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Why Postpartum Women Are at Risk for Autoimmune Disease and How to Protect Yourself

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Why Postpartum Women Are at Risk for Autoimmune Disease and How to Protect Yourself

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I’m delighted to host this free workshop in our

I’m delighted to host this free workshop in our women’s health community! Juliet Tabbara is a functional medicine coach and nutritionist who specializes in women with autoimmunity. I will be at this live interactive workshop and I hope you can join us! DM for the link to join. ❤️

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My favorite test for leaky gut is a blood test for

My favorite test for leaky gut is a blood test for antibodies to zonulin, actin, and LPS (lipopolysaccharides). You can order this on your own inside our free women’s health community, it’s called the “Leaky Gut Panel.”
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But I don’t always start out with this test! Basically, if there is active systemic inflammation, whether autoimmune or not, I assume that leaky gut is playing a part, and do some preliminary gut work:

✅ Identify food triggers with a personalized elimination diet
✅ Build in nutrient-dense foods and supplements if needed
✅ Fix any gut microbiome issues
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After doing this for a few months, if the inflammation has not cleared, and there is still active inflammation showing up in joints, connective tissue, skin, brain, bladder, or other sites…. then it’s time to test for leaky gut.
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This free workshop A Functional Medicine Approach

This free workshop A Functional Medicine Approach to Autoimmune Remission is hosted in our free women’s health community, DM for the link.
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📣Join our FREE women’s community which just o

📣Join our FREE women’s community which just opened May 1! Free live workshops on women’s immune and hormone health from a functional medicine lens with yours truly (Dr. Laura) and coach Juliet Tabarra (@nourish.within.wellness). In the online space many docs and wellness practitioners are starting to charge monthly membership fees for their content. I don’t know about you, but I’m trying to reduce monthly fees, not add them! There’s a lot of ways to get great information and educate yourself without paying monthly fees. Join us for free, we are here to nurture and support you! First workshop kicks off May 16. DM for an invite link. 🔗

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This happened to me this morning at the crack of d

This happened to me this morning at the crack of dawn. 🤦‍♀️
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I see my own functional medicine doctor because

1️⃣ I don’t always want to be my own doctor, nor always bug my functional med doctor friends to consult me on my own health.
2️⃣ I want to have the patient experience - an expert’s eyes on my case, her lab orders, her treatment plans, and the wraparound care that comes with it. Honestly, it’s amazing!
3️⃣ A side benefit is that it’s a learning experience for me to be somebody’s patient. It helps me learn more about curating my own patients’ experience, to adopt the things I like, and swear to not do the things I don’t like!
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Right now I’m seeing one of the top @instituteforfxmed teachers as my own doctor. I’ll post more about this experience if people are interested. I needed a top hormone specialist and was amazingly fortunate to have this doctor live in my own town so I can see her in person.
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I literally spent 7 days collecting what felt like a zillion samples to fill 3 test kits. I collected blood, saliva, poop, and a cheek swab for DNA. This was over 7 days. Did I say that already? 🤣
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This included:
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✅The @genovadiagnostics GI Effects (5 vials of poop over 3 days) plus a Qtip swab of poop - as if 5 vials weren’t enough. 😂
✅ Their comprehensive Menopause saliva hormone test - which was 10 vials of saliva, one of which I had to collect in the middle of the night! And several at the crack of dawn to test my cortisol awakening response.
✅ Their NutriEval which required a blood draw at the lab, first morning urine (which is what I spilled all over the bathroom floor 🤫), and a cheek swab.
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I have never had a patient collect this many samples, and it was HARDCORE and complex! The positive thing about using a single lab, and this one in particular, is that they are billing my insurance. Nerd that I am, I’m excited to see the results! And glad that it’s over! That was a project. I still need to do the blood draw, but at least somebody else does that. 😅
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I’m at the point now where I just tell people ex

I’m at the point now where I just tell people exactly what I would do if I had an autoimmune disease that I could not get into remission.
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I’D GET ON A PALEO DIET, ASAP.
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Which is exactly what I did do…. 25 years ago.
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I understand the lure of a vegetarian or vegan diet, but what I’ve gleaned in my decades of working with people with autoimmunity, it’s just not a fit.
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But why?
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There are many answers to why, enough to fill a workshop. One of them is that not all of us have adapted to handle the newer foods that came into play during the Neolithic agricultural revolution, which was not very long ago in the history of human evolution. These newer crop plants (grains in particular) have a lot of components that easily irritate the gut lining and contribute to leaky gut.
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You have to address and heal leaky gut to get in remission! This means:

1️⃣Addressing the triggers - like dysbiosis, inflammatory foods (which may include vegan foods with a healthy reputation), stress, medications, and more…
2️⃣Healing the gut lining - with things like vitamins A and D, zinc, EPA and DHA, glutathione, butyrate, probiotics, and more…
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I love to test for leaky gut and heal that f#*ker!
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Want to learn more? Join my FREE women’s health community and get access to our FREE workshops! Or book a discovery call ☎️ ~ link in bio
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This workshop takes place in our free women’s he

This workshop takes place in our free women’s health community, click the link in bio to join up, or DM for the link.
Hope to see you there! This is live online, please bring your questions!
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