Fearless Wellness with Nikki and Sydney

But really what you gave me is you empowered me and you enabled. To change my own life. I mean, everything looks different for me. Everything. I used to be the girl that would go to McDonald's and order 20 to 40 nuggets and eat 'em myself. When we went to Panera and they had the, you pick two, I'd order two of those and they get a, you pick four.And I was terrified of redefining my friendships. And I've been able to do that. I was terrified to say my needs first, but now I can say it no problem. I have boundaries in my personal life. I have boundaries in my food life.Everything has changed, um, because you helped me change, and I am just so grateful for that.

I want you to know is that you know enough to start taking action. We wanted to talk today a little bit about the things that we know. So we're gonna talk about things that your body doesn't need. We're gonna talk about things that your body does need, and we're gonna talk about how important it is for you to pay attention to your bioindividuality.

 "It's hard, but because I know what it does for me and how it makes my life better. I'm still like holding onto it. There are certain things we do out of convenience that we shouldn't do, eating out or whatever, but like truth is truth. And when you know it, it sticks with you. And so, it's still hard, but it's something I want. So it's still part of my life. "

Getting older means more pain in your joints, slower digestion, less activity, slower metabolism right? It seems right because its all around us. But what if that's not true? Learn more in todays episode.

"For sure I would've given up gut health. I would've been like, give me the Tums because of this pain. Like, it was just so, overwhelming. But then for some people Tums isn't enough. They have to like go on to use other things like acid blockers, not just acid neutralizers.They go on to use more because it's not enough. Tums becomes not enough. And heartburn is so bothersome. But, fast forward, you know, like 10, 12 years. And I learned that  one of the reasons most people have heartburn is because they don't have enough stomach acid."

"The gravity plates are wonderful to look into your home, but also I don't wanna discourage people to also look for, a practitioner to work with, to do like testing for themselves. So that's also another really big, important piece of the puzzle because you can actually test your home and it comes back clean and you're like, why am I dealing with all these symptoms? Like what's going on, like you could be dealing with mold toxicity from a childhood house that you grew up in and it's carried around with you for 20, 30, 40 years."Megan Gump, FNTPImmunoLytics Bio Balance Now CitriSafe 

"With Nikki, she talks about how weight loss isn't the primary goal. And I think it was more of a by-product of the work that we were doing together. But the success is defined really, not just about the weight loss, but about the general health improvements that I was seeing.Now, that being said there definitely was a difference.  I was not counting calories. I'm not limited myself to the amount of food. So it wasn't portion control necessarily at all. I was focused really more on the types of foods that I was eating and then, of course, things like chewing, you know, making sure that we were doing the things that, that Nikki promoted and in the end I have lost 28 pounds in the last 11 weeks. " Kim Clark

We think it's very attractive to have all of these results in our lives. People want to lose weight. People want to have energy. People wanna have less mood swings. People want to  not have so so much sickness. They wanna have less bloating and digestive issues. These are all results. And the thing that I am trying to draw the analogy to here is that in order to get results, you have to fall in love with the process that gets you those results. So just a couple of quotes from Kobe Bryant about the efforts that it takes to be able to get the kind of results that he got in his life.

And they took her blood sugar numbers and she was not diagnosed as a type two diabetic any longer. And her blood pressure was doing amazingly well and she'd lost 15 pounds. So, if you're out there and you're thinking to yourself that this is not a possibility for you, that yeah, that's all fine and good Sydney, you guys are in your forties. So that's, you know, that's when you can still improve your health and, and that's when you still have control over your future. but I'm too old and there's nothing that can be done.  And this is my fate. For those of you that might be thinking that I just wanna tell you that you do not have to be locked in. There are amazing things that can happen no matter what age you are.

Whether you struggle with emotional eating or any other type of destructive behavior, Dr. Mike's use of the the life coach model can help you "name, breathe, feel, deal" your way to conquering those situations. Tally appDr. Mike's model instructionsThe model from this episode

But the majority of human connection actually happens in our mind. It's the way we think about ourselves and other people. It's the way we think about our relationships, whether we think we're really connected with someone or not. And the point is that our human experience of connection happens a lot on our mind and that's really, really good. Because if you're trying to eat less sugar and you're worried about what it will do to you socially, you just need to know that you have a lot of power to create and establish real human connection with just a little bit of mindfulness.

This episode if for you if you're interested to know how you can take control and affect positive change on your long-term health. We're gonna be using pregnancy as the main tool to facilitate this discussion. But the goal is to help you to understand the importance of being at the head of the decision making process, when it comes to your own personal health for today and discussing Nikki's, doctor's offering to terminate her pregnancy, we're not gonna discuss the details of the laws or advocate for one side or the other, but we do wanna engage you on the importance of taking control of your own health. And we recognize there are many different situations that are different from Nikki's, but we're offering her experience to help empower you with reasons why taking control of your own health is the best long term solution. 

