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Hi, I'm Sif Heider, the founder of Aure. I'm a wellness entrepreneur and digital creator,

and this is my show, The Dream Bigger podcast. Listen, I love dreaming big, but you know what I love

more? Actually having the resources to make those big dreams happen. And hey, dreams can sometimes

be private jets, but other times, they can look a little something like having the best skin

of your damn life, or starting a successful business, or delving into spirituality. So on this

podcast, I chat with experts and thought leaders from different fields about their

tips and tricks on doing exactly that. So let's get right into it.

So I'm just going to dive right in. Yeah. Okay. So your journey started in traditional medicine.

Yes. Can you walk us through the moment that you realized that the path wasn't right for you?

Like, how was that transition even emotionally and mentally?

And how did you even get to that conclusion?

Yeah.

So I went from traditional medicine.

I was a nurse practitioner.

And I had like a health crash, basically. And my body started

failing me. And I went from doctor to doctor, specialist to specialist. And everybody said,

everything's normal. You're fine. Really? Yeah. I mean, I feel like it's the same story over and

over again. Right. And I'm like bawling my eyes out like, I'm not okay, right? I don't feel well.

And then finally, since it had been a year of that, and finally my body did show signs and symptoms, like on traditional lab tests that did show a bunch of abnormalities. I actually had a mini stroke when I was 24 years old, 23 years old. And so like my body had had enough and then finally did show on traditional labs. So then what was, what were the symptoms that you were experiencing at the beginning where you were going from doctor to doctor? And they were like, nope, it's all good. I could, you know, I remember sitting in class because I was at grad school at the time to be a nurse practitioner. I remember sitting in class and standing up and my whole leg was swollen like down to my ankle. And I had pitting edema where you like press into your skin and it just kind of like stays there. So I had pitting edema. I would wake up tired even though I was sleeping 10 plus hours a night. I would get so dizzy I'd have to pull over on the side of the road thinking I might pass out. No periods. Hair thinning, cold all the time. I mean, a lot of symptoms. So what was going on? What, like, why, why were you in this state? Did you ever figure it out? Everybody wants to know that secret. What's the one thing that happened? And for me, it was just a storm of everything. chronic inflammation that had been building up year after year, decade after decade, really.

And so... that happened. And for me, it was just a storm of everything, chronic inflammation that had been

building up year after year, decade after decade, really. And so gut hormone issues were my big root

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