My theme this month is the power within – our body’s ability to heal itself when we create the environment for it to do so. Unfortunately, modern-day life has us too depleted, from poor nutrition, poor sleep, and high stress for our body to find its way back to balance on its own. We also lack the education to know how our daily activities are causing these imbalances inside our body and we can’t see it for ourselves, and so don’t realize what is going on until we get whacked by a wrecking ball and some kind of diagnosis of chronic disease. It doesn’t have to be this way, and in this episode, I share how we can be empowered in our health journey, get the knowledge we need in order to understand any imbalances so that we can take action to support the body in coming back into balance at which point it will heal itself. I share at-home lab testing options with you, that help you get the answers you may be looking for, or give you the choice to be proactive and have this information when you feel amazing, so you know your baseline! Knowledge is power and I love to share these options with you, so you can make informed choices in your health journey.
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Imagine getting up every day full of energy is
Melissa Deally:if you were in your 20s. Again, what would that be? Like? What
Melissa Deally:would that be worth to you?
Melissa Deally:What is your health worth to you? Think about it. Your health
Melissa Deally:isn't everything. But without it, everything else is nothing.
Melissa Deally:And yet too many of us are taking it for granted until
Melissa Deally:something goes wrong. No one wakes up hoping to be diagnosed
Melissa Deally:with a disease or chronic illness. And yet, we've never
Melissa Deally:been taught how to be proactive in our health through our school
Melissa Deally:system, or public health. As a registered health coach and
Melissa Deally:integrative health practitioner, I believe it is time this
Melissa Deally:information is made available to everyone. Combining new
Melissa Deally:knowledge around your health and the ability to do my functional
Melissa Deally:medicine lab tests in the comfort of your own home will
Melissa Deally:allow you to optimize your health for today and all your
Melissa Deally:tomorrow's don't wait for your wake up call.
Melissa Deally:Welcome back to the don't wait for your wake up call podcast. I
Melissa Deally:am your host, Melissa daily. Thank you for tuning in and
Melissa Deally:listening. And this month, the month of March 2022, my focus is
Melissa Deally:on the power within the power within our own body. Our body
Melissa Deally:knows, it is never wrong. Sometimes we have imbalances in
Melissa Deally:the body. And that is what I want to be talking about today.
Melissa Deally:Because when we tune in to the power within our own body, and
Melissa Deally:listen, we can truly be working in harmony with our body. So our
Melissa Deally:body is simply incredible. And yet, many of us take it for
Melissa Deally:granted day in and day out. We only get one body in this life.
Melissa Deally:And we need to look after it. If your body is failing you though,
Melissa Deally:it isn't your fault. There are many things in society today
Melissa Deally:that are working against you taking care of your body. Well,
Melissa Deally:that's lack of education in our health and how to be proactive
Melissa Deally:and better caring for our body, high stress and the demands of
Melissa Deally:society to you know, work harder, do more the 40 hour work
Melissa Deally:week, that becomes the 60 hour workweek just based on demands
Melissa Deally:and workload and expectations of your boss and other superiors.
Melissa Deally:There's poor nutrition, look at what's offered in the
Melissa Deally:supermarket shelves, there's so many foods that are nutrient
Melissa Deally:deplete. And yet because they're in the stores, people buy them,
Melissa Deally:they're loaded with sugars that are addictive that make us want
Melissa Deally:more salt does the same thing. And we're not feeding our body
Melissa Deally:and giving our body what it needs in order to be in a state
Melissa Deally:of good health. We also have nutrient deplete soils. And so
Melissa Deally:when the nutrients aren't in the soil, they're not then grown
Melissa Deally:into the food, and therefore, we're not getting the nutrition
Melissa Deally:into our body. And I share an example of this over and over
Melissa Deally:again. But if we just take one food, oranges, and we look at
Melissa Deally:the nutrient density of an orange back in the 1930s and 40s
Melissa Deally:to today, we wouldn't need to eat nine oranges today to get
Melissa Deally:the same nutrient density out of what they got from one orange
Melissa Deally:back in the 1930s and 40s. And nobody does that there's too
Melissa Deally:much fiber in that orange, you get full too quickly. But it
Melissa Deally:goes to show you that if we're not giving our body the
Melissa Deally:nutrition that it needs, it can't be functioning at the
Melissa Deally:level that we demand of it. Right. And we also many of us
Melissa Deally:have grown up with the belief that we don't really have to
Melissa Deally:look after our bodies because if we get sick, we go to the
Melissa Deally:doctor, they'll give us a pill and they'll make us better. But
Melissa Deally:that system is failing us as well because very often that
Melissa Deally:simply ends in chronic illness, which is our true epidemic in
Melissa Deally:the world today. Look around you. Everybody knows somebody
Melissa Deally:with some kind of chronic illness, whether it be heart
Melissa Deally:disease type two diabetes, leaky gut, autoimmune diseases,
Melissa Deally:Alzheimer's and dementia, some forms of cancer, obesity, these
Melissa Deally:are all chronic illnesses. And they're all lifestyle illnesses.
