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Katie: Hi and welcome to the Wellness Mama Podcast. I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com. And this episode is going into what I feel is an important subject that isn’t nicely understood. And we’re speaking in regards to the iron curse and all of the myths and misconceptions associated with iron, iron deficiency, and iron overload. And prefer I mentioned, this isn’t nicely researched, examined, or understood, particularly out of doors of being pregnant. And as lately’s visitor explains, even inside of being pregnant, this isn’t nicely addressed. And she or he offers numerous granular data on the way to perceive your personal iron standing and the way to deal with it, even from domestic and despite the fact that you don’t have a supportive physician.
And Dr. Christy Sutton is founded in Dallas, Texas. And she or he’s fascinated with asking why well being issues happen, discovering the basis reasons, after which discovering the most secure and most efficient answers to not unusual issues. And that is the root of her writing, her educating, and her medical follow. She has numerous non-public enjoy as nicely, together with her personal well being struggles with Crohn’s and Celiac and her husband’s well being issues of hereditary hemochromatosis and pituitary tumor triggered Cushing’s illness, which has led her down the opposite well being trail, to seek out techniques to steer clear of environmental and genetic landmines, which is numerous what we dive into lately and particular to iron and what we want to find out about that for our kids, for ourselves at quite a lot of stages of lifestyles, together with pre -pregnancy, being pregnant, menopause, put up -menopause, for males and all the nuance that is going into that, together with mitigating elements. And we even stroll thru the way to get each lab checking out and genetic checking out from domestic that permit you to resolve your personal standing as a result of sadly numerous this stuff don’t seem to be but not unusual clinical follow or care, however will have an incredible affect on lengthy -term well being results.
So very informative episode solutions numerous very particular questions. And despite the fact that you aren’t conscious about having any of those particular problems, it’s value a pay attention as a result of she explains how this stuff are much more not unusual than we expect they’re. Additionally more uncomplicated to deal with if we perceive the place they’re coming from, however some of these easy and affordable exams could make an enormous distinction to long-term well being results. So with out additional ado, let’s be informed from Dr. Christy Sutton. Dr. Christy, welcome. Thank you such a lot for being right here.
Christy: Thanks for having me.
Katie: I’m in point of fact excited to delve into the whole lot about iron and particularly one of the vital myths and misconceptions. I do know this can be a subject that isn’t nicely understood but and you might be a professional on this. So I’m in point of fact excited to move deep. Earlier than we leap into that although, I’ve a observe out of your bio that you’re a football mother and now not even simply within the customary sense that folks use that phrase in that you just in fact play football too. And I would really like to listen to if that’s been a lifelong factor or one thing you’ve gotten again into as a result of I do know the statistic is circulating {that a} mom’s health stage has an immediate affect at the well being of her kids. And I’ve not too long ago turn into in the similar means a monitor mother that each coaches monitor and does monitor as an grownup. So I would really like to listen to what your adventure used to be like.
Christy: Yeah, yeah. So I didn’t develop up taking part in football till in highschool. And the cause of this is football wasn’t presented as an technique to me as a kid. My technology, football wasn’t as giant of a deal. And for me, it used to be like, if it’s now not presented in class, it’s most likely now not going to occur as a result of my oldsters simply couldn’t pressure us round. So I began football in highschool when it used to be presented. I beloved it. I assumed it used to be the funnest game. I had taken me goodbye to get so far. After which didn’t play in school as a result of I wasn’t that groovy as a result of I began in highschool. After which as my daughter were given again into football, I had some sufferers who had been taking part in , what I name outdated girl football, which we’re in an over 30 league, however maximum people realistically are far more than 40, over 30, like 40s. I don’t assume anyone in fact is underneath 40. So, however it’s been a laugh. It’s been nice.
I feel it’s a great way to set an instance to my kid that, hiya, my health is necessary too. It’s now not simply all about, , you and riding you round and what you do. You as a dad or mum when you find yourself a dad or mum one day, you wish to have to workout too. So, plus it’s a pleasant wreck.
Katie: Yeah, I feel that’s so necessary although, now not simply telling them however modeling so that they have got permission once they’re oldsters to do those self same issues. And that’s superior. I really like that you’ve that and that your youngsters get to peer that.
The subject I’m in point of fact excited to be informed from you on lately although is the subject of iron as a result of I believe like this one is, like I mentioned, there’s numerous misconceptions. It kind of feels like particularly for ladies, as many ladies get informed that they’re anemic or have too low of iron and are placed on iron dietary supplements, particularly round the ones being pregnant stages of lifestyles. And I do know that there’s much more nuance than simply, you wish to have iron otherwise you don’t. And there’s so much that is going into this. And also you actually wrote the guide in this, at the iron curse. So I would really like to only more or less get started large and determine some background on why you wrote the guide and what led in your examine in that space.
Christy: Yeah, so I were given in point of fact on this subject. About 5 years in the past, I wrote my first guide, which is set genes. And I realized so much from that guide, from writing that guide, as it presented me to numerous necessary genes after which what they may be able to do to at least one’s well being and what you’ll be able to do about it. And whilst writing that guide, I found out that my husband had a hemochromatosis gene, which is a gene that makes you soak up extra iron and will build up your possibility for prime iron. And I had already identified from my husband’s labs that he would carry domestic from his number one care appointment that he had problems with prime iron that weren’t being addressed. And so I might inform him, you wish to have to donate blood. They had been inflicting him to have prime liver enzymes.
Lengthy tale quick, we mainly went in the course of the procedure of having him formally recognized with hemochromatosis, which is prime iron. And I realized so much thru that procedure. I realized how exhausting it’s for folks to get accurately recognized. And I realized how with the laypersons up towards, and I in point of fact more or less were given to peer all the idiosyncrasies inside the clinical machine and its legitimate prognosis.
My husband’s liver enzymes did come down from getting the iron decrease, however what didn’t come down used to be a few of his rigidity hormones, which we idea had been prime as a result of his prime iron being aggravating. After which we discovered that he had a pituitary tumor that used to be inflicting him to have prime cortisol. Seems the pituitary gland will get extremely broken via prime ranges of iron. So there’s sure portions of the frame which are… Very prime possibility for prime iron. Considered one of them is the liver. The iron loves to deposit within the liver and purpose prime liver enzymes, liver most cancers, stuff like that.
