Imagine getting up every day full of energy is

if you were in your 20s. Again, what would that be? Like? What

would that be worth to you?

What is your health worth to you? Think about it. Your health

isn't everything. But without it, everything else is nothing.

And yet too many of us are taking it for granted until

something goes wrong. No one wakes up hoping to be diagnosed

with a disease or chronic illness. And yet, we've never

been taught how to be proactive in our health through our school

system, or public health. As a registered health coach and

integrative health practitioner, I believe it is time this

information is made available to everyone. Combining new

knowledge around your health and the ability to do my functional

medicine lab tests in the comfort of your own home will

allow you to optimize your health for today and all your

tomorrow's don't wait for your wake up call.

Welcome back to the don't wait for your wake up call podcast. I

am your host, Melissa daily. Thank you for tuning in and

listening. And this month, the month of March 2022, my focus is

on the power within the power within our own body. Our body

knows, it is never wrong. Sometimes we have imbalances in

the body. And that is what I want to be talking about today.

Because when we tune in to the power within our own body, and

listen, we can truly be working in harmony with our body. So our

body is simply incredible. And yet, many of us take it for

granted day in and day out. We only get one body in this life.

And we need to look after it. If your body is failing you though,

it isn't your fault. There are many things in society today

that are working against you taking care of your body. Well,

that's lack of education in our health and how to be proactive

and better caring for our body, high stress and the demands of

society to you know, work harder, do more the 40 hour work

week, that becomes the 60 hour workweek just based on demands

and workload and expectations of your boss and other superiors.

There's poor nutrition, look at what's offered in the

supermarket shelves, there's so many foods that are nutrient

deplete. And yet because they're in the stores, people buy them,

they're loaded with sugars that are addictive that make us want

more salt does the same thing. And we're not feeding our body

and giving our body what it needs in order to be in a state

of good health. We also have nutrient deplete soils. And so

when the nutrients aren't in the soil, they're not then grown

into the food, and therefore, we're not getting the nutrition

into our body. And I share an example of this over and over

again. But if we just take one food, oranges, and we look at

the nutrient density of an orange back in the 1930s and 40s

to today, we wouldn't need to eat nine oranges today to get

the same nutrient density out of what they got from one orange

back in the 1930s and 40s. And nobody does that there's too

much fiber in that orange, you get full too quickly. But it

goes to show you that if we're not giving our body the

nutrition that it needs, it can't be functioning at the

level that we demand of it. Right. And we also many of us

have grown up with the belief that we don't really have to

look after our bodies because if we get sick, we go to the

doctor, they'll give us a pill and they'll make us better. But

that system is failing us as well because very often that

simply ends in chronic illness, which is our true epidemic in

the world today. Look around you. Everybody knows somebody

with some kind of chronic illness, whether it be heart

disease type two diabetes, leaky gut, autoimmune diseases,

Alzheimer's and dementia, some forms of cancer, obesity, these

are all chronic illnesses. And they're all lifestyle illnesses.

And when we know how to work with our body, we can choose to

not end up in a state of chronic illness. But again, the

education isn't there for you to easily find this information.

and out. When I was in the corporate world, I didn't know

this. I didn't know what I know, today, seven years later. And

when I first started, and taking all of my health coaching

courses, I kept having these aha, as of why didn't I know

that? Why hasn't somebody told me this? How can I be in my 40s,

and never have learned this before. Simply because it's not

taught through our education system is not readily available

through our public health system, we have to choose to

take additional courses, to get the information we need to truly

know how to look after our body. But if that isn't your planned

vocation, or your planned interest at university, etc, you

haven't necessarily taken those extra courses. So that's why I

have this podcast. And that's why I'm here sharing with you

today. Because I truly believe it is so important, as I said,

we have one body, and we need to be looking after it.

