Your body has stopped believing you

For years, I thought the thing standing between me and becoming one of those women who seemed calm, confident, and effortlessly put together was...more information.

Another certification would do it. Or maybe the perfect planner. Surely this book will be the thing. Another supplement. Another podcast. Another app that promised to organize my life while somehow becoming one more thing I had to keep up with.

I thought that if I just learned enough, eventually I'd wake up as this magical version of myself who always knew what to do.

(As you probably guessed, she never showed up. She's probably somewhere reorganizing her Notes app.)

For the longest time, I thought anxiety was my biggest problem. Then I decided it must be overthinking. What I've realized though is that underneath all of that was something much more insidious.

I didn't trust myself!

And let me tellllll youuuuuuuu -- once you see that, you can't unsee it.

We spend a lot of time talking about nervous system regulation these days. Breathwork. Cold plunges. Magnesium. Vagus nerve exercises and devices. Red light therapy. Humming. Grounding. Walking barefoot. Sitting on the floor in a pretzel shape.

You know I'm a physiology nerd. I will happily spend a bazillion hours talking about blood sugar, mitochondria, circadian rhythms, muscle protein synthesis, hormones, inflammation, and all the gloriously nerdy things that make the human body so fascinating.

Our biology really, REALLY matters.

But lately I've started wondering if the conversations around 'nervous system regulation' have been wildly incomplete and overlooking one of the biggest contributors to chronic stress.

Those tiny moments when we stop trusting ourselves!

You already know what you want to do, but somehow you end up asking six people what they think first.

Your gut says yes, your brain opens Microsoft PowerPoint and starts preparing a full presentation titled Forty-Seven Reasons This Will Probably Ruin Your Entire Life.

You shrink your opinion because it's easier than making someone uncomfortable that you don't agree.


You hold back on social media because you don't like posting without full context for fear that some stranger who got dropped off on your page by the algorithm might misunderstand you or your intentions (ahem, yup, that one was for me).

You hear yourself say yes when every cell in your body was screaming absolutely not.

Those moments don't usually seem like a big deal in the moment. But your nervous system begs to differ!

I've dabbled in the study of Human Design a little while ago, and whether you love it, hate it, or think it belongs somewhere between astrology and crystal collections, it gave me language for something I had been experiencing my entire life.

It gave me the epiphany moment to recognize that HOLY COW, there really isn't one universally "correct" way to move through the world! I mean, duh, right? But it felt like a light bulb moment to me. Just because we've always done it like that doesn't mean it's right or right for everyone.

We're constantly being told who we're supposed to become. Work harder. Slow down. Speak up. Be quieter. Rest more. Don't be lazy. Hustle. Protect your peace. Take risks. Play it safe.

I don't know about you, but by the time I listened to everyone else's advice, it was almost impossible to hear my own voice.

It's a little like spending your whole life wearing shoes that don't fit and eventually deciding your feet must be defective.

Eventually, you stop checking in with yourself altogether. And this is where it gets physical ...

Your nervous system is always collecting information. (Remember last week's newsletter??) It's paying attention to whether your environment feels predictable. Whether you're safe. If you follow through. Can you be counted on?

External events shape our sense of safety -- trauma, stress, loss, conflict. Those do play a role, for sure!

But your nervous system is also watching the relationship you have with yourself. And every time you override your intuition, it notices. When did you do that last? No shade, I'm just asking so you start to apply this to yourself.

Your nervous system is pretty much the boss, too. While it doesn't decide whether you lose weight or gain it, it does influence if you gain or lose more muscle or fat and how hard your body fights you along the way. It also changes cravings, hunger, satiety, hormone production, symptoms, how well you recover, adapt, build muscle, how restorative your sleep is, inflammation levels, mood, resilience, and how often you're stuck in hypervigilance, people-pleasing, perfectionism, or feeling like your brain never shuts off.

Every time you dismiss that quiet little whisper of wisdom because someone on Instagram sounded more convincing than you did, it notices.

Every time you promise yourself you'll start taking care of yourself on Monday...and then by Thursday you've thrown in the towel...it notices.

Truly NO shame. Your body isn't sitting there judging you. It's just learning.

Our brains are these prediction machines. They look for patterns so they can decide what to expect next. If you've repeatedly shown yourself that your own needs get pushed to the bottom of the list, your brain starts expecting exactly that. Neurobiology is wild, huh?

The beautiful part is that our brains are also incredibly adaptable. Yay for good news! They update the prediction every time we give them new evidence. We you start to become someone you can actually rely on, it updates. Maybe you take that walk you said you would, or did the workout even if you had to do 2 sets in the morning and the last set after dropping of your kiddo somewhere. Maybe you had a protein-packed meal after deciding muscle is a priority for you. Mayyyybe you set a boundary and stick with it. (Hard swallow). Or have a hard but necessary conversation. Whatever the details look like for you, when you make a decision that comes from your values instead of your comment section, that is self trust.

It's pretty boring, when you think of it! Kinda like growing tomatoes. You plant 'em. Water them. Wait. Nothing happens. You water them again. Wait some more. Still nothing.

Then one day you realize something has been growing the entire time because you stopped digging up the roots every three days to see if they were working!

When I work with women whose bodies are stuck in fight or flight, I usually see them looking for permission more often than they'd like to admit.

Permission to pivot.
Permission to charge more.
Permission to rest.
Permission to wear the thing.
Permission to change their mind.
Permission to stop doing something that's technically working but slowly draining the cr*p outta them.

What if your nervous system regulation was about you asking yourself what you think first and listening? 


Would your shoulders drop? Breathing change? Whole body soften?

Here's something I'd love for us both to experiment with this week...

Pay attention to how many times you catch yourself asking, "What should I do?"

When you notice it, pause. Don't Google it yet. Don't throw it into ChatGPT or Claude. Don't ask a friend. Don't search Instagram hoping someone with beautiful lighting and slow-motion B-roll has already made your decision for you.

Just ask yourself one question: "What do I already know?"

You don't need absolute certainty. Just take one small action that lines up with what you already knew before fear started negotiating.

Maybe that's eating when you're hungry instead of waiting for the "perfect" time. Maybe it's adding another five pounds to the bar.

Maybe it's saying yes. Maybe it's finally saying no.

Maybe it's admitting you've outgrown a version of your life you've been trying really hard to squeeze yourself back into.

