In this powerful episode, The Conscious Home Podcast welcomes Marisa Faye, a functional medicine practitioner specializing in women's hormones and gut health. Host Blanche Garcia opens up about her own five-year wellness journey with Marisa, from burnout and hormonal imbalance to renewed energy and balance, while exploring the deeper connection between body, energy, and feminine health.

Together, they dive into what it means to truly listen to your body, reclaim your vitality, and approach wellness as a sacred, lifelong practice. From hormone health and gut repair to nervous system regulation and intuitive living, this conversation reminds us that healing is not just physical; it’s energetic, emotional, and deeply personal.

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(00:01:00) Blanche introduces Marisa and shares how their work together transformed her health, balance, and daily energy.

(00:03:45) Marisa explains why so many women are dismissed by doctors, and how functional medicine digs deeper to uncover the “why” behind symptoms.

(00:09:15) Learn why digestion, toxin exposure, and stress regulation are the first steps to hormone balance and lasting energy.

(00:14:20) From protein intake to intermittent fasting, Marisa clarifies what most women get wrong about nutrition and metabolism.

(00:17:10) Blanche reflects on how unspoken emotions and repressed energy often manifest in the body, especially in women.

(00:26:50) Two practices to start today — morning light exposure and eating breakfast — simple yet life-changing for hormones and energy.

(00:35:00) Blanche and Marisa discuss how stress patterns shape the body and why regulation is the foundation for intuition and abundance.

mirror each other — and why every part of the body speaks to the whole.

(00:56:10) Marisa and Blanche close with a reminder to take responsibility for your own wellness, listen to your intuition, and honor your body as sacred.

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Listen and learn how to root your wellness in awareness, intuition, and self-trust — one aligned choice at a time.

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ABOUT MARISA FAYE

Marisa Faye is Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition, a certified Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and holds a Master’s in Public Health. As the founder of Marisa Faye Wellness, she’s helped more than 700 clients worldwide rebalance hormones, restore energy, and heal from chronic stress through a functional medicine approach. Marisa specializes in women’s hormone health, stress resilience, and gut repair—using personalized nutrition and advanced lab testing to uncover root causes. She’s also the creator of The Balanced Hormone Blueprint Course and host of The Healthy Hormone Lab Podcast.

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I think helping women and we're at such an important place in society

with women's health and hormone health,

I really think of nutrition broadly as nourishment.

It's how you lose your body.

It's the relationships you have.

It's your mindset.

And you were like, do you wanna test for it first to see?

But I'm like, nah, let's just go in.

Let's just go in and do it.

And then you explained to me what I had to do and I was like.

I was like, okay.

Okay, I'm in.

I'm in.

Let's go.

Welcome home.

That is to the Conscious Home Podcast.

I'm your host, blanche Garcia.

Today I am joined by somebody very special to me, and not just

professionally, but personally.

She's played a huge role in my own health journey since 2020, and I'm so

excited to finally have her on the show.

Marissa Faye is a board certified holistic nutritionist.

A functional nutritional therapy practitioner and holds

a master's in public health.

That's a lot.

So kudos to you.

She is the founder of Marissa Faye Wellness, where she's helped over 700

clients around the world rebalance their hormones, restore energy, and

heal from chronic stress through a functional medicine approach, including

myself, which is why I'm having her on.

And Marissa specializes in women's hormone health.

Stress, resilience and gut repair using personalized nutrition and

advanced lab testing to uncover the why behind our symptoms.

She's also the creator of the Balanced Hormone Blueprint course and the host

of the Healthy Hormone Lab podcast.

And if you wanna experience her magic for yourself, listeners of the

Conscious Home Podcast can schedule a free discovery call at Bly slash

Ready for Health using code conscious.

Marissa, thank you so much for joining us.

You're so welcome.

Thanks for that fabulous intro.

You're welcome.

And I just wanna say to everybody out here, so a little behind the scenes

or behind the story, the reason I'm having Marissa on here is that I've

been working with her probably for the past five years, and it has been

quite a journey for me that I have completely benefited from and I am cons.

I don't know if her ears are always ringing 'cause I'm

constantly talking about her.

'cause I get asked all these questions about what I do and what I take

and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Because it, I have gone through, it hasn't always been pretty, I have gone through my

moments and so this is more for me instead of just like saying it all the time.

I can just have one place that everybody can go to.

So I will, at the end of this, tell everybody what I am taking

and what support I don't gate keep.

So I am, I'm an open book when it comes to that.

I think helping women and we're at.

Such an important place in society with women's health and hormone health,

and it's really like gut health and it's the root of so many things.

So let's begin, 'cause we have a lot to cover.

For anyone who hasn't met you, how would you describe

what you do in your own words?

It's such a good question and it's.

Sometimes so difficult to encapsulate.

But I would say what I do is I guide women, especially as my kind of area

of focus, although I have clients that identify as all other kinds of things too.

You work with

my husband,

but I really guide.

Yes, yes.

Right.

And I've actually supported clients with their children too.

So one of the beautiful things about connecting with a client

like you Blanche, is you're like.

Oh, there's all these other people who need help and I'm here to help them too.

Right.

But you know, with my special interest in women's health in particular, I have

women who come to me who have kind of the constellation of symptoms that if you

go to your doctor with those symptoms, they'll be like, ah, it's life literally.

Right.

Oh, it's, it's just having a period.

Oh.

Just being a woman.

Oh, it's perimenopause.

That's just gonna happen as you get older.

And I really, if I could post, oh yeah, yeah, go for it.

I really fucking hate that.

Like I fucking hate that.

It's like way to be gaslit by somebody who really, what they

mean to say is, I don't know.

I don't know because I'm actually not trained in understanding how

full of these things they get

fit together.

An hour two training, by the way, on, on these things, literally.

And the reason I end up referring so many people to you is I, I can't tell you how

many women I know of various ages that'll tell me that they're really messed up.

They're like, I don't, my hair's falling out.

I'm bloated all the time.

I've gained so much weight.

And then I get tests done that my doctor schedules for me, and I go in and they

go, yeah, everything seems normal.

And they're like, I don't feel normal.

Which is, by the way, how I started with you.

But that is so normal out there.

Yeah, so normal.

And just 'cause it's normal doesn't mean it's right.

That's really where I fit into the puzzle.

And so those women come to me and what I do is I take you

through a holistic process.

And what I mean by that is, and I know you appreciate this blanc, which is why

we connect so well, it's so much more than what we're gonna focus on is Yes.

What you.

We're gonna focus on when you eat, how you eat, the composition of your meals.

But it's so much more than that.

I really think of nutrition broadly as nourishment.

It's how you move your body.

It's the relationships you have, it's your mindset.

Yes, it's the supplements you take, but it's those being

customized and personalized, right?

Based on the lab work.

And when I look at the lab work, I'm looking to see what's

optimal, not what's a disease.

Date, which is what your doctor is looking for.

I'm looking for what can I see in the labs that tell me what's not working so well,

that if we got it working a little bit better, you would feel, well, it's better.

Right?

How, and we connect

Well, it's insane is that, I always tell people, I am always a

very holistic person, but somebody mentioned to me the other day, they.

Said, you know, for somebody who's so holistic and whatnot, you're also

like pretty realistic in the sense that if my arm is falling off, I'm

going to the emergency room and I'm taking medicine and I'm getting

surgery and I'm doing all those things.

Yes, but the everyday functionality and the support of our body is

so multifaceted in the sense that it's just not just one fix.