Melissa Deally:And when we know how to work with our body, we can choose to
Melissa Deally:not end up in a state of chronic illness. But again, the
Melissa Deally:education isn't there for you to easily find this information.
Melissa Deally:and out. When I was in the corporate world, I didn't know
Melissa Deally:this. I didn't know what I know, today, seven years later. And
Melissa Deally:when I first started, and taking all of my health coaching
Melissa Deally:courses, I kept having these aha, as of why didn't I know
Melissa Deally:that? Why hasn't somebody told me this? How can I be in my 40s,
Melissa Deally:and never have learned this before. Simply because it's not
Melissa Deally:taught through our education system is not readily available
Melissa Deally:through our public health system, we have to choose to
Melissa Deally:take additional courses, to get the information we need to truly
Melissa Deally:know how to look after our body. But if that isn't your planned
Melissa Deally:vocation, or your planned interest at university, etc, you
Melissa Deally:haven't necessarily taken those extra courses. So that's why I
Melissa Deally:have this podcast. And that's why I'm here sharing with you
Melissa Deally:today. Because I truly believe it is so important, as I said,
Melissa Deally:we have one body, and we need to be looking after it.
Melissa Deally:And our body really would just like to be in balance. And yet
Melissa Deally:there are things that we do all day long. From the food we eat,
Melissa Deally:as I've mentioned, to the stress, we are under to the lack
Melissa Deally:of sleep, all of these things can create imbalances within our
Melissa Deally:body. But because it's happening inside where we can't see it, we
Melissa Deally:don't necessarily know that it's happening. Now our body does try
Melissa Deally:to let us know it talks to us. And you might have heard me say
Melissa Deally:this before, that at first, it whispers gently, like the touch
Melissa Deally:of a feather. And if we don't listen, it might come along and
Melissa Deally:thump us with a break. And if we still don't listen, watch out
Melissa Deally:because it might whack us with a wrecking ball. An all of us know
Melissa Deally:someone who's been whacked with a wrecking ball. Whether it be
Melissa Deally:you know, they just can't get out of bed one morning, because
Melissa Deally:their body has said enough is enough, you need to slow down,
Melissa Deally:and it is time to heal. And I'm going to make sure you slow down
Melissa Deally:by making you feel so awful, that you can't get out of bed.
Melissa Deally:Maybe that's someone in a state of burnout. Or maybe it's
Melissa Deally:somebody that, you know, has a diagnosis of a chronic illness.
Melissa Deally:They didn't go to bed perfectly healthy, and then wake up the
Melissa Deally:next morning with a diagnosis that chronic illness has been
Melissa Deally:building inside their body over weeks, months, and in some
Melissa Deally:cases, years. And the body has been talking them to them
Melissa Deally:throughout that time. But we don't slow down enough. We don't
Melissa Deally:hear the messages. Or perhaps we do hear the messages. But we've
Melissa Deally:been programmed by society to believe it's just normal aging.
Melissa Deally:It's my genetics, or seasonal allergies, or whatever other
Melissa Deally:label we give it to allow ourselves to ignore the messages
Melissa Deally:and keep going on in our busy lives. Doo doo doo in order to
Melissa Deally:get everything done that's on our plate. But when we do this,
Melissa Deally:what happens? The body continues to get more and more out of
Melissa Deally:balance. And this triggers inflammation that causes cells
Melissa Deally:to turn on disease. And at some point, we get thumped with a
Melissa Deally:break or whacked by a wrecking ball. Now, I've talked about
Melissa Deally:this on previous episodes, but I know not everyone's listened to
Melissa Deally:every single episode. Although I have had several people reach
Melissa Deally:out to me recently telling me they have listened to every
Melissa Deally:single one of my episodes. And thank you to those of you that
Melissa Deally:are tuning into every episode. I really appreciate that feedback
Melissa Deally:too. So what I've talked about before is what Hippocrates said
Melissa Deally:over 2000 years ago, that all disease starts in the gut. So in
Melissa Deally:starting to pay attention to our body, we need to really be
Melissa Deally:paying attention to this epicenter of our health. And now
Melissa Deally:modern day science epigenetics has proven Hippocrates to be
Melissa Deally:correct. What we now know, with epigenetics is that it is not
Melissa Deally:just your genes that are a factor in whether you get a
Melissa Deally:disease or not. We all have genes in our body that
Melissa Deally:predispose us genetically to certain diseases. But what we
Melissa Deally:now know is that's only five to 10% of the equation as to
Melissa Deally:whether you actually get that disease. The other 90 to 95% of
Melissa Deally:the equation is the lifestyle factors, and the environment you
Melissa Deally:create inside your body in your gut. And I know these stats can
Melissa Deally:sound scary. But I like to think of them as empowering is they
Melissa Deally:mean that in 90 to 95% of the cases of all disease, you have
Melissa Deally:the choice as to whether you let your cells turn on the genes for
Melissa Deally:that disease.
