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listen to your body | understanding warning signs | Reverse Diabetes Doc

Watched a great video about listening to your body. Learn how small habit changes and rest can prevent fatigue and cravings from taking over.

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Build Systems, Not Symptoms | MAHA Monday

On Memorial Day, we pause to remember sacrifice. We remember people who gave everything. We remember families who carried loss that most of us will never fully understand. We remember courage, service, endurance, and the kind of strength that does not always get seen by the world. And I believe if we are going to talk about resilience on a day like this, then we need to talk about what resilience really means. Because somewhere along the way, this country got resilience all wrong. We started acting like resilience means pushing through everything, ignoring the warning signs, swallowing the pain, stuffing down the exhaustion, and proving we can still function while our bodies are waving red flags. I do not believe that is strength. I believe that is survival mode dressed up as virtue. Real resilience is not built by abusing the body into silence. It is built by listening, supporting, repairing, and honoring the system that carries us through this life.

Why Symptom-Chasing Leaves People Exhausted

I have seen too many people blamed for their symptoms instead of being taught how to understand them. A person is tired, so they are told to push harder. A person is anxious, so they are told to calm down. A person has inflammation, digestive issues, brain fog, pain, sleep trouble, hormone swings, or blood sugar crashes, and instead of asking what the body is trying to say, the system too often tries to quiet the signal and move on. That is not healing. That is management without understanding. Symptoms matter. They are information. They are clues. They are the dashboard lights blinking because something underneath needs attention. But when we only chase the symptom, we often miss the deeper burden that created it. We end up treating the body like it is misbehaving instead of asking why it had to speak so loudly in the first place. This is where so many people get worn out. They try the diet, the supplement, the medication, the app, the cleanse, the plan, the expert, the next “answer.” And sometimes those things help, yes. But when the whole system is still under pressure, one little fix cannot carry the whole load. That is why I keep coming back to the message in Start Personalizing Your Health. Your body is not a machine with one universal instruction manual. It is a living, breathing, adapting system, and it deserves to be understood that way.

Your Body Is a System, Not a Collection of Parts

This is one of the places I think modern health has failed people. We have been trained to divide the body into pieces. Digestion over here. Hormones over there. The brain in one box. The immune system in another. Stress treated like an attitude problem. Fatigue treated like laziness. Pain treated like inconvenience. But that is not how the body works. The body is always communicating with itself. Your nervous system affects your digestion. Your sleep affects your blood sugar. Your blood sugar affects your mood. Your stress load affects your hormones. Your gut affects your immune system. Your food affects your inflammation. Your environment affects your detox pathways. Your emotions affect your body chemistry. Nothing inside you is operating in isolation, and pretending it is has kept far too many people confused, dependent, and discouraged. Sometimes the phrase whole body health sounds simple, but it is exactly what so many people have been missing. That is why I believe health sovereignty matters so much. Not because everybody needs to become their own doctor, and not because every answer is simple. It matters because people need to stop being treated like passive recipients of whatever the system hands them. They need confidence to ask better questions. They need permission to notice patterns. They need to understand that confusion is often created by a health culture that profits when people stay overwhelmed. I talked about this in Why You Feel Confused About Your Health, because confusion keeps people stuck.

Resilience Is Built Through Care, Not Constant Overriding

On Memorial Day, we honor people who endured more than many of us can imagine. But honoring endurance should never mean glorifying neglect. There is a difference between courage and being forced to carry too much for too long without support. There is a difference between strength and pretending nothing hurts. There is a difference between sacrifice and a culture that teaches people to ignore the body until it breaks down. I believe we need to say this clearly: care is not weakness. Rest is not laziness. Paying attention to your body is not selfish. Your body is the place you live. It is the vessel that lets you love your family, do your work, serve your community, grow your food, speak your truth, and get through the hard seasons. Why would we treat that vessel like it only deserves attention after it collapses? We maintain our homes. We maintain our cars. We maintain our land, our tools, our gardens, and our relationships when we are wise enough to tend them. But somehow people have been taught to run their bodies on fumes and then feel ashamed when the system starts breaking down. I refuse to accept that as normal. A body that is constantly exhausted is not failing you. It may be telling the truth about the load it has been carrying.