It additionally loves to deposit within the pituitary gland and purpose hormonal issues. It’s going to purpose numerous infertility in women and men. , thyroid problems, fatigue, these kind of issues, it’ll deposit within the pancreas and purpose diabetes. , it in point of fact likes to visit the center and particular spaces. So anyhow, from going thru all of that, I realized so much in regards to the prime iron piece. After which I in point of fact began having a look very carefully on the genes. And I’ve at all times seemed carefully at iron duration as a result of I in my opinion have struggled with iron fish anemia as a result of I’ve Crohn’s, celiac illness, menstruating feminine. I actually have a gene that makes me much more likely to have low iron. Which I mentioned within the guide.
And so, , I see numerous iron problems and I see numerous mismanagement, whether or not it’s prime or low, they usually’re each in point of fact dangerous. They usually each have severe implications, a lot more severe than the general public notice. And so my function used to be to in point of fact more or less lay out, the guide is in large part about hemochromatosis, prime iron, however I even have this massive segment dedicated to anemias and iron poor anemia and the way, now not simply what vary you in point of fact want to be having a look at and all of the other reasons, as a result of there’s such a lot of other reasons, but additionally how necessary it’s to be sure you have wholesome iron ranges, particularly. Like in kids and pregnant girls, as a result of there’s a ton of pregnant girls that turn into low on iron and that may set their youngsters up for numerous neurological issues, low IQ, autism, ADHD, highbrow incapacity, later of their lifestyles.
After which there’s a ton of youngsters that experience iron poor anemia as a result of youngsters don’t seem to be being watched carefully both. And the ones youngsters are much more likely to be recognized with ADD. And there’s numerous youngsters that in the event that they had been simply handled for iron poor anemia correctly. , they might theoretically perhaps now not even want a few of these medicine that build up their dopamine and epinephrine as a result of they might have sufficient iron to make dopamine and epinephrine naturally. In order that’s more or less the gist of it.
Katie: Were given it. So each extremes are patently now not very best. I believe like we do pay attention much more about low iron, even if that’s such as you’ve defined, now not nonetheless tremendous not unusual and now not tracked in kids. It kind of feels like most commonly tracked, most likely essentially in pregnant girls, or no less than that’s the one time I used to be examined for iron ranges in any respect that I do know of. Which one is in fact extra not unusual and which one is doubtlessly extra unhealthy, or are they each more or less similarly unhealthy on the extremes?
Christy: Yeah, so there’s so much to untangle there. Such a lot of issues to untangle there. They’re each quite common they usually’re each now not recognized in addition to they will have to be. I might say iron poor anemia, it additionally will depend on what degree one’s lifestyles is in or what intercourse you might be. So like, women folk are going to be much more likely to have low iron as a result of menstruation, being pregnant. And you employ an enormous quantity of iron right through being pregnant. After which, however girls, as they get postmenopausal, they’re much more likely to turn into prime in iron, particularly if they have got that hemochromatosis gene. And so you’ll be able to move from one excessive to the opposite.
Youngsters, normally youngsters have a tendency to be extra low in iron as a result of choosy eaters or they consume numerous calcium, calcium binds to iron, it’s gonna make it more difficult to take in iron. Alternatively, youngsters do have the hemochromatosis gene they usually do expand hemochromatosis. My colleague’s daughter, we recognized her on the age of 5 with hemochromatosis, like we recognized her. After which she took her five-year-old daughter to the pediatrician the place they showed the prognosis. It used to be inflicting critical neurological issues. Her five-year-old had to return to dressed in diapers. She couldn’t stroll down the street. In order that they then referred her showed pediatric hemochromatosis daughter to the pediatric hematologist who utterly refused to regard her. And my colleague used to be pressured to regard her herself the use of particular dietary supplements that decrease iron, however it’s nonetheless been an excessively tough scenario.
So, , I do know I’m more or less getting off subject right here, however something I did wish to say about what your query used to be about. You discussed how while you had been pregnant, they checked your iron. Smartly, the general public, they’re now not getting their iron checked early sufficient in being pregnant.
You will have most likely heard that you probably have low folic acid once you’re pregnant, then… You’re much more likely to have a kid that’s going to have, cleft palate and prefer a few of these neurological issues. And that’s why girls are informed to take now not folic acid however methylfolate ahead of they get pregnant since the day you’re conceived your mom must have quite a lot of that diet so your anxious machine can expand correctly.
Smartly, the similar is mainly true for iron. You want, as a fetus creating, quite a lot of iron, as a result of, because of this that your mom must have quite a lot of iron, great, wholesome iron shops, as a result of iron carries oxygen. And should you don’t have sufficient iron, you’re now not gonna be getting sufficient oxygen in your tissues, together with your mind. After which should you’re now not getting sufficient oxygen in your mind, you then’re now not going so as to have neurological building. There’s simply now not sufficient power to do it.
And so sadly, maximum pregnant girls, they don’t even move in to peer the physician till just like the latter finish of the primary trimester. And at that time limit, , you should had been anemic main up into being pregnant and right through that first trimester. In order that’s a subject matter. The opposite difficulty is that OB-GYNs, clinical docs, simply mainly everyone, they use a spread that permits the iron to get a lot too low ahead of they flag it as too low. And so then you find yourself with a subject matter the place now you’re telling a pregnant lady that they’re low in iron and they’re now low in iron right through a time when it’s going to be in point of fact exhausting to dig themselves out of that hollow as a result of pregnant girls undergo a ton of iron.
Each pregnant affected person I’ve ever had needed to get on iron. Even the individuals who had those genes that lead them to, quote, , prime in iron and soak up extra iron, they nonetheless turn into low in iron. And so, , this is among the problems.
The opposite difficulty is that docs generally don’t seem to be ordering complete sufficient labs for iron, which they’re now not in point of fact sophisticated. It’s mainly what I name a complete iron panel, which is solely your ferritin, which is your saved iron. Your serum iron, iron saturation, TIBC and UIBC. You in point of fact want all of that, like with a CDC, to have a look at the purple blood cells, hemoglobin, hematocrit. However maximum docs, they’re now not ordering that complete panel. They’re perhaps simply ordering the serum iron, or should you’re fortunate, they may also upload the ferritin, however they’re now not including all of the ones. And that’s inexcusable to me as a result of The ones labs don’t seem to be pricey or sophisticated.
