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There's a huge gap between our moms who are sitting in the weeds going help, help, help, and traditional medicine, you know, and even functional medicine for that matter, it's way up in the clouds, kind of going, okay, here's my here's your 15 minutes.
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You know, give me what you got.
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And and there's a gap there.
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Functional labs for ADHD moms.
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Three markers, your doctor isn't reading for you.
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And Hallie explains.
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And that's one of the reasons why I'm here to talk to you today, is because I want equip moms to take better care of themselves, better care of their husbands, better care of their children, better care of their parents, better care of everybody because we're carrying it all anyway.
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So why not do it, you know, why not have more tools in our toolkit?
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Hey, I'm Jessica Lynn Lewis, and you're listening to Quick Wins for ADHD Moms.
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We are very excited to have Hallie on the show today.
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Hallie, welcome to Quick Wins for ADHD Moms.
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Thank you.
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It's great to be here.
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Yeah, well, we always start our show with a quick win, and I would love to hear yours.
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Love the quick win.
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Um, so I am very focused on the nervous system, how it works with your gut and your brain and all of those connections.
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I think it's so important.
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So when I feel overwhelmed and when moms feel overwhelmed, I think it's really important to pause and take a breath.
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Because when we're overstimulated or we have so many tasks going on or whatever, we start to breathe shallower and shallower and shallower, and we're getting less and less oxygen.
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And it makes sense.
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If we get less oxygen, we can't think clearly.
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We feel a little faint or sweaty or, you know, whatever the symptom is for you when you're not getting oxygen.
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So if we can slow that roll down and we can just take a deep breath, count to four, hold it, let it out.
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We kind of let some connections let go and some other connections engage, and then we can move forward.
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So I'm always going to start with a deep cleansing breath.
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It may sound benign, but it's not.
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In the grand scheme of things, it's a really big deal.
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Yeah.
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You know, you saying that reminded me when I was at childbirth with my first one, and the nurse was like, breathe.
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And it's funny, I forget.
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You forget to breathe.
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You just and you hold it in and you forget.
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You literally forget.
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So that reminder to just breathe can is life-changing.
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It really is.
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So thank you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You're welcome.
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Well, you talk a lot about the gut brain connection.
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And you have a wonderful, wonderful resources on your website and you're on YouTube.
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And I would just love to hear a little bit more about um what you're passionate about, what you see, the connection between that gut-brain connection.
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And like I know ADHD has a lot of like the brain fog and exhaustion and fatigue and all of that, you know, could be related also to the gut brain.
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And you, even though a mom still might have ADHD symptoms, because she has ADHD, clearing up as much as we possibly can, um, I think would just make it easier to focus and use as much brain as we can.
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Yeah.
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You know, so I would I would love to hear just your thoughts and opinions about that and you know, wherever you want to start.
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Okay.
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Well, I'll start with what I'm passionate about.
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Um, and really kind of what landed me in this space almost a decade ago now is um I think particularly for moms, because I'm one, I have two children.
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I had them later in life.
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Um, didn't think I was gonna have children ever.
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So I got blessings back to back.
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They're like 15 months apart.
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I was older and um kind of started having a hard time keeping up with everything and uh started feeling a lot of overwhelm.
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And lots and lots of things along the way.
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But I'll kind of net this out and say my passion stemmed from feeling like I wasn't heard.
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And I think a lot of times moms focus so much on taking care of everyone else, taking care of the house, taking care of the husband, the pets, the schools, the grades, all of the things that our plates are overflowing.
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We can't get it all done.
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So we have a tremendous amount of guilt, and there's no one to talk to.
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Because if you talk to another mom who's dealing with the same thing, a lot of times that other mom might take over the conversation and you never get to talk about the things that you're doing with.
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And so it led down a whole long lane of things that really led to functional wellness, because if our body systems are not working well, nothing else can work well.
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And um so my passion evolved really into like mystery illnesses, um, autoimmune conditions, and we'll talk about that today, too.
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Because when our bodies are in chronic stress, chronic overwhelm, we're not sleeping well, we're thinking all the time, we're chasing after a lot of things, it wreaks havoc on our bodies and can very easily open the door to autoimmune conditions because where is at least 70%?
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I say it's higher.
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I say it's more like 80, but I can't prove it.
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But doctors say at least 70% of our immune system is in our gut.
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So when we think about, you know, that gut feeling, you know, we hear people say that all the time.
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Well, what does your gut say?
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That's a real thing.
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Because if we get bad news, where do we feel it first?
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You feel your like it just in the gut, right?
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Your gut drops.
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Yeah.
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You say, like, oh my gosh, I feel like my gut dropped to my toes, you know?
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And your mouth gets dry and everything shuts down because your body goes into fight, flight, or freeze.
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And um, so I gosh, I'm so sorry, Jess.
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I kind of did I go down the wrong lane.
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I'm thinking about my forever.
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I love that.
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I love hearing the story behind why you started this because I think it sets the foundation for, you know, you're not just teaching something and helping people.
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This is something that you personally struggled with.
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And I know this is a let where a lot of moms are, and I've been there in this burnout cycle, and you don't even realize you're overwhelmed until you're too far gone.
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That's right.
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And by that time, you are seeking help from a doctor.
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You know, this is way beyond anything that you can fix with just a simple good night's rest.
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Yeah.
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You know, and then it's something that develops over time.
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So I love your story.
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I think it's all connected.
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Yeah, and it is.
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It's over time.
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I'll I'll tell you a quick story about me.
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Um, I gosh, I can't remember how old the kids were.
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Let's just say maybe six and seven.
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So, you know, I've been at this a few years.
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I had never really heard of adrenal fatigue, but but I felt like that's what I had.
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And I said something to my doctor, and she said, Oh, that's not really a thing.
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So, what did I feel?
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I felt dis dis, you know, dismissed and unheard.
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And I was like, huh.
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Oh, okay, well, then it's gotta be in my head, right?
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It wasn't until three years later that I changed doctors, had my lab work done, was able to read them and interpret the results myself because of what I've been trained to do, that I saw it very clearly.
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Adrenal fatigue was in my blood work.
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And I went back three years, three I guess three or four.
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I can't remember how many it was.
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It's kind of irrelevant, but I went back and looked at the patterns and it all showed adrenal fatigue.
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Interesting.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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And had I known then, you know, I could have done things differently.
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So one of my goals today is to help equip your moms to be empowered and to learn how to read lab work.
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And it's it's not intense or anything like that.
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There's only a couple markers that I want to share today.
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But there's a big gap between I feel awful and how do I convey that to my doctor?
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Because they only have 15 minutes for you.
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Yeah.
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And yeah, if you have ADHD, you've spent two hours at least trying to figure out what am I gonna say?
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And when the doctor walks in the room, everything falls out the bottom, and you're like going, oh gosh, what was I gonna say?
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What is my biggest thing?
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I can't remember.
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Or I wrote it down, but I didn't put the note in my purse and I brought the other purse and not this one.
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And yeah, been there.
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Or where did I write the note?
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How about that?
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Let's just start with that.
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Did I even write that down?
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Yeah.
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Where did I write that note?
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Or why didn't I write it down?
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Mm-hmm.
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So if we can be, you know, a little more equipped, and that's you know, I want I want our moms at the end of this conversation to feel like I can be grounded in this.
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Because as you well know, with all the people that you've spoken to and and all of the things, is that there are households that have ADHD husbands, ADHD children, ADHD moms.
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And the moms are the ones who carry it all for everyone.
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They need to use their executive functioning for everyone else, and they're struggling with their own.
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And that right there causes anxiety and stress and overwhelm.
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And that leads to things like adrenal for fatigue.
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And literally your body is like, okay, I'm gonna hold it for you for a little bit, but I'm gonna need some help.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Yeah, I need some help and support.
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Yeah, and the other thing to keep in mind too is that your adrenals sit on top of your kidneys.
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So if those adrenals are worn out and really like not only exhaustion, but fatigue, fatigue, exhaustion, and they just keep going back and forth, it's gonna affect your kidneys too, because it's ever everything is connected.
