Hi there,
and welcome back to another episode of the Root Cause Clinic podcast.
I don't know about you guys, but living in Michigan, I am so ready
for winter to be over and for spring to finally be here.
This is the point of year where it's easy to neglect self-care and fall
into the winter slump, so today I want to remind you to do something
nice for yourself. Take a warm Epsom salt bath,
buy yourself a new book to read, schedule a massage,
whatever feels nourishing for you.
I encourage you to really take this last stretch of winter to rest,
reflect, and prepare your body to energize and reawaken again in
the spring. Alright,
let's go! Let's get into your first topic suggestion for this week,
which was how to sync workouts with your menstrual cycle.
First off, I'll say this is definitely based on preference,
and if you struggle with fatigue, especially while you're detoxing,
don't feel like you have to work out. at all.
If you have the capacity for it,
great, but don't pressure yourself if you haven't reached this stage in
your healing journey quite yet. During your period,
your energy is going to be lower, so you'll want to focus on gentler
movement, yoga, walking, and stretching.
If you usually do resistance training, this is a great time to give your
body a bit of a break from that and focus more on mobility and
rest. After your period ends in your follicular phase,
around day 6 through 14 of your cycle, your energy is
slowly increases. So this is a good time to up the intensity a bit,
depending on how you feel, and focus more on strength training and endurance
building. Again, a lot of you inside RCC aren't ready to introduce strength
training quite yet, so don't worry. if you aren't ready to add this
in. As you head into your ovulatory phase around days 15
through 17, you're going to hit your peak energy.
This is the best time to push your body a bit harder,
increase the resistance you're using, and implement some more high intensity cardio.
After ovulation is your luteal,
After ovulation is your luteal phase during days 18 through
28. In your luteal phase,
your energy starts to slowly decrease as your body prepares for your next period,
so going back to moderate and low-impact workouts is best during this phase.
Pilates, moderate strength training,
steady state, cardio, and yoga are all good here.
So that's a basic overview of what I'd recommend,
but I'm not always a fan of cycle-syncing your workouts because I think sometimes
we get too caught up in what we think we should do and stop
listening to our bodies. It's kind of sad.
Similar to counting macros, it can be helpful for guidance in the short term,
but in the long run, we really want to tap in,
listen to our body, and make decisions based on what actually feels best.
Personally, during my own healing journey,
there was a period where I only did walking,
Pilates at home, and yoga for about 18 months,
and that was exactly what my body needed at that time.
Now, I cycle in some cardio and strength training here and there,
but this year, I've really fallen in love with a mix of bodyweight and
lower body resistance Pilates.
My favorite program for this is the Melissa Wood Health app.
I'll go ahead and link it below if you want to check it out.
It's super affordable, and she has hundreds of strength Pilates,
yoga workouts, and also meditations.
I'm not an affiliate for her or anything,
I just genuinely love her workouts so much,
and I've honestly seen more progress with these shorter,
lower intensity workouts than I did back in the day when I was really
into bodybuilding. Feel free to let me know in the group chat any thoughts
or questions you have about this cycle syncing your workouts.
Okay, the next question you had was,
how do I talk to other people about this kind of healing journey?
First off, I'll say I know how hard it is to try and articulate
what you're doing well. I talked about this in another episode not too
long ago, but the way I look at it is,
don't over-explain yourself to people who have no intention of fully understanding
what you're going through. Because it's going to leave you feeling sad and frustrated,
which is the opposite of how you should feel doing this work.
You should feel proud and empowered.
We're living in an unprecedented time where it's more common to be
chronically ill than it is to be healthy.
And most people are so stuck in this system and many of mindsets that
no matter what you try to tell them,
they can't see beyond it. So don't beat yourself up if people judge
you or don't understand what you're doing.
That's on them, not you. So to keep it short,
when you're explaining it, I would just help.
People, you're doing comprehensive detox work with a holistic health practitioner.
And if people want to know more, they'll ask you about it,
and then you can educate them a little bit more on it.
