Hello, everybody. Welcome to the podcast. I am joined again with my assistant coach Monica. Hello, Monica. Hi, everybody. Glad to have you here.

This is another episode where we just, part of our job is noticing trends and things that come up.

And it's so funny because I feel like I got a comment on my TikTok that was talking about how she felt like.

She didn't want to do keto, but she had to do keto because her doctor told her she had to.

And I told Monica, I was like, you know, I don't feel like I have a solid resource or podcast.

I know I did it in a Q&A, but specifically about health diagnoses and dietary changes and slipping into restriction and that kind of stuff.

And I was like, I think we should do like a podcast on it. And then someone in vibe club makes this super long post about she was

diagnosed with Hashimoto's or something like that. And I'm like, it was like within 24 hours. I'm

like, okay, we absolutely need to do this podcast because it's, it can be hard when diet culture

and health, health stuff overlap.

And what's also very pertinent and relevant to what's going on is recently, Monica has been experiencing some health stuff.

I'll allow her to kind of give more context to that.

So it's very, very good timing because we've been getting really curious about Monica's thinking about it.

And I'm often showing people the difference between perspectives. Like someone can see

planning, for example, as something they don't have any time for. And I can see planning as like

something that because my life's so busy, it keeps me from going crazy. It's the perspective of things. And so it's been interesting to

observe your perspective on this. So let's briefly talk about like what's been going on for you.

I've been having some stomach issues for a while now, but I never paid any attention to it

because it was so seldom that I was checking it up to, oh, it's probably stomach flu or,

or I don't know, food poisoning or something.

And eventually when those episodes start coming closer together, I start worried a little bit.

So naturally, I went to the doctor and we went over everything, did like extensive blood work.

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