And our body really would just like to be in balance. And yet

there are things that we do all day long. From the food we eat,

as I've mentioned, to the stress, we are under to the lack

of sleep, all of these things can create imbalances within our

body. But because it's happening inside where we can't see it, we

don't necessarily know that it's happening. Now our body does try

to let us know it talks to us. And you might have heard me say

this before, that at first, it whispers gently, like the touch

of a feather. And if we don't listen, it might come along and

thump us with a break. And if we still don't listen, watch out

because it might whack us with a wrecking ball. An all of us know

someone who's been whacked with a wrecking ball. Whether it be

you know, they just can't get out of bed one morning, because

their body has said enough is enough, you need to slow down,

and it is time to heal. And I'm going to make sure you slow down

by making you feel so awful, that you can't get out of bed.

Maybe that's someone in a state of burnout. Or maybe it's

somebody that, you know, has a diagnosis of a chronic illness.

They didn't go to bed perfectly healthy, and then wake up the

next morning with a diagnosis that chronic illness has been

building inside their body over weeks, months, and in some

cases, years. And the body has been talking them to them

throughout that time. But we don't slow down enough. We don't

hear the messages. Or perhaps we do hear the messages. But we've

been programmed by society to believe it's just normal aging.

It's my genetics, or seasonal allergies, or whatever other

label we give it to allow ourselves to ignore the messages

and keep going on in our busy lives. Doo doo doo in order to

get everything done that's on our plate. But when we do this,

what happens? The body continues to get more and more out of

balance. And this triggers inflammation that causes cells

to turn on disease. And at some point, we get thumped with a

break or whacked by a wrecking ball. Now, I've talked about

this on previous episodes, but I know not everyone's listened to

every single episode. Although I have had several people reach

out to me recently telling me they have listened to every

single one of my episodes. And thank you to those of you that

are tuning into every episode. I really appreciate that feedback

too. So what I've talked about before is what Hippocrates said

over 2000 years ago, that all disease starts in the gut. So in

starting to pay attention to our body, we need to really be

paying attention to this epicenter of our health. And now

modern day science epigenetics has proven Hippocrates to be

correct. What we now know, with epigenetics is that it is not

just your genes that are a factor in whether you get a

disease or not. We all have genes in our body that

predispose us genetically to certain diseases. But what we

now know is that's only five to 10% of the equation as to

whether you actually get that disease. The other 90 to 95% of

the equation is the lifestyle factors, and the environment you

create inside your body in your gut. And I know these stats can

sound scary. But I like to think of them as empowering is they

mean that in 90 to 95% of the cases of all disease, you have

the choice as to whether you let your cells turn on the genes for

that disease.

Because remember, it's five to 10% of the equation is your

genetic predisposition. And 90 to 95% of the equation is the

environment you choose to create inside your body. That is what

dictates your health outcomes. So you absolutely have the

choice, excuse me, you absolutely have the choice as to

whether your cells turn on the genes for that disease, you

might be genetically predisposed to heart disease, but that

doesn't mean you will get heart disease. Instead, it means you

have a choice to create a body that is imbalanced with normal

levels of inflammation. So your cells never turn on your genes.

And we see that all the time in siblings, right? One sibling

might get the disease that both of their parents had, or their

parents and their grandparents and another sibling might not.