We spend so much time chasing confidence as if we'll get there when we have the perfect body, face, job, house, whatever ... but confidence is just evidence that you have your own back. It's not feeling flawless, it's knowing you have flaws and that's ok. It's not having answers, it's knowing you'll figure things out as you go.

It's your brain slowly realizing, "Okayyyyyyy...she actually has my back now."

Think about what that would change! I bet it would influence the way you eat, train, recover, work, age, parent, people, love. It would touch your metabolism, relationships, body, levity.

Imagine the glow up you'll have when you become someone your nervous system learns it can trust! That's a woman who's pretty hard to shake. I can't wait to meet that version of you!

This is exactly why The Metabolic Edge works so well. Women don't join because they need more information. They join because they're tired of collecting information and never quite knowing how to put it all together. They want a place where they can stop second-guessing themselves, stop hopping from influencer to influencer, stop wondering if they're doing enough (or the right things), and instead build confidence through consistency, action, and understanding what their body is actually trying to tell them.

That's exactly what we do inside.

Every month we strength train together. We talk through nutrition without food rules or perfectionism. I share meal ideas, recipes, grocery finds, and practical ways to make healthy eating fit into real life. We dive deep into women's physiology, metabolism, hormones, longevity, inflammation, muscle, gut health, lab work, aging, fat loss, and all the fascinating science that helps you finally understand why your body is responding the way it is.

And you don't have to figure it out alone. You have an entire community of women who are asking the same questions, celebrating the wins, navigating the same season of life, and cheering each other on instead of competing with each other. Plus, we meet for live group coaching so you can get your questions answered and actually apply what you're learning.

There isn't another membership out there that combines workouts, nutrition guidance, meal inspiration, community, deep women's health education, physiology, longevity, fat loss, and group coaching all in one place.

And it's just $59 a month. No contract. Cancel yourself anytime right from your dashboard if it ever stops serving you. (Although I have a feeling you're going to want to stick around.)

Heads up... the doors are only opening for 36 hours, and this is your only opportunity to join before August. Once they close, they won't reopen until the September round. So if you've been sitting on the sidelines thinking, "Maybe next time..." here we are. This is your next time.

I probably share 5% of what I teach publicly. The rest is the framework we use inside The Metabolic Edge — a step-by-step approach that helps women finally connect the dots and build momentum. Below are a few results from members who've been following it...

Come join us. You're going to love it inside. Learn more and join here.



Stay wild + well,
Tara

Look at these member wins!

Your heel pain might not be a foot problem

I got a DM about plantar fasciitis today (today, the day I'm writing this, not today, the day you're reading this).



Does that even matter? Haha. I digress ...

She has unbearable heel pain in the morning, worsening after sitting, and it gets better once she moves around a bit. She’d been told it’s plantar fasciitis and to stretch it, ice it, maybe roll it out, and “be patient.”

And then she added something that stuck with me.

“I started walking more because I’m trying to be healthier… but now my heel is angry all the time.”

That part! I see this so often with women right now. There’s this shift happening where people are finally taking more steps, getting more consistent, trying to 'do the right thing'… and then the body pushes back in a very specific place. A workout injury. A heel / arch / bottom of the foot situation where it suddenly feels like you're stepping on glass in the morning. 

Plantar fasciitis is what we call it when that thick band under your foot gets irritated. It runs from your heel to your toes and handles every step well, usually. And then one day it doesn't.

Most of the standard advice is actually decent at the surface level.

A physical therapist will usually tell you to reduce your daily step count for a bit, not eliminate movement but stop spiking it. They’ll often recommend calf stretching because the calf and foot are basically sharing tension through the same line. Strengthening the small intrinsic foot muscles must be part of the picture. Rolling the bottom of the foot on a frozen water bottle or tennis ball can help calm down local irritation. Sometimes night splints are suggested to keep the fascia from tightening too aggressively while you sleep. And footwear changes might be necessary so the load isn’t dumping into one small area every single step.

A lot of people skip the most important part of that -- the reduction in load!

What I’m seeing right now especially this time of year is women going from maybe 3–5k steps a day to 10–12k almost overnight because they’re finally “being good,” and the body doesn’t interpret that as health yet. Instead, it's a sudden demand on tissue that might have been hanging on by a threadddddd for a long time.

But let's get weird for a minute ...

Plantar fasciitis is also something that happens when the whole network of connective tissue finally expresses overload in the place that gets the most mechanical attention. The heel / bottom of the foot is thee messenger, but the message is coming from everywhere.

The fascia system is continuous. It's really cool! It’s this one long web that distributes force from your neck all the way down to your toes. So when someone says “my heel hurts,” what I hear is “this is where the system decided to reveal itself.”

That makes me curious about more than just the foot. How metabolically flexible is this person? Are blood sugar levels swinging all over the place? Is collagen getting the nutrients and signals it needs to remodel well? Are they in perimenopause or menopause, where falling estrogen can reduce collagen production, alter connective tissue quality, and slow recovery? (Not that menopause causes plantar fasciitis, but it may explain why so many women notice old aches, tendon issues, or stubborn foot pain showing up around this stage of life.) Fascia isn't just a band under your foot — it's one continuous network wrapping around muscles, tendons, nerves, blood vessels, and organs throughout the entire body. When one area starts complaining, I always wonder what else the system is trying to tell us. That's also why I like supporting healing from multiple angles ... rebuilding capacity with progressive calf raises, intrinsic foot strengthening (think toe yoga or towel scrunches), improving ankle mobility, keeping blood sugar stable with protein-, fiber-, and movement-based habits, and even using red light therapy, which has evidence for supporting tissue healing and reducing pain. None of these are magic fixes on their own, but together they create an environment where connective tissue has a much better chance of recovering instead of just barely surviving.

And then I start thinking about what’s been happening underneath that.

We know mechanically that plantar fasciitis is load exceeding recovery capacity. That part is pretty straightforward. Tissue gets micro-damaged faster than it can rebuild. The area near the heel gets especially irritated because that’s where a lot of force concentrates with every step.

We also know collagen tissue adapts to repeated stress. It gets stronger with appropriate loading and more disorganized when the pattern is too much, too fast, or too repetitive without variation. So on a purely mechanical level, the fix is almost always about recalibrating load.

But that's not the whole conversation. Local issues are more often than not more system-based. 

