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💜Making connections between Hidradenitis Suppurativa and diet.

Holistic chronic inflammation management, and more!
💚Nutritionist, Chef, 2x best selling author.
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09/16/2026

Deep work has a real ceiling. Cal Newport (drawing on Anders Ericsson’s research on deliberate practice) found that even elite performers — chess grandmasters, violinists — can only sustain about 4 hours of true, high-concentration work a day before output quality drops. Newport argues the ability to do deep work is becoming rarer and more valuable, and that even elite performers can only sustain about four hours of deep, focused work per day — this isn’t weakness, it’s physiology. Past that, you’re running on shallow, reactive energy, not real cognitive horsepower.

Shorter workweeks don’t hurt output. The largest four-day-workweek trial — 141 companies, 2,896 employees across six countries, cutting hours 20% with no pay cut — found stress dropped, burnout vanished, and productivity surged as much as 40%, with 90% of companies keeping the schedule permanently.

Circadian timing changes what your brain can do. Circadian rhythms, generated by the suprachiasmatic nucleus and shaped by chronotype, determine peak cognitive efficiency — misalignment between your internal clock and your work schedule impairs attention, slows reaction time, and raises error rates.

The US genuinely overworks relative to peers. The OECD ranks the US among the longest average annual working hours in the developed world — Americans work significantly more than Germany, France, Denmark, Norway, and the Netherlands.

09/15/2026

Know better, did it anyway 🙃

I know my luteal phase means more inflammation risk — I dial back intensity, wear the right gear, protect my joints. Sunday? Full luteal phase and I still went way too hard at the gym. No regrets... except my joints have some thoughts rn.

Is it the end of the world? No. Am I today’s cautionary tale? Also no lol — this is just real life with a chronic illness. You won’t get it perfect every time.

My reset when I overdo it: elevation, ice, red light therapy, and sticking to my safe foods. No new risks while my body’s already inflamed.

Speaking of red light — that’s the mat you’ve seen in my stories. Comment RED LIGHT if you want the link or want to know more about the benefits 🔴

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09/14/2026

Yesterday I didn’t want to go to the gym. Today I was in such a rush I forgot to put the espresso in my latte — walked out the door with just almond milk, collagen, and cinnamon in my cup. 🥲

Life is chaotic and messy. There is no perfect routine — especially when you’re a working mom, especially when you’re managing a chronic illness and your energy and cognitive ability shift from day to day. Some days I’m forgetting words mid-sentence. But I still show up for myself in whatever consistency I can manage.

Consistency doesn’t mean discipline and order and a perfect schedule every day. Sometimes it’s sitting in your car in the gym parking lot on a Sunday, trying to talk yourself into walking in — knowing you’ll feel better once you do. Sometimes it’s making it there Monday morning after carpool and traffic, with barely enough time before work. It’s doing the best you can with the time you have.

I talk a lot about consistency because a healthy lifestyle is a long game. Whatever you’re working on — drinking more water, sleeping earlier, adding resistance training, eating more veggies, hitting your protein goals — build it in a way that’s sustainable. A way that works 9 times out of 10, even with a crazy life. Because that’s the magic: what you can keep doing when things aren’t ideal is where the change actually happens.

What you stick to for a week won’t get you the results you want. What you stick to for six months, a year, three years — that’s what gets you there. 🤍

09/13/2026

Almost ten years ago, I put my hidradenitis suppurativa into remission without medical intervention — through diet and lifestyle changes alone. What I’ve learned since is that remission isn’t a finish line. It’s an ongoing, moving target.

About three years ago, my healthcare provider recommended I start a GLP-1. My cholesterol was creeping up, I was starting to feel inflammatory symptoms again, and staying in remission suddenly felt harder than it used to. Perimenopause creeping in? Maybe. Who knows.

What I didn’t expect was how much a GLP-1 would change my relationship with food. For years, I maintained remission by being extremely strict about anything that could trigger a flare. It worked, but it was rigid. Since starting the medication, I’ve had so much more flexibility — I can eat out, travel, and not treat every meal like a risk calculation. My body size has never tracked with whether I’m in remission; I have fluctuated 50+lbs and kept the flares at bay. However, the GLP-1 has helped me lose weight and keep it off, but honestly the bigger shift for me has been that flexibility.

That’s part of why this new JAMA Dermatology study caught my attention. In a large, propensity-matched cohort of adults with HS, GLP-1RA use was linked to lower all-cause mortality and fewer major cardiovascular events over 1- and 2-year follow-up compared to nonusers. Researchers also saw fewer systemic complications — cellulitis, sepsis, acute kidney injury, dialysis initiation, even suicidal ideation or attempts — and this held true whether or not patients had diabetes.

It’s early evidence, but it points to something a lot of us in the HS community have suspected anecdotally: GLP-1s may offer benefits that go well beyond glycemic control for people living with this disease.

Managing HS is never “solved.” It’s a moving target, and for me, this has been one more tool that’s made the ongoing work of managing it more sustainable.

09/12/2026

In sickness and in health is something people say, as if it’s a maybe, a one day, but for us (spoonies, the chronically ill), it’s EVERY DAY. Even the good days.

Who we spend our life with is a very important decision. Choosing a partner who fills your cup and doesn’t drain you, or use up your spoons. Choosing a partner who wants to make you happy, make your life easier, wants to take care of you is key!

A lot of us think that because we have chronic illness, we don’t deserve this, and I think that that’s why a lot of of us have terrible relationships, especially growing up. But I think that there’s something beautiful, there’s a vulnerability in letting the person you care about say hey sometimes I will need your help. Sometimes I will feel like superwoman and other times I can’t get out of bed and I need you to see me and love me on all of those days because you deserve that.

09/11/2026

No nightshades, no problem 🍽️

Nightshades are a plant family — tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers, paprika, goji berries — and for some of us, they can trigger inflammation. I’m one of those people. Three and a half years ago, I was finally able to reintroduce potatoes after 7 years of cutting them out, which has been such a win. But potatoes are high-starch, so for blood sugar balance it’s nice to have a higher-fiber option in the rotation too.

Enter: roasted butter beans. I recently discovered these and I’m obsessed.

What you need:

• 3 cans butter beans, drained and patted dry
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tsp salt
• 2 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp ground black pepper
• 1 tsp onion powder
• ½ tsp cumin
• 2 tsp dried parsley or oregano

Toss it all together, spread flat on a sheet pan, and roast at 400°F for ~30 minutes until crispy.

09/10/2026

The struggle is real. But all jokes aside, one of the any perks of having well managed chronic illness is that *most of the time* I feel like I can hang with the “normies”. I’ve built in my recovery time to my lifestyle— and when I do hit a wall, yeah I get a little pouty but hey! I’m just a girl, trying live a normal life in a not normal body.

09/09/2026

This isn’t a struggle Olympics. And it surely isn’t about medication versus diet or lifestyle. I have educated on a lot of different treatment options. I feel very strongly about the fact that anyone with chronic illness needs to do whatever they need to do to manage their disease. That looks different for everybody. 💜

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