A Real World Chat About Gluten, Thyroid Healing, Low Dopamine Strategies for ADHD, and Regulating Your Nervous System with Food | Fiona Smith
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Summary
Ep 125. Have you ever wondered what could be behind your brain fog? Is a thyroid disorder a forever thing or something that can be improved with intentional nutrition? Fiona Smith, a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, is on a mission to help her clients naturally support their hormones, brain function and thyroid health. In this episode, Fiona breaks down the detailed practices her clients complete to unpack the deeper “why” on their health journey and get to the bottom of their symptoms with true autonomy. She dives into the gut-brain axis, offering tangible, actionable steps for folks with ADHD to stick to healthy habits in the long term – and covers the one protein that could be directly contributing to brain fog and mental health decline more than any other. Fiona’s excitement and joy around sharing real-life solutions to the deeper root problems around gut-brain health and ADHD is palpable and infectious.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
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How Fiona teaches her clients to develop a strong relationship with their bodies through symptom journaling and curiosity around their inner knowing
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The brain-gut bidirectional highway and how fight or flight mode wreaks havoc on your gut
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Why children are experiencing an over-activation of their immune systems at younger ages
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What are the non-celiac gluten reactions that can happen in the lens of mental health, and how to test if you may have a non-celiac gluten intolerance?
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Answering the question: If you have Hashimotos, do you need to cut out gluten forever?
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A deeper dive into focusing on nutrient density in your diet and the life-changing results that can happen
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What are the top 5 minerals crucial to thyroid function?
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How neurodivergence and ADHD play a role in gut health + taking steps to improve your health and stick to habits with ADHD
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Monday, less the juice fam, and happy Leo season in like a singular day from now. |
| 0:10.2 | Thank goodness for my folks out there who are also astrology aware, astrology curious. |
| 0:15.5 | We have just come through cancer season. |
| 0:18.8 | And I thought it would be fun to lie to myself and say that I was going to magically get through cancer season. And I thought it would be fun to lie to myself and say that I was |
| 0:22.3 | going to magically get through cancer season without a single cry. And I was holding it together. |
| 0:27.6 | Like I thought I was a smooth cat and just had everything on lock. And then halfway through |
| 0:32.3 | cancer season, I started to get a little bit angry. And thankfully, because I've learned so much about my emotions over the years and my emotional |
| 0:42.8 | regulation, which has been such a big part of my health journey, I now know that that's a tell |
| 0:46.9 | for me and that anger is not really anger. |
| 0:49.3 | Anger is usually coming up for me when I'm sad about something underneath the surface. |
| 0:53.3 | And sometimes all it takes |
| 0:54.5 | when you're feeling that weird anger and pushing up against yourself on the inside where your own |
| 1:00.4 | body is trying to hide something from you, all you really need to do is spend some time very much |
| 1:07.0 | alone. And as soon as you are completely alone, there's like this unfurling that can happen |
| 1:12.9 | with those emotions. And I had some really good cries this month, like some really intense ones. |
| 1:18.8 | And I'm starting to embrace the beauty of that and like my quarterly get it all out moment. |
| 1:25.0 | So I hope that you guys had a chance to do that this month as well. And if you've |
| 1:28.5 | been extra emotional, that is why in my mind, again, no scientific proof of this, but cancer season |
| 1:34.4 | always brings the tears. And I think it's very much needed. But now we get to move into Leo season |
| 1:40.7 | and just shine and have adventures and lay in the sun and be a little bit |
| 1:45.4 | bougie. |
| 1:45.9 | So I'm very happy about that. |
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