I feel like the part that I completely understood when we started working

together is that, you know, there's so much out there, so much information,

and there's so many supplements that when you hear about somebody going,

oh, try whatever, ginkgo, Paloma, you're like, yeah, let me try that.

So you have no idea.

You're just shooting in the dark.

You don't know what's going on with your body, but you heard this

one person say that this is great, and so you just start taking it.

No idea how it interacts with other things in your body or what's going on.

And I was like, that doesn't make sense to me.

And so it's like you have to, it's like mind, body, soul, like conscious home.

For me, when I think about it, it's not just the home, it's

holistically the whole space.

It's the body we are in.

What we show ourselves every day in visuals, scent, nutrition, the

words we say, the mantras, the things we feel, so all of it's connected.

That's why for me, body to energy is like such like a important component.

Yes, huge.

A huge component.

And I'll tell you when I have a client, not always, but in many cases, if I have a

client who really hits a wall and I can't help them break through a lot of times.

It's none of the literal things we're doing, right?

It's not that we didn't get kind of the diet, right?

It's not that we didn't work on the right exercise or movement habits.

It's not that we're not doing the right supplements.

It's the energetic component.

It's the mind component.

I mean, not always, but a vast majority of the time.

And so a big asterisk here is I love that you're not gatekeeping.

You're like.

Be an Oppa book and tell everybody what I'm doing and I want listeners

to recognize that doesn't mean what Blanche is doing is right for you.

Blanche has been through so many iterations of protocols, of

recommendations, of shifts that we've done together, and this is where she is journey

five years later.

By the way, guys, five years later, I didn't start out that way.

Yes.

At all.

And that brings me to where you start.

I'd like to know where you start with somebody.

Yeah, I know where we started.

But where from your point of view do you start with people that come to you?

So this is oftentimes frustrating because a lot of people are gonna

hear this, and I encourage you, dear listener, don't hear this and think,

oh, I've already got that dialed in because I can bet you, I can't.

Bet you, you don't.

I have worked with and talked with so many people.

I will tell you 99% of people don't have this because we're so busy

following standard health advice and then every little trend that comes

across our phone on social media.

But where we have to start really and truly is.

How are you nourishing your body, right?

Like what are you eating and not just what are you eating and what

proportions are you eating things right?

I know protein has been getting a, a hot moment here, right?

Where it's like really blown up, but what kinds of proteins?

Is it the right amount of protein for your body?

Is the right timing of the protein?

These are all really important things to consider and then

how are you digesting that?

And I really start on digestion with every client with the simple things that

are actually gonna help your body digest.

Better on its own.

We don't necessarily need right out the gate to throw supplements at your body.

No, you didn't.

Even me, you were

like, I want you to stop what you're doing

actually and give it a minute.

Right, exactly.

So sometimes we need that reset.

So we focus a lot on how we are fueling our bodies and is that

fuel the right match for your body.

We focus a lot on how you're moving your body.

We focus a lot on your exposure to toxins and especially with women.

This is.

So important because women are exposed to like 6,000 plus different,

it, it's, the number is crazy.

Like, I'm not even gonna quote it 'cause I'm sure I'll quote it wrong,

but we are exposed to thousands of chemicals truly every day compared

to typically our male counterparts.

Just based on all the products we use, how much we are more likely to be the

ones cleaning, which we are more likely right to be the ones like taking care

of things where we're using chemicals.

So we look at.

How do we reduce that toxin exposure in a major way?

And not to overly plug some of my things, but this is why I created the

Balanced Hormone Blueprint, which is my course, because I wanted to give women

something that mimics what we might do in one-on-one work and can be a really

fantastic and solid starting point that's accessible to a lot of women

at different price points and a really great starting place if you're a self.

Starter, but it's why I made the course because it touches on all

of the things that I truly do.

Start with, we have to look at your stress.

And I don't mean that in a bullshit way.

I mean that in like a, yes, stressful things happen in

life, but what can we control?

Like I'm very Victor Frankl about it.

We can control a response, right?

So as women, we often have to work on what's that innate response that

we initially have when a stressor happens that we can control, right?

So that's kind of a baseline of where I start with everyone, because

otherwise we're building a house.

On really unstable foundation.

And so we need to pour, and you probably know more about this in your field, but

we need to pour a good solid foundation before we start building the walls on it.

Yes.

And the walls are fancy testing supplements, more

advanced strategies, all that

stuff.

Well, and I can kind of jump in a little bit about my own story here.

'cause in the beginning I had the reason I had come to you, and oddly enough a side

note, anybody who's on TikTok, so I had just had my daughter and I was a mess.

And I was like, okay, I'm just gonna work out and eat better and, and go on runs.

And that worked.

I was like, yeah, okay, cool.

I had lost some of the baby weight and we were in the middle of the pandemic.

It was 2020, but I was like, okay, I'm starting to get like kind of my sparkle

back and then something shifted and I was like, wait, hold on a second.

I'm like, something's off.

I'm losing my hair.

I'm gaining weight again.

I feel my skin is dull, I'm sleeping horribly, all these different things.

And I was like, wait, but I lost the baby weight.

What is happening right now?

And so at the time, this was about maybe four, four or five years

ago, um, I'm 47 now, and at the time I was probably like about 42.

And I realized, I'm like, I think I'm going through perimenopause.

I think I'm like, hormones are now hitting me.

I'm like, oh my God.

And I went to the doctor and I got my testing and they're like, you're fine.

Everything's within range.

You're fine.

And I was like, I don't feel fine.

They spent like five minutes with me and nothing was working.

So I literally, I go into meditation, I'm like, there's

gotta be something out there.

I'm not sure what, you know, I don't even know who to talk to.

And of course I come across you on TikTok and you know, I think social

media is kind of a double-sided sword in the sense that it's how you use it.

I have found amazing people.

I, I think that you're one of them and I just listened to you

and I was like, oh, I get her.

I was like, I feel like I'm simpatico.

So I literally scheduled a call and I remember just us talking and

you going, I need your blood work.

And I was like, I got blood work.

And you're like, this is basic blood work.

These are not the nuance that really like, let me know the information of you as a

woman and what's going on in your body.

And so that kind of floored me 'cause I literally thought I was

going in with the information.

And so even after the first phone call, I remember in that call you said to me, what

I want you to do, you like, you looked over my diet and you're like, you're.

Pretty much almost vegetarian.

I'm like, yeah.

I'm like, yeah, I'm again gold star.

And you're like, you eat a lot of nuts.

And I'm like, yeah, gold star.

Again.

I'm like, winning, right?

And then you're like, okay, so we need you to have more protein

and probably animal protein.

And I was like, ah.

And you're like, until we get you outta code red, oh, and second of all, you gotta

stop nuts because your body can't process.

Them.

And I was like super bloated all the time, by the way, when I had that call.

So we go through our whole thing.

Yeah.

I get off the call with you, I stop eating nuts for 24 hours

and my bloating goes away.

And I was like, wait, what?

It's like what?

I was like, okay, just on that sold.

I'm like just on that sold because literally fixed it in two seconds.

And really quick before we go to the next question, just because this

is so pertinent to what you said.

I was at a family function a couple of weeks ago and we were talking about

like how to eat and what to eat first.

And somebody said, oh yeah, you have to eat something like

lettuce first or salad first.

And I said, well, sometimes I said, but protein first actually is like

really important for a lot of women.

And they're like, yeah, but I heard that it's really this first or that first.

