Fatty Liver Disease, Benign Tumour, Sleep & Stress
Lorri Hunt; Interior Designer by education, homemaker by choice.
Lorri has always been a perfect example of a well lived healthy lifestyle for most people. Waking up at 7:30 everyday. Training, cooking her own food, eating well balanced nutritious meals, going to bed by 10:30. Only drinking and “indulging” on a Saturday night date w the hubby. She’s maintained this lifestyle for many many years.
So it was a shocker even for me, not just her - when she reached out to me earlier this year with a fatty liver disease and a benign tumour on the liver.
She hadn’t felt great last couple of months leading to this diagnosis with migraines, constipation and passing blood in the bathroom. She was going through a rough phase personally/emotionally she recalls.
She reached out to after her doctor, who suggested her to go on a low carb, low fat diet, workout regularly while cycling her off her birth control.
Lost, she reached out to me. Knowing her I knew that she’s someone who’s already working out regularly and is generally on a very low carb/low fat diet - so we decided to go deep.
Over the 6 months one thing we really worked one was not being scare/afraid for our health but being okay with it and just putting our focus on our actions and effort.
We collected a lot of data on her sleep and figured out:
It took her an hour to fall asleep
Woke up multiple times through the night
A very light sleeper
We also discovered a few things:
Always in a hurry, rushing through life
Breathing through her mouth a lot
Very high stress inducing behaviours, thoughts
We over period slowly slowly worked on improving the continuity of her sleep but reducing her time in bed while working on her 24 hour lifestyle to balance things that could be affecting her sleep. At one point she was not going to bed until 1am.
Once we achieved continuity, we focussed on improving quality of sleep and life by consciously slowing down, being mindful, incorporating breath work, certain frameworks to work on mindset leading to being more positive, more energetic and less stressful.
Once the continuity and quality of sleep was a-ok, we again ramped up the hours to come back to the magic 7-8 hours.
All the work finally paid off when the doctors gave a positive thumbs up on her blood reports taken after 6 months and told her that she was on the right path.
It was quite a wonderful journey where we both learnt so much about the human condition and how health goes much deeper than we think.
