07/15/2025
When clients come to me with chronic pain, fatigue, bloating, weight gain, anxiety, or autoimmune flares, they’re often convinced something is wrong with them.
They’ve tried medications, supplements, countless doctors, yet nothing sticks.
What I explain to them is:
Your body is not failing you. It is adapting to a broken environment.
Here’s why:
🧂 Our soils are severely depleted — studies show a dramatic drop in minerals like magnesium, bioavailable copper, and selenium over the last century. Even “healthy” eaters may not get enough of these critical nutrients because our food simply doesn’t contain what it used to.
🥩 On top of that, many people accumulate excess iron in their tissues — not because they eat too much iron in one sitting, but because their bodies lack the copper necessary to regulate iron properly. When copper is deficient, iron becomes stuck in tissues, creating oxidative stress, inflammation, and fatigue. This hidden iron overload is almost never discussed in conventional medicine, yet it’s a common underlying cause of the symptoms I see every day.
🍬 At the same time, ultra-processed foods, refined sugars, seed oils, and chemical additives flood our plates, overwhelming the liver and creating chronic, low-grade inflammation. This damages the gut lining, disrupts hormone balance, and taxes the immune system.
💤 Add stress, poor sleep, and lack of movement… and your body is trapped in survival mode. It will hold onto weight, break down muscle, and prioritize just keeping you alive over keeping you well.
When I guide clients to:
— Remove inflammatory foods,
— Re-mineralize the body with magnesium, copper, potassium, and whole-food nutrients,
— Support iron regulation by nourishing the liver and balancing copper,
— Calm the nervous system,
…they start to heal.
But here’s the hard part:
The answers I give are simple — yet they require change.
Stop eating the things hurting you.
Start eating what nourishes you.
Rest, hydrate, breathe.
Many people hear this and say, “But I can’t give up my bread/pizza/wine/dessert.”
I understand. But biology doesn’t negotiate. If you keep feeding the dysfunction, it will keep showing up.
Your body is not punishing you. It’s waiting for you to listen.