Hey there if we are new friends. I just wanted to introduce myself and give you a little background of how I became so passionate about nutrition and specifically fertility. So, interestingly enough, I was homeschooled from, I think sixth grade on I'm one of those awkward homeschooled children if you've never met one. Hello. And long story short, my mom actually was pretty. It open and interested in natural health, and I talked to her about this a while ago and she just said that it was really intuition from God that led her to be more naturally minded in health. But I remember clearly I. When I was in high school, we were reading this book, and I don't remember what the book is, but she was talking about daily bms and as high school and middle school children. Of course, we thought that was hilarious and laughing. But little did I know that my mom was onto something and I graduated high school. I did a [00:01:00] year about bible college, and then I came back home. I met my husband, I got married, and then I actually started nursing school the next year and. When I was in nursing school, I worked for a chiropractor, which was such a cool experience because while I was taking anatomy and physiology and. Microbiology and all these things. He had obviously taken all of these as well, so he was great if I had questions or anything like that. But he actually, during our downtime, taught me a lot about more about natural health and was just kind of a sounding board for some of the things I was learning and comparing. His chiropractic education to my education and his guidance, along with a lot of the transformations that I saw working in that clinic and through chiropractic. For instance, I remember this mom bringing her little boy in who had had. Ear infection after ear infection after ear infection and had been on three rounds of antibiotics and [00:02:00] still had another ear infection. And after like two or three adjustments it finally cleared up. So I knew there had to be something to it and just kind of started reading a little bit on my own here and there. Along that, with that, while I was in nursing school, I started having questions like, why do we spend a whole semester learning about drugs, but only three class periods learning about nutrition? So there was really, a lack of. Knowledge as far as nutrition went, but we learned so much about drugs and of course as nurses, we're giving a lot of medications and we do need to know the classes and the side effects and the things to watch out for. But it just really opened my eyes to the discrepancy of that is the only tool in the toolbox for medical professionals is medications. Even in those last three class periods of nutrition, it was towards the, the last part of my nursing education that that took place. But even throughout that, it, [00:03:00] it really dawned on me doing clinicals. How poor the food quality was. Like it was all processed canned foods that we were giving these clients. And if you've been in a hospital or in a long-term care facility, you know that's true that we are giving the sickest of our sick the most poor quality foods that really have zero nutritional value, if anything, or we're giving them even worse. We're giving them soda and donuts and, and pancakes and things like that. So I just really started to ask why, why we spend so much time on drugs and not really looking into what people are eating. And then my other question was, again, the first semester of nursing school, we learned, we, we all took a class called pharmacology, which is the study of medications, drugs, essentially. And you learn so much about how drugs are, utilized in the body, how long they stay there, which is called the half-life, things like that. drugs that you need to taper up on, [00:04:00] drugs that you need to taper down on different classes of drugs, things like that. But it kind of dawned on me 'cause I had been peaked, especially working for the chiropractor, that we didn't talk about vaccines at all in this class. And it was really interesting to me. Why is this product vaccines that's given to every single person, like it's just. Assume that they will get it, and we give them on day one in the US babies get the Hep B, which by the way, like, why are we giving a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease to babies? But anyways, that's a, a discussion for another time. But why are we giving this product to every single person? And it's not even touched on in pharmacology. And in fact, in nursing school, your textbooks are probably two to three inches thick each semester. You go through a lot of those books, thousands of pages of. Reading lots and lots of classes and clinicals and discussions and things like that. Out of the thousands and thousands of [00:05:00] pages that we read in nursing school, only about seven of those pages were about vaccines. And again, why are we getting so little education about this product that is. I mean, in some states mandated for every single child that's going to school. Um, and some employers are mandating things like this. And of course we saw this during COVID as well, and I have my own story that I'll share in a little bit. But even though seven pages were mostly dedicated to the childhood vaccine schedule. And it just really made me think back to pharmacology class. 'cause this wasn't until about the last semester of nursing school, but it really made, made me think back to pharmacology class when one of the things they drilled into us was, when you're giving a medication, there's always risk. So we have to, as healthcare practitioners decide, does the benefit outweigh the risk? And so [00:06:00] one time in. In class when we were discussing this, I raised my hand and I asked the teacher, because with children we, we don't know that the benefits outweigh the risk. At least I don't think we do. But anyways, I raised my hand and I asked, you know, how do we know that when we're giving these, that the benefit outweighs the risk? And she pointed her finger. Right at me kind of in my face and said, when it comes to vaccines, the benefits always outweigh the risks. And that was like end of discussion. And we weren't taught how to identify. Any type of reaction besides like a severe anaphylactic reaction? the VES system, which is the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. If you're not familiar with that, it was mentioned briefly, but none of my time in school or clinicals or anything, nobody, showed us how to use this at all. So anyways, long story short, I graduated, took my boards, I had my baby, and I started my first like [00:07:00] actual RN job. All within, I think it was three or four months of each other that year. I actually started in dialysis, which is atypical. Most people start in something like med surg, but I had volunteered within the unit, so I was able to get my foot in there when they had an opening. And it was just really interesting because. Again, I had had my first baby shortly after nursing school, and she had eczema, and interestingly enough, I had chosen her pediatrician very carefully because I knew that I had some hesitations about vaccines at this point and didn't want to be forced, shamed into that. Um, I had another experience with a doctor, actually with my mother-in-law where she was very shamed. For refusing a flu shot, and I just knew I didn't wanna be dealing with that when I was working with, with the pediatrician, so I chose based on that, I did some interviewing. Anyways, at about six months old, my [00:08:00] baby developed eczema and it was something that I kind of, sort of knew a little bit about, but not really. And when I took her in to be seen, my practitioner told me, and of course this was 15 years ago now, she told me that there was new research coming out that showed that probiotics could actually be beneficial for eczema. And this is before probiotics were in every single product you see on the shelf now. This was new research. And interestingly enough, I went to work and I asked the doctor what he thought about this, because being fresh outta nursing school and learning about steroid creams and stuff, I knew I didn't wanna slather that on my newborn. Ever wonder what's actually standing between you and pregnancy? It might not be what you think. Hidden nutritional imbalances and heavy metal toxicity could be blocking your fertility for both of you. That's why I created the Fertility Foundations test for couples. This test can show where your body is struggling and why. so you can stop guessing and start addressing the [00:09:00] real root causes. Head to the show notes. Or faithful fertility.co/fertility foundations to order your test today and finally get the answers you've been searching for. And so I asked him, you know, have you heard this? What do you think of it? And he literally laughed at my face and said, the gut has nothing to do with the skin. Well, long story short, I chose the probiotics over that, and I also ended up taking my daughter to see a nutritionist, and she did see some improvement in her eczema. And at that point I was like, oh, there's gotta be something to this. And along with that, I had a client, when you're in dialysis, your clients are there. Either two or three days a week for anywhere from two to five hours at a time. So you get to know them really well. And one of my clients, her name was gda, but she had told me, she asked me if I'd ever heard of the West Nate Price Foundation, which I hadn't at that point. So of course, being a new mom and very, being very research, um, oriented and, [00:10:00] you know, knowing how to look for things, being fresh outta nursing school or whatever. I looked up the West Nate Price Foundation, which led me to. Paleo. 'cause paleo was kind of an emerging movement at that time and it just kind of opened my eyes to everything going on
