From Desperation to Healing: Taylor Dukes on Functional Medicine, Gut Health, Brain Cancer, and Nervous System Regulation

Wellness Her Way with Gracie Norton

Dear Media

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Episode 54: In this episode, I sit down with functional medicine nurse practitioner, Taylor Dukes. She shares her journey, including the shocking moment she discovered she had a brain tumor and the path she took to shrink the tumor in half. From feeling burnt-out and unheard to finally embracing functional medicine, Taylor shares eye-opening tips on gut health, hormone balance, and practical changes that actually work. If you’re a beginner and you’re interested in learning more about healing through functional medicine, finding healthy swaps, or ditching bandaid solutions, this is the episode for you. Let’s break down the overwhelm, listen to what our bodies truly need, and get inspired by Taylor’s resilience.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:05.7	You're listening to the Wellness Herway podcast. I'm your host, Gracie Noren, and I'm so
0:10.7	excited to provide you with the space where you get to shape what wellness feels like to you.
0:15.0	Wellness Her Way is where we make a home of our body, mind, and soul, instead of jumping on
0:19.4	trends for short-term results. We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it,, mind, and soul, instead of jumping on trends for short-term results. We've got one
0:22.0	body. We're going to nourish it, love it, respect it, and embrace it through all its forms.
0:29.2	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Wellness Her Way. Today we are sitting down with
0:34.3	functional medicine nurse practitioner Taylor Dukes. In this episode,
0:38.4	she shares her wellness journey, which began when she started experiencing symptoms like bloat,
0:43.2	fatigue, hair loss, acne, and an irregular cycle. Despite being a nurse and having the tools to feel
0:48.7	better, Taylor felt completely hopeless. She shares how discovering functional medicine
0:54.0	completely transformed her health as she started to heal the root cause of her hopeless. She shares how discovering functional medicine completely transformed her
0:55.5	health as she started to heal the root cause of her symptoms. She gives us all the insight on what
1:00.0	her journey looked like and how she was able to make changes in her lifestyle that were actually
1:04.0	maintainable. She also has a very vulnerable conversation with us as she shares the shocking
1:09.1	moment she discovered she had a brain tumor that
1:11.3	was the size of a plum. The story left me speechless and I don't want to share too much in the
1:15.3	intro, but I'll just say that this is an episode that everybody needs to hear. If you are feeling
1:20.7	stuck in your wellness journey and you're interested in learning about healing through functional
1:24.5	medicine, finding healthy swaps, or just ditching band-aid solutions,
1:29.1	I think you're going to love everything that Taylor has to share. So we're going to listen to what
1:33.2	our bodies truly need and get inspired by Taylor's resilience. Let's get into it.
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