Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast.

I'm your host, nurse practitioner, Cynthia Thurlow.

This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.

My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the health and wellness industry each week and impact

over a million lives.

Today I had the honor of reconnecting with friend and colleague Natalie Jill.

She is the founder of Natalie Jill Fitness and Midlife Conversations. Today we spoke about some of the

biggest misconceptions about fat loss and middle age and the importance of a mindset shift and not

succumbing to limiting beliefs. Why it's so important to become a personal detective,

the role of gut health, and the impact of toxins. Her experience with breast implant

illness and why telling the truth and being authentic is so necessary and what she's doing to

age optimally in her early 50s. This is an invaluable conversation. I love Natalie Jill's

authenticity and her transparency.

So I think for us today, I was like looking at your Instagram and kind of getting this gestalt.

And one of the things I really value about you is your transparency on social media because I think a lot of people myself included I

try to be as transparent as I'm comfortable with but there's so much judgment around women and I

feel like it's the men don't care it's there are many women who are super supportive and then there's

this undercurrent comments perspectives that are just really negative and And I'm like, if you don't like what

someone's doing, just move on. Totally. Like, why would you vomit all over someone's account?

So yeah, you can, I mean, honestly, like, I'm here to serve your audience. So, like,

whatever you think is going to be most beneficial or interesting, I'm not attached to anything.

If you want to talk about that or the X plan or whatever, I don't, I'm open. Oh, I've got it all down. I've got everything like fat loss, like all the things that I

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