Blake was raised in a low-income household in rural Minnesota and had been overweight most of my adolescent life. My annual health “check-ups” usually resulted in tears from the Doctor telling my parents that I needed to be “put on a diet otherwise I would end up being obese later in life”. My family also used food as a reward, gathering, and comfort entity essentially only making my relationship with food and my body even worse. Eventually as I aged into high school I started playing sports (football, track, and wrestling) which eventually led me into the weight room and drove my passion for bodybuilding and physique transformation/enhancement. My passion for bodybuilding and health ran so deep that I ended up switching degrees my sophomore year of undergraduate college from Construction Management to Dietetics and leaving the family construction business. While all of this was occurring on the outside a massive storm was brewing in my body internally. Before I knew it my hormones were crashing (luckily I was already on hormone replacement), my mental capacity was failing (I was diagnosed with ADHD), I began battling depression (was started on 50mg of Zoloft), my GI tract began to fail miserably (I was diagnosed with IBS and placed on a medical grade PPI due to heartburn despite the fact I had low stomach acid essentially making the issue worse causing SIBO and Candida overgrowth), I was over training and undersleeping (causing my liver to become inflamed). All of these things were occurring while I thought I had been eating healthier then I ever had been, and to top it all off, my body composition that I had worked so hard for was slowly deteriorating. This was all brought on by stress overload and genetic/immune variances. This has whats lead me down the functional health/gut coaching journey, to help those that cant seem to find it.
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