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Stay Calm, Stay Profitable: Nervous System Regulation for Business Growth with Lahana Vigliano
Ready to transform your entrepreneurial experience from constant stress to sustainable success? Dr. Lahana Vigliano reveals how your nervous system directly impacts your business decisions, creativity, and bottom line.
Most business owners don't realize they're operating in a perpetual fight-or-flight state, with their bodies producing the same stress hormones whether they're missing a deadline or being chased by a tiger. This physiological state doesn't just feel uncomfortable – it actively undermines strategic thinking, leadership presence, and business growth.
Dr. Lahana breaks down the surprising signs of nervous system dysregulation beyond obvious anxiety, including brain fog, digestive issues, and poor sleep quality. She offers remarkably simple techniques anyone can implement throughout their workday: deep belly breathing that signals safety to your body, humming or singing to stimulate your vagus nerve, and scheduling proper meals (because 95% of women entrepreneurs simply don't eat enough).
The conversation explores how to structure your workday for optimal nervous system support – from filling your cup before logging on to creating firm boundaries around work hours and prioritizing genuine fun. These practices aren't indulgences; they're strategic investments in your business performance and sustainability.
What makes this episode particularly valuable is Dr. Lahana's blend of scientific explanation and practical application. You'll walk away understanding not just what to do differently, but why these changes create such profound shifts in your entrepreneurial capabilities. Whether you're struggling with decision fatigue, creative blocks, or simply feeling overwhelmed, these nervous system regulation techniques offer an accessible path to calmer, more profitable entrepreneurship.
Ready to stop the cycle of stress and start building your business from a place of nervous system regulation? This episode is your blueprint for sustainable success that feels good in your body and your business.
This is the Influencer Entrepreneur's Podcast with Jenny Monroe, where I strategize with business owners on how to grow and scale their businesses to hit their income goals. This is episode 439 of the Influencer Entrepreneur's Podcast with Jenny Malrose. Today we're going to talk about stay calm, stay profitable nervous system regulation for business growth with Dr Lahana Vigliano. I am super excited about this conversation. If you have found yourself spiraling with worry or feeling like you have brain fog, then this is the episode for you. Dr Lahana is not only going to walk us through what exactly is how stress is impacting our decisions, but she is going to give us actual steps that to take so that we can improve it. And it's not these big drawn out things that we need to be doing. It is simple things that you can do throughout your day so that you can start to regulate your nervous system and lose that feeling of being constantly in flight. Let's dive in. Hi, dr Lahana, welcome to the podcast, thank you, Jenny.
Speaker 2:I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 1:I am excited so much about this conversation that we're going to have about staying calm, profitable and the nervous system regulation for business growth. I think this is so interesting and something that we don't always think about as business owners as playing a factor into the success of our business. But before we jump into that, will you actually introduce yourself and your business to my audience?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, I'm Dr Lohana Vigliano. I'm the founder of New Feature and we are an integrative health practice. We virtual, so we work with women all over the US, even though we're HQ'd here in Austin. I started it back in 2015. So been around for a while and we help women with hormonal imbalances, digestive issues, metabolism. Honestly, just even you don't have to have a diagnosed disease. I could just be like I have stubborn weight or I'm constantly bloated or I have headaches, so we help women with diagnoses or just simply not feeling well. And a lot of our women are more high-powered women. They're women in business, they're climbing up the corporate ladder, they have families, they're just juggling all the things.
Speaker 1:Basically, yes, and probably women over 40, probably have quite a few questions as well, as their hormones are shifting and changing.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, All that fun season. We're truly on like a roller coaster our whole life.
