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Pio Wellness

Balance your body with nutrition, lifestyle and mindset

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Find equilibrium where Ayurveda meets functional medicine

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Recent reads 📚

I did throw in a couple of fiction/beachy books for some balance ⚖️

I wanna hear your fav book so far this fall - send me your recs!

I probably spent most of my first 33 years trying to be perfect and make other people happy so they would like me 🤦🏻&zwj;♀️

Oof. 😵&zwj;💫

If i get another 33 years, i hope i spend it more like this - chilled out, accepting myself and at ease wit

✨summer reading favs✨

probably could have thrown a beach read into the mix 🙃

What’s the best book you read this summer? Could be mind/body related - or anything!

**new kitty in the last photo if you make it to the end 🐱❤️

h a i r

what can it tell you?

well just it’s appearance alone can tell a lot about your overall constitution

BUT analyzing the minerals in a few snips of hair can give you a window into your whole system - with a proper interpretation, you

I wish this were my real life book club (I’ve actually never really been in a book club) And I’m sure I’ve missed some, but these are a few of my favorite books focused on mind/body health.

A few years ago, I thought if I just ate

I used to have the most energy 🤪 but over the last 2 years, I. HIT. A. WALL. With that level of adrenal exhaustion, I felt sorta like a shell of a person 😵&zwj;💫

And I wanted to share the NUMBER ONE thing that has helped me begin to reverse that

Well I heard it’s women’s health week… and I see burnout as one the biggest contributors to women’s health issues.

You know I am passionate about adrenal health! (See previous posts about the stages of adrenal burnout)

This

The final stage of adrenal burnout (phewf we made it through them all 😅)

This 7th stage is marked with low cortisol all throughout the day - essentially no cortisol curve - just a flat line 🥴

Your body may have trouble regulating its systems - bl

Stage 6 Adrenal Burnout🚨

When I first saw this photo - I realized that my hair was falling out in such an extreme way - like it had formed it’s own “layers” from all the split and thinned out places.

I always had easy-growing lon

🚨 5th Stage of Adrenal Burnout : Ongoing Resistance 🚨

Low Morning Cortisol (with normal evening cortisol) / Normal DHEA

In this stage, the body’s reserves have been used up and isn’t even really trying to combat stress with cortisol

🚨4th Stage Adrenal Burnout🚨

Normal cortisol (but low morning cortisol) & Low DHEA

This lab might look fairly normal, but you’ll notice low morning cortisol as a sign that the body is exhausted and has been dealing with overwhelming adr

Third Stage of Adrenal Burnout 🚨

High cortisol & low DHEA

In this stage, you often have major sleep issues - feeling tired all day but can’t sleep at night, as well as hormone imbalance, prone to anxiety or depression and overall inflam

2nd Stage of Adrenal Burnout: Ongoing / Chronic Alarm 🚨

High cortisol/normal DHEA

In this stage, you might start to feel like you can’t quite catch up from the lack of sleep like you used to.

And maybe can’t keep up with all your re

1st stage of adrenal burn out aka feeling super human 💪🏽

This is your body’s initial alarm stage - your adrenals get their first cues to ramp things up.

You have an overabundance of yang energy, operating just fine on little to no sleep -

This was going to be a #fridayintroduction but, no surprise, it’s coming in a bit late 🙃

So hi, hello there - I’m so happy to be getting to know you - I’m Jen an integrative health practitioner in Austin. I’ve got two wonder