Naturopath. Founder of The Fertility Terrain Method. Eat Your Hydration Organotherapy. Researcher. Educational content only.
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Gave birth to a baby with autoimmune diseases due to toxin overload from my girl boss lifestyle where I accumulated exogenous estrogen and toxins like metals, mold and endocrine disruptors.
Promise myself I will try to help as many as I can to not go through what my family went through.
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My 3-year-old and 19-month-old both have their cribs right next to my bed. I’ve always let my children sleep in bed with me, and my 19-month-old still spends most nights sleeping right beside me. My 3-year-old naturally transitioned to his crib and has been sleeping through the night since he was 2.
And even now, the second one of them starts crying, I respond.
They’re not crying because they want to ruin my night or manipulate me. They’re crying because they need something. Most of the time, it’s simply comfort and reassurance. Other times, it’s a wet diaper, not feeling well, or something else that needs my attention.
Frankly, I don’t need a scientific study to convince me to go against every maternal instinct I have. Responding to my babies when they cry feels like the most natural thing in the world.
I understand that parents have to make their own decisions and figure out what works best for their families. But personally, the idea of leaving a little baby alone in another room to cry for comfort while deliberately withholding it has never made sense to me.
They’re only little for such a short time. If they need me, I want them to know I’m there. I don’t see that as creating dependency. I see it as building trust.
Andra’s Naturopathic Tip: Cooking steak? Marinate it in lemon juice and rosemary, then serve it with gravy made from bone broth.
Lemon’s acidity can help reduce AGE compounds that form as meat browns. AGEs can cross link your collagen, making it stiffer and harder to break down and replace.
The gelatin in bone broth adds glycine, an antiinflammatory amino acid found in collagen. Ray Peat’s recommendation to make overall the protein profile more like eating the whole animal.
The” cry it out” method was strongly recommended in early 1900s by the U.S. Department of Labor. Ironically, this was during an era of industrialization, when women’s participation in paid labor was growing.
It says everything you need to know about the subject.
What if the “Cry It Out” sleep training (aka extinction-based sleep training) has contributed to mental health issues in young people?
In some ways, it’s the most insane thing to do to a child (and is based on incredibly poor science). For centuries, families co-slept without issues, but in modern times, it has become increasingly taboo… why?
How can repeated emotional non-response to a baby be healthy? What does it do to their stress calibration, attachment expectations, and self-regulation? How does it play out in their long term relationships and social connections?
I’ve read the studies and they are poorly designed and weakly supported. Yet, we have an entire generation of parents that blindly follow this insane protocol without reviewing the data themselves.
To be fair, the data supporting co-sleeping is weak as well, but it has centuries of precedent so I feel much more comfortable supporting that than a new approach that was largely instituted since the 1920s.
For some context, in the 20th century, behaviorist John Watson (1928), interested in making psychology a hard science, took up the crusade against affection as president of the American Psychological Association. He applied the paradigm of behaviorism to childrearing, warning about the dangers of “too much mother love”. The 20th century was the time when “science" was assumed to know better than mothers, grandmothers, and families about how to raise a child. Too much kindness to a baby would result in a whiney, dependent, failed human being.
A government pamphlet from the time recommended that "mothering meant holding the baby quietly, in tranquility-inducing positions" and that "the mother should stop immediately if her arms feel tired" because "the baby is never to inconvenience the adult." A baby older than six months "should be taught to sit silently in the crib; otherwise, he might need to be constantly watched and entertained by the mother, a serious waste of time."
The truth is the opposite. We now know that ignoring a child raising cortisol levels and hurts trust and attachment. Yet, every young parent I know today has been brainwashed to let their child cry in silence. It’s truly wild.
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The unhealthier you become, the more you begin to act like a piece of shit to other people. It was @BioavailableNd who said that underlying, unresolved inflammation lends itself to inflammatory emotional responses. That’s the truth
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The notion of “nutritional dark matter” is key here. We know literally nothing about the active compounds in food. We know maybe 150 of many thousands, maybe tens or hundreds of thousands. This is why the attempt to replicate foods like milk in bio reactions is doomed to fail.
In celebration of my birthday, I wanted to thank this incredible community. Your curiosity, and support have made this journey more meaningful than I could have imagined. This year has been challenging to say the least on a personal level, but I am back and hungrier than ever to support all of your journeys to the best of my abilities. 🧿✨
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It's been only 4 days in this bathroom and look how full it is! Cheaper to get a dehumidifier?
Controlling moisture when it comes to mold is a priority! A cheap and cheerful hack to help keep your closets dry: moisture-absorbing bags. Dehumidifiers are useful in humid climate, but closed closets can still get damp, so I love hanging these bags in mine.
The amount of water they collect in such a short time is wild. I posted my own example on IG this morning.
Your ability to degrade histamine. With natural aging, the rise in nnEMF around us over the past decade, and “pandemics,” our bodies are under constant strain from dysregulated histamine. Keep this in mind when focusing on your longevity.
Search histamine/mcas in my profile or check my Sub for my recommendations in article form.
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i love it when a woman turns the storms of her life into lush gardens of roses and pomegranates.
Everyone is talking about how to increase your iron & ferritin. Viral posts, Substack articles and endless supplement links. But almost no one is discussing how nickel can compete with iron for intestinal absorption and potentially bug its metabolism, especially if iron intake is low or inflammation is high.
Top sources of nickel:
- Cacao
- Lentils & beans
- Oats & whole grains
- Nuts & seeds
- Vapes
- And let’s not forget potential nickel exposure from dental devices
The non chalant era is over. We deeply feel, express, say no more often, prioritize ourselves and show care to our loved ones, always with class and grace.