Simple Ways to Start Supporting the Whole System

This is where I want people to feel empowered, not overwhelmed. Supporting the whole system does not mean you need to throw your life upside down by tomorrow morning. It does not mean buying every supplement, following every influencer, or turning your kitchen into a laboratory. It means you start respecting the basics again. And I mean really respecting them, not dismissing them because they sound too simple. Start with the question your body keeps asking. Are you sleeping? Are you eating real food often enough to keep your blood sugar steady? Are you drinking enough clean water? Are you getting sunlight on your face? Are you moving your body in a way that feels human and doable? Are you carrying stress that never gets discharged? These things matter. They are not side issues. They are the soil your health is growing in. And then choose one place to begin. Not twenty. One. Add protein to breakfast if your energy crashes. Take a quiet walk if your nervous system feels wired. Shut the screen off earlier if your sleep is suffering. Swap one ultra-processed food for something your great-grandmother would recognize. Sit outside for ten minutes. Clean up one product in your home. Notice what happens after you eat, after you stress, after you rest, after you move. Stop treating your body like an enemy and start building a relationship with it again. Because that is what this is really about. It is not about chasing perfection. It is not about fear. It is not about blaming people who are already tired. It is about building a system of care strong enough to support a real human life. Symptoms are signals, not character flaws. The body is not broken just because it is asking for help. And when we learn to listen before the body has to scream, we begin to build the kind of resilience that is rooted, steady, and real. So on this Memorial Day, while we remember sacrifice, let’s also remember what it means to care for what carries us. Let’s stop worshiping burnout. Let’s stop calling neglect strength. Let’s stop waiting until people collapse before we decide their pain was real. A strong body, a strong family, a strong community, and a strong country are not built by ignoring the warning signs. They are built by tending the system before it falls apart. With love and truth, —Donna 💚 New here? You can explore more MAHA Monday posts on health sovereignty, body awareness, and everyday wellness choices here.

Sources & Further Reading

- Understanding the stress response https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthy-aging-and-longevity/understanding-the-stress-response - Understanding How Stress Affects the Body https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-lifestyle/stress-management/lower-stress-how-does-stress-affect-the-body - Physiology, Stress Reaction https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK541120/ - Measuring Whole Person Health: A Scoping Review https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12489739/ - Managing Stress https://www.cdc.gov/mental-health/living-with/index.html

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How to Read Your Own Health Signals | MAHA Monday

Most of us were never really taught how to listen to our own bodies. We were taught to push through, ignore it, take something for it, wait until it gets worse, or look outside ourselves for every answer. And I understand why people do that. Life is busy. People are tired. And when your body is giving you little signals here and there, it can be easy to write them off as “just stress,” “just aging,” “just hormones,” “just something I ate,” or “just one of those days.”

But I believe those little signals matter. Not because every symptom means something terrible is happening, and not because we should become afraid of our own bodies. They matter because your body is constantly communicating with you, long before it has to scream. A headache, a stomach issue, a skin flare, a crash in energy, a sudden craving, poor sleep, anxiety after a certain food, stiffness after a certain routine, or that strange “I just don’t feel right” feeling can all be information. The problem is, if we never slow down long enough to notice patterns, all of those signals stay scattered.

This is one of the places where health sovereignty begins in real life. It is not just about reading more articles or buying more supplements or following the next loud voice online. It is about learning how to pay attention to your own body with steadiness and common sense. I talked about this recently in Start Personalizing Your Health, because generic advice can only take you so far. At some point, you have to ask: what is actually happening in my body, in my daily life, with my routines, my stress, my food, my sleep, and my environment?

Your Body Is Giving You Information Before It Screams

One of the biggest mistakes we make is waiting until something becomes loud enough to disrupt our life before we take it seriously. A small signal feels inconvenient, so we ignore it. Then it comes back. Then it shows up in a different way. Then we start adapting our life around it without even realizing we are doing it. We stop eating certain things without knowing why, avoid certain activities because we “just don’t feel good after,” or accept exhaustion as normal because everyone around us seems tired too.

I do not believe your body is betraying you when it gives you signals. I believe your body is trying to get your attention. That does not mean we panic over every ache, every mood shift, or every bad night of sleep. It means we stop treating the body like a machine that should keep running no matter what we put it through. A symptom is not always the enemy. Sometimes it is the message. And when we only try to silence the message without asking what it might be connected to, we can miss the deeper pattern underneath.