Katie: That’s attention-grabbing. And it sounds slightly bit like kind of the enjoy I had with thyroid problems up to now, in that they might simplest take a look at one or two with probably the most thyroid markers, and they’d be in, quote, customary vary, till I in fact labored with a type of purposeful medication physician who in fact understood the levels higher and examined antibodies and a lot of different issues as nicely. And in addition mentioned, very similar to what you’re announcing, you don’t wish to be at the low finish of lab levels ahead of you get started addressing an issue, as a result of lab levels are fairly outlined via people who find themselves already having issues or who move in to get examined as a result of they believe they have got issues. In order that’s in point of fact attention-grabbing to me.
What would very best levels seem like? So if a lady used to be taking into account getting pregnant, what would love the optimum development of when would she wish to get examined? What would she be searching for in the ones levels? And I do know that there are folks such as you who can assist folks in fact get extra granular with this than maximum docs would possibly. So it appears like perhaps a supplemental plan with a couple of practitioners may well be very best, particularly in that segment of lifestyles. However what does very best seem like?
Christy: Sure, so I feel that’s a in point of fact excellent level you made in regards to the thyroid. I feel there’s such a lot of analogies between the thyroid and iron and the way it’s being more or less mismanaged. And I such as you, I’ve hypothyroidism. And if my TSH isn’t in an excessively slim vary, hair loss is an issue. So I utterly get that. And I feel it’s a in point of fact excellent analogy as a result of that’s in large part what’s happening with iron. So the solution in your query, which is a great query, what vary is, is, . And it does rely.
So I love the way you requested particularly for a lady that’s seeking to get pregnant. A girl that’s seeking to get pregnant, I might now not wish to see that ferritin any less than 60. Preferably, now not less than 60, preferably now not upper than 100. If it’s less than 60, then the iron reserves are going to expend in no time. And that’s the place you’re much more likely to get into a deadly low stage ahead of you in point of fact begin to get a take care of on it as a result of being pregnant depletes iron so briefly. So between 60 and 100.
No longer upper than 100 as a result of mainly the examine has proven that you probably have a ferritin upper than 100, you then’re both infected or you have got an excessive amount of iron developing irritation. However maximum levels do permit, all levels just about permit iron to move, ferritin to move over 100. The decrease finish for ladies is 125, even if the examine displays it shouldn’t be any upper than 100.
After which the similar factor for iron saturation. So iron saturation is any other lab that, , I wouldn’t wish to see that underneath mainly 30%. A girl seeking to get pregnant. However, the lab levels permit it to move a lot less than that, down into the teenagers. After which they permit it to move disturbingly prime. So the lab vary for iron saturation cuts off at 55. However, the true prognosis for hemochromatosis too prime of iron begins, has a cutoff of 45%. In order that’s a in point of fact attention-grabbing level as a result of, like that’s now not even me getting like nitpicky a couple of purposeful vary. That’s simply the lab vary permitting issues to move upper than in point of fact they will have to permit it. And why this is, I don’t know, since the hematologist will diagnose haemochromatosis with an iron saturation over 45 blended with a prime ferritin.
So I do know that, , I simply went off on a tangent about prime iron and also you requested about low iron. However I feel it’s simply a fascinating level about this entire lab vary idea that in point of fact we want to revisit. As a result of such as you mentioned, who’s getting lab paintings? Folks which are in poor health. If you were given 1000 people who had been wholesome, their lab levels would have a special U-curve, bell curve, than 1000 folks which are bad. And the general public which are getting labs are bad folks. And they’re having a look at these kind of labs they usually’re announcing, nicely, that is the median, that is the typical. And it’s like the typical for ill folks. I don’t wish to be a median ill individual.
Katie: Yeah. And even simply, I don’t wish to be within the customary vary. I wish to be optimum. And we haven’t, it doesn’t appear to be in maximum spaces, completed the examine to grasp what optimum is. We simply know more or less such as you mentioned, the typical is the standard, which isn’t what maximum people are aiming for to start with. And I love that you just introduced up the dignity of pregnant girls are their very own class that might want to be checked out another way. So it sounds just like the levels that might be very best for a lady who’s pregnant or seeking to turn into pregnant don’t seem to be the levels that somebody in any other segment of lifestyles would wish to intention for.
So what does that seem like as a distinction for like kids, for males, or I do know that I’ve learn so much that ladies within the put up menopausal segment generally tend to transport extra in opposition to like lab levels of guys, or no less than in terms of iron, and that perhaps this is usually a conceivable correlation to why girls’s possibility of, for example, center illness is going up after menopause. I do know there are lots of elements there, however what would a spread seem like for somebody who’s now not within the being pregnant or pre-pregnancy vary seem like?
Christy: Yeah. So, . Youngsters are more or less their very own class. They more or less have. Completely other lab levels that. For, ferritin are a lot decrease. And for the ones, I feel, you more or less roughly. I feel they let the ferritin for children move means too low, like within the teenagers. I in my opinion wouldn’t wish to see my kid have a ferritin underneath 30 at any time limit, however they may be able to’t stand up above 75 in point of fact. You don’t essentially need them to move as much as 100.
For adults, they generally tend to expand upper ranges of iron and ferritin generally as a result of that they’re now not menstruating, now not having youngsters. Ladies mainly at the moment are like males and that they aren’t menstruating or having youngsters, so their iron ranges are going to be extra impartial, upper. So, , we mentioned that.
However so far as the primary unique issue for a special vary for various folks is should you have a look at that is the place it’s necessary to have a look at genes, like everyone wishes to grasp if they have got a hemochromatosis gene. In case you have a hemochromatosis gene or two that’s expanding your possibility for prime iron, then it’s possible you’ll want to permit for a decrease ferritin, a decrease iron saturation. Simply to come up with some extra wiggle room in order that you’re much less more likely to move prime. And that is like the other tale to a pregnant lady, the place a pregnant lady must, , make sure that they have got great tough iron shops as a result of they’re about to get depleted with being pregnant. A postmenopausal feminine, a male, any person with a hemochromatosis gene, they want to permit for his or her iron ranges to perhaps get slightly bit decrease to offer them some wiggle room for it to move upper.
Nevertheless it’s an advanced subject as a result of there’s such a lot of various factors. Like, , you should have a GI bleed that might make you low in iron. And sure, you’re a postmenopausal feminine, however you’re nonetheless low in iron since you’re bleeding someplace. Or, , perhaps you’re vegan or a vegetarian and also you’re simply now not getting sufficient. It’s more difficult to take in iron should you’re a vegan or a vegetarian since the iron in crops is a much less absorbable type of iron known as non-heme iron, while the iron that’s in animal merchandise is a part of that could be a very absorbable form of iron known as heme iron that you just simplest in finding in animal merchandise, so.