I said, yes, but women who are going through hormone changes

who are of certain age, like myself, protein is gonna be first.

And they're like, oh, I had no idea about that.

I just eat whatever I want.

And I was like, okay, I get it.

And it was just to your point, yeah, I feel like I've become like

an extension of the information.

Yeah.

Love it.

Yeah,

love it.

And I'll say on that note too, 'cause this is a good point of like

people you come across on social media, like Glucose Goddess, amazing.

She shares a lot of really great information.

She also shares stuff I don't agree with for the record, but one of the things

she's really gotten out there is food ordering, right for blood sugar balance.

And her whole thing is non-starchy carbs first.

Which I think is where a lot of people are getting this salad first,

but actually salad and raw veggies can be really tough on digestion.

So if you don't have robust digestion, which you most likely don't, if you have

signs of a hormone issue going on, right?

Fatigue, hair loss, moodiness, cold hands and feet, right?

All of these kind of things that we think of kind of as a hormonal,

if you're still getting your cycle, if you have any of those.

It's unlikely you have robust digestion to do like a salad before every meal.

And then also to your point blanc, and why we worked on this with you

is it was actually most important that you get protein in, right?

Because you would fill up fast.

And that's something I hear a lot, right?

When women aren't used to eating more protein or eating enough.

Calories really, not just enough volume food, but calories.

We actually have to start with what's the priority of what

your body needs right now?

And for a lot of women it is protein.

Your body needs the protein first.

So, uh, so this kind of taps on another question.

What are some of the patterns that you see over and over again that

are pretty predominant right now?

So as far as like, issues people are coming in with, or things

that we're doing that maybe are

not so great for us?

Yeah.

Like I guess patterns that you see coming up that you're just like,

Ugh, why is this again coming up?

Or Yes.

You know, how is this again happening?

Totally.

Yeah.

So I would say bloating is like such a common issue that women come to me

with, and a lot of times the bloating is coupled with some kind of experience

of stress or sleep disruption.

So people will say, oh, I'm, I'm tired, but I can't sleep well.

Right.

I'm exhaust.

Did.

But I feel like I can't relax.

I'm bloated, but I feel like I'm eating right, you know, like, and

these things often travel together and to me it's really an issue and a

symptom, a lot of our eating habits, but also as women, the burden we really

take on for everyone else and not protecting our energy and our space.

So a lot of those women come to me, they're doing intermittent fast.

Right, and I don't mean this bullshit intermittent fasting that like not

to call her up, but come on, Dr. Mindy Peltz talks about intermittent

fasting, y'all, what she really means is a healthy not eating window.

That's normal, right?

What she actually talks about in most cases is like you eat dinner at like six

or seven and then you don't eat again until the morning like seven or eight.

That's like normal.

By the way, that's the normal,

intermittent

normal.

You're supposed to stop at a certain point.

Yes.

Right.

You're just supposed to not eat when you're asleep.

Right.

So that one is like suspect to me.

But I mean, true intermittent fasting where women are like delaying breakfast

hours, especially that I see coming in a lot and we need to resolve that.

And sometimes when women go to resolve that, we have more

digestive issues come up at first.

So that's really scary because then it's like, oh no, actually

I should be doing that.

No, you started slowing down your digestion.

Right.

And so when you did that, your body had a response.

So that's a common thing.

A lot of thyroid issues, a lot of autoimmune issues, a lot of women self

diagnosing with things like perimenopause or A DHD when actually we're dealing

with severe nutrient deficiencies because truly like you can wind up with

that diagnosis, PCOS as well, you can wind up with any of those diagnoses.

And actually it's a nutrient deficiency.

It's a digestive issue.

It's a microbiome imbalance.

And so that's why too, when I work with a woman and I look at.

Hormones.

I rarely look at the more expensive elaborate hormone tests out the gate.

So if anybody listening has heard of like a Dutch test or like a full

cycle saliva test, right, where you're taking a bunch of samples throughout a

cycle, if you're still in your cycling years, those are really fantastic.

But estrogen, progesterone, even testosterone to some extent, these

hormones that we're gonna measure at that point, they're downstream.

They're downstream from, well, are you getting the right?

Proportion of B vitamin.

Are you absorbing the minerals from your food?

Are you reducing your toxin exposure, like even from your tap water, right?

Like, are you doing all of these things to really improve what's upstream?

And so really what I tend to see is a lot of women are actually

dealing with upstream issues.

Even when we think like You blanch, we're gold star doing it right?

Oftentimes it's not a match for what the feminine body needs

because it's so different than what a masculine body tends to

need.

Yeah.

It's really interesting because I have these conversations and more and more

with women about, when we talk about the energy too of autoimmune and all

these different things, there's a lot of studies coming out right now that a

lot of that is coming out in women and that autoimmune is predominantly for

women or PCOS, women, all these different things, and from an energetic standpoint.

The way I always explain my feeling on it, and I know I'm not the only

one that believes in this ethos, it's just, it's like my share of it or my

thoughts on it is that our body, yeah.

Harbors so many different options.

There are a lot of things that could go wrong if they're kind

of tipped in out of balance.

Okay.

And so when women especially.

Internalize either not using their throat chakra, meaning that their

voice isn't heard, anger, pain, maybe trauma from when they were

younger and they don't voice that.

A lot of people pleasers, a lot of people who are Yes,

who stuff down their emotions.

When we put that into our body and we don't express that in a way that allows

us to kind of release the pressure on those gauges, we internalize and our

body goes into fight or flight and it basically says I need to protect myself.

When it protects itself, it protects itself by overproducing things and by

saying, okay, like we gotta go, go, go.

And so that, I feel like tips things into the out of balance.

And that's how come I think a lot of women, 'cause women are just historically

the ones that have had to shut the fuck up and had to do everything and clean

the house and take care of the kids.

Or when their children just be pretty or be a good girl.

Mm-hmm.

Or do this or do that, you know?

And so I feel like that is.

Really a big tipping point for a lot of women.

Obviously, I have always used my throat chakra, which I think has helped me, but

there were moments that in my history that I had not, and when that didn't happen,

I noticed that there were things like a, you start to not be able to sleep.

You start eating horribly because you're just.

You're upset, you're depressed.

A lot of things you're overthinking.

So I'm constantly on vigilance and it affects your hormones and whatnot.

And so I guess my next question is, is that when we started working

together, just to get personal, what was that experience like for you?

And from where I started, because we've been working together for a

very long time now, to where I am now.

You know what was beautiful about working with you Blanche is I, I can

tell when I get someone in the room when they're open to more, and I love that.

Right?

I love when somebody, when we can talk about that energetic component, right?

When we can talk about really honestly the impact of truly not just health history,

but like emotional history, right?

And how that's impacted you and brought you to where you are.

Because I really see and believe it's both, right?

It's both.

And by the way, I identify with much of what you said.

I have a thyroid condition.

I do believe part of how it developed was my childhood, growing

up with an abusive parent, right?

And stifling and holding and pressing.

And also I had some severe nutrient deficiencies and I had some things

that made it a lot worse, like being a vegetarian for seven years and the

dysfunction that caused in my gut.

So it's both to me.

So I love when I can level that way with a client.

So that was great with you.

What was interesting with you is.

You were really attracted initially to parasites.

Oh yeah.

No.

So I dunno if you remember that.

So for everybody who's listening first, like intro I energetically, I scheduled

the call with you and I think I was like the day before and I'm sitting

there and I go, I feel like she's gonna talk about a parasite protocol

and then something pinged inside me.

