190: Getting to the Root Cause for Gut Healing, Mold Toxicity and Peptides with Amanda Soukoulis

Send us Fan MailAmanda Soukoulis shares her personal health collapse in her 20's and how it led her into helping others with functional medicine and nutrition. This conversation focuses on why symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, and poor sleep often trace back to deeper root causes rather than willpower.Amanda also shares the importance of testing in the right order, how gut health connects to hormones and detoxification, and why peptides can be a useful tool when the body is ready for them.Key topicsAmanda shares her own turning point: waking up with hives, body aches, severe bloating, and 35 pounds of sudden weight gain after appearing outwardly very healthy.We discuss how high performance, heavy training, emotional stress, and under-fueling can overwhelm the body even when labs initially look normal.She outlines the main issues uncovered in her own case: bacterial pathogen in the gut, postmenopausal-level estrogen in her 20s, adrenal fatigue, sluggish thyroid, and later mold toxicity.Amanda shares how mold toxicity can show up as low energy, brain fog, sleep problems, inflammation, and weight-loss resistance, even when the source is not obvious.Amanda also introduces peptides, how they work as signaling molecules, and why she sees them as an advanced tool that works best after foundational healing.Find Amanda Soukoulis: HereCustom Session with Amanda! DM GLOW to her on Instagram: CLICK HERE Find Jess below!Website: Simply Jess Skincare SIMPLY JESS SKINCARE:Each and every product is naturally derived, highly concentrated and most importantly, super performing! Every product was born out of a need to have a truly pure product that met my high standards for efficacy. Subscribe to Our Newsletter! You can take 20% off Your Order of our all natural skincare line with code: PODCAST Shop Now! Favorite Supplements for Health and Fat loss: Click HERE  My favorites are the Power Greens, Digestive Enzymes and Brain Power Favorite Mouth and Face Tape- Use Code JESSICAITURZAETA15 for 15% off Click Here Mushroom Coffee-15% off with Code: SIMPLYJESSSKINCARE15 Click HereEmail Us! [email protected] us! Instagram Tik Tok