Welcome to the six Figure Business Mastery Podcast, where every week Kirsten

and Jeannie dive into the essential topics to fuel your business growth.

From copywriting to course creation mindset to video marketing, your health

is your business's greatest asset.

Natalia, the conscious gut fit G is gonna reveal today how optimizing gut

health, emotional balance, and metabolism can boost your energy, your focus and

your resilience, helping you as an entrepreneur perform at your peak.

So welcome to the program Natalia.

Thank you, Jeannie's.

A pleasure to be here.

Wonderful.

So today we're gonna talk about how important it is for entrepreneurs to

be conscious of their health and to be healthy to perform at their best.

Um, we're gonna talk a little bit about how we can do that by healing from within,

through conscious functional nutrition.

So tell me a little bit about.

Functional nutrition and wellness and maybe how you got to here.

I became a functional nutritionist, and I do coaching now because it

took a while for me to get here.

Based on my personal experience.

I almost died from an eating disorder when I was 14 years old.

I was a chubby kid and I wasn't feeling quite myself, and I went to

live overseas and the weather just really didn't resonate with me.

So I went from a hundred and.

46 to 154 pounds, something around that range, down to 83 pounds.

And it wasn't until my dad walked into the hospital bed and he

said, because of course I had to be hospitalized at 83 pounds.

Everything hurt.

They did an EKG, and my heart was the size of a chicken's heart.

And finally my dad walked in one day and he said, honey.

I'm gonna call the tailor, and I'm like, great, because nothing Ed to pound him.

He said, no, for your coffin.

So he woke me up.

I had to wake up and I had to live and I, I chose to live.

Wow.

That's terrifying.

I can't imagine that.

That is a crazy, significant amount of weight.

So it was stress, mostly stress related.

It was stress.

It was a seasonal affective disorder.

I was misdiagnosed.

A lot of people had tons of nutritional deficiencies and I was misdiagnosed

in terms of my thyroid, which is really linked with mood and hormonal

health and circadian rhythms.

Yeah, I also was undiagnosed in terms of digestive health,

so that also contributed.

So it was just a bubble effect, and the bubble just blew up when

I was in an environment that was not what was different, but it, it

was just not supportive of my, uh, wellbeing in different aspects.

So tell us a little bit about how you learned about functional

medicine, what you recommend to people now to take care of themselves.

I learned about functional nutrition because I've been practicing over

15 years and there's only so much a high fiber or clean meal plan can do

for people, and I just was getting stuck with folks that were doing

the meal plan and they still had all symptoms of being brain fog, hormonal.

It just flashes after menopause and yeah, let me help you with the food.

And it's just, I hit a wall also, digestive issues and people who were

on the gym, like gym rats, right?

Lifting five days a week and eating clean and they would still not see results.

So I got board certified in functional nutrition medicine.

That taught me a whole lot about metabolism, neurotransmitter cellular

health, and pretty much what this meat suit and by this meat suit,

I say the physical body and a lot of what impacts the wellbeing

of this physical body and how.

I've learned that it's way more than just what we eat, and therefore I look at

the genetics, I look at the microbiome, which is the species in the gut.

I look at the mind body connection and the awareness that that individual

has about their choices and their habits and their emotions, because

all that really impacts our wellbeing.

I feel nowadays people are just following the latest diet, whether

that's keto, whether that's paleo, or counting calories, counting macros,

and that's just not gonna get people too far because they're not really

digging deep into the root cause, which is what I dig really deep with.

Test or just.

By really answering, asking questions in my clients, answering really

honest questions about their personal, emotional health and emotional

balance and awareness of where they're at and where they wanna be.

So it's a mix of both, if that, that makes total sense.

And I would think the awareness is a big part of it.

But it's interesting that you say there's lots of things out there

that people talk about your diet and your nutrition and your whatnot.

So give us a little tip.

Or give us some idea of how you help people balance those or

what you recommend to people.

First of thing is just, uh, being in the present moment.

When we are in the present moment, we can really observe ourselves.

And take away any judgment that may come along with a certain emotion because

the beauty of the present moment really offers us time and the opportunity to

observe us at The way I like to explain this to many of the clients that I

work with is, imagine there's a spider hanging on the wall looking at you and

that you are that spider and you are observing yourself going into stress mode.

Or reacting to an email or binge eating on chocolate or chips because you

feel maybe overwhelmed, overextended.

Or sad.

Or bored or lonely.