I'm very intuitive, obviously we've talked about that.

Everybody who follows the podcast and I said to myself, I said,

I have to do a parasite clean.

And I had never like honestly didn't know much about it and I was just

like, it just kept sitting with me like, I have to do a parasite cleanse.

And then we were talking and I wasn't even bringing it up.

And you were like, oh, here's some of the things that I offer and

do, and here's some of the things.

And you said something like, yeah, and sometimes we do

parasite cleanse, this and that.

And I was like, that one right there.

I was like, I think I have to do that.

And you were like, do you wanna test for it first to see, or do you

just wanna like go in and do it?

I'm like, nah, let's just go in.

Let's just go in and do it.

And then you explained to me what I had to do and I was like, yeah.

I was like, okay, okay, I'm in.

I'm in.

Let's go.

Yes,

yes.

And also, I want people to know, yes, I saw signs in your blood work

that parasites could be a problem.

So this is really important because I know there's so much stuff out

there like, oh, everybody parasites.

And Yes.

Well, I do think most of us hold onto some.

Type of parasite.

Not all of them are problematic.

It's the same idea.

We all have fungus in our body.

We all have organisms in our body.

It's actually about the balance.

It's not always something we have to go after or that it's

wise to go after at a given time.

And so for you, right, we started first, we eased your body into it.

We didn't just cabe on, right?

Like parasite cleanse

you.

You did a prep.

No, no.

Like, let me put this out there.

She gave me like a three month.

Prep protocol that it was like, my husband was just like, what are you doing?

And I'm just like, I'm prepping my body.

He's like, don't you just drink something?

I'm like, no, not unless you wanna like completely, your body

like foots out or like lose it.

Yes, totally.

So it backfires like that.

Right.

But what I loved about working with you is you trusted the process.

Right.

We discussed these different kind of layers of why we were doing what you

were willing to try things, which I think is so important when we're so

inundated with this health information and you came in thinking like, I'm

already doing all these things.

Right.

You know what I mean?

And so sometimes when people come in with that, it's.

Tough for me because then they're not so open, but you really were.

And so that was so incredibly helpful and you really stayed the course.

A lot of people give up, right?

We kind of hit a roadblock.

Something feels tough, something feels like, nah, no.

And I think those moments are often an upleveling energetically, a

hundred

percent.

And emotionally, right.

I don't even think it's always about like, oh, it's tough for

me to eat more animal protein.

Like yes, there's that kind of literal piece, but it's like, what else?

What else is happening there?

And so you really persevered and that was beautiful because because

of your persevering, I've been able to witness you over the years

just level up, level up, level up.

And to be clear with people, like we've been working together right?

Five-ish years, but I haven't seen blanche.

You know, every single month, all the time.

It's like we have periods of time where we're working on something

specific, we see each other more, and then we have periods of time

where I'm like, go live your life.

Well, you're

really,

you know what I mean?

Like

you are

really enjoy, go enjoy,

I'll say.

So working with Marissa, and this is not a shameless plug in the

sense I really believe in this 'cause I've seen the results.

We had our call and every time you have a call with her, she follows up

with a very specific protocol and path forward for you to do on your own.

So there would be months that I don't talk to Marissa.

It would just be like a check-in, okay, blanche, let's do this.

Unless we were working on something very specific, like when we did

the parasite protocol, that was our first, you know, foray into this.

And that took some checking in a little bit more.

And then after that she was like, okay, what do you wanna go to next?

And I was like, like, let's look at hormones.

And then we kind of, she gave me a protocol for that.

Like, let's see how it goes.

And everything was going like really well, and this and that.

And then we checked it again and I was like, okay, this is happening.

And so we kind of like went off of that.

So it's not like an incessant, it's not like an all the time, you're not

doing like loads and loads of constant work and it becomes second nature.

Like the first couple days you're reading everything and you're like, whoa.

Like this is what's gonna happen.

And then a couple weeks in you're like, oh, okay.

This is my norm.

And there's more intensive phases to that point, right?

So usually the beginning when I start working with someone, we work together

consecutively like three to six months and then it spaces out depending on

what we might be working on or, or what issue might still be coming up.

But the beautiful thing about this whole process is the whole entire goal is that

you get to go live life feeling good.

So if we never.

Gave you that time to like, go live life, feel good.

Don't be on an intensive protocol.

Let's just have a couple of supports, right?

To round out what you might be missing in your diet or to support

something that's the stressor for you.

And let's have you keep living your life with these habits you've learned.

But my entire goal is to empower other women to be their own guide, to understand

their own body, to trust their own wisdom.

And I think a lot of times, like kind of this intuitive eating movement,

women aren't calibrated to it.

You have to be calibrated.

To like, what does your body actually intuitively need?

And a lot of us are misdirected.

And so I think going through a process like this is really helpful to then

ultimately get back to what do I need?

What are the things I've learned through this process?

Is a sign my body needs this kind of food?

Or is a sign my body needs more time outside or is a sign my

body needs me to move more?

Like I think that's really the essence of, of what we

do.

Yeah, I would say anybody list.

That when I first started, I was like, oh my God, how am I gonna

shift a lot of the things I do and the supplements that I take?

In the beginning when you're working on the issue, meaning like

what somebody comes to you for.

When I came to you, I was like, I need to not feel bloated.

I wanna feel better in my skin.

I wanna sleep better.

I want to feel energy.

I don't want my hair falling out.

All these things.

Once we got out of code red and you were like, okay, let's get you to a, like

an even line, then it's like normal.

Everything's normal.

Things settle down.

The supplements are just like here and there.

Like they, I do take them every day, but I don't take as many of them.

There are days just so everybody knows that I forget something.

I do eat junk food sometimes.

I do all the normal things.

It's just that on the regular, I know that when I'm at whack, and by the way,

when I don't do my regular regime for like at least 24 to 48 hours, I feel it.

I'm like, oh, okay.

I gotta get back on the wagon.

These things aren't elective.

They're just like my new norm at my age.

So to anybody listening?

Yes.

What would be one small thing that you would say that

they can implement in their every day without like seeing you?

What is one thing that you'd be like this, if you did this,

this would be very helpful.

Yes.

Yeah.

Of, okay.

Of course.

Can I give two?

You're for me to

choose.

Choose.

You can say whatever you want,

right.

Yes, thank you.

Okay, so one is, and there's an asterisk here.

One is truly get outside without sunglasses on.

When I tell you I had, at the point at which I really dialed in and discovered

the benefits of light exposure through the eyes without sunglasses.

I mean, I was years into doing this work and it.

In COVID and I had slid back on so many of my symptoms in progress.

I had regained 40 pounds.

I had lost, I was going through a breakup.

I was having digestive issues again, like my body was outta whack.

My cycle was getting weird.

Um, I was having more period pain and I literally was like, hold up.

Hold up.

'cause I was doing all the like typical tools that I had learned up to that point.

And I was like, no, hang on, there's something I'm missing here.

And that's when I really went down the rabbit hole on cortisol, which

is one of our stress hormones.

And really associated with that is also leptin, which is a satiety hormone.

So kind of telling us when to be hungry, when not to be hungry, along with other

hormones involved in that famously right.

GLP is involved in that too.

But what I found was the wisdom was actually.

Simple.

It was like, go simple.

And so I went down the rabbit hole on light and actually walking.

And I know this sounds like so too stink and simple when I tell you that

I got off any supplement that had vitamin D in it, I had chronically

very low vitamin D, like under 20.

