Welcome back to the Essentially You Podcast, all about reinventing your health with safer, effective, natural solutions and powerful lifestyle changes so that you become the CEO of your health. I am your

host Dr. Marisa Snyder. So did you know that food and your gut health play a big

role on your hormone balance and by the way when I'm

talking about hormones I'm talking about all of the hormones in the body that play a

major role in how we function every single day. Now for most of my life I had no idea. My mom

taught me that I could live off of coffee and peanut m&M as long as I worked out.

See when I was growing up my mom literally lived on the

coffee and M&M's diet. She was start her day with a cup of coffee and a cup of

peanut M&M's. Now we both learned I would say several years down the line that this wasn't true.

I started experiencing hormone chaos in my late 20s and early 30s and it had everything to do with my constant rushing, my eating habits, my

endless sedulous, and saying yes to too many things. I literally didn't have time to eat. I prided myself on eating while being on the move like all

super women out there. I mean who had time to eat when they were real priorities to tackle every single day.

That was very much my MO.

Now that was until I got Macktracked with debilitating exhaustion.

You know, the kind of exhaustion that I woke up with in the morning even before I started my day

along with my clothes fitting much tighter and clinging to me especially my waistline

and this overarching feeling of shame for not being the

practitioner who I knew I could be. The question that kept coming up for me was

how did this happen to me or how question that

kept coming up for me was how did this happen to me or how did you let this happen to yourself and

due to this big wake-up call for me I started to really dive deep into what was going on and realize that I had

hormone issues, particularly around adrenal fatigue, my thyroid wasn't functioning properly,

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