So the beautiful, depressing moment.

It's the first step of becoming aware of any emotion, but also if

you are judging the emotion, and that is really the first step.

And then really realizing what is it that I, my emotion, right?

It's telling me something.

It's like, oh, stress is knocking on your door, right?

And it's like, Hey, I'm here, and then you're okay.

Thank you stress for letting me know that you're here.

I realize that there's something going on that is making me react a certain way,

but instead of reacting, which gives you very little time, you can then respond

because then you can ask yourself.

Stress can mean that.

I am very overwhelmed.

Maybe I'm not having fun.

Maybe I need to rest.

Maybe I need to connect, maybe I need to have a break, whatever that means.

And then people can ask themselves how and when can I meet that need for me

when I feel so that's overextended, or when I feel just out of balance.

I go to breath work to ground myself.

Many times I just tuning into another frequency of motion.

Uh, my favorite frequency is joy, because if we don't have

joy, we really don't have health.

You can cultivate joy so easily.

I just came out from the ocean and the reason why I love.

The ocean is because I swim with MP three music and I just

dance my ass off in the ocean.

So it's not just getting a workout, it's being in nature and

it's also just dancing freely.

It's free dance, but it doesn't have to be that.

It can just be looking at a beautiful sunset.

It can also be just looking out the window.

It can also just be.

Listening to something that really uplifts you, whether that's word, whether

that's a poem, reading something that really resonates with a positive emotion.

So switching that channel from stress, worry, fear, and

just wariness to gratitude.

Joy, love, inspiration because you can't be on both frequencies at once.

You can be on the elevated frequencies, which is joy, gratitude,

inspiration, excitement, abundance, or you can be in worry, lack fear.

So it's just easy to change once you're where, where you're at.

So that's the way I do it personally, but I love that it's taken me some time.

Yeah, I'm sure.

But I love that because it's true about, first you need to recognize

that your body is going into a bad place or your mind is going into a bad

place, and I think sometimes you don't realize you're holding your breath or

everything's scrunched up in your hands.

And so I would think that makes total sense that you, first, you need to

recognize that, and then you need to find something that eases that.

And I would think that, especially for entrepreneurs or business owners,

they've sometimes got things coming at them from all different directions.

And so they can get, like you said, an email, a phone call,

something that somebody posted or wrote, commented can automatically

send you into that crazy anxiety.

So I, I would imagine it's good to have those kind of tools.

Like you said, the breath work, the what brings me joy kind of things.

Switching the channel and not feeding into the stress and the anxiety living at rest.

What can I do that is going to produce a outcome that I feel good about?

Always think about that.

That's my course of action.

I love that.

And you'd mentioned something about your gut biome.

I've heard the term, I know a little bit about it, but why don't you explain to

our listeners what that is and how you can measure it, and what are we looking for?

So the gut microbiome would be one of the root causes when it

comes to functional medicine.

So as an example, we go to the doctor because you have reflux or

you have diarrhea, or you have, uh, some sort of digestive symptom.

And most doctors will tell you, here's anti-acid.

Or here is a whatever drug to mask the symptoms.

You work on your diet and last lencia in three months, and that's

like you being looked as a plant and only being looked as the leaves.

So what I specialize in functional medicine and functional nutrition.

Is looking at the stem, which would be, okay, what systems are out of balance.

And a lot of it, those systems could be detoxification.

Somebody's not pooping.

How are they gonna lose weight?

They're not gonna lose weight, and they probably have a gut bacteria that is not

contributing to optimal bowel movements.

So looking at that model where you look at the symptom or the condition or the

disease, and then looking at the systems that could be out of balance again.

Could be digestive, could be energy production, could be stress

response, and then the root cause.

One of the main root causes is microbiome, along with genes.

And of course food movement and stress response will be another one.

But the microbiome pretty much is, you wanna think about it as a rain forest.

And a healthy microbiome is kind of like a garden that has a lot of

biodiversity and it gets fed with your food, with what you put in your mouth

versus a drain of a microbiome that has been eroded by a lot of inflammation.

That can be coming from foods that are very pro-inflammatory.

Also stress, also only eating the same three to four foods that are maybe

highly processed or that may be good for you, but that are lacking diversity.

A good biome is also a biome that's exposed to nature because there's

tons of research about nature and especially sunshine playing a

significant role in the gut microbiome.

Movement because the gut, if you actually flatten it out, it's

about the size of a tennis court.

