
to kill certain bacteria or anti parasiticregimen. It just kind of depends on
your situation. But that's really Ithink where you people find the lasting Like,
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ah, this is it. Thisis what was bugging me. Oh
my god. It's so interesting.There's so many facets to it, but
it all comes down to like ourgut. If you just tune and I'm
talking to CEO of Lee True Wellness, she Isna Thilan. She has so
much information to tell us and totalk about. Um, will our gut
ever be perfect? Um? Idefinitely. I want to say, you
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can absolutely live without any gut symptoms. Do I think it's going to ebb
and flow? Absolutely? I amdefinitely a fan of even testing things,
even if you are not feeling anysymptoms, because these things can change where
human life happens. I know,when I did my soul test last year,
I didn't have any symptoms, butI'm just curious, Sally, and
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I'm like, I just want toknow. And I actually had high beta
glu grantadas and I was so thankfulthat I tested and stayed on top of
it, and I was like,what's going on? I was like,
yeah, I guess I was alittle bit more stressed stressed down regulate side
immune system in your gut, allowingthings to be overgrown. Um. I
did actually pick up a parasite,which I swear it was the romaine lettuce,
Like that's the only thing that changedfor real sweat, and so that
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was something that was really surprising tome because I wasn't really having that many
symptoms. And I think it's justhelpful to know that because these are the
things that I'm passionate about of preventing, because not only is basically grant adase
reabsorbing hormones, it's also reabsorbing toxinsthat have already detox to deliver and you're
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trying to get rid of it.It can reabsorb the toxins, which is
an issue, and that also createsa not great environment for potential colon cancer
in the future, etc. SoI'm so glad I tested and it's back
to normal now. But these arethe things I'm like, please test,
Like get to know your body anddon't wait for something to happen. I
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absolutely think you can go though withoutany bloating and gas and diarrhea constipation.
Yeah, I don't think that that'ssomething you'll always live with. So how
can people reach out to you?If there can you talk? Can you
reach out to anyone like someone likeme or someone that lives in Florida,
Can can they do it virtual likethis? Yeah, Yeah, we have
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diet We have dieticians, um,and they we definitely help people all over
the US. Um, not outsideof the country if you are like a
Canada or other country listener, butinside the US. Yes. What I
take away from all of this isthat there's no one way to approach for
each everybody. Everybody's different, Yes, for everybody's body's different. Everybody reacts
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to things differently no matter what.Yeah, share with us some foods that
are that are good for our thatare good for our gut. Yes.
Um. My favorite is bone brothby far, It's so easy to digest.
It's so full of like amino acidsand vitamins and minerals and has an
amino acid glycine that really produces antiinflammatory effects. So I absolutely love bone
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broth um in people who are strugglingwith gut health. Um. I also
will say vegetables, but cooked,So cooked vegetables instead of raw because raw's
naturally a little bit harder to digest, and when you're kind of in the
thick of it, you just needto basically pre digest your foods with cookings.
So every vegetable is different. Isee people who can do broccoli and
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some people can't, et cetera.But at least cooking will help you a
lot and reduce the after eating gasand bloat. But something else just before
and move on any other foods,is that we have to eat slower.
Oh yeah, I know people don'tlike trust me. My husband hears me
all the time. I absolutely naghim about this. I do admit that
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because he just basically swallow his foodwhole, and there's so many enzymes in
your mouth that is there to helpstart breaking down food. And then the
obvious chewing and breaking down food,it can game change like after eating blow
and digestion because you're actually doing whatyour body is like meant to do before
it comes, you know, intoyour stomach and intestine. So definitely slow
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down and chew choo chew. Itis amazing for diges. And then I
love fermented foods. I like tostart with fermented vegetables first, just because
a lot of the other fermented optionslike yogurt and keffer and or some other
things that are fermented like sour dough, those can still be problematic in some
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people just based on it being likea dairy or wheat product. So starting
with like kimchi or sour krout,fermented carrots, pickles. I mean,
there's an array of different vegetables thatyou can choose. I would say whole
Foods probably has the most options ifyou don't like your typical sour krout,
but that is a natural source ofprobiotics, which is great. I love
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supplements, don't get me wrong,But if we can get it through food
like that is definitely number one.And I would also say last, but
not least, like starchy veggies.Again, depends on your issue. If
you're dealing with candida or parasites,you know you might have to eight to
introduce these things a little bit longer. But I love starchy foods because things
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like sweet potatoes and lagoons and thingslike that, because they help feed your
gut bacteria. So not only dowe have to reinoculate our guts like probiotics,
we also have to make sure thatthey can survive, like do they
have food? Do is it ahome? Is it a comfy home?
And that's where I see a lotof people just take probiotics, but they're
not looking at how can I makethis environment really beautiful? For them,
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and that's where those starts. Yourveggies and lagoons, and if people can
tolerate certain grains, that's where thatcomes in. Is probiotics. We've mentioned
probiotics. Now. I've had mixedreviews on probiotics. Are they good for
you? Because you don't know reallywhat you're there's so many probiotics out there
they could make your head spin.Yes. Do I think that just a
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basic probiotic could be helpful? Iguess when we do stuol testing, it
helps show what probiotic like Lactobacillus acidophilisbiffio biffom. That's my short term of
it because it's a very long word. So really breaking down in a stool
test of like what's slow and whatdon't you need? That way you can
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target to get the strains that youdo need. That's definitely our jam.
But do I think you can takeany probiotic? Yes? Do I think
you'll get results from it? Notalways? I think it really just I
guess it just depends. But Idefinitely think that there's merit for them.
