Speaking Life Into Motherhood ~ Holistic Health, Self Care, Resources, & Support for Christian Moms of Children With Special Needs & Disabilities

18 The Christian Mom's Guide to Amino Acid Therapy: Natural Support for Anxiety, ADHD, Depression

• Elyse Scheeler MS CCC-SLP, Wellness Coach, Group Fitness Instructor • Season 1 • Episode 18

Share episode

Is your brain constantly on fire? 

Do you feel depleted trying to manage your child's needs while neglecting your own?

 Are you interested in natural approaches to help both you and your special needs child find calm?

Does your child have and ADHD, Autism, or other diagnosis? Are you unhappy with what traditional therapies are offering? This episode brings info for a holistic approach you probably haven't heard of. 

In this transformative conversation with Laurie Hammer, functional nutritional therapist and neuro nutrient specialist, we explore how amino acid therapy can literally change your brain chemistry and help you find the calm you've been missing as a special needs mom.

Connect with Laurie:

Need prayers? Have a topic you'd like to be discussed? Send us a text!


While you're here, please leave a quick rating or review! I pray this episode blesses you! Remember, you don't just have to survive mama- you can thrive!

Connect with the host: Elyse Scheeler


Disclaimer
The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the guests and hosts and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Speaking Life Into Motherhood. None of the advice or discussion on the podcast is medical advice. Always consult with your medical provider before using any supplements, essential oils, or therapy methods.

Elyse Scheeler (01:09)
Welcome back everyone today. I am so excited to be having Lori Hammer with us today. She is a functional nutritional therapist and a neuro nutrient specialist. She focuses on helping clients with brain toxicity, depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and autoimmune conditions. Her journey of overcoming her own personal health challenges through holistic methods has driven her passion. She's dealt with cancer, celiac disease, bulimia, depression, and now she helps clients from all over the world, both virtually and in person.

She's here to offer hope and practical insights for moms dealing with all of the overwhelming demands of life. Welcome, Lori. Thank you so much for being here today.

Laurie Hammer (01:48)
Well, thank you so much for having me, Elise.

Elyse Scheeler (01:50)
So I am just so excited to have you. think that there's so much that we could just dive into today for our listeners, but maybe you can just kind of help us understand like what brought you to this place. It sounds maybe like you've been through a lot of different health things that you're now able to help others take us back to what brought you here.

Laurie Hammer (02:08)
So, initially what brought me here, and I'll try to make a long story shorter, but in 1996, I had been struggling with an eating disorder for about 11, 12 years of my life. And I had been trying to get into some eating disorders programs. I was in nursing school at the time and just not functioning well. A lot of anxiety, a lot of depression.

of seizures because I was passing out from you know just being so imbalanced and I had a professor that was trying to get me into some some treatment help and it just wasn't working because I wasn't

technically suicidal enough. My weight is pretty much the same as it is now. I mean, I wasn't like severely underweight. And so I just didn't really qualify, although, you know, I was kind of on definitely on the path to self-destruction. So I thought, well, if I moved away, that would solve everything, right? And of course it didn't solve everything. It kind of made things worse. But my friend, she kept in contact with me. And one day in the mail, I got this article and she called me. She's like, did you get the article? Then you need to call this place. It was a outpatient treatment program in Mill Valley, California.

And the article was, you're addicted to what you're allergic to.

And so I read the article and it talked about eating disorders and food cravings and how we tend to crave the things that are bad for our body or things that trigger different autoimmune responses and we're just trying to feed ourselves, right? And so it talked about endorphins and dopamine and those kinds of things. I'm like, well, this makes sense. So I called out there. like, yeah, come on out. So I went out for a whole week out in Mill Valley, California. The lady's name was Julia Ross and found out that I indeed had celiac disease. I was sensitive to day

Elyse Scheeler (03:10)
Huh.

