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Speaker 1
Hello and welcome to the ending Body Burn Out Show. We are your host, Chris and Philly co-founders of a multi-award-winning winning functional medicine practice, serving busy people with energy, mood and gut issues.
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Speaker 2
While busyness addictive doing, people pleasing amp perfectionism might be the norm. It's not normal and it's a major contributor to health issues.
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Speaker 1
Our goal with this show is to give you a holistic root, root cause approach to healing your body so that you don't have to continue doctor or diet hopping or popping a gazillion supplements hoping something might stick.
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Speaker 2
Sorry, get ready to heal your body, get your spark back deeply, connect with yourself and step into the life of your dreams.
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Speaker 1
Let's dive in.
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Speaker 2
Hello. Welcome to the party. So it is December Christmas season, so exciting. I love Christmas. If you follow us on socials, a year, a client or even a friend, you probably know that we had a pretty big month last month, November with the book launch, which is so exciting, so many amazing pre-orders that I am so grateful for.
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Speaker 2
Our first live book launch event went off as well, Devonport Library. But it also sucked up a lot of my time that would usually be spent maybe creating content or self-care or relaxing. So I thought actually today repurpose a webinar that I did called The Root Cause of Emotional Eating for Natural Medicine Week earlier this year. And I chose this one because I feel like it could actually help quite a lot of people leading into this Christmas period.
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Speaker 2
I know talking to clients, other people that they're awesome feels they're feeling some feels about Christmas and all the with all the Christmas parties and the Christmas cheer and the pavlova is in the chocolate and the wine and the alcohol and all the things that come along with Christmas. For some people they're getting a bit concerned that they may go overboard or if they have that piece of Pavlova, it may set them off to emotional eating again and unravel all the good work that they've been doing to help get themselves healthy and to heal.
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Speaker 2
Maybe you might not be feeling like that. Maybe you're actually just like stuff it. I'm having fun. It's Christmas, but you've actually got some underlying guilt and shame around your unhealthy eating patterns. So hopefully this episode today will give you a clear understanding about your eating patterns and help you move into the Christmas period and beyond. This is 2024 with more clarity and calm around why you eat, what you eat, and just why I.
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Speaker 2
Emotional eating is not about lack of willpower, which you will find in this episode. Today I will be talking about the physical imbalances in the body and also the metaphysical imbalances in the unconscious state that causes emotional eating. And if you love this episode, if you love our root root cause approach, where we go, be on just throwing out supplements or diets that you were actually looking using science backed evidence, lab testing it where your body systems are at, and then even asking the deeper questions that no other practitioner that I know of really ask in terms of what's happening deeper below in the unconscious state because it's controlling the body systems.
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Speaker 2
If you love this approach and your heart is pulling you towards it as something that you feel could solve your body burn out once and for all, then our doors are open. We're leaving the doors open for an extended period over the Christmas summer break. You can jump right in jumping before Christmas. You could start ending your body burn out today.
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Speaker 2
And also, okay, if you want to wait until the new year, but you will also get access to all of our content and to our one on one services straight away rather than waiting a month or two, depending on where my waitlist is at at the time of this recording going live. All right. Anyway, I'll pop in the show notes, a link to the ending body burn out method.
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Speaker 2
If you would like to check out what that looks like. There's two different options to joining that. And yeah, hopefully see you in there and I hope that you enjoy this episode today and get lots of insights out of it. Okay, so why are we talking about these more? So in our practice? As I said before, we have a big focus on ending body burn out and I do see emotional eating showing up as either a cause or an effect of body burn out and three main issues that I see tied up in body burn out and energy issues, fatigue, brain fog, not sleeping well, mood issues that might show off as anxiety, depression or
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Speaker 2
mood imbalances, irritability, snappy ness. I used to call myself the dragon mom, so I had a lot of mood issues as well as gut issues and other inflammatory issues often shows up when you're burning. Been burning the candle at both ends for too long and your body is now physically not functioning very well. So food is medicine. It can also be poison.
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Speaker 2
And I want to say that without fear of. But when we think about emotional eating, it's like, well, how is it affecting our body If we're eating the foods that are nourishing and restoring our body, then it's going to be medicine. If the foods that we are choosing to eat when we're feeling emotional, maybe more inflammatory foods, then it's absolutely tied up in the manifestation of energy, mood and got issues.
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Speaker 2
It can actually cause those symptoms to arise. Or there's also what I call inflammatory emotions. So you could be eating the foods and then having an impact on your physical body and your body systems. But on the other hand, a lot of people stuck in this cycle of emotional eating often have this this craving or this love all these yen towards certain foods.
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Speaker 2
And then regardless of whether it's actually healthy foods or unhealthy foods, there's often inflammatory emotions going on there as well. So guilt and shame, frustration, self-hatred and all of that, like those emotions are actually just as if not more detrimental to the body systems because you're constantly sending signals of fight and flight and your adrenals, your stress hormones and your brain is producing lots of stress chemicals in the body which impacts all of your body systems.
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Speaker 2
And so then that alone too can show up as fatigue, bloating, gut pain, PMS. Any body system is a symptom when your body's not functioning at its best. So. So not only can you get stuck in this cycle of self-hatred, shame, I mean, like the bigger consequences aren't just our eating patterns, and it's probably why you're here. If it was just our eating patterns that life was happy and dancing in our body felt really good, you probably wouldn't even think that you have an emotional eating problem because you're happy and everything's great.
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Speaker 2
But the bigger consequences when things get quite stark and when you get into this cycle is those those self judgement feelings You may find through that you'll burn out in terms of your body and how it's showing up is not only just showing up as symptoms, but you might find that you can't work anymore or you have to cut back your hours or you can't get out of bed in the morning or you can't parent properly.