I know there might be some peoplethat say, like they're absolutely not needed,
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but I would disagree just because there'sso many things that naturally fight against
us. We don't live in nineteenthirties anymore, or nineteen twenties or just
being raised on a farm, like, we just live so many, so
much different nowadays. People are takingmedications, and every single medication. I
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can't say that with certainty, butmost medications somehow effect gut like outside of
antibiotics, outside of anti acids,tail and all effects liver met form and
for blood sugar definitely can increase clubSella and E. Coli bacteria, and
that's like a blood sugar medication.So the more medications you're on that can
influence microbiome. So there's all theselike hits that we get from just our
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life. I definitely think probatic supplementationcan be really helpful, but again the
goal is to make and create anenvironment that you don't forever have to take
a probatic, because I don't thinkyou forever have to, but I think
you just need to look at thefull picture and just not take a probiotic
and you know, ignore all theother things. Right you could you could
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read all about all this stuff andthen you can go to the save whole
foods. That's where I get myvitamin D. I'm a big vitamin D
person. And then I look andI'm like, do I need a digestive
enzyme? Do I need this?Will this help that? I mean,
what are your thoughts on all that? I mean, a typical person,
what would you without you know,going into mitch detail about you know,
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you did a stool test or youdid this, or for someone that can't
go to a natural path or can'tgo to a functional medicine doctor, what
would you recommend them to like takejust to I think that yeah, it
really depends on the individual, butI would say just a basic probiotic could
help with UM. Usually there's justa couple strains of lact of basilis,
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different lact of basilis species, differentbiffido species. I think that could help
if you're trying to keep it prettygeneral digestive enzymes. I would say that
is pretty personalized. But I alsodon't see a lot of negative effects if
by chance you didn't take a testor no. I don't see a lot
of negative things happening with that.So it's something that you could try.
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But different probiotic yeah, okay,yeah, they have like UM, like
different digestive enzymes that help break downyour food. A probiotic is just reinoculating
the bacteria, so not everyone needsit, though it is something you can
try that's pretty easy. Like there'svery very few like negative things that can
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happen with an enzyme. Interesting,there's so many things. I think your
work is so fascinating because I thinkso many things stem from the gut,
right, Like everything's in the guthas to do with the gut, Like
our hormones are you know, ourstress, everything is this, everything goes
to the gut. Yeah, yeah, And I think it creates really a
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domino effect. So like if youcan't break down food, then you can't
absorb the nutrients, and you can'tabsorb the nutrients, then you're nutrient efficient.
And every single process in our bodyruns on vitamins and minerals, so
if we're having issues getting it in, then it's definitely going to domino into
all these other issues. So ifyou have to perfect something like we usually
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love to start with gut health aswell for that reason. So what is
the cause of these things being outof balance? The estrogen, progestion,
testosterone, what are is there acertain cause or is it just different parts,
different stages of your life that causesthis or something more outside of the
certain life of menopause, that wouldbe something that yeah, that's just it
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is what it is. But inregards to other things, No, there's
many, many different reasons that yoursex hormones can be off. It can
be from thyroid issues. Thyroid cansometimes stimulate and cause issues with how we
ovulate and how we're having our cycles. It can be blood sugar imbalances,
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whether it's diet and lifestyle influenced.You know, when people think blood sugar,
they think like, you know,just having like a lot of sugar
in their diet. But it's alsolike stress can one hundred percent like throw
off blood sugar and stress as well, like stress can affect the ovary brain
communication, so like that is andtuned in it. There's also like environmental
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toxins. I know this is kindof woo woo. I feel like for
people who aren't like in the integrativespace, I promise it's not woo.
There's a lot of evidence behind itwhere a lot of BPA and fallights and
parabins affect the whole process of yourcholesterol turning and to testosterone or estrogen.
So because we're exposed to so muchmore than we were one hundred years ago,
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I think we will start seeing therepercussions and this so different environmental toxins
that you're exposed to. The nutrientand efficiencies we talked about, and a
huge thing too that people don't reallyfocus on in the conventional Western realm is
mitochondrial dysfunction, not mitochondrial disease.I think we definitely look at that,
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but your mitochondria inside yourself, takingit back to high school biology, UM,
this is the little battery in yourcell that runs things, it makes
and creates energy atp. But thisis also where hormones are produced. So
if we're forgetting to nurture this mitochondria, this house, um, a lot
of the times when it's off,it's going to make your hormones off too.
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So I mean we can get reallynitty gritty into like cellular detail,
but those are the things that assessedright. It's not just like, oh,
you have low estrogen. You're inyour reproductive phase, so you shouldn't
have low estrogen. Like let's takeestrogen. No, there needs to be
such a bigger conversation about it.Oh my god. You can tell your
love of this just in the wayyou talk about it and they're passionate about
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it and the words some of thesethings are. I'm like, what is
wait wait, wait, back up, what is that? Son? Beat
your wellness? Tell us, tellus about that, tell us about your
company and that you're the CEO ofthat you founded, and um, a
little bit about like how would itbe if someone came to see you?
Yeah, um, yeah, Ilove this stuff. I can I can
I talk to you all day long. I know I can talk about this
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all day like, um, nuvitureI found it back in twenty fifteen.
And so it's not just me.I have a bunch of registered dietitians on
our team as well who help people. We see people virtually and this is
like what we do is we hopon a call. That's usually the first
step is going on our website,checking out what we offer, packages,
labs, et cetera. Kind ofget familiar with what we what we do,
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and then hopping on a fifty minutecall with me and I'll get to
know your story, your history,and we'll kind of up with the game
plan of maybe what labs we needto start with et cetera. And then
from there it's it's so nice becauseit's virtual. We see you regularly in
sessions as well as um in betweensessions. We can text us at anytime,
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so you really have like a nutritionbest in your pocket. So I
love that, and I think allof us on our team really love it
too, because we create like thebest relationships because we're there for you for
your ebbs and flows, like you'reduring. You will never be perfect,
you will always plateau, You'll alwayshit a snag that is just normal,
and so we're here to like kindof help you through that and also be
there to celebrate your wins. Andso that's what it looks like. We
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work together two four and six months, and then even if you need longer,
there's like little graduation plans that youcan do as well if you want
more support even longer. I thinkour goal is to be that person that
even if you start feeling better,like still continuing to work with us and
make sure it stays that way,because, just like what we talked about
in the beginning, your life it'sforever changing, and we forever need to
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pivot and change as our body speaksto us. So yeah, that's what
we do and it's growing, andour goal is definitely to have a location
in every big city. Amazing,and that one of my kids or grandkids
is going to take over. I'mspeaking that. You're saying that now,
saying that now please and okay,if you just change it. I'm talking
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to Lahana the Giliano is the CEOof New Vietrue Wellness. Check out her
website. She has so much greatinformation. We'll have it all up on
our social media. Uh. Now, I just lost my train of thought
because I got so excited about allthis. Yes, what are your thoughts
on exercise too? Now? Iobviously exercises a part of it. How
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often do you exercise and what doyou recommend? I was doing seven days
a week on my peloton. Iwas like, that was way too much.
It wasn't. I wasn't like ayou know, burning like eight hundred
calories. I was, you know, on country music, taking my time.