Laurie Hammer (03:38)
And then I had adrenal issues thyroid issues yeast overgrowth like you name it like they figured it out and then the biggest thing was Like my brain was so deficient and their main therapy was amino acid therapy and so using targeted amino acids to support very specific neurotransmitters in the brain and so You know they started giving me these amino acids where you just actually open them up put them under your tongue You just kind of stare at each other for a couple minutes like what's it gonna do to my brain and all of a sudden it's

like my brain came alive. It was actually like feeding my brain. And so those amino acids stopped that craving cycle while I learned to nourish my body without all this food that was toxic to it, you know, and worked on the adrenals and the thyroid and the yeast and all those things. But the amino acids calmed my brain to the point where I could deal with the other stuff, right? And so that's...

Elyse Scheeler (04:31)
Wow.

Laurie Hammer (04:33)
Saved my life. I mean literally least saved my life because if that wouldn't have happened like I couldn't get out of that cycle I couldn't get out of the depression the anxiety. I had done a ton of counseling. I had become a new Christian You know, but my brain was never quiet enough to like understand what I was reading or to pray Meditate whatever you want to do. Because it was just on fire all the time in that craving cycle that anxiety cycle was just completely constant but when the brain was

Elyse Scheeler (04:56)
Ahem.

Laurie Hammer (05:01)
quiet. Like I didn't have as much drama to figure out. I didn't have as much thing many things to talk about in counseling. There wasn't the trauma. You know there wasn't all these things that I thought was such a big deal because when your brain is calm you're like okay I can deal with life on life's terms. You know like you can start working through things and so that was my first deep dive into this functional nutritional world.

Elyse Scheeler (05:17)
Mm-hmm.

Laurie Hammer (05:24)
And then if we want to fast forward, like I just started living, walking the walk, living the talk there, and I was the healthiest person I knew. And then we fast forward a few years. My son was seven, actually eight at the time, and my daughter was just five months old. And I got a really rare cancer diagnosis. And so I honestly shouldn't be here. It was that rare male clinic hadn't seen it in over 20 years. And they're like,

Elyse Scheeler (05:45)
Wow.

Laurie Hammer (05:47)
It should just be everywhere in your body. So I found that on a Monday. And then I got a whole new revelation of the healing of God, like what that means and what your body can do. And, you know, took a deep dive into all the healing scriptures. And then I had a PET scan done. And when I got the results of the PET scan, the cancer wasn't anywhere. It was like completely gone. So what was there was gone.

And it was amazing. So I got this miraculous healing from the Lord. And when I got the diagnosis, was, like I said, my daughter was five months old. And so

I thought when they took this growth off of me, they're like, it's probably hormonal. This thing just grew because your hormones, so I didn't think anything of it. My mom thought it was gonna be cancer, but I'm like, it is not cancer. I'm the healthiest person I know. I would never get cancer. Well, anyway, so I went back to get my stitches out, and so it was just me. My husband didn't go with me, because it was just stitches, right? So I went to get it, and the doctor was like, I'm really sorry.

Elyse Scheeler (06:22)
Mm-hmm.

Laurie Hammer (06:39)
But I have to tell you that this is this really rare form of melanoma and it's in the depth of melanoma. So it's rated and it was a four out of five. And he's like, it's most likely everywhere. We just have to figure out where it is. Where is it traveled? Blah, blah, blah. Here I am a nursing mom. And so I went out to my car and I remember sitting there and I put my hands on the steering wheel and then.

Elyse Scheeler (06:54)
my goodness.

Laurie Hammer (07:03)
And this is before I really understood the depth of God and the healing and stuff. I mean, I was a Christian, but not the depth that I am today. And I remember saying to him, like, okay, God, like, you know that...

my mindset and my belief system, my worldview is not one of the traditional medical system, right? So this is where my thought process was like, so you either need to heal me totally and completely, or you need to open doors for me to go see practitioners who could help me to heal, right? And so I thanked him for the cancer diagnosis. I thanked him for the opportunity to glorify him. And I drove home and I told my husband and my son.

