Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

Welcome back to the show. Today I have my friend Ashley Dwyer on the show, and we are going to be talking about the negative impacts of striving for that goal body or that goal physique.

And Ashley is a former pharmacist turned health coach, and she is also a former NPC fitness

competitor.

So she was going through competitions while she was getting her pharmacy degree, and she

continued to go through competitions after getting her pharmacy degree and it had a

major negative impact on her health. And this was eye-opening for her in a lot of ways and caused her

to change a lot of things about her lifestyle. We're going to talk about her story and how striving

to achieve a perfect aesthetic in terms of the way she was looking had a major

negative impact on her health, her hormones, her digestion, and more. So I think this is going

to be a very insightful episode. Ashley was telling me her story, and I told her that I wanted

to bring her on the show because I know a lot of people

are striving to lose those last 10 pounds or to achieve a certain body composition or a certain

aesthetic look and there's a lot of lessons to be learned in the stories of individuals who

have gone through this process and experience negative health outcomes as a result, which is quite common. So I am looking

forward to bringing you this episode. With that said, we'll go ahead and get into it. All right,

welcome back to the nutrition science podcast. I am here with my friend Ashley. We are going to

talk about her story from going from fitness competitor to pharmacist to now health and fitness coach.

And she has a lot of useful insights that I think are going to be very helpful for everyone listening.

So thanks for coming on, Ashley.

Yay. Thanks for having me. I'm super excited.

Yeah, me too. So I want to go ahead and get started and jump right into your story.

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