We typically wanna see vitamin D at least at 30, but ideally like.

40 to 60 for the average woman tends to be a good zone.

For an individual, it might be a little bit different, but in general, that

tends to be a good zone to be for immune function, for gut function, for mood,

for energy, stopped wearing sunglasses, committed to getting outside in the

natural light, whatever that might be.

There's overcast.

Outside.

There's sun outside, there's rain, there's snow.

I mean, I have videos on social media of me walking in the rain just

being like, look at me doing this.

You can do it too.

Right?

Like I practice what I preach.

So I have found for a lot of US women, daylight without sunglasses,

blocking that to signal the trigger of vitamin D synthesis.

Of what your cortisol should be up to of what your leptin should be up to,

of what your insulin should be up to.

Of what in general, all hormones are connected.

Right?

So I can broadly say what all hormones should be up to.

Right?

Signaling to your hormones.

It's daylight.

During daylight, we produce certain things.

During nighttime, we produce other things, right?

And by helping your body understand what time it is, 'cause your body doesn't

have a clock, it can look at and be like.

It's 10:00 AM Okay, so lunch is in a couple of hours, and here's when

we're gonna be productive at work.

Your body doesn't have that, right?

Your body has light.

So getting outside in the light without sunglasses, huge bonus points.

Go for a walk outside.

And when I tell you life changing, my vitamin D levels are between 50 and 60.

Now I take zero vitamin D supplementation and I truly credit it with this

journey of natural light exposure, regulating cortisol, insulin, and

leptin as being a big key there.

So that's.

One thing I think all of us can do and start with two minutes.

Like I'm dead serious.

Start with two minutes.

Just step outside within the first hour of being awake.

If it's cold out, I don't care.

Put a coat on.

Bring a cup of tea with you.

Truly, two minutes.

Get yourself out there.

And then I would say the second thing is following that up with eat breakfast.

Oh, I mean, just please eat B breakfast.

Remember

there are two things here.

I remember when we.

Started, I barely ate breakfast, you know, like most people out there and

women, I would have a coffee and then I was like, oh, I'm not really hungry.

And then I'd have breakfast like maybe an hour or two later.

Mm-hmm.

And I'm like, oh yeah, that's cool.

And I know they said to have breakfast, but I barely, you know, got that going.

And now I literally take.

Protein in my coffee every morning because you were like, if you can't have

protein, as soon as you wake up within the first half hour, put it in your coffee.

And not only is it life changing, by the way, it doesn't taste like protein.

It's chocolate, so it tastes like chocolate.

And now when I don't have it in my coffee, it tastes like crap.

So there's that.

And second of all, as from an interior design and holistic and energetic

designer, light is everything.

So I don't have blackout curtains in my room.

I do that specifically because I like to wake up with the sunrise and light.

For me, in design, we are always implementing light,

more windows, more light.

And honestly, not all light is great because depending on the

function of the room, if you're working on the computer or.

Sometimes glare control needs to be put into place.

We are doing a wealth management office right now in New York City for clients

of mine that I've had for a very long time, and they have been on the journey

with me, meaning that they started out with, we want basic, we're like

blah, blah, blah, business oriented.

And now we're on our, I think fourth or fifth location and they go, oh,

we're gonna implement a wellness room.

And I was just like, what?

I was like, you can do a wellness room.

And they're like, yeah, but their like version of it is like, we

want a massage chair in there.

And I was like, okay guys, I need you to leave the rest up to me.

But it's a small room with the windows.

So what I'm doing is putting faux skylights in that

mimic the sun in the room.

So when people are in there, yes, it's bringing sunlight, because if

you're working crazy hours, which a lot of them do, they need sunlight.

And it's not just from the windows on the outside.

So that there's a lot of things that we're implementing in this space, but

one of them is this slight fixture that mimics natural light in the sky.

So that's like, so just kind speak to that.

So what are some of the teachers or mentors that have had the

biggest influence on you?

Like where do you go to to kind of be like, Ooh, that really influenced my

life and where I'm going right now?

So I think I might have a disappointing answer because my answer is

I learned from everyone, like I really do.

One of the things that I learned way back when, so part of my background

actually is in yoga as well, and when I first started studying yoga, something I

really loved one of the teachers who I.

Went to often who was like a very well known individual.

He said, no one is an expert in yoga.

We are all here to practice.

Right?

Everybody comes to their mat and it is a practice and I just really

carried that with me and I see that in my life across the board.

It, this is a practice, right?

Functional medicine.

If you're going to be a good functional medicine practitioner, it is a practice.

You should.

Be constantly learning.

You should be seeking out mentorship and guidance from all

different kinds of people with all different kinds of orientation.

I mean, there's very few people where I would say I love absolutely

everything they do and say, right?

It's like, no, but does everybody have their own interesting

pearl that you can take away?

Does everybody have something maybe useful to like somebody

you're working with, right?

That's gonna help you with that next step?

So I read a lot.

I really do, and I will say in the field of nutrition, Westin a Price is just

his study of looking at like dental and oral health, and as that relates

to nutrition, that was something early on that just changed my perspective.

So I really think that his work is.

Super interesting.

Do I agree with all of it?

No, but do I think there's a lot of interesting evidence and kernels there?

Yes.

I also do a lot of studying outside of the field of functional medicine.

Right.

So I've done a lot of studying of hypnotherapy, yoga, meditation,

mindfulness, energetics.

I mean, I've taken trainings on like.

The subtle body, right?

Like I just think it's important for us not to look at people and be like,

they're guru know everything, right?

A hundred percent.

And instead

it's giving away your

power.

And instead be like, and

people don't realize whenever you're just like this one

thing or this one mecca or this.

It's giving away your power.

Yes, exactly.

So I think another person who like kind of evolved, some of my understanding,

Dr. Brian Walsh, he and his wife have an incredible functional medicine training.

I've done some bits and pieces and I think their perspective's really interesting.

Do I agree with all of it?

No.

Is he probably smarter than me?

Probably.

But just instinctively sometimes people in the field of.

Medicine in general and holistic healing overcomplicate things.

And for me, and just from a nervous system perspective, sometimes they take

us down rabbit holes that I'm like, that's too, no, it can't be that complicated.

Right?

Bodies are incredible.

It can't be that

complicated.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I tend to gravitate to how do we simplify?

Well, also you talk about the nervous system and I, I really,

truly believe that nervous system regulation is the key to not only.

Your health and wellness, but even your intuitive sense.

So for me, because of the work that I do, and I do, you know, a lot

of holistic mixed with interiors, but I also work with channeling

and connection and, and to self.

And I always say like, not to give your power away and to

kind of look inside yourself.

And a lot of the answers, it's very like cliche, but it's

really true, but nervous system.

And it's something that we spend our whole lives working on.

Especially as a mother, I used to think my nervous system was

pretty good and then I had a kid.

In the pandemic, and then I realized that I was triggered 24 7.

Mm-hmm.

And that my nervous system, how I reacted to stress.

So a lot of people, when you talk about stress, people are like, oh

yeah, but I have a regular job, my regular life, blah, blah, blah.

I mean, I'm not super stressed.

It's not that.

It's our reaction to.

Stress.

So for me, I had to do a lot of work and it is something I constantly work on.

I don't think I ever master.

I don't think I'll ever master it because I'm constantly in work of that.

And I think having a child forces you to even work harder because you're

meant to regulate their nervous system.

