Wake TF Up

We all live a plastic life, but some more than others. In this episode, we discuss the pervasiveness of hormonal dysfunction that stem from plastic use and how it relates to PMS, autoimmune disease, weight gain, and estrogen dominance.

AnnMarie shares the approach she used to mend her binge eating issues and Justin shares some preliminary tools you can begin to explore using to help with your relationship with food. However, we touch on the often missed and ignored deeper root problems for why we have eating disorders in the first place and how nothing can bring you food freedom and mental peace until you resolve those root causes. As Justin always says though, "food equality equals mental equanimity."

Given how endemic eating disorders and disordered eating is within the fitness space, we must first draw attention towards how indiscriminate it is - anyone can be affected with reasons that escape us. In this episode, AnnMarie - even as a fitness professional - unveils her experience with binge eating in her early years of competition and expounds her commitment to not become a victim to it, and why you shouldn't either.

Explantation of silicone breast implants is the hot topic right now where women are suddenly removing them after being overly concerned about "breast implant illness," the potential health hazards associated with it and the belief that their health woes are attributed to it. While adverse reactions to silicone and Autoimmune Syndrome Induced by Adjuvants (ASIA) is documented in a subset of predisposed individuals manifested as connective tissue diseases and lupus, not everyone is affected negatively. Contrary to the trend, AnnMarie speaks about her recent breast implant procedure, why she did it and why you should consider doing it too.

You're the way you are, in large, from your parents. Your kids are/will be influenced by your decisions and behaviors. One of the most unspoken truths is how emotions you never received from your caregivers and/or the acidic emotions you did receive sculpt the person you are today, which in turn, channel into who you bring into this world - if it is not addressed. In this episode, we speak on this intense subject - how it's intertwined with binging eating and ultimately, how your emotional state and daily behaviors mold your kid's eating and lifestyle motor patterns.