55. Healing Hashimoto's, Weight Loss Resistance & the Nervous System with Jasmine Harnden IHP

So Jasmine, we're taught a lot that the weight loss resistance, 'cause this is a big thing when it comes to Hashimoto's and hypothyroidism, but a lot of women who don't have Hashi's or hypothyroidism also deal with weight loss resistance.

So women are often told that it's a lack of discipline, or that's what society likes to tell us.

So can you explain why these biological expressions of the nervous system that are keeping us stuck in this perceived state of like fight or flight, and how that's impacting that?

Yeah, absolutely.

So sometimes that's the biggest missing piece for my clients.

For weight loss and even things like hair loss that comes up, and people are saying, "Well, I don't understand why we're doing everything and my hair's still falling out." Well, your body's in fight or flight.

And so when we're in fight or flight, the body cannot prioritize other functions.

So hair loss, it's not going to prioritize growing your hair back.

In fact, it can cause your hair to fall out, right? The stress is impacting your thyroid.

So weight loss, I think, is the most stressful for women.

And rightfully so.

I have a lot of women that say, "I don't wanna be vain." It's not vain to want to look good and feel good and whatever.

But the nervous system has a huge impact on it because when we go into fight or flight, what our body is actually doing is trying to protect us, so it's storing fat.

So if we're signaling to the body, 'I'm not safe, I'm really stressed out," your body's gonna say, "Well, we're about to starve, and I'm gonna start to store this fat." So that's one thing that comes up, right? So we have to signal that safety to our body to say, "Okay, it's all right.

We can release this.

Everything's okay.

We're not going through a famine." The other side of it too is it comes down to even, like toxins in the body.

So for me, for example, I had a lot of black mold in my system, and then a test showed other things, like had Epstein-Barr virus.

I had a couple different parasites.

I had glyphosate in my system, heavy metals.

Like, my system was so overloaded.

Well, of course I'm gonna gain weight.

What my body's trying to do is protect my organs.

It's gonna build fat around areas, and actually it's gonna put it where every woman hates it, in your belly and in your thighs because it's taking it away from your organs.

So it's actually storing the toxins in the fat because it's trying to keep it away from your organs, and then puts it in your arms, your legs, your belly 'cause it's trying to protect you.