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So it's important to not just depend on traditional medical care, health care, sick care, whatever you want to call it, to own your health for you.
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I guess that's probably another part of my passion is educating and equipping people to say, huh, I'm gonna do my own research or I'm gonna talk to somebody I trust.
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And so I'm presenting myself today as somebody that your moms can trust to ask those questions of.
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If I don't know the answer, I will be the first to say, you know, that's a really good question, and I don't know, you know, but there's so much information.
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There's a huge gap between our moms who are sitting in the weeds going, help, help, help, and traditional medicine, you know, and even functional medicine for that matter, is way up in the clouds, kind of going, okay, here's my here's your 15 minutes, you know, give me what you got.
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And and there's a gap there.
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And so I just and then wait 30 days, wait 30 days or three months until I can see you again, and then say the same thing.
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Yes.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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And I and I personally have been on this journey for the last, I don't know how many years, but I've been through that brain fog cycle and the exhaustion.
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And, you know, I'd questioned recently like, do I have adrenal fatigue?
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And so I would love to hear you you were mentioning about different markers to look for.
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Where do you start your journey?
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Sure, sure.
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Um, well, and and I start with the lab work that's probably sitting in your portal.
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We're talking about standard labs that your doctor runs for you every year, if you go every year for a physical or whatever.
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It's the comprehensive metabolic panel.
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It's the CBC with differential.
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And I'll say a little side note on the CBC with differential to all of your moms, to you.
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If you go to the doctor and they're going to run a CBC panel on you or your children, make sure it has the differential.
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And the reason why is because the differential tells you how your immune system is performing.
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And I get so frustrated when I get labs.
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I'm so excited to dig in, and it says CBC basic.
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There's no differential, it doesn't really give you a lot of information.
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And you can own your labs.
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You can say, you know, I really want a CBC with differential, you know, you can give them a list of the labs that you want.
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So I'm sure that your listeners have a portal with their doctor where they have lab results.
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And the one that we're going to talk about today is the CBC with differential.
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And it's called that CBC with diff.
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So if your moms can pull that, you know, either pause or come back to this at this episode or whatever, but the information is going to be here for you.
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It is so valuable and it will change the way that you look at your labs from this day forward.
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And I'm just going to give a few simple things.
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I'm not looking to overwhelm anybody.
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What I want you to be able to see is holy wow, no one's ever shared this with me before, especially my doctors.
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And I'll be honest with you, I've kind of asked my doctor when something's been elevated and have been told, oh, we don't really worry about that, you know, unless it's a good idea.
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It's within range.
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It's within range.
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And we do that a lot.
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Oh, it's within range.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Then you don't worry about it, but something's still off.
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And thank you for bringing up the range, because that's my position is that I use a functional medicine lens to look through your standard lab results.
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So when you pull labs from your portal and you print it out, the little range markers are based on the average from the lab.
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So lab core has their, you know, labs.
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So let's just say TSH.
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We don't have to go into the details about that, but that range is 0.4 to 4.5.
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Well, if Jess's TSH is 0.4 for years and it starts creeping up slowly to 2, 3, 4, 4.4, it's still within range.
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It's still within range.
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But it's telling a different story.
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That's right.
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Something's clearly going on.
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So I have a different lens that I look through and I'm looking for optimization because I want everybody to live optimally.
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Living on that verge of being sick all the time, not acceptable to me.
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So I'm I'm looking at things differently.
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I'm looking for patterns.
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I'm basically looking for the puzzle to put together the puzzle of your health journey and what you've been through.
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And I'm looking for patterns and I know how to take those systems that aren't performing well and help build them up so we get a more homeostatic environment so that our brains work better.
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We can handle stress better.
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Our adrenals can take a break.
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We can absorb our food, absorb our nutrients, so that overall our bodies are just healthier.
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Yeah.
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So yes.
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All right, let's dive into it.
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Let's dive in.
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Let's dive in.
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Okay.
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So the CBC with differential.
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You're going to scroll down probably to somewhere near the bottom, and you're going to see those five markers that are the differential.
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The first one is neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, basophils, and eosinophils.
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Those are the five markers.
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But we're only going to talk about three.
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They're very, very important.
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The first one is the neutrophils.
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That happy number is around 60%.
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We like around 60.
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If it's 59, don't worry about it.
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If it's 61, don't worry about it.
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If it's 78, I'm not saying you should worry about it, but but we need to talk about it.
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Yeah, it's saying something.
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And that is a measurement of the bacterial or fungal load that you're dealing with in your body.
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You might know I had a cold that day or something, but you would be surprised at how many people have constantly high neutrophils at 70, 72, whatever, and they don't have a cold that day or those days.
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They just have this low-lying but chronic tug going on in their immune system, which wreaks havoc not only in their immune system, but other places too.
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So our happy number with neutrophils is 60.
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So you want to look for 60.
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What does it look like if we're above that?
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What are the symptoms?
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What are the pain points you might be experiencing it?
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You might have pain in your body, fatigue, UTIs, a lot of chronic UTIs, like you know, you keep taking the antibiotics and three months you're good.
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Back again.
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It comes right back, yeah.
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Comes right back.
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SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or fungal bacterial overgrowth in your gut.
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Constipation, diarrhea, IBS.
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All of those could be pain points if you're looking at your neutrophils and they're above 60.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Do you have any questions for me about the neutrophils?
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No, I think this is great.
00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:17.119
And I'm definitely gonna go back and look at look at my labs and then come back to this episode.
00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:22.640
And and we can have even a cheat sheet that that someone can download, you know, to go along with this.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Totally, totally.
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Um, okay.
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The next two I'm gonna group together because they're gonna tell you about your viral load.
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Okay, viruses that are in your body.
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This is very common too.
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I see elevated areas here.
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Um, it's the lymphocytes and the monocytes.
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They should be be all three of these are right there together.
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They're listed so you don't have to look around in multiple pages or whatever.
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They're all right there in sequence.
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The lymphocytes, the magic number is 30.
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Again, if you're 29 or 31, no big deal.
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If you're 35, 36, 42, yes, 48.
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Okay, something is going on.
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And we've got to take care of those viral infections.
00:20:14.799 --> 00:20:16.480
Same thing again.
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You might not even know you, you know, you might not have any symptoms, so to speak, like you have a virus.
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You know, like a lot of times you get a virus and you know you have it.
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Right.
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It'll take you out for a day, or just kind of makes you like, I'm just getting over a cold or something.
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Yes.
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But you might not even have those symptoms.
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Exactly.
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You're gonna have symptoms like fatigue, anxiety.
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Big contributor is the lymphocyte count, anxiety, depression.
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It's a big measurement in autoimmune because I've seen those numbers actually be flip-flopped, like the neutrophils being in the 20s, being made up in the uh lymphocytes, like 50, 55, something like that.
00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:10.079
And there's a lot going on, there's a lot of turmoil going on inside your body.
00:21:10.319 --> 00:21:19.519
And so briefly, I just kind of want to bring this back when we talk about our gut housing at least 70% of our immune system.
00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:25.519
If our immune system is suffering, our gut is gonna feel it.
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If our gut is suffering from our immune system being sick, that gut brain axis is not gonna work like it should.
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It's not gonna work to the best of its ability because there's this constant drain on the virus load, the viral load.
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The third one is monocytes.
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And that's gonna measure your viral load too.
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The happy number is seven.
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Seven or less.
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Okay, it's fine if it's less, but if it's above seven, I've seen it as high as 15.
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That person had Epstein Bar.
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And like it's ridiculous how many people have Epstein Bar.
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Now tell me what that what is Epstein Epstein Bar?
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Mono, kind of like mono.
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Oh, okay.
00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:16.799
Okay, it's like mononucleosis.
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And if you have mononucleosis, then you have Epstein Bar, and it's a virus that lives in your body for the rest of your life.
00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:24.559
Okay.
00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:24.960
Yeah.
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You don't want it to become active.
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Um, you want to keep it under control.
00:22:30.880 --> 00:22:34.240
And so much of that comes back to the immune system, right?
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Because if it's inflamed, then it's going to be overreacting.
00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:46.400
Um the Epstein Barr, like so many people have it across the whole world.
