Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself

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In this episode I answered listener questions from Mary and Jordan:
Mary is wondering about parasite testing and symptoms of moodiness, poor sleep, loose bowels, hair thinning, dry skin and frequent post nasal drip.
CASE REVIEW:
Jordan gives us a little more information and shares her case in more depth:

History of eczema throughout my whole life, but only on arms and legs. Have had since I was a child. Presented as red, itchy bumps on legs and back and as flaky and itchy red patches in creases of elbows mostly during summer)
Started having Increased flares starting in summer of 2020 with itchy bumps and red patches covering most of body. Additionally, developed new type of severe eczema on my face, neck, hairline that had never occurred before. Before this, had never had any eczema on my face. Flares got increasingly worse over the next ~6 months.
Dermatologist gave 10 day taper of oral prednisone and topical steroids to help "heal eczema (Jan 2021) and then started on Dupixent (injections every other week). Stopped injections in Feb 2022.
After stopping injections had small amount of eczema on body, only small itchy bumps, nothing on face. Face had another severe flare in July-August 2022 requiring topical steroids to heal again.
Additionally, only have 3-4 BMs per week. Do not use any stool softeners/laxative. (but uses motility support!)
Feeling very fatigued in the afternoons, trouble getting out of bed in the mornings for a long time. New issues of waking up in the middle of the night and occasional muscle cramping.
Saw functional MD who did blood work and Gut Zoomer stool test (Vibrant wellness).
- Stool test with gut commensals high for leaky gut, moderate for SIBO and other categories. Low for cardiovascular health and IBD. MD gave supplement regimen and SIBO diet for 30 days. Abnormal labs: OmegaCheck 3.0 (low), AST 31 (high), Vit D 33.4, B12 246
- Current supplements: Magnesium citrate, Motility Pro, SBI protect, Atrantil; have been taking for 2 weeks, no supps before this. control
Jordan also asked:
- Do you have specific probiotics you recommend?
- How to get away from relying on long-term supplement use for regular bowel movements (currently taking 450mg Mg each night, Atrantil, and Motility- pro)
- What is your experience with using Low Fodmap or a SIBO diet for healing your gut/have you seen them be successful in the long-term with people able to add most foods back in?

I also give a bit of context to different ways you can look at an issue with the "healing triad".

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#253 Part 2: Online business owners tell all: 6 nutrition business owners share behind the scenes of what's it's like to start, grow or choose nutrition as a second career Sep 05, 2022

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I'm taking you on a girls trip with me this week to MN, where I got together with 5 colleagues for a get away, decompress, end of summer business trip.
Business is our lives so we were talking about the things behind the scenes, especially since some of us were newer acquaintances and I forced us to come to the table and spill the tea on what we've learned about being online business owners.
We covered:

PART 1:
How we started and got to where we are now
Advice to early business owners
Discussing whether you should niche or help everyone
PART 2:
Mentorship and coaching
Things you didn't know you'd have to talk to clients about before you got into business.

Coming to the table are long term and new business owners as well as two teachers that took a second career in nutrition:

Kaely McDevitt, MS, RD of Kaelyrd.com and Leveraging Labs practitioner program
Robyn Johnson, MS, RD of nutritionbyrobyn.com, Rayvi Shop electrolyte drinks, and Functional Nutrition Practitioner Institute
Emily Field, MS, RD of emilyfieldrd.com and Macros Made Easy
Christa Biegler, RD of christabiegler.com and Food Sensitivity Solutions program and host of The Less Stressed Life podcast
Emily Morris, MS, RD working with emilyfieldrd.com
Maria Sylvester Terry, RD of Maria Terry Nutrition and @vitamin_ri
Kristin Vondenstein work with Macros Made Easy and emilyfieldrd.com

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#252 Online business owners tell all: 6 nutrition business owners share behind the scenes of what's it's like to start, grow or choose nutrition as a second career part 1 Sep 02, 2022

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PART 1:
How we started and got to where we are now
Advice to early business owners
Discussing whether you should niche or help everyone
PART 2:
Mentorship and coaching
Things you didn't know you'd have to talk to clients about before you got into business.