Imagine that organ, if we sit all day, it not gaining enough blood.

How is that organ going to digest?

How is that go organ going to do all its basic things?

For you to absorb, digest, metabolize, and pretty much use of

the foods that you're consuming.

It's not gonna happen if it doesn't get blood flow or oxygen

from exercise or through work.

So a healthy microbiome has a lot to do also with having a.

Balance, gut brain connection.

So there's tons of research that we know that our thoughts impact the biome

and that the biome impact the thoughts.

So if people have a DHD or bipolar or anxiety, depression, I see it a lot.

It has a whole lot to do.

With the microbiome, but also sometimes other things that I tend to figure

out with advanced testing that it's quite amazing and quite revealing

once you get into that person's biology and you can actually hack.

What's the issue and what is contributing to, in this case, we were talking about

the microbiome, but digestive issues.

But it can translate into pretty much any other condition.

So I hope I answered your question.

That's fascinating.

Absolutely fa, I did see a program that talked about that there's good

bacteria in your gut so that some of it's supposed to be there and then

there's bad bacteria in your gut.

The other thing that I learned not all that long ago was that how

you feel when you eat impacts how your body absorbs the nutrients.

It makes total sense, but I just thought it was fascinating 'cause you never think

about eating on the run or when you're in the middle of something stressful in your

stuff and chips in your mouth or whatever.

You just don't think about how your body's using that.

Versus if you sat down, relaxed, took your time and focused on

your meal, you are right on point.

There's a lot of research being, uh, in terms of the central nervous system

through the vagus nerve, and if we are not in rest and digest and really

present, that is the beauty of the present moment is that most people

are on their devices or just rushing.

Or sometimes eating by the sink or eating by the fridge.

So that doesn't allow, and especially eating in three to five minutes,

that doesn't allow for the body to make vial, hydrochloric acid

and for the body to really digest.

And a lot of people end up being super bloated and it's not quite

satisfied because those secretions really never got done by the body.

So I think that awareness is.

Important to cultivate so that people can actually start to see meaningful

shifts in their health when it comes to, of course, gut health, but overall

health awareness is the first step.

And I think as entrepreneurs and business owners, you need that energy.

You need to be clearheaded because you're making decisions constantly all day long.

And so I would love to hear about you, maybe with one of your clients.

Tell us how they were when they came to you, and then how they were

when they left working with you.

Oh, thank you.

Well, I have so many stories and I mean, one story that really comes to mind was

about a lady that really had a problem not consuming sugar, and after she did

her own work, her health from sugar.

Then we did some testing because he, she lost a lot of weight, but

she still had a lot of symptoms.

She was referred to me by a doctor because she had other medical

conditions that needed to be looked at, like diabetes, fatty liver.

She was postmenopausal, but she also had a lot of digestive issues, so we

found out that she actually had telia disease, which is an autoimmune disease,

and so many folks get not diagnosed with autoimmune disease until it's already.

Full blown.

And she told me, I've been to a lot of doctors and I don't know what else to do.

I have all these symptoms.

I've gained 25 pounds over the lacks, maybe eight to 10 months,

and I'm really exercising.

I'm eating really clean.

I've cut up my sugar.

So what is it when we.

Did a root cause assessment, which is an assessment that is very thorough, where

I have people complete forms and just.

Tell me a lot of what that's going on with them.

Then we decided to really dig deep into her microbiome and into her hormones

and also into her cellular health and see if she had any toxic load.

So we found out in her gut that she had an autoimmune triggering bacteria

if we had not realized that and did a treatment to eradicate that.

Bacteria heal the leaky gut, which is the doorway to autoimmune

disease and really repair the gut.

The process would have continued to spread to other organs because that

is how autoimmunity actually works.

Like the body attacks itself.

So you can have autoimmune disease in the gut, such as Crohn's or Celiac,

but if you don't catch it, if you don't stop it now, you may end up

with rheumatoid arthritis or Ms.

So that was great that we just realized that.

And then we also did a test that showed that she had heavy metals and

she had a bunch of mercury and that had to do with eating a lot of tuna

and also water that was not filtered.

She did all the work on really looking at her makeup, personal care

products, water, and that was huge because we did find a lot of other

toxins with other tests that we did.

And when we look at her hormones, we actually realize that.

For estrogen when eye tests.

I looked at estrogen pathways with the Dutch test.

That's a very well known test for hormonal balance.