It wasn't crazy. It sounds betterthan it is. That's so that's
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so funny. I mean, Idefinitely I love movement. I see a
lot of women over doing it forsure, and I think four days,
five days is a sweet spot fora lot of women. Um, I
also think not just the timing,but what you're doing. I see a
lot of people doing cardio, andwe actually need to like reduce that and
focus a lot on strength training becauseas we get older, we starting at
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thirty, actually we start losing asmall percentage of our muscle every year just
based on aging. And if wecan, if you want an anti aging
hack, it is strength training throughand through, and it's not just keeping
with your ten pound weights. Itis forever increasing and challenging yourself and building
that muscle. And you know whatthat comes, like diet to making sure
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you're getting a really balanced diet withprotein cards, with bats. But strength
training is so so key to somany aspects of health. So I myself
will strength train four days a week. I never skip a leg day.
I share it before and afters onmy Instagram. I literally was a skinny
mini. Some people would like lovethat I wanted curves. I wanted I
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wasn't going to get breast and plantand so I was like, I'm I'm
growing something naturally, so it's gonnahave my butt. So I never skip
a leg day and then the othertwo days will be like an upper body
and maybe just a full whole body, maybe hit a little bit of legs
and my upper body as well,and then the three days I do have
some complete rest days, and that'susually tied to like where I'm at my
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cycle, so before I start myperiod, it's very normal for ladies to
have low energy, very normal orhormones are literally hitting the ground, so
that I will usually back off completelyand just listen to my body and rest.
But outside of that, I willtake walks and make sure I'm just
getting some type of movement. Andthat's amazing. Yes, I've heard that
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too, So I've been doing alot more cardio, which I think I
need to start doing more of theweights too, and the unstund training.
I've heard that before. Yes,yes, yes, Oh my gosh,
best anti aging hack epper. Yeah, you just revealed a big secret.
Can you imagine everybody that are tuneinto the end of this podcast just to
listen to that off to tea setat the beginning. You are so adorable.
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I was so excited to talk withyou. Are there any last minute
things you want to share with myaudience. I'm definitely going to have you
back again and again and again.I don't think so. I know we
covered so much to simplify with diettoo. I would just ask yourself,
can you grow it or can youkill it? If you can answer those
two questions, you're on the righttrack of eating like just real wholesome foods.
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Now, we're all human, andI don't think that there's any perfection
and absolutely have I ate a glutenfree oreo in last year? Probably yes,
but for the most part, likeare we really nourish in our bodies?
So if you can answer those twoquestions, I think you're on somewhat
the right track. And if youstill need help, then you know that's
what we're here for, to helppersonalize it and help you understand your body
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better. Okay, so do youever cheat? I hate the word cheat,
but I do, like I will. I have a CGM. I
don't know. I know you can'tsee it if you're listening, but I
have a continuous glucose monitor on myarm. So I'm actually playing around with,
like how foods affect my blood sugar? And so I did. I
had Chick fil at and I usuallyget I love Chick Filix salads. To
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be completely honest, I hate theirdressing, but I love their fresh work
salad. But I was like,I'm actually going to have a regular fried
chicken sandwich and fries and see howaffect my blood sugar. Definitely through my
blood sugar very high, So Iwill think that, will think that even
though I usually don't get that anyways, but I do. I actually do
have things that are outside the quoteunquote norm but I'm also not in a
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healing season. So if you're ina healing season, I do think that
there needs to be some strictness toit. But if you're not, then
you know, you can always askyourself, is this going to be worth
diarrhea tomorrow or a headache or justlike bloated? If it is, like
if you're at a wedding, absolutely, then if you're not in a healing
season, of course, like doyour thing or all, like we're all
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human. I still love me somenormal moural things, but I also am
obsessed with like having things that arelike made like health with healthier ingredients,
so like we just I made brownieslast night from Simple Mills and that's like
almond flour and just like better qualityoil, etc. So I also love
that too, so I never feellike I'm deprived by any means. See,
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I can't stay away from the chips. That's my that's my but I
have it with avocado, so Ifeel like that's better. I just can't
stay away from chips. There's reallygood chips out there. You really want
to look for what the what oilthey're fried in. So there's like avocado
oil chips, um cocon oil chips. So I'm by Thrive from markets.
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Siete is one of my favorite brandsfrom the Torquia chips. They do as
well as they actually are starting tomake regular chips as well, but they're
cooked in avocado oils, so it'sa it's a lot better. So we
definitely still have chips too. Okay, well, I'm gonna start my strength
training and I'm gonna let you knowhow it goes. Yes, but I
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feel like, you know, forfor everybody, I mean, just what
you said about you, that youfollow us on this journey, I think
that's the key, because I thinkwe all need that extra little love in
our life. And that helps alot too, because like we said at
the very beginning, and you said, everybody's journey is different. So you
can't compare. Even if you're likethe same age, you can't compare this
person with that person. Everybody's bodyis going to do it differently. Yeah,
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definitely so much information here. Mygod, Lahanna, I can't thank
you enough. You are adorable.Thank you. I'm going to have you
again. I love this. SoI can't wait for everyone to tune in
to listen, and maybe they'll havesome questions for us. They can,
they can write to us and havesome questions and well we can answer that
next time. Perfect. I'm excited. Thank you so much. I love
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talking about everything. Oh and wait, wait, wait, one thing we
didn't touch on. If you don'tgo to the bathroom every day, that's
not good. Yes. I've hadsome people argue and say, like,
my whole life, I've only donea couple times a week. I like,
that doesn't make it normal. Yes, you have to go to the
bathroom every single day. I wouldn'tsay I know that. Maybe some blogs
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pop I gotta go three times aday? No, at least once a
day is key. And then evenif you're going every day, but they're
pebbles, that's still pretty much constipation. So it needs to be the Sun's
gross. I'm sorry if I ruinedsoft service cream for you, but it
should be like saft serve ice creamdaily, but again not perfection. I
definitely still have Day's words sometimes allof pebbles. I mostly have great poops,
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So you know, there's definitely gonnabe times that you're like off,
depending on if you're eating something thatjust really don't serve you or whatnot,
that will happen. But for themost part, going every day, soft
Serve is you. You can evenmake poops sound good, you know.
Yeah, oh my god, allright, come back again and again,
Yes, so much, for somuch. Thank you, thanks so much
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Hi, I'm Wendy Loie Sloane,and this is What's Up with Wendy's Podcast.
I just wanted to tell you alittle bit about myself. I began
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for tuning in. Welcome to thisedition of What's Up with Wendy's Podcast.