Speaker 1:Oh yes, all that fun season. We're truly on like a roller coaster our whole life. Oh my goodness, yeah. So can you start out by explaining what nervous system regulation is and why it's so important for business owners?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so our nervous system is like the command center, so it's made of like, of our brain, our spine, our nerves. It really controls everything, everything from our movements, our thoughts, even things we don't think about, like everything from our movements, our thoughts, even things we don't think about, like, I don't know, breathing. It's like the communication network that it's constantly receiving signals, it's giving signals and it plays a huge role in how we feel, our energy levels, just our overall health. And so when we have a regulated nervous system, we are able to shift back and forth between the sympathetic nervous system, which is that fight or flight, and the parasympathetic nervous system, which is more of that rest and digest phase. So we don't really want to be stuck in one. That's not ideal. We want to be able to shift back and forth as needed but not be stuck.
Speaker 2:And a lot of women business owners they tend to be stuck in the fight or flight, the sympathetic nervous system. And why it's important is because it's the way that we handle our stress, it's the way that we show up as leaders, it's the way that we make decisions, and so, as business owners, we have lots of things that we are exposed to High pressure situations. We have deadlines, we're trying to solve problems. Maybe you're managing people if you have employees. So, if anything, the most important things that we need is good communication, clarity, energy, having resilience and steadiness.
Speaker 2:So, like you said, that calm instead of that chaos. And because when we have that energy and we have the focus and we have the creativity, we're able to grow a successful business out of that. We don't have the burnout because if we're burnt out, let's be honest, we're not helpful to anyone. At least, that's how I feel. Whenever I'm like sick, with like the flu, I'm like I can't help my kids, I can't help my employees, I'm useless to like everyone in my life. We don't have the brain fog, we don't have anxiety Like this really stems to how we show up as a leader for people in our personal life and our professional life. So if we are just in yeah, that chaos mindset, honestly I feel like it starts to get mirrored in other areas of our life and it just seems like it's all chaos which no one wants to work that way.
Speaker 1:No, of course, and I do so many of those symptoms that you kind of mentioned the brain fog, the anxiety spiral that many of us go through as business owners, and largely impacted, of course, by stress that we continue to add to ourselves, as we are often the CEOs that have to oversee all the things that are happening in our business. So what are some common signs that a business owner's nervous system is dysregulated?
Speaker 2:I and this is actually so funny I just recorded a podcast of my own on mine, like literally 10 minutes before I jumped on this one, and this is a huge misconception. I feel like a lot of people think that if they're not you know anxiety and panic attacks, so like if they have that then they're stressed, but if they don't have that, then they're not stressed and I'm like, okay, well, I'm not stressed, I'm not feeling anxious, but it definitely goes beyond that and everyone is so individual so it may manifest in you very differently than your neighbor. So for me I might have anxiety and some heart palpitations, but for this person they may have just brain fog, fatigue. Maybe they have trouble losing weight. Maybe that's how their body talks to them.
Speaker 2:There can be GI issues. Bloating, constipation, diarrhea there's irregular periods are a big sign that stress, chronic stress, is an issue. Headaches, migraines, getting sick too easily, having muscle tension, poor sleep quality or quantity, like all of those things are red flags that your nervous system is off. So it's. I know that doesn't help because I'm like. I feel like you listed probably every symptom there is, but it does really show up in different ways to people. So I don't want people to think that like oh, it's just when I'm feeling anxious. No, it definitely goes beyond that.
Speaker 1:So it's funny that you said the heart palpitations, because I can think back to probably at least five to six years ago, when I drove myself to the ER because I thought I was having a heart attack. Oh my gosh, but it was from stress and the interesting part is it wasn't like it was anything particular in that day. I had been on a call actually with my employees at that time and it just seemed. Everything seemed fine. But I had just come back from a conference, I had been gone for a couple of days and, of course, my having been away from my family as well, as then coming back with all these great ideas and wanting to implement them immediately and feeling like I was behind from having been gone, I can definitely see now that was it showing itself at the time.
Speaker 2:I just Didn't know what it was and that's a great point to bring up too is obviously there's some stressors that we know that aren't healthy Things like I don't know, being in a toxic relationship or getting in a fight with your best friend or, yeah, running way past deadline but a lot of people don't think about even the things that you love, like you love being an entrepreneur, like you love your business Obviously that's why you got into it. You love working an entrepreneur Like you love your business. Obviously that's why you got into it. You love working out Like.