They can't do that, and you can't do that.

Regulate their nervous system if you can't do it for yourself.

And so for me, I realized that I was raised in a household that my mother

was very much like a do all of it.

She was great at everything.

She was perfect at everything.

And to do all of that, she always had high anxiety, meaning that she was

always like, we ha we're gonna be late or we gotta get this done, da da, da.

And I always thought that that was pretty normal.

So whenever there was something like a deadline or something

that I had to finish, I always was in that fight or flight.

On those last moments leading up to, and I realized that the way I handled that

was how I was handling a lot of things, which put my body in fight or flight,

and my nervous system was not regulated.

So I spent like working with you, but also with my own self and my own inner work.

And how I created Conscious Home is working on my nervous system,

not only to be at Optimal Health, but also your nervous system.

Barometer is the biggest indicator of how you carry and will.

Hold wealth and how you will hold energy and abundance in your life.

So if you don't feel, if you get money in, for instance, and you

go, oh my God, like I have to hold onto it, when's it gonna be gone?

When am I getting in the next influx?

That's your nervous system in panic mode, right?

And it's in lack mode.

But when your nervous system is more regulated, you go, okay, great.

I can ease into this.

I'm so happy I got this.

There's more of this to come.

And you're opening and widening the container in order to.

Hold that abundance to hold that wealth.

So nervous system regulation is like super huge.

And so I just wanted to comment on that.

And so is the child observation you have, because something I

talk with a lot of clients about is because as women sometimes we

struggle to prioritize ourselves.

I say take care of the child inside, right?

The child inside needs to know I'm gonna be fed on a regular schedule, I'm

gonna be taken outside, I'm gonna get time for movement, I'm gonna get time

for joy, and I'm gonna get time for.

Sleep.

Right?

The child needs to know that.

So if anybody struggles with prioritizing themselves, start thinking about the child

version of you and what it would feel like to take care of that version of you.

And that can sometimes be a ticket, right?

To that regulated nervous system and also that kind of cared for piece

of us that many of us need to see.

A hundred percent.

So one comment I wanted.

Say is that when we started working together, you were like a needle

in the haystack to find you.

Like there wasn't a lot out there.

I was like, oh, okay.

They were like, what?

There's some, there are people that talk about this, just that, and

hormone health honestly wasn't that big of a topic and perimenopause

and menopause and all those things.

And obviously since.

Then we now know that we are in the eye of the storm of hormones and menopause.

Like there is 8 billion menopause, and I'm so happy, honestly, that everybody's

talking about it and that there is such a big conversation about it because it

wasn't like that a couple of years ago.

But there is a lot of noise and there's a lot of saturation in the market.

And so I wanted to know what do you think has shifted, and also what

can women keep in mind when they're searching for the right practitioner?

Great question.

So first of all, I think what shifted was COVID.

I think COVID finally, there were people who were giving all their

power to doctors who saw, oh, my doctor doesn't have the answer.

My doctor doesn't know.

And also we had then the kind of upsurge of TikTok of social media being our

lifeline to connect with each other.

And so we had that opportunity for more voices to be heard.

And especially, right, like a voice like mine.

We're like, I'm an individual.

It's, it's just me, right?

I'm here.

Speaking passionately, but I'm also, I'm trying to draw in people that are right

to work with me, which is not everyone.

And also I don't have a major platform and I'm not gonna make a deal to

promote a product that doesn't feel in alignment with me, which comes up a lot.

And I think part of why we're seeing more and more people is just that that

product companies have realized there's power in what seems to be like, oh,

unique individual creator content.

And so they're kind of hijacking this and that is something

I would just warn people.

Be really careful of anybody who you follow who's constantly pushing a product

that's a promotional something, be leery.

Not all those products can be fabulous and amazing, and it's

really a better sign if they talk about turning down these products

and working with these partnerships.

But I think that's part of why we see so much of this coming to the forefront is

social media and COVID, where we started questioning doctors more as a society,

which I think is a really good thing.

Like doctors are amazing, right?

To your point earlier.

If I got in a car accident, take me to the hospital, right?

Like absolutely there are things that we need doctors for a hundred percent.

But what doctors aren't great at is true preventative health because

they've tried to apply an emergency care model to preventative healthcare

and it's entirely different.

And that's really where someone like me comes in.

And so if you're looking for a practitioner and you'd like to go on.

Journey through functional medicine, through holistic healing.

I would really encourage you to not just look at what social media serves

you, but go seek it out, right?

And what you might want to look for is somebody who speaks about nothing

being the be all end all right?

So you will never find me saying.

Testing is absolutely the only way to do it.

You will never find me saying, it's only about your diet, right?

You will never find me saying those things.

You wanna find somebody who has a balanced approach and who

understands its nuance and it's all intricately interlinked, right?

So somebody who's.

Speaks about that I think is really important because your issues, while

you may be experiencing symptoms more recently within the last year, it

actually took a lifetime to build to this.

So it's really important that somebody have a vast toolkit

to really address that.

You also wanna look out for anybody who has a cookie cutter

approach with absolutely everybody.

I always run this thing with absolutely everybody.

I recommend this one thing.

There's very little, that's an everybody thing and the things

that are, everybody thinks.

I put in my course because they truly are right?

Like everybody needs to eat, protein needs the sun.

Everybody needs to eat right.

Well, mostly yes.

Everybody needs the sun.

Everybody, every needs to move their body go

eat the sun.

Right?

Exactly.

Everybody needs to work on their stress response.

Do you know what I mean?

Everybody needs clean water, but beyond that, it's really individual and so you

want somebody who understands that nuance.

I would look for people and not just go entirely based on

credentials, which may feel a little bit surprising to individuals.

But for example, registered dieticians, some of them amazing,

some of them not amazing.

I'm not a registered dietician on purpose.

Okay.

Because their education and training I think is very one-sided, and so I

actively decided not to go that route.

So credentials mean next to nothing.

You wanna know how people are using those, right?

Like Blanche mentioned three of my credentials at the beginning,

y'all, I have seven more.

That's that constant learning, that constant growing and evolving as an

individual so that it can serve others.

I think looking for somebody with that ethos is really an.

Important.

And also I would ask yourself, am I ready to go on this journey?

Because there's a time and a place, right?

And like sometimes if other things in your life are upheaval, it's not the time.

Sometimes it is.

'cause you're just like, rip the bandaid.

Let's do it.

All right?

So the only person who knows is you.

And so you might feel when you sit there and think about like, oh,

okay, I'd love to do this kind of work that Blanche did with Marissa.

Does it feel expansive?

Right.

Even if it feels scary.

If it does, then great.

It's maybe time for you.

If you are like, oh no, then it's not the time and that's okay.

Right?

No judgment.

So know yourself and know if it's right for you to take that next step.

Well,

yeah, I'll say that for me.

Your credentials?

Actually, I didn't even look at, and I hate to say that

with people, but I really do.

I tune into a couple things.

Well, one is that I've gone to plenty of doctors and I've met a lot of

people with a lot of credentials.

That meant absolutely nothing to me because they couldn't help me and

they weren't open enough and they didn't look at my symptoms or this

and that, and the medical field.

While it has some really amazing aspects, you are correct.

It is put into place as a reaction to say when something goes

wrong, this is how we fix it.

They're not really big into preventative.

Mm-hmm.

And they're the first ones to be like, yeah, the a hundred percent.

So I think being preventative and being kind of an advocate

for yourself is your job.

