Reading Your Body's Signals: Skin, Hair, and Tongue

What does a muscle disorder in a horse have to do with human fibromyalgia? In the final episode of this three-part Your Health Reclaimed conversation, FMP Brad Montagne and Alicia VanderGriend connect a health scare in Alicia's own herd back to the root-cause story from earlier in the series.After a fall at a horse show left Alicia with a broken knee, she discovered her mare was struggling too, with wobbly legs, twitching muscles, and enzyme levels far outside the normal range. The diagnosis, PSSM, causes lactic acid to build up in muscle tissue, the same underlying mechanism behind fibromyalgia's trigger points. FMP Brad and Alicia also walk through how to read the body's more subtle signals, including skin, hair, and tongue, and why lasting change has to start with self-awareness rather than outside fixes.This episode is for listeners who've followed Alicia's story from the start, and for anyone ready to understand how chronic pain, fatigue, and muscle dysfunction trace back to the same root causes, whether in horses or in humans.If this series resonated with you, book a consult at healthfullyu.com to start uncovering your own root cause.Topics discussed: PSSM and fibromyalgia, lactic acid and trigger points, muscle pain root cause, reading your body's signals, skin and hair health signals, self-awareness and healing, chronic pain and inflammation, functional medicine coaching, root cause of muscle dysfunction, mind-body connection, health and horsemanship parallels, holistic healing approachChapter Timestamps:00:41 — Slow Work Before Fast Results03:32 — Reading the Body's Signals: Skin, Hair, and Tongue04:31 — The PSSM-Fibromyalgia ConnectionIn the finale of this three-part series, FMP Brad and Alicia trace a hidden muscle disorder in her horse back to the same root cause as human fibromyalgia.Ready to find your own root cause? Book a consult at healthfullyu.com.