Speaker 2:These are just examples that are healthy and people love it, but at the same time, it can also be that stressor that's pushing you over the edge as well, and so that's not saying you drop your business or you drop working out, but it's all about kind of bringing your body back to safety which I know we'll talk about and making sure that you have the balance between the two, and so a lot of the times, people are like there's so much good in my life, like I'm achieving things I've always wanted to achieve, but at the same time, that can still be pretty stressful in the body.
Speaker 1:So you actually has brought up that we're going to talk about daily practices that we can actually incorporate to regulate our nervous system. But before you said that, you gave working out as an example. And I'm kind of nervous now because that's how I feel, like that's one of my daily practices. I feel like to regulate my nervous system. I've always said if I don't work out, I will kill someone and it will not be pretty. So now I'm nervous thinking, oh my goodness, am I making myself even? Is it making my nervous system worse? So what are some of the things that we can be doing as like a daily practice to regulate the nervous system?
Speaker 2:And I know a lot of people like. That is how I handle stress, and so I always have to, too, tell patients because a lot of the times we like love data. So we do a lot of like lab testing in our practice, like stool, urine, blood, I mean anything you want to give your body fluid to me, I will fully take it. I like love data. And then we have a lot of people that wear like the aura ring, and so they're like my body keeps telling me that I'm stressed, like my aura ring keeps like red, flagging me I need to relax. Apple watch, I don't know, like whatever that you wear or a lab test that you take, and they're like but I don't feel stressed and I'm like. Well, I feel like when we get to such a chronic stress point, we are so used to high stress that it becomes our baseline. So we may even discredit and say I'm not stressed. I know that everything's saying that I'm stressed, but I'm not. I don't feel stressed. You do, you can be stressed and your body is stressed, but you're just simply used to it. So you're running at this level of just like stress is your baseline, so you don't even know what it feels like to get out of it, and so that's why, yes, we look at those like um, things like with working out, because you can work out, and so I mean it's so different for everyone, but I would definitely say like red red flags. Just answering the workout part is working out seven days a week and that's like every day you're doing a workout. Like a strength training workout, a HIIT workout, a Pilates workout, like some type of workout that doesn't include a walk, like something really gentle, like that, or even like yoga. I wouldn't consider that I'm talking about like a workout workout where you are sweating, you are just moving and grooving. If you're doing that seven days a week, I would say you are probably doing way too much and that's like a red flag. But everything else of like that's very delicate. It depends on like, yeah, exactly how people are feeling, how their nervous system is, and you know the balance of different types of workouts they do. So I just want to mention that.
Speaker 2:But with getting your body back into parasympathetic mode, everything goes on safety. Does your body feel safe Because if it doesn't feel safe, it is in that rest or not the rest and digest the fight or flight. So getting you away from a tiger. I know that's commonly used as an example whenever someone talks about nervous system regulation, but I also want to remind people that being chased from a tiger or someone breaking into your house, that is the same stress response as simply skipping a meal. So when your body feels stressed, it doesn't know the intensity. All it knows is it's stressed, so it's putting off the same hormones and chemicals as you would in both situations, and so that's why it's all about bringing safety in different aspects, and so diet and lifestyle is so many things that we have control over. So, making sure that we're eating enough, making sure that we're eating the right foods and I'm going to emphasize eating enough because, like 95% of women I see they literally don't eat enough and they can swear to me that they overeat. They can swear to me, nope, I'm telling you they don't eat enough because, again, our baseline is probably from like the 1990s and early 2000s, like diet culture, so like of what we feel, like, oh well, I'm eating enough. I'm like, girl, you're eating, like close to a toddler, like that's not enough for a grown woman body, so that is a stressor if you don't eat enough, right. So it's like making sure that we're doing that, making sure that we are adding little.