Melissa Deally:Because remember, it's five to 10% of the equation is your
Melissa Deally:genetic predisposition. And 90 to 95% of the equation is the
Melissa Deally:environment you choose to create inside your body. That is what
Melissa Deally:dictates your health outcomes. So you absolutely have the
Melissa Deally:choice, excuse me, you absolutely have the choice as to
Melissa Deally:whether your cells turn on the genes for that disease, you
Melissa Deally:might be genetically predisposed to heart disease, but that
Melissa Deally:doesn't mean you will get heart disease. Instead, it means you
Melissa Deally:have a choice to create a body that is imbalanced with normal
Melissa Deally:levels of inflammation. So your cells never turn on your genes.
Melissa Deally:And we see that all the time in siblings, right? One sibling
Melissa Deally:might get the disease that both of their parents had, or their
Melissa Deally:parents and their grandparents and another sibling might not.
Melissa Deally:They have very similar genes because they're in the same
Melissa Deally:family. But maybe their lifestyles are different. And
Melissa Deally:that is why one ends up with the disease that their parents and
Melissa Deally:grandparents have had. And the other one doesn't. We see it
Melissa Deally:even with twins, there's research that shows that. And it
Melissa Deally:comes down to the lifestyle factors, not the genes. So how
Melissa Deally:do you ensure that you keep your body in balance and have normal
Melissa Deally:levels of inflammation rather than chronic inflammation in
Melissa Deally:your body? Well, it all starts with education, which is, as I
Melissa Deally:said, Why I offer this podcast? So thank you for listening. And
Melissa Deally:the reality is, is we don't know what we don't know until we need
Melissa Deally:to know. But knowledge is power. So what if you could learn about
Melissa Deally:your health now in order to start to take preventative
Melissa Deally:action? Well, I presume that's why you're here. And this is
Melissa Deally:what is unfortunately missing in society, we are not taught how
Melissa Deally:to take preventative steps in our health. If you however,
Melissa Deally:recognize that health is your true wealth, or your greatest
Melissa Deally:asset, then you will want to take care of it. You take care
Melissa Deally:of your house, don't you cleaning bathrooms and your
Melissa Deally:kitchen, vacuuming the carpets fixing things that are broken
Melissa Deally:painting it doing rentals and you take care of your car taking
Melissa Deally:it for regular services and oil changes. But do you take care of
Melissa Deally:your body in the same way? Okay, maybe you take a shower every
Melissa Deally:day. Maybe you exercise every day. And if you exercise
Melissa Deally:everyday kudos to you but you're still in the minority. What else
Melissa Deally:are you doing to take care of your body? Do you know your
Melissa Deally:inflammation levels? Do you know your cortisol levels? Are you
Melissa Deally:taking care of them keeping them in balance? Do you know your
Melissa Deally:mineral levels? One of the most common causes of heart disease
Melissa Deally:is an imbalance in your electrolytes calcium, magnesium,
Melissa Deally:sodium, potassium. Wouldn't it be nice to know these levels in
Melissa Deally:order to keep them in balance? Seeing his death by
Melissa Deally:cardiovascular disease? is the number one cause killer in North
Melissa Deally:America? Do you know if your hormones are out of balance? Do
Melissa Deally:you know all for thyroid markers. One in eight women will
Melissa Deally:get thyroid disease in her life. And yet our medical system only
Melissa Deally:looks at one marker not all four markers in an annual exam.
Melissa Deally:Knowing all four markers allows you to see the early warning
Melissa Deally:signs which allows you to bring the body back into balance more
Melissa Deally:easily. By the time that one marker shows there's a problem
Melissa Deally:with the thyroid, the body is far more out of balance and it
Melissa Deally:takes longer to bring it back into balance. Do you know if
Melissa Deally:your gut has Candida or bacterial overgrowth, mold,
Melissa Deally:fungus parasites or H Pylori? Do you struggle with gas or
Melissa Deally:bloating, acid reflux, constipation or diarrhea? Well,
Melissa Deally:all of these are signs of an unhappy digestive system, a sign
Melissa Deally:that the gut is out of balance. And nearly all of my clients
Melissa Deally:struggle with one or more of these things. And then finally
Melissa Deally:at a point where they're looking for answers because they're
Melissa Deally:tired of having to deal with it or not getting answers. And so
Melissa Deally:this is you know, maybe there that stage between the feather
Melissa Deally:and the brick, and that's where I love to work with clients
Melissa Deally:because it's much easier to help the body heal than before.
Melissa Deally:Already at the wrecking ball stage. It is extremely common
Melissa Deally:these days for people to be having digestive issues, simply
Melissa Deally:because of our lifestyle factors that I talked about before. Poor
Melissa Deally:nutrition, high stress, poor sleep.