Nobody's gonna do that.

For you.

So if you think you're going to the doctor and they're gonna give

you how to prevent you being sick, that's not really gonna happen.

So you have to be your own advocate with that.

When I came to you and found you, I follow my inner guidance and I

go, okay, she's actually doing this because she needed this for herself,

and she's making a lot of sense.

To me.

And also it's like pinging in my head, like, yeah, yeah.

Like lights on, lights on.

Yeah, this is right.

So this felt good to me and I was ready because I had really gone

through all aspects and avenues and I couldn't find anything that would help.

I wouldn't, I couldn't even find anybody that wasn't either trying to sell me, like

you said, because I'm also a big believer that there's not one fix for everything.

So even for myself, when people will go.

Oh Blanche.

That session we had like, you know, so much.

I go, first of all, I don't know anything.

I'm like a conduit.

So a lot of times when I'm in session with people, it's like information

is coming through me, not from me.

A and B. No one is the mecca and if you think someone's the mecca,

you are giving your power away.

So really do that inner like touch point with yourself.

But I also could tell, I said this, I think the first time we got off a

phone call, I said to my husband, I said, let me explain something to you.

I've been doing what I do for over 30 years.

I know my shit.

Okay?

Mm-hmm.

When one meets another, who knows their shit, they know within seconds.

It takes me seconds to know if someone's like.

Talking onto their ass or they know their shit.

Mm-hmm.

So I was just like, Marissa knows her shit and so I'm gonna listen to her

because just like people who come to me and they're like, oh my God, my arts

hung the right height and this and that.

And I'm like, no, it's not.

It's not.

Your room is giving off like lack energy.

Mm-hmm.

Blah, blah, blah.

All this stuff.

It's like you, you just know and speaking to that.

So I told everybody that.

I would let them know kind of a little bit more about my journey with you.

So I went through 2020, we did the parasite cleanse, then we

started focusing on my hormones.

Mm-hmm.

And we started doing support for that.

And there were some things that you recommended, even at the time, you're

like, blanche, I really think you need to do some more strength training.

I think you need to like do a little bit more walking and

here's these other things.

And to be honest with you, I was really having a hard time with the

strength training and even the exercise more because my daughter was young.

Mm-hmm.

And I was still kind of in the gauntlet and not feeling great with myself.

But I kind of powered through it and I would pepper it in

here and there and whatnot.

And then about maybe a year ago, I was like, Hmm, something's feeling off again.

Like I had been on the protocol, I felt okay, but the weight wasn't going.

And in fact, like within, probably I'd say about a. Two month time period.

I had gained probably about 18 pounds within two months doing the same

things that I do, eating the same way, not changing really anything.

And I was like, okay, I'm more bloated.

I'm gaining weight now, like rapidly and something's really crazy.

So I remember checking in with you and I remember saying, listen.

A, what can I do?

And B, I'm thinking, I've heard about microdosing and I was just like, I am

not a give my power away to everything.

But I'm also very aware that there are new things that are coming up,

new studies that are for women, and it's all about layering.

So I remember when we had this conversation, you were like.

Okay.

I think this is something you can try maybe to help you and you gave me

guidance and direction and whatnot.

So not only do I do like a lot of the hormone support and the things like eat

my protein first thing in the morning, but I also started microdosing GLP and.

Very lightly.

When I say microdosing, what that means is like a tiny, tiny amount.

And what I like about it is that I am still completely hungry.

I'm still myself.

I honestly feel like there are times that I can eat like a whole, like

five cheeseburgers and I don't, but what I did notice mm-hmm.

Is that the inflammation it took down within probably 72 hours.

Like you don't lose this much weight overnight, so it's water weight.

I literally probably lost about four pounds in like

24 hours, which is not real.

That does, that means it's not weight.

Mm-hmm.

That's, that's.

Inflammation.

So I remember the inflammation.

Yeah, going down.

I remember my energy coming back up and not only that, my workouts and

strength training, I started to notice that they were actually working,

whereas I had spent years and I would work out and not see any results.

I was just like getting bulkier, but I wasn't getting like leaner.

And I noticed that by dovetailing a lot of the microdosing mixed in with all the

other things that I had done and changing a lot of my routine, the workouts that I

was doing were actually being effective.

Mm-hmm.

I remember saying to myself, 'cause you had connected me with MIDI at the time,

and MIDI is more of an online for hormones that can prescribe GLP in a safe way.

And that was just something that you had experience with

that you were like, I know them.

'cause there's a lot of places out there mm-hmm That put GLP and they're like $10.

I personally would not do that and put those things in my body.

I would rather pay a little bit more and make sure that it's

coming from the right source.

But I remember that they were like, do you wanna go a higher dose?

And I said, no.

I want this to be natural in the sense of I want to be able to steadily have

my body get comfortable and still have the hunger cues, and I still

have make pancakes in the morning, and I still do all these things.

But I am working in conjunction with my body.

I'm choosing something that is a tool, not an answer.

And so that for me was extremely helpful and that works for me.

I will say that it's still one of those things that it's ongoing process.

I haven't hit my goal weight, but what I will say is that I feel honestly

better than I did in my twenties.

It's taken five years.

I feel more me than I ever have, and that's honestly,

it's like something that I'm.

I'm so excited for it because I run into women that are like, oh,

I guess this is just our new norm.

And I'm like, it isn't your new norm.

And in fact, with LPs, and you can speak to this more, there's so many studies out

now that it's helping with osteoporosis and women's health and you know, heart

health and all these things like that.

There's so many studies that are coming out.

So I don't say that it's the end all, and I wouldn't just run to it.

I think a lot of women are like, oh, I just wanna lose weight.

Let me run to it.

And they're not setting the foundation of.

Their immune system, their nervous system, what their body needs.

Like I've done the work, you know, I've been persistent, consistent.

Mm-hmm.

Yes.

And I've done the work and that to me was just an extra add-on.

And it's like night and day.

Like I run into people all the time and they go blanch like, oh, you look

really great, or like you're, you like your energy and this and that.

And I'm always like, okay.

Don't just go on this, this, and this.

Just start with Marissa.

Yes.

Yeah.

So, and what I want people to hear from that is, first of all, blanche has been

getting older, even though she looks just as young as the moment I met her.

But here's the deal.

As we get older, our hormones change and that's where the sudden kind

of weight gain that you saw and you were wise to reach out then.

Right?

So I tell my clients.

I'm in your pocket now.

Forever.

Forever,

ever and ever.

You're

net forever.

You're not ever and ever.

Yes.

Ever

and ever.

Right?

So here's the deal.

If we work together and a year later you're like, this thing happened, help.

I'm here for you.

Right?

I really try to be that preventative.

Support truly for clients.

And so if something happens as somebody gets older, that

can be a part of aging, right?

And so it's not necessarily abnormal, and it doesn't mean you

were doing anything wrong, right?

It means something needed to shift.

It was time for a change, and that's okay.

And so here's the deal though, a lot of women are jumping to DLPs and they're not

preparing their body to respond to it.

Well, you did the work, right?

You did the work.

We did the work.

First, you always wanna work on the gut and more comprehensively

than most people realize.

We really want to look at your microbiome balance because there's a whole part

of your microbiome that has to do with estrogen recycling and detoxification.

So that's gonna be really important, especially if we take something that

has the potential to slow down the gut.

We also wanna look at your nutrient stores because as great as these DLPs

are, they can create some deficiencies.

So you wanna work on all those things first.

