Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist

Nutritionist to CEOs. I help executives & entrepreneurs optimize their brain for better energy, focus, motivation & productivity.

[Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist @kacybshea]

Your body isn't just waking you up at 3am to piss you off.

You're annoyed and waking up groggy and needing to guzzle caffeine to function for your 9am meeting, but your body doesn't hold some vendetta against you. The wake ups are your body communicating something to you.

I had a client that came to me unable to sleep. He tried the magnesium, the meditations before bed, everything. Nothing helped. He was waking up at 11pm, 1am, 3:30am, 4am, all throughout the night. And when he woke up he was AWAKE, immediately thinking about work.

It would be easy to just blame stress. He is a business owner, manages a big team and is actively scaling, for sure he is stressed. But stress doesn't immediately mean he doesn't get to sleep for the rest of his entrepreneurial journey.

He jumped on a call with me and I dug into it and cross-referenced his in-depth blood chemistry panel. It was very clear that his blood sugar was dysregulated and he was consistently hypoglycemic.

His doc wouldn't have caught that because his fasting glucose and insulin all look great, perfectly normal. But his blood sugar was all over the place causing him to spike then drop drastically almost every hour.

When this happens during the day you feel stressed, anxious, hanrgy and reach for your 3rd coffee and pop a zyn. When this happens over night it causes your body to produce cortisol to dump stored sugar into the blood stream to bring it back up. But cortisol when you're sleeping is going to wake you UP. And it's going to feel like stress. Cue the work thoughts.

I put him on a customized blood sugar regulation protocol and now he's been sleeping through the night, great Oura sleep scores, but most importantly he is waking up refreshed, energized, no longer crashing during the day or living off of caffeine. Steady energy, steady emotions, steady output, decision-making, and leading. All from steadying his blood sugar.

Your business can only scale as much as your health can hold.

[Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist @kacybshea]

Improving your health is the gateway drug to fulfilling your potential.

[Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist @kacybshea]

7. Get a functional lab, dietary and lifestyle assessment.

We specialize in functionally assessing your labs to determine how your physiological health and nutrient status is contributing to your mental health.

#neuronutrition #functionalhealth #irondeficiency

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Iron-deficiencies can mimic anxiety and depression.

A thread on what to do about it.

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6. Check your co-factors.

B vitamins, magnesium and vitamin C are all necessary for RBC health and oxygen transport. A deficiency in any of these can affect your iron levels and your mental health.

[Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist @kacybshea]

Your body is working to get your attention so you can correct the misalignments in your life. The decisions only your conscious brain can make. Those overwhelming feelings lead to anxiousness bc you avoid them. The solution is to FEEL. Not to do, not to avoid.

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[Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist @kacybshea]

Don't fight your feelings. Your emotions are surfacing on purpose. The anxiety you feel is not an accident or a malfunction. You are not broken. The anxiety you experience is a result of your body working perfectly in your favor to protect you from harm.

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[Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist @kacybshea]

A severe #irondeficiency can mimic the exact symptoms of a severe depression.

Advocate for yourself; get your iron and ferritin levels checked and check your stomach acid levels.

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[Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist @kacybshea]

When are you going to learn that caffeine on an empty stomach can cause anxiety and even trigger panic attacks

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Do you really crave pasta or is your serotonin just depleted?

[Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist @kacybshea]

Do you have sugar cravings or are you just dopamine deficient?

[Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist @kacybshea]

#NeuroNutrition helps you understand the physiology of anxiety and helps you build a customized toolbox of awareness, lifestyle, dietary and supplemental tactics to live beyond your anxiety.

#anxietyhelp #cortisoldysregulation #nervoussystemregulation

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THIS is the number one change my clients are making in 2023 that will drastically decrease their stress and anxiety ⬇️

[Kacy Shea | The NeuroNutritionist @kacybshea]

Changing your experiencing anxiety is so much more than "changing your mindset" or "letting go."

it's completely shifting your emotional associations, building trust and resilience, understanding how your body works and supporting its optimal function with your daily choices.