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Hey, everyone.

Welcome back.

I’m super excited today to have Jane Williams on.

She’s a functional clinical nutritionist.

But.

But more interesting than that is we’re neighbors.

We’re.

We live so close, and we haven’t even gotten to meet in all these years that we’ve both lived here.

So welcome, Jane.

I’m so excited to have you here.

What’s going on with us?

It’s about time.

That’s what I have to say.

I’m so excited to connect with you and your community today.

Robin, thank you so much for having me.

Absolutely.

Thank you so much for coming on.

So I just want to start by having you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you’ve gotten to where you are today, and then we’ll just take it from there.

Yes.

Well, my story starts, you know, now you.

You always connect the dots by looking backwards, right?

That’s.

That’s how life is with all of us.

So it’s amazing through the work that we do with ourselves as we get older, how so clearly we can now see past experiences, how they have affected where we’ve become.

Right.

What we’ve become and where we were in our lives that got us to this point.

So for me, my parents got divorced when I was five years old and, you know, kind of shifting between mom and dad.

I have a younger sister, and it was just a very stressful situation for me.

I was the oldest.

Kind of being caught up in it, I would say at a young age, I felt stress.

And I couldn’t have told you at that time what stress meant, even what the, you know, what, how stress was defined.

But I carried it in my gut.

And that was something that I always, like growing up.

In my teens, I always had stomach pains.

I always felt bloated.

I always, you know, I had pooping issues.

I mean, all of these pieces that nobody ever talked about, right?

Especially like, I’ll say our generation, our generation is kind of like you keep your head down, you just keep moving forward.

You know, it wasn’t like an open topic, but I did, I carried a lot of stress and that stress manifested itself in physical pieces.

So when I got into my 20s, I actually, I got very sick and had to go to the emergency room and had to go through tons of testing.

They thought maybe I had irritable bowel disease.

My gut was a disaster, my diet was a mess.

But again, you know, not something that we ever talked about.

And gut health back in those days was, was not even at the forefront.

So I remember getting told I needed to go see a gastroenterologist, a GI doctor, and they would be able to put me on some sort of protocol.

So I was put on medication and basically told to take a pill every day.

Nobody ever talked about diet.

My diet was never questioned.

And pretty much, here you go, this is kind of your course of treatment for the unforeseeable future.

And I lived like that for about six years.

And at the time or in the process of all of that, I had, you know, met the man that I would marry and we started talking about wanting children and all of those pieces and we started trying to have kids and I got pregnant and then I had a miscarriage and couldn’t get pregnant and still on this medication and just started to just.

I was living in a state of not feeling great.

You know, I think, yeah, 100%.

And I meet a lot of women that are like that.

You know, we, we have kind of an acceptance piece.

And I think there’s a lot of women who are caregivers who, again, that acceptance piece of this is life, you know, and we kind of just go with that.

And I believe that mindset wise.

I lived in that state of mind for way too long until it affected other pieces of my life in the way of not being able to get pregnant.

We really wanted to have a child.

And then I started to do some deep diving.

You know, I, I’m a smart woman.

Like, why am I not investigating this a little bit further?

And one of the things I started to investigate was nutrition.

You know, can nutrition actually affect infertility or my fertility?

Can nutrition affect my gut health?

Like what, what’s the thing?

I remember this fat free craze and oh, you know, it’s low fat.

And can nutrition all that fat free stuff that I love to consume or I’m told to consume, could that be affecting me in negative ways.

My gut, my stress, all of those pieces, I don’t know.

So I started to deep dive into it, and that’s when I found this practice called fun Functional nutrition.

This idea that our body is all interconnected, that our body is not in silos.

And I found it incredibly fascinating.

I’m like, wait a minute.

So you’re telling me the stress that I’m having that I believe is in my brain could be affecting my gut?

And that’s crazy.

And wait, Dopamine and serotonin, those feel good chemicals that you believe are in your brain, are actually also produced in your gut.

Like, that’s wild to me.

Wait, your immune system is actually located in your gut.

I mean, it was all like, these crazy aha moments, and it turned into this, like, amazing passion of mine.

I need to get off this medication.

Can I get off this medication?

Is this gonna start to affect my life in a positive way?

So I started to slowly make these changes, and I started to feel really good.

My health changed, My skin changed.

I lost weight.

I.

My.

I didn’t know that I was living with this fatigue and this brain fog, but I was in a constant state.