So it's really, really good to get your skin and your eyes in the sun, but as a nation and as a culture we've been taught that we need to cover up, we need to protect from the sun, it's bad for your skin, you might get cancer- that the sun is our enemy.And we wanna talk about why sun exposure is really good for many reasons and how to avoid the bad parts of the sun by not getting burned and helping take care of your skin if you ever do. (Paid Link) Alba Sunscreen

What we were talking about is why building something that we like to call "health storage" is probably the most important thing you could do. Even for that emergency situation, because you can handle it better emotionally and physically, you can be fit and stable and have enough energy to be able to do what is required of you in that emergency situation.

As members of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. We have been counseled to have a supply of food and other emergency preparedness items. And these days it's not hard to see why this is really good counsel. So today, Sidney, and I wanna talk to you guys. What we feel is the most important part of emergency preparedness.

One reason that we eat is to nourish our bodies. The other reason that we eat is to nourish our emotions, but that's what we wanted to talk about today.  The truth about emotional eating so that you guys can start to delineate between them and know that you have more options when you are faced with an emotional eating challenge. Fredrick's Experiement-https://www.digma.com/digma-images/video-scripts/fredericks_experiment.pdfHarlow's Monkey study- https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/obsonline/harlows-classic-studies-revealed-the-importance-of-maternal-contact.htmlRabbit Effect- https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/rabbit-effect

I was having a lot of hair in my drain. Like I was having a lot of hair in my drain. And so I went to, my yearly kind of review of labs with a practitioner. And she's. Going through a few things and saying, you probably need to up your, up your digestion with taking some stomach acid boosters. and then she said, and I think it's really going to help with the hair because there's nothing else here that looks like you, like a reason why you might be thinning your hair.Rate and review us to be entered into our giveaway!

Strength training, ozone therapy, duck fat, tallow, magnesium, cast iron, minerals, breath work, journaling.  

The first one is to love foods that love you back. The second one is to love yourself and change the way that you view your story. The third rule is love other people

We are big fans of fat. And the nice thing is, even though the eighties were super wrong about fat, the 2020s are starting to get it right.

And the reason why we want to share this with you is because when we see people see people change, it is so fun and encouraging, and we love sharing these things with you because we want you to feel empowered and encouraged to be able to take control and take your power back for your own life, that your lifestyle.

I went to the funeral and I was seeing my family members and I was going to hug them and say, and you know, commiserate with them and love them. And I couldn't remember their names and I. Freaked out. I mean, I had to go into the bathroom. I kind of started hyperventilating a little bit because I'd never had that experience before and forgetting people that you love is frightening

All of these lifestyle factors play a huge part in our favorite place to be, which is in prevention. So like we were saying, we're not trying to treat your cancer. We're trying to be an adjunct support if you already have it, or we are trying to help you never get it in the first place.

 If you look at people who have type two diabetes, they are more likely to have people in their family that also have diabetes, obesity, or other risk factors, but it's hard to know if that influence is due to genes alone or a shared environment and lifestyle.

Is it a genetic problem that runs in families or is it caused by lifestyle factors like eating too much cholesterol and butter and salt, or is it caused by something else?

Is it genetics and or ethnicity or lifestyle?

If you have noticed that you have some health challenges and you have just started heading to the gym every day. You've been going for six months and you haven't been losing weight or you just feel more stressed out or you just feel kind of crappy that's the focus today.The reason why that might be the case is that you are putting your cortisol at levels that are unhealthy for you. And that puts the rest of your hormones out of balance, and that causes weight, gain and stress and in your life that you don't need. And so that's why we want to focus on cortisol today and how yoga can help balance that cortisol help give you the nutritious movement that you need in your life, as opposed to depleting your body of the things that it needs to heal and help you like Allie regain your health so that you can set those long-term bigger goals and feel successful as opposed to just feeling totally defeated.Allie Louthain:www.ishawarriors.comInstagram: @ishawarriorsFB: Isha WarriorsPodcast: Monday Mindset with Isha Warriors

There's a saying moderation in all things. It just sounds like good advice. Doesn't it? But there are some things you just don't want to have even in moderation because they're holding you back.

If you're struggling to lose weight, even though you're doing everything, quote unquote, right, then this is for you. 

The best time to nourish your body to have a healthy pregnancy is before, but nourishing your body while you're pregnant is going to help you after you're pregnant. And I know it's hard to think about what's coming when you're in the throws of pregnancy, especially if you get super sick, but we want to help you see into the future of what's going to happen after you're pregnant and the benefits of nourishing your body during your pregnancy.