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Speaker 2
And so the huge consequences are what we're dealing with when emotional eating gets to the point where it's majorly affecting our body systems. And for me too, like a big one that really got me looking at my health very seriously was family falling apart. So I got to the point where I was anxious and a dragon mom and just really not a nice person because my mental health and my body wasn't functioning very well and pretty much almost ended up in a divorce between Chris and I.
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Speaker 2
And I had these fears that I would psychologically damage my children. So, you know, is it the point of break up and breakdown that I really then started looking at my body and my health and my emotions and looking at everything holistically and sorry. So actually I'll go over that a bit later. A bit. But you can transform these things.
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Speaker 2
So there is a way where you can transform your way of being. You can have complete control over the way that you eat. You can have a beautiful relationship with food and your body feels vibrant and healthy and you can do all that you want to do and also feel present and connected, and that's with your loved ones.
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Speaker 2
But I find like if you can really become present and connected with yourself, then everything feels better and you're going to show up as a better present and connected friend, wife, husband, partner, parent that you can be. And I reckon if I asked all of you, what's the most important thing in your life? You probably say the people that you love and sorry and say these health issues that we have have a major impact on our relationships and our own sense of well-being and happiness.
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Speaker 2
Okay, So let's do another little bit of chatting. Oh, Anna from Perth. Cheese in a sandwich with lettuce. Let's haven't had lettuce is in emotional waiting for that can say it's pretty cool. Sorry how is if you feel comfortable in a chat box do you emotional ate I'm guessing maybe from time to time if you're on this class, how is it affecting you?
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Speaker 2
Why do you want to overcome it? You don't have to answer all of these questions that anything that you feel comfortable cocking in the chat box and also like just thinking about the bigger consequence. What would be the result if you didn't address your relationship with food? Michelle No, but my husband does. Oh, okay. Okay. So you're here for your husband?
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Speaker 2
I actually, yes. If I don't get my fix, it takes over my brain. Yeah, Yeah. And that's the big thing. And we chat about it a bit more of it. Like a lot of these foods that we tend to go for when we're feeling out of control. Emotional eating are drugs like sugar is the most is even more addictive than cocaine.
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Speaker 2
And we're exposed to it as toddlers or babies. So it's like no wonder or these C words have a lot of sugar in them and we've become addicted to them. I eat ginger that I eat the most when I'm happy and having fun. Yeah. Is that an issue for you then? Jen I guess is what I would ask.
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Speaker 2
There. And I thought I was all good because I don't carry weight anymore, but I certainly do. As in you do carry weight now or you feel like it's actually impacting you. Jen Yes, I love having fun at family events. Yeah. And so well, actually, let's go to, you know, anyone else puffing Chaplin. I'll come back and read your stuff.
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Speaker 2
But it's interesting around I love having fun. Sorry. Nothing is there's nothing wrong with emotional eating until there is. You know what? There's so many people who eat junk food and don't have an issue with it and even their body is actually metabolising it fine. Like I hate those people, but there's nothing wrong with emotional eating until there is.
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Speaker 2
And when that is, it's either impacting your health in some way that you're not happy about or the eating patterns are really creating those inflammatory emotions that I mentioned before. So they're kind of the two things because I don't want to demonise like we are. We are emotional creatures. I love I actually love food. I love food. I don't know if anyone's listen to the podcast from last week, but I shared my my food same story.
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Speaker 2
But in the end, I'm like, I love food. Like I love eating food. It makes me happy. Well, that's the emotional eating, isn't it? Because happiness is an emotion and so it's not bad. And I went through a stage, actually, so I kind of did. If you want to listen back to the podcast, you can. It's on our website.
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Speaker 2
You just press, go to podcast link, you know, take you to it. But bit like in a nutshell, I went from just kind of like eating the standard Australian diet. Didn't even really think that was an issue with it, but it was causing inflammation in my body. So eating sugar and, you know, and it was my joy like I found a lot of joy out of that.
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Speaker 2
And I didn't really have a lot of hang ups around how I was eating until it was majorly affecting my body. And I realised that a lot of the symptoms were coming from food and so then I swung all the way to the other end and became like a health, not a health freak. Some people called me and I'm like sprouting and fermenting and just being eating raw foods and dairy and making my own ferments and everything.
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Speaker 2
But I went through a transition period where I really healthy on the weekdays, but on the weekends I'm like, Yeah, I did so good. Now I'm going to treat myself. And I would go out and eat all the things and then have all the inflammation shell of my body again. And that went on for months, if not years, until I got to a point where I'm like, this food that I'm eating that's causing inflammation.
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Speaker 2
And for me it was like sugar. I loved hot cross buns and cakes and chocolate and slices and vanilla slices and all those things. I got to a point where I'm like, I have to go cold turkey on all of this because it's making me sick. And I kind of even started creating some food fears around that too.
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Speaker 2
It's like it's going to cause me cancer. So every time I went to eat something, I'm like this, going to give me diabetes or cancer? Am I going to die from these? And so I did go cold turkey. And again, for maybe like a year, didn't touch any form of sugar except for fruit, like not even natural sugars.
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Speaker 2
But that was also showing up as eating disorder. Like basically I had author Rick SEO where I was so obsessed around eating healthy and that there was a lot of fear around those foods. So that's another way that emotional eating can show up too, because I had all those negative attachments to the food that I was eating. And I got really preachy around people too.