So, I’m going to move forward and display you ways to try this. Vegan and vegetarians, despite the fact that they consume numerous spinach and iron-rich meals, the ones don’t seem to be absorbable assets of iron. And so, , you must have a look at the entire image. Or as an example, if any person’s taking a proton pump inhibitor, they’re going to be much more likely not to have the ability to soak up iron. In the event that they’re in point of fact stressed they usually’re now not making sufficient hydrochloric acid, they’re now not going so as to soak up iron. If they have got celiac illness, undiagnosed celiac illness, or Crohn’s, or gastric bypass, those individuals are going to have a difficult time soaking up iron. After which it’s possible you’ll wish to permit for them to move slightly bit upper simply to offer them some wiggle room, however it’s going to be exhausting to get them up there.
Katie: That is smart. And also you’ve discussed the genetic aspect. Is that this one thing folks can in finding out from an at-home genetic take a look at like a 23andMe or a Vitamin Genome? And if that is so, what are the genes that they’re searching for? And I might wager there’s a distinction between in the event that they’re heterozygous and homozygous, however what will have to somebody pay attention to once they’re having a look on the genes associated with this?
Christy: Yeah, so I’m maximum conversant in the 23andMe genetic take a look at. And that take a look at, some folks, they don’t adore it. And I don’t assume any take a look at is very best. Nevertheless it has been round for some time. It’s now not going any place. And it’s beautiful examined. So I’ve some problems with them. I don’t in point of fact care what corporate folks use. However. You don’t know, I don’t know all the other genes that each corporate gives, as a result of I simply can’t stay alongside of all of that. I’m very conversant in what 23andMe gives. And so 23andMe does collection the genes for haemochromatosis. And I do know that evidently, at the side of many different genes.
Alternatively, they come up with genetic studies that say, should you’ve noticed a well being document from 23andMe, it’ll say one thing like, variant detected for haemochromatosis gene. Mainly, then they reduce the chance and say, not likely to expand hemochromatosis. That’s very deceptive. And so I see this steadily the place folks, they don’t actually perceive the importance of the well being data that 23andMe is giving them since the interpretation that 23andMe is giving may be very incorrect.
So anyone that has one unmarried hemochromatosis gene must have their iron checked very carefully. Everyone must have their iron checked very carefully. Those don’t seem to be sophisticated labs. It’s only a subject, they’re now not part of maximum docs with their ordering. In order that’s a part of it.
Every other a part of it’s 23andMe simplest appears at two hemochromatosis genes. There’s in fact 3 hemochromatosis genes, so. After which there’s any other gene that may in fact purpose low iron. And so, I’ve what I’ve created is I’ve this genetic detoxing document the place you’ll be able to move to 23andMe and you’ll be able to obtain their uncooked information after which you’ll be able to add it to the geneticdetoxification.com after which that gives you that 3rd haemochromatosis gene after which it’ll additionally come up with that gene that reasons low iron after which a number of different ones too.
However I at all times love to have each just like the well being studies from the direct to shopper corporate after which that. Further studies. However the information is simplest as treasured as your interpretation of it. And that’s why it’s in point of fact necessary to seek out people who permit you to interpret it and in point of fact weed in the course of the idiosyncrasies.
Katie: That is smart. And so that is like, I’m discovering each space of well being may be very individualized and personalised, however I believe like we are living in fact in an awesome time for with the ability to have kind of extra energy over this ourselves, taking into account no less than in my space, such things as the ones labs that you just’re citing are simple to get even and not using a physician. You’ll move into like someplace like a professional well being and get them. And genetic data is now a lot more extensively to be had. I imply, unquestionably it wasn’t when I used to be more youthful. I bear in mind once they first sequenced the human genome. I keep in mind that day. So we’ve get entry to to all this information. So I really like that there are sources such as you that assist folks in fact perceive and start to interpret what to in fact functionally do with that data to are living a healthier lifestyles.
What about for somebody in the event that they in finding out that they perhaps have the genes that might result in upper iron and or they do the checking out and uncover that their iron ranges are too prime. Like I might wager within the, in case your iron is simply too low, it’s, there’s a sexy simple trail of dining and taking issues to extend your iron. In case your iron’s already too prime, what may also be completed about that? I love, I do know for example, at one level mine used to be prime and I gave blood and that perceived to assist. However what are the issues that we will do if our iron ranges are too prime?
Christy: Yeah, that’s a excellent query. You could have the haemochromatosis gene is what I’m pondering. Do you? You don’t have to inform me.
Katie: If truth be told curious to test. I used to be going to check out to determine, however I didn’t wish to take it clear of the podcast.
Christy: Yeah, take a look at and in finding out as a result of a feminine that develops prime iron and childbearing years, very uncommon except they have got that haemochromatosis gene. After which, , if one does have a haemochromatosis gene, they want to be sure that they get their youngsters checked for the genes as a result of youngsters can expand prime iron too. So, however your query used to be, I’m sorry, what used to be the query once more?
Katie: Like if somebody discovers they have got too prime of iron ranges, what can they do about it at that time? As a result of I might wager like should you in finding out you’re anemic, take iron, take liver. What are you doing if it’s already too prime?
Christy: So should you in finding out your iron ranges are too prime, then, technically, , your next step could be move in your number one care physician, hematologist. They’ll refer you to a hematologist as a result of should you do have prime ranges of iron, then after which you have got hemochromatosis, a hemochromatosis gene this is going to purpose you to be chronically prime in iron doubtlessly for the remainder of your lifestyles. This isn’t like a one-off, simply repair it with the blood donation. This is sort of a severe well being difficulty that if controlled accurately is a non-issue, but when now not controlled accurately can ruin your liver, your center, your mind, your gonads, your pituitary gland, your pancreas. Find it irresistible’s now not a comic story so far as what it does. It’s very pernicious in what number of problems it may create.
My difficulty with announcing, nicely, your next step is move to the main care physician, the hematologist. This is your next step. My difficulty is that I’ve over and over again. Recognized folks with hemochromatosis, hereditary hemochromatosis, recognized folks with having the gene, their irons mountaineering, dangerous issues are going down. They then move to their number one care physician they usually get utterly given dangerous data. And the main care physician will say, this isn’t a subject matter. I’ve even had a affected person move to a hematologist after decreasing the iron. And the P-hematologist used to be like, , why are you right here?
