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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.

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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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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

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

• 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

ABOUT GUEST:

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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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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Welcome to the Less Stressed Life, where we help women and families overcome fatigue, food sensitivities and inflammation the goal here is really to help you heal yourself. If this you find this show or episode helpful, repay the favor and share it with a friend or leave me a review on the purple pod app if that's where you listen. 

In this episode:

•  I'll explain the differences between the two major tests on the market (Great Plains Lab and Vibrant America
•  Why I tested/my symptoms and the varying symptoms of colleagues and clients 
• My key takeaways on testing which is: Is it positive? And how severe? Both from symptoms and testing. 

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Clara Artschwager we dive into all things relationships like having a relationship without losing yourself and how relationships affect how we present in the world.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• "Your mess becomes your message."
• Reading the room & the effects of being an empath
• Common denominators in things around relationships
• How relationships with people  and emotions keep us stuck
• Neural pathways in how we exhibit things in our behavior
• Relationships are about perfecting you.

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

• Rewiring experiences & seeing the way in which we hold patterns
• Attracting healthy love
• Using writing for your self-healing work.

ABOUT GUEST:
I’m a dating and relationships coach and a writer. I often say I’m like the dating coach for folks that would never hire a dating or relationships coach, largely because I don’t actually believe marriage or relationships are the be-all-end-all. Are we wired for connection? Absolutely. But do I feel that comes in a variety of forms? Indeed.

I wanted a relationship, to be sure. But I also wanted a way of seeking it that didn’t feel me with anxiety and dread (or the notion that I had to treat dating like a job). And once in a relationship, I wanted a partnership that didn’t rob me of my own life.

I found most dating and relationships rhetoric— from five-step plans to Get the Guy to Instagram tropes on how to love myself (and now!)—to fall flat. Really flat. I wanted a more nuanced conversation around love and partnership. Why did I want it but also, in a way, fear it? What made it so uniquely hard for me? And so on and so forth. Women, and yes, some men, who jive with that conversation, are the ones who thrive in my programs and work.

WHERE TO FIND       :
Website :  https://www.ithinkilikeyou.co/
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/ithinkilikeyou.co/

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Tammie Chang. In our discussion, we talk about recognizing and addressing burnout in healthcare, depression, and leave of absence.  

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• What contributes to health care provider burnout and burnout in general
• How patients can show up to get better care from their providers
•  Signs and symptoms of burnout
• AMA toolkit for organizational joy: how to create well-being programs. 

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

• How to thrive as a health care provider
• What you can do to treat and prevent burnout
• How to be an advocate for your own health
• Tools available to the healthcare system to create well-being programs to prevent burnout in the workspace 

ABOUT GUEST:

Tammie Chang, M.D., is a board-certified physician in pediatric hematology/oncology and author of the book, Boundaries as a Woman Physician: The Key to Loving Your Life and Career in Medicine (February 3, 2021.)and coauthor of How to Thrive as a Woman Physician. 

Boundaries as a Woman Physician focuses on the understanding that to heal and serve others, one must first focus on having a healthy body, spirit and mind. Tammie highlights the importance of good self-care habits and boundaries in a physician’s life to avoid burnout, stress and exhaustion. She shares her own debilitating burnout story and that of three other physicians, acknowledging her struggles and the ways she broke the barrier of shame many physicians have when it comes to mental health and self-care

Tammie earned her bachelor’s and medical degree from Brown University in Providence, R.I. She completed her residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts and completed her fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. 

WHERE TO FIND       :

Tammie's personal burnout story can be found on HBR Ascend: https://hbr.org/2022/03/my-burnout-nearly-cost-me-everything-now-i-help-other-physicians-overcome-it

As well as her new book, which is #1 on Amazon in 15 health categories: https://www.amazon.com/Boundaries-Women-Physicians-Career-Medicine-ebook/dp/B09R7VY1QF

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tammiechangmd/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammie-chang-md-254821195/

https://www.tammiechangmd.com/

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Emily Pereira. In this conversation, we dive into topics like the root of happiness, freezing your eggs, escaping life through partying to alignment, relationships,  and leading retreats in Costa Rica.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Finding the gift in heartbreak & hard emotions
• The power of the beginner's mind
• Freezing eggs as a form of liberation, the after-effects, and resetting her body
• Life shrinks or expands in relation to permission you give yourself.
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GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

• Activating and recconnection to your creative self
• Learning to trust yourself & follow your intuition
• Find the gift and lesson in every situation

ABOUT GUEST:

Emily Pereira is an International retreat leader, yoga teacher, and women’s coach — coined by her clients as the “Relationship Whisperer”. After 13 years of intensive and extensive spiritual training and exploration, she has amassed a treasure trove of astonishing wisdom + powerful practices. She’s used these to heal her own love story and transform her life. Over the years, she’s had the honor of helping hundreds of women ignite their intimate, heart-thumping, passionate, I got-your-back-no-matter-what love, and build the family and lifestyle of their dreams.

