How Stress & Cortisol Causes Your Body to Use Food Differently—Episode 42

When I was in the height of my healing journey, my Functional doc discovered that while I was eating highly nutrient-rich foods and fiercely abstaining from inflammatory ones, I still wasn’t absorbing the nutrients from the foods I ate. You can imagine how discouraging that was. And at that moment […]

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How Stress & Cortisol Causes Your Body to Use Food Differently—Episode 42