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This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton. Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. Let's get started.

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. I am Elizabeth Benton and we have what I think is going to be a really strong and powerful new series.

It's probably going to be a two-parter, maybe even a three-parter, not sure yet. And you can probably hear the rumble of my dryer in the background.

I try not to record when the dryer is going but today it has to happen. So if you hear that humming, sorry about it, gotta do laundry. You know what I mean? It's this yoga challenge man, I'm telling you I have to wash the towel every single day.

So more laundry happening over here than ever before probably. But anyway, here's where we're going in the next couple or few episodes.

Just a couple weeks ago, I shared two episodes on thyroid health. I shared that I was recently diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis and some other hormonal issues that are more linked to chronic and systemic inflammation.

And I shared that many thyroid issues are actually autoimmune issues first that turn into thyroid issues and we tend to focus in many cases, not just with thyroid health in many cases.

We tend to focus on the downstream impact without first looking at, hey, what's going on with the immune system and how do we strengthen that?

Because it's not just about the thyroid, although yeah, when the immune system is impaired and it turns on the thyroid, we have a problem.

But that happens with our joints. It happens throughout the body, not just in the thyroid. There are a million other ways that this can manifest.

So I want to spend the next couple or few episodes talking about the link between our immune system and the foods we eat.

How the foods we eat can either keep our immune system strong so that we don't ever have these downstream problems or so that we can overcome these downstream problems.

Right? I want to talk about food intolerances. How to know if you have them? If you have an allergy, chances are you know.

But if you have an intolerance, you probably don't know. I didn't know. When we consume foods or toxins to which our body mounts a defense, even if it's not a strong defense like we see in somebody who goes into anaphylactic shock or breaks out in hives when they consume something that they're sensitive to, these little things that we don't even know that we take as normal, the bloating, the acne, the joint pain.

We think it's just kind of the way we've always been. No, it's our immune system mounting a response against a trigger. And that can and will lead to issues down the road.

So there are lots of autoimmune issues that things that stem from consuming food, drink, toxins, consuming anything that aggravates your immune system. And these aggravating factors are going to be different for all of us, but are responsible for symptoms like food allergies or arthritis headaches, asthma, eczema, acne.

And it can go further into true disease, whether that's heart disease, whether that's arthritis, whether it's cancer, whether it's a thyroid disease or lupus. All of these things can, not always, but can be triggered by repeated exposure to something that we don't even know is a problem.

We must heal and strengthen the immune system. There is so much we can do. Oftentimes we think that these are just things that happen to us either because of our genetics or because of something beyond our control. And while sure, there are always factors beyond our control.

What I want to do is really introduce you to so many of the factors that are within our control that we are not taking advantage of. There is so much that you can do. And I'm not suggesting that it's easy, but we can absolutely without question make meaningful changes and feel better, no matter what's going on in a fairly short period of time.

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