And so he not only, I got the miraculous healing and he also opened up amazing doors to figure out why I had cancer in the first place, right? Because cancer just doesn't happen. Like anxiety and depression just doesn't happen. There has to be something going on in the brain and in the body for those things to express themselves. And so then I got a whole new health paradigm. Like I thought I was good, but I'm like, I don't know anything. And so that took me deeper. And then I went back to school.

Elyse Scheeler (07:51)
Mm-hmm.

Ahem.

Laurie Hammer (08:06)
you know, got my nutritional therapy and the functional nutrition piece of everything. so, you know, and then our kids have their own journey. My husband had his own journey. so through all of those pieces of my own health story and the health story of my family, and we lost my mom to dementia, you know, so all of that makes your health paradigm, your trust in the Lord, your worldview, your story, go so much deeper.

Elyse Scheeler (08:31)
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's, that's amazing. And I think what I'm hoping to tend to dive into today is what you said. Anxiety is not normal. Depression is not normal. Not feeling good is not normal. And I think that one of the reasons why I started this podcast was with my son. He had some things going on when he was little. And one of the signs and symptoms that I now know was a myofunctional disorder and a tongue tie.

but he was really like a colicky baby and he was spitting up all the time. Well, it's very common. I'm like, yeah, but is it normal? And so these are the types of things that I think moms are told, right? And not only are we told those about our kids, but we're also told this about ourselves. So let's kind of hone in on how we can support those moms. Because the listeners that we have, these moms are already, you know, they're the super moms, right?

Laurie Hammer (09:19)
Yep.

Elyse Scheeler (09:19)
They've

got kiddos that have these additional needs and they're trying to manage all of their health and wellness and their brain probably does feel like it's on fire, you know, whether or not they have the, you know, all of these symptoms. So what are some of the things like if you had a mom that is coming to you and she's saying, listen, I don't have any time. I have two kids with autism under five. I'm trying to manage all of this, but I'm really feeling like the emotions that I'm feeling and like I don't have a really good ability.

Laurie Hammer (09:25)
I think right. Yeah.

Elyse Scheeler (09:47)
to manage this is not normal. I don't feel like it's normal, right? And that's always assigned to me too. When you, that mom knows, just like with the kiddos, when they come for those developmental screenings, they know. What would be some of the first kinds of things that you would maybe do to offer up help both practically and spiritually?

Laurie Hammer (10:02)
Yeah, a thousand percent, because all these things, it's common, but it's not normal. Our brain shouldn't be on fire. We shouldn't be on overdrive all the time. Most of my clients are mommas, I love this audience that you have. The first thing that I do with my clients, honestly, before we even talk about diet and changing your food and changing this or your shampoo or your cleaning supplies or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, I mean, there's so many things. You can overwhelm yourself trying to do all those things.

As women, as moms, we expend ourselves for everybody else, right? And so we're giving, giving, giving, giving, and we never get our bucket full. And so we get depleted very over time. Some people get depleted fast. Some people can just trudge through, trudge through, white-knuckle it through every single day. But the point is, that every single woman that comes into my office is depleted in their brain, in their body, and like in their soul, right?

And so the first thing that I do when you come into my office is we just work on amino acid therapy. We balance the brain first. And so it's really rare that I don't do that with somebody. It's really rare that a woman would come into my office like, I feel great. know, that's, know, my digestion's a little off. We just don't get that. So.

I always work on the brain first because I believe when we balance the brain, when we nourish the brain, everything below the neck gets easier to deal with. And so your outlook on life changes, your ability to make other changes, your ability to take your supplements, you know, it's not as overwhelming because we're always going to have stress, right? Life is, there's just stress in life, whether it's chemical, physical, emotional, there's always going to be stress. And so we just have to calm the brain enough so that we respond to that stress appropriately.

Elyse Scheeler (11:28)
Mm-hmm.

Laurie Hammer (11:44)
Right? And that's where a lot of women are like, I just feel like having this outer body experience and I just don't respond to stress appropriately. And so the goal is when we nourish the brain with the amino acids, then you can respond to stress in the manner in which, you know, whatever the situation might call for, because we can't eliminate stress, it's just going to be there. But we just are response to it.

