Low Carb Mag July 2015 | Page 32

overdo that. I think we don’t have any balance with it but as a woman who is at least third generation bipolar and I’m really talking about this publicly now. Lately, I wrote a blog about it just after PaleoFx because I think there is so much shame about mental health. I think there’s so much shame in the Paleo community about needing medication when you need it. I needed to be medicated. It’s the only way that I can live a successful life but the beautiful thing is, I’m on a very low dose of medication because my lifestyle and my diet work in conjunction with my medication to help me have the mood balances that I need to have to function as a productive human being. I talk to people a lot about that. I think that there’s so many people that have a lot of thyroid issues and they come in to paleo hoping to deal with