Melissa Deally:Our gut is an entire ecosystem of 40,000 species of bacteria, 5
Melissa Deally:million species of fungi 300,000 species of parasites. This is
Melissa Deally:six pounds of living species and over 100 trillion microbes in
Melissa Deally:our gut or our microbiome. And they're all designed to work in
Melissa Deally:balance to help break down our food, keep our immune system
Melissa Deally:strong, fight off pathogens, and live symbiotically within us for
Melissa Deally:our optimal well being. But as I've said, stress, poor
Melissa Deally:nutrition, poor sleep, antibiotics, food sensitivities
Melissa Deally:and intolerances, birth control, anti inflammatory products like
Melissa Deally:Tylenol and Advil, and more, can create imbalances in our gut. So
Melissa Deally:using all of these factors over the course of a lifetime, mean
Melissa Deally:that many, many people in today's world are struggling
Melissa Deally:with imbalances in their gut, which causes inflammation, and
Melissa Deally:then can trigger ourselves to turn on disease. So is it any
Melissa Deally:wonder that we have so much chronic illness in our world
Melissa Deally:today? So how do you find out if your body is out of balance,
Melissa Deally:aside from it talking to you, but then you not really being
Melissa Deally:sure what that means? Well, the easiest and quickest way is to
Melissa Deally:run at home lab tests, these labs are literally mailed to
Melissa Deally:your home with instructions on how to do them. a urine sample,
Melissa Deally:a blood spot card, meaning you prick your finger and you drip
Melissa Deally:some blood onto a card with circles on it. Hair snipping
Melissa Deally:from hair at the nape of your neck, or saliva tests where you
Melissa Deally:spit saliva into a tube. All things that you can do at home,
Melissa Deally:you don't have to make an appointment, you don't have to
Melissa Deally:go to a clinic, you can do these at home. I offer my clients
Melissa Deally:discount pricing on the labs when we work together over a
Melissa Deally:minimum of four sessions. As we guide your body back into
Melissa Deally:balance. Once we see what is going on where it is out of
Melissa Deally:balance based on the results of your labs. That was the gap I
Melissa Deally:saw in the market in working with my own naturopath and
Melissa Deally:referring others to her they would get their results. And
Melissa Deally:then they'd be told what to do what they should do. But did
Melissa Deally:they actually do it? Unfortunately, they didn't,
Melissa Deally:because they didn't know where to start. And it felt
Melissa Deally:overwhelming. And it just felt too hard. So they did nothing.
Melissa Deally:And there is no point in having the information from the labs if
Melissa Deally:then you do nothing with it. So that's why I support my clients
Melissa Deally:through a process of four sessions, using an app providing
Melissa Deally:meal plans and recipes, if needed, and then answering
Melissa Deally:questions through the app adjusting supplements as needed.
Melissa Deally:As we guide the body back into balance. This high level of
Melissa Deally:support is what gets results for my clients. And that is what I
Melissa Deally:want for my clients. So whether you know your body is already
Melissa Deally:talking to you, or you want to take proactive action, these lab
Melissa Deally:tests are for you. They provide you so much information as to
Melissa Deally:what is going on inside your body. And as we look at the
Melissa Deally:imbalances, we then know the steps to rebalance the body. And
Melissa Deally:once the body is back in balance, it will heal itself if
Melissa Deally:that's what's needed. That is what the body is designed to do.
Melissa Deally:heal itself just like it heals a cut finger or a broken arm. It's
Melissa Deally:our daily life, though, that has us so far out of balance due to
Melissa Deally:again, let's say it together, poor sleep, poor nutrition, high
Melissa Deally:stress, We've burned through all our vitamins and minerals. And
Melissa Deally:the body is in a state that is simply too depleted to be able
Melissa Deally:to bring itself back into balance. And so then it can't
Melissa Deally:heal itself. It needs added support. And so where are we, we
Melissa Deally:use the labs, we determine those imbalances. And then we support
Melissa Deally:what is needed to bring the body back into balance. A body in
Melissa Deally:balance doesn't get sick, doesn't harbor disease, or hold
Melissa Deally:on to excess weight. So let's talk about these labs. Anyone
Melissa Deally:listening you might want to go to my YouTube channel because
Melissa Deally:I'm going to share my screen here so that you can actually
Melissa Deally:see the labs. I'll put the link in the show notes so you can
Melissa Deally:watch this portion later. As I show you exactly what the labs
Melissa Deally:look like. And while you're on my YouTube channel, it would be
Melissa Deally:awesome if you could also subscribe I'm trying to get to
Melissa Deally:100 subscribers so that I can actually brand my YouTube
Melissa Deally:channel and then it would be so much easier for me to Just tell
Melissa Deally:you here and now what the URL is. Because I hope one day, it
Melissa Deally:will be youtube.com forward slash your guided health
Melissa Deally:journey. But it is not that today. So I will put the link in
Melissa Deally:the show notes, please subscribe, I'm almost at my 100
Melissa Deally:just need a few more. And then next time around,
Melissa Deally:I can that actually give you the URL verbally as well. So let me
Melissa Deally:share my screen here. And we are going to run through these labs.
Melissa Deally:So the first lab I want to talk about is the food sensitivities
Melissa Deally:lab, this lab tests for over 190 Different foods, and assesses
Melissa Deally:the immune response in your body, when you eat these foods.