Elyse Scheeler (12:02)
Yeah. What...

what is the process? Is it like a blood test or do you just assume that everybody needs the amino acids? Because I am very interested.

Laurie Hammer (12:07)
No.

I love it.

So I use a form. So I have you fill out paperwork and it's divided into five different categories. And so we have a serotonin category, GABA, endorphins, dopamine catecholamines, and then we have glucose regulation. And so it's symptom based. And so you fill out this form for me, we could do blood work, we could do urine, but we don't need to.

Elyse Scheeler (12:29)
Okay.

Laurie Hammer (12:33)
We don't need to do those things. I don't think there's quite as accurate as just give me the real time, what you're feeling, and let's go from there. And so then I take those five categories, your responses to that, and when we're meeting on Zoom like this, or you're in my office, if you're on Zoom, I send you a kit of amino acids in the mail. So it's a sample packet of kits, kind of like getting a sample box of chocolates, but it's amino acids. And we meet on Zoom, and then we get a good health history, and then we actually try the amino acids together. So like I mentioned before,

when I went to the outpatient clinic, we opened up the capsules, put them on our tongue, stared at each other awkwardly for a couple minutes and then like, hey, do you notice anything different? And that's what you and I would do on Zoom. And so then we find what amino acids you're gonna respond to, because I'm gonna send you nine different ones, which ones you're gonna respond to, and then you're starting dose. And so then we start on those specific things. And then once we know that that's what you need, then we can start working on the other things.

Elyse Scheeler (13:27)
Okay.

Absolutely. I love that. we had talked about before we started recording, I have been doing some market research interviews with moms and almost all of them have said, I just don't have time for myself. And these moms are taking care of kiddos. There's a lot going on. Maybe they're working and they're trying to do all of this.

Because I think sometimes we and myself included, need those reminders that doing this thing, it sounds, ooh, it sounds really interesting, but like, ugh, I have to do all of my kid stuff first. Like, why is this important for me, especially as a Christian mom, to be thinking about some of these things and just be thinking about my own health even.

Laurie Hammer (14:09)
Yeah, well we only get this one body, right? So this is all we get while we're here on earth, right? And so we have to steward it well. I believe it's an act of worship when we take care of our bodies is actually an act of worship to God. And our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit. And so I often use the analogy when I'm talking is like, you wouldn't dump garbage in the temple of God.

like the physical temple of God, wouldn't walk into any church and dump garbage on the altar. So let's not dump garbage in our bodies, right? And so to not dump garbage in our body, our brain has to be balanced in order to do that. And if we want to take the best care of our children, our husbands, you know, our aging parents, we have to be physically well in order to do that. And I see so, so many women who have just totally expended themselves.

They come in and they're, know, because I do run blood work and I do run like hormone testing and stuff and things are really flatlined for people. Like they just don't have any stress response left and it's either you choose to start taking care of yourself so that you can still help other people that were called to do or your body will choose for you, right? And when your body chooses for you, it is not any fun.

Elyse Scheeler (15:08)
Mm-hmm.

Laurie Hammer (15:21)
And I have walked that journey with hundreds of women over the years where their body chose for them. And it is so much harder to come back from that body choice as opposed if it was your choice. Does that make sense? And so we want to be moms of special needs kids or aging parents or whatever it might be.

Elyse Scheeler (15:35)
Mm-hmm.

Laurie Hammer (15:43)
we have to be strong because we can't be strong and courageous if we're sick, right? We can't offer ourselves that we can't say the Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer. He's my shield. He's the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. If we're not able to like even comprehend what that means. And so when your brain is off and we're not taking care of ourselves and we're just going through the motions every single day, it's hard to import to hear the Holy Spirit and then to impart the

that wisdom the Holy Spirit is giving us, mamas, because we're the heart of the home, right? We are the heart of the home, that's why I love working with moms, because if you can help the mom, change the mom, then you change the kids and the hubby, and then it just, it's a ripple effect, right? And all of us moms want to be that ripple effect, and we can't ripple if we're sick.