Emily traded her “perfect” lifestyle in LA for one in the middle of the jungle in Costa Rica. Through her exotic journey, she found the true light within herself and the true meaning of love. It took Emily periods of despair, utter confusion, and soul searching to now reach over five million people worldwide to help them reinvent their own love lives. Emily has become a symbol of hope, love, and discovery for women all over the world

WHERE TO FIND       :

Instagram: http://instagram.com/emilybegins
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/bethebeginner/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/bethebeginner
Website: emilypereira.com

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This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Mindy Gorman-Plutzer. We discuss dieting, overcoming fear of food, responding to triggers, misinformation, and disordered eating. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Root causes of  eating disorder
• What  health issues come along with an eating disorder
• The true definition of recovery and why conventional eating disorder recovery Protocols Often Fail

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

• Resources and supplements for eating disorder recovery
• Signs of an eating disorder

ABOUT GUEST:

Mindy Gorman-Plutzer is a certified functional nutritionist, lifestyle practitioner and eating psychology coach with over 25 years of experience. Mindy is passionate about helping others recover from eating disorders and create a healthier lifestyle. Mindy’s approach to eating disorders tackles the root cause of the issue, and emphasizes that how and why you eat is just as important as what you eat. Through her integrative approach, she also looks at the impact disordered eating has on one’s daily life, digestion and hormones.

Her life experience and training inspired her to create a framework that combines functional nutrition, positive psychology, and mind/body science called the Freedom Promise. She has established a compassionate resolution to physical and emotional challenges resulting from chronic and complex health issues, as they relate to Eating Disorders. In addition, Mindy is the author of The Freedom Promise: 7 Steps To Stop Fearing What Food Will Do TO You and Start Embracing What It Can Do FOR You.

WHERE TO FIND       :

Website: https://thefreedompromise.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheFreedomPromise/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefreedompromise/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FreedomPromise
Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/mindy-gorman-plutzer-02642818/

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1. I'm hosting a LIVE Ask Christa call for RDs & licensed health professionals (MDs, PA, NP, DC, PT, etc) in July.  Space is limited to 20 seats & anything is on the table except legal questions. Learn more and register here (fast!) www.askchrista.com
   
   
2. Heather sent this sweet message to my guest Bea after episode #229 aired with her live mashup breathwork and thetahealing : I had the MOST profound experience through your work on the podcast The Less Stressed Life. 
   
   
3. >> Listen to the episode and do the 15 min breathwork session at the end to feel all the feels!  https://open.spotify.com/episode/4uHAR0s3vjG9cgM1Fj9Obp?si=scLX7n6ARd6hU4kR6kT9YA Episode #229
   
   
4. Frankie asked: What can I do for more energy and weight loss with hypothyroidism? I considered intermittent fasting but not sure what that would look like. 
   
   *I will mention that I work with a lot of subclinical (undiagnosed) thyroid issues but if you have a known diagnosis and have been on the medication train a while, another amazing resource is also ChewsFoodWisely (my friend Nicole Fennell, MS, RD runs this practice and she is a doll). 
   
   
5. Melissa asked: If one were to want a consult with you ? How would I go about that and does insurance ever cover ? …. I grew up going to - what I would call a healer … had major gut issues in college and he told me some certain foods to avoid and changed everything - I still avoid them - but within the last year I’ve developed a rash on both shins … some on my scalp … and no medicine is curing it … I have a strong inclining it could be gut related .. food allergy- something ….. and just kind of wondering some next possible steps I could take.
   
   *I answered all these and more and made sure to address the role of conventional GI vs functional GI and then what to do in failed functional GI work! 

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INTRO: 

This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by retreat leader Jessica Van Antwerp. In this episode we discuss following “yes” signs, leading retreats, immune healing from nature, Qigong, energy exchange, being a giver, and the 8 tenets of wellness

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Benefits of retreats & immune healing from nature
• 8 tenets of wellness
• What is Qigong

GUEST SHARED HELPFUL TIPS ON:

• Following "yes signs"
• How to protect your energy
• How to reset if you are not able go on a retreat

ABOUT GUEST:

Jessica Van Antwerp is the owner and CEO of Integral Travel. Jessica provides wellness retreats and education to teach people how to unlock their bodies' natural healing capacity while connecting with others and the planet. Jessica uses these retreats to express the power of transformational travel and its regenerative potential. With the influence that our online world has on connecting others around the globe to better ourselves, Jessica is a leader in this as she is changing the lives of others who join her journey through physical, psychological and spiritual activities. 

Jessica draws on over a decade of experience in the health and wellness industry. She aspires to help people find inner peace. Having dealt with anxiety, low self-esteem, weight and body-image issues, she knows just how difficult it can be to overcome these things and find self-love. She’s spent over a decade in the healing arts, doing massage and Shiatsu, teaching yoga and qigong and through the lens of Chinese Medicine, learning the ways that we can reconnect with Nature to rebalance our bodies, minds and spirits.

WHERE TO FIND       :

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/integraltravel
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/integral_travel/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx_CBXknkvCGfwRQQ_UtkvA
Website: www.integraltravel.com

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