Speaker 2:I think breathing is so overlooked and it doesn't have to be like a 10 minute, 20 minute, an hour thing. It can literally be for like two minutes of like box breathing where you're inhaling for letting out four seconds, inhaling four seconds, letting out four seconds. So pretty much like working through a box Meditation, just taking deep breaths. Just taking a deep breath where you're not what do they call it? I think it's. I know ideally you want belly breathing, you want to be moving your diaphragm, you really want to be deep, like taking a deep breath, versus just the shallow breaths which again kind of keep us in that fight or flight stage. Because taking a deep breath signals to your body oh, there's nothing emerging around here. If I'm able to take a deep breath, then everything is okay. We can't take a deep breath if we're running from a tiger. So just simply taking a deep breath signals to your body like we're good, everything's safe, making sure that you have fun in your week.
Speaker 2:When I ask people when's the last time you had fun? Really fun. Fun Like not something like I went to a conference for work and that's fun. Actually, I think that's fun too, but like really fun, like childhood fun, like what did you used to enjoy as a kid? Human connection. I honestly, people are like I don't know, I'm just so busy, I don't know, and I'm like, right there, that's your thing you need to do is you need to schedule in. I love scrapbooking, I love scrapbooking as a kid. Cool, we'll go scrapbook every Friday afternoon. I want you to scrapbook and not feel guilty about it and just really infuse fun. I feel like that's something that we've left off because it's like I have kids, I have a job. If I get to it, I will. But I'm like, no, treat your fun as like a doctor's appointment. You wouldn't miss that, you wouldn't reschedule it. Ideally, you would make priority of it. Um, having the balanced workout routine I mentioned and sleeping, making sure that the sleep is top, top priority.
Speaker 2:And then one of the ways to stimulate our vagus nerve and it is the biggest nerve that runs from, like, our brain to our gut, because the gut is the second brain. So that's why a lot of times, if you want to like go public speaking, you feel like you're about to have diarrhea. That is the gut brain connection. You have felt that. But one of the best ways to stimulate your vagus nerve, which helps us get into that rest and digest, are things like it's kind of weird, but it's like humming, humming really loud because it vibrates and turns on your vagus nerve Singing really loudly. Again there's vibration there. Gargling it's the same idea. You're vibrating your vagus nerve, so gargling Water, deep breathing also can stimulate it as well.
Speaker 2:And even do I know you might look a little weird doing it, but even doing things like and letting your I don't even know what that's called, but just letting you feel your lips vibrate, that also helps stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, which is really cool. So you can see like there's little tiny things that you could just be humming while working, you know, at your computer desk. It doesn't have to be anything big, but it's just like the foundational stuff with like what are we feeding ourselves? How are we moving our body, are we getting enough sleep? And then there's, you know that extra stuff of like deep breathing throughout your day, taking breaks. You know from your computer things like that. That was a lot, I know, yes.
Speaker 1:No, I love that you gave so many different examples of ways to implement it, because already I'm thinking okay, where are the times where I feel like my anxiety shoots up? And it would definitely be right now where I am teaching. My 15 year old has her permit and she is driving now, and there are those moments she's driving, and it's not a matter of she's a great driver.
Speaker 1:Like I'm very, very impressed with what they have taught her through driver's ed and how much she understands. Like she's already driving on highways, and at 15, it's just blows my mind. But the idea of reminding myself take a deep breath and it's not even that I get freaked out, it's the way she responds to my suggestions that I get more annoyed about. So remembering to take those deep breaths I love, and I also am going to actually use what you said about the what did you call it? The vagus, vagal gland. What was that?
Speaker 1:The vagus nerve? Vagus nerve, because I have a lot of clients right now who are trying to get on video, trying to do podcasts, and that is a great way to set themselves up for it beforehand. I do that. I will actually make sure my microphone is on and kind of hum and sing to see how the balance is, but I didn't do it because I knew I didn't realize that it was helping my regulatory system. Well, that's pretty cool though. Yes, so the fact that there is actual, like a benefit to what I'm doing and can teach that to others, I appreciate you giving so many examples. That was great.