If you've ever struggled with gut health, hormone and balanced mood swings, or
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you're just curious about any of thisand even poop, We're going to be
talking about my guest today. She'sthe CEO of nu Vitrue Wellness. She's
board certified clinical nutritionists. She's passionateabout women's health, especially gut health.
We're going to be talking about everythingto do with the gut, also hormone
imbalances, and foods to support hormones, and so much more. Mahanna Bigliano
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is going to be joining me.You won't want to miss this episode.
My special guest today, CEO ofnu Vitru Wellness and Boards, hertified Clinical
Nutrition is she is passionate about women'shealth, especially gut health. We will
also be talking about women's hormones,hormone imbalances, and food to support hormones
and so much more. This isso right up my alley and every single
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person that I know. We alwaystalk about our gut, our stomach.
Why are we having bloating, what'sgoing on with our hormones, what's happening
to us, what's happening to ourbodies. There's so much to talk about.
Some thrill to welcome to my showfor the first time. Lohana Bigliano,
Hi, I'm so excited to behere. Me too. My husband
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jokes I can't get into a conversationwith anyone without talking about a bodily fluid,
which is which is semi accurate.I don't want to really say that
an introduction, but I think we'regoing to talk about hoop too. Yeah,
but before we get into all that, because I have so many questions
for you, and I'm sure youhave so much information to give us,
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can you take us back to tellus a little bit about you. I
know you're a mom of two andyou're married, and I just want to
hear how this passion of years startedand how it all began. Yeah.
So I was originally premed because Iknew I wanted to be in healthcare since
I was like five, Like Iknew I just loved helping people with their
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health. In my eyes, Iwas like, I want to be a
doctor. So I was premed allthe way up until I think I was
I don't know, maybe like ayear and a half in and I really
started realizing what was being taught waslike a pill for every ill and I
functional medicine, naturopathic, all thatstuff really wasn't a thing. It makes
me sound old, but it wasn'ta thing as it is now like everyone
knows, Oh, there's like integrativeoptions. So I was just like,
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well, I don't want to dothis, Like I don't want to just
give pills to people to basically puta band aid on their health issues.
But other pivot that really helped mequestion. You know, my long term
goals was becoming a mom at seventeen. So I don't don't. I don't
even know. Like me and myhusband, we like, look, they're
like, why did we Why dowe do that? I have no idea.
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We just we just happened, okay, which we which we love.
I actually absolutely adore being a youngmom. It's one of my favorite things.
I think in the world I canstill be in. You know,
my son's friends thinks I'm the coolestI think anyways. And so being a
mom so young, I wanted tostart raising a family. I wanted my
kids not to be another statistic inthe world. I don't know. I
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think that just maternal instinct kind oftook over. So that with kind of
what I was being experienced in premed shifted me into how can we prevent
things? And that's where I foundnutrition and honestly food, it's medicine and
herbs and there's just more natural things. And I think it's amazing because there's
so much evidence behind it too.And so that's really what shifted me into
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where I am today. It's sointeresting and I you know, I think
back, I'm like I mean,I was like, okay, i'll tell
you my backstory a little bit.So a few years ago, I mean,
I'm a little older than you.But a few years ago, I
was having like all these problems withmy stomach, my gut, my belly,
like bloating, not feeling right,like feeling so much pressure down there,
and kept going a doctor after doctor. This is probably everybody's story,
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kept going a doctor, doctor,this doctor, that doctor. Oh it's
fine, Oh it's age, Ohit's this, Oh, eat better,
diet, exercise, all that otherstuff. Okay, but I don't think
that's enough because I think that sometimesdoctors, regular doctors don't pull back all
the layers and get to the rootof the issue, so they just like
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put a band aid on something.So this was going on and on for
me. So right before COVID Idid my gas or doctor did finally say,
you know, I think you havea dairy in dairy intolerance. So
I got off dairy. Within thetwo weeks later, I was literally down
eight pounds in my gut. It'seight to ten. It was like remarkable.
I never felt better in my life. Fast forward, I'm still off
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dairy, and now I'm back towhere I used to be, So I
don't understand the problems. Yeah,and I have these hormone issues, and
I have imbalances, and i'm youknow, through men upon all that stuff,
and I have issues going to thebathroom if we're going to be honest
about everything. So it's so difficult, and I think for women especially because
our bodies changed so much, youknow, during when we're younger than during
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child bearing years and then after wehave our children and so on and so
on. Right, Oh my gosh, your story is like one in a
million, like not what well,no, I did said that wrong?
Your story is very common. Ihear this really really often and a lot
of the times, and I knowwe can get into this, but a
lot of times when we want touse diet, we started taking away certain
foods and they do make us feelbetter. We takeaway we or dairy or
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whatnot, but it really doesn't solvethe root of why you're even tagging these
foods as dangerous or why you're evenreacting to these foods. Why are they
producing inflammation? And that's kind ofwhat we do, Like with comprehensive stool
testing is like really peeling back oflike what the microbiome looks like. But
outside of that, I think too, that is something we have to keep
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in mind as women. We aretruly on a roller coaster. Definitely on
a roller coaster when we're in thatreproductive stage of life. Literally every week
is different whatever part of the rollercoaster will be on. Are we killing
it? Are we like all theway down to the bottom. But in
our life too, yes, weare on a roller coaster because that the
classic saying of what worked for youwhen you were twenty won't work for you
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today, and that's absolutely correct,and so that's why it's well, my
diet didn't change or this didn't change, but like your body, stool changes,
your hormones change, like all thesethings change, and we need to
be able to I think this iswhere the saying came from. But we
really need to go with the flowbased on where we are at in life.
And that's another reason why we can'tcompare our journey to your Facebook friend
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Kathy of like, why did thisdiet or whatever work for her but it
didn't work for me, is becauseyou're totally too individual people with different bodies
and potentially maybe in the different seasonof life too, right, And what
do you think about before we getinto all the other stuff, like all
the juice cleanses and that all thesediets, like the shake oology and those
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kind of things. What are yourthoughts on all that. I think some
of the stuff, especially women,it has like really nutrient dense ingredients.