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I mean, it's not just in, you know, western areas or whatever, it's all over the world.
00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:57.599
Um, you know, and Lyme is coming more and more, becoming more and more frequent.
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Um, there's so many attacks on our immune system every single day.
00:23:05.359 --> 00:23:21.200
And that's one of the reasons why I'm here to talk to you today is because I want to equip moms to take better care of themselves, better care of their husbands, better care of their children, better care of their parents, better care of everybody because we're carrying it all anyway.
00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:24.960
So why not do it, you know, why not have more tools in our toolkit?
00:23:25.119 --> 00:23:25.279
Yeah.
00:23:25.759 --> 00:23:31.359
So what are the different things that causes these numbers to be off?
00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:38.559
When when it comes to infections, Jess, infections are very, very smart.
00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:43.279
They creep into our bodies through a multitude of ways.
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You know, it could be mold.
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I mean, there's no way to know really to back it up.
00:23:49.519 --> 00:24:00.720
But if our immune system is weak to begin with, we give that mold or that that thing, whatever it is, quote unquote thing, an opportunity to thrive.
00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:04.960
And it goes to the weakest place in your body.
00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:05.759
Okay.
00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:15.519
If it's for example, if it's your thyroid, it's gonna go to your thyroid, it's autoimmune, and what's it gonna look like down the road?
00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.279
It could look like Hashimoto's autoimmune.
00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:26.480
Um if our joints, if that's where it finds its home, what's that gonna look like?
00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:31.440
Rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis in general, osteoarthritis.
00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:40.000
I have started to treat osteoarthritis as an autoimmune because it makes sense.
00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:49.759
Everything practically, you know, if we step back, yeah, everything can be based on our immune system.
00:24:49.920 --> 00:25:01.279
And we know from five years ago we had this terrible virus that took out a lot of loved ones, caused, you know, a lot of people to be sick with long COVID.
00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:12.640
I'm sure some of your ADHD moms have long COVID, long haul, which makes it even harder to navigate life.
00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:18.079
Um so that that's that's really the root of it.
00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:25.839
You know, when you get these infections, they just come in, they're low lying, so they don't show up on a big lab report or anything like that for your doctor.
00:25:26.160 --> 00:25:26.400
Right.
00:25:26.559 --> 00:25:29.440
Like I told you, my doctor said, Oh, we don't, you're in the range.
00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:30.640
You know, everything's fine.
00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:32.240
I forget what the range is.
00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:38.400
And I I'll I'll tell you, and I encourage you and your moms to look at the range when you print out your labs.
00:25:38.640 --> 00:25:40.240
What is it for the neutrophils?
00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:43.279
You know, I've got my grain in my brain now 60%.
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Is it 40 to 70?
00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:47.519
I don't know.
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But you can tell based on what we're talking about.
00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:52.559
Oh my goodness, 60 is the magic number.
00:25:52.720 --> 00:25:56.400
If we're above that, something else is going on.
00:25:56.720 --> 00:25:57.039
Yeah.
00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:04.319
So look at that range and and write down what I'm sharing today so you have more information.
00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:11.359
Um, yeah, so those low-lying but chronic infections are just wreaking havoc on the body.
00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:19.039
And, you know, I hate to give this visual, but it's almost like you think about when you're when your house is infested with termites.
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You don't know.
00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:21.200
Right.
00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:23.359
You don't know for a long time.
00:26:24.079 --> 00:26:29.599
And then all of a sudden you see a little thing flying around your house or something, and you're like, is it a little gnat?
00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:36.319
And then you have the bug inspector come or the, you know, whatever it's called, the the bug guy.
00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:37.359
The bug guy.
00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:38.319
I can't, yeah.
00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:39.359
The bug guy.
00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:48.960
And you find out that, you know, they've been eating out your walls, your, you know, your house, you one part of your house is about to fall down, you know.
00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:50.880
It's very similar to the body.
00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:54.079
From the outside, we look great, everything's fine.
00:26:54.319 --> 00:26:57.599
And there's so much more information in our lab work.
00:26:57.839 --> 00:26:59.920
And I don't share any of this to scare anyone.
00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:01.599
There's nothing scary here.
00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:09.920
Because if there was something that really, you know, like your doctors were concerned, they would be they would notice it because it would be it's a completely different thing.
00:27:10.160 --> 00:27:14.480
But I think this is where a lot of us live is we try to hold ourselves together.
00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:17.359
We're exhausted, but we can't look like we're exhausted.
00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:19.599
We look like we have it all together.
00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:21.519
Um, you know, high achievers.
00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:25.359
A lot of us are working, working from home, working another job.
00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:33.519
We come home to kids and the schedule and the relationships and trying to just keep everybody and the executive functioning.
00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:35.440
We're trying to keep it all together.
00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:40.480
Um, and on top of this, we're feeling exhausted and fatigued and brain fog.
00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:49.039
And my kids make fun of me a lot for like, you know, I'll forget a word or I'll say something and my husband has to translate what I really mean.
00:27:49.119 --> 00:27:50.799
Like he's really good at it now.
00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:53.039
He's really good at translating just.
00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:58.799
But there's part of this journey, which I personally find fascinating, is looking into the labs and looking at all this.
00:27:58.880 --> 00:28:04.079
And I'm still learning, but I think it's fascinating looking at how this is all connected, right?
00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:10.000
Because it's a system, and for a system to run well in all the different parts need to be functioning well.
00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:17.680
And if that root cause is not functioning well, it just sends off this domino effect.
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:18.400
Right.
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:19.119
Yeah.
00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:22.880
So where and I love where you started.
00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:24.400
So that's the start of the story.
00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:27.359
Look at the what was it, this CBC?
00:28:27.599 --> 00:28:30.880
The C B C We see difference with differential.
00:28:31.359 --> 00:28:38.640
Um, now, if we notice, oh my goodness, we're uh we're like out of range, we're not in that sweet spot.
00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:40.880
What's next?
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:42.960
Like what are the things that we can look at?
00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:48.960
Because I think a lot of us are, you know, we're trying to live having a new nutritional diet.
00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:51.759
Um, but sometimes even that can be a little off.
00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:54.559
So how do you navigate, you know, what to do next?
00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:58.720
And it and it might be very personalized in a person-by-person thing.
00:28:59.039 --> 00:29:01.200
You're you you'd add it on the head.
00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:13.039
I think probably the easiest thing to kind of like just tell your listeners to look at too is if they have their vitamin D status, that's a great place to look.
00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:20.240
If they don't have their vitamin D measured, they need to get it the next time they go to the doctor for sure.
00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:27.759
A lot of times you have to ask for it, and you might even be told, like, you know, oh well, your insurance doesn't pay for it, blah, blah, blah.
00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:28.799
Pay for it.
00:29:29.039 --> 00:29:31.359
It is worth it to have that number.
00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:38.240
I will tell you that the magic number for vitamin D is 80 or above.
00:29:38.799 --> 00:29:42.160
The lab range is 30 to 100.
00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:43.680
Wow, that's a big range.
00:29:44.880 --> 00:29:45.359
Yeah.
00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:48.160
And I'll tell you, Jess, I've seen it as low as nine.
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:49.759
Oh, wow, yeah.
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:50.319
Yeah.
00:29:50.480 --> 00:29:51.039
Yeah.
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:57.440
So it it it kind of becomes part of the puzzle pieces that you're gonna put together on your own.
00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:03.519
Um, but if I always say that people have a lot of answers inside themselves.
00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:12.799
So a lot of times if you pull your labs and you're looking at it, kind of like what I did with my adrenals, you know, once I knew how to do it, I was like, I knew I was right, you know?
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:25.599
And um then you get the you get the validation, and you know, you can either come to me, you can do some research, you know, how do I support my adrenals, all the things.
00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.920
There's a lot of garbage supplements out there, you know, to be honest.
00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:38.160
I'm never gonna be a fan of running to Costco and getting that big 500-count vitamin D if you need to raise your vitamin D.
00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:39.359
Right.
00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:48.079
And I I have taken vitamin D and um I ended up it wasn't the right dose.