This is especially important in a world where so many people feel confused about health advice. One person says one thing, another person says the opposite, and pretty soon people stop trusting themselves altogether. I wrote about that in Why You Feel Confused About Your Health, because confusion can disconnect you from your own common sense. But your body is still there. It is still giving you clues. And learning to notice those clues is not extreme. It is responsible.

Symptoms Can Look Random Until You Start Tracking Patterns

When something happens once, it may not tell you much. One rough night of sleep, one upset stomach, one headache, one low-energy afternoon, one anxious morning — those things can happen. Life happens. But when something keeps showing up, especially around the same foods, the same environments, the same stressors, the same time of day, the same part of your cycle, or the same habits, that is when you may be looking at a pattern instead of a random event.

This is where people often get stuck. They try to remember everything in their head, and that is almost impossible. By the time you sit down with a practitioner or try to explain what has been going on, the details get blurry. Was it Tuesday or Thursday? Was it after dairy or after gluten? Was it after a bad night of sleep? Did the headache come before the stress, or did the stress come first? Did the stomach issue happen right away, or hours later? Your memory is not meant to be a medical filing cabinet. Sometimes you need to write things down so your mind can stop carrying all of it.

Tracking does not have to be complicated. In fact, I think the simpler it is, the more likely people are to keep doing it. You are not trying to create a perfect chart of every second of your life. You are trying to gather enough information to see whether your body is repeating itself. When you begin to notice cause and effect, you move from guessing to observing. And that shift alone can bring a lot of calm, because now you are not just floating around in confusion. You are watching, learning, and responding.

What to Write Down When Something Feels Off

If you want to start reading your own health signals, begin with the basics. Write down what happened, when it happened, how strong it felt, how long it lasted, and what was going on around it. That might include what you ate, how you slept, how much water you drank, whether you were under stress, what your digestion was like, whether you moved your body, what your mood felt like, and whether you were exposed to anything unusual in your environment. Cleaning products, perfumes, moldy spaces, weather changes, medications, supplements, alcohol, caffeine, processed foods, emotional stress, and poor sleep can all matter.

I would keep it plain. A notebook, a phone note, a calendar, or a simple tracking sheet is enough. You might write: “Woke up tired, headache by 2 p.m., ate lunch late, high-stress morning, slept five hours.” Or: “Stomach bloating two hours after dinner, had dairy, felt anxious before bed.” That is not obsessive. That is just paying attention. The goal is not to control every bite and every feeling. The goal is to become awake to what your body may be trying to show you.

And please hear me on this: tracking your health signals should not become another source of fear. If writing every detail makes you anxious, then write less. If food tracking feels triggering or overwhelming, focus on symptoms, sleep, stress, energy, and general meals instead of numbers, calories, or measurements. This is not about punishment. This is not about perfection. This is about gently rebuilding a relationship with your body, one honest observation at a time.

How to Connect the Dots Without Making Yourself Crazy

One of the most important parts of this process is learning not to overreact to one piece of information. If you eat something once and feel bad, that does not automatically mean that food is “bad” forever. If you sleep poorly one night and feel anxious the next day, that does not mean something is deeply wrong with you. The body is complex, and we have to leave room for that complexity. A pattern is not one bad day. A pattern is something that repeats enough to deserve your attention.

I believe we need to bring common sense back into this conversation. Watch for repetition. Watch for timing. Watch for clusters. Maybe your energy crashes every time you skip breakfast and drink coffee on an empty stomach. Maybe your digestion flares every time stress builds for several days in a row. Maybe your sleep gets worse when you scroll late at night. Maybe your skin reacts after certain products. Maybe your headaches show up when hydration, tension, and poor sleep all stack together. The signal may not be one single cause. It may be a pileup.

That is why tracking can be so helpful. It gives you a little distance from the panic. Instead of “What is wrong with me?” you can ask, “What changed?” Instead of “Why is my body doing this?” you can ask, “What was happening before this showed up?” That is a much calmer question. It is also a much more useful one. You are not diagnosing yourself. You are gathering clues. And those clues can help you make wiser choices and have better conversations when you need support.