It was just something that I felt.

I just always knew.

And I started to feel better, clearer, and it helped me to make better decisions.

And so it was just all these little light bulbs that I think go off for us when we start to make those shifts.

And I know you use that word earlier, I love the word of a shift.

And I too, am a firm believer that those bite size, those very small shifts will make massive impact in your life if you are very consistent with them.

There’s no such thing as perfect, but consistency wins every single time.

So that’s what I did.

That’s what I did.

That’s amazing in my life.

And it changed my entire world.

It truly did.

I think what’s so fascinating is the first thing you said is, is looking back and always looking back in hindsight to see what things were like and what the causes were.

But your story is much like a lot of people’s stories, right?

When you’re little, we don’t have the autonomy to make choices.

We are put in situations in which we just cope with and we learn to just get by.

And our body is so smart and resilient that it will help you to scrape by, right?

It will give you sort of the tools just to cope.

But in reality, it can only do so much for so long until your body starts to break down.

And I Think most people who end up going the functional route, going an alternative route, it is because they hit wall after wall after wall.

They’ve been told, take this pill.

They don’t really see an end result because they’re really not addressing the root cause.

And so I think that your story is common for a lot of people and a lot of listeners, because everybody has things that have happened to them that have created the life that they’re living currently.

But we do now, at an older age, have the ability and the choice to make different choices and choose differently.

And if we’re not choosing, we’re accepting.

Right.

And so we have to really dig and figure out first what’s our story.

What’s our story and how does it relate to where we are today.

And then does that story still make sense to us?

And maybe it doesn’t.

And maybe you have to come up with a different story in order to move, to take those little tiny steps.

But.

Right.

The functional part is so important.

And all those little light bulb moments that you had about, well, of course everything’s connected.

Right?

But we’re never taught that.

We are taught you go to the heart doctor for the heart.

You go to the gut doctor.

Well, back then, there was no gut doctor.

But if you had a stomachache, you went to the gastro person.

If you broke your bone, you go here.

Everything was very departmentalized.

And we’re now coming into an age where the science, right.

And people out there are showing that everything is connected.

Your gut, brain, health is.

It is what it is.

Right.

It’s not like they’re just making things up, but the science has finally caught up with looking at how our body actually functions.

So when you decided to go into, like, functional nutrition, because functional is different than just being a nutritionist.

It’s different than being somebody who just puts somebody on a diet.

There’s.

There’s a whole.

Functional is very intriguing to me because the testing is uber important.

And anybody I work with who’s willing to deep dive into that, I always send them to somebody who’s functional because those tests tell a story.

And from my experience, the stool test, Whoa.

That was like, for my kids, was the beginning of, you know, a.

A massive breakthrough.

Yes, for sure.

Talked about a little bit about the functional side for people who might be listening, who don’t understand or know or have ever heard of functional testing.

Right.

So functional testing is what I look at as your personal chemical biomarkers.

And, you know, we have lab work that we go and get done by our you know, a lot of people do that through your general practitioner.

That things like checking your vitamin D and, you know, checking your.

Your white and red blood cell count and, you know, looking at your cholesterol, looking at your thyroid, all of those.

Now, while that’s important and those markers are important, those markers are actually weighed differently than those of functional markers.

And they’re.

They’re different types of markers as well.

But just for the sake of explaining kind of, you know, common blood work versus functional blood work, so when you see those ranges, you know, you’re.

You go and get your blood work done, and then you have.

There’s these ranges that come back and you’re put into that range.

Those ranges are based on everybody.

They’re based on men, women, kids.

They’re not finite.

That’s like the best way to explain it.

You’re kind of dumped into this range.

And so that is the difference between functional and.

And, you know, what we kind of call the common blood work.

And on the functional side, it’s very finite.

It’s your.

When I say to people, this is your body chemistry, this is what your numbers look like, and to things like, you brought up the stool test, actually looking at your gut bacteria, what does that look like?

How is the gut bacteria in your body diverse?

Like, what does that diversity of strain look like?

So that is very specific to you, as well as there’s different types of thyroid panels, there’s urine profiles that are very specific, there’s hair profiles that are incredibly specific.

So it is a very detailed way of looking at you.

And that’s why I always say when you choose to go the functional route, and I hope everybody does, because I think it’s so important.

I’m not saying that they’re.

There’s anything wrong with the traditional route as well.