They have very similar genes because they're in the same

family. But maybe their lifestyles are different. And

that is why one ends up with the disease that their parents and

grandparents have had. And the other one doesn't. We see it

even with twins, there's research that shows that. And it

comes down to the lifestyle factors, not the genes. So how

do you ensure that you keep your body in balance and have normal

levels of inflammation rather than chronic inflammation in

your body? Well, it all starts with education, which is, as I

said, Why I offer this podcast? So thank you for listening. And

the reality is, is we don't know what we don't know until we need

to know. But knowledge is power. So what if you could learn about

your health now in order to start to take preventative

action? Well, I presume that's why you're here. And this is

what is unfortunately missing in society, we are not taught how

to take preventative steps in our health. If you however,

recognize that health is your true wealth, or your greatest

asset, then you will want to take care of it. You take care

of your house, don't you cleaning bathrooms and your

kitchen, vacuuming the carpets fixing things that are broken

painting it doing rentals and you take care of your car taking

it for regular services and oil changes. But do you take care of

your body in the same way? Okay, maybe you take a shower every

day. Maybe you exercise every day. And if you exercise

everyday kudos to you but you're still in the minority. What else

are you doing to take care of your body? Do you know your

inflammation levels? Do you know your cortisol levels? Are you

taking care of them keeping them in balance? Do you know your

mineral levels? One of the most common causes of heart disease

is an imbalance in your electrolytes calcium, magnesium,

sodium, potassium. Wouldn't it be nice to know these levels in

order to keep them in balance? Seeing his death by

cardiovascular disease? is the number one cause killer in North

America? Do you know if your hormones are out of balance? Do

you know all for thyroid markers. One in eight women will

get thyroid disease in her life. And yet our medical system only

looks at one marker not all four markers in an annual exam.

Knowing all four markers allows you to see the early warning

signs which allows you to bring the body back into balance more

easily. By the time that one marker shows there's a problem

with the thyroid, the body is far more out of balance and it

takes longer to bring it back into balance. Do you know if

your gut has Candida or bacterial overgrowth, mold,

fungus parasites or H Pylori? Do you struggle with gas or

bloating, acid reflux, constipation or diarrhea? Well,

all of these are signs of an unhappy digestive system, a sign

that the gut is out of balance. And nearly all of my clients

struggle with one or more of these things. And then finally

at a point where they're looking for answers because they're

tired of having to deal with it or not getting answers. And so

this is you know, maybe there that stage between the feather

and the brick, and that's where I love to work with clients

because it's much easier to help the body heal than before.

Already at the wrecking ball stage. It is extremely common

these days for people to be having digestive issues, simply

because of our lifestyle factors that I talked about before. Poor

nutrition, high stress, poor sleep.

Our gut is an entire ecosystem of 40,000 species of bacteria, 5

million species of fungi 300,000 species of parasites. This is

six pounds of living species and over 100 trillion microbes in

our gut or our microbiome. And they're all designed to work in

balance to help break down our food, keep our immune system

strong, fight off pathogens, and live symbiotically within us for

our optimal well being. But as I've said, stress, poor

nutrition, poor sleep, antibiotics, food sensitivities

and intolerances, birth control, anti inflammatory products like

Tylenol and Advil, and more, can create imbalances in our gut. So

using all of these factors over the course of a lifetime, mean

that many, many people in today's world are struggling

with imbalances in their gut, which causes inflammation, and

then can trigger ourselves to turn on disease. So is it any

wonder that we have so much chronic illness in our world

today? So how do you find out if your body is out of balance,

aside from it talking to you, but then you not really being

sure what that means? Well, the easiest and quickest way is to

run at home lab tests, these labs are literally mailed to

your home with instructions on how to do them. a urine sample,

a blood spot card, meaning you prick your finger and you drip

some blood onto a card with circles on it. Hair snipping

from hair at the nape of your neck, or saliva tests where you

spit saliva into a tube. All things that you can do at home,

you don't have to make an appointment, you don't have to

go to a clinic, you can do these at home. I offer my clients

discount pricing on the labs when we work together over a

minimum of four sessions. As we guide your body back into

balance. Once we see what is going on where it is out of

balance based on the results of your labs. That was the gap I

saw in the market in working with my own naturopath and

referring others to her they would get their results. And

then they'd be told what to do what they should do. But did

they actually do it? Unfortunately, they didn't,

because they didn't know where to start. And it felt

overwhelming. And it just felt too hard. So they did nothing.

And there is no point in having the information from the labs if

then you do nothing with it. So that's why I support my clients

through a process of four sessions, using an app providing

meal plans and recipes, if needed, and then answering

questions through the app adjusting supplements as needed.