I don't think it's technically bad perse, but I really think it kind
of deviates away from some of thefoundational things to do of like using a
shake to replace a meal, likehonestly to make sure I eat enough,
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and that's a huge problem. I'llprobably talk about that I see in women,
I need three meals and a shake, and so I just think it
deviates away from that bioindividuality a littlebit. And for us in our practice,
we definitely are not extreme, andlike the diet spectrum from Veganto Carnivore,
we're somewhere in the middle. I'mvery, very find it rare that
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people need to be in one ofthese like really extreme categories potentially potentially for
like a healing season maybe, buteven we haven't had to put someone that
extreme. I just think it reallyjust confuses people because there's so many options
out there. And like half thetime, like people don't need that,
Like people don't need keto. Isee so many women who are stressed beyond
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beyond and they are like trying tobe low carb and that's only hurting them
and they thyroid in future. Idon't know. It's just there's so much
more gray area with nutrition, andI think I don't know if it's social
media, but I think we tryto diy it and we need to realize
like it's so nuanced, Like there'sso many like customizations that you should be
giving yourself to help you live optimally. Let's talk about the role of gut
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health and how it plays in hormonesin our mood. First of all,
let's talk about the gut, Like, let's tell us about the gut.
I love guy because their gut isthe foundation to so many things. It
houses our immune system, It createsneurotransmitters or serotonin or dopamine, and you
know those influence mood. So itis, oh my gosh. It is
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where we digest foods and is wherewe absorb our nutrients. It is where
everything truly starts, which is whywe like to like look at that first,
even before touching like sex, hormonesor all these other things. The
gut is housing. Honestly, we'rejust a big walkie bacteria. But it's
housing like a ton of bacteria,and it's really its own community, and
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we have to make sure that weare nourishing that community correctly because it definitely
influences so many things, autoimmunity,like you said, our moods, how
we feel, even outside of GIstuff. I see people with like chronic
migrants, and they have got issues, and once you focus on gut issues,
migraines are gone. Like it Ithink just really connects all the different
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parts of the body. And Ithink that's where like western med kind of
fails a little bit. Is thatso focused on like deviating the body,
like dividing it up into like brain, heart, gut, when really like
they all kind of come together.So you have to make sure that you're
addressing and looking at everything. ButI just love the gut because it's truly
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where everything starts. I love thegut too. I just wish it was
I could heal it. Yes,and that looks a little different for everyone,
but in the sense of how itconnects to hormones. Going back to
the microbiome. There is an enzymecalled beta glu granadase, and when your
bacteria, we call it disbiosis,but it basically is just an imbalance of
like your good bacteria, which islike your probiotics, and then you're we
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call them opportunistic bacteria because they willalways be in your gut E Coli.
All these not I would say,not so great bacteria. They kind of
are, but they will take opportunityto overgrow and throw a party and mess
things up, So we call themopportunistic bacteria. So we need basically more
cops than robbers, that's another wayto say it. But when they get
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overgrown and the balance is off,this is going to increase an enzyme called
beta glucranidise And what beta glubranidise doesis so nicely I think I said in
so much in my life. That'sprobably why. But when we're done with
like our sex hormones, like estrogen, for an example, we push it
through the liver and right we're alldone with it. So it needs to
exit the body. And so oneof the ways to exit the body is
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through pooping, is getting rid ofit. But when you have high end,
this high enzyme. It's kind oflike a one of those people I
loved to party and they never wantthe party to stop. So basically it
opens up the little taxi door talkingto your estrogen, saying, hey,
come back inside the body because it'sjust fun back here. So it's going
to basically unpackage your estrogen, bringestrogen to be reabsorbed into the body.
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And then now we're seeing like alot of estrogen dominance. So estrogen dominance
is like having too much estrogen ormaybe not enough estrogen or not enough progesterone
in regards to how much estrogen youhave. But anyway, so that's like
a connection there of really stopping thatreabsorption, focusing on nourishing that microbiome,
getting it back into balance, andthen being able to, you know,
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let your estrogen leave the body asit should. So that's like a little
connection there, which is which isreally cool. How do you know?
How do you how would somebody knowif you if you have too much estrogen,
too much progestion, too much ofthat in your body? Testing for
sure, because honestly, like whensomeone asked me, what are the symptoms
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for hormonal balances, they're like weightgain, irregular painful cycles, chronic fatigue,
acne and sawnia, low libido,hot flashes, mood swings, hair
loss, Like I mean, thesymptoms are such a big range, and
honestly a lot of them overlap,So you might not have sex hormones,
maybe it's adrenals, maybe it's cybrog, maybe it's ledger, or a lot
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of them overlap. So I'd liketo just take the gas work out of
it and just test and test comprehensive. I think this is where I love
integrative and functional medicine because their labsare so expansive and it shows so much
more than what normal, like whatyou normally would get through a doctor.
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And I love doing like drive you'urinehormone testing. I love doing stool testing,
just really getting to know your body. So testing before guessing for sure,
isn't it interesting Because every doctors like, oh, well just get on
this hormone pill. Well, howyou just get on a hormone pill when
you don't even know if I havetoo much of this or too much of
that that's going to really mess upyour system. Yeah, for sure,
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functional medicine is so much better thanthe regular medicine because they don't really like
we talked before, they don't peelback the layers. Yeah, and I
don't. I don't want to saythat like there's no need for Western medicine
because they're totally is like, don'tcome at me with a broken leg,
like I absolutely will not help you. But I think that talk about your
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gut, and yes, yes,I think that we need to start putting
like nutrition and lifestyle stuff is oneof our first tackles and changes versus like
a pill. But I will say, if you are in menopause, I
so many women comptables like what canI do? How can I revitalize my
hormones? The hot slashes? Unfortunately, your your ovaries do retire, like
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there's you cannot work against mother nature. They do retire. Your adrenals take
over a little bit, so youcan't support your adrenals. If if,
if that is an issue, sometimesit's honestly just because you have low hormones
and that is just season of life. So I will say you will need
to work with um an ob GI N that does like bioidentical hormones.
If you're really struggling with symptoms andyou do need some hormone support, So
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that is something that I'm sorry,we just can't fight against smother nature.