Who is dealing with PF the most? It’s often women who are actively trying to improve their health! They arer walking more, intentionally increasing movement, and sometimes that consistency gets layered on top of a system that hasn’t rebuilt capacity yet.

Fascia doesn’t care about your fat loss or step goals. It does, however, respond to capacity.

When the body is metabolically flexible, it shifts between fuel sources smoothly, inflammation stays down, and tissues tend to recover faster between stress cycles. In this case, movement feels easier to absorb.

When metabolic flexibility isn't so great, everything becomes a little slower to recover -- collagen turnover, fluid exchange in fascia, and tissue repair are all less responsive. The fascia gets dehydrated, stiff, and more likely to crack under pressure.

When you add a sudden spike in steps on top of that, the foot becomes the place where you notice.

This is where I start thinking differently from what most people are told in clinic settings. A lot of care stays focused on the foot itself. The plan becomes to stretch, strengthen, and support it. Those are real levers that shouldn't be ignored! But that's just part of the story.

I’ve seen cases where people do everything right locally and the issue keeps coming back until something more upstream changes. 

Here’s what I would actually tell someone in real life (isn't this real life too? I guess I mean in person?) ...

Pull steps back temporarily if you recently increased them. The tissue needs a chance to catch up. When feeling better, dial it back up g-r-a-d-u-a-l-l-y.

Still do the boring things that actually work. Calf mobility, slow strengthening of the foot muscles, gentle loading instead of aggressive stretching, frozen water bottle rolls if it calms things down. and supportive shoes during flare-ups so you’re not constantly re-irritating the same spot will likely be part of your plan.

Pay attention to how it feels after rest versus after load. That difference tells you a lot about recovery capacity!

And then ...



...zoom out further.

If this keeps happening, or if it showed up alongside other signs like stubborn fatigue, blood sugar swings, increase in belly fat, or feeling like recovery from workouts is slower than it should be… I start thinking less about the foot and more about metabolic flexibility.

I know no one is telling you that about plantar fasciitis. But that's why we're friends, right? I tell you weird stuff about your body so you feel better and can go crush the rest of your life.

Anyway, The Metabolic Edge is where we go deeper in things like symptoms, metabolism, recovery, hormones, movement, nutrition so it. all starts making sense in the same conversation instead of separate boxes. The body rarely speaks in isolated symptoms! Doors aren’t currently open, but there’s a waitlist for the August cohort if you don’t want to miss it next time.

If you want something more tailored and hands-on, that’s exactly what 1:1 coaching is for. You can explore details like availability, pricing, and apply here.



Stay wild + well,
Tara

P.S. In case you missed it

When I'm having a bad day


Pizza nachos!

P.P.S. What I'm loving lately

Handmade cards! It started as a little experiment about a year and a half ago… just wondering how much money we’d save if we stopped buying them and made them instead. And now I don’t want to go back. I’ve been drawing little personalized pictures, adding jokes + random memories, and it just feels so much more real than anything off a shelf. There are a few exceptions, like heavier moments where something more traditional feels right, but otherwise I could get used to this way of doing things.



This acupressure mat for circulation and with our PF topic in mind today, it can be really helpful for increasing healing blood flow to the foot and heel. I sometimes roll my feet on the pillow part when I'm working at my desk for a little habit-stacking situation.

This red light therapy device. I love it, use it daily, my family uses it often. It's portable, 3rd party tested for safety and efficacy, and is ONE device I can use for everything -- face, whole body, local issues (like the feet!), overall mood, circadian rhythm, and metabolism. It has a long battery life which seems unimportant but matters to me! Haha. It works on the level of the mitochondria, so any organ, system, or cellular process that requires energy (ahem ... that's all of them!) can be improved with red light therapy. This is why there's thousands of research papers touting its benefits and why there will be thousands more as scientists discover the mechanisms transfer over to many more areas. It's an absolute staple in our family for illness, pain, healing, scrapes, scars, skin, period cramps, surgery recovery, bellyaches, ear aches, foot pain, back pain, knee pain, bug bites, sunburns, rashes, eczema, psoriasis, acne, collagen production, thyroid healing, scalp / hair regrowth, you name it! It's an investment for sure, but if you're ready to have this universal tool in your home too, my link here gets you 43% off right now.

Some of the worst cortisol advice online sounds very convincing...

If you’ve been waking up between 2-4. AM lately feeling simultaneously exhausted and annoyingly alert while craving carbs and side-eyeing anyone who chews food near you… your physiology may be trying to tell you something.


There’s a weird thing happening online right now where cortisol has become the villain for basically everything.

And listen… cortisol is important! If you've been here a while, you know it's a big part of what I help women with. But the conversation around it has gotten SO flattened lately, and it drives me a bit nuts.

I keep seeing women being told to avoid anything remotely stressful. No fasting. No cold exposure. No HIIT. No intense exercise. No pushing themselves physically. No discomfort ever. The female body is being talked about online like it’s this fragile little thing that can’t adapt to challenge without immediately falling apart hormonally, and that’s just not true.

The problem with that messaging is women then miss out on the benefits of these things too. Better insulin sensitivity. Better mitochondrial function. Better metabolic flexibility. Better resilience. Better body composition. Better energy. Better aging outcomes. We deserve those benefits too, don't we?! (Of course we do!) We just need to understand that female physiology is different and the application may need to be different.

Cold exposure is a perfect example. A protocol built around a 24-year-old guy named Bryce who listens to OptimizeBiohackingMaxxing podcast clips while dry scooping pre-workout and sleeping 5 hours a night maybeeee shouldn’t automatically become the protocol for a 47-year-old perimenopausal woman juggling stress, blood sugar swings, poor sleep, and three kids. 😂 (Seriously ... we know we get solid adaptations at a higher temperature for cold exposure than men's equivalent, and that's just 1 variable).

This is where nuance matters, and unfortunately, nuance is dying on the internet lately.

Especially now that people can type a prompt into AI and suddenly sound wildly confident while giving incomplete, wrong, or outdated information that sounds scientific enough to convince people they know what they’re talking about.



Ugh.

Women’s physiology done well is very, “it depends.” Cycle phase matters. Recovery matters. Blood sugar. Sleep. Overall stress load and capacity. Perimenopause / menopause changes things. Nutrient status matters. Nervous system state matters. A woman doing intense exercise sprinkled into her week while sleeping 8 hours, eating enough protein, recovering well, and supporting blood sugar is very different physiologically than someone running on caffeine until 2 PM, under-eating calories and carbs, sleeping 5 hours, and watching the news 8 times a day.