We realized that a lot of her estrogen was not being detoxified, that is was

being held into her body, so that's why she couldn't lose weight in

addition to having all these toxins.

So the estrogen was actually putting her at risk for developing.

Cancer.

That happens a lot when people don't eat antibiotic free or hormone free meats.

We develop a program so that she could detoxify, of course, lifestyle, you

get some sweating, eat food so that you have a regular bowel movements.

And after we rebalance her gut, she was able to really have her bowel

movements under control and also just lifestyle, sweat, drinking of water.

It's all together.

It's not just the treatment, it is lifestyle it's way to be.

So we figured out a lot via testing, and she had a genetic variation that had a lot

to do with the way that she was feeling.

In terms of not being able to focus, also very inflamed and

just having some A DHD issues.

So we address that genetic variation with very targeted treatment, and now she's

like, oh my God, I'm like a new person.

I can work out.

I'm lean, I've lost 30 pounds, and I have energy, and I don't have to be running

to the bathroom and my cravings are gone.

Wow.

So that is a whole trans transformation story.

That certainly is a transformation.

Wow.

Must have been very frustrating for her to cut out sugar and then still be gaining

weight because you think that's it.

Sugar is the bad evil ingredient in so many things.

In fact, my husband is English, and when he came over here

to live here in the states.

He was like, even your bread has sugar in it.

Sugar is in everything.

Yeah.

So I'm not saying don't cut out sugar 'cause a lot of sugar is bad for you.

But it's fascinating how that wasn't just one thing, it was a whole

bunch of things and how you had to really dig into your lifestyle.

Like you said, the heavy metals, you don't think about your toothpaste and your.

Cream you put on your face and all these things are getting into your

body, and I don't know if we are necessarily observant and and attentive

to that, so that is fantastic.

Beauty really revealed a lot of nutritional deficiencies.

And when you look at metabolism, if you eat avocado for breakfast, you

need sort of nutrients to turn that avocado into actual substrates so

that then your body can actually use it to make brain cells as an example.

So she was very deficient in essential nutrients to actually burn body fat.

And a lot of people like just, I'm eating right and I'm going to the gym.

Why I'm not losing my fat?

Well.

Have we looked deep into your biology and a little bit what

Also mindset and her thoughts.

She was like, my body's betraying, my body's just turning on me.

And we really had to address the thinking and the emotions because

she was not in a good space.

So we started cultivating gratitude for what she could

do for how far she had gone.

I got her going into counting her daily wins and always starting with a ratitude

journey and thanking her body and really thanking a lot of the goodness

that she did have in her life and that just cultivating a winning mindset.

And I had her doing that at the beginning of the day and also at the end of the day.

And that just got her just set up for the day for success because

without that I don't know that she would have been so determined to

just really follow the program.

I love that so, so make sure you're taking note of what you're grateful for

because we all do have things in our life.

Life is tough.

A lot of things go wrong, but there are always even small

things to be grateful for.

So maybe that's a good tip for people to walk away from this

conversation is knowing that they should write down maybe three in the

morning and three in the evening.

Make it simple.

And I think, like I said, especially for business owners, you've

got a lot of people involved.

You've got people who are working for you, you've got clients, you've got

things that you're trying to balance.

So I think remembering that there are things, so many things to be

grateful for is such a great start.

Natalia, this has been fantastic.

You are a wealth of information.

The last thing I'm gonna ask you is what is the best way for people to reach out to

you if they say, hear what she's saying?

And I think she can help me, so I'd love to learn more.

They can reach out to me at my website, which is fn wellness.com.

Email is probably better.

So it is my name, Natalia.

N-A-T-A-L-I-A at as a Fernando, N as in Natalia, and then the word,

the word wellness, FN wellness.com.

They can also find me on Instagram as food.and.health.coach.

I know that there will be more, uh, postings on this post for where people

can find me on Facebook, but that would be the best way, and I'll let.

Everybody know that really for you to feel good and look good, it's important

to cultivate positive emotion because that dictates everything in this meet

suit that a lot of people are like, wow, you look amazing what you do.

Well, I practice gratitude, but you know what?

I cultivate a lot joy.

So live your life with joy and let your joy heal you.

What an amazing way to end this episode.

Thank you so much, Natalia.

We will put all the links where people can reach you in the show notes,

and thank you so much for joining me today and inspiring everyone listening

to get healthy and to stay healthy.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

Have a wonderful day.

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