As we guide the body back into balance. This high level of

support is what gets results for my clients. And that is what I

want for my clients. So whether you know your body is already

talking to you, or you want to take proactive action, these lab

tests are for you. They provide you so much information as to

what is going on inside your body. And as we look at the

imbalances, we then know the steps to rebalance the body. And

once the body is back in balance, it will heal itself if

that's what's needed. That is what the body is designed to do.

heal itself just like it heals a cut finger or a broken arm. It's

our daily life, though, that has us so far out of balance due to

again, let's say it together, poor sleep, poor nutrition, high

stress, We've burned through all our vitamins and minerals. And

the body is in a state that is simply too depleted to be able

to bring itself back into balance. And so then it can't

heal itself. It needs added support. And so where are we, we

use the labs, we determine those imbalances. And then we support

what is needed to bring the body back into balance. A body in

balance doesn't get sick, doesn't harbor disease, or hold

on to excess weight. So let's talk about these labs. Anyone

listening you might want to go to my YouTube channel because

I'm going to share my screen here so that you can actually

see the labs. I'll put the link in the show notes so you can

watch this portion later. As I show you exactly what the labs

look like. And while you're on my YouTube channel, it would be

awesome if you could also subscribe I'm trying to get to

100 subscribers so that I can actually brand my YouTube

channel and then it would be so much easier for me to Just tell

you here and now what the URL is. Because I hope one day, it

will be youtube.com forward slash your guided health

journey. But it is not that today. So I will put the link in

the show notes, please subscribe, I'm almost at my 100

just need a few more. And then next time around,

I can that actually give you the URL verbally as well. So let me

share my screen here. And we are going to run through these labs.

So the first lab I want to talk about is the food sensitivities

lab, this lab tests for over 190 Different foods, and assesses

the immune response in your body, when you eat these foods.

And immune response is also creating inflammation. When we

have a cut finger, the body creates inflammation in that

area to help heal the gut heal the wound. Same thing with a

swollen ankle, right? When we have an immune response, it

triggers inflammation. So if we are unknowingly eating foods

that we have a sensitivity to day in and day out, we are

creating inflammation in our body. And that over time, has us

in a place of chronic inflammation, which we don't

want, because remember, chronic inflammation triggers our cells

to turn on those genes that we that triggered the disease that

we're genetically predisposed to. And you might I have people

come to me that have digestive issues, they have symptoms, and

they say, well, it's not the food. Because I've been eating

this food my whole life, and it can't be the food. But here's

the reality, there's several factors going on here. First of

all, as children, we innately know what our body likes, and

doesn't like because we have that innate ability to listen to

our body. But what happens is our well meaning parents, my

parents did this to me. And I did this to my children, because

remember, I didn't know then what I know now we'll put food

on the table, the same meal for everyone because it's convenient

to feed the whole family the same meal. And when somebody

says I don't want this, we get told, eat everything on your

plate because there's children starving in Africa. We've all

heard that. But the reality is, is that a young child doesn't

have the vocabulary in order to truly say how that food makes

them feel. And explain that to a parent. And the parent isn't

necessarily listening because the parent is reacting out of

habit in the way they were parented talking about children

starving in Africa. So over time, we start to override our

body signals, we stopped listening to our body signals,

and we eat the food. And because it's not an anaphylactic

reaction, there's nothing dire going on, we might not feel

great. The next day, we might have a tummy ache, we might have

brain fog, we might have joint pain, but we don't associate it

with the ongoing eating of this food or we don't communicate

that to our parents. So we keep eating it. And over time over

the span of a lifetime. This escalates and the body starts

talking to us more loudly, or trying to speak with different

symptoms to make us finally do something kind of we get to that

brick stage where we now are like, Okay, this is so bad. I

need to actually investigate this. But we still don't think

it's the food. It's also very difficult to discover which

foods are the culprit, because we eat so many different foods

in any given day. And when it's a food sensitivity, the symptoms

tend not to show up for 24 to 48 to even 72 hours later. And let

me ask you this. Do you remember what you ate three days ago? Can

you name every single food you ate? Probably not. And as a

result, it's very difficult to figure this out on your own,

even using a food diary. And so running the lab just makes it

super easy because it tells you what foods you have a

sensitivity to. The other thing that increases our risk of food

sensitivities is our toxic load. Something else I've talked about

often and if you're not familiar with toxic load, you can go back

and listen to my episodes one through four of this podcast.