00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:51.839
It was like the teeniest, tiniest little dose.
00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:54.640
So I'm thinking, yeah, but I'm taking vitamin D.
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:59.680
No, I need a massive amount of vitamin D to get me back.
00:30:59.920 --> 00:31:04.400
And so what you don't know, you don't know, but that's why we're telling you here.
00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:05.839
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:06.400
Yeah.
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:08.319
So what did you do for your vitamin D?
00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:12.079
She she works on your feet and it's the nerve endings in your feet.
00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:13.839
The um reflexologist.
00:31:14.160 --> 00:31:15.119
Reflexologist.
00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:26.880
Yeah, so reflexologist, and she said, you know, a lot of especially with winter blues and depression, and she and we live in an area, northwest Pennsylvania, where there's lots of, it's cloudy most of the time.
00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:29.680
So she's like, You need a lot of vitamin D.
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:35.200
So she had supplements that she knew worked for the for her clients.
00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:45.519
And so finding someone who knows supplements instead of just buying something on Amazon or Costco or Walmart, um completely wrong.
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:47.279
Yeah, it's a it is.
00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:54.799
Yeah, because you know, you need other cofactors, you know, where the vitamin D, you need the K2 so that you you absorb it.
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:55.920
Yeah.
00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:59.039
And I'll t I'll tell you a quick example too.
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:04.160
I had a gentleman that I was working with, and his D was uh in the 30s.
00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:06.400
I don't remember where it was, but it was in the 30s.
00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:08.240
And I said, Yeah, we need to bring that up.
00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:10.000
And he didn't work with me on it.
00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:14.319
He went ahead and did it himself and he went to Costco and got the big thing.
00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:19.680
Six months later, he went and got his labs done, and his D was over a hundred.
00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:25.200
So, of course, his doctor said, Oh, it's toxic, which is not true.
00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:28.319
Okay, it's toxic, you gotta back off, blah, blah, blah.
00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:32.880
But here's the sad thing he felt no different.
00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:39.279
He felt no benefit from taking the vitamin D for six months.
00:32:40.160 --> 00:32:46.480
So, what that tells me as a practitioner is his number was artificially elevated.
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:49.599
That's not to say it wasn't true, okay?
00:32:49.759 --> 00:33:00.720
But as far as the benefits, like you should feel happier, you know, you should have a lot of benefits, joints, thoughts, all kinds of benefits.
00:33:00.960 --> 00:33:02.720
And he felt nothing.
00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:14.799
So I said, we're gonna come off of this, and then I want to go with a different formula that's got other cofactors in there that are gonna help you really absorb it.
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:17.279
Because vitamin D is a hormone.
00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:23.920
And if your cells are inflamed, that that cellular membrane is inflamed, nothing can get in.
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:26.160
Because it's in protection mode, right?
00:33:26.319 --> 00:33:29.680
Like it's like, we don't, we we're gonna just stay where we are.
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:32.240
And I think that's what like cortisol does as well.
00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:34.960
It just is like, all right, we're gonna stay here.
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:36.319
We're not gonna lose weight.
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:44.480
You're gonna work out as much as you possibly can and you're gonna lift all these weights, but we're gonna like, we're gonna stay here just in case.
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:46.799
We're gonna keep you right here.
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:47.519
Right, yeah.
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:49.279
Like, I don't want to be right here.
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:50.640
I want you to leave.
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:52.319
Exactly.
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:53.119
Yeah.
00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:53.839
Yeah.
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:58.160
Um, so he he did come off of the the Costco.
00:33:58.480 --> 00:33:59.759
We got him on mine.
00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:04.160
I don't think he's had his lab work done, but I know that he felt better.
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:14.880
I've seen it way too many times, you know, that it's it's it's really the cofactors because when you think about it, I'm not just vitamin D, you know, I'm lots of things.
00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:17.039
And I need lots of things.
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:21.039
And if I've got cellular inflammation, I need to address that too.
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:25.679
So just like you said earlier, everything's connected.
00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:32.480
And what we want in a homeostatic body is we want everybody playing nicely together.
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:35.039
So we want in our family and our kids too.
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:35.599
Amen.
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.320
Yes.
00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:38.159
Please just get along.
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:38.719
Yeah.
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:42.719
I feel like that's the fight that moms are doing.
00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:44.000
You know, please just get along.
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:45.440
Everybody just get along.
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:45.920
Yeah.
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:48.079
That's wonderful.
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:55.360
Well, how can people get a hold of you to be able to work with you or just learn more about you and what you do and your resources?
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:55.920
Sure.
00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:56.559
Sure.
00:34:56.719 --> 00:35:02.639
Um, probably the best way is on my website, which is halylaracy.com.
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:03.519
Super easy.
00:35:03.760 --> 00:35:05.679
Do you want me to spell it or are you gonna put it in the show notes?
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:07.280
We're gonna put it in the show notes for sure.
00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:09.920
So it's easy to get easy to click and go.
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:12.000
Hallelaracy.com.
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:19.039
You can also email me at Halley at Hallylaracy.com, but there's some resources on my website.
00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:24.079
You can read more about what it's like to work with me, what I do, how I do it.
00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:38.159
Um I also have uh I'm going through training right now on peptide therapy, which has been huge, especially for ADHD, focus, all of these things.
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There's there's a couple peptides that are really, really good for it.
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They're nasal sprays, so you don't have to inject anything.
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Um, but this whole peptide space is really opening up more empowerment for us to own our health naturally.
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Because peptides are natural to our bodies.
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They're amino acids, and our bodies know how to recognize them and know what to do with them.
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It's not like taking a statin where your body's like, whoa, what do I do with you?
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How do I break you down?
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You know, how do I get rid of you?
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Our bodies are like waving white flags saying, hey, come over here, peptides.
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I need you over here to help, you know, repair this, that, or the other, or balance this.
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So anyway, I'm super excited about peptides.
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Um, I have some free resources.
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If your moms want to download uh a dream labs list that I have, it gives you all of the labs that I highly recommend you run on yourself, on your spouse.
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I know the kids can be hard depending on their age.
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Yeah, needles.
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Yeah, even I'm like, I can't watch them put a needle.
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I can't watch it.
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I'll faint.
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I can't either.
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I can't either.
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I dread it, but I'm always so excited to get all that information that I get to use, that I get to filter and you know, examine.
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So um, that's a really usable uh list to have.
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And I'll just add a couple things I uh to that list.
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I love getting fasting insulin because it tells us more about your metabolic health that's not on the list.
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And ferritin.
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I don't think ferritin made it on the list.
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So if you if you download that list, I know fasting insulin isn't there.
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And if ferritin is not there, get that too.
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And it just makes a beautiful picture.
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And then if you want to meet with me afterwards, we can do a functional lens lab review.
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We can just start uncovering things and and helping you feel the very best version that you can of yourself.
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And that's amazing.
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Thank you.
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You know, I think it's so nice to be able to talk to someone who you you've lived the story, you see it, um, you work in the space, you work with a lot of different people.
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And sometimes we just get in our own little silos and we're like, well, I'll just put that on my shopping list and pick it up at Target or Walmart.
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And it, you know, the supplements.
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And maybe you're on the right track, but maybe that's not quite the right one for you and your body.
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And you might be missing something that you don't even know is there.
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So it's so nice having someone to just take, take a look.
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It's like the reflection, having someone else kind of reflect back on what's going on and and helping you move forward because there's we have so much going on.
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We're exhausted, and anything that can help us live just more resilient and engaged is is really the goal.
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Yeah, that's exactly right.
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And how awesome is it to have somebody who's hearing you.
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Yes.
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And, you know, and willing, not willing, but I mean wants to hold your hand and support you so that you can take some of that burden that you're carrying for yourself and share it with somebody else, you know, that can say, oh, I can see why fill in the blank.
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You know, I can totally see that.
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And here it is in your labs.
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Here's what, let's do this.
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Let's, you know, let's get you feeling better.
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And and life can just take a totally different spin.
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You know, if we feel better, we think better.
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If we feel better, we sleep better.
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We can make better choices with our food.
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We we just we can just do life better.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Absolutely.
