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I am so grateful for my body and my mobility, my immune system, my good health, my five senses, my body and soul, and I am, I tell myself, I talk to myself, like thank you so much, like thank you body, thank you for my mobility because you don't really realize

that your body's doing all these great things for you

until you don't feel good or something's not working.

And I want to think my body for those things in between.

And I had gone through like digestive issues when I was in college and I was so stressed out that I gave myself a stomach ulcer and there's not really a cure for it except for just to like rest and heal and I think it's you have to just think like okay if you are

stress and the way that you overwork is really adjusting it you're like fixing your

body or doing something in a certain way like what can I do to take care of my body and so

for me the gut is really important. I know people talk about that health all the time but it

really is related to so many other things and I chose to invest in working with a

functional medicine doctor to figure out what was working on with my body.

If you don't want to make that large of an investment, there are really great at-home

test that you can do where you just prick your finger or you can spit into something and send it off.

There's a lot of different places online and you can get back information.

So there's that way if you want to do like the lower end of the spectrum as far as costs on the higher end would be working with a functional medicine doctor.

I took like so much blood I did all of these tests because I was like what happened was during when COVID was happening I was like you know I want to take care of my body the best that I can because there is so much that happens in the world that we cannot control but what I can control is I want to do my best at.

And so I was like, I don't know why I'm bloating

and my skin I have these issues and my eyebrows

are thinning on the outside corner.

And I felt like my thyroid was low because my mom has an under active

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