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Speaker 1:So let's talk a little about how create entrepreneurs can create a work routine that actually supports the nervous system health like what would their day? What would you suggest? Their day kind of looks like if we have someone, we're assuming that they have somewhat of work hours, say like nine to three or four yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And if you have the control of being able to push your day back a little bit and start like 10, so my day starts at 10. I don't book anything from 10. Obviously I have as the owner, I have that ability to. But if you can, I recommend it because I love filling up my cup first so I can show up for people the way I want to show up for people. I don't want to show up for people in like a chaotic sense, like that's not the vibe I'm trying to give. So I love getting like that nourishing breakfast. Sometimes I'll get movement in, I usually do, but again, if it's a rest day or whatnot, I won't worry about it. Sunlight, because getting sunlight first thing in the morning can help reset your eternal long clock too. So it'll actually benefit sleep long-term. It'll get your cortisol in a good way.
Speaker 2:Moving, having minimal phone time, so not, you know, rolling out of bed and checking your phone and emails, like just I will usually start checking that more around, like maybe 8.39. So a little bit before my work day, realistically, but not where I'm just like straight from the bed and going into high alert. I love to do something maybe that I enjoy in the morning, especially if it's not a workout morning and it's a rest day, so I have more time there. I usually like listening to like 20 minutes of like I don't know a podcast or an audible book that I'm listening to. But I really just want to check so many things off that I do for my health before I get started my workday, because once the workday gets started you're kind of like you're in the flow and you're on the go, then having that boundary of an end time most days Now I know certain projects or things I will work later than I normally do, but that is not most of the time. Most of the time I'm like okay, I'm logging off at this amount this time and I'm cooking dinner for the family. I have a 14 year old and 11 year old, so we're like kind of in the thick of sports. So sometimes you know, I'm doing sports, I'm cooking dinner. I usually, like you know, even watching a show while I'm cooking dinner. I love like combining things that like relax me together, so I'm like killing two birds with one stone. I love reading. So just again infusing some of that like fun in my day.
Speaker 2:And every like wind down routine is different for everyone, but, just again, it's consistency is the biggest thing, especially when it comes to sleep, because sleep is like priority, because if you don't get enough sleep, your cortisol is higher that's the stress hormone. It is higher the next day. Your blood sugar is all over the place. Your hunger hormone is all over the place. So, like your sleep sets you up for that quote unquote perfect day. So if you're not having good sleep, that's like the one thing you really need to work on. But, regardless if you drink a cup of chamomile tea or you do your meditation at night, whatever it is, it just needs to be consistent. So, if you ideally want to go to bed around like 9.30 and you're like, oh, my body needs like a good hour hour and a half, at eight o'clock you need to be starting whatever you want to do and whatever that looks like, and just winding down so your body's very relaxed and, yep, 9.30, you're good. Um.
Speaker 2:And the other thing, though, in the middle of the workday is scheduling your lunch, um, and maybe two 15 minute breaks, whatever you know you like the best, but actually putting that into your calendar. Again, don't let your calendar tell you what to do with. Like you have these appointments, oh, I guess I don't have any time to eat lunch. No, no, no, no, no, we are not five, we say 12 to one or one to two, whatever works for you. Blocked off eating lunch, taking a break, taking a breather, and sometimes, honestly, like during lunch, I'll just like pop open like a fun game on my phone, something so mindless, and it just helps me get out of work mode for the hour. So my creativity like jumpstarts for the second half of my day. So please make sure that you have breaks in your calendar to eat and decompress so you can, you know, do your full workday very productive.