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Speaker 2
Like, Oh, that Kit Kat is going to kill you. And I wasn't a very fun person to be around in events. I wasn't that intense that, you know, a lot of people felt guilty. A lot of people felt like I was judging them. And I probably was, if I'm being completely honest, when I went to social events. So I think that I stopped getting invited to places and then I'm like, Oh, this is an issue.
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Speaker 2
So anyway, so that has been a big journey for me and I'm sure for other people too. You've had your own emotional eating journey up until this point. Um, I'm just going back to a couple of these comments. I eat when I'm tired, cranky and or drinking. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, dig into those to see like what could be somebody imbalances that may cause these other emotions that then cause you to go to the foods that maybe make you feel worse but better in the moment.
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Speaker 2
And then Michelle sometimes I do that and feel terrible on the Monday. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. So that kind of sounds like me where I was like eating perfect during the week. And then on the weekend I ate all the foods and then I have a big flare up and I felt crap again that cycle. Tyler It brings me out of the current moment and I can't focus on anything else but the food and can't enjoy it or be present.
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Speaker 2
Yeah. Also, my spacebar doesn't work. Yeah, okay. I see that now. Nicole Yep. I actually find that at times I emotional eight when once the body symptoms have already begun. Oh, so it's almost like a dammit. Well, it's not working anyway, so I may as well eat the food. I hate it. Okay, so the two main causes of body burn out comes back to the nervous system.
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Speaker 2
Well, actually, before I talk about the main causes. Oh, my assistant not looking. Nothing's working today. Uh, stuff it. All right, You can say that. Nervous system, regulate disregulation. So we've got this beautiful nervous system that is basically controlling all of our body systems and the way that organs are functioning. It's also controlling or kind of like sending messages back and forth to our unconscious state, which will become really important to be aware of at the end when I chat about some metaphysical issues and do a little bit of coaching around that.
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Speaker 2
So the two main rate, the two reasons flat out, the two reasons why our body burns out comes back to physical inflammation and metaphysical inflammation. So physical inflammation are things like body systems breaking down. And I'm going to talk about five key ones that I see very often in emotional eating. But then it's also like toxins in our environment mode, inflammatory foods.
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Speaker 2
It could be like a physical injury, it could be an excessive amount of dust. So there are physical inflammatories that can cause major issues to our nervous system and then breakdown our body systems. Then metaphysical inflammation is super important too, because our body can't differentiate a stressor. So you could eat a cake with sugar in it and that maybe I'll use a different example.
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Speaker 2
You could sniff petrol, which I think everyone agrees is not great to do. You could sniff petrol, physical, inflammatory, and it's going to send off a signal to your nervous system that you're not saying it's like this is not this is not a good thing to be sniffing. And so then your body releases cortisol and adrenaline, which are basically fight or flight type response hormones.
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Speaker 2
Okay, so sniffing petrol then you could be are ever on the other side thinking something maybe unkind about yourself? Oh, I always do the thing with the food. I'm such an idiot. I'm such a loser. Why can't I have more self-control? So there's really low vibe type emotions will cause the same nervous system, dysregulation and cortisol and adrenaline to start secreting in your body.
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Speaker 2
And so and I like to actually give another example. So your body can't differentiate from a tiger about to attack you. Same stress hormones will start flooding three system. And every time you say, I'm no good, I hate myself because I just hate the thing when it's so when you kind of think about that from a holistic point of view, it's not just all the physical stuff that's affecting our body systems and our nervous system, but it's all the mental, emotional, unconscious stuff that stuck in our system as well.
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Speaker 2
Okay, So let's chat about some physical imbalances and I'm going to talk about these and show some lab testing as well. So in functional medicine, it's a natural medicine approach for anyone who's used to functional medicine, but it's also using science based evidence based lab testing to actually really pinpoint what's happening in your body in some really important body systems.
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Speaker 2
So on this little slide near endocrine system is all about your brain and your hormones. G Our system is all about the gut and the food that you're eating, and detoxification system is all about your liver and how are you clearing out toxins from the body and chemicals from the body? Now there's five key areas that I see clinically that can have a major impact on emotional eating, and I want to go over those now.
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Speaker 2
So the first one is a drain. Oles So this is a picture of an adrenal test and basically your adrenal sit on top of your kidneys. They s and they secrete your stress hormones. Cortisol, which is what we're seeing, flatlined in this lab test. So that's like the body is not producing cortisol very well in this person's lab test.
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Speaker 2
A perfect lab test rating would be if it was hugging the top end of the grain range. So this person is what we call it. They're in adrenal fatigue. And basically it's where your hormones at some point, say stress hormones with flooding and surging and lots and lots of stresses. And and or you have a time when there's chronic stress, your hormones actually start to deflate.
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Speaker 2
And that's why people actually become more fight or flighty and more symptomatic. So there is a client case. So this is me. This is actually about me. I had stage two adrenal fatigue and I chose this picture because my big weakness back in the day was anything with fruit in it and bread. So Hock responds, Boston Bronze fruit loaf like give me anything like that, A Christmas cake in heaven.
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Speaker 2
And I remember one time, so this is before I started doing my own functional medicine testing. And back then I was working with a functional medicine doctor in America, Dr. Daniel Kailash, and he then mentored me in how to treat people. But I remember I was in the supermarket one day with my two kids and they were both crying and I was crying.
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Speaker 2
I can't even really remember what was happening, but I just remember feeling like so overwhelmed, seemed so much anxiety, and I just lost it in the supermarket. And so when I got home, I don't think I was even consciously aware. And this is the person who said, I can't get my fix until I have the thing. So it's almost like this, like really intense addiction where sometimes you don't even consciously know that you're starting or doing the pattern.