Cortisol itself is not bad. Cortisol is a survival hormone. It helps regulate blood sugar, blood pressure, inflammation, energy production, wakefulness, circadian rhythm, and immune function. You actually WANT healthy cortisol. You want it elevated in the morning so you feel awake and functional and motivated to exist as a human being. Then ideally it gradually lowers throughout the day so the body feels safe enough to rest and recover later at night.

That daily rise-and-fall pattern is key.

When cortisol rhythm gets dysregulated for long enough, women often start noticing this cluster of symptoms that doesn’t always feel connected at first -- feeling exhausted but wired at the same time, waking up between 2-4 AM, crashing in the afternoons, anxiety that feels incredibly physical, feeling overstimulated by normal life, shallow breathing, poor stress tolerance, cravings, worsening PMS, belly fat that seem impossible to budge, brain fog, heart palpitations, feeling on edge constantly, workouts feeling harder to recover from, and this general sense of their body not responding the way it used to.

One of the biggest things women miss here is how connected cortisol is to blood sugar.

When blood sugar drops too low, cortisol helps bring it back up because your brain needs glucose to survive. So if someone is under-eating, skipping meals, overtraining, living on caffeine, chronically stressed, not sleeping enough, or constantly riding that adrenaline-wave energy, cortisol may stay elevated more often because the body perceives instability.

This is also part of why cortisol gets tied into insulin resistance, prediabetes, PCOS, and abdominal fat storage. The body becomes more likely to store energy centrally when it perceives stress, unpredictability, or resource instability over time.

Something else that gets missed a lot is how much cortisol impacts fluid balance + vascular function. This is a big reason women under chronic stress start feeling puffy, swollen, inflamed, or like their body composition changed overnight. Cortisol interacts with aldosterone (which regulates sodium + water retention), blood vessel tone, circulation, and endothelial permeability — basically how easily fluid shifts in and out of tissues. When stress is prolonged, you can end up with more fluid being pushed into tissues instead of staying properly regulated in the bloodstream, which shows up as morning face puffiness, tighter rings during walks, abdominal bloating, and that 'soft / inflamed' feeling after poor sleep, travel, intense training, or higher sodium meals. And a lot of women mistake that as fat gain — but physiologically, it’s often stress chemistry + inflammation + recovery debt showing up as temporary fluid redistribution. This is also where a lot of “detox” behaviors backfire (over-restricting food, dehydration, over-exercising, trying to sweat everything out), because the body responds better to stability and adequate recovery than more stress.

And cortisol sits pretty high up in the hormone cascade, meaning it influences a LOT downstream. Thyroid function. Sex hormones. Blood sugar regulation. Inflammation. Sleep quality. Appetite regulation. This is why women often feel like everything is suddenly off at once.



And hardly any healthcare professionals will actually connect all the dots across all systems holistically, because that's not how they were trained and that's not how the system is set up.

I had a functional doctor once tell me my cortisol was higher than she had ever seen in anyone before. Not exactly the achievement badge I was hoping to collect... EVER. 😂 Looking back though, it made complete sense. I was overtraining, under-recovering, running on adrenaline, living in chronic stress, working overnights in a clinical setting, blood sugar all over the place, constantly pushing, constantly “on,” constantly in go-mode.

At the time I was also dealing with PCOS (PMOS), insulin resistance, prediabetes, and hypothyroidism — all of which I’ve since naturally reversed to the point that I no longer meet diagnostic criteria for any of them.

But it required understanding physiology differently! And doing things counter to what the professionals said. It wasn't just eat less and move more. It wasn't just “reduce stress.” It wasn't a blanket, "balance your hormones" thing. 

I had to understand circadian rhythm, actual recovery, blood sugar regulation, nervous system state, breathing patterns, muscle mass, stress adaptation, sleep quality, and how women’s physiology responds to different inputs on a cellular level.

One of the most interesting rabbit holes in all of this is breathing and CO2 tolerance.

Most people think oxygen issues are about oxygen. A lot of the time they’re actually about carbon dioxide tolerance. CO2 helps release oxygen from hemoglobin into tissues. When people chronically over-breathe — which is incredibly common in stress and anxiety states — they can blow off too much CO2, which may contribute to feelings of air hunger, anxiety, dizziness, panic sensations, poor exercise tolerance, and poor stress resilience.

This is where the BOLT test can help. It’s a simple and accessible way to look at CO2 tolerance and breathing efficiency. It's not used as a diagnosis, but as another window into nervous system patterns and stress physiology. I shared about how to do that here in this post.

Nervous system regulation is another thing that gets turned into vague internet fluff lately when it’s actually deeply physiological. It doesn't mean, "just be calm all the time." I mean, what?! Doesn't make sense and not possible anyway (have you seen .... things?!)

Nervous system regulation is breathing patterns. Blood sugar stability. Vagal tone. Sleep timing. Light exposure. Recovery. Safety signals. How the brain interprets stress. Whether the body feels like it’s constantly preparing for threat. And if your body responds appropriately -- fight or flight when someone nearly crashes into you on the highway, but back to calm within a few minutes. THAT is nervous system regulation. Appropriate and adaptive.

And interestingly enough, short intentional stressors can often LOWER baseline cortisol over time when appropriately dosed. This is the entire concept of hormesis and adaptation. Strategic stress with adequate recovery often makes the system more resilient, not less.

Strength training can improve stress resilience. Cold exposure can improve immune resilience. Intervals can improve insulin sensitivity and metabolic flexibility. And more.



(This was oversimplified b/c geez ... I can be so freaking long-winded!)



The goal isn’t removing all stress from life. The goal is improving adaptability. That’s a very different conversation.

Now… testing. This part gets complicated because cortisol fluctuates naturally throughout the day, so a single blood draw only captures one moment in time. Salivary testing can sometimes show rhythm patterns more clearly across the day, but results can still be influenced by sleep, illness, caffeine, medications, stress, cycle phase, timing, and lifestyle variables. Urine testing may add additional context in some cases, but none of these are perfect.

And unfortunately, some functional testing isn’t always covered by insurance because it exists outside standard conventional care models.

This is also why symptoms and patterns matter so much. I’ve seen women with so-called-normal cortisol labs who were very clearly physiologically struggling. And I’ve seen women improve massively not by removing every stressor from life, but by improving recovery, blood sugar regulation, sleep, nervous system flexibility, muscle mass, resilience, and overall metabolic health.