When Your Notes Need a Bigger Conversation

There is a time to observe, and there is a time to get help. If something is persistent, worsening, severe, unusual for you, interfering with daily life, or simply concerning, please do not ignore it. Tracking your health signals is not a replacement for medical care. It is a way to become a better witness to your own body so you can explain what is happening more clearly. A good practitioner cannot live inside your daily life, but your notes can help them see what you have been experiencing outside the appointment room.

I also think this is where we reclaim some dignity in health care. Too many people walk into appointments feeling rushed, dismissed, embarrassed, or unable to explain what they mean. But when you can say, “This has happened six times in the last three weeks, usually after poor sleep and high stress,” or “This symptom tends to show up two hours after certain meals,” you are no longer speaking in vague frustration. You are bringing information. That does not make you difficult. It makes you engaged in your own health.

At the end of the day, reading your own health signals is not about becoming suspicious of your body. It is about becoming connected to it again. It is about noticing the quiet messages before they become emergencies. It is about honoring the fact that your body has wisdom, patterns, limits, needs, and responses. And I believe that when people learn to listen with steadiness instead of fear, they begin to take back something very important: trust in themselves.

With love and truth, —Donna 💚

Sources & Further Reading

Food Journaling: What It Is, Benefits & Tips https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-to-keep-a-food-journal Track Your Health Symptoms for Better Visits with Your Birmingham Primary Care Doctor https://medhelpclinics.com/post/tracking-symptoms-2025-06-12 How to Use a Symptom Journal to Track UC Flares https://www.healthline.com/health/ulcerative-colitis/symptom-journal-track-uc-flares IBD Journal: Benefits and How to Use It https://www.healthline.com/health/ibd/ibd-journal Listening to Your Body’s Signals: When to Visit Your Primary Care Doctor https://medhelpclinics.com/post/listen-to-your-body-2025-02-27

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Your Body Is Talking. Are You Listening? | MAHA Monday

I believe most people are not disconnected from their body because something is wrong with them. I believe they’re disconnected because they were never taught how to listen in the first place. From the beginning, the message has always been to push through, ignore it, get on with your day, and deal with things only when they become serious enough to demand attention. So that’s what people do. They wait, they override, they second-guess, and slowly, without even realizing it, they stop trusting what their body is trying to tell them. But your body does not suddenly break down one day out of nowhere. It communicates long before that point. It starts quietly, in ways that are easy to dismiss because they don’t feel urgent yet. A little more fatigue than usual. Sleep that doesn’t quite restore you. Digestion that feels slightly off. A sense that something isn’t right, even if you can’t explain why. These are not random inconveniences. They are early signals, and I cannot ignore how often those signals get brushed aside simply because they don’t seem important enough yet.

Why your body sends signals before symptoms become problems

Your body is built to adapt, compensate, and protect you for as long as it can. That means it rarely jumps straight into crisis. It gives you layers of communication first. Small shifts. Subtle changes. Patterns that repeat just enough to get your attention, if you are willing to notice them. The problem is not that the signals are absent. The problem is that most people have been taught not to see them as meaningful until they become impossible to ignore. The body whispers before it ever has to scream. Those whispers show up in ordinary ways that are easy to normalize. Feeling wired but exhausted. Hitting the same afternoon crash every day. Waking up at the same time every night. Getting headaches, tension, brain fog, or irritability that come and go without a clear reason. None of these always feels dramatic on its own, but together they form a pattern, and that pattern is often your body trying to get your attention before something deeper takes hold.

The signals you’ve been taught to ignore and what they may be telling you

I have seen how these small, repeated signals often point to an imbalance underneath the surface that has not been addressed yet. It may be nervous system overload from chronic stress. It may be blood sugar swings that leave you riding highs and lows all day. It may be gut irritation that shows up as bloating, fatigue, skin changes, or cloudy thinking. Whatever the source, the signal itself is not the enemy. It is the message. And when the message is ignored long enough, the signal does not disappear. It escalates. This is where so many people get confused, because it feels like things suddenly got worse. But most of the time, they did not suddenly get worse. They progressed. They moved from quiet nudges to louder warnings because nothing changed in response. If this feels familiar, it connects closely with Why You’re Tired Even After Sleeping, where I talked about the deeper disruptors that can quietly drain your system without ever announcing themselves clearly at the beginning.