Elyse Scheeler (16:32)
Absolutely. And I also love what you were saying with just we can we can take care of others when we are taking care of ourselves. One of the first podcast episodes I did, one of the guests was like, what if the only way that your children learn how to do self care was by watching you? And that has like just stuck with me. And I am really good about verbalizing that now. Since then, like I'm exercising or I'm

Laurie Hammer (16:47)
Exactly.

Bye.

Elyse Scheeler (16:55)
choosing to eat

this because I know that that's what my body needs and that I will be able to be calmer and I'll feel better. You I'm taking this break. So I love just that you've incorporated all of those things into it. And also I think a really good point too is that ripple effect. So many times I think we as moms are so focused in on our kids and we can maybe kind of talk about that too a little bit about some of the things that might be available to them. But if you are wanting to make all of these changes for your kiddos,

and you're not ready to do that for yourself, how does that work? We should be the ones starting it, right? And then also a lot of times it's easier. I I talk all the time about taking rid of some of the toxic things in your environment, but it's the same thing. Okay, if you're gonna make sure your kid doesn't ever use shampoo with SLS in it or whatever it is, but then you're using perfume all day long.

Laurie Hammer (17:29)
It's going to be super stressful.

Elyse Scheeler (17:49)
it's going to be the same thing. Your body's not going to be able to do its best and you're not going to be able to do its best. I love everything you're saying and you may have a future client here. I have done a lot of testing and have been working with some holistic providers and that's kind of what got me going on all of this, but I've never done amino acid testing. So that would be, or done that. that, just something.

Laurie Hammer (18:10)
It's amazing.

It is life changing. It really is life changing. And if I can make a point, well, I have a lot of moms that bring their kids, right? And so, you know, we're working on amino acid therapy with their kids and stuff, but I do my very best to kind of come into the back door with the moms when they come because it's never about them, right? It's kind of like, and...

Every nutrition client, it's never really about nutrition. It's all about Jesus, right? It's all about getting people to know who their identity is. so, kind of like moms, it's, you know, they bring their kids in, but it's never really about the kids. Like, I have to get to the mom in order for the kid to get well. Otherwise, it's too overwhelming. And so, when we're doing the amino acids with the kiddos, I'm like, hey, mom, do you want to know?

Do you want to know what it tastes like? Because the kids are like, wow, this tastes really bad and blah, blah, blah. And the mom's just sitting there. And so I'm like, hey, why don't you try the gaba? And then all of a sudden, the mom is like, oh my gosh, I don't know that I've ever felt this relaxed or haven't felt this relaxed in so long. And then it's like, oh, I could take gaba.

Elyse Scheeler (19:00)
Mm-hmm.

Laurie Hammer (19:12)
every single day and help with my stress response. And so then it just kind of, when mom all of sudden realizes, because it's such real time Elise, that's why I love the amino acid trioling, like send you that kit, because you can feel it with just in like five minutes.

Elyse Scheeler (19:13)
Mm-hmm.

Laurie Hammer (19:28)
And you're like, my goodness, my brain can completely change. And so then we can work on both mom and the kid at the same time. And it's beautiful. I have this great mom and son that I'm working with right now. He's 14 and we started with him. But during that process, I'm like, do you want to try some of these too? And she's like, yeah, I think I do. And so then she started doing amino acid therapy. All of sudden, she's sleeping through the night and she hasn't slept through the night in years because she's always concerned about her son getting up and doing all these things. And now we've got them both calmed down.

Elyse Scheeler (19:28)
amazing.

Mm-hmm.

Laurie Hammer (19:56)
sleeping,

you know, and so again, it's just that ripple effect and then dad's a lot more calm. So, is good. Yeah.

Elyse Scheeler (20:02)
Yeah, everybody is then, right? Yeah.

So I'm going to back up my question. How long, so if somebody is doing amino acid therapy with you, is this something that they would then need to like just plan on doing forever? Is this something that ever evens out? How does that work?