So what actually helps here is usually unsexy consistency. Make sure you’re actually eating enough overall — especially protein at most meals (roughly 30–40g is a helpful anchor for a lot of women). No steep calorie deficits. Don’t let the day turn into caffeine + adrenaline + “I forgot to eat until 3 PM” if you’re already waking at night or feeling wired / tired. Build muscle a few times per week so your body has a reason to improve glucose handling and stop behaving like it’s in scarcity mode. Walk daily, especially after meals if you can, because it’s one of the easiest ways to improve blood sugar without stressing your system more. Get morning light fairly early in the day to help anchor your circadian rhythm. And protect sleep like it’s the ginormous foundation it is — because under-recovered women just keep digging the hole deeper. The goal is reducing the constant physiological noise so your body can stop acting like it’s under threat all the time.


Some women also find a few well-chosen support tools helpful during higher-stress seasons — just as a buffer while the foundation improves. Things like magnesium glycinate for sleep and recovery, L-theanine for smoothing the caffeine/stress response, or ashwagandha to help modulate a chronically elevated stress load can be supportive in the background. The goal is never to rely on supplements instead of physiology — it’s to give the system a little more breathing room while the bigger pieces (food, sleep, muscle, stress, recovery) are getting back in place.

This whole space — women’s physiology, metabolism, cortisol, body composition, stress adaptation, hormones, behavior patterns, nervous system regulation — is basically my Roman Empire. I love this stuff so much because when women finally understand WHY their body has been responding the way it has, everything starts making more sense and there’s so much less fear around it. Plus, they start to trust that their body has actually been on their side the whole time and that allows the most beautiful progress.

Speaking of progress, I have a membership called The Metabolic Edge. I open it once a month only. Enrollment is officially open today and tomorrow, and this is exactly the kind of work we do inside.

The Metabolic Edge is my membership community for women who are tired of trying to piece together random health advice from 42 different people online and want one place where things actually connect. Workouts. Meals. Metabolism. Fat loss. Perimenopause. Cortisol. Nutrition. Blood sugar. Nervous system regulation. Mindset. Real-life consistency. It all works together because your body works together.

And one of the things women tell me over and over inside is that it finally feels manageable.

We're not doing overwhelm 'round here, ok? Ok! We're not obsessive. Indulgences are encouraged. So are real, healthy, VIBRANT results.

Most women inside are 35-60+ and they’re rebuilding trust with their bodies again. They want energy back. They want strength back. They want to stop feeling like they’re fighting themselves all day. They want workouts that build instead of deplete and can be done in 30-40 minutes. They want food to feel simpler. They want to understand what’s happening physiologically instead of blaming themselves constantly.

And they want support while they’re doing it.

That’s what this space is! You can join for $59 / month, no contract, cancel anytime, and start wherever feels most helpful for you. Doors close tomorrow night. Would love to have you inside! LEARN MORE AND JOIN HERE. <3



Stay wild + well,

Tara

P.S. In case you missed it:

My (maybe controversial?) take on how to improve the healthcare system


Update: I'll be taking my exam next month to become a Certified Menopause Practitioner through The Menopause Society and holy wow ... it's quite the monster of a vetting process to get this certification. I'm deep in studying daaaaaily and cannot WAIT to be able to serve the peri / menopause women even better. Fingers crossed!

P.P.S. Things I'm loving lately:

I love that a 6-minute session with my Pulsetto (discounted affiliate link) improves my vagal tone and helps bring me back to a parasympathetic state. It's not a necessity! There are lots of ways to do this for free (humming / singing / chanting and more), but having this device is very much appreciated and utilized. As someone who leans very sympathetically-dominant, I'll take all the help I can get!



Hear me out, this is very specific: 5 minutes of grounding and sunshine in a dress. Being barefoot on my grass, getting some vitamin D, a little sun on my legs, and not having to choose a top AND bottom to wear... sometimes it really is the little things, ya know?



L-theanine. I like taking this with coffee for a less jittery experience. It can help with nervous system regulation, cortisol, and sleep too. Just a heads up: some people develop WILD dreams or nightmares while taking this and if it's so vivid that it's troubling, you may want to consider stopping. Also, I'm loving it but that doesn't mean it's great for you. Check with your provider first.

Your body is not impressed by your fasting window

Our body gets efficient FAST!

It learns patterns and starts organizing itself around them — hunger, energy, output, even how it allocates resources day to day.

Fasting is one of the clearest places you can see this happen.

Most days, I naturally land in a 12–14 hour fasting window. Sometimes it’s closer to 15 depending on dinner, schedules, life. It doesn’t feel stressful because it’s supported on the other side. I still get 3 full, spaced-out meals in my eating window—real protein, carbs, fats, fiber, enough total intake that my body isn’t compensating later.

That daily rhythm becomes baseline. The body adapts to it. Hunger lines up. Energy stabilizes around it. It stops feeling like a “stimulus” and becomes just how things are.

This is where the concept of metabolic stressor vs metabolic signal matters.

A metabolic stressor is something the body sees repeatedly. It learns it, predicts it, and reduces the response over time to conserve energy. But a metabolic signal is something that breaks that prediction slightly. It creates a different kind of response because the system isn’t fully adapted to it yet.

At a cellular level, this is where things like AMPK activation, mitophagy, glycogen depletion, and shifts in nutrient sensing pathways come into play. When energy availability drops beyond the usual pattern, cells shift into more of a “resource prioritization” state. They use stored fuel, increasing fat oxidation, clean-up processes and temporarily changing how energy is allocated.

That’s part of why an occasional longer fast can be useful.


O-C-C-A-S-I-O-N-A-L

It creates a clear signal. For me, that could be a 24-hour fast, plus or minus, done occasionally — not on a schedule, but pulsed in. I can make sure when sleep has been pretty solid, stress isn't through the roof, and I’m already well-fed before I do this.

But I don’t do very long fasts daily.

When that becomes routine, instead of a clean signal, it becomes cumulative stress load — higher cortisol response, lower recovery capacity, and diminishing returns. No thanks!

So the way I think about it is simple. A daily 12–14 hour fast supports metabolic stability and routine clean-up. An occasional longer fast creates a stronger signal and a "deeper clean", if you will.



We all practice fasting overnight and in between meals. What's your current routine looking like?