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Speaker 2
So I got home, I pulled out my my bags and inside it, all the things that I just listed, it wasn't just one hot cross bun. And when it has the cross at Easter time, that was like even better. But it was like all the other things. And I'm like, Do I really need to buy all that? But it was just that's how it was showing up for emotional eating for me.
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Speaker 2
And sometimes it was even happening unconsciously as well. And as I started healing my adrenals, which was the first part of my functional medicine program, I started having control over the way that I was eating and not really even feeling like I needed to have sugar. So the impact the adrenals have with your relationship for food is that one you're not coping with stress very well.
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Speaker 2
So if you're eating your emotions and that's going to amplify your relationship with food, but also cortisol, So your stress hormones interact with your blood sugar levels. So if cortisol rises, so does your blood sugar levels. And at some point those blood sugar levels are going to drop. And when you're in hyper glycaemia, so when those blood sugar levels drop, that's when you then usually a craving, whether it's sugar or sometimes for some people it's coffee or usually it's carbohydrates because your body's trying to send you a message to bring your blood sugar levels up.
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Speaker 2
And if you're disregulated, then often that can show up as emotional eating. Okay. Second area of the body, an imbalance that can impact food. So, ladies, who have has anyone ever experienced PMS and food changes in terms of what you want to eat? Yes. Okay. So if you cycles off and that can show off in many different ways on this lab test.
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Speaker 2
I love this lab test. Usually when you go to the GP, they don't actually often test your sex hormones, even if there's, you know, some pretty significant symptoms that are showing up as female hormone issues. And if they do, they usually do a blood test and it's just like a one test and it doesn't really give the full picture of what's happening over the cycle.
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Speaker 2
So I tend to do a 28 day female hormone cycle panel, which actually measures your progesterone and oestrogen or oestradiol over the course of his cycle. And you can really then see what's happening. And so on this test at the top, Oestradiol is showing up as way too high, so it should be coming back down after ovulation in day 14.
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Speaker 2
And then progesterone is pretty much like cortisol on the other lab test. So that's just like flatline. This combination causes major PMS because you don't have the lovely progesterone coming up where you feel good and then you just bleed as the hormones drop. So PMS, why, in case you're not aware, is not normal and neither are menopausal symptoms either.
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Speaker 2
You should either like if you're still cycling, you should just blade comes and goes and when you go into menopausal perimenopause, you should just stop having your period or these symptoms that show up are very abnormal. And that is not the common narrative in society. So we had a client a few years ago who she had major issues with PMS.
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Speaker 2
In fact, she almost turned into a different person. So during the rest of the cycle she ate pretty healthy and she was on track. And then the moment day 21 hit, So from 21 day 21 to day 28, she just turned into a major chocoholic. And it was really hard because she also had an underlying Candida so fungal infection talk about that in a sticky which was which we were trying to get rid of.
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Speaker 2
But every cycle, so every 28 days she would eat a bucket load of sugar. And it wasn't until we tested the female hormones and actually started supporting the female hormones that like, honestly, she was just eating normally throughout the whole cycle. It was it was insane. I mean, it wasn't insane because it all makes sense, but it was cool to see a question around can this test the menopause, too, depending on where you're at, if you're kind of in there.
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Speaker 2
So perimenopause can start as late as 30, late thirties, sorry. And then it can continue for 12 years. So if I had a client who is still cycling regularly, regularly, but we're kind of suspecting that there might be some perimenopausal type symptoms, I will still run this test. If you're in the perimenopausal stage or you're now in post menopause, I've it's been 12 months since your last period.
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Speaker 2
I wouldn't run this test. I would just do a spot test because your hormones shouldn't be fluctuating. They should just remain the same. Okay, so this is a test little snippet of what I call what's called an organic acid test. So this is a urine test. And this test can look at the neurotransmitters, which I just find fascinating.
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Speaker 2
And I don't know why psychiatrists who are prescribing a lot of antidepressants and antipsychotics don't run this test as part of their practice when I was studying functional medicine, so I did a four month, four year sorry mentorship with Dr. Kiley's. When I joined up, it was mostly natural practitioners. When I finished in year four, it was actually mostly medical doctors and psychologists and psychiatrists, which is really cool.
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Speaker 2
That was like mostly American people. So I kind of feel like Australia is maybe ten years behind. So we may see things change in terms of testing in the medical system. So this these little markers here are looking at different brain chemicals. So number 22 is Mandalay, and this relates to adrenalin. Number 23 is I'm a ventilate that relates to dopamine and number 24 relates to serotonin.
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Speaker 2
And I chose this little snippet because number 23, which is dopamine is really low and Dover main is your arm. It's kind of like you feel good brain chemical so it's very much around get up and go and energy and motivation but it's also the reward centre part of your brain and being able to feel joy and happiness.
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Speaker 2
And I often say clinically when it's really low, people are showing up with some sort of addiction and that might be repetitive thought patterns, it might be alcohol, drugs, but also I often say food addictions as well, because your body or your brain is constantly trying to get a bit of a domain hit. And all the foods that you guys listed earlier, chocolate, does that ice cream does that, all the sugary yummy foods provides a hit of dopamine.
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Speaker 2
So that one's pretty important. Now, this was a client case, again, of a lady who had bulimia, who didn't didn't binge out when she was sad. She was a bit like, I can't remember who who it was, but the person who said, oh, I love eating when I'm having fun and I'm happy. So her bulimia pattern was actually when she was excited and happy and with a family and with her friends.