Coming to the table are long term and new business owners as well as two teachers that took a second career in nutrition:

Kaely McDevitt, MS, RD of Kaelyrd.com and Leveraging Labs practitioner program
Robyn Johnson, MS, RD of nutritionbyrobyn.com, Rayvi Shop electrolyte drinks, and Functional Nutrition Practitioner Institute
Emily Field, MS, RD of emilyfieldrd.com and Macros Made Easy
Christa Biegler, RD of christabiegler.com and Food Sensitivity Solutions program and host of The Less Stressed Life podcast
Emily Morris, MS, RD working with emilyfieldrd.com
Maria Sylvester Terry, RD of Maria Terry Nutrition and @vitamin_ri
Kristin Vondenstein work with Macros Made Easy and emilyfieldrd.com

Don't miss part 2 of this episode next week!
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#251 Adrenal PCOS or hypothalamic amenorrhea? DIY'ing PCOS + food recs and testing for PCOS with Jillian Greaves, MPH, RD Aug 22, 2022

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INTRO:

This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast; I am joined by Functional Dietitian and Women’s Health Specialist Jillian Greaves MPH, RD. We discuss the different types of PCOS, food recommendations, and testing.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

PCOS Myths
Types of PCOS
Adrenal PCOS Symptoms
The difference between hypothalamic amenorrhea & PCOS
Eating to heal your PCOS

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Get diagnoses for PCOS & how to identify which type of PCOS you have
Support foundations for PCOS
The starting point for healing PCOS

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ABOUT GUEST:
Jillian is a Functional Dietitian and Women’s Health Specialist. She provides comprehensive nutrition and lifestyle counseling to women, with a special emphasis on PCOS, hormone balance, and digestive health. Jillian helps clients identify and address the root causes of their hormone and digestive symptoms naturally using advanced lab testing, personalized nutrition, and supportive lifestyle therapies as the first line of intervention. Jillian runs a virtual private practice based in Boston, MA and is the creator of the Empowered PCOS Program. It's her mission to empower women to take back control of their health, reclaim their confidence, and experience life at its fullest potential.

WHERE TO FIND :

Instagram: @jilliangreavesrd
Website: https://jilliangreaves.com/

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#250 Where do you start to heal? The framework I use to help clients with Christa Biegler RD Aug 16, 2022

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am answering the question, where do you start if you are trying to heal? In this episode, I go over the framework I use to help clients and how it has evolved over time.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

4 steps of the Integrative process coined by Jefferey Bland
Where people commonly get stuck in their healing process
Timelines for healing

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

Removing barriers to healing & replacing nutrients
Using symptoms & testing to create awareness to help & heal your clients
Using the AWE method to empower your clients and sit them in the driver's seat of their own health

Learn more about my signature program for helping clients heal from Food Sensitivities and fatigue here: https://www.christabiegler.com/fss

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#249 Why are my hormones low? Debunking the pregnenolone steal, cholesterol fear, low T and mitochondrial issues with Sam Miller Aug 10, 2022

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INTRO:

This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Sam Miller. We discuss root cause of low hormones, hormone testing, and where to start if you are feeling fatigued or concerned about hormones.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

Top Causes of Low Hormones
Hormones that drop under stress
Why hormones are depleted under stress
Debunking the pregnenalone steal
Debunking Cholesterol fear

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

Hormone testing recommendations
Where to start if you are feeling fatigued or concerned about hormones

ABOUT GUEST:

Sam has a masters degree from NC State Univ and has spent the last decade in the health, fitness and space, building his reputation as an online coach, author, educator, podcast host, and mentor dedicated to providing simple, yet strategic ways to amplify your results either as a coach or in your own transformation…. (without being a dick about it).

Through workshops, classes, mentorships, and his specialization program Sam has served over 2,500+ coaches worldwide and been featured as a speaker for companies like Linken In.

