The cell is the foundation of life, and biological science is clear on what our cells need to most efficiently generate the energy that runs our bodies. Gut, autoimmune, and hormonal issues all have underlying metabolic causes. Let us cut through the noise and remember how to eat to enjoy, nourish, and repair, and not for ideology.

Check out the two info-packed bonuses that accompany this episode at the Medicine Stories Patreon.

TOPICS:

• Energy and structure are interdependent at every level

• Metabolism is not what most people think it is

• Removing major food groups limits your body's ability to generate energy

• Metabolic safety for women- the body can't heal if it's in survival mode

• What disrupts a woman's metabolism

• Restrictive diets are metabolic-lowering stressors to the female body

• Women's "progress" in society has come with a metabolic price

• Being overwhelmed by constantly changing nutritional information & how prometabolic is different

• The problem with too much plant consumption

• Nutritional rigidity and a look at raw, vegan, keto, and paleo/carnivore diets through a metabolic lens

• The importance of carbs- when we don't have enough glucose the body will start relying on stress hormones for energy production

• Kymber's past with extreme food intolerances and how she healed them

• The few foods that should be avoided because of their metabolism-lowering, gut-destroying effects

• What fear of food, and black and white nutritional thinking, does to us

• PUFAs- what to know about polyunsaturated fatty acids

• The story behind the post-industrial vegetable oil toxic sludge we've all been consuming for decades

• The way our skin responds to the sun is largely contingent on the foods we're eating

• When the body rusts from the inside out- iron, PUFAs, estrogen, and internal oxidation

• Everything you've learned about iron is wrong and you're almost assuredly iron toxic (this is so important, especially if you or anyone you know has been diagnosed anemic)

• The trade-offs of trying to get our nutrients from synthetic sources

• Copper, magnesium, and remembering that minerals are elements that originated in stars

• Technology cannot make us healthier

• The nutrients in animal foods are vastly more abundant and bioavailable than those in plant foods

RESOURCES:

• Kymber's online course Habitually Healthy

• Medicine Stories Patreon (2 info-packed bonuses for this episode)

• Kymber's website

• Kymber's ebooks Reparative Eating Guide & Nourishing Our Sanity

• Kymber on Instagram

• This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah Hill

• An article on the debunked Ansel Keys study

• Mind blowing video of iron shavings in cereal (these are in all iron fortified processed food- you have consumed so much of this!)

• Strong Sistas YouTube channel

• Heal Your Metabolism by Kate Deering

• My website MythicMedicine.love

• Check out Kami's course Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils

• My video sneak peek at the course

• Check out Kami's course Handcrafted Healing Herbal Oils

• My video sneak peek at the course

• Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb Matches Your Energy?

• Medicine Stories Facebook group

• Mythic Medicine on Instagram

• Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)