HOW I GOT HERE
FROM A MASTERS IN ECOLOGY TO MASTER OF THE MITOCHONDRIA
Let’s stick with the most pertinent facts you need to know about me and how I got here, where I get to teach health seekers just like you how to use a successful quantum wellness strategy to power your dream life.
My mitochondria-centered-strategy was successful because I figured out how to prioritize the important stuff (stuff like charge, light, and circadian rhythm) that would allow me to have more bandwidth in the places most people waste all their efforts (i.e. the elimination diet of it all).
It’s so basic that I sometimes forget that I ever looked down the barrel of lifelong immunosuppressants at the behest of the men in the white coats or was ever in danger of forfeiting the life full of travel, food, and community that I'm fortunate enough to live now.
BUT THIS "BASIC" REALIZATION IS EVERYTHING:
HEALTH THAT RUNS ON AUTOPILOT MEANS CONTINUALLY CHARGING YOUR BODY'S BATTERY
THE LONGER STORY IN CASE YOU'RE INTERESTED
It all started with me leaving my dream-job in Bali, Indonesia in early 2018.
I had just graduated with my Master's in Environmental Science and was about 4 months into my first "big girl" job.
One day I was settling on the perfect name for my beloved scooter (Aduh Biru!), worrying about salt water rusting out my laptop from working on the beach so much, and happily toiling long hours with a local non-profit advocating for low-emissions policy...
...and the next I was panic-flying to Singapore to be diagnosed with multiple autoimmune conditions.
You know the feeling.
You’re trying to embrace that dragon energy and live your freakin’ truth, about to step into a place of beautiful possibility, when a health curveball gets thrown…
Happens to the best of us.
And whether it happened to you last week or last millennium, it’s easy to find yourself face to face with thoughts like these:
“Welp, you’ve had your fun. Now you’re done. It’s time to go do nothing else but 'focus on your health', and never go anywhere, or experience adventure. Ever. Again.”
AGAIN, I'M SURE YOU CAN RELATE.
Post-diagnosis, it seemed like everywhere I looked, all I could see was some sick soul who had gotten on the downward spiral of drugs, screens, being a couch vegetable, and a shrinking life.
Having to kiss all of that goodbye and head from Bali home to my couch as the health issues I’d been dealing with for years culminated in some Lupus-esque-shadowy-thing…
…was a shrinking feeling.
Like finding a prized wool sweater that crept into the laundry and came out of the dryer 5 inches small (when will I learn?).
I didn’t know then what I know now about the life-changing impact that giving two hoots (🦉🦉) about quantum health - and implementing targeted lifestyle interventions - could have.
I WISH NOW THAT I COULD TAKE PAST ME BY THE HAND AND SAY:
“There, there, little poodle🐩… There’s a way to have both: rich and diverse experiences and great health. Spontaneity is just a few steps away.”
To be fair, taking a break to recalibrate, to build the toolset you need to best support your health going forward is never a bad thing.
What kept me going even when I had *no idea* what I was doing, were the emerging voices on the inter-webs talking about the emerging literature on gut health, and it's link to everything health.
I knew that my “cute little nutrition hobby” could be leveraged into something strategic, literature-backed, that could help me recover and grow strong.
I had never embarked on a "protocol" before. Heck, I had never DIY’d my health before.
BUT WHEN I THINK BACK TO MY FIRST GUT PROTOCOL IN 2018 I CRINGE.
There was no-one around yet talking about quantum strategy: it was all "gut gut gut".
The protocol had elaborate supplementation, restrictive AF dieting, and placed no emphasis on charge - but it *was* enough to get my bloodwork normalized and put me into remission from my autoimmune disease.
What I know today is that I could have gotten there with way more ease, way quicker, and with much deeper and lasting progress.
My clients today get to benefit from that trial and error and avoid most of the mistakes I made, so I’m grateful for them.
I had to learn this the hard way in 2021 when my health collapsed for the second time after receiving a COVID jab.
I had to dig deep then, and understand what's happening at the cellular level in order to help myself and the clients who were suffering similar fallout.
Along the way to helping those people improve their health, I learned a whole lot about where health REALLY lies.
I didn’t learn from watching free videos on YouTube or scrolling other nutritionists on IG trying to see “what’s working.”
You might be surprised to hear that since 2021 I don’t put much stock in the emerging 'scientism' movement at all. But that's another topic.
Nor does my approach rely on supplementing 30 nutrients or eating like a monk.
We pull quantum levers that we lovingly refer to as "micro-tweaks" and these take most people under an hour a day - and many say this hour is their favorite part of their day.
THE REALITY IS THIS:
DIET AND SUPPLEMENTS ALONE ARE NOT GOING TO GROW YOUR BODY'S RESILIENCE.
Which is great news if you feel exhausted spending your time trying the latest elimination diet or “researching” new supplements when you have 50 already in your cabinet and deep down you know it all feels like a band-aid.
No judgement from me, ok? But if you know, you know.
I was very comfortable with nature, immersing myself in it, because I had done it many times before.
It was comfortable understanding complex systems - that everything impacts everything else because I had seen that reality up close in wild landscapes.
It was comfortable tuning out medical folks whose advice went against natural principles and to keep moving forward even when their warnings felt dire.
It was comfortable to set big goals for my life with no fricken clue how I was going to create a body capable of achieving them.
BUT THOSE THINGS MIGHT NOT BE COMFORTABLE FOR YOU YET
I know that Lucy circa 2013, who was living off of coffee and pizza and was spending her days getting peed on by baboons in South Africa, and cooking their poop in the oven at night…
Literally, we had to cook their poop and grind it up into little test tubes …had to do that weird stuff so she would evolve into the woman I am today who isn’t afraid to showcase all her weirdness and failures on the internet.
Am I right?