We just can't do it. AndI'm somebody of us complain of bloating and
gas, Like what do we dofor that? It honestly gets down to
the root of like what is yourmicrobiome, what's your bacteria? Do you
have a parasite? Do you havea yeast overgrowth? Are you having issues
digesting your food so an enzyme productionissue? Is it possibly food intolerances,
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food sensitivities. It really just goesdown to what is going on. There's
always a quick fixes of like activatedcharcoal to help us bloating in gas and
all that, but honestly, justlike your story of taking out dairy,
it's not really solving the issue.It is giving you some immediate relief,
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but it's not solving what's going on. And so you utilizing testing knowing what's
going on, utilizing diet reducing stress. Maybe sometimes people need like herbal antimicrobials
to kill certain bacteria or anti parasiticregimen. It just kind of depends on
your situation. But that's really Ithink where you people find the lasting Like,
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ah, this is it. Thisis what was bugging me. Oh
my god. It's so interesting.There's so many facets to it, but
it all comes down to like ourgut. If you just tune and I'm
talking to CEO of Lee True Wellness, she Isna Thilan. She has so
much information to tell us and totalk about. Um, will our gut
ever be perfect? Um? Idefinitely. I want to say, you
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can absolutely live without any gut symptoms. Do I think it's going to ebb
and flow? Absolutely? I amdefinitely a fan of even testing things,
even if you are not feeling anysymptoms, because these things can change where
human life happens. I know,when I did my soul test last year,
I didn't have any symptoms, butI'm just curious, Sally, and
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I'm like, I just want toknow. And I actually had high beta
glu grantadas and I was so thankfulthat I tested and stayed on top of
it, and I was like,what's going on? I was like,
yeah, I guess I was alittle bit more stressed stressed down regulate side
immune system in your gut, allowingthings to be overgrown. Um. I
did actually pick up a parasite,which I swear it was the romaine lettuce,
Like that's the only thing that changedfor real sweat, and so that
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was something that was really surprising tome because I wasn't really having that many
symptoms. And I think it's justhelpful to know that because these are the
things that I'm passionate about of preventing, because not only is basically grant adase
reabsorbing hormones, it's also reabsorbing toxinsthat have already detox to deliver and you're
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trying to get rid of it.It can reabsorb the toxins, which is
an issue, and that also createsa not great environment for potential colon cancer
in the future, etc. SoI'm so glad I tested and it's back
to normal now. But these arethe things I'm like, please test,
Like get to know your body anddon't wait for something to happen. I
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absolutely think you can go though withoutany bloating and gas and diarrhea constipation.
Yeah, I don't think that that'ssomething you'll always live with. So how
can people reach out to you?If there can you talk? Can you
reach out to anyone like someone likeme or someone that lives in Florida,
Can can they do it virtual likethis? Yeah, Yeah, we have
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diet We have dieticians, um,and they we definitely help people all over
the US. Um, not outsideof the country if you are like a
Canada or other country listener, butinside the US. Yes. What I
take away from all of this isthat there's no one way to approach for
each everybody. Everybody's different, Yes, for everybody's body's different. Everybody reacts
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to things differently no matter what.Yeah, share with us some foods that
are that are good for our thatare good for our gut. Yes.
Um. My favorite is bone brothby far, It's so easy to digest.
It's so full of like amino acidsand vitamins and minerals and has an
amino acid glycine that really produces antiinflammatory effects. So I absolutely love bone
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broth um in people who are strugglingwith gut health. Um. I also
will say vegetables, but cooked,So cooked vegetables instead of raw because raw's
naturally a little bit harder to digest, and when you're kind of in the
thick of it, you just needto basically pre digest your foods with cookings.
So every vegetable is different. Isee people who can do broccoli and
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some people can't, et cetera.But at least cooking will help you a
lot and reduce the after eating gasand bloat. But something else just before
and move on any other foods,is that we have to eat slower.
Oh yeah, I know people don'tlike trust me. My husband hears me
all the time. I absolutely naghim about this. I do admit that
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because he just basically swallow his foodwhole, and there's so many enzymes in
your mouth that is there to helpstart breaking down food. And then the
obvious chewing and breaking down food,it can game change like after eating blow
and digestion because you're actually doing whatyour body is like meant to do before
it comes, you know, intoyour stomach and intestine. So definitely slow
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down and chew choo chew. Itis amazing for diges. And then I
love fermented foods. I like tostart with fermented vegetables first, just because
a lot of the other fermented optionslike yogurt and keffer and or some other
things that are fermented like sour dough, those can still be problematic in some
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people just based on it being likea dairy or wheat product. So starting
with like kimchi or sour krout,fermented carrots, pickles. I mean,
there's an array of different vegetables thatyou can choose. I would say whole
Foods probably has the most options ifyou don't like your typical sour krout,
but that is a natural source ofprobiotics, which is great. I love
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supplements, don't get me wrong,But if we can get it through food
like that is definitely number one.And I would also say last, but
not least, like starchy veggies.Again, depends on your issue. If
you're dealing with candida or parasites,you know you might have to eight to
introduce these things a little bit longer. But I love starchy foods because things
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like sweet potatoes and lagoons and thingslike that, because they help feed your
gut bacteria. So not only dowe have to reinoculate our guts like probiotics,
we also have to make sure thatthey can survive, like do they
have food? Do is it ahome? Is it a comfy home?
And that's where I see a lotof people just take probiotics, but they're
not looking at how can I makethis environment really beautiful? For them,
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and that's where those starts. Yourveggies and lagoons, and if people can
tolerate certain grains, that's where thatcomes in. Is probiotics. We've mentioned
probiotics. Now. I've had mixedreviews on probiotics. Are they good for
you? Because you don't know reallywhat you're there's so many probiotics out there
they could make your head spin.Yes. Do I think that just a
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basic probiotic could be helpful? Iguess when we do stuol testing, it
helps show what probiotic like Lactobacillus acidophilisbiffio biffom. That's my short term of
it because it's a very long word. So really breaking down in a stool
test of like what's slow and whatdon't you need? That way you can
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target to get the strains that youdo need. That's definitely our jam.
But do I think you can takeany probiotic? Yes? Do I think
you'll get results from it? Notalways? I think it really just I
guess it just depends. But Idefinitely think that there's merit for them.