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Speaker 2
But she got into a pattern for many, many years. Like this was going on for ten years before she came to the US. But she was, yeah, pretty much bingeing out during those happy social periods and then hating on herself later vomiting, chucking up. And a lot of it was to do with body image and all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2
But as we started supporting her dopamine levels, as well as working holistically with her to look at why that was the case in the first place, she actually started to not have like over time, those episodes got less and less and less and she started developing more control over the way that she was eating and also not stuck in that cycle of like binge and then guilt and shame and all that sort of stuff.
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Speaker 2
So that was that was great. Like, that was life changing. This is also from the same test. Sorry, The the weight test that looks at the brain can also look at a bunch of nutritional markers. And this one's looking at all your B's. Now, Vitamin B's are really important for mental health as well as every selling your body actually is made up of base proteins and amino acids.
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Speaker 2
So if someone has vitamin B deficiencies and when these markers are high actually means deficient, it can have a major impact on everything. And I picked out this case because this was super interesting. So we had a lady working with us who had a family history. This is going back generations of alcoholism, and she actually broke the the alcoholic trend or addiction when she left home.
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Speaker 2
So she left home as an early teenager and she was like, I've seen how this is ruined my family for generations. I am not going to drink. And so which was amazing that she got herself out of that cycle. But instead. So she was also experiencing anxiety. But instead of going to alcohol, her choice of comfort was food.
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Speaker 2
And so she got into this cycle where again, eating really well on the bandwagon, doing good. And in the moment that she was triggered and anxiety flared up, she would fall into emotional eating habits or even a feel horrible about herself, never be able to lose weight, body always inflamed. And so when we did tests, she actually had a vitamin B deficiency as well as low do for me as well as a candidate overgrowth.
00;33;15;25 - 00;33;41;00
Speaker 2
But the really interesting thing was when we started supporting her vitamin B deficiencies, she started sleeping better. She started coping with stress better. So anxiety started to get better, which then had a direct impact in this cycle of emotional eating when she was feeling really triggered with emotions. And and then when she saw the change, she's like, Wow, that's fascinating.
00;33;41;00 - 00;34;05;28
Speaker 2
Did you know what My mum is actually no longer an alcoholic. And the thing that made a huge difference was for her was a GP picked up that she was low in B12 and when and the GP was just like, oh yeah, hello, I'm B12, just take a B12 supplement. And the moment she started taking a B12 supplement, she was actually able to overcome her alcohol addiction and so it's just like a what?
00;34;05;28 - 00;34;29;23
Speaker 2
Oh my goodness. Imagine if like generations before her have probably had this genetic issue with the vitamin BS and the body burning through these BS too fast. Imagine if hundreds of years ago they just had a vitamin B, I shouldn't say just because it's a combination of lots of stuff, but it was a huge thing that really just impacted her, her way of being and made a huge difference.
00;34;29;23 - 00;35;17;19
Speaker 2
When we started replenishing her body. Okay, last body system so got super important, so everything that we ate ends up in our gut. And our gut is also constantly sending messages up to our brain. So you might have heard of the gut brain connection. So any type of gut dysfunction can impact the way that your eating. But a major pathogen that I see again showing up is causing big issues with emotional eating is can data also can data is a fungal infection and it loves sugar, it loves sugar and it loves yeast and it loves really carby foods and it's literally sending it's doing quite a few things, but it is literally sending signals up
00;35;17;19 - 00;35;38;22
Speaker 2
to your brain that I want more sugar. I want more sugar because these pathogens want to survive in your system. They don't want to die off. So it's almost like you're the host and they're trying to control you. It's a bit like, I don't know if anyone's heard about these weird ants. No, no, no. I know it's a weird mushroom set out in the Amazon or somewhere.
00;35;38;24 - 00;36;01;18
Speaker 2
I know where it is that they're these fungal mushrooms that grow in the forest, and they. They grow, and then they break open and they send all their microbes toxins to ants. Maybe I'm getting this wrong. It's in one of my daughter's books. It's amazing. And then I saw a documentary about it. I'm like, Wow, this really is true.
00;36;01;20 - 00;36;24;27
Speaker 2
But anyway, so these so these micro toxins into the ants, or maybe they eat them. Gee, I'm really getting my facts wrong, but I'll get this fact right because this is very memorable. Once the once the air is eaten, the mushroom or however it ingests, it it then this mushroom, this fungus sends the signals up to the ant to let's go back to your colony.
00;36;24;27 - 00;36;49;23
Speaker 2
So this infected ant travels back to its colony, like back to the the mother and the queen at and then this mushroom grows out of the back of the ant, and then it explodes and it infects all these other mushrooms and kills the colony. So can is a bit like that, but it won't kill you. But it is like it controls you.
00;36;49;23 - 00;37;14;27
Speaker 2
It can controls you. Maybe not as intensely as those ants, but it's definitely affecting neurology. And there's a lot of research around how it affects the brain as so it last case. So this is a lady who again kind of felt like she'd always had a poor relationship with food, ever since a young age. I don't want to simplify this, by the way.
00;37;14;27 - 00;37;32;09
Speaker 2
It's not just like just take this supplement and everything's good bits, but because it's always like a holistic approach and there's lots of other elements to it. But sometimes these physical imbalances are the missing pieces that can make all the difference. So for her, we did a bunch of tests because she was just not in a good way.
00;37;32;09 - 00;37;53;15
Speaker 2
It wasn't just emotional eating, but she had all sorts of inflammatory symptoms and fatigue and anxiety and she's like, just, just do a big car check on me. So we tested a whole bunch of different body systems and we started working on her adrenals, which I remember didn't really help much. It was just like, Oh, I just I'm still feeling so out of control.