Melissa Deally:And immune response is also creating inflammation. When we
Melissa Deally:have a cut finger, the body creates inflammation in that
Melissa Deally:area to help heal the gut heal the wound. Same thing with a
Melissa Deally:swollen ankle, right? When we have an immune response, it
Melissa Deally:triggers inflammation. So if we are unknowingly eating foods
Melissa Deally:that we have a sensitivity to day in and day out, we are
Melissa Deally:creating inflammation in our body. And that over time, has us
Melissa Deally:in a place of chronic inflammation, which we don't
Melissa Deally:want, because remember, chronic inflammation triggers our cells
Melissa Deally:to turn on those genes that we that triggered the disease that
Melissa Deally:we're genetically predisposed to. And you might I have people
Melissa Deally:come to me that have digestive issues, they have symptoms, and
Melissa Deally:they say, well, it's not the food. Because I've been eating
Melissa Deally:this food my whole life, and it can't be the food. But here's
Melissa Deally:the reality, there's several factors going on here. First of
Melissa Deally:all, as children, we innately know what our body likes, and
Melissa Deally:doesn't like because we have that innate ability to listen to
Melissa Deally:our body. But what happens is our well meaning parents, my
Melissa Deally:parents did this to me. And I did this to my children, because
Melissa Deally:remember, I didn't know then what I know now we'll put food
Melissa Deally:on the table, the same meal for everyone because it's convenient
Melissa Deally:to feed the whole family the same meal. And when somebody
Melissa Deally:says I don't want this, we get told, eat everything on your
Melissa Deally:plate because there's children starving in Africa. We've all
Melissa Deally:heard that. But the reality is, is that a young child doesn't
Melissa Deally:have the vocabulary in order to truly say how that food makes
Melissa Deally:them feel. And explain that to a parent. And the parent isn't
Melissa Deally:necessarily listening because the parent is reacting out of
Melissa Deally:habit in the way they were parented talking about children
Melissa Deally:starving in Africa. So over time, we start to override our
Melissa Deally:body signals, we stopped listening to our body signals,
Melissa Deally:and we eat the food. And because it's not an anaphylactic
Melissa Deally:reaction, there's nothing dire going on, we might not feel
Melissa Deally:great. The next day, we might have a tummy ache, we might have
Melissa Deally:brain fog, we might have joint pain, but we don't associate it
Melissa Deally:with the ongoing eating of this food or we don't communicate
Melissa Deally:that to our parents. So we keep eating it. And over time over
Melissa Deally:the span of a lifetime. This escalates and the body starts
Melissa Deally:talking to us more loudly, or trying to speak with different
Melissa Deally:symptoms to make us finally do something kind of we get to that
Melissa Deally:brick stage where we now are like, Okay, this is so bad. I
Melissa Deally:need to actually investigate this. But we still don't think
Melissa Deally:it's the food. It's also very difficult to discover which
Melissa Deally:foods are the culprit, because we eat so many different foods
Melissa Deally:in any given day. And when it's a food sensitivity, the symptoms
Melissa Deally:tend not to show up for 24 to 48 to even 72 hours later. And let
Melissa Deally:me ask you this. Do you remember what you ate three days ago? Can
Melissa Deally:you name every single food you ate? Probably not. And as a
Melissa Deally:result, it's very difficult to figure this out on your own,
Melissa Deally:even using a food diary. And so running the lab just makes it
Melissa Deally:super easy because it tells you what foods you have a
Melissa Deally:sensitivity to. The other thing that increases our risk of food
Melissa Deally:sensitivities is our toxic load. Something else I've talked about
Melissa Deally:often and if you're not familiar with toxic load, you can go back
Melissa Deally:and listen to my episodes one through four of this podcast.
Melissa Deally:As we increase our toxic load, we're also increasing our body's
Melissa Deally:inflammation levels, and increasing the number of
Melissa Deally:sensitivities we will have when it comes to our food because our
Melissa Deally:digestive system is weaker. And we struggle to break down foods.
Melissa Deally:So we further increase inflammation. So this particular
Melissa Deally:sample report that you can see on the screen here just shows
Melissa Deally:page one of this lab is going Through dairy, it's going
Melissa Deally:through lagoons, it's going through fruits, it's going
Melissa Deally:through grains, fish, seafood, meat, as well as nuts and seeds.
Melissa Deally:And this particular person on this sample report has a lot of
Melissa Deally:food sensitivities. So this tells me that they very likely
Melissa Deally:have a leaky gut. And we need to be addressing their gut, while
Melissa Deally:also eliminating the foods. When we eliminate the foods, we start
Melissa Deally:to lower inflammation, we start to lower stress on the body. And
Melissa Deally:when we lower stress on the body, the body can start
Melissa Deally:healing. And once we heal the gut, we can then start to
Melissa Deally:reintroduce these foods. Now, when we remove the foods, we're
Melissa Deally:not removing them forever. We're removing them depending on the
Melissa Deally:degree of sensitivity for six weeks, 12 weeks, or six months.