I’m actually married to an md, so who’s a traditional doctor, but he.

He sees the lines between, you know, the need for functional and traditional.

I think you should have both.

Truly, I think it’s.

It’s important.

And the best functional doctors that I have met and worked with so far in my career started off as MDs, and then have gone back and done that functional training.

So we’re talking a high level of knowledge, and I think that’s really important because protocoling around functional medicine can become very complex.

The other thing that I think is important to know about and understand about nutrition is that it’s a young science.

You know, it’s constantly evolving and constantly shifting and changing as we learn more information And I love that about it as well.

You know, we have a lot of information.

We can tell you a lot of information.

We can utilize that information to create healing protocols and, you know, different types of blueprints that work for your body, but we don’t.

None of us have all the answers.

And everybody’s body is different.

And so everyone works.

One person doesn’t necessarily work for everybody.

And so I think.

I think that’s the most exciting thing because it really breaks the mold of all traditional.

Here, take this.

This is how it works.

And it’s like, no, that’s just not true.

Because this could be really healthy for one person, but somebody else who has a completely different profile, it could not be healthy.

So it’s a matter of uniqueness and bio, individuality.

And I think when people start down this road, the one, like, piece of encouragement I want to give them is it is an evolving process.

No matter where you start.

You know, if you have a test or you don’t have a test, if you, you know, add in a nutritious type of food or you delete out something, it’s.

It’s all a work in progress all the time.

You’re never going to have, like, a finish line, per se.

And so that’s.

That’s beautiful because you’re never striving to get somewhere, right.

You’re just striving to keep evolving.

And so those little shifts that we talking about, you know, they can become overwhelming when you don’t break it down into those little shifts.

Right.

Personally, the functional.

The fascinating thing for me, like, when you said hair, I had.

I’ve had all these tests, right.

And I’m fascinated by what you can find from your piece of hair.

You know, it’s.

The stool test was fascinating to see.

You know, I thought one of my daughters maybe had add.

She did not.

She had candida overgrowth, and her neurotransmitters were also out of whack.

And, you know, that.

That was just like a lot of light bulbs for me was like, oh, okay, so we can weed out, add in, do all the things and get everything balanced, which is what we’ve done, you know, and again, it is.

It’s a.

It’s not a perfection and it’s not, you know, a complete 100.

Do this, do that.

It is a lot of give in understanding your own body.

And stress is huge.

People do not understand the ramifications of suppressed stress.

Right?

Absolutely.

Physical things that happen.

I’m hopeful that the conversations that are going to start coming out is suppress stress.

Like you.

Like your story from five years old, you know, something that.

It wasn’t traumatic.

You.

It was.

It was trauma to you a little, but it.

When people think of trauma, they think of a car wreck or they think of, you know, being shot or molestation or something giant.

But little things can affect you just the same as the large things and the little things we end up carrying along with us for so long because we’re not even in a state of understanding how that can affect.

So if somebody has bloating that can’t be solved or has things, I always suggest like, well, let’s look backwards, let’s look back to see maybe something that happened long ago that you don’t even remember as being something that could be affecting.

Affecting your gut.

So.

Right.

And trauma comes in many forms.

That’s the bottom line.

Yes, trauma comes in many forms, and we do carry that stress.

And it’s a chemical component as well.

You know, our cortisol is affected, our adrenal glands are affected, your gut microbiome, those prebiotics, those probiotics, all of that really important.

Those important bacteria are affected.

So we don’t recognize that until we’re facing something large.

And then we go, gosh, all of a sudden, all of a sudden, this just happened to me.

And then we go, wait a minute now, Right?

It wasn’t all of a sudden.

You know, you didn’t just get an autoimmune, just like you just don’t get skin cancer, right, that years of damage.

So it’s the same.

And that’s.

You know, that’s so interesting that you say that, because it’s kind of the same thing on the reverse.

Like when you’re working with someone, right, and you’re giving them a protocol, or you’re giving them some suggestions or you’re mapping out something for them.

There’s never an expectation that it has to be changed overnight because it took you.

I’m using 40 as an example.

But it took you 40 years to get where you are.

Thank you for.

For saying I’m 40.

I’ll take that.

I don’t even know.

I wasn’t even thinking.

You actually looked 40.

Oh, I love it.

All right.

Made my day.

Thank you.

But, you know, people have to give themselves grace.

They have to give themselves the space, an ability to.