And so I feel a part of the problem is that numerous clinical docs have, want to be informed slightly bit extra about this subject and now not simply clinical docs, simply the general public and folks generally. In order that’s the most important difficulty is we want to be informed extra about this in order that we will get started giving higher data and diagnosing the ones folks since the remedies are really easy.
The remedies are taking out blood. That’s a good way to decrease iron. However some time limit, you’ll be able to simplest take away such a lot blood ahead of you turn into low in purple blood cells, low in hemoglobin, after which you must wait till you’ll be able to take away extra blood.
And so there are different issues that I’ve laid out, which I name the iron curse protocols, that along with weight loss plan, now not overly eating iron, particular issues you’ll be able to do diet-wise to lower iron and reduce iron-induced injury. There are some particular dietary dietary supplements that we’ve noticed are very efficient at decreasing iron, they usually can even save you iron-induced injury.
So, like as an example, a few of the ones issues are curcumin, which is an extract from turmeric, that can bind iron and decrease iron. It’s additionally a in point of fact excellent anti inflammatory antioxidant, nice for the liver, mind, center, et cetera.
Quercetin is any other excellent one. Quercetin can build up a chemical known as hepsodin, which if you have upper ranges of hepcidin, that can lower iron absorption. And folks that experience the hemochromatosis gene the place they soak up an excessive amount of iron, their downside is they don’t have sufficient hepsodin. Their liver doesn’t make as a lot hepsodin, simply genetically they don’t make as a lot. And so doing such things as taking quercetin can assist to extend that hepcidin naturally in order that they soak up much less iron.
There’s different such things as berberine. So berberine, everyone’s speaking about berberine as a result of perhaps it is helping with weight reduction and there’s a little research that it will. It additionally examine displays can decrease blood sugar, which is numerous folks have blood sugar problems additionally, prime iron in folks. However it may in fact additionally lower iron absorption as nicely.
Silymarin, silymarin just like the extract from milk thistle, that’s glorious for the liver, which may be nice for folks with prime iron as a result of they generally tend to have liver problems, 200 instances greater possibility for liver most cancers. However the silymarin additionally binds to iron, lowers iron. So, , that’s simply a part of, , I am going thru many different issues so far as choices. And in the long run, there’s execs and cons to all of this stuff. And you have got to more or less determine and create a personalised well being plan in keeping with what does that individual want. However there’s the, I similar to to offer numerous choices and train folks about them so they may be able to say, ok, this assessments numerous packing containers for me. So I’m going to check out that, that form of factor.
Katie: Smartly, and I really like that about your way as a result of I say steadily in this podcast that on the finish of the day, we’re every our personal number one healthcare supplier. And that whilst it’s extremely really helpful to paintings with practitioners who’ve particular wisdom and will assist us in a specific factor that we’re operating on, on the finish of the day, the accountability lies with us. And I feel we’re seeing this in point of fact cool more or less virtually grassroots motion of people who find themselves doing the paintings to get skilled and perceive the issues that no physician can utterly perceive on the stage you’ll be able to about your personal frame, your signs, your genes, your personal reactions to objects and who’re prepared to take accountability for their very own well being and for his or her kids’s well being. After which now we have practitioners such as you who’ve this very particular wisdom that may assist folks even additional advance on that trail. So I’m very excited for the place we’re presently and position so as to get entry to that information and to have that wisdom and so as to make knowledgeable possible choices in keeping with it.
I’m curious if for individuals who have perhaps by no means completed the checking out, it appears like that’s a excellent baseline advice generally for us to all get examined, to grasp our genes. I feel that’s massively really helpful. Are there any stipulations, possibility elements or signs that make folks roughly more likely to have both prime or low iron to concentrate on that might make it particularly necessary to get that checking out completed in point of fact briefly?
Christy: Smartly, like you probably have a circle of relatives member that has had prime iron, you then without a doubt, I in my opinion assume everyone simply must get those genes exams. There’s a handful of genes, the haemochromatosis gene, the Alzheimer’s gene, the celiac genes, , a handful of different ones that I in my opinion simply assume everyone will have to do. And the cause of this is as a result of if about them early, then there are steps you’ll be able to take to forestall those severe, doubtlessly life-threatening, changing sicknesses.
And so, yeah, I simply assume everyone will have to do only for that data. For instance, the haemochromatosis genes like, you probably have a circle of relatives historical past the place folks know they have got hemochromatosis, clearly get examined. That’s now not the present clinical guiding principle. Like when my husband were given recognized with hemochromatosis, hereditary hemochromatosis. To start with, they mentioned, , you shouldn’t also have hemochromatosis in keeping with your genes since you simplest have the only gene, which there’s this fable that should you simplest have one gene you’re now not going to get hemochromatosis, however that’s a complete fable.
However secondly, additionally they didn’t say, hiya, and , you will have to get your child checked to be sure that she doesn’t have an issue. So she does have the gene and at one time limit her ferritin saved iron did pop up and it’s fantastic now. However the one reason why that we all know she has the gene is as a result of I ran it on her, were given her 23andMe, and the one reason why that we knew her ferritin used to be as a result of I used to be checking it or telling the pediatrician to test it. I informed the pediatrician she has the gene. That didn’t imply that they mentioned, oh, we want to take a look at those labs. I nonetheless have to inform them to test the labs. Like, , the connections don’t seem to be there but. Optimistically they’ll be one day. In order that’s an instance about haemochromatosis.
The issue is the general public don’t know that they have got haemochromatosis. And they, , you simply don’t know. Now. You don’t know you have got haemochromatosis, you’re now not going so as to inform your members of the family they usually’re now not going to grasp.
So far as low iron is going, , it more or less, one among my greatest puppy peeves is solely seeing such a lot of people who, particularly kids, that know, they may be able to’t focal point. They’re now not doing nicely at school. They’re on stimulants to assist them focal point. And the docs are placing them on those medicine ahead of simply working thru our labs. And numerous instances those youngsters, they have got low iron, low diet D. , every now and then they also have low thyroid. Like I’ve by no means noticed a pediatric kid have very best labs. However I’m additionally ordering what I believe to be beautiful regimen, however via trendy clinical requirements, thorough labs. And so I simply, there’s, each child has problems roughly. They simply, they do, they’re people they usually’re rising up in an international that’s, , nutrient devoid and sedentary and stuffed with issues. So, , everyone wishes to grasp if they have got the hemochromatosis gene, everyone must get the labs as a result of despite the fact that they don’t have hemochromatosis, they might have low iron and both means it’s dangerous.