WHERE TO FIND :

Instagram : @sammillerscience
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#248 Could it be a mild-moderate mold problem? Checklist of symptoms with Christa Biegler, RD Aug 09, 2022

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In this continuation of episode 245, "I split tested my urine mycotoxin test," I go through dead ringer mold symptoms, a huge checklist of severe, moderate, and mild symptoms, and how I've changed my approach in practice.
You can also apply to become a client now and get your case reviewed right now in August to get started in September. https://www.christabiegler.com/fss
Here are some dead ringer mold symptoms if you have 2-3 of them:

Nasal sores
Unproductive sore throat
Joint pain, especially in hands/feet
Lichen Schlerosus or sharp vaginal pain
Lymph node swelling
Increased allergies
Itching on the base of the scalp, especially at night
Significant negative "detox reactions" f
Mouth sores from citric acid
Chronic sinus congestion or throat clearing

If going through the symptoms is a little fast, here is a version of Dr. Jill Christa's mold questionnaire. I find people that score at least a 7 are positive for mycotoxins.
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59a037d34c0dbf261600c0ec/t/60959aea82fcec1e35b1ad77/1620417258387/Crista+Mold+Questionnaire+Form.pdf
But I also think people don't check all the potential boxes (histamine issues, etc).
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#247 Science of breathwork and DIY Nervous system regulation for anxiety, sleep, athletes, better focus/clarity with physiotherapist Campbell Will Aug 03, 2022

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by a returning guest Campbell Will we dive into the science of breath-work and how you can use it for self regulation and stress mitigation.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

The bio-mechanics of breath-work & how you breathe effects everything
Appropriate breath work for different context cases
Up regulated breathing versus down regulated breathing and how it effect the nervous systems
Superventilation: for performance: how can you get oxygen out of the blood and into the cells of the body and the brain
Carbon dioxide and oxygen balance to impact your ability to manage energy
Research around people with anxiety and panic attacks have poor interception and don’t notice when holding their breath

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Self regulation and stress mitigation through breath
DIY Nervous system regulation for anxiety, sleep, athletes, & better focus/clarity
The easiest way to started today with breath work
What a beginner breath work session looks like

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Campbell is a trained physiotherapist and certified in a variety of styles of breathwork. His clinical experience across a diverse range of settings from ICU to professional sporting teams has provided him with a broad skillset in the assessment and treatment of a variety of clinical presentations. His passion over the last 5 years has been centered on the role of optimal breathing in achieving health and wellness. Instead of focusing on one aspect of breathing, Campbell targets the interplay between biomechanics, biochemistry and neuroscience. His goal is to teach people how to get back into the drivers seat of their own biology through tools of self-regulation and stress mitigation.

WHERE TO FIND :

Instagram : @breathbodytherapy
Website : www.breathbodytherapy.com

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#246 Doing the work but not getting better, mold, parasites and carrying emotions in your body, gut, liver as a body to health improvement and neuroplasticity with Abigail Hueber, MS, RD Jul 24, 2022

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INTRO:

This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Abigail Hueber. In this conversation, we dive into the mind-body connection and how the energetics of emotional health can impact your physical health.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

The energetics of emotional health impact physical health
There are certain organs that tend to hold different types of emotions
We have much more control over our health via our own consciousness than just what the supplements or physical tools can do.

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

What to do when you are doing the work but not getting better
How to support your mind-body connection as part of the healing process
emotions sit in your body
How to reconnect with your body when you are feeling stuck in your head

ABOUT GUEST:

Abigail Hueber is an Integrative Functional Dietitian and owner of the private practice Above Health Nutrition. Abigail is an expert in digestive health and the creator of the No Drama Digestion Program (NDD), an online program that helps clients to eliminate symptoms of IBS and other digestive issues. Through functional medicine tools, the NDD program works to identify and eliminate the root cause of IBS in the body through nutrition, lifestyle and personalized supplementation to provide long-term digestive healing and optimize overall health.

WHERE TO FIND :

Website: https://www.abovehealthnutrition.com/
IG: @abovehealth

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