Empowering tired women to regain their vitality

Back when my health was falling apart, I went to my doctor. I was scared there was something really wrong with me. I was freezing cold all of the time, my periods were every 10 days and they were very heavy,  with intense cramps and mood swings.  I had a sinus infection that lasted a year and a half that wouldn’t go away no matter what antibiotic I took or steroid I took and I eventually was on so many antibiotics that I developed an allergy to doxycycline.  In addition to all of this I was gaining weight at a rapid speed and it didn’t seem to matter what I did, it just wouldn’t stop.  I was exhausted all….the…..time…..  I had no energy to do things that I used to love, and I really couldn’t explain why.  I was also experiencing “issues” when eating certain foods and my approved foods list was getting smaller and smaller. 

Knowing SOMETHING was wrong, but not being able to pin point it, I assumed I was approaching menopause and went to my gynecologist.  She ran blood work and told me what I have now learned is all too common- “your labs are in range” and dismissed my symptoms.  Because the labs were in range, there was no diagnostic code, therefore she was unable to help me. 

Now I know I had tanked my endocrine system and I had no reserves left in my body to deal with any stressors at all.   And, my life is very stressful!  I have a very busy life with stressors that can’t be avoided including being a caretaker for my aunt, who has Alzheimer’s,  primary caretaker for my son who is a Type 1 diabetic and Autistic, mom, wife, friend, the list goes on.

Because I had no reserve left, I now began to feel like I had lost myself.  Seriously.  I began to wonder who I even was, and was there a point to my life?  This is a scary and dangerous place to be mentally, but I just didn’t have anything left to give anyone, and a seemingly never ending to do list and people who were counting on me.

I forgot about the most important person who was counting on me- ME!

I had to find answers.

As mothers, we often forget that self-care IS child-care!  Or as a wife, what do you have to give to your spouse if you have nothing?  Or as a friend, are you even participating in the friendship when you aren’t even really participating in your own life because you’re just too depleted to do so?

Here is what I tell my clients: Nothing and Everything is wrong with you.

Your doctor-run labs probably look normal. Your thyroid is normal, your hormones are normal, your blood work is normal.

But you’re like, nope.

So when the Lord led me to Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and a new world of functional lab testing opened up to me, I was blown away.

Finally, I was able to find some of the root causes of the weird things my body was doing. I learned the concept of Metabolic Chaos, which essentially says that when stress is too much for the body to handle, the body uses physical symptoms to get your attention. 

Possibly the most important thing I learned is that when you have symptoms, you are already far down the path to dysfunction, because symptoms are actually at the end of the path of disease!  But so many doctors ignore the symptoms!!!

Really, the only way to find out the issues that are contributing to this Metabolic Chaos is to get your hands on tests like these.