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And it takes time and it's okay where you are now, but know that you don't have to be struggling.
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You know, there's people out there to help.
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So thank you so much, Hallie, for your time and just your your thoughts and um and skills and advice, all of it.
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Thank you.
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Absolutely.
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My pleasure.
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Thank you so much.
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There's a huge gap between our moms who are sitting in the weeds going help, help, help, and traditional medicine, you know, and even functional medicine for that matter, it's way up in the clouds, kind of going, okay, here's my here's your 15 minutes.
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You know, give me what you got.
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And and there's a gap there.
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Functional labs for ADHD moms.
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Three markers, your doctor isn't reading for you.
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And Hallie explains.
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And that's one of the reasons why I'm here to talk to you today, is because I want equip moms to take better care of themselves, better care of their husbands, better care of their children, better care of their parents, better care of everybody because we're carrying it all anyway.
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So why not do it, you know, why not have more tools in our toolkit?
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Hey, I'm Jessica Lynn Lewis, and you're listening to Quick Wins for ADHD Moms.
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We are very excited to have Hallie on the show today.
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Hallie, welcome to Quick Wins for ADHD Moms.
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Thank you.
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It's great to be here.
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Yeah, well, we always start our show with a quick win, and I would love to hear yours.
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Love the quick win.
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Um, so I am very focused on the nervous system, how it works with your gut and your brain and all of those connections.
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I think it's so important.
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So when I feel overwhelmed and when moms feel overwhelmed, I think it's really important to pause and take a breath.
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Because when we're overstimulated or we have so many tasks going on or whatever, we start to breathe shallower and shallower and shallower, and we're getting less and less oxygen.
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And it makes sense.
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If we get less oxygen, we can't think clearly.
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We feel a little faint or sweaty or, you know, whatever the symptom is for you when you're not getting oxygen.
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So if we can slow that roll down and we can just take a deep breath, count to four, hold it, let it out.
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We kind of let some connections let go and some other connections engage, and then we can move forward.
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So I'm always going to start with a deep cleansing breath.
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It may sound benign, but it's not.
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In the grand scheme of things, it's a really big deal.
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Yeah.
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You know, you saying that reminded me when I was at childbirth with my first one, and the nurse was like, breathe.
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And it's funny, I forget.
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You forget to breathe.
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You just and you hold it in and you forget.
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You literally forget.
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So that reminder to just breathe can is life-changing.
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It really is.
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So thank you.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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You're welcome.
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Well, you talk a lot about the gut brain connection.
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And you have a wonderful, wonderful resources on your website and you're on YouTube.
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And I would just love to hear a little bit more about um what you're passionate about, what you see, the connection between that gut-brain connection.
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And like I know ADHD has a lot of like the brain fog and exhaustion and fatigue and all of that, you know, could be related also to the gut brain.
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And you, even though a mom still might have ADHD symptoms, because she has ADHD, clearing up as much as we possibly can, um, I think would just make it easier to focus and use as much brain as we can.
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Yeah.
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You know, so I would I would love to hear just your thoughts and opinions about that and you know, wherever you want to start.
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Okay.
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Well, I'll start with what I'm passionate about.
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Um, and really kind of what landed me in this space almost a decade ago now is um I think particularly for moms, because I'm one, I have two children.
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I had them later in life.
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Um, didn't think I was gonna have children ever.
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So I got blessings back to back.
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They're like 15 months apart.
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I was older and um kind of started having a hard time keeping up with everything and uh started feeling a lot of overwhelm.
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And lots and lots of things along the way.
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But I'll kind of net this out and say my passion stemmed from feeling like I wasn't heard.
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And I think a lot of times moms focus so much on taking care of everyone else, taking care of the house, taking care of the husband, the pets, the schools, the grades, all of the things that our plates are overflowing.
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We can't get it all done.
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So we have a tremendous amount of guilt, and there's no one to talk to.
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Because if you talk to another mom who's dealing with the same thing, a lot of times that other mom might take over the conversation and you never get to talk about the things that you're doing with.
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And so it led down a whole long lane of things that really led to functional wellness, because if our body systems are not working well, nothing else can work well.
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And um so my passion evolved really into like mystery illnesses, um, autoimmune conditions, and we'll talk about that today, too.
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Because when our bodies are in chronic stress, chronic overwhelm, we're not sleeping well, we're thinking all the time, we're chasing after a lot of things, it wreaks havoc on our bodies and can very easily open the door to autoimmune conditions because where is at least 70%?
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I say it's higher.
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I say it's more like 80, but I can't prove it.
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But doctors say at least 70% of our immune system is in our gut.
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So when we think about, you know, that gut feeling, you know, we hear people say that all the time.
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Well, what does your gut say?
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That's a real thing.
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Because if we get bad news, where do we feel it first?
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You feel your like it just in the gut, right?
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Your gut drops.
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Yeah.
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You say, like, oh my gosh, I feel like my gut dropped to my toes, you know?
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And your mouth gets dry and everything shuts down because your body goes into fight, flight, or freeze.
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And um, so I gosh, I'm so sorry, Jess.
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I kind of did I go down the wrong lane.
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I'm thinking about my forever.
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I love that.
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I love hearing the story behind why you started this because I think it sets the foundation for, you know, you're not just teaching something and helping people.
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This is something that you personally struggled with.
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And I know this is a let where a lot of moms are, and I've been there in this burnout cycle, and you don't even realize you're overwhelmed until you're too far gone.
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That's right.
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And by that time, you are seeking help from a doctor.
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You know, this is way beyond anything that you can fix with just a simple good night's rest.
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Yeah.
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You know, and then it's something that develops over time.
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So I love your story.
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I think it's all connected.
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Yeah, and it is.
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It's over time.
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I'll I'll tell you a quick story about me.
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Um, I gosh, I can't remember how old the kids were.
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Let's just say maybe six and seven.
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So, you know, I've been at this a few years.
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I had never really heard of adrenal fatigue, but but I felt like that's what I had.
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And I said something to my doctor, and she said, Oh, that's not really a thing.
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So, what did I feel?
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I felt dis dis, you know, dismissed and unheard.
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And I was like, huh.
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Oh, okay, well, then it's gotta be in my head, right?
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It wasn't until three years later that I changed doctors, had my lab work done, was able to read them and interpret the results myself because of what I've been trained to do, that I saw it very clearly.
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Adrenal fatigue was in my blood work.
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And I went back three years, three I guess three or four.
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I can't remember how many it was.
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It's kind of irrelevant, but I went back and looked at the patterns and it all showed adrenal fatigue.
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Interesting.
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Yeah.
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Mm-hmm.
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And had I known then, you know, I could have done things differently.
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So one of my goals today is to help equip your moms to be empowered and to learn how to read lab work.
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And it's it's not intense or anything like that.
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There's only a couple markers that I want to share today.
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But there's a big gap between I feel awful and how do I convey that to my doctor?
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Because they only have 15 minutes for you.
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Yeah.
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And yeah, if you have ADHD, you've spent two hours at least trying to figure out what am I gonna say?
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And when the doctor walks in the room, everything falls out the bottom, and you're like going, oh gosh, what was I gonna say?
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What is my biggest thing?
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I can't remember.
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Or I wrote it down, but I didn't put the note in my purse and I brought the other purse and not this one.
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And yeah, been there.
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Or where did I write the note?
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How about that?
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Let's just start with that.
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Did I even write that down?
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Yeah.
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Where did I write that note?
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Or why didn't I write it down?
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Mm-hmm.
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So if we can be, you know, a little more equipped, and that's you know, I want I want our moms at the end of this conversation to feel like I can be grounded in this.
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Because as you well know, with all the people that you've spoken to and and all of the things, is that there are households that have ADHD husbands, ADHD children, ADHD moms.
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And the moms are the ones who carry it all for everyone.
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They need to use their executive functioning for everyone else, and they're struggling with their own.
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And that right there causes anxiety and stress and overwhelm.
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And that leads to things like adrenal for fatigue.
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And literally your body is like, okay, I'm gonna hold it for you for a little bit, but I'm gonna need some help.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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Yeah, I need some help and support.