Melissa Deally:And yes, we can reintroduce them. Once we've given the body
Melissa Deally:a chance to heal. It simply may mean that as you reintroduce
Melissa Deally:them, and you have newfound awareness around how you feel,
Melissa Deally:and you're introducing one food at a time, you can assess over
Melissa Deally:that 72 hour period, how that food makes you feel? Does it
Melissa Deally:give you brain fog? Does it give you joint pain? Does it cause
Melissa Deally:stomach aches? Does it cause Gasser diarrhea or bloating
Melissa Deally:so that you know what that food does to you. And with a healed
Melissa Deally:gut, maybe it doesn't do anything at all. Or maybe it
Melissa Deally:does. And so now you have choices, you have the choice to
Melissa Deally:eat that food less often, right, you're not going to eat it three
Melissa Deally:times a day, seven days a week. Many people do eat grains three
Melissa Deally:times a day, seven days a week. And if their body can't cope
Melissa Deally:with it, we need to cut it back. So or maybe it's eggs, maybe you
Melissa Deally:have eggs three days a week, five days a week. Well, now if
Melissa Deally:it's eggs that are the problem. And eggs are the number three
Melissa Deally:food sensitivity. First is gluten, then dairy, then eggs.
Melissa Deally:If eggs are the problem, well, maybe you're going to have eggs
Melissa Deally:once every couple of weeks, not three to five times a week. So
Melissa Deally:it gives you choices. If you shouldn't be doing gluten and
Melissa Deally:dairy, but the whole family is doing pizza and you're watching
Melissa Deally:a hockey game together, whatever it is, and it's a Friday night,
Melissa Deally:maybe that's okay, because over the weekend, you don't have any
Melissa Deally:plans. And if you don't feel great or you have brain fog, it
Melissa Deally:doesn't matter if you lie around on the couch. But if you have a
Melissa Deally:really big presentation in three days, maybe you don't want to
Melissa Deally:have that pizza just to make sure that you don't have that
Melissa Deally:brain fog or that discomfort before your presentation. So
Melissa Deally:again, it gives you choices. Having this knowledge is
Melissa Deally:powerful because then you get to make the right choices for you
Melissa Deally:knowing the ramifications, as opposed to not knowing in some
Melissa Deally:days feeling good. And some days feeling like crap and not
Melissa Deally:understanding why. So the next lab is the thyroid and adrenal
Melissa Deally:hormones lab. And I love this lab because it gives us so much
Melissa Deally:information in one place. It gives me all four sex hormone
Melissa Deally:markers. It gives me four cortisol markers throughout the
Melissa Deally:day. It gives me all four thyroid markers. It gives me
Melissa Deally:both the fasted insulin and then 90 Day insulin markers as well
Melissa Deally:as vitamin D markers. You can't see that because that's on page
Melissa Deally:two. But all of this information in one place is extremely
Melissa Deally:helpful for people, especially people that are struggling with
Melissa Deally:low energy. Because I get to see what is your cortisol doing? Is
Melissa Deally:it doing what it should be doing, which is it should be
Melissa Deally:highest in the morning when you wake up between six and 8am. And
Melissa Deally:then it should be dropping by about half by lunchtime,
Melissa Deally:dinnertime. And then at its lowest at bedtime. Because we
Melissa Deally:want cortisol low at bedtime. It's the invoice marker to
Melissa Deally:melatonin. We want melatonin at its highest at that time so that
Melissa Deally:you can get into a deep restorative sleep. And when
Melissa Deally:cortisol isn't functioning that way, it's an indication of the
Melissa Deally:stress on your body. And you may not feel that stressed. But the
Melissa Deally:reality is, is stress stacks within our body. And our body is
Melissa Deally:trying to cope with that stress. And not only the stresses in
Melissa Deally:your daily life, but perhaps you've got a parasite that your
Melissa Deally:body's fighting, you've got gut imbalances, maybe you're
Melissa Deally:fighting a virus, those are all stresses as well that your body
Melissa Deally:is trying to cope with. And perhaps it's not able to calm
Melissa Deally:properly at night for you to get into that deep restorative sleep
Melissa Deally:for your body to be able to make the melatonin that needs to be
Melissa Deally:made and we need to support your body in calming before bed. And
Melissa Deally:we can do that through the use of natural supplements. So when
Melissa Deally:we see the imbalances in your cortisol, we know how to support
Melissa Deally:the body and coming back into balance. Seeing estrogen and
Melissa Deally:progesterone ratios is really important particularly for women
Melissa Deally:because a when estrogen When is too high relative to
Melissa Deally:progesterone and the balance is off, it puts us into a state of
Melissa Deally:estrogen dominance. And when we're in a state of estrogen
Melissa Deally:dominance, that can trigger other things inside our body, it
Melissa Deally:can cause our thyroid to slow down. This is why so many more
Melissa Deally:women have thyroid disease than men. As I said earlier, one in
Melissa Deally:eight women will get thyroid disease in their lifetime. So if
Melissa Deally:our estrogen is too high relative to progesterone, it can
Melissa Deally:trigger thyroid issues. It can also put us on the path towards
Melissa Deally:type two diabetes, it can also left unchecked cause breast
Melissa Deally:cancer, it's one of the known causes of breast cancer. So
Melissa Deally:seeing all of this information on one lab is really important,
Melissa Deally:helpful information, in order for us to understand where the
Melissa Deally:body is out of balance, and help bring the body back into
Melissa Deally:balance. The next lab is the gut health lab. Whoops, I went one
Melissa Deally:too far, too, too far.