As we increase our toxic load, we're also increasing our body's

inflammation levels, and increasing the number of

sensitivities we will have when it comes to our food because our

digestive system is weaker. And we struggle to break down foods.

So we further increase inflammation. So this particular

sample report that you can see on the screen here just shows

page one of this lab is going Through dairy, it's going

through lagoons, it's going through fruits, it's going

through grains, fish, seafood, meat, as well as nuts and seeds.

And this particular person on this sample report has a lot of

food sensitivities. So this tells me that they very likely

have a leaky gut. And we need to be addressing their gut, while

also eliminating the foods. When we eliminate the foods, we start

to lower inflammation, we start to lower stress on the body. And

when we lower stress on the body, the body can start

healing. And once we heal the gut, we can then start to

reintroduce these foods. Now, when we remove the foods, we're

not removing them forever. We're removing them depending on the

degree of sensitivity for six weeks, 12 weeks, or six months.

And yes, we can reintroduce them. Once we've given the body

a chance to heal. It simply may mean that as you reintroduce

them, and you have newfound awareness around how you feel,

and you're introducing one food at a time, you can assess over

that 72 hour period, how that food makes you feel? Does it

give you brain fog? Does it give you joint pain? Does it cause

stomach aches? Does it cause Gasser diarrhea or bloating

so that you know what that food does to you. And with a healed

gut, maybe it doesn't do anything at all. Or maybe it

does. And so now you have choices, you have the choice to

eat that food less often, right, you're not going to eat it three

times a day, seven days a week. Many people do eat grains three

times a day, seven days a week. And if their body can't cope

with it, we need to cut it back. So or maybe it's eggs, maybe you

have eggs three days a week, five days a week. Well, now if

it's eggs that are the problem. And eggs are the number three

food sensitivity. First is gluten, then dairy, then eggs.