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Yeah, and the other thing to keep in mind too is that your adrenals sit on top of your kidneys.
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So if those adrenals are worn out and really like not only exhaustion, but fatigue, fatigue, exhaustion, and they just keep going back and forth, it's gonna affect your kidneys too, because it's ever everything is connected.
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So it's important to not just depend on traditional medical care, health care, sick care, whatever you want to call it, to own your health for you.
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I guess that's probably another part of my passion is educating and equipping people to say, huh, I'm gonna do my own research or I'm gonna talk to somebody I trust.
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And so I'm presenting myself today as somebody that your moms can trust to ask those questions of.
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If I don't know the answer, I will be the first to say, you know, that's a really good question, and I don't know, you know, but there's so much information.
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There's a huge gap between our moms who are sitting in the weeds going, help, help, help, and traditional medicine, you know, and even functional medicine for that matter, is way up in the clouds, kind of going, okay, here's my here's your 15 minutes, you know, give me what you got.
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And and there's a gap there.
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And so I just and then wait 30 days, wait 30 days or three months until I can see you again, and then say the same thing.
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Yes.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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And I and I personally have been on this journey for the last, I don't know how many years, but I've been through that brain fog cycle and the exhaustion.
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And, you know, I'd questioned recently like, do I have adrenal fatigue?
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And so I would love to hear you you were mentioning about different markers to look for.
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Where do you start your journey?
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Sure, sure.
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Um, well, and and I start with the lab work that's probably sitting in your portal.
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We're talking about standard labs that your doctor runs for you every year, if you go every year for a physical or whatever.
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It's the comprehensive metabolic panel.
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It's the CBC with differential.
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And I'll say a little side note on the CBC with differential to all of your moms, to you.
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If you go to the doctor and they're going to run a CBC panel on you or your children, make sure it has the differential.
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And the reason why is because the differential tells you how your immune system is performing.
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And I get so frustrated when I get labs.
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I'm so excited to dig in, and it says CBC basic.
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There's no differential, it doesn't really give you a lot of information.
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And you can own your labs.
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You can say, you know, I really want a CBC with differential, you know, you can give them a list of the labs that you want.
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So I'm sure that your listeners have a portal with their doctor where they have lab results.
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And the one that we're going to talk about today is the CBC with differential.
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And it's called that CBC with diff.
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So if your moms can pull that, you know, either pause or come back to this at this episode or whatever, but the information is going to be here for you.
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It is so valuable and it will change the way that you look at your labs from this day forward.
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And I'm just going to give a few simple things.
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I'm not looking to overwhelm anybody.
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What I want you to be able to see is holy wow, no one's ever shared this with me before, especially my doctors.
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And I'll be honest with you, I've kind of asked my doctor when something's been elevated and have been told, oh, we don't really worry about that, you know, unless it's a good idea.
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It's within range.
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It's within range.
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And we do that a lot.
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Oh, it's within range.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Then you don't worry about it, but something's still off.
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And thank you for bringing up the range, because that's my position is that I use a functional medicine lens to look through your standard lab results.
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So when you pull labs from your portal and you print it out, the little range markers are based on the average from the lab.
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So lab core has their, you know, labs.
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So let's just say TSH.
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We don't have to go into the details about that, but that range is 0.4 to 4.5.
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Well, if Jess's TSH is 0.4 for years and it starts creeping up slowly to 2, 3, 4, 4.4, it's still within range.
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It's still within range.
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But it's telling a different story.
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That's right.
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Something's clearly going on.
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So I have a different lens that I look through and I'm looking for optimization because I want everybody to live optimally.
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Living on that verge of being sick all the time, not acceptable to me.
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So I'm I'm looking at things differently.
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I'm looking for patterns.
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I'm basically looking for the puzzle to put together the puzzle of your health journey and what you've been through.
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And I'm looking for patterns and I know how to take those systems that aren't performing well and help build them up so we get a more homeostatic environment so that our brains work better.
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We can handle stress better.
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Our adrenals can take a break.
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We can absorb our food, absorb our nutrients, so that overall our bodies are just healthier.
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Yeah.
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So yes.
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All right, let's dive into it.
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Let's dive in.
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Let's dive in.
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Okay.
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So the CBC with differential.
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You're going to scroll down probably to somewhere near the bottom, and you're going to see those five markers that are the differential.
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The first one is neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, basophils, and eosinophils.
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Those are the five markers.
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But we're only going to talk about three.
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They're very, very important.
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The first one is the neutrophils.
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That happy number is around 60%.
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We like around 60.
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If it's 59, don't worry about it.
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If it's 61, don't worry about it.
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If it's 78, I'm not saying you should worry about it, but but we need to talk about it.
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Yeah, it's saying something.
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And that is a measurement of the bacterial or fungal load that you're dealing with in your body.
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You might know I had a cold that day or something, but you would be surprised at how many people have constantly high neutrophils at 70, 72, whatever, and they don't have a cold that day or those days.
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They just have this low-lying but chronic tug going on in their immune system, which wreaks havoc not only in their immune system, but other places too.
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So our happy number with neutrophils is 60.
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So you want to look for 60.
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What does it look like if we're above that?
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What are the symptoms?
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What are the pain points you might be experiencing it?
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You might have pain in your body, fatigue, UTIs, a lot of chronic UTIs, like you know, you keep taking the antibiotics and three months you're good.
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Back again.
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It comes right back, yeah.
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Comes right back.
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SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, or fungal bacterial overgrowth in your gut.
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Constipation, diarrhea, IBS.
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All of those could be pain points if you're looking at your neutrophils and they're above 60.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Do you have any questions for me about the neutrophils?
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No, I think this is great.
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And I'm definitely gonna go back and look at look at my labs and then come back to this episode.
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And and we can have even a cheat sheet that that someone can download, you know, to go along with this.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Totally, totally.
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Um, okay.
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The next two I'm gonna group together because they're gonna tell you about your viral load.
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Okay, viruses that are in your body.
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This is very common too.
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I see elevated areas here.
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Um, it's the lymphocytes and the monocytes.
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They should be be all three of these are right there together.
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They're listed so you don't have to look around in multiple pages or whatever.
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They're all right there in sequence.
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The lymphocytes, the magic number is 30.
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Again, if you're 29 or 31, no big deal.
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If you're 35, 36, 42, yes, 48.
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Okay, something is going on.
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And we've got to take care of those viral infections.
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Same thing again.
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You might not even know you, you know, you might not have any symptoms, so to speak, like you have a virus.
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You know, like a lot of times you get a virus and you know you have it.
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Right.
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It'll take you out for a day, or just kind of makes you like, I'm just getting over a cold or something.
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Yes.
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But you might not even have those symptoms.
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Exactly.
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You're gonna have symptoms like fatigue, anxiety.
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Big contributor is the lymphocyte count, anxiety, depression.
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It's a big measurement in autoimmune because I've seen those numbers actually be flip-flopped, like the neutrophils being in the 20s, being made up in the uh lymphocytes, like 50, 55, something like that.
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And there's a lot going on, there's a lot of turmoil going on inside your body.
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And so briefly, I just kind of want to bring this back when we talk about our gut housing at least 70% of our immune system.
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If our immune system is suffering, our gut is gonna feel it.
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If our gut is suffering from our immune system being sick, that gut brain axis is not gonna work like it should.
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It's not gonna work to the best of its ability because there's this constant drain on the virus load, the viral load.
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The third one is monocytes.
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And that's gonna measure your viral load too.
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The happy number is seven.
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Seven or less.
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Okay, it's fine if it's less, but if it's above seven, I've seen it as high as 15.
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That person had Epstein Bar.
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And like it's ridiculous how many people have Epstein Bar.
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Now tell me what that what is Epstein Epstein Bar?
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Mono, kind of like mono.
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Oh, okay.
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Okay, it's like mononucleosis.
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And if you have mononucleosis, then you have Epstein Bar, and it's a virus that lives in your body for the rest of your life.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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You don't want it to become active.
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Um, you want to keep it under control.
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And so much of that comes back to the immune system, right?