Everyone wishes to grasp if they have got the Alzheimer’s gene, even youngsters, right here’s why. Youngsters that experience the Alzheimer’s gene want to now not be installed prime possibility concussion sports activities. And the cause of this is as a result of you probably have one or two Alzheimer’s genes, you might be much less most likely so as to heal up from a concussion. And you probably have a concussion, you might be much less most likely so as to heal up from a concussion. When you’re nonetheless therapeutic up from any other concussion, it makes that 2d concussion a lot worse. After which you probably have any other concussion ahead of you’re feeling healed up from that 2d concussion, it’s possible you’ll by no means heal up from that 3rd concussion. Like your mind simply has a difficult time. So we all know that now not simply youngsters, however anyone with those Alzheimer genes is much less most likely so as to heal up from concussions. And concussions build up the chance for Alzheimer’s illness. So youngsters want to know, youngsters don’t want to know they have got the Alzheimer’s gene. Folks want to know if their youngsters have this gene, as a result of this is the most important piece of knowledge while you’re deciding what sports activities to place your youngsters in.
If my daughter had Alzheimer’s gene, I wouldn’t put her in football. I really like the game, I wouldn’t. Primary possibility for concussions for women folk. She’d be doing golfing or tennis or no matter. She wouldn’t know any other as a result of I might have by no means put her in football.
We want to know in regards to the celiac genes. There’s such a lot of folks with undiagnosed celiac illness. I’m more or less going off subject right here about iron. Those are necessary genes and celiac illness reasons low iron at all times. , oftentimes folks can’t get their iron ranges up they usually’re doing all these items, they’re even getting iron infusions that experience numerous uncomfortable side effects, numerous oxidative rigidity sort problems and they may be able to’t get their iron ranges up as a result of they have got undiagnosed celiac illness. So once we didn’t know this in youngsters, youngsters that experience celiac illness, they may don’t have any digestive problems, they may have some digestive problems. They may simply get sort 1 diabetes as a result of that gene could cause sort 1 diabetes too. I see it at all times.
And it’s simply a type of issues that if we all know now we have the genes and we will in point of fact display screen those youngsters carefully, now not simply youngsters however adults, you’ll be able to alternate any person’s well being so a lot more should you do one thing once they’re a kid as opposed to once they’re older. It’s by no means too overdue. Nevertheless it’s more or less like beginning a financial savings account once they’re born as opposed to once they’re like 70. To find out any person has Alzheimer’s gene, hemochromatosis gene, celiac gene once they’re 70. You’ll nonetheless make some excellent adjustments. To find it out once they’re like a child and you should doubtlessly alternate the trajectory in their lifestyles in ways in which you should now not fathom.
Katie: Yeah, nicely, and particularly with this, like I mentioned, being so extensively to be had, it’s one thing I’ve completed with all of my youngsters once they had been younger. And so now I’m curious to return and have a look at these kind of issues for them as nicely.
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I’m curious if there are any like cautionary kind of highest and worst meals, practices, way of life elements, and so forth, in terms of both prime or low iron. Since you discussed iron infusions, as an example, will have uncomfortable side effects. I do know I’ve additionally no less than heard anecdotally that sure iron dietary supplements may also be worse than others or that there are some which are extra absorbable and doubtlessly much less problematic. Are there any tips for that?
Christy: Yeah, so nicely, so far as iron dietary supplements move, to begin with, I feel if any person’s suffering with a low iron scenario they usually’re now not dining animal protein, particularly like red meat, then they’re more or less combating a emerging tide. I in my opinion assume weight loss plan must be our first defensive position. And in case your frame is horribly malnourished and also you’re now not getting sufficient iron and also you’re now not dining any meat, then I might recommend in point of fact take into consideration that in relation to is that the most efficient choice to your well being.
So far as dietary dietary supplements move, iron, it’s so attention-grabbing. If you happen to move to the well being meals, now not the well being meals retailer, however the drug retailer like Walgreens or no matter, each iron complement they have got is ferrous sulfate, ferrous sulfate. If a physician prescribes you iron 9 instances out of 10, they’re going to come up with ferrous sulfate. Ferrous sulfate isn’t very absorbable and it’s much more likely to purpose problems like constipation and abdomen ache. To not say that different irons can’t. That is one reason why you wish to have to at all times take iron with meals. However one reason why ferrous sulfate reasons such a lot constipation is as it’s now not being absorbed and it’s getting sure up within the digestive machine and it’s developing constipation. So it’s now not being absorbed, it’s developing constipation. Folks don’t wish to take it as a result of they don’t really feel excellent and it’s now not operating. However this is the most typical complement really helpful for some reason why. I’m now not positive why.
I generally tend to love extra ferrous peptonate, which is a lot more absorbable, animal-based iron dietary supplements as a result of once more, the animal-based iron is extra absorbable. You’ll do different little such things as take diet C with the iron to assist soak up it extra. Even diet D has been proven to assist iron absorption. So a few of these different little issues. Some folks assume cooking in a cast-iron pan will build up iron ranges. It’s minimum as a result of the kind of iron this is within the cast-iron pan isn’t the absorbable form of iron. I haven’t discovered it to be an enormous difficulty so far as making iron ranges upper generally. However I guess if any person has in point of fact prime iron, cooking the whole lot in a cast-iron pan isn’t the most efficient concept. I simply don’t assume it’s that gigantic of a deal. And my fear is that, , numerous folks, in the event that they’re now not gonna use cast-iron and what are they gonna use? Please don’t use Teflon or like, , numerous the non-stick stuff.