00;37;53;15 - 00;38;17;04
Speaker 2
And then the food that she was eating wasn't allowing her adrenals to heal. So I'm like, All right, let's we have so much data. Let's start working on the Candida. And I remember three days after she started killing off the Candida, she texted me and she said, I don't know what you've given me or what's going on, but I woke up this morning feeling like I have a different relationship with food.
00;38;17;04 - 00;38;41;28
Speaker 2
Like I feel like I can actually have control over what I want to eat and how I'm eating. And she also said, and it's really interesting now that things are shifting, it feels like I a hangover has lifted off my shoulders so hurt the candida can cause brain fog fatigue and it can just literally feel like you've got a chronic hangover on all your life.
00;38;41;28 - 00;39;21;29
Speaker 2
24 seven And so anyway, that was that my made my day like, Oh, that's my goal. Okay, any questions, any insights on the physical side of things, the body systems and then we'll get into metaphysical stuff. Just pop them in the chat and I'll come back. Okay. Some metaphysical imbalances. So as I said before, your body burns out due to physical stuff as well as metaphysical inflammation, all affecting the nervous system, which then impacts all of those body systems.
00;39;21;29 - 00;39;49;11
Speaker 2
The brain, the adrenals, the female hormones, the gut health, the vitamin BS get burnt up. All of these all these body systems are getting impacted When the nervous system is dysregulated. Oh, this is where having a pin would be really helpful because I wanted to draw on this to explain it a little bit more because there's lots of words, Oh, that's okay.
00;39;49;11 - 00;40;10;06
Speaker 2
It might be flat. Okay, So just bear with me if this is a bit confusing because I can't point to it as I'm going. Okay, so in the little body, you've got your nervous system, you've got your body systems, and then it's kind of like, well, what what actually caused these body systems to burn out in the first place?
00;40;10;09 - 00;40;45;27
Speaker 2
And a lot of the times, actually, I would say all the time, it comes back to deeper stuff that's happening in your unconscious state and often started well before you actually started noticing symptoms, maybe even patterns of emotional eating. And so so if we think about it in the context of emotional eating, so talking about more metaphysical stuff, then you've got to kind of think about, well, how what was your first relationship with food when we first exposed to your addictive substance?
00;40;46;00 - 00;41;06;11
Speaker 2
What was your family's relationship with food as well? Because I was brought up in a family, which I'm sure is quite similar to a lot of people, where food was how how love was shown, especially like this sugary inflammatory food. It's like, Oh, I love you. He's some more chocolate, he's a milkshake. It was kind of like a reward and a treat.
00;41;06;12 - 00;41;30;24
Speaker 2
So so when we think about the metaphysical side of emotional eating, we've got to look at all the stuff that's happened in the past. Now, that could potentially mean that you may feel like you could just blame your past for the way you are now, which isn't very helpful because if you can't change the past, then you can't change now.
00;41;30;24 - 00;41;54;09
Speaker 2
And you can't change the future. So in our practice we look at cool, what happened in the past and how were you brought up and what are you modelling and what are you believing and what do you thinking. Know all of that so we can connect the dots, but just know that you at some point you chose to believe and behave this way for a reason.
00;41;54;12 - 00;42;20;15
Speaker 2
So we're sense making creatures and whatever happened to you or around you, you chose to make a meaning around that. I'm just reading this comment as a kid. These were big traits that we only got occasionally. Now you can have them whenever you want. Yeah, Yeah. So like, times are a bit different too. It's just like, so easily accessible.
00;42;20;15 - 00;42;49;23
Speaker 2
All the traits and stuff. Okay, I'm going to dig in. Well, now. Okay, So does that make sense? I feel like I'm rambling because I really want to ride on it so that makes more sense. And I'm just trying to do the best without pin. Tyler's. Got it. Awesome. Got some nods. Yeah. Okay. Okay, great. Okay, great. So whatever happens to you, you create a belief and a meaning around what has happened.
00;42;49;25 - 00;43;17;16
Speaker 2
You chose to believe something and usually believe something about yourself that's then affected the way you perceive life now and how you process information from the environment. And it has also set up a bunch of patterns that are showing up in your behaviour and in the way that you think and feel, including your relationship with food. I'm like, Cool, that's great to know, but what do we do with all that to actually make a difference?
00;43;17;18 - 00;43;53;08
Speaker 2
So we have a saying in our practice that every behaviour and actually every symptom, even every physical symptom that you have has a belief underneath. Let that sink in. So there's two to big questions like this is a huge topic. This would take maybe like weeks, weeks, weeks, weeks to really uncover. But I wanted to give you two awesome questions that can help you to look at the root cause, the metaphysical root causes as to why you eat the things that you hate.
00;43;53;11 - 00;44;14;21
Speaker 2
So one great question is why is that a problem? And the other question is what does that mean about me? So for some of our clients, we know that we like to do a little bit of coaching, a chat box coaching sometimes. So let's play with the with the chat box. If you're up for it and everyone if everyone does it, there'll be lots of things coming through the comments.
00;44;14;21 - 00;44;33;17
Speaker 2
So don't kind of feel like anyone's judging you because I'm not even going to be able to keep up with your names and who said what. But I want I want to just play with this question. Why is that a problem? I'm sorry. Most of you are here because of emotional eating issues potentially showing up in your life.
00;44;33;17 - 00;44;54;24
Speaker 2
Even Michelle, it's an issue for you because you're seeing it in your husband. So I'm guessing that's an issue for you. Maybe So. Why? Why? Why? Why is the why are the things that you ate and the way that you eat a problem for you and just like pop it in the chat, say increased weight and I'm going to repeat this question many, many times.