Laurie Hammer (20:19)
Yeah, so the first 90 days I always call the heavy lifting like that's where we're gonna take the most supplements We're gonna take it, you know super consistently throughout the day And then we can taper off after that The goal is is that you don't need the amino acids all the time and then I teach you how to use them as tools because it is Pieces of protein that are feeding the brain and so there's always gonna be stressful events Like I went through a period of time with my mom with dementia We had her home for two years and we were taking care of her. It was really stressful. I got depleted

So, you I bring back in specific amino acids at that time to help me not lose my mind, right? And now I don't need those specific amino acids anymore because, you know, she's gone and I'm not in that situation anymore. But you learn how to use them as tools through stressful events, whether it's a death or a car accident or you just haven't slept well for a while. I mean, some people just like, I need a boost going on vacation because I'm going to be with my family.

Elyse Scheeler (21:13)
You

Laurie Hammer (21:13)
My family drives me

nuts. so, know, like, GABA is often called like the mother-in-law tolerator, right? And so Christmas or whatever it might be, you know, take a little extra so you actually enjoy your family and you don't lose your mind.

Elyse Scheeler (21:25)
calm down. I love that. Well, I'll have to get some of that for my husband. Don't tell my mom, no. So, tell me more about how this can be applied to kiddos because I think that that's a really interesting thing too. And again, moms who are listening, you can be thinking about ways that you're supporting yourself and your kiddo. I think a lot of times we're always looking for that support for our kids. But how does that incorporate? Like have you...

Laurie Hammer (21:29)
There you go.

Elyse Scheeler (21:45)
Do you use this for specific diagnoses? Do you have kids that are coming in? Why are they coming in, I guess? Maybe that's my first question. Why are they coming in, to begin with?

Laurie Hammer (21:53)
Yeah, so why are they coming?

A lot of ADD, ADHD, executive function issues. so the amino acids are really great for that. Anxiety, depression, you know, maybe there's some violence going on at the home. I just had a young kid the other day and actually...

I teach a practitioner course too. And so one of my students was telling me, she's like, literally the amino acids saved this kid. So they were gonna send him into emergency foster care because he was so violent and he wasn't sleeping and they just needed to remove him from the home because of the other kids. Literally all we did was give him one kind of amino acid for his serotonin levels. He slept all night and he hasn't been violent since. I mean, that's the power of feeding the brain.

Elyse Scheeler (22:31)
Mm-hmm.

Laurie Hammer (22:32)
You know, and so this child gets to stay in the home. This changed the family forever. I it literally changed the family forever. You know, and now that student's working with some other amino acids with him to help other things, but the violence stopped. Like once his brain was calm enough, like he just slept, right? And so sleeping disorders with kids, you know, lot of kids just don't sleep really well. And so we can work with those things. Yeah, there's lots of options, lots of options.

Elyse Scheeler (22:57)
Do you feel like this is something, I mean, I feel like I'm scrunchy, right? Like I'm becoming more more crunchy. But I had not heard of this before. And I think that one of the things that I talk about a lot with ADHD is myofunctional disorders and sleep apnea and those types of things. And I feel like we're very behind on that too. Do you feel like this is something that people are starting?

Laurie Hammer (23:12)
But yeah.

Elyse Scheeler (23:20)
to learn more about? there any, is this any way coming to the mainstream? I think that that's the struggle is especially when we have seen it personally, right? And for our own children, for others, I work in, I have worked in some very urban school environments with kiddos that have so much going on. And now with this newer...

set of eyes, I can see, oh my gosh, their tonsils are huge. They can't sleep. They're not breathing well. there's probably, there's trauma, so they're probably needing some amino acids. Is this coming to mainstream? How do we, how do I, as another provider, and maybe how do moms talk to their own providers about the possibility of doing something like this for their own kids?