What should you eat when you're preparing for pregnancy and does it really matter? In our society. There's a wide variety of ways that people prepare for pregnancy. They do it by trying to lose weight. They start to take prenatal vitamins from Walmart or Costco or from their OB. They buy ovulation predictors, or they work with a fertility doctor. But we feel like the most important way to prepare is to use nutritional therapy, to nourish your body and balance your hormones.

These are decisions that are just once and done. And that's fun because a lot of people do have a hard time be able to change breakfast, lunch, and dinner and snacks tomorrow.But you know what you can do tomorrow? You can go to the store and buy glass dishes. 

Is Nutritional Therapy going to work to heal your thyroid? Does nutritional therapy work to help you lose weight or help you get pregnant or calm down your acne or help your kids to focus, help fix your anxiety or depression? Join us as we discuss where the real power to heal is found. 

I tried buying organic and it didn't make a difference. I am exercising and not losing weight. I am cleaning up my diet and not seeing a difference. A few reasons why that might be the case.

It might decrease your time in the short term, but in the longterm, it will increase your time in so many ways. 

Is it more expensive to eat nutrient dense foods or conventional foods? Do you save more time by taking care of yourself or making your day super efficient? Does your social life suffer when you start creating lifestyle changes? 

These two ideas might not seem totally related at all, but we're calling our podcast pasture raised versus pasteurized because we want to explore whether we should focus on avoiding germs or on giving the body the things that it needs to be strengthened.

We talked about the five tips to the five tips in summary are number one, drink water in between meals. Habit number two, sitting down and chewing your food 20 to 30 times, really having an experience with your food habit. Number three, nutrition, start incorporating some more fats and proteins into your food. And we recommend starting with grass fed butter habit.Number four is balancing your blood sugar, which we can also call balancing your hormones. Really, really important to bring down those insulin levels and the way that we recommend You do that. By starting your day with more fats and more proteins. And then tip number five is to practice mindfulness by slowing down when you eat, which is very similar to digestion tip, but taking time to breathe and pray and practice gratitude.

The formula for doing nutritional therapy and things that help your body is pretty simple. It's get the bad stuff out. And the good stuff in. The hard part is knowing what the bad stuff and the good stuff are.

Do you have big plans for 2022? Do you like setting goals? This podcast may or may not be for you. We're going to give you three ways to not achieve your health goals.

Have you ever had someone tell you that you have high blood pressure? What is one piece of advice that many people receive when they're told they have high cholesterol? To stop consuming so much salt. It makes sense right? Some people even respond well to eating less salt. But what if eating salt wasn't actually the problem? What if something else was making the salt too high, leading to high blood pressure?

PCOS is the most common form of infertility in women. What maybe at the root cause of PCOS?  And can there be anything that you could do about?

Do you have difficulty losing weight? Do you have hormone issues, like PCOS? Do you have non alcoholic fatty liver disease? Do you have high blood pressure? What do all of these issues have in common?

Do you crave coffee or sugar in the afternoon? Do you feel sleepy in the afternoon? Do you feel exhaustion that is relieved by eating? Do you experience headaches when you've skipped a meal or delayed a meal, or do you feel like it's hard to manage your emotions when you haven't eaten in a while? Or do you have shaky hands?

Do you wake up in the middle of the night and feel wide awake? Do you have a hard time falling back asleep when this happens? The answers to the problem of sugar cravings are very similar to the problem of sleep issues. 

Soda is craveable in so many ways. There's the fizz that creates a party in your mouth. The flavors are so nostalgic. The sweetness that satisfies your front row taste bud and gives you a dopamine rush it, just thinking about it.

Sugar cravings aren't just a matter of willpower. If you have a lot of sugar cravings throughout your day, it doesn't mean anything negative about you. You have plenty of willpower. So if this is the case that you don't need any more willpower, what do you need? 

Let's talk about the answer to this question. First thing we're actually going to give you two answers. The first one is what the medical community considers a normal frequency, but we are going to give you what we consider an optimal frequency. We love optimal.

We're going to go through what is likely happening in this situation and what you can do about it, which will come as a huge relief for those of you that deal with this because these artificial smells are everywhere, it can be really frustrating, especially when you're stuck in a vehicle, a house, a bus, a store on a bench or at a doctor's office or a workspace, or even your friend's house.

Some of you may care a lot about your nails, whether they chip or peel, but some could care less. Whichever group you fit into listen up we're delivering this message for you because the reason we care about your nails is not just for beautiful, healthy nails, but  when nails are weak, it is a sign that there's something missing in the body and whatever is creating peeling nails is also probably causing you other problems.