Hormones, autoimmune disorders and vitamin deficiencies.
I spent years crying to my doctors that I didn’t feel good and something was wrong, just to be told time and time again it was hormones from my birth control and that nothing was wrong.
In October 2023, just weeks after we moved to NH, I got my IUD taken out. The moment it came out I felt such a sense of relief and calm. In the coming few weeks I noticed a lot of the symptoms that made me so miserable were going away. My skin cleared up immediately, I was less fatigued all the time and my anxiety went from level 100 to a reasonable level 10. The brain fog was lifting and I realized that my birth control had me feeling like a zombie for 3 years. The no more hormonal birth control to sourdough to raising chickens & not trusting the government pipeline is SO real.
In reading how to balance my hormones after coming of BC, I found the sourdough community. I loved baking, I loved sourdough bread, I need a healthy gut microbiome. So then I made this tiny little jar of flour and water that I fed, carried around the house with me while I worked and tended to night and day. I was in so deep. T
Have you read about how much plastic leeches in to our food from tupperware containers, plastic cookware or cutting boards? No? You should. That was my next rabbit hole.
Then in January 2024 I got diagnosed with an auto immune disorder and spinal disc degeneration disorder, raging high blood pressure and 2 major vitamin deficiencies. This all happened in a span of 4 hours. I was shook to my core and decided I had no desire to let big pharma become a controlling entity in my life (LOL at the fact that I work for in pharmaceutical software supporting their clinical trials which I firmly believe in. Just, hands off my body, ya know?). I got on blood pressure meds and a vitamin D supplement sure, because those are vitally important to get under control and back to normal levels. But I declined immune therapy and wanted to treat my inflammation with food as medicine and natural remedies. And down the rabbit hole of seed oils, preservatives and food dyes we went.
Now, I’m on a mission to grow and make as much from scratch as possible which allows for self sustainability as we try to build a homestead.
The GingerSnap Homestead 