To evolve in just the same way they evolved up that, you know, to keep evolving.

So I think, you know, we’re so hard on ourselves.

Women are so hard on ourselves, and we just have to Learn to just take a breath and, and give ourselves grace.

We’re not going to be perfect.

And I love that you said that.

Consistency, just that word.

If you can be consistent and even if you’re not consistent 100% of the time, just consistency overall when you’re looking at the big picture is what’s going to grow you.

Words I’d love to get rid of in the English dictionary for women is perfection and diet.

Those are two trigger words that we end up carrying even if you don’t know, like consciously.

Consciously we carry that, you know.

Yeah, a hundred percent.

100.

100%.

I think most women are, you know, they call themselves like recovering perfectionists or, you know, that was me.

I’ve learned to let go of some of that.

It’s still, still hard, but still a thing that you work on on a daily.

But.

And diet, I don’t know who made up that word.

I really don’t because it really, it irks me because it’s like, no, the diet that you eat is all foods, you know, it’s, it’s all the, it’s the real stuff.

And I do think the fad, unfortunately we are from a diet culture.

Right.

We are from the fat free to the, you know, to the, the healthy ones or whatever.

Those, you know, like all the frozen.

Meals, Whole 30 to keto to.

You could go on and on and on.

Yeah.

100.

And some of those have spaces in places if you’re doing certain things, but they’re just, they’re not the end all, be all.

You’ve got to learn how to create a lifestyle of health for yourself.

And if we can somehow move away from labeling.

Yes.

And work on creating our own blueprint and say, this is what I do, this is what we’re me.

There’s so much empowerment in doing that.

And you know, instead of, you know, running with the crowd, so to speak, or you know, just having to put an actual word that’s attached that has so many underlying meanings to us.

So that, that is one of the things that I love to do when I work with people, you know, creating a blueprint that feels good and belongs to you and then that there’s so many empowering pieces and so much of nutrition is a mental piece.

Right.

It’s emotional, it’s completely emotional.

And I, I meet so many women and men and even teenagers that I’ve worked with that they, they carry that emotional piece.

So when we become emotional in a supportive, positive direction by making those small shifts, that is when we become empowered around our own plan, our own blueprint.

And watching those shifts happen within people, amazing lights me up every single time.

That’s right.

So if you’re someone that’s listening right now and you’re of the mindset, you know, well, Sally did this and she looks a certain way.

And so I want to know what Sally’s doing.

And we’re telling you to maybe pause for a second, take a deep breath and ask yourself, you know, what would work for you?

Not what Sally’s doing, not what Jenny’s doing, not with whoever’s doing, but what feels aligned to you.

Because if you’re restricting yourself to a point where you’re not, where you’re sad and you’re feeling restricted and you’re stressed and, I mean, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

So we always talk about like adding in something nutritious.

We’re not talking about ripping everything away from you in an instant.

Eventually that will just naturally occur if you just start adding in some of the wholesome, healthier whole foods rather than doing something that has zero fat in it or doing something that speaks to one little population of people.

So.

Right.

I like the blueprint idea.

I love that.

I think we should all have our own because we are, we are all bio individual.

We all have, we learned in my schooling primary and secondary foods.

And so secondary being the foods on your plate, but primary being everything that feeds your soul off your plate.

And without those being in balance, it doesn’t matter what you’re doing on your plate.

It’s.

It’s just not.

You’re not going to create a healthy lifestyle because the chaos that runs rampant on the other side is just raising that cortisol.

It’s doing all the stress.

It’s physically damaging you in other ways.

Right.

Mind, body and spirit.

There’s a reason why it’s, it’s even categorized that way.

Right.

Starts with mind, body and then spirit.

So, yes, I can’t state that.

Who’s coming in for the first time, who’s never like dipped their toes into the functional side?

If they were to come to you, what is your first, like, plan of attack to helping them to create that blueprint?

Yeah.

So first of all, I do an extensive history because again, like we’ve said a few times already, you’ve got to connect the dots backwards to go forwards.

Yeah.

So I do an extensive history.

I get to know them as individuals and then before I do any work.

And this is also a tool that I’d love to give to everybody.

And I actually, I have that tool on my website as well.

And I’m happy.

In your show notes, we can absolutely make sure it’s included.

I want to pattern out what’s going on, so I think it’s really important.

And this is, again, a very empowering piece for people.