So so far as the iron infusions move, Iron infusions do purpose numerous oxidative rigidity. Oftentimes, and they’ll build up iron, however they… They bypass the frame’s necessary iron regulating mechanisms as a result of usually, , the way in which we’re designed is to devour iron thru our mouth after which it is going into our abdomen and our intestines the place it will get absorbed. And the frame is aware of that iron may also be very hazardous to, , create numerous oxidative rigidity and irritation and be very reactive. Frame is aware of that, however it additionally is aware of we’d like iron. So, , we’ve more or less like created a work like we’d like you, however we’re additionally going to give protection to ourselves from you. And it may simplest do this should you soak up the iron in the course of the digestive tract, as a result of each time you soak up iron in the course of the digestive tract, it takes that iron and it binds it to a chaperone protein known as transferrin. And that chaperone protein makes positive that iron doesn’t move out into the blood and simply willy-nilly create iron problems. That chaperone protein binds iron and says, I’m going to take you to the place you’re wanted. You don’t simply get to move anyplace you wish to have to move.
That mechanism simplest occurs should you devour iron thru your weight loss plan. If you happen to bypass your digestive machine and also you get an iron infusion. It’s going to build up your iron ranges. However you’re now not gonna have the ones mechanisms to forestall the iron from going out and there’s no chaperones at that time limit. The iron can simply move create problems. So it creates numerous problems. If you happen to do want iron infusions, then firstly, be sure you have quite a lot of antioxidants, a number of diet C, glutathione, diet E, those are all been proven to assist save you iron triggered injury, duration, together with with an iron infusion.
But in addition be sure you’re attending to the basis of why you’re low in iron. It’s, , that is a very powerful query. Why are you low in iron? Why are you prime in iron? That’s the piece that’s lacking for many. The general public. That’s what I see. K, you have got persistent low iron. Why? Are we able to repair it? If this is the case, how? We want to repair the why. We want to get your iron ranges up. But when we don’t repair the why, that is, the struggle’s by no means gonna finish. It’s gonna simply move on and on. After which that’s the place you get those persistent infusions or chronically having to take iron ceaselessly. Do you have got classes which are means too heavy? That’ll make you low on iron. Are you now not soaking up iron? That’ll make you low on iron. Do you have got a GI bleed? It’s gonna be exhausting to get prime in iron, ?
Or you probably have prime iron, , it’s a disservice to any person to mention, oh, you have got prime iron, simply move donate blood, since you’re now not serving to them attach the dots that I’m now not studying why this is going on. And if I do have a gene that’s inflicting this to occur, then I’m permitting doubtlessly, , long term severe well being issues as a result of no one requested why.
Katie: That’s this sort of excellent level. And I feel this once more displays up in such a lot of spaces of drugs and well being and wellness. And it’s simple, particularly should you’re having acute signs, to wish to deal with the intense downside that you just see. However it sort of feels like over and over again attending to that in fact the basis purpose now not simplest is helping with long term results, however most likely goes to have crossover into different spaces of well being as nicely as a result of not anything is present in a silo or a vacuum and it’s additionally hooked up that it sort of feels like you find yourself with a lot better effects and simply extra energy over your personal machine and working out should you’re in a position to get to the basis purpose.
And it appears like I do know you have got methods particular to that. Like I mentioned, to start with, you have got an entire guide about this. But in addition I do know for your web page, you have got much more particular data as nicely. So are you able to simply discuss in brief in regards to the other choices you have got for individuals who is also nonetheless slightly puzzled or making an attempt to determine their very own standing in a few of these spaces?
Christy: Yeah, evidently. So I’ve my books, which The Iron Curse is popping out quickly. That’s all about iron. After which my first guide, the Genetic Trying out: Defining Your Trail to a Customized Well being Plan. Which fits thru numerous other genes, environmental issues that may impact serving to the ones genes now not create well being issues. There’s so much in that. After which, I’ve some tutorial workshops to in point of fact more or less assist folks put in combination numerous data in a very easy to digest however significant way that’s in point of fact arranged for now not simply the clinician but additionally the layperson.
And so I’ve The Iron Curse guide has a workshop that mirrors the guide and that’s numerous data and it is going thru The Iron Curse guide, however it has some more information simply because it’s a workshop, video workshop reasonably than a guide.
After which I’ve a workshop on intestine well being, which talks about celiac illness and SIBO and leaky intestine and inflammatory bowel illness. After which I workshop on methylation and MTHFR after which I’ve one on mind well being, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, dementia and one arising on age-related macular degeneration. After which I’ll have any other one arising on concussions and center well being.
So, I name it lab genomics mainly the place you’re having a look on the labs and also you’re having a look on the genes as a result of I don’t assume in point of fact both of them are treasured. They’re each treasured, however should you put them in combination, they’re a lot more treasured than by myself. So, lab or genomics is what I name it. And so, have a look at the labs, the genes, medical pearls, medical signs, simply what you’ll be able to do to spot genetic landmines and steer clear of them mainly is how I put it. So, the ones are the massive issues. After which I’ve that genetic detoxing document, which provides slightly bit extra details about genes that don’t seem to be essentially coated in like a 23andMe well being studies. After which, so yeah, that’s more or less the gist of it.
Katie: And I can put hyperlinks to all of the ones for you guys listening within the display notes that wellnessmama.com. You’ll at all times in finding the ones there. For people who find themselves seeking to paintings thru some specifics, do you’re employed one-on-one with folks as nicely? Or I do know that those lessons come up with a ton of knowledge so as to in point of fact pinpoint by yourself, however do you additionally visit folks if they have got extra particular questions?
Christy: Sure, sure. Yeah, it’s exhausting to create a personalised well being plan should you don’t, , paintings with a person individual. The workshops are in point of fact useful since you be informed such a lot. However there’s not anything like having a clinician in point of fact simply focal point on you for allocated period of time. You’ll simply kind, , in point of fact reduce to the chase in no time.
Katie: I’ll put hyperlinks to the place folks can in finding you as nicely. And there’s a couple of questions I really like to invite towards the tip of interviews. The primary being very self-serving, if there’s a guide or collection of books that experience had a profound affect on you, and if that is so, what they’re and why.
Christy: Yeah, evidently. So, Well being and Vitamin Secrets and techniques That Can Save Your Lifestyles via Russell Blaylock is a brilliant guide. He used to be a neurosurgeon and taught neurosurgery at College of Mississippi. He wrote that guide after which he wrote any other guide known as Excitotoxins. It’s in point of fact excellent. He focuses in point of fact, his focal point is on neurotoxins like mercury, lead, insecticides, these kind of chemical substances, aspartame, MSG, these kind of chemical substances which are poisonous to our brains however sadly fairly ubiquitous in our surroundings.