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Excited for your future,
Tara

Reality isn't fixed -- you just think it is

I’ve been experimenting with something that feels like bending reality lately.



So obviously, I HAD to tell you about it.



Quantum physics says particles exist in every possible state until we observe them. That blows my brain! Multiple realities are out there in front of us at once, but we only ever experience the one we’re tuned into. Attention, focus, even the energy you put into your day is the dial that matches you to one version of life over another.

I’ve started testing this in small, ridiculously specific ways. When I slow down a hip hinge and feel my glutes firing totally differently, it changes how my whole workout feels. When I really notice my posture at my desk, soften my face, lower my shoulders, open my chest, the next hour flows ... differently!



My sleep feels more restorative when I honor the body’s rhythm instead of racing past it. If I pay attention to how my first sip of coffee actually tastes, it changes the way the morning lands. Every little nudge in my own awareness is tuning me to a different reality -- one that apparently already exists and is just waiting for me to match it.


I’ve also been experimenting with applying this to business opportunities. When I tune my focus and energy toward a specific project or connection, I start noticing doors I didn’t see before — emails that get answered, calls that click differently, ideas that fit better, offers coming through — all aligning with the version of success I’m matching to that day.

I've also been deep-diving on optimism and loving the interaction between these two. Most people think optimism is smiles and denial of stress. But, it's really this stubborn, disciplined act of training attention and energy toward a version of our life that feels alive, strong, and awake. I do love the woo, but biology backs this up too ... the Reticular Activating System, our brain’s filter for what we notice and focus on, is actually shaping what we see, feel, and experience. It's the reason we buy a bright blue Jeep and then start seeing bright blue Jeeps EVERYwhere. Or, we decide so-and-so must hate us and now everything they say and do seems to back that up.




I’m obsessed with tracking these tiny shifts because they are reshaping everything — energy levels, excitement, boldness, mindset, how I feel in my own skin. It's this glorious experiment that's spiritual, physics, biology, and human focus all mixing together in ways I can see, feel, and measure. It's free, always around, and ours for the taking.



There could be a placebo effect overlapping here as well, but hey, I'm ok with that!

Wanna join me? Start with one minute today ... notice a thought that drags your energy down and reframe it, just for that minute. Watch how it ripples. Because your reality is always listening and adjusting.




Stay wild + well,
Tara

I wish I didn't see this ... because now I have to change it

So I’m sitting down to write today’s blog post and I’m like… bump the other topics. The people need to know this!

I’ve been tracking my sleep pretty closely lately and WOW. The difference is not subtle.

On nights I eat after dinner—nothing crazy, just a little something like veggies and hummus mixed with salsa—my REM sleep drops. Consistently! Like 20 minutes gone.

Same exact amount of hours in bed. Same wake-up time. And yet a completely different sleep quality.

This matters, because more REM sleep means better brain recovery, better mood, better memory, better hormone regulation… all things we as women 40+ could really use more of.

And listen, I’ve read the science. I get the physiology. Digestion, blood sugar, all of it. But seeing your own data basically call you out like this is a different story. Haha.

I usually stop eating after dinner. But this might be the thing that makes me stick to that just a little bit more often.... since my body is over here keeping receipts.

I posted a reel breaking down my new watch data here last week if you missed it and want to see exactly what I’m looking at.

So if you’ve been feeling off even when you’re technically doing 'everything right'… this might be one of those things flying under your radar too!


Stay wild + well,
Tara


P.S. We just started a new workout program in The Metabolic Edge and the feedback has been incredible so far. TME is a (virtual) metabolic studio for women 35-60+ who want to get leaner, stronger, and healthier without the restrictive dieting. Workouts, food, group coaching calls, guest speakers. But my FAV part is the community of women sharing their tips, wins, questions, and cheering each other on. If you need support + guidance, come join us!

You can lose weight ... and your body can function worse

This week I figured I’d switch things up and just talk to you on video instead of writing it all out. Maybe it's the push I need to actually start a youtube channel? LOL Who knows.


I’m walking through something I see a lot—how you can be losing fat but still feel kind of… off. I’ll break down what that actually looks like and why it matters, so you get the full picture, not just what the scale says.



WATCH HERE



If this resonated with you, just know there’s a place to get real, effective fat loss while actually supporting your body and health. Inside The Metabolic Edge, women see sustainable results—not just on the scale—but as part of a bigger picture that includes energy, strength, and resilience. Fat loss is one piece, and we focus on making sure it works with your body, not against it.



To great things ahead,
Tara

What does "healthy" mean to you?

Lately I’ve been thinking about how slippery the word healthy has become.

Everyone uses it. Almost no one defines it. And when they do, it usually gets reduced to one thing — labs, weight, discipline, or how put-together someone looks from the outside.

That’s never really worked for me. Here’s how I think about it for myself.

Healthy means three things:

One, you feel pretty good most days.
Two, you’re comfortable enough in your body that it’s not taking up constant mental space.
And three, your biomarkers — labs, blood pressure, resting heart rate, HRV — are doing well relative to you, your history, and your real life.

When those pieces line up, great. That’s the goal.

When one or more of them is off, I don’t see that as something being “wrong.” It's just information. A nudge to pay attention.

The question I ask next is, what could I adjust that would actually make my life feel easier or more enjoyable over time?

Because if a change adds stress, friction, or resentment, it usually doesn’t last — even if it looks good on paper.

Another thing I wish more people understood is timing. Once you make a change — eating a more solid breakfast, training differently, walking more, going to bed earlier — you need enough consistency before you decide whether it’s helping.


For most things, that’s about three to six weeks of being mostly consistent. Not perfect. Just mostly consistent. If that consistency isn’t there, the clock doesn’t keep running. It resets (because bodies need repetition to adapt).

What’s interesting is that the first signs things are "working" almost never show up as body composition changes.

If you’re waiting for the scale or visible fat loss to tell you whether you’re on the right track for a body recomp. goal, you’ll usually quit before you get there.

The early signs are more subtle...

Better energy in the afternoon.
Waking up a little less tired.
Cravings settling down.
Realizing you can go four hours between meals and feel fine.
Less puffiness.
Fewer aches.
Not getting taken out every time a virus goes around.

Those are the signals I look for first. That’s metabolic health shifting under the surface. Body composition usually follows once those are in place — not the other way around.

This is the lens I use.