Speaker 1:I, that's perfect. And I'm thinking about okay, where in my day do I have these things kind of placed? And I think the biggest thing that I would definitely have to work on is the wind down routine, because, like you, we have sports. So Mondays and Wednesdays I don't get home till 10 o'clock from sports, so it's kind of like, okay, I'm ready for bed, I just want to pass out, and there is no sort of routine with that. I'm normally actually eating Sour Patch Kids at like eight o'clock because I'm working in my car, because I'm stuck there, I work in my car too. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I work in my car too during those, like sports. I was just telling my friend I was like you know what I take back and I regret all the things. I know it's a different type of hard, but I'm like, yes, it's hard having toddlers and young kids and, like you know, when they're in preschool or in kindergarten. But I would sit here and argue with someone I think this season of life with teens that are in sports and it's go, go, go, because once you hit middle school, you can't just be like we'll just miss a day of school. That will backtrack them. They have tests and all these things and it's just more serious.
Speaker 2:And so I would argue that having teens is extremely harder. I know it's a different type of hard, but it is potentially more draining on the body. I don't know, maybe I just simply forgot what toddlerhood was like, but I'm just like I remember it being hard. Maybe there's a lack of sleep and I breastfed on demand and all these things when they were younger. But this is next level. This is next level having teens.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's definitely a different season of life, for sure.
Speaker 2:Yes, at least, like with toddlers, you're like, okay, we didn't sleep well that night. Well, that night, let's just lay on the couch and I remember like putting on like Mickey or whatever for my kids and they would, you know, like watch. But I would like be laying there with like my eyes shut and they'd be sitting on my lap and just watching like Mickey. But, and so it wasn't rest, rest, but at least I was able to not have such extreme like commitments. Um and now, yeah, it's just like we're trying to get into college, we're trying to get on this best team, we're trying to make the team. It's just higher. It's definitely higher stress in the season of life, for sure, team it's just higher, it's definitely higher stress in the season of life, for sure, my goodness.
Speaker 1:Yes, so you do. You have a freshman in high school, then we're going into freshman next year. Okay, I'd like to tell you again it's that freshman year, ooh, we're in it. And between honors and AP and track college, and, oh my word, it was a wake up call. Yes, yeah, yes.
Speaker 1:That's, exactly that's exactly what it is. But these are good to have, these practical tips that you're giving, because it does get stressed. You always go through a new season of life. My grandmother would always say to me this, too, shall pass, always told me that, no matter what it was, and I always try to remember that. And at the same time, as I have friends that now have kids that are graduating and reminding me they're going to be out of your house. This is all you have with them. You better take advantage of it. It's those remembering. Okay, these are all the little moments that I have to cherish at the same time and be that good mom, but sometimes it can be so hard.
Speaker 2:So hard and especially, too, like all your listeners, are women who are trying to create a difference in the world, and they are. They have their own passion. So there's a balance between, yeah, being there for your kids and all that.
Speaker 2:I thankfully never quote unquote got lost in motherhood. I was always and I blame myself for being a young parent and that is why I always had that. So I was 18 when I had my son, so me and my husband started very early and so I constantly I was still in pre-med, so I was going to like UCF, like in person, working full-time because we were so young, and then having my son. So I feel like I've always had to do the balance of, yeah, being a mom but making sure that like my dreams, because I was so young, you kind of like now it's like I'm going to take over the world, and so I've always had that. So I've kind of been forced to always balance that, so I never really got lost in it. But it's just so important to, yeah, maintain balance because you only have so much time with your kids, but you also are you and you have this passion and this drive for a reason, and I don't want you to forget that either and put you on the back burner while everyone else is thriving.
Speaker 1:Yes, and I think I always remind my people that the best way to do that and not feel the mom guilt that can often be associated with that is to remember that if you don't put out your gifts, your talents, your solutions, you're being selfish to those that could actually take so much value from what you have to offer, could actually take so much value from what you have to offer. So I always remind my people of that to just really sit in that and be okay with the fact that you have those talents for a reason your family. You're going to do your best to balance it, and this is a great conversation for them to be listening in on so that they can start to apply some of these tips and make those kind of interactions that they have that much more beneficial with their families.
Speaker 2:And I would say one thing to add on to that too is all of these wellness things that you're doing, and also just like pursuing your dreams, your kids are watching. So if you have kids, they are watching all of this. And I always say what would you if your daughter came to you and she's like I am so stressed, I have all these things, what would you? What advice would you give her? You would give her, like, make time for fun, take a break, let's go. Like we would say that. So it's like why would you say that? But you don't take that on advice.