And, you know, if you’re looking for a place to start, I always look for patterns.

And it’s funny.

So I have so many people that will come to me and say, this is a common one.

Yeah, I don’t have any added sugar in my diet.

Yeah, right.

That.

That’s.

That’s a big one.

And, you know, and I don’t laugh at it.

I mean, it’s not laughable.

They’re working really hard.

I’m sure they’re being duped, though.

They’re being brainwashed a lot of the times.

Exactly, exactly.

And we just don’t realize.

Yeah, we just don’t realize how much we have.

So pattern or I don’t tend to have gut issues will be another one.

You know, maybe they’re coming for some.

For another reason.

And I’ll say, okay, we’re.

We’re.

Before we do anything else, I’ve got this great little guide with a food journal in there.

It’s a lifestyle journal, really, because it’s beyond food.

I do look at, you know, I want to know about your pooping.

I want to know what you’re eating in a day.

I want to know what you’re drinking.

I want to know how you’re exercising.

I want to know how you’re sleeping.

I want to know how you’re feeling.

So all of those pieces.

And then when people start to pattern things out, they tend to notice.

I would say, nine times out of 10, I’m going to give it a pretty high rating.

There are some noticeable patterns that they have never noticed.

And that is where the.

The slight.

Aha.

Potential shift starts to happen.

Oh, my gosh.

I have this in my diet.

Wait a minute.

I didn’t realize this was affecting me the way that it has been.

Oh, my gosh.

It’s been a week and a half since I pooped.

That’s an extreme one, but, yes, it does happen.

Yeah.

So we start to see some little pieces or we recognize certain food groups being attached to certain issues, symptoms, and all of a sudden, we can start connecting dots.

And so that is first and foremost, before I even meet with somebody, I will have them pattern that out for me so that I can do a deep dive and have those initial conversations with how Are we going to address all of this?

So that’s a piece of it.

Can I stop you just for one second about the food log?

Because I think it’s so overlooked a lot of times as just an activity or just an exercise.

But when you do start to see those patterns, I also encourage people to.

How do you feel 90 minutes after you eat?

Like, what are the emotional feelings that come up?

Because again, a lot of times you will see the foods or the meals that you’re having that give you energy, and then the foods and the meals that you’re having that make you feel like you need to get on the couch and watch a show, you know, so it’s like there’s also that emotional and feeling part to food that people totally dismiss.

And so I think that food log is really the first step for anybody.

Even if you’re not going to go see a functional person or work with a health coach, it.

It’s your own first step.

You can do it all by yourself.

But notice those things because they’re very powerful.

Right.

When creating that change.

Yes.

And I would definitely encourage you to utilize.

Utilize one like that I have created that is not just food, but it asks you additional questions so you can start to piece together those patterns.

That’s important to actually see the full picture.

And to your point about food and how it affects us, sometimes we don’t recognize it, but the food that we started our day with, breaking our fast, or breakfast, as it’s called, can affect decisions we’re making later in the day and how we’re feeling around those decisions as well.

And we don’t connect the dots around all of that, but I love that because nine times out of 10, even making those slight modifications for somebody, all of a sudden, they start to feel a bit better.

And when they’re doing that consistently.

Okay, now I’m ready to go.

Now, what else do we, you know, what’s the next thing we need to do?

Right.

So that’s exciting.

And then they’re totally on board because they see, they can feel it.

They can see and feel, you know, this.

These changes and how it’s affecting every piece of their body.

Yeah, it’s so interesting is.

It’s.

It’s really a very simple exercise.

But to me, what it showed me years ago when I very first did it was, do I know myself?

Like, do I actually know?

Like, I can tell you all the things about my job, and I can tell you all the things about how to do X, Y and Z and how.

But I’M doing all these things and I don’t even really know how that’s working for me or not working for me.

And that for me, that was a big like, okay, I need to get to know myself a little bit better.

And when people used to say, you know, what, what are you doing?

What diet are you on?

What are you?

And I’m, I’m not.

I’m just doing things that work for me, that make me feel my best.

And then the other thing that used to happen is, oh, she’s not going to eat that.

She’ll never eat that because it has X, Y and Z.

And I said, I can eat it.

I just am choosing not to because I know that I’m not going to feel my best and then I’m going to show up terrible for my children and my husband and all the other things.

And I’m choosing to make the other choice that makes me show up better for myself and my family.