Why we’ve learned to override instead of listen

This is not a personal failure. This is conditioning. Most people were never taught to pause and interpret what their body is doing. They were taught to function, perform, and keep going no matter what. And when something uncomfortable does show up, the immediate instinct is to suppress it so life can continue uninterrupted. We have normalized overriding our body instead of understanding it. Over time, that creates distance. You stop recognizing what true energy feels like. You forget what calm feels like in your own system. You begin to rely on external input instead of internal awareness, waiting for someone or something else to tell you what is going on instead of trusting what you already feel. This is part of the same pattern I talked about in Why You Feel Stuck No Matter What You Try, because often the issue is not a lack of effort. It is disconnection from what your body has been trying to say all along.

How to start listening again without overcomplicating it

This is where people often go wrong, because they assume reconnecting with the body requires some elaborate protocol. It does not. In fact, the more complicated you make it, the easier it becomes to miss what your body is already showing you. This starts with something much simpler, and much more honest. Start paying attention without immediately trying to fix what you notice. Watch for patterns. When does your energy drop during the day? What foods consistently leave you feeling off, even if they are marketed as healthy? When do you feel the most calm, and when do you feel the most overstimulated? When does your body feel safe, and when does it tighten up? These are not random observations. They are data points your body is giving you. From there, respond in small, practical ways. Adjust your pace when your body is asking for rest instead of forcing another push. Eat in a more consistent way if your energy is crashing every afternoon. Give your nervous system moments of quiet instead of constant input. Support digestion when your gut keeps telling you something is not working. None of that is flashy, but it matters, because it rebuilds trust between you and your body. The goal is not perfection. The goal is awareness. Once you start listening, your body becomes easier to understand, and when you understand it better, you can support it sooner, more gently, and with far more wisdom than waiting until it is in full distress. With love and truth, —Donna 💚

Sources & Further Reading

1. Making Sense of Interoception https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/making-sense-interoception 2. Interoception Is Our Sixth Sense, and It May Be Key to Mental Health https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/interoception-is-our-sixth-sense-and-it-may-be-key-to-mental-health/ 3. What is interoception, and how does it affect mental health? https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/04/sensations-eating-disorders-suicidal-behavior 4. A roadmap to understanding interoceptive awareness in health and disease https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11150711/ 5. Interoception in anxiety, depression, and psychosis: a review https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537024002529

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If You Wake Up at 3AM Every Night – Your Body Is Trying to Tell You This

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 If You Wake Up at 3AM Every Night – Your Body Is Trying to Tell You This Waking up suddenly at 3AM every night can feel strange and fru

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Your Body Isn’t Overreacting — You’re Just Not Listening Yet

Most health problems don’t appear overnight. They arrive quietly, testing your patience before demanding attention. Rectal discomfort is one of those issues people often downplay. A slight burning sensation, occasional bleeding, or discomfort while sitting feels easy to ignore at first. Life is busy, and addressing it feels uncomfortable. So it gets postponed, sometimes for months or even years.

What many don’t realize is that the anal and rectal area is extremely sensitive. Even small changes in digestion, bowel habits, or daily routine can affect it. Long sitting hours, irregular meals, low fiber intake, and constant stress all contribute to pressure in that region. Over time, this pressure can lead to conditions like piles, fissures, or infections that don’t heal without proper care.

There’s also a misconception that only severe pain needs medical attention. In reality, early-stage proctology issues often come with mild but repetitive symptoms. That repetition is the clue. When something keeps returning, the body is asking for help, not silence. Ignoring these signals can turn a manageable condition into a chronic one that interferes with work, sleep, and confidence.

Modern proctology focuses on identifying the root cause instead of masking symptoms. Treatments today are far more patient-friendly than people imagine. Many procedures are minimally invasive and designed to reduce discomfort and recovery time. Learning about these options from a trusted source can remove a lot of unnecessary fear. For those curious about how advanced anal health care works, this proctology specialist’s website offers useful insight: https://www.drsuhaspatil.in/.

Listening to your body doesn’t mean panic — it means awareness. Small changes in diet, hydration, and daily habits can help, but persistent symptoms deserve expert evaluation. Addressing the issue early often means simpler treatment and faster relief. Your health conversations don’t have to be public, but they do need to be honest — especially with yourself.

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Feeling sleepy soon after eating sugar — is it just a sugar crash or something more serious? This article dives into how that post-sugar slump might hint at diabetes risk, and what signs you should watch. Want to take better care of yourself? Read the full article now!

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