Speaker 2:So we start as being the role models, and so my kids are seeing me like oh, mom, make sure to I don't know read her Bible in the morning. Oh, mom, make sure to take a lunch break. Like she's not skipping. So I'm trying to make sure that I am breaking that generational like hustle, bustle and don't take care of yourself. And so if you ever need any type of motivation, I feel like our kids are our biggest main motivations in life. Just make sure that they are watching you and making sure that what you're doing and what they're watching is something you want them to do as well.
Speaker 1:Yes, and for those that are listening that don't necessarily have children in their own home, maybe you have grandbabies or you have nieces and nephews. It's, across the board, a best friend that brings their child around. You're just constantly influencing them, so I'm so glad that you brought that piece up. Now, can you tell me a little bit about the free classes that you offer? We're going to link to that actually in the show notes that they can make sure that they take advantage of it, but what are some of the classes that?
Speaker 2:you offer. Yes, I love these because it helps me share how my brain works. So we have like weight loss, like a stubborn weight loss class. We have hormone classes, we have a thyroid class, a gut health class, and what I'm sharing is what we do here at NuveTru is understanding that there's like we're getting to the root cause. So if someone does have hypothyroid and their thyroid isn't working well, that class will walk you through one.
Speaker 2:Like what is a thyroid? Like what is TSH, what is T4? Like I want to be, I want you to be able to educate you so you understand what those basics things are. But also then like okay, let's start unpeeling the layer back. Like why would your thyroid not be functioning well? Because it's more than just like, oh, your thyroid's not functioning well, here's medication, that's no, no, that's putting a bandaid on the issue.
Speaker 2:And even like there's conventional and then there's what we call like functional medicine. But even functional medicine honestly, like I I don't know, I guess I have such high standards, but even then I like kind of nitpick, because we see a lot of patients who have seen everyone They've seen a conventional doctor, they've seen an integrative doctor, they've seen a naturopath, they've seen a dietitian, like, what makes you so different? Cause, like I've already seen all these professionals and it's natural, they'll be like oh, you have inflammation, here's turmeric, and so it's not a traditional pill for an ill, but it's a natural pill for an ill and it's still not getting to the root. So, these classes, I want to kind of help you peel all those layers and keep asking why? Okay, well, my thyroid isn't working. Well, why, well, this could be the reason. Okay, well, why is that happening?
Speaker 2:And when you keep asking why, most of the time the roots will lie within diet, lifestyle, past trauma you need to address. Like there's all there, there's a lot to that, um, but that's what the classes are. It's like if you have gut health issues, let's talk about what can throw off your gut, and then, of course, there's some basic takeaways of things you need to emphasize and focus on. But everyone is so individual. So even someone that has, like PCOS and this person has PCOS, they may be on two different care plans, and so that's where that bio-individuality comes into play. But those classes are a fantastic starting point to just try to help you start thinking root cause and then giving you some fun action takeaways that you can start doing.
Speaker 1:Perfect. We are going to make sure that we have those linked on the site so that everyone listening can take advantage of those. Dr Lahana, I appreciate you so much for taking the time to speak with me and share your knowledge with my audience. Thank you so much for having me, jenny. It was so much fun. All right, well, there you have it. There were so many great tips that Dr Lahana gave us.
Speaker 1:I hope that, if you haven't already, that you are going to jump over and make sure that you take advantage of her classes that she is offering. It is linked to the blog post so that you can go in and take those classes. I don't know about you, but I am heading over there right now and I would love to know. Hit me up on Instagram, send me a DM at Jenny, underscore Melrose and tell me which tip you are going to put into practice, because personally, I plan on doing the box breathing while Riley is driving, so that I can make sure that I don't get frustrated and send my nervous system into absolute chaos. All right, until next time. I will see you all then.