If eggs are the problem, well, maybe you're going to have eggs

once every couple of weeks, not three to five times a week. So

it gives you choices. If you shouldn't be doing gluten and

dairy, but the whole family is doing pizza and you're watching

a hockey game together, whatever it is, and it's a Friday night,

maybe that's okay, because over the weekend, you don't have any

plans. And if you don't feel great or you have brain fog, it

doesn't matter if you lie around on the couch. But if you have a

really big presentation in three days, maybe you don't want to

have that pizza just to make sure that you don't have that

brain fog or that discomfort before your presentation. So

again, it gives you choices. Having this knowledge is

powerful because then you get to make the right choices for you

knowing the ramifications, as opposed to not knowing in some

days feeling good. And some days feeling like crap and not

understanding why. So the next lab is the thyroid and adrenal

hormones lab. And I love this lab because it gives us so much

information in one place. It gives me all four sex hormone

markers. It gives me four cortisol markers throughout the

day. It gives me all four thyroid markers. It gives me

both the fasted insulin and then 90 Day insulin markers as well

as vitamin D markers. You can't see that because that's on page

two. But all of this information in one place is extremely

helpful for people, especially people that are struggling with

low energy. Because I get to see what is your cortisol doing? Is

it doing what it should be doing, which is it should be

highest in the morning when you wake up between six and 8am. And

then it should be dropping by about half by lunchtime,

dinnertime. And then at its lowest at bedtime. Because we

want cortisol low at bedtime. It's the invoice marker to

melatonin. We want melatonin at its highest at that time so that

you can get into a deep restorative sleep. And when

cortisol isn't functioning that way, it's an indication of the

stress on your body. And you may not feel that stressed. But the

reality is, is stress stacks within our body. And our body is

trying to cope with that stress. And not only the stresses in

your daily life, but perhaps you've got a parasite that your

body's fighting, you've got gut imbalances, maybe you're

fighting a virus, those are all stresses as well that your body

is trying to cope with. And perhaps it's not able to calm

properly at night for you to get into that deep restorative sleep

for your body to be able to make the melatonin that needs to be

made and we need to support your body in calming before bed. And

we can do that through the use of natural supplements. So when

we see the imbalances in your cortisol, we know how to support

the body and coming back into balance. Seeing estrogen and

progesterone ratios is really important particularly for women

because a when estrogen When is too high relative to

progesterone and the balance is off, it puts us into a state of

estrogen dominance. And when we're in a state of estrogen

dominance, that can trigger other things inside our body, it

can cause our thyroid to slow down. This is why so many more

women have thyroid disease than men. As I said earlier, one in

eight women will get thyroid disease in their lifetime. So if

our estrogen is too high relative to progesterone, it can

trigger thyroid issues. It can also put us on the path towards

type two diabetes, it can also left unchecked cause breast

cancer, it's one of the known causes of breast cancer. So

seeing all of this information on one lab is really important,

helpful information, in order for us to understand where the

body is out of balance, and help bring the body back into

balance. The next lab is the gut health lab. Whoops, I went one

too far, too, too far.

There we go. Our gut health lab. And this lab is also incredibly

helpful. This is a urine sample. And it will show us whether you

have bacterial overgrowth, Candida overgrowth, mold or

fungus in your gut. That's all on page one. Page two goes into

mitochondrial function. And of course, our mitochondria are

energy powerhouses in the body. And if they're not functioning

well, we need to be supporting them in order for you to have

good energy. It also goes into neurotransmitter function.

Because of that gut brain connection. If the gut isn't

happy, neither is the brain. And if they got isn't happy, it's

not producing neurotransmitters, particularly serotonin and

dopamine at high enough levels for us to feel good and happy.

And that's sometimes why people go to the doctor saying I feel

blah, I'm just down and feel depressed, and they get put on a

drug and anti anxiety or an anti depressive drug, as opposed to

let's look at what's going on inside your gut. That could be

triggering it to not be able to produce the right amounts of

serotonin and dopamine levels for you to feel good. Again,

when we understand this information, it's really

powerful in being able to heal the body or bring the body back

into balance, at which point it heals itself. I'm not healing

anything, I'm not diagnosing anything. I'm simply looking for

the imbalances, helping the body come back into balance, at which

point it will heal itself. So this lab also shows us vitamin

levels for key vitamins. And again, we burn through those

under high stress. So we want to know if your body is depleted,

and then support those levels so that the body can function

optimally. And it also shows detox pathways are your detox

pathways functioning well are they blocks do we need to

support them more, we do live in a toxic world. And so the body

needs all the support it can get when it comes to detoxing. The

next lab is our middle metals and minerals lab tests. This is

simply a hair clipping from the nape of the neck. And this lab

will show us our electrolytes and all of our key minerals. So

our electrolytes are our calcium, magnesium, sodium and

potassium. And as I said earlier, when there's an

imbalance there, that is a very common cause of heart disease,

our number one killer in North America. When we are under

stress, we also burn through our minerals, like we do our

vitamins. And so we can very often be depleted in our

minerals, including our zinc, or copper or manganese, or chromium

or Selenium or phosphorus. And then the body can't bring itself

back into balance. So we need to address this, we need to support

the body by giving the body what it needs. But what's important

too, when it comes to our minerals is it's not just about

our deficiency levels, it's also about having them be in balance

with one another. We don't want so much copper that we don't

have enough zinc because they will push each other up and

down, we need to have them in balance. The same for calcium

and magnesium, for example. So again, this lab shows us all of

that. And it also shows us metal toxic levels for five key

metals, aluminum, arsenic, mercury, cadmium and lead. And

it's important to know that too, because our body struggles to

detox metals, which are not natural in the body by itself,

so we need to support it with a proper heavy metal detox to get

those metals out. Because if we don't, what do they do? They

cause inflammation. What does that do? Over time that chronic

level of inflammation will trigger ourselves to turn on

disease. Not only that some of those metals are neurotoxins,

meaning they get into our brain and they cause problems with

our, our brain function. And we don't want that we've only got

one brain as well, right? So we know aluminum is a known

neurotoxin, so is mercury.

