Hello, my friend, Leanne here, and I'm so glad that you're tuning in today.

We're doing something a little bit different this week.

I'm re-releasing an old episode, one of my most popular episodes, where I sit down with the

brilliant Allie Miller to unpack the connection between carb intake and anxiety.

And yes, even if you've heard this before, it's worth a listen, especially if you're in a

different season of life with your relationship to carbs, food, mental health, and these things

have shifted since you last heard it. Like we're talking years and years ago, you probably

don't even remember the episode. I decided to bring this one back because I've had so many

conversations lately with women who feel like they're doing all of the right things like the eating clean, staying low carb, fasting, checking all the boxes, but they're still feeling anxious, foggy and overwhelmed.

They're probably wondering, like, the common theme is, is it me?

Am I doing my macros wrong? Should I be pushing harder?

And the truth is, maybe it's time to take a pause and reflect and consider that less restriction

and more nourishment might actually be the path forward. This episode is the beginning of that

conversation. When Ali and I recorded this,

I was deep in the trenches of keto. And what I love about her perspective is that it gives us

permission to ask questions of ourselves and better questions of ourselves. To be curious about

how things like inflammation, gut health, and even our carb choices affect the entire picture, not just the

macro conversation, but our nervous system and our hormones and our mental clarity.

So in this episode, we're going to explore how inflammation shows up even when you don't

have joint pain, why a little bit of the right carbs might actually calm your system down,

and I say right carbs, in quotation. We'll go through that a little bit further in today's

episode. What stress does to your gut and how anxiety alone can actually sterilize your microbiome

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