00;44;54;24 - 00;45;29;18
Speaker 2
So, Denise, I think I'm pronouncing your name right. Why is increased weight a problem? And other people put their pop their problems in and asking this question at least seven times is going to get to it some deep understandings and insights And what you don't know, you can't change. So have a play and see what is uncovered without any judgement to you can't do self-awareness without judgement.
00;45;29;18 - 00;45;55;07
Speaker 2
So if you're feeling like move, move, then you're not going to have any kind of insights popping up like weight gain, not good for health and feeling crappy or not happy. So why Miranda is weight gain, which is not good for your health and you feeling crappy and not happy. Why is that a problem? Only because I have.
00;45;55;10 - 00;46;24;21
Speaker 2
Because Why is not having control sometimes a problem? It's nice. Why is having diabetes and feeling like you need to watch your weight and your blood sugar levels a problem and then just keep talking it into the chat box. And I actually I turned up for this 88 points that this is so awesome. So bloating then thinking badly about self-image then goes downhill.
00;46;24;21 - 00;46;51;00
Speaker 2
Okay, so why, why is having bloating and then self-image issues a problem? Lydia I want to understand the issues as a practitioner. Cool. So the best place to start is with your self. Unless you don't feel like you have emotional eating issues, then whatever issue you have in life, you can use the same question Why is that a problem?
00;46;51;02 - 00;47;15;08
Speaker 2
Sigrid Because emotional eating affects sometimes my digestive system, such as bloating, tend to feel also more tired when eating more sugar and not getting the right nutrients like I cool. So why is having digestive issues and bloating a problem and why is being tired a problem when you eat more sugar? Actually because I feel sick from overindulging. Cool.
00;47;15;08 - 00;47;44;09
Speaker 2
Why is being sick from overindulging a problem? Miranda Happy means being. Being happy means being able to enjoy life and get the most out of every day before it's too late. I'm okay. Yes. So why do you feel why do you feel like that's a problem? And I feel like emotional eating feels to me is self-sabotage like a cycle.
00;47;44;12 - 00;48;16;25
Speaker 2
So why is this self-sabotage and being stuck on this cycle a problem? Michel, I'm a binge eater and affects my gut the next day. Sorry. Why is having binge eating and having gut issues a problem? It's getting repetitive. But the more you ask this question, the more that you're actually breaking down layers of the conscious mind and you're getting into the unconscious state, which is where all that gold information is.
00;48;16;27 - 00;48;48;05
Speaker 2
Okay. So, Fiona, why is having skin issues a problem? And Taylor Okay, so why is why is thinking about food all the time and getting stuck in a cycle a problem? Or why is using food to relieve stress a problem? Okay, okay. You kind of like you've done the you actually probably asked answered the question in three three layers.
00;48;48;05 - 00;49;28;29
Speaker 2
So then the last one, this takes me away from other elements of life connection. And as you do the things I love. Awesome. So why is that a problem? Like, why is not being able to do things that you love and that helps you to feel connected and have energy? The problem, how you guys going is stuck with the last problem, or if you kind of just being like mewling this over in your head.
00;49;29;02 - 00;50;17;19
Speaker 2
I would I actually feel like with just like if you were a client, if you were a client, you're only skimming the surface at the moment. Maybe Taylor's gotten a few levels deeper. Sorry. So write that question down. Like, why is that a problem? And that can be something that you can think about later on. And then the second question, which you can try answering right now, based on your current what does that mean about me?
00;50;17;21 - 00;50;47;21
Speaker 2
So if I go back, ask Michelle. When you binge eat and it affects your gut, the next What does that mean about me or you? Yeah. And self-sabotage is a problem because I'm saying I don't deserve to feel great beating myself up. So what? What does that mean about you or Fiona when you have skin issues after poor food choices?
00;50;47;26 - 00;51;35;25
Speaker 2
That sounds like a problem. So then what does it mean about you? Mm. It means I have unresolved something I'm trying not to face. Yeah. Michelle not having control over how much or what I eat. And when you don't have control, how does it make you feel about yourself? Or when you realise that you have unresolved things that you're trying not to face, how does that make you feel about yourself?
00;51;35;28 - 00;52;04;20
Speaker 2
I don't feel safe with emotions. Yeah. And if you don't feel safe with emotions, then what does that mean about you, Serena? That I need to value myself more and not put those foods into my body. Yeah. So you can see here, like, from the initial questions, what foods do you love to eat with your emotional eating or hate to eat when you're emotional eating?
00;52;04;22 - 00;52;55;18
Speaker 2
That's really just like the symptom, like the behaviour is simply just a symptom of these underlying dysfunctions, these repressed emotions and these unconscious beliefs that you have about yourself or about the world that you live in. And then combine that with all the physical imbalances. When I wonder people get stuck in this cycle that they can't get out because a lot of the times people either just continue eating the things and maybe just trying to do surface level fixes, maybe like a diet or a nice part of the gym or something like that, or what I also see is that people are only trying to do the physical stuff, but not the metaphysical stuff or
00;52;55;18 - 00;53;20;05
Speaker 2
vice versa. And so the body and mind are connected and like everything is affecting everything else. And so until you can unravel all the different ways that our body systems are interacting with our unconscious state and our beliefs, then it can be really hard to get out of the stuck cycle or you might get out of it, but you keep falling back into it.
00;53;20;07 - 00;53;50;11
Speaker 2
I just read a couple of these other comments, so Michelle disappointed because I won't feel the best later on and it affects my anxiety. Yeah. And then deeper than that too, like if you could turn some of these statements or these feelings into an income statement, that's where you're getting to like the core beliefs, the core root cause belief that affects everything, not just our emotional eating patterns, but also the state of our nervous stem.