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Because if it's inflamed, then it's going to be overreacting.
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Um the Epstein Barr, like so many people have it across the whole world.
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I mean, it's not just in, you know, western areas or whatever, it's all over the world.
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Um, you know, and Lyme is coming more and more, becoming more and more frequent.
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Um, there's so many attacks on our immune system every single day.
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And that's one of the reasons why I'm here to talk to you today is because I want to equip moms to take better care of themselves, better care of their husbands, better care of their children, better care of their parents, better care of everybody because we're carrying it all anyway.
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So why not do it, you know, why not have more tools in our toolkit?
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Yeah.
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So what are the different things that causes these numbers to be off?
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When when it comes to infections, Jess, infections are very, very smart.
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They creep into our bodies through a multitude of ways.
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You know, it could be mold.
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I mean, there's no way to know really to back it up.
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But if our immune system is weak to begin with, we give that mold or that that thing, whatever it is, quote unquote thing, an opportunity to thrive.
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And it goes to the weakest place in your body.
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Okay.
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If it's for example, if it's your thyroid, it's gonna go to your thyroid, it's autoimmune, and what's it gonna look like down the road?
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It could look like Hashimoto's autoimmune.
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Um if our joints, if that's where it finds its home, what's that gonna look like?
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Rheumatoid arthritis, arthritis in general, osteoarthritis.
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I have started to treat osteoarthritis as an autoimmune because it makes sense.
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Everything practically, you know, if we step back, yeah, everything can be based on our immune system.
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And we know from five years ago we had this terrible virus that took out a lot of loved ones, caused, you know, a lot of people to be sick with long COVID.
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I'm sure some of your ADHD moms have long COVID, long haul, which makes it even harder to navigate life.
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Um so that that's that's really the root of it.
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You know, when you get these infections, they just come in, they're low lying, so they don't show up on a big lab report or anything like that for your doctor.
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Right.
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Like I told you, my doctor said, Oh, we don't, you're in the range.
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You know, everything's fine.
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I forget what the range is.
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And I I'll I'll tell you, and I encourage you and your moms to look at the range when you print out your labs.
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What is it for the neutrophils?
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You know, I've got my grain in my brain now 60%.
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Is it 40 to 70?
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I don't know.
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But you can tell based on what we're talking about.
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Oh my goodness, 60 is the magic number.
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If we're above that, something else is going on.
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Yeah.
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So look at that range and and write down what I'm sharing today so you have more information.
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Um, yeah, so those low-lying but chronic infections are just wreaking havoc on the body.
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And, you know, I hate to give this visual, but it's almost like you think about when you're when your house is infested with termites.
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You don't know.
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Right.
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You don't know for a long time.
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And then all of a sudden you see a little thing flying around your house or something, and you're like, is it a little gnat?
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And then you have the bug inspector come or the, you know, whatever it's called, the the bug guy.
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The bug guy.
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I can't, yeah.
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The bug guy.
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And you find out that, you know, they've been eating out your walls, your, you know, your house, you one part of your house is about to fall down, you know.
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It's very similar to the body.
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From the outside, we look great, everything's fine.
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And there's so much more information in our lab work.
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And I don't share any of this to scare anyone.
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There's nothing scary here.
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Because if there was something that really, you know, like your doctors were concerned, they would be they would notice it because it would be it's a completely different thing.
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But I think this is where a lot of us live is we try to hold ourselves together.
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We're exhausted, but we can't look like we're exhausted.
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We look like we have it all together.
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Um, you know, high achievers.
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A lot of us are working, working from home, working another job.
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We come home to kids and the schedule and the relationships and trying to just keep everybody and the executive functioning.
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We're trying to keep it all together.
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Um, and on top of this, we're feeling exhausted and fatigued and brain fog.
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And my kids make fun of me a lot for like, you know, I'll forget a word or I'll say something and my husband has to translate what I really mean.
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Like he's really good at it now.
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He's really good at translating just.
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But there's part of this journey, which I personally find fascinating, is looking into the labs and looking at all this.
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And I'm still learning, but I think it's fascinating looking at how this is all connected, right?
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Because it's a system, and for a system to run well in all the different parts need to be functioning well.
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And if that root cause is not functioning well, it just sends off this domino effect.
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Right.
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Yeah.
00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:22.880
So where and I love where you started.
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So that's the start of the story.
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Look at the what was it, this CBC?
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The C B C We see difference with differential.
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Um, now, if we notice, oh my goodness, we're uh we're like out of range, we're not in that sweet spot.
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What's next?
00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:42.960
Like what are the things that we can look at?
00:28:43.119 --> 00:28:48.960
Because I think a lot of us are, you know, we're trying to live having a new nutritional diet.
00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:51.759
Um, but sometimes even that can be a little off.
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So how do you navigate, you know, what to do next?
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And it and it might be very personalized in a person-by-person thing.
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You're you you'd add it on the head.
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I think probably the easiest thing to kind of like just tell your listeners to look at too is if they have their vitamin D status, that's a great place to look.
00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:20.240
If they don't have their vitamin D measured, they need to get it the next time they go to the doctor for sure.
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A lot of times you have to ask for it, and you might even be told, like, you know, oh well, your insurance doesn't pay for it, blah, blah, blah.
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Pay for it.
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It is worth it to have that number.
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I will tell you that the magic number for vitamin D is 80 or above.
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The lab range is 30 to 100.
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Wow, that's a big range.
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Yeah.
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And I'll tell you, Jess, I've seen it as low as nine.
00:29:48.880 --> 00:29:49.759
Oh, wow, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:57.440
So it it it kind of becomes part of the puzzle pieces that you're gonna put together on your own.
00:29:57.680 --> 00:30:03.519
Um, but if I always say that people have a lot of answers inside themselves.
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So a lot of times if you pull your labs and you're looking at it, kind of like what I did with my adrenals, you know, once I knew how to do it, I was like, I knew I was right, you know?
00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:25.599
And um then you get the you get the validation, and you know, you can either come to me, you can do some research, you know, how do I support my adrenals, all the things.
00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:29.920
There's a lot of garbage supplements out there, you know, to be honest.
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I'm never gonna be a fan of running to Costco and getting that big 500-count vitamin D if you need to raise your vitamin D.
00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:39.359
Right.
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And I I have taken vitamin D and um I ended up it wasn't the right dose.
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It was like the teeniest, tiniest little dose.
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So I'm thinking, yeah, but I'm taking vitamin D.
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No, I need a massive amount of vitamin D to get me back.
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And so what you don't know, you don't know, but that's why we're telling you here.
00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:05.839
Yeah, yeah.
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Yeah.
00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:08.319
So what did you do for your vitamin D?
00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:12.079
She she works on your feet and it's the nerve endings in your feet.
00:31:12.319 --> 00:31:13.839
The um reflexologist.
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Reflexologist.
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Yeah, so reflexologist, and she said, you know, a lot of especially with winter blues and depression, and she and we live in an area, northwest Pennsylvania, where there's lots of, it's cloudy most of the time.
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So she's like, You need a lot of vitamin D.
00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:35.200
So she had supplements that she knew worked for the for her clients.
00:31:35.519 --> 00:31:45.519
And so finding someone who knows supplements instead of just buying something on Amazon or Costco or Walmart, um completely wrong.
00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:47.279
Yeah, it's a it is.
00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:54.799
Yeah, because you know, you need other cofactors, you know, where the vitamin D, you need the K2 so that you you absorb it.
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:55.920
Yeah.
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And I'll t I'll tell you a quick example too.
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I had a gentleman that I was working with, and his D was uh in the 30s.
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I don't remember where it was, but it was in the 30s.
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And I said, Yeah, we need to bring that up.
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And he didn't work with me on it.
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He went ahead and did it himself and he went to Costco and got the big thing.
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Six months later, he went and got his labs done, and his D was over a hundred.
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So, of course, his doctor said, Oh, it's toxic, which is not true.
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Okay, it's toxic, you gotta back off, blah, blah, blah.
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But here's the sad thing he felt no different.
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He felt no benefit from taking the vitamin D for six months.
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So, what that tells me as a practitioner is his number was artificially elevated.