I know there might be some peoplethat say, like they're absolutely not needed,
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but I would disagree just because there'sso many things that naturally fight against
us. We don't live in nineteenthirties anymore, or nineteen twenties or just
being raised on a farm, like, we just live so many, so
much different nowadays. People are takingmedications, and every single medication. I
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can't say that with certainty, butmost medications somehow effect gut like outside of
antibiotics, outside of anti acids,tail and all effects liver met form and
for blood sugar definitely can increase clubSella and E. Coli bacteria, and
that's like a blood sugar medication.So the more medications you're on that can
influence microbiome. So there's all theselike hits that we get from just our
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life. I definitely think probatic supplementationcan be really helpful, but again the
goal is to make and create anenvironment that you don't forever have to take
a probatic, because I don't thinkyou forever have to, but I think
you just need to look at thefull picture and just not take a probiotic
and you know, ignore all theother things. Right you could you could
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read all about all this stuff andthen you can go to the save whole
foods. That's where I get myvitamin D. I'm a big vitamin D
person. And then I look andI'm like, do I need a digestive
enzyme? Do I need this?Will this help that? I mean,
what are your thoughts on all that? I mean, a typical person,
what would you without you know,going into mitch detail about you know,
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you did a stool test or youdid this, or for someone that can't
go to a natural path or can'tgo to a functional medicine doctor, what
would you recommend them to like takejust to I think that yeah, it
really depends on the individual, butI would say just a basic probiotic could
help with UM. Usually there's justa couple strains of lact of basilis,
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different lact of basilis species, differentbiffido species. I think that could help
if you're trying to keep it prettygeneral digestive enzymes. I would say that
is pretty personalized. But I alsodon't see a lot of negative effects if
by chance you didn't take a testor no. I don't see a lot
of negative things happening with that.So it's something that you could try.
(24:53):
But different probiotic yeah, okay,yeah, they have like UM, like
different digestive enzymes that help break downyour food. A probiotic is just reinoculating
the bacteria, so not everyone needsit, though it is something you can
try that's pretty easy. Like there'svery very few like negative things that can
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happen with an enzyme. Interesting,there's so many things. I think your
work is so fascinating because I thinkso many things stem from the gut,
right, Like everything's in the guthas to do with the gut, Like
our hormones are you know, ourstress, everything is this, everything goes
to the gut. Yeah, yeah, And I think it creates really a
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domino effect. So like if youcan't break down food, then you can't
absorb the nutrients, and you can'tabsorb the nutrients, then you're nutrient efficient.
And every single process in our bodyruns on vitamins and minerals, so
if we're having issues getting it in, then it's definitely going to domino into
all these other issues. So ifyou have to perfect something like we usually
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love to start with gut health aswell for that reason. So what is
the cause of these things being outof balance? The estrogen, progestion,
testosterone, what are is there acertain cause or is it just different parts,
different stages of your life that causesthis or something more outside of the
certain life of menopause, that wouldbe something that yeah, that's just it
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is what it is. But inregards to other things, No, there's
many, many different reasons that yoursex hormones can be off. It can
be from thyroid issues. Thyroid cansometimes stimulate and cause issues with how we
ovulate and how we're having our cycles. It can be blood sugar imbalances,
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whether it's diet and lifestyle influenced.You know, when people think blood sugar,
they think like, you know,just having like a lot of sugar
in their diet. But it's alsolike stress can one hundred percent like throw
off blood sugar and stress as well, like stress can affect the ovary brain
communication, so like that is andtuned in it. There's also like environmental
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toxins. I know this is kindof woo woo. I feel like for
people who aren't like in the integrativespace, I promise it's not woo.
There's a lot of evidence behind itwhere a lot of BPA and fallights and
parabins affect the whole process of yourcholesterol turning and to testosterone or estrogen.
So because we're exposed to so muchmore than we were one hundred years ago,
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I think we will start seeing therepercussions and this so different environmental toxins
that you're exposed to. The nutrientand efficiencies we talked about, and a
huge thing too that people don't reallyfocus on in the conventional Western realm is
mitochondrial dysfunction, not mitochondrial disease.I think we definitely look at that,
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but your mitochondria inside yourself, takingit back to high school biology, UM,
this is the little battery in yourcell that runs things, it makes
and creates energy atp. But thisis also where hormones are produced. So
if we're forgetting to nurture this mitochondria, this house, um, a lot
of the times when it's off,it's going to make your hormones off too.
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So I mean we can get reallynitty gritty into like cellular detail,
but those are the things that assessedright. It's not just like, oh,
you have low estrogen. You're inyour reproductive phase, so you shouldn't
have low estrogen. Like let's takeestrogen. No, there needs to be
such a bigger conversation about it.Oh my god. You can tell your
love of this just in the wayyou talk about it and they're passionate about
(28:40):
it and the words some of thesethings are. I'm like, what is
wait wait, wait, back up, what is that? Son? Beat
your wellness? Tell us, tellus about that, tell us about your
company and that you're the CEO ofthat you founded, and um, a
little bit about like how would itbe if someone came to see you?
Yeah, um, yeah, Ilove this stuff. I can I can
I talk to you all day long. I know I can talk about this
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all day like, um, nuvitureI found it back in twenty fifteen.
And so it's not just me.I have a bunch of registered dietitians on
our team as well who help people. We see people virtually and this is
like what we do is we hopon a call. That's usually the first
step is going on our website,checking out what we offer, packages,
labs, et cetera. Kind ofget familiar with what we what we do,
(29:26):
and then hopping on a fifty minutecall with me and I'll get to
know your story, your history,and we'll kind of up with the game
plan of maybe what labs we needto start with et cetera. And then
from there it's it's so nice becauseit's virtual. We see you regularly in
sessions as well as um in betweensessions. We can text us at anytime,
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so you really have like a nutritionbest in your pocket. So I
love that, and I think allof us on our team really love it
too, because we create like thebest relationships because we're there for you for
your ebbs and flows, like you'reduring. You will never be perfect,
you will always plateau, You'll alwayshit a snag that is just normal,
and so we're here to like kindof help you through that and also be
there to celebrate your wins. Andso that's what it looks like. We
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work together two four and six months, and then even if you need longer,
there's like little graduation plans that youcan do as well if you want
more support even longer. I thinkour goal is to be that person that
even if you start feeling better,like still continuing to work with us and
make sure it stays that way,because, just like what we talked about
in the beginning, your life it'sforever changing, and we forever need to
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pivot and change as our body speaksto us. So yeah, that's what
we do and it's growing, andour goal is definitely to have a location
in every big city. Amazing,and that one of my kids or grandkids
is going to take over. I'mspeaking that. You're saying that now,
saying that now please and okay,if you just change it. I'm talking
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to Lahana the Giliano is the CEOof New Vietrue Wellness. Check out her
website. She has so much greatinformation. We'll have it all up on
our social media. Uh. Now, I just lost my train of thought
because I got so excited about allthis. Yes, what are your thoughts
on exercise too? Now? Iobviously exercises a part of it. How
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often do you exercise and what doyou recommend? I was doing seven days
a week on my peloton. Iwas like, that was way too much.