And he talks so much about how necessary it’s to be sure you have a number of antioxidants to give protection to your self from those toxins, which It’s analogous to this entire idea of prime iron. Iron is one thing we’d like, however you probably have an excessive amount of iron, it’s poisonous and it creates all this irritation and depletes your antioxidants, which that creates numerous problems. In order that’s a ravishing guide.
And it’s in particular significant to me lately as a result of closing week my husband had neurosurgery. He had for the second one time the pituitary tumor got rid of. Optimistically we were given all of it out. And when he used to be within the health facility improving, , I seemed on the menu within the health facility and he may consume no matter he sought after. Numerous the menu, it mentioned like sugar-free popsicle, sugar-free jello, they usually didn’t have the components on there, which I feel is an issue for a health facility not to have components at the meals they’re giving folks. However I ensure you the ones sugar-free elements, meals, quote unquote, had aspartame in them.
As a result of anytime you spot sugar-free. Smartly, it’s going to be candy, however they’re going to place aspartame in there in order that it doesn’t have energy and now not sugar. So aspartame is a neurotoxin that destroys your mind. So the, it used to be like horrific to me to assume that sufferers who simply had mind surgical procedure. Can on the health facility be given aspartame? Which goes to only create all this injury. They have already got this in point of fact fragile mind and now we’re gonna simply throw all this aspartame at it. In order that used to be horrific to me. And I assumed so much about Russell Blaylock and the way that most likely simply drove him loopy too. Motive I feel he’s in point of fact attempted to love make a distinction on this global in that regard and has met such a lot opposition that he doesn’t deserve. Like such a lot of folks which are deserving opposition. It’s now not as a result of what they’re announcing isn’t research-based or proper. It’s as it is going towards the clinical norms. However who cares about what the clinical norms are in the event that they’re mistaken?
Like with my guide, , I’m throwing numerous clinical norms on the wayside and announcing, hiya, I don’t care if they are saying you’ll be able to simplest, you aren’t going to get hemorrhagic chromatosis with one gene. I see it at all times. This entire concept that you’ll be able to be a service and feature one gene and now not get it. That’s a fable. , I’m gonna get some slack for it, however I will be able to care for it.
Katie: Yeah, I feel that touches once more on that downside of study now not attending to clinical follow speedy sufficient. I had a an identical enjoy 10 years in the past with a circle of relatives member who had an appendix rupture, used to be within the health facility, had C. Diff and flesh-eating micro organism, they usually made up our minds his albumin used to be low. And we’re seeking to give him milkshakes 3 times an afternoon to get his albumin ‘up. And those in fact had sugar in them. And I’m like, this individual has a flesh-eating micro organism and C. Diff happening, and also you’re going to throw sugar on that fireplace. Nevertheless it’s the approved nutritional menu there. And so I feel there’s clearly a number of room for development, and with a bit of luck we’ll begin to see a few of that. However the ones are nice guide suggestions. I’ll hyperlink to these within the display notes as nicely. And finally, any parting recommendation for the listeners lately that may be associated with the subject of iron or unrelated lifestyles recommendation that you’ve discovered useful?
Christy: So that you, I feel you in point of fact touched in this concept that like we are living in an excessively distinctive time the place the lay individual has get entry to to clinical data, genetic checking out, lab exams they order on themselves, that they perhaps can’t get or don’t need to get thru their clinical physician. And in order that’s empowering numerous folks, however there’s additionally numerous confusion there too, as it’s like, ok, now we have this knowledge, however what will we do with it?
So I feel it’s excellent. I feel that the lay individuals are going to be riding numerous growth, clinical growth, which I name it a backside up growth reasonably than a best down, reasonably than it coming from like, , the clinical our bodies announcing that is what’s highest scientifically confirmed. It’s in point of fact like, what they’re announcing is the norms and it simply takes time to switch the ones norms. There’s numerous causes they have got the ones norms which are perhaps now not in the most efficient passion of, , the well being.
And so this backside up motion is individuals are going to need to get that data they usually’re going to need to in point of fact more or less have autonomy over their well being. They usually’re going to need to paintings for it. And, , there aren’t any shortcuts to well being, , well being is a long-term, day-to-day, making excellent selections day-to-day, , workout, consume proper, , there aren’t any true shortcuts. After all, all of them finally end up backfiring.
If you happen to actually wish to be wholesome, you must be an recommend for your self since the present clinical machine isn’t designed, it’s now not a healthcare clinical machine, it’s very a lot a illness care clinical machine, and you wish to have to be self sufficient and feature, , company over your well being and ask questions. Don’t be afraid to invite questions. , I used to be so afraid to invite questions when my husband used to be first getting recognized with hemochromatosis, and I went thru that strategy of him having hemochromatosis and the pituitary tumor, and via the tip of it, I noticed how the docs, that we walked thru that procedure with, they didn’t know up to I anticipated and I knew greater than I anticipated in point of fact relative to the entire scenario. That used to be a self belief development workout, however it took me residing thru it to more or less see that. So, . Be an recommend to your well being.
Katie: Yeah, I feel that’s so necessary too and a super position to wrap up. I feel it in point of fact on the finish of the day, such as you mentioned, the issues which are inside of our personal energy are the ones foundational conduct. And the ones are the issues that don’t seem to be glamorous or a laugh and steadily they’re lost sight of as a result of they’re easy. However the ones are the issues that make the most important distinction in the end when we will do them constantly.
And I’m additionally very hopeful as a result of in your level, I see mothers in point of fact riding this price and main this variation since the finish of the day, nobody will care about our youngsters’ well being greater than we do. Nobody with a bit of luck cares about our personal well being greater than we do. And I see such a lot of mothers doing superb examine and getting this information after which taking motion on it to in point of fact alternate the trajectory for his or her households. So I’m very thankful on a daily basis that I am getting to talk to such a lot of mothers and that there’s this fantastic group rising of mothers who’re in point of fact getting into that and making the adjustments that make this sort of giant affect, together with you and together with you within the practitioner house as nicely.
So thanks such a lot for the paintings that you just do. I without a doubt realized so much on this episode and I feel you’re bringing mild to such the most important, essential difficulty. And so thanks such a lot for sharing lately.
Christy: Thanks for having me.
Katie: And thank you as at all times to all of you for sharing your most dear sources, your time, your power, and your consideration with us lately. We’re each so thankful that you just did, and I’m hoping that you’re going to sign up for me once more at the subsequent episode of the Wellness Mama podcast.
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