Do you feel pretty good most days?
Do you feel great / good in your skin?
Are your numbers moving in a direction that makes sense for you?

If yes, we protect what’s working. If not, we adjust — carefully, realistically, and in a way you can live with. We pay attention, stay consistent long enough to actually learn something, and choose changes that don’t require you to disappear from your own life.

That’s what healthy looks like to me. I'm curious ... what does "healthy" look like to you?


XO,
Tara



P.S. I’ll have 2 spots opening up for 1:1 coaching in March — first come, first serve. In coaching, we dive into everything from accountability and custom workouts to nutrition and lifestyle planning, helping you get truly unstuck and making sense of all your data so you know exactly what to tweak for real results. If that sounds like what you need, you can learn more and apply here.

Peanut Butter Strong-Hold

I ate half the PB jar at once!

After both pregnancies, I went from months of hyperemesis gravidarum (IV fluids 24/7, barely keeping water down) to immediate, primal hunger the moment I delivered each baby and the placenta. It was like a switch flipped. I was breastfeeding around the clock, depleted, and my body had one mission: rebuild. I can still see myself in the kitchen with a jar of peanut butter and a spoon, thinking, if I just finish it now, I can eat straight from the jar. This wasn’t a tablespoon or two left. It was half the jar. And yes… I finished it. At the time I labeled it as “being out of control.” Now I know it was biology ... my system hijacking hunger cues to accomplish a goal it decided was urgent: restore, refuel, keep milk flowing, protect the human(s).


The thing is, hunger and fullness cues aren’t moral or fixed… they’re adaptive. Your body will up- or down-shift appetite based on the inputs it’s reading. Live in fight-or-flight and cortisol dulls satiety (quick energy, please). Yo-yo diet or cut too aggressively (big difference between a slight deficit and a harsh one) and ghrelin rises while leptin drops, so the brain focuses on food. Eat a lot of ultra-processed foods and reward pathways outmuscle your body’s “I’m full” signals. Overeat carbs or fats while undereating protein and fiber and you’ll chase swings instead of feeling steady.


And it's not just nutrition! Poor sleep (hunger hormones spike), circadian mismatches (late-night big meals worsen glucose dynamics), low skeletal-muscle stimulus (less carb tolerance), micronutrient gaps like low magnesium or iron (energy production sputters), mitochondrial inefficiency (cells ask for more fuel because they can’t use what they have well).


This just means your biology is trying to help with the data it’s getting. And when you give it better data consistently — protein + fiber, strength training, earlier light and earlier main meals, calm evenings, real food most of the time — the signals can recalibrate. You’ll feel hunger you can trust and fullness that arrives on time.

To make that easier for the holidays, I'm sharing my free Holiday Apps + Sides Recipe Collection with you today ... fast, blood-sugar-friendlier, family-approved. All happen to be gluten-free and vegetarian. Grab it here. And if you want cozy, metabolism-smart comfort food beyond the holidays, my $17 e-cookbook Smart Cookie is available for purchase now and for a limited time. It's packed with the desserts that we make, eat and bring with us all holiday season long (all year-long, tbh).

New in Metabolic Health Worth Knowing...

1) Small, repeatable cold exposure (even lowering your thermostat a few degrees -- what I call "lower intensity cold exposure") appears to nudge brown fat and improve glucose handling.


2) Shifting your largest meal earlier in the day tends to improve fat oxidation and post-meal glucose, even when calories stay the same.


Small levers, pulled consistently, add up over time!

Things I'm Loving Lately

• Nobody Wants This (I enjoyed season 1 more than season 2 so far).

• Yoga pants that masquerade as dress pants (I have these in black and just ordered red - they're super cheap, so hopefully they don't fall apart in another 6 months but if they don't, I'll probably have them for 25 years b/c I wear the heck out of my clothes. LOL).

• A warm evening beverage -- usually dandelion tea with lemon, decaf coffee, or Organifi Harmony hot chocolate. (Psst ... I'm an affiliate and code TARAALLEN gets you 15% off)

• Frownies—they make such a difference in reducing my tension headaches

• My Fall, leaf table runner. No idea where it’s from or how long I’ve had it, but every time I see it, I get a surge of serotonin.

With love and science,
Tara

P.S. Just announced! Next round of TRANSFORM: Body + Mind starts in January. Join the waitlist to get early access and any upcoming (ahem) deals or bonuses.

3 women's health myths that need to die

Hola!



How's your September going so far?? Mine is good, minus some women's health myths that drive me bananas and need to be addressed today. Lol



Some myths in women’s health just keep circling ... I hear them from clients, see them on Instagram, and even catch them being recycled in magazines. They sound “science-y,” but they’re half-truths at best. Let’s clear a few up that just won't die.



Myth #1: Eat every 2–3 hours to “stoke your metabolism.”


Truth: Your metabolism doesn’t work like a campfire. The thermic effect of food (tiny calorie burn from digesting) is based on what you eat, not how often. Eating more frequently doesn’t magically make you burn more. In fact, constant grazing keeps insulin elevated and prevents your body from accessing stored energy. Most women feel better with three balanced meals (sometimes plus one snack) spaced 3–4+ hours apart — enough time for insulin to come back down, which supports steadier energy + fat burning.


Myth #2: More cardio = more fat loss.


Truth: Cardio has huge benefits ... heart health, mitochondrial density, circulation, stress relief ... but as a fat-loss strategy on its own, it backfires. Your body adapts by becoming more efficient, meaning you burn fewer calories for the same effort. Over time, this “metabolic adaptation” is why so many plateau despite hours of cardio. The real game-changer is strength training to build muscle (which raises your resting metabolism) plus walking for recovery, fat oxidation, and stress regulation. Cardio is excellent for health … but it’s not a standalone for fat loss.


Myth #3: Hormones are broken and out of your control.


Truth: Hormones absolutely shift ... in perimenopause, menopause, thyroid conditions, or under chronic stress ... but they don’t exist in a vacuum. They’re constantly responding to inputs like blood sugar balance, sleep quality, muscle mass, stress load, and circadian rhythm. For example -- stable glucose helps stabilize estrogen and progesterone, strength training supports testosterone and growth hormone, light exposure anchors cortisol and melatonin. You may not control every fluctuation, but you have far more influence than you’ve been led to believe.



We’re starting off so strong inside TRANSFORM: Body + Mind this week (it kicked off yesterday!). If you missed out and are kicking yourself, it’s not too late to get support.