And if they try to, Try to tell you that parasite cleansing isn't necessary.
You can send them to my Instagram, and they can see the pictures of
foot-long parasites in my highlights.
Okay, next topic. Can you talk about healing foods,
and how important it is to eat whole or- organic foods,
and how it benefits the body? Yes,
absolutely. I do touch on this inside the online course in module two,
so I would definitely recommend checking that out.
If you haven't already, the most healing foods you can eat are within
a paleo ancestral diet,
pastured meats, wild caught seafood,
healthy fats like tallow and ghee,
fruits, roots, and vegetables, and dairy products.
And eggs as tolerated. If we,
as humans, ate within these parameters,
100% of the time from birth,
we would eliminate almost all chronic diseases.
But unfortunately, that is just not the world we are living in.
So, I recommend eating this way. Eighty-f- I have to 90% of the time
and allowing yourself some grace and balance the rest of the time.
It's very important that most of your diet is Whole Foods. Otherwise,
you're ultimately eating a lot of filler foods that are processed and provide little
to no nutrient value. In terms of eating organ- again.
I can't make just do the best you can with this. I'd rather you
eat inorganic Whole Foods than a diet full of processed foods.
So, do your best here. Wash your produce well to reduce pesticide exposure
and shoot for organic as much as you can.
Alright, next topic.
I would love to hear your experience on how to create safety over fears
we may have while healing, like pushing myself on my walk if I know
I can walk longer, even if I've gone over my usual safety time limit.
This is- It's definitely a nuanced topic,
but one that I relate to having struggled with debilitating chronic fatigue for
years. There's an important distinction to make here,
which is some limits are totally valid,
and they're just you listening to your body, which is ultimate- Yeah, too much.
You should never push yourself beyond your limits because your body holds
that infinite wisdom, and especially when it comes to physical limits,
your body is going to tell you when it's reached that limit.
But with mental limits, or more self-imposed limits,
this is more of a nervous system thing.
Because our neural pathways become so wired to fear a flare-up,
or fear certain symptoms happening when we push too hard.
Which, again, is totally valid. And overcoming this is really 50% mental
and 50% physical. Because obviously we do need to keep supporting your body
to slowly improve this fatigue.
But we also need to provide safety for our mind here.
When you feel those fears creeping up.
Let yourself know it's okay, and no matter what happens,
you're going to be there to support yourself.
You have resources now that you didn't have before.
You're on a protocol to support your body's needs.
You're more educated. On tapping into your emotions and your nervous system.
So trust that you have the tools you need to support yourself here.
Even if you do push a bit past your limits,
it's going to be okay. This was a bit of a long-winded answer,
so hopefully this makes sense. This is something that really takes time.
I'm to overcome, and I'm talking, like,
years to fully 100% overcome.
So give yourself grace and know that consistency over the long term is
really what's key here. Alright,
last question for this week. How long does it- usually take for the microbiome
and intestines to fully recover?
This is very unique to the person because everyone's microbiome is
completely different based on their toxin load,
nutrition, genetics and so much more.
So, really, anyone who gives you a concrete answer to this question is not
someone you should trust with your health.
I've worked with clients where it took several years to fully heal their gut,
and others where it took only three months. So,
it's a huge, huge spectrum and- it depends on thousands of different
factors. I will say that three months is usually a good amount of time
to make significant- I will say that
three months is usually the best amount of time to make a significant amount
of progress and decongest the colon pathway enough so there's no longer an
overload of toxins and fermentation happening in the intestines.
The f- first step is to open up that drainage so you're pooping regularly
and eliminating all those blockages.
Then the next step is to clear out the pathogens overgrowing and beyond that,
your mucosal barrier really begins to repair itself.
Hopefully that makes sense. Okay, that was all of your topics for today.
I hope this was helpful and that you learned something valuable in this episode.
Stay warm. I'm sending you all the healing energy and let me know in
the group chat if you had any questions, pop up while you listened to,
Alright, talk to you soon.
Bye-bye.