So here’s another little tidbit around when you’re looking at that food log that would be helpful for someone who’s, you know, really wanting to pattern out a few things because they know something isn’t right.

A lot of times we look for the things that are in our diet, but many times we don’t look at the things that aren’t in our diet.

Right.

We have to flip it too.

So that’s really important.

And what I find, again, I’m going to give it a high rating of 9 times out of 10.

But we are fiber deficient.

Huge.

Especially women.

And I’ll say one more thing about women too, just so we know what we’re looking for.

But fiber is a big one.

And just things that fiber actually is very complicated.

And I think it gets a little bit confusing for people too.

We’ve got this soluble fiber.

We have insoluble fiber.

We need both.

They process differently in the body, they work differently in the body, they feed different things.

We need different types of fiber to feed different types of bacteria, all of those pieces.

Now, not everybody needs to know all of that, but you need to have, right?

You need to make sure that you’ve got the proper balance of all of that fiber and you’re getting enough fiber.

Typically, on average, women get between 8, 10 grams of fiber a day.

We should have upwards of 30 to 35.

Just to give you an idea of how fiber deficient we are.

We are truly fiber deficient.

And kids are too.

Kids are hugely fiber deficient teenagers.

I think that’s a lot because of all the processed food that gets ingested.

And most processed foods are not high in fiber.

Unfortunately, when you’re leaving today’s episode one, two very easy things, right off the bat is going to Jane’s website, getting her little food log, trying that on, seeing how it feels, seeing what you can discover about yourself.

But also just get curious and see, like, how much fiber are you ingesting in a day.

And if you’re curious and want to know about insoluble.

Insoluble, you guys can research that also.

But just out of curiosity, how much do you ingest?

And then see where you can tweak it, because, again, that’s in your control.

Right.

And I know if you’re somebody that has little fiber in your diet and you need to add fiber, please do it slowly.

Slowly.

Yes.

That is.

You will bloat.

That is very important.

Yes.

And then I have people who say, I couldn’t do it, forget it.

So, yes, you want to slowly increase your fiber intake.

And I have all kinds of resources, materials.

If you guys do want to do a deep dive into fiber.

Even in the guide that I give for free, it’s not just a food journal.

There’s a lot of additional information in there.

Smoothie recipes.

I created a nutritional methodology called the fundamental five.

Five things that you want to make sure are on your plate, in your smoothie, in your bowl, at every meal.

So I’d like to keep it simple.

I want to say one more thing because I think this is really important.

I know your audience is women and that age group of things we’re being concerned about with being moms, hormonal health, change of life, all of those pieces.

Another massive piece that women are incredibly deficient in is minerals.

We talk about macronutrients, which are incredibly important.

Protein, fat, carbs, all of that.

But micronutrients.

Magnesium, potassium, sodium, you know, chloride, silica.

All of these pieces that we don’t really talk a lot about.

It’s an electrolyte piece, and that is something.

Again, I have a lot of women who come to me with hormone issues, thyroid conditions, things like that.

We always look at their mineral piece first.

So it could be that you are mineral deficient.

You’re not sleeping well, you’re.

You’re dealing with headaches, things like that.

You may just need to add in some electrolytes.

So that’s another very important piece.

And there’s certainly there’s testing around minerals as well.

I think that was part of my hair panel.

When I did my hair panel, that was.

And I.

That was iodine.

Yes.

That was so enlightening.

She was explaining to me how a few of the minerals, the copper and all that, how their levels and they were backwards almost.

And so that was a cause for some of my perimenopenopause things that were happening and all.

And that was very enlightening.

Once I kind of got that under control, things shifted for me.

So it is a true piece.

It’s.

I’ve lived it, yes.

My only thing that I do want to touch on is electrolytes.

There are a lot of companies that are capitalizing on making electrolytes, and you have to know how to read your labels.

I’m like a preacher of the label reading because, yes, they put stuff in it to make it taste better.

They put stuff in it so that you want to keep drinking it, because the more you drink, the more they make.

You know, it’s.

It’s.

It’s a business.

All right, so before we end, is there any, like, little piece of wisdom that you want to share that we haven’t gotten out yet?

Because I.

I mean, I know this episode is of kind to bring a lot of people a lot of light bulbs and T tips and tools and tricks and things that they can start working on if they choose to.

To see.

To see where they’re at.

And I think all of the things that we’ve shared today are little steps that you can try on again to see how they feel for you.