Join us inside The Metabolic Edge, my monthly membership. It’s less intense than TRANSFORM but packed with strategy, support, and soul — designed to help you keep building momentum step by step.



XO,
Tara

The body trash-talk antithesis

When you watched the ball drop on January 1st (or fell asleep on the couch just beforehand like me), I bet you had at least a few ideas about how you wanted this year to go. Now that we're halfway through 2022, how's it going so far? What are you most proud of? What might you need some help with in the second half of the year?



I want to take you through a VERY quick, but VERY powerful exercise if you'll indulge me. Grab a piece of paper and pen. Yeah yeah, the notes section in your phone is fine too.



I want you to write down 5-10 things your body did for you within the last 24 hours. 

• Did you carry all the groceries into your house in one trip (b/c what kind of a psychopath takes more than 1 trip, anyway??)?

• Did you pick up your kids or grandkids?

• Did you go for a walk or exercise?

• Did you have a long commute on a standing-room-only train?

• Did you simply sleep while your immune "army" came through and saved the day by helping you heal + repair?

• Maybe you felt the beat of your fav. song when it came on Alexa and you realized that, in fact, your hips DON'T lie.

Write down the first 5-10 things that come to mind. If they're flowing, keep going! If you're stuck, think outside the box. But you're not done until there's at least 5 things written down. Because I said so. ;-)


The point of this exercise is simple: when we feel gratitude for our body -- even just a tiny bit -- it becomes harder to trash talk it. Less trash talk = less disrespectful behavior like over-restriction or over-indulgence.


LMK how it goes!


If you've been feeling lately like something needs to change, you're not alone. So many women have been telling me lately that they're tired of the same patterns repeating. Tired of being confused AF about what to eat, when, how much. Tired of not having the energy to workout. Tired of feeling like their health is slipping. And tired of spending their days not feeling sexy + vibrant as they know, deep-down, is possible.



If you're nodding your head, THIS IS YOUR SIGN to learn how to finally stop doing weird things related to food and your body. When you know how you use and store different kinds of food, how to balance your plate, how to exercise without spinning your wheels, and how to tap into other practices that no diet has ever taught you about, you'll realize there's not that much that you can't accomplish with the right combo.



In September, I'll be taking another group through my 28-day course -- TRANSFORM: Body + Mind. I'd like to help you blow your own damn mind then. Whaddya think? Get more details and join the waitlist here. (Waitlist peeps will be getting a discount code when the cart opens.)



You can unlearn and learn SO much about your body in 28 days. It's enough to change your entire trajectory. Go make yourself a PFF breakfast (protein, fat, and fiber), think about it, and click the button below to join the waitlist if you're ready to put yourself first, finally.



XO,
Tara



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Goodbye, curves!?

Bye bye, curves!? 

At least that's what she was afraid of when she asked me whether or not she's lose her shape as her fat loss journey continued.



Is there some truth to that? Yup! But there is also a bit that's in your control. CHECK OUT THIS QUICK (6 min.) VIDEO for all the curves + fat loss details.



Is this something you're concerned about as well? Let's chat about it so you feel more confident about your strategy. Shoot me an email - tara@taraallenhealth.com - to get right into my inbox. :-)



Happy day,
Tara

Organic Landscaping - weeding through the options

Check out my latest video in which I am asking you for help.

Weeds, and lawns, and organic landscaping…oh my!

Just another decision to make in the "real world".  Another set of priorities to reconcile.  This is life!  We want our children to have a beautiful, lush lawn to run around on, get their fair share of grass stains on, play ball on, and take their obligatory prom pictures on.  We want to have BBQs, cookouts, and fun with friends and family.  We want to sit around the (baby) pool and under the shade while we take too many pictures on our kiddos.

AND, we want to do all of this without the use of industrial pesticides.  No Monsanto.  No Glyphosate.  No thank you!

So, where does this leave us?  What to do?  This is a real question!  Please weigh in and help us with our dilemma.

P.S. We live on Long Island (New York) and are open to both organic landscaping company recommendations and DIY options.

Thanks!

In good health amongst the weeds,

Tara

Caring for your body post-baby and beyond!

I couldn't bring you all to the Blossom Baby Expo this past weekend here on Long Island, so at the last-minute suggestion of my hubby, I recorded my presentation LIVE to bring to YOU!  ;-)

We spoke about nutrition, fitness, sleep, support, and stress - specifically targeted for postpartum women, but these tips will help anyone!  I stopped the video before the Q&A started, for the privacy of our awesome mamas.

Please share this with any of your pregnant or postpartum friends.  This time in your / their lives is simultaneously the most important and yet the most challenging time to turn inward and take care of your own body.  It can be done!  Watch to learn more.

In good health,

Tara

This one is for the ladies...

Ladies, listen up!  Wanna hear something that is so true and also so unfair?  Our biology is sexist! We may have come very far in the year 2016, but our bodies still think we should be barefoot and pregnant from an early age.  Ugh!  Accordingly, we are super-sensitive to energy deficits (too low-calorie, too low-fat, too low-carb) and nutritional stressors.  The body sees this as a threat to reproductive success!

““Nope, no babies during a famine. Let’s make your hormones all funky, make you become resistant to weight loss, lower your metabolism, and make you fatigued”.”

— Your body (if you've ever yo-yo dieted or taken in far too few calories for your needs.

Ok, so what does this mean for YOU?  It means you have to make small, incremental, sustainable changes.  It means you focus on the 'long game' just like your body does so it doesn't see the changes as a threat, but more like a new and comfy norm.  It probably means the results you see won't happen as quickly as you'd like, but it's the only way you can make a lasting change.  It also means your goals must creep into many different aspects of your life - nutrition, movement, stress management, relationships, self-confidence, feelings of fulfillment.  ALL areas of your life affect your relationship to your environment, your food, and the way you treat yourself.

So, that's why you can't just cut soda out and lose 10 pounds like your husband did.  (I actually get asked some version of that question just about every week).

Ladies - respect your biology, but please continue kicking butt and taking names in a very 2016-ish way.  <3

In health,

Tara

Should Women Lift Heavy?

I take a quick dive into this juicy topic in today's video.  Watch up!

Do you know any ladies that want to workout but are afraid of 'bulking up'?  Do you have anyone in your life that you believe would benefit from health talks, healthy recipes, family wellness info, etc.?  Send them this way!  

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