00;53;50;13 - 00;54;22;26
Speaker 2
So when I talk about core deep beliefs, it's often I'm not good enough, I'm unlovable, I'm unworthy, I'm different, I don't belong, I'm a failure, I'm wrong, I'm broken. So these are like really core beliefs that we actually create before the age of seven of ten, which have a major impact on the rest of our lives and how we show up in the world and our behaviour and our thoughts and the state of our health as well.
00;54;22;28 - 00;54;42;23
Speaker 2
Secret, sick, sick, frigid, high flown saying that right, it's a problem to eat more sugar because it's not healthy and affects me in different ways. I put it down to issues with the nervous system, mind, gut connection, certain stressors in life feeling I can improve a feeling like feeling I can improve to eat more healthy and less sugar.
00;54;42;25 - 00;55;09;21
Speaker 2
Agree. Also in my case that anxiety is a cause. Regards stresses Recent surgery regards job. Yeah. And then even deeper than that too, which I was chatting to a lovely lady earlier, is that even when big stuff happens to you outside of you, like big events, big events that any human being who is not a psychopath will get stressed or triggered or feel some sort of emotion to it.
00;55;09;24 - 00;55;44;09
Speaker 2
The only there's a difference between having a healthy stress response and having an unhealthy stress response. And so when we have unhealthy stress responses, it's only showing up because there's a dysfunctional belief underneath that. So some sort of hidden issue around like essentially not being good enough, which is huge. You don't have a doctor saying that to you when it's just like if you unpack all the layers, it always ends up down there.
00;55;44;11 - 00;56;10;12
Speaker 2
Okay, so here we go. At the deepest root causes an unkind belief you have about yourself. And a lot of the times they are hidden and they're unconscious. So for me, I had this belief that I was weak and incapable and own belief that I created as a kid that until I actually touch things and this was actually after I did a whole heap of physical healing in like traditional functional medicine had amazing results in terms of my health issues.
00;56;10;15 - 00;56;31;09
Speaker 2
But my stress response was better because I'd done all the adrenal herbs and all that sort of stuff. But and things went along pretty good for a few years until COVID hit. And then all my health issues flared off again. And this time none of the lab testing, none of the supplements the diets worked to by just hardly any symptoms.
00;56;31;09 - 00;57;01;00
Speaker 2
And so it wasn't until I did this deeper root root cause work that then my body, like, literally was safe. It felt safe. It could relax. It could be calm, it could digest food, it could my immune system could calm down. And it's huge. It's huge. So taking that holistic approach is so okay. So so now so we call, I guess, our program the ending body burnout method, because we want to end it.
00;57;01;01 - 00;57;32;17
Speaker 2
We want to give you the tools not just like pump you up with supplements and good foods too, which probably struggling to do anyway, but actually help you to understand why you do what you do, why your body systems of the way or the symptoms that you're experiencing or the way that they are, and then help you to essentially rewire your brain and regulate your nervous system while also resetting all your body systems with all the good nutritional stuff.
00;57;32;19 - 00;57;58;07
Speaker 2
And so we do that in a process. So the first process is like really getting an understanding on where your body's systems are at and if there are any imbalances. They usually actually I've never tested paper with like maybe all three main tests and everything is been fine. There's always stuff going on if you have symptoms, you can't have a physical, you can't have a physical symptom without there being a body system imbalance.
00;57;58;14 - 00;58;18;06
Speaker 2
So we do that first, get the lab tests done so we can clearly see what's going on from the physical side of things. And then we do a program called Spark, which is all about, well, how the heck did these body systems burn out in the first place? Where are these? Or what are the deeper beliefs that are affecting your behavioural patterns and your nervous system?
00;58;18;06 - 00;58;48;19
Speaker 2
And then rewiring all of that and on the other hand, healing body systems and like addressing lifestyle and that sort of stuff. And that's what we call the ending body burn out method and it is super effective and we're very much looking at not just the body but looking at the connection between the mind body and the environment that we live in and how it's affecting our behaviour and also our health.
00;58;48;21 - 00;59;12;03
Speaker 2
So functional medicine very much goes beyond just treating symptoms. If you look at this little model, a lot of practitioners or doctors will look at, Oh, you've got this symptom or take this thing or do this thing. Whereas in functional medicine we want to go that step deeper and actually test the body systems or what's actually causing those symptoms in the first place.
00;59;12;06 - 00;59;35;04
Speaker 2
And then in our practice we do a got a deeper approach to functional medicine in terms of what are these deeper root causes that are affecting everything else, or did anyone do the ending body burnout assessment? If you're up for it, you can put you score in the in the chat box that no pressure, but this is a great assessment to do.
00;59;35;05 - 00;59;51;14
Speaker 2
If you have a fine, you can actually take a picture of that very fancy QR code if you want to do that, but it gives you a pretty good indication of where your body's systems are at symptom wise. Plus it looks at your body, mind and environment root causes. So you can kind of say, Oh yeah, okay, well, I've got some weak links there.
00;59;51;14 - 01;00;17;08
Speaker 2
Oh, that area is not too bad. And then you have it gives you a big report on, oh, what you need to focus on. Denise, 64. Thanks for sharing. Did you find the report useful? Sometimes people do their report and they're like, Well, get the report. And they think, Whoa, I didn't realise I was that bad. Or Oh, that actually didn't show up, as that is when I thought it was going to.
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Speaker 2
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Speaker 1
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