So the next lab is our omega three lab test. And I love this

one, it's measuring our level of inflammation in the body. It's

comparing our levels of omega threes to omega sixes, these are

our essential fatty acids. And they're essential because our

body doesn't make them so we have to get them through our

food. Omega sixes are the inflammatory, essential fatty

acid and omega threes are the anti inflammatory. But here's

the thing, Omega sixes are in everything in terms of our food

is very easy for us to get omega sixes into our diet, whereas

omega threes are harder to get. The best sources are wild fatty

fish like sardines, anchovies, wild salmon, well, mackerel, the

there are some plant based omega threes as well, but the body has

to go through an extra process to break that down. And so it's

harder for us to get enough through just a plant based diet,

or we have to eat a lot more in order to get enough. So I love

this lab, because it says right under that green line where it

says total Omega three 8%. Right underneath that it says we want

to be at 9%. If when we get to the desired level of greater

than 9%, we are actually then reducing our risk of sudden

death by cardiovascular disease by 99 0%. Now, that's powerful.

Given that death by cardiovascular disease is the

number one killer in North America, if we could get

everybody in the world to balance their Omega three to

omega six levels in order to have balanced inflammation in

the body, we would lower our levels of heart disease

significantly. So what else that I love about this lab is that on

page two, it actually shows us does your body need more EPA or

more DHA, which are two types within Omega three. And so when

you go to get a supplement, you buy something supplements store,

there's so many things to choose from, how do you know what's a

good supplement? And is it actually giving you what your

body needs. And so here we're getting that additional

information. So that you know, I need a omega three supplement

official a supplement that has more EPA than DHA, or I need one

that has more DPA than DHA and EPA, right? It's just giving you

more information, which again, knowledge is power. And then the

last lab that I want to share with you is our stool test. This

lab will also look for Candida overgrowth, bacteria overgrowth,

and goes further it looks at for parasites, it looks for h

pylori. And it also looks at digestive function. What's the

pH level in your stomach? What's the enzymatic production in your

stomach are the levels good or not. And so that's a lot of

powerful information for people that are struggling with

digestive issues or have symptoms of parasites or H

Pylori, and we need more information. And sometimes you

think parasites or H Pylori are just a problem in developing

countries. But that isn't true. It's actually still very common

globally. Because of course, we travel to developing countries

and then come home again. But we can get parasites and h pylori

locally within our first world countries as well from a number

of different sources.

So this is a three days through lab. And the reason that we do

it as a three day lab is that the speck of stool that you take

out of the stool and put into the container is a fairly small

speck. And so from your bowel movement, you pick a spot, it

could it's easy to actually miss the pathogen. But when we do it

over three days, we have a much higher chance of finding the

pathogen and at least one of those stool samples in order to

know exactly what we're dealing with. And when we do just a one

day test, there's a very high, false negative. So you get told,

Oh, you don't have anything. There's nothing wrong with you.

We've just done a one day test. But what I see in the three day

Labs is I'll see the results across all three days. And I'll

see Oh, day one, there was nothing but on the day two lab

we found something and on the day three tests, we found

something where sometimes we find it just in one of the

samples of the three but at least we know it's there and

what we're dealing with. So then we know how to eradicate it from

the body. And then again, bring the body back into balance. So,

I wanted to share all of this with you today, because again,

we're talking about the power within our gut health or the way

our body talks to us. And the way our body is designed to be

in balance, and when we understand that when we know how

to listen to our body, and when we also know the options that

are available to us to determine whether our body is out of

balance in any of these areas I've addressed through the labs,

you have more choices, you have more choices to choose to be

proactive in your health and get a baseline of all of these labs

when you're feeling amazing to know exactly what your levels

are. And then run the labs annually if you like to catch

the early warning signs of things going sideways. Or if you

are struggling with symptoms, then these labs can really help

you understand what is going on, and then how we can address that

in order to bring the body back into balance. So thank you so

much for listening, I invite you to reach out if you would like

to know more information, you can contact me via email at

Melissa at your guided health journey.com or simply go to my

website, which is your guided health journey.com. The other

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