There are foods that give you energy, help you sleep better and make it easier to lose weight…
There are foods that do the opposite…
The reason I started this blog is because I was eating all the wrong foods…
The result was that I was tired all the time, had brain fog, my hair started falling off and I kept gaining weight no matter what…
I felt miserable…
Everything changed when I was told I was going to have to take hormones for the rest of my life and something inside of me just refused to accept that as my faith…
So I started to dig in to figure out how does the body produce hormones?
How does the body produce energy?
Everything pointed to the gut flora… the little probiotics that live in your gut, that’s what produces energy and hormones for you…
This was such a breakthrough because for the longest time I was under the impression that if could figure out how to boost my thyroid then I would get more energy…
I had tried all kinds of diets and thyroid support supplements, but nothing worked…
Once I learned that trying to fix my thyroid wasn’t the way to go, and started to focus on my gut flora instead everything changed…
I got my energy back and was able to finally lose weight…
The best diet to get more energy
The most effective diet to get more energy is a diet that helps you grow healthy gut flora… a diet that helps you do this, isn’t exactly a set of recipes… and it’s not about taking probiotics either because probiotics can only grow in the right environment…
To understand the diet I used to get more energy you have to design your diet so that you can grow healthy gut flora…
How do you grow probiotics?
The first thing you need to grow healthy gut flora and get more energy is proper hydration…
This may sound almost too simple, but I personally didn’t drink enough water… I was dehydrated, which is why I was dealing with gas, bloating and constipation…
Hydration is one thing I did to help with that…
The best diet to get better sleep
I used to feel tired all day, but when my head hit the pillow I would have a hard time falling asleep… I would toss and turn all night…
I’d wake up and walk like a zombie…
Turns out that my hormone production was low…
I wasn’t just struggling with low thyroid hormone… I had low melatonin as well, the sleeping hormone… and serotonin & dopamine, the feel good, happy hormones… which made me feel anxious and depressed…
To produce hormones you need to start with vitamin D, which is technically a pro-hormone… all other hormones are made from vitamin D and cholesterol…
This was interesting because vitamin D is a fat soluble vitamin which means you need to eat healthy fats to help raise vitamin D… this was contrary to what I believed…
I used to think that eating lean meats and veggies was a healthy diet…
Then I started to understand that lean meats isn’t good for hormone production… you need to include more fats… this scared me at first because I was getting fat and eating fat was counter intuitive…
… but I was at my whit’s end and willing to give it a try…
When I started eating more healthy fats and working on my vitamin D I started to notice my hormone production improve and it changed the way I thought about healthy eating…
The best diet for hair loss and weight loss
Hydration helps you digest food… vitamin D helps your body absorb nutrients…
Are you getting enough nutrients into your diet?
This was the complete game changer…
I realized that the reason why my immune system was weak was because I was malnourished…
I didn’t grow up eating an ancestral diet… I grew up eating a modern diet…
I used to love pizza, burgers, and wings…
So when I started learning about eating an ancestral diet I was a bit grossed out and weirded out… but since my hair was falling off I decided to go for it…
What is an ancestral diet?
Our ancestors used to consume a full nose to tail diet and root to fruit to get all the nutrients the body needs…
A nose to tail diet means that you don’t just eat the steak, you also eat the meat organs…
This may sound weird to most people like it did for me… but once I started to incorporate this into my diet, I felt my gut flora improve dramatically and that’s what helped me grow thick strong hair again and made it so much easier to lose weight…
Eating a diet that helps you grow healthy gut flora is the best diet for someone looking to get more energy, sleep better and lose weight!
How to Get Natural Energy without Restrictive Diets or Supplements
When I say I used to feel exhausted, I’m talking about bone-deep fatigue…
It wasn’t me being distant, dramatic or lazy…
It wasn’t me being just tired or run down…
It was the kind of exhaustion that lives deep in your bones…
It’s hard to explain what a flare was like without sounding dramatic…
I’d wake up feeling like I’d been hit by a Mack truck, even if all I did the day before was exist.
When this happened, my body felt sore and beaten up, like it had been through something physical and brutal…
My muscles and joints ached constantly and deep like everything was inflamed and heavy…
Some days I was just surviving quietly… it took more strength than anyone realized….
The fatigue was crippling…
Not “I could use a nap” tired, but the kind where standing up required me to grab onto a wall…
I felt weak, dizzy, and slowed down, as if I was walking through mud…
Things that were normally manageable suddenly felt overwhelming… Simple tasks required planning…
I would sit in my kitchen without moving… just enough energy to feel unmotivated…
I would feel low and sad for no reason like a flattening of everything.
The flares would happen even when I did everything right…
I’d cut out gluten, dairy, sugar…
I’d take a whole stack of supplements (selenium, iodine, iron, B vitamins, etc…)
… yet my entire system felt like it was under siege… like my body was pulling the fire alarm because of steam from the kettle, and refused to shut it off.
Everything suddenly got louder, harder, and heavier at once.
I was doing everything I could just to get through the day, but nothing worked until I figured out the cells of my body were not getting the nutrients they needed…
It didn’t matter what diet I tried, what supplements I took, or what detox I did…
Something was blocking the nutrients from getting into the cells of my body and that’s when I discovered cellular-level nutrition…
I put together a program Energy Jumpstart, where I share my 3-Step Framework to rebuild your energy.
Tap continue below to learn how…