And then when you see something very small work, then you’ll add on the next thing.

So don’t overwhelm yourself and try to do everything in a day.

Just pick and choose one little thing to start with.

That’s right.

You know, we’re.

I’m not sure when this is coming up, and this is the time to actually double down on doing those small shifts.

Not to make these big plans with, you know, multiple goals.

Just those small, slight shifts that you can tackle every single day, that you can add into your feel good routine, if you want to call it feel good rituals, even better, because that feels even better to us to want to do.

But how can you set yourself up for success by making sure that you are just consistent, putting you on the calendar, making sure that you are getting your movement in, whatever that looks like for you.

Is that, you know, daily.

That’s optimal.

Is it three times a week?

That’s awesome.

You know, is it even starting two days a week?

But make sure you are in your calendar and.

And set an alarm.

You are as Important, if not more important than any other piece that you’ve got on there.

And we all know you’ve got the kids schedules on there.

You’ve maybe of your partner’s schedule on there.

You’ve got the dog schedule on there.

Why aren’t you on there?

Right, right.

That’s right.

I love it.

Because you are the most important thing.

Yes.

That is incredibly important.

And don’t be afraid to start.

There’s no right or wrong place to start.

We innately, even if we’re not tapped in right now, we do know when something starts to feel off.

I want you to pay attention to that signaling when it is a whisper and not yelling at you.

Because our bodies talk to us.

Absolutely.

And you can very easily reverse it.

You can solve it if you get on it right away versus it turning into, blooming into something else.

So disease or chronic something.

That’s right, you know.

And again, when she’s talking about the whispers, I want you to, to go deeper than my stomach hurts.

I want you to go to, you know, my stress level has been high for a week, you know, and I can’t seem to shake it.

You know, it’s those, it’s the different things, it’s the things that you might not even think are related to wellness.

Those are your whispers, right?

Those are the things where you don’t feel like getting out of bed or you’re moody for a week, you know, like those are the little whispers that your body’s saying, you know, maybe you’re dehydrated, maybe you haven’t eaten appropriately for yourself that week.

There’s.

So don’t miss what she’s saying.

She’s not saying wait till your stomach hurts or wait till you know you, you literally are in a ball and can’t get out of bed.

She’s saying get those little fine tuned little whispers and then start getting curious, like, what is that?

Why is that happening?

What, what is my body trying to tell me?

And if you’re someone that you know, you’re constantly on the go or you don’t feel like you’re hearing them, you need to get quiet.

And how you do that is to go for a walk, give yourself some breathing room, right?

Go outside, sit and do some deep breathing, practice a little mindfulness or meditation session if that calls to you.

It can even be if you are, you know, somebody that is go, go, go in the car.

It can be at a stoplight, you know, just don’t close your eyes.

But it can be at a stoplight it can be deep breathing.

It can, you can turn off, you know, the loud radio, all of those pieces.

You can find little places to tune in.

And we need to give that to ourselves.

You deserve.

I do think our breath is very overlooked.

I think it’s overlooked as just something that we do because we do.

And really your breath is so much power behind it.

And I, for anybody for this year, I hope, if nothing else, they get in tune with their breath and they realize that their breath is so powerful because it can change your mood, your energy level, your, your chaos in your mind.

You know, all of that just on a dime.

And it’s a good practice and it’s simple and it’s free and it’s easy and you can do it anywhere.

So before we end, well, first of all, for my local people that are listening, I’m so excited because now I can add Jane to my referral list.

And of where, you know, if you’re looking for somebody on the functional side, I would highly recommend, you know, looking her up.

If you are, if somebody is out of state.

Do you do virtual or do you just do it?

I do, yes.

I work, I work with people all over.

Yeah.

Okay.

Amazing.

Don’t overlook taking that first step, that next step, and diving a little bit deeper this year.

So before we end, I love to ask all of my guests, what are a couple of non negotiables that you’ve created for yourself that you do on a daily basis to live your best, you know, life well.

Oh, I love it.

And I asked my guests the same question.

I love that you do that.

I think it’s so important because, you know, we’re preaching a lot.

But what do you practice?

I want to hear what you practice.

That’s right.

And my health is incredibly important to me.

I practice what I preach every single day.

So when I get up in the morning, non negotiable.

I have a 20 ounce glass of water and I put in my trace minerals.

I love light show aloe and a little bit of squeeze of lemon.