And also ideally cycling hormone balance as well before you

potentially reach for those typically.

And so you did that, right?

You prepped your body, which meant that then you respond

to the lowest dose possible.

And my philosophy when it comes to these G Ps is just that, what's the

lowest effective dose, not the dose that suppresses your appetite so much to your

point that you're not gonna wake up and make pancakes with your daughter, right?

I wanna,

I wanna eat normally.

No.

Yeah.

Yes, yes.

We want you to eat normally, actually, because then when you ultimately

decide to come off of it, you're likely to have a much better result.

What I, at that point, and you're gonna maintain muscle mass and all of that,

and that's really, really important.

So I think that's where the low dosing comes in.

And just to be really clear, with people doing a low dose of A GLP,

doing a micro dose is doing less than any kind of typical prescribed amount.

So if you go online and you look at, oh, what's.

The typical starting prescription amount for Ozempic, for example,

a microdose would be that you're taking significantly less than that.

A low dose would be that you're probably taking less than that and at the

highest amount you're taking that dose.

So that's kind of some language clarification.

'cause I know these terms kind of get out there.

That's what it means to me at least.

I have a number of clients like you Blanch, where we kind of get to that point

or somebody comes back in and there's kind of a major weight gain happening that's.

Seems to be just the phase of life they're in where I say, great,

if you're open to it, this could be a good time to layer this on.

Right?

And then I refer out to your point, to somebody who can prescribe that.

And really, it's important to me that everybody be super informed if they're

gonna go in asking for that prescription.

Because just like you experienced Blanche, they will be like,

okay, you want more, right?

Yep.

And it's like,

they always ask me, they're

like, do, you're responding?

And

I'm like.

I'm fine.

I'm good.

Cool.

I'm good.

Yeah.

We want slow.

We want, you're still living life, you're feeling good, you're working out,

you're eating enough, you're sleeping.

Right.

We want that because that is going to be ultimately for your

longevity, likely the most positive

experience.

Yeah, and

I wanted to kind of put this in there.

I didn't wanna forget this because you mentioned it before about dental health.

And I wanted to throw something in with that.

Yeah.

Obviously we both believe in holistic health is all multilayered.

And for me, my dental health has been in alignment with that,

with my gut health by the way.

And they dovetail.

So my teeth had always been fine.

I had braces when I was younger or whatnot, and I had my daughter

and then I go to the dentist.

It was like, you know, 2020.

Nobody was going in for like preventative stuff.

And I go in like 20, 21 and they go, you have six cavities.

And I was like, what?

What are you talking about?

And they're like, well, this is kind of normal.

So they do like, you know, they fix like four of them and they're like watching

another one and I'm doing all the things.

And I go back in a couple months later and they go, yeah, you have 10.

And I go, what?

And they go, yeah, we, we really think that we should fill these and da, da da.

And that's when I put us.

Stop.

I said, hold on a second, something's going on here.

And I remember saying, okay, blanche, you have looked into holistic

health for so many different things.

Why don't we check about dentists?

And I end up finding this holistic dental doctor, and I go to him

and it was like, oh my God.

Yes.

Because he was like, we need to check your biome or your, you know, your

saliva to see what the overgrowth is and we have to check it with your gut.

And some of the things he was like, I want you to start this leading

up to, and I want you to stop.

Uh, what is it that like everybody takes in their teeth.

I'm like losing it when they Fluoride.

Yes,

fluoride

and I had already been low fluoride.

Yes.

But the problem is I had been reading so many things and so

I was taking out fluoride but not replacing it with anything.

So going to somebody who knew, he was like, these are what you

have to replace it with, but.

Because of that.

A lot of the supplements that he was like, I want you to be on

this protocol for a month, were things you and I had already done.

So by the time it dovetailed with that, now I've been working

with this one holistic dentist.

We don't use fluoride.

I haven't had any cavities in over a year.

We did this protocol, by the way, that was six months long.

And now we're just on just regular checking in, and I am so happy.

But it dovetails the health of all of your body.

It goes together.

It's like this dance, and people think like, oh, it's so hard to achieve.

Yes, yes, you do have to put in work.

And to your point, you have to be ready to make a commitment.

But we have one body.

If you don't feel good or if your body goes south, by the way, you

can't do anything else in life.

You could do nothing.

Your career means nothing.

Your family means nothing because you can't do anything.

So like that's your number one priority.

Mental health, physical health, energetic health, you know?

Yeah, absolutely.

And oral health is huge to the point now where anytime I do a

gut healing protocol, I always do some oral health work with that.

And one of my top referrals is.

Out to a holistic dentist, especially if somebody's getting

cavities like that so often.

But also, oh yeah, if somebody has root canals.

Root canals,

yep.

Ticking time

bomb.

Everyone I know, and I had no idea.

Yeah.

Until I literally started going to this one dentist and I started doing

research and I'm like, oh my God.

Root canals.

I was like, oh my God.

So crazy.

I feel like I can talk to you all day.

Yeah.

I feel like we covered a lot.

Thank you so much, Marissa.

If there's one thing that you would like everybody to know just from

yourself, what would you like to say?

Oh, I think I just go back to like you are the captain of the ship.

You are the one who is in the driver's seat when it comes to your health.

And we've touched on this a few times about like, don't give your power away.

And it really is true.

No one else.

If you are an adult woman listening to this podcast.

No one else is responsible for your health.

I don't care how shitty you feel.

I don't care how much a doctor recommended something that you tried.

Now is the moment where you become conscious right now is the

moment where you say, okay, pause.

I am responsible.

And that is a sacred responsibility you have to yourself to take care of yourself.

There is almost no priority that supersedes that, and there is almost

nothing in life that I think is as valuable to pursue because of all the

things that you will learn about yourself.

Learn about the human experience, the way that you'll be able to connect deeper

to yourself and others through that.

So it is a worthy pursuit.

It is beyond worth your time, and I just hope anybody listening

to this will truly take a beat.

To take a breath and to ask like, what do I need?

What do I need?

And to follow that, I wanna build

on that.

So I always leave an episode with a takeaway and for my viewers to

be able to do at home, and this is how I find my own guidance.

So for instance, if you came across this podcast and this was something that was

already floating in your arena, meaning that energetically you have felt off

or you have felt like something doesn't fit right or My health is really.

Bothering me, and I don't know where to go and I don't know the answers.

And this popped up for you.

By the way.

This is a sign for you.

I truly believe that.

Now, does it mean that you have to run to Marissa?

No.

It could mean that you run to whoever you feel a connection with

and however that looks like for you.

But I will say, if you can take a moment, like Marissa said, but if you can either

go into meditation or prayer, whatever you wanna do, go outside and check in

with yourself and feel into and ask.

Your guides or ask God whoever you ask and check in and go, is this something that

I need to start working on for myself?

Not, is this someone I need to be working with?

Just is this something within myself and the answer comes back, yes.

Then I would just.

Invite you to start looking into what that means for you.

So that's all I would put out there, because I do truly believe that these

types of conversations or something that passes along, I could be walking

outside and I'm looking for an answer.

And that's why, you know, a bus will drive by and there's a message on the

bus and I'm like, oh my God, that's it.

Or I pick up a book outta the library and there's one sentence that's usually

the universe and intuition in your guys trying to get your attention and

saying, yeah, go follow this breadcrumb.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Love that.

Well, thank you.

I love that.

Thank you.

Thank you for joining us.

And I hope everybody welcome has a wonderful day.

You're welcome.