Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself #443 Healing Crisis Part 2: How I Trashed My Hormones (And What It Actually Took to Fix Them) with Christa Biegler, RD
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In this episode, I’m sharing Part 2 of my healing crisis and the story of how I unintentionally trashed my hormones. A few years after the skin and energy issues I talked about in Part 1, I started noticing a different set of symptoms: puffiness, shakiness between meals, energy crashes, irritability, and stress patterns that were slowly burning out my adrenals and thyroid. What makes this tricky is that many of these symptoms are easy to normalize when life is busy.
I walk through the symptoms that were building, how intermittent fasting and undernourishment played a role, and what actually helped me rebuild my energy and resilience. I also share how testing eventually confirmed what my body had been signaling for a long time: burned out stress hormones and sluggish thyroid function, and why supplements alone cannot fix stress physiology without addressing the nervous system.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
• Signs of adrenal and thyroid stress
• How undernourishment and fasting impact hormones
• Why labs can look normal when you feel terrible
• Why supplements alone can’t fix stress physiology
• The role nervous system work plays in healing
Other Episodes🎙️ Mentioned:
- Ep 393 - Christa's Health Crisis Part 1: https://youtu.be/ssJa_QQODj4?si=USDhf6I_qiRSYdtW
- Ep 332 - How we're missing subclinical hypothyroidism: https://youtu.be/KFG2Xr5HzlA?si=U8CQMIA4HrdS0vHh
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NUTRITION PHILOSOPHY OF LESS STRESSED LIFE:
🍽️ Over restriction is dead
🥑 Whole food is soul food and fed is best
🔄 Sustainable, synergistic nutrition is in (the opposite of whack-a-mole supplementation & supplement graveyards)
🤝 You don’t have to figure it out alone
❤️ Do your best and leave the rest
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