# @marjachow on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZfsr0bA85Z
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66604050-marjachow-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-12T18:07:10.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Marja Chow Nutritionist RHN, FDN-P (@marjachow) — https://gondola.cc/marjachow

## Caption

15 months postpartum🙃

Growing a human costs your body everything.

Minerals, hormones, thyroid function, blood sugar regulation.

And then you’re expected to just… bounce back. LMFAO 😂

Run a business. Show up. Actually sleep?😳

When your body is already so F-ing depleted.
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Conventional labs check if you’re basically "not dying"😝 

Whereas, Functional labs tell you why you feel like you’re barely surviving.

Functional labs found 👀 

✅that all my minerals were in the toilet. 🚽

✅They caught my subclinical thyroid issues.

✅And they flagged my blood sugar dysregulation (spoiler alert: insulin isn’t on the standard panel.🙃)

My story is postpartum burnout.

But yours might be 5 years of entrepreneur stress, a brutal launch season, or just years of running on cortisol and coffee.

The root cause looks different.

The wired and tired feeling? IDENTICAL.

I’m still building my health back — because holy sh*t, I grew a human.

But I wouldn’t be navigating ANY of this blindly (who has time for that?)

its 2026, not 1972.

We have data, friends.

And data changes everything.

Because fine doesn’t build empires. Optimal does🔥
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📩 Comment below DATA
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And I will send you info on the CORE 4 Labs we use to get REAL answers to whats acutually happening inside your body!
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#functionalmedicine #functionalnutrition #guthealth #htma #entrepreneur

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## Tags

guthealth, entrepreneur, functionalnutrition, functionalmedicine, htma

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