And before I break my fast, I start with my water.

I take a probiotic, which I’ve been doing for a long time.

Sometimes I switch up that probiotic depending upon what’s going on.

And then I work out.

I always work out before I break my fast.

And you know, I try to do that every day.

You know, life happens.

It doesn’t always happen every day or I have to shift some things, but I always make time for myself because I know I can’t give from an empty cup.

So I have to start by filling my own.

And so I fill it, all the puns intended.

I drink it, and then I fill it again by working out.

And then I break my fast.

And I am a creature of habit.

I love my fundamental five smoothie that I created.

I break my fast every single morning with a fundamental five smoothie.

And I make sure that I’m getting in the protein, fat, fiber, the greens and the superfoods that my body needs.

And I’ve designed many a smoothie for many a client, and that’s a passion of mine too, to make sure that your fundamental 5 includes what you need.

I love it.

And if you’re not a smoothie person, if you’re already saying, well, I don’t like smoothies, the five things that she just mentioned can be food on your plate too.

That’s.

So it comes in a variety of shapes and forms and you can do what works for you.

Right.

But a smoothie, if you’re in a rush or a quick or if it’s just your thing.

Right.

That’s an amazing way.

And just so we’re.

We’re clear too, I’ve turned actually a lot of people who believe they weren’t smoothie people because they didn’t feel satiated, they didn’t feel full.

I say, number one, a smoothie is different than a meal smoothie.

A meal smoothie is different.

And I’m all about the chew.

So I believe you need to chew to get those digestive enzymes going and to help feel satiated.

So when I create a smoothie, you’re chewing.

That’s amazing.

I love that.

Going to try yours?

I.

I am a smoothie person.

I just know that there are people out there that.

And also think people build their smoothies incorrectly.

Yes.

And therefore they’re not satiated and they’re not really feeding themselves what they need in the morning to have that best morning when they’re breaking their fast.

So, okay, so those are great non negotiables.

I don’t know if you have any other ones you want to throw out, but I love those.

Those are tangible things that make sense.

You know, pouring into yourself.

You can’t pour from an empty cup is, is very true.

I know it’s an analogy, but it is truth.

And I think however you need to fill your cup, if you’re out there listening, maybe one of the things that, you know, Jane does might resonate with you and maybe something else does.

But try anything.

You know, you’ve got to try little Things I do know, simple, easy, free.

When you first come to, you know, awake, the first, you know, five, ten minutes, you’re still like kind of in your subconscious world, you know, positive, talking to yourself.

Just whatever you’re doing for the day, you know, thinking about breaking your fast and what you’re going to do.

Thinking about how you’re going to pour into yourself.

Thinking about the positive things as you come up into your conscious state.

You’re going to have a better day no matter what you do.

So that’s right.

That’s absolutely right.

And even journaling if that calls to you.

Positive affirmations, positive self talk, reminders.

Remember, it’s always out of sight, out of mind.

So what can you do?

Set yourself up.

Put your shoes, your running shoes by the door.

You know, make sure the fruit is in front of your face on the counter we have a big three tiered rack of stuff that I put out.

So the first thing, somebody’s hungry, they’re reaching for what is in front of them.

Put.

Set up your water by your bedside in a nice little mason jar, you know, can be as easy as that.

Right.

So when you wake up in the morning, it’s ready for you.

You can do all of those things to make your life easier.

And that’s just a few.

I mean, I’ve got, I’ve got lots of fun little tips, but that’s awesome.

Well, I definitely will have you back on at some point because I know we have so much more to cover that we are not going to have time to get to today.

Yeah.

So.

But I want to thank you so much for, number one, taking the time out of your day to come on to my show and to educate my listeners and to drop your little, you know, nugget bombs that I call.

And I’m just so happy that we’re so close to each other in distance.

So I look forward to.

I love that you as well.

Well, we will have to set up a smoothie date.

Yes.

I love it.

So for you guys listening, I will definitely drop all of Jane’s information into the show notes or link to her website.

All the goodness and the little tips and things that we’ve talked about will be there for you.

So because if you’re driving, walking, you’re not having a space to write any of this down, it will be in print for you so that you can go back and refer to it when you need to.

If so inclined, check out my website, my elevated wellness podcast and on Instagram, I’m always sharing my favorite tips.

Yay.

Definitely we’ll do all of those things.

All right everybody have a great day and we will see you guys next week.

Bye.

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