Melissa Deally:There we go. Our gut health lab. And this lab is also incredibly
Melissa Deally:helpful. This is a urine sample. And it will show us whether you
Melissa Deally:have bacterial overgrowth, Candida overgrowth, mold or
Melissa Deally:fungus in your gut. That's all on page one. Page two goes into
Melissa Deally:mitochondrial function. And of course, our mitochondria are
Melissa Deally:energy powerhouses in the body. And if they're not functioning
Melissa Deally:well, we need to be supporting them in order for you to have
Melissa Deally:good energy. It also goes into neurotransmitter function.
Melissa Deally:Because of that gut brain connection. If the gut isn't
Melissa Deally:happy, neither is the brain. And if they got isn't happy, it's
Melissa Deally:not producing neurotransmitters, particularly serotonin and
Melissa Deally:dopamine at high enough levels for us to feel good and happy.
Melissa Deally:And that's sometimes why people go to the doctor saying I feel
Melissa Deally:blah, I'm just down and feel depressed, and they get put on a
Melissa Deally:drug and anti anxiety or an anti depressive drug, as opposed to
Melissa Deally:let's look at what's going on inside your gut. That could be
Melissa Deally:triggering it to not be able to produce the right amounts of
Melissa Deally:serotonin and dopamine levels for you to feel good. Again,
Melissa Deally:when we understand this information, it's really
Melissa Deally:powerful in being able to heal the body or bring the body back
Melissa Deally:into balance, at which point it heals itself. I'm not healing
Melissa Deally:anything, I'm not diagnosing anything. I'm simply looking for
Melissa Deally:the imbalances, helping the body come back into balance, at which
Melissa Deally:point it will heal itself. So this lab also shows us vitamin
Melissa Deally:levels for key vitamins. And again, we burn through those
Melissa Deally:under high stress. So we want to know if your body is depleted,
Melissa Deally:and then support those levels so that the body can function
Melissa Deally:optimally. And it also shows detox pathways are your detox
Melissa Deally:pathways functioning well are they blocks do we need to
Melissa Deally:support them more, we do live in a toxic world. And so the body
Melissa Deally:needs all the support it can get when it comes to detoxing. The
Melissa Deally:next lab is our middle metals and minerals lab tests. This is
Melissa Deally:simply a hair clipping from the nape of the neck. And this lab
Melissa Deally:will show us our electrolytes and all of our key minerals. So
Melissa Deally:our electrolytes are our calcium, magnesium, sodium and
Melissa Deally:potassium. And as I said earlier, when there's an
Melissa Deally:imbalance there, that is a very common cause of heart disease,
Melissa Deally:our number one killer in North America. When we are under
Melissa Deally:stress, we also burn through our minerals, like we do our
Melissa Deally:vitamins. And so we can very often be depleted in our
Melissa Deally:minerals, including our zinc, or copper or manganese, or chromium
Melissa Deally:or Selenium or phosphorus. And then the body can't bring itself
Melissa Deally:back into balance. So we need to address this, we need to support
Melissa Deally:the body by giving the body what it needs. But what's important
Melissa Deally:too, when it comes to our minerals is it's not just about
Melissa Deally:our deficiency levels, it's also about having them be in balance
Melissa Deally:with one another. We don't want so much copper that we don't
Melissa Deally:have enough zinc because they will push each other up and
Melissa Deally:down, we need to have them in balance. The same for calcium
Melissa Deally:and magnesium, for example. So again, this lab shows us all of
Melissa Deally:that. And it also shows us metal toxic levels for five key
Melissa Deally:metals, aluminum, arsenic, mercury, cadmium and lead. And
Melissa Deally:it's important to know that too, because our body struggles to
Melissa Deally:detox metals, which are not natural in the body by itself,
Melissa Deally:so we need to support it with a proper heavy metal detox to get
Melissa Deally:those metals out. Because if we don't, what do they do? They
Melissa Deally:cause inflammation. What does that do? Over time that chronic
Melissa Deally:level of inflammation will trigger ourselves to turn on
Melissa Deally:disease. Not only that some of those metals are neurotoxins,
Melissa Deally:meaning they get into our brain and they cause problems with
Melissa Deally:our, our brain function. And we don't want that we've only got
Melissa Deally:one brain as well, right? So we know aluminum is a known
Melissa Deally:neurotoxin, so is mercury.
