03/16/2026
One of the biggest scams we face is dietary supplement culture and products that promise you healing and wholeness.
You cannot supplement or diet your way to a healthy, responsive nervous system. What you ate in your childhood isn't the cause of what trauma did to you.
It might help for awhile, but you will regress if you are not doing the emotional and psychological work.
These modalities are great at ASSISTING you as a tool to stop feeding pathogens and toxins you have stored as a result of being in dorsal shutdown(in this state, your body doesn't care about proper digestion or nutrient extraction anyways).
Our bodies already have built in mechanisms of defense and detox against these things when you are able to engage in the parasympathetic system(rest, digest, repair, reproduce).
Eat to feel good, to love your body and to support your healing journey. Highly restrictive diets reinforce deep-seated patterns of shame and the functional freeze response. You become scared of everything you consume. Your entire day starts to revolve around what you eat. That isn't helping your already overwhelmed nervous system.
And if you are going to address your diet and begin using supplements as tools to heal, please do so with a naturopathic doctor or someone qualified to give dietary or supplemental advice. Not a "health" influencer peddling products that are capitalizing off of your desperation.
Eat real WHOLE foods and again, please work with a professional who is qualified to give functional advice on supplementation to support you as you do the deep work.