Laurie Hammer (24:02)
Right, so not many providers, if you're in mainstream medical, are gonna know anything about amino acid therapy. They're just not. I mean, it's been around for decades. Since like the early 90s, late 80s, it's been a thing. But it just hasn't been popularized, I should say, or whatever. I mean, you're gonna find it in some functional. Big Pharma gets no kickback. I mean, where they gonna get a kickback? I have a $20 bottle of amino acids? No, right? It's not a moneymaker.

Elyse Scheeler (24:20)
Is it because Big Pharma doesn't get any money?

Mm-hmm, that's what it is.

Laurie Hammer (24:30)
And so that's why there's so many drugs out there, you know, so yeah, anyway, I try I was on 34 podcasts last year I'm trying to get the message out I mean, there's some there's a few other amino acid practitioners out there most of them deal with addictions I Don't do a lot with like hardcore addictions. I you know more like soft addictions if we want to call it that

Elyse Scheeler (24:38)
Yeah.

Laurie Hammer (24:51)
but I really try to focus on the mamas. And so I'm trying to get the word out there. I have a practitioner program, so training other people. So I feel like it's coming. The word is getting out. People are taking branch chain amino acids, which I don't like. They're taking other amino acid powders, which I'm super picky about. ⁓ But the therapy piece of it, it really hasn't caught on yet, I guess you want to say. So trying to change that.

Elyse Scheeler (25:08)
Okay.

is a challenge as we go forward. As we start to wrap up, what would be like a couple of things? So if you've got a mom here who's just, she's feeling it, she's overwhelmed, she doesn't know what to do, you know, this sounds kind of great, but I don't know if I'm gonna have time or money, what would be like your words of encouragement for her to maybe just take those first steps?

Laurie Hammer (25:17)
It is. Yeah.

Yeah, you have to decide sometime to take care of yourself, right? So you just have to make the decision. And so many times in my life, even I was a single mom for a while, like there's things I needed to do for my health, that I didn't have the money for it. I really didn't have the time for it. If I didn't do it, I probably wouldn't be here, you know? And so you just take that leap of faith. If God opens that door for you, take the leap of faith and walk through it, because he's going to provide every step of the way.

So it might look messy, but there's still going to be provision there. And you have to take care of yourself if you want to be the best mom for all of your kiddos and your husband, right? We forget about them a lot, but amino acid therapy has really honestly saved marriages over the years that I've been doing this. I'll have husbands say, thank you. Like, I feel like I have my wife back.

You know, or all of a sudden the wife is doing this and the husband's like, I think I need this too because I'm struggling with anxiety and depression, right? And so then we change the whole family. And it just is a beautiful piece. it's setting a good example for your kids, for your husband, and for everyone around you. You have no idea who you're influencing when you make that decision. And God will use that in every single area of your life.

Elyse Scheeler (26:45)
And I think, you my last thought would be what kind of mom can you be? What kind of powerful changes can you start in your child, in your family, if your body and your brain are calm and your brain's not on fire? Like, just imagine that. Like, think about what that would feel like for a day, for a week, for a year. And if all it takes is a small change...

Laurie Hammer (27:01)
Imagine.

Elyse Scheeler (27:10)
And you know, there's usually more, right? Like you said, you found some of the other stuff and I've got, know, other, you know, everybody's got GI things too. But those small little steps can help so much in that, in that big picture. 10 years from now, will you look back and say, man, I really wish I would have tried that therapy or, wow, I tried it and look at how many things and how God has moved in my life and has moved me to now serve others and serve my family because of this change that I made.

Laurie Hammer (27:12)
Yeah.

Elyse Scheeler (27:38)
steward the body that he gave me well. Right? Well, Lori, thank you so much for being here. Before we go, can you just remind our listeners where they can find you on social media or online?

Laurie Hammer (27:40)
Absolutely, amen. Yeah.

Yeah, so I am the call mom on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok. So you can find me there. The call mom community. My podcast is Take Back My Brain and that's on YouTube, Apple and Spotify.

Elyse Scheeler (28:00)
Yes, well thank you so much for your time.

Laurie Hammer (28:02)
Thank you so much. want to hear from all of you. Take care.