Melissa Deally:So the next lab is our omega three lab test. And I love this
Melissa Deally:one, it's measuring our level of inflammation in the body. It's
Melissa Deally:comparing our levels of omega threes to omega sixes, these are
Melissa Deally:our essential fatty acids. And they're essential because our
Melissa Deally:body doesn't make them so we have to get them through our
Melissa Deally:food. Omega sixes are the inflammatory, essential fatty
Melissa Deally:acid and omega threes are the anti inflammatory. But here's
Melissa Deally:the thing, Omega sixes are in everything in terms of our food
Melissa Deally:is very easy for us to get omega sixes into our diet, whereas
Melissa Deally:omega threes are harder to get. The best sources are wild fatty
Melissa Deally:fish like sardines, anchovies, wild salmon, well, mackerel, the
Melissa Deally:there are some plant based omega threes as well, but the body has
Melissa Deally:to go through an extra process to break that down. And so it's
Melissa Deally:harder for us to get enough through just a plant based diet,
Melissa Deally:or we have to eat a lot more in order to get enough. So I love
Melissa Deally:this lab, because it says right under that green line where it
Melissa Deally:says total Omega three 8%. Right underneath that it says we want
Melissa Deally:to be at 9%. If when we get to the desired level of greater
Melissa Deally:than 9%, we are actually then reducing our risk of sudden
Melissa Deally:death by cardiovascular disease by 99 0%. Now, that's powerful.
Melissa Deally:Given that death by cardiovascular disease is the
Melissa Deally:number one killer in North America, if we could get
Melissa Deally:everybody in the world to balance their Omega three to
Melissa Deally:omega six levels in order to have balanced inflammation in
Melissa Deally:the body, we would lower our levels of heart disease
Melissa Deally:significantly. So what else that I love about this lab is that on
Melissa Deally:page two, it actually shows us does your body need more EPA or
Melissa Deally:more DHA, which are two types within Omega three. And so when
Melissa Deally:you go to get a supplement, you buy something supplements store,
Melissa Deally:there's so many things to choose from, how do you know what's a
Melissa Deally:good supplement? And is it actually giving you what your
Melissa Deally:body needs. And so here we're getting that additional
Melissa Deally:information. So that you know, I need a omega three supplement
Melissa Deally:official a supplement that has more EPA than DHA, or I need one
Melissa Deally:that has more DPA than DHA and EPA, right? It's just giving you
Melissa Deally:more information, which again, knowledge is power. And then the
Melissa Deally:last lab that I want to share with you is our stool test. This
Melissa Deally:lab will also look for Candida overgrowth, bacteria overgrowth,
Melissa Deally:and goes further it looks at for parasites, it looks for h
Melissa Deally:pylori. And it also looks at digestive function. What's the
Melissa Deally:pH level in your stomach? What's the enzymatic production in your
Melissa Deally:stomach are the levels good or not. And so that's a lot of
Melissa Deally:powerful information for people that are struggling with
Melissa Deally:digestive issues or have symptoms of parasites or H
Melissa Deally:Pylori, and we need more information. And sometimes you
Melissa Deally:think parasites or H Pylori are just a problem in developing
Melissa Deally:countries. But that isn't true. It's actually still very common
Melissa Deally:globally. Because of course, we travel to developing countries
Melissa Deally:and then come home again. But we can get parasites and h pylori
Melissa Deally:locally within our first world countries as well from a number
Melissa Deally:of different sources.
Melissa Deally:So this is a three days through lab. And the reason that we do
Melissa Deally:it as a three day lab is that the speck of stool that you take
Melissa Deally:out of the stool and put into the container is a fairly small
Melissa Deally:speck. And so from your bowel movement, you pick a spot, it
Melissa Deally:could it's easy to actually miss the pathogen. But when we do it
Melissa Deally:over three days, we have a much higher chance of finding the
Melissa Deally:pathogen and at least one of those stool samples in order to
Melissa Deally:know exactly what we're dealing with. And when we do just a one
Melissa Deally:day test, there's a very high, false negative. So you get told,
Melissa Deally:Oh, you don't have anything. There's nothing wrong with you.
Melissa Deally:We've just done a one day test. But what I see in the three day
Melissa Deally:Labs is I'll see the results across all three days. And I'll
Melissa Deally:see Oh, day one, there was nothing but on the day two lab
Melissa Deally:we found something and on the day three tests, we found
Melissa Deally:something where sometimes we find it just in one of the
Melissa Deally:samples of the three but at least we know it's there and
Melissa Deally:what we're dealing with. So then we know how to eradicate it from
Melissa Deally:the body. And then again, bring the body back into balance. So,
Melissa Deally:I wanted to share all of this with you today, because again,
Melissa Deally:we're talking about the power within our gut health or the way
Melissa Deally:our body talks to us. And the way our body is designed to be
Melissa Deally:in balance, and when we understand that when we know how
Melissa Deally:to listen to our body, and when we also know the options that
Melissa Deally:are available to us to determine whether our body is out of
Melissa Deally:balance in any of these areas I've addressed through the labs,
Melissa Deally:you have more choices, you have more choices to choose to be
Melissa Deally:proactive in your health and get a baseline of all of these labs
Melissa Deally:when you're feeling amazing to know exactly what your levels
Melissa Deally:are. And then run the labs annually if you like to catch
Melissa Deally:the early warning signs of things going sideways. Or if you
Melissa Deally:are struggling with symptoms, then these labs can really help
Melissa Deally:you understand what is going on, and then how we can address that
Melissa Deally:in order to bring the body back into balance. So thank you so
Melissa Deally:much for listening, I invite you to reach out if you would like
Melissa Deally:to know more information, you can contact me via email at
Melissa Deally:Melissa at your guided health journey.com or simply go to my
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