It wasn't. I wasn't like ayou know, burning like eight hundred
calories. I was, you know, on country music, taking my time.
It wasn't crazy. It sounds betterthan it is. That's so that's
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so funny. I mean, Idefinitely I love movement. I see a
lot of women over doing it forsure, and I think four days,
five days is a sweet spot fora lot of women. Um, I
also think not just the timing,but what you're doing. I see a
lot of people doing cardio, andwe actually need to like reduce that and
focus a lot on strength training becauseas we get older, we starting at
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thirty, actually we start losing asmall percentage of our muscle every year just
based on aging. And if wecan, if you want an anti aging
hack, it is strength training throughand through, and it's not just keeping
with your ten pound weights. Itis forever increasing and challenging yourself and building
that muscle. And you know whatthat comes, like diet to making sure
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you're getting a really balanced diet withprotein cards, with bats. But strength
training is so so key to somany aspects of health. So I myself
will strength train four days a week. I never skip a leg day.
I share it before and afters onmy Instagram. I literally was a skinny
mini. Some people would like lovethat I wanted curves. I wanted I
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wasn't going to get breast and plantand so I was like, I'm I'm
growing something naturally, so it's gonnahave my butt. So I never skip
a leg day and then the othertwo days will be like an upper body
and maybe just a full whole body, maybe hit a little bit of legs
and my upper body as well,and then the three days I do have
some complete rest days, and that'susually tied to like where I'm at my
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cycle, so before I start myperiod, it's very normal for ladies to
have low energy, very normal orhormones are literally hitting the ground, so
that I will usually back off completelyand just listen to my body and rest.
But outside of that, I willtake walks and make sure I'm just
getting some type of movement. Andthat's amazing. Yes, I've heard that
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too, So I've been doing alot more cardio, which I think I
need to start doing more of theweights too, and the unstund training.
I've heard that before. Yes,yes, yes, Oh my gosh,
best anti aging hack epper. Yeah, you just revealed a big secret.
Can you imagine everybody that are tuneinto the end of this podcast just to
listen to that off to tea setat the beginning. You are so adorable.
(33:54):
I was so excited to talk withyou. Are there any last minute
things you want to share with myaudience. I'm definitely going to have you
back again and again and again.I don't think so. I know we
covered so much to simplify with diettoo. I would just ask yourself,
can you grow it or can youkill it? If you can answer those
two questions, you're on the righttrack of eating like just real wholesome foods.
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Now, we're all human, andI don't think that there's any perfection
and absolutely have I ate a glutenfree oreo in last year? Probably yes,
but for the most part, likeare we really nourish in our bodies?
So if you can answer those twoquestions, I think you're on somewhat
the right track. And if youstill need help, then you know that's
what we're here for, to helppersonalize it and help you understand your body
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better. Okay, so do youever cheat? I hate the word cheat,
but I do, like I will. I have a CGM. I
don't know. I know you can'tsee it if you're listening, but I
have a continuous glucose monitor on myarm. So I'm actually playing around with,
like how foods affect my blood sugar? And so I did. I
had Chick fil at and I usuallyget I love Chick Filix salads. To
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be completely honest, I hate theirdressing, but I love their fresh work
salad. But I was like,I'm actually going to have a regular fried
chicken sandwich and fries and see howaffect my blood sugar. Definitely through my
blood sugar very high, So Iwill think that, will think that even
though I usually don't get that anyways, but I do. I actually do
have things that are outside the quoteunquote norm but I'm also not in a
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healing season. So if you're ina healing season, I do think that
there needs to be some strictness toit. But if you're not, then
you know, you can always askyourself, is this going to be worth
diarrhea tomorrow or a headache or justlike bloated? If it is, like
if you're at a wedding, absolutely, then if you're not in a healing
season, of course, like doyour thing or all, like we're all
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human. I still love me somenormal moural things, but I also am
obsessed with like having things that arelike made like health with healthier ingredients,
so like we just I made brownieslast night from Simple Mills and that's like
almond flour and just like better qualityoil, etc. So I also love
that too, so I never feellike I'm deprived by any means. See,
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I can't stay away from the chips. That's my that's my but I
have it with avocado, so Ifeel like that's better. I just can't
stay away from chips. There's reallygood chips out there. You really want
to look for what the what oilthey're fried in. So there's like avocado
oil chips, um cocon oil chips. So I'm by Thrive from markets.
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Siete is one of my favorite brandsfrom the Torquia chips. They do as
well as they actually are starting tomake regular chips as well, but they're
cooked in avocado oils, so it'sa it's a lot better. So we
definitely still have chips too. Okay, well, I'm gonna start my strength
training and I'm gonna let you knowhow it goes. Yes, but I
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feel like, you know, forfor everybody, I mean, just what
you said about you, that youfollow us on this journey, I think
that's the key, because I thinkwe all need that extra little love in
our life. And that helps alot too, because like we said at
the very beginning, and you said, everybody's journey is different. So you
can't compare. Even if you're likethe same age, you can't compare this
person with that person. Everybody's bodyis going to do it differently. Yeah,
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definitely so much information here. Mygod, Lahanna, I can't thank
you enough. You are adorable.Thank you. I'm going to have you
again. I love this. SoI can't wait for everyone to tune in
to listen, and maybe they'll havesome questions for us. They can,
they can write to us and havesome questions and well we can answer that
next time. Perfect. I'm excited. Thank you so much. I love
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talking about everything. Oh and wait, wait, wait, one thing we
didn't touch on. If you don'tgo to the bathroom every day, that's
not good. Yes. I've hadsome people argue and say, like,
my whole life, I've only donea couple times a week. I like,
that doesn't make it normal. Yes, you have to go to the
bathroom every single day. I wouldn'tsay I know that. Maybe some blogs
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pop I gotta go three times aday? No, at least once a
day is key. And then evenif you're going every day, but they're
pebbles, that's still pretty much constipation. So it needs to be the Sun's
gross. I'm sorry if I ruinedsoft service cream for you, but it
should be like saft serve ice creamdaily, but again not perfection. I
definitely still have Day's words sometimes allof pebbles. I mostly have great poops,
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So you know, there's definitely gonnabe times that you're like off,
depending on if you're eating something thatjust really don't serve you or whatnot,
that will happen. But for themost part, going every day, soft
Serve is you. You can evenmake poops sound good, you know.
Yeah, oh my god, allright, come back again and again,
Yes, so much, for somuch. Thank you, thanks so much
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