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That's not to say it wasn't true, okay?
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But as far as the benefits, like you should feel happier, you know, you should have a lot of benefits, joints, thoughts, all kinds of benefits.
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And he felt nothing.
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So I said, we're gonna come off of this, and then I want to go with a different formula that's got other cofactors in there that are gonna help you really absorb it.
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Because vitamin D is a hormone.
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And if your cells are inflamed, that that cellular membrane is inflamed, nothing can get in.
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Because it's in protection mode, right?
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Like it's like, we don't, we we're gonna just stay where we are.
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:32.240
And I think that's what like cortisol does as well.
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It just is like, all right, we're gonna stay here.
00:33:35.119 --> 00:33:36.319
We're not gonna lose weight.
00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:44.480
You're gonna work out as much as you possibly can and you're gonna lift all these weights, but we're gonna like, we're gonna stay here just in case.
00:33:45.200 --> 00:33:46.799
We're gonna keep you right here.
00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:47.519
Right, yeah.
00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:49.279
Like, I don't want to be right here.
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:50.640
I want you to leave.
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:52.319
Exactly.
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:53.119
Yeah.
00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:53.839
Yeah.
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Um, so he he did come off of the the Costco.
00:33:58.480 --> 00:33:59.759
We got him on mine.
00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:04.160
I don't think he's had his lab work done, but I know that he felt better.
00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:14.880
I've seen it way too many times, you know, that it's it's it's really the cofactors because when you think about it, I'm not just vitamin D, you know, I'm lots of things.
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And I need lots of things.
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:21.039
And if I've got cellular inflammation, I need to address that too.
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:25.679
So just like you said earlier, everything's connected.
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And what we want in a homeostatic body is we want everybody playing nicely together.
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:35.039
So we want in our family and our kids too.
00:34:35.280 --> 00:34:35.599
Amen.
00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.320
Yes.
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Please just get along.
00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:38.719
Yeah.
00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:42.719
I feel like that's the fight that moms are doing.
00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:44.000
You know, please just get along.
00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:45.440
Everybody just get along.
00:34:45.599 --> 00:34:45.920
Yeah.
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:48.079
That's wonderful.
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:55.360
Well, how can people get a hold of you to be able to work with you or just learn more about you and what you do and your resources?
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:55.920
Sure.
00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:56.559
Sure.
00:34:56.719 --> 00:35:02.639
Um, probably the best way is on my website, which is halylaracy.com.
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:03.519
Super easy.
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Do you want me to spell it or are you gonna put it in the show notes?
00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:07.280
We're gonna put it in the show notes for sure.
00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:09.920
So it's easy to get easy to click and go.
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Hallelaracy.com.
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:19.039
You can also email me at Halley at Hallylaracy.com, but there's some resources on my website.
00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:24.079
You can read more about what it's like to work with me, what I do, how I do it.
00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:38.159
Um I also have uh I'm going through training right now on peptide therapy, which has been huge, especially for ADHD, focus, all of these things.
00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:41.519
There's there's a couple peptides that are really, really good for it.
00:35:41.679 --> 00:35:45.599
They're nasal sprays, so you don't have to inject anything.
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:57.039
Um, but this whole peptide space is really opening up more empowerment for us to own our health naturally.
00:35:57.679 --> 00:35:59.679
Because peptides are natural to our bodies.
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They're amino acids, and our bodies know how to recognize them and know what to do with them.
00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:10.880
It's not like taking a statin where your body's like, whoa, what do I do with you?
00:36:11.039 --> 00:36:12.800
How do I break you down?
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:14.800
You know, how do I get rid of you?
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:19.440
Our bodies are like waving white flags saying, hey, come over here, peptides.
00:36:19.519 --> 00:36:24.800
I need you over here to help, you know, repair this, that, or the other, or balance this.
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:27.840
So anyway, I'm super excited about peptides.
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.000
Um, I have some free resources.
00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:44.000
If your moms want to download uh a dream labs list that I have, it gives you all of the labs that I highly recommend you run on yourself, on your spouse.
00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:47.519
I know the kids can be hard depending on their age.
00:36:49.199 --> 00:36:49.920
Yeah, needles.
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:52.800
Yeah, even I'm like, I can't watch them put a needle.
00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:53.440
I can't watch it.
00:36:53.519 --> 00:36:54.079
I'll faint.
00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:54.880
I can't either.
00:36:55.039 --> 00:36:55.599
I can't either.
00:36:55.679 --> 00:37:04.320
I dread it, but I'm always so excited to get all that information that I get to use, that I get to filter and you know, examine.
00:37:04.639 --> 00:37:08.400
So um, that's a really usable uh list to have.
00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:11.760
And I'll just add a couple things I uh to that list.
00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:18.079
I love getting fasting insulin because it tells us more about your metabolic health that's not on the list.
00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:20.079
And ferritin.
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I don't think ferritin made it on the list.
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:26.480
So if you if you download that list, I know fasting insulin isn't there.
00:37:26.639 --> 00:37:29.599
And if ferritin is not there, get that too.
00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:32.159
And it just makes a beautiful picture.
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:37.199
And then if you want to meet with me afterwards, we can do a functional lens lab review.
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:45.199
We can just start uncovering things and and helping you feel the very best version that you can of yourself.
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:46.800
And that's amazing.
00:37:46.960 --> 00:37:47.599
Thank you.
00:37:48.159 --> 00:37:57.440
You know, I think it's so nice to be able to talk to someone who you you've lived the story, you see it, um, you work in the space, you work with a lot of different people.
00:37:57.519 --> 00:38:04.800
And sometimes we just get in our own little silos and we're like, well, I'll just put that on my shopping list and pick it up at Target or Walmart.
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:07.119
And it, you know, the supplements.
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:16.719
And maybe you're on the right track, but maybe that's not quite the right one for you and your body.
00:38:16.880 --> 00:38:19.840
And you might be missing something that you don't even know is there.
00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:23.679
So it's so nice having someone to just take, take a look.
00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:33.760
It's like the reflection, having someone else kind of reflect back on what's going on and and helping you move forward because there's we have so much going on.
00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:42.239
We're exhausted, and anything that can help us live just more resilient and engaged is is really the goal.
00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:43.840
Yeah, that's exactly right.
00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:46.960
And how awesome is it to have somebody who's hearing you.
00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:47.599
Yes.
00:38:47.840 --> 00:39:06.719
And, you know, and willing, not willing, but I mean wants to hold your hand and support you so that you can take some of that burden that you're carrying for yourself and share it with somebody else, you know, that can say, oh, I can see why fill in the blank.
00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:08.000
You know, I can totally see that.
00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:09.440
And here it is in your labs.
00:39:09.599 --> 00:39:11.199
Here's what, let's do this.
00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:13.760
Let's, you know, let's get you feeling better.
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:19.440
And and life can just take a totally different spin.
00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:22.880
You know, if we feel better, we think better.
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:26.079
If we feel better, we sleep better.
00:39:26.320 --> 00:39:28.480
We can make better choices with our food.
00:39:28.639 --> 00:39:32.800
We we just we can just do life better.
00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:33.840
Yeah.
00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:34.480
Yeah.
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:35.760
Absolutely.
00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:43.599
And it takes time and it's okay where you are now, but know that you don't have to be struggling.
00:39:43.840 --> 00:39:45.519
You know, there's people out there to help.
00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:53.599
So thank you so much, Hallie, for your time and just your your thoughts and um and skills and advice, all of it.
00:39:53.679 --> 00:39:54.400
Thank you.
00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:55.280
Absolutely.
00:39:55.440 --> 00:39:55.920
My pleasure.
00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:57.199
Thank you so much.
00:39:57.760 --> 00:40:01.119
Thanks for listening to Quick Wins for ADHD moms.
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Just take one small quick win or something that resonated with you today, and just maybe sit with it.
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See how you could implement it into your week.
00:40:10.559 --> 00:40:15.360
The whole idea behind the show is just taking one small thing and seeing if it fits.
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And if it doesn't, that's fine.
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Let it go.
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Maybe the next one will hit.
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00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:33.119
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