Dr. Izabella Wentz

But I did require like 12 hours of sleep a night.

And I

Was just like, you know, I'd wake up tired.

I'd be tired all day and I had to drink like six cups of caffeine to get myself get like, you know, get my brain working and get myself through the day.

Finally, I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's after becoming a pharmacist and I went to some...

conference and it was like, oh, you're not supposed to sleep 12 hours a night.

And I was like, huh, is that interesting?

Finally pursued additional testing.

The Hashimoto's diagnosis came.

I was like, this is amazing.

Finally going to get on some medications to help me.

The medications helped a little bit.

So I went from sleeping like 12 hours a night to 11 hours a night.

I was grateful for that, right?

That helped.

And then also, but I still had the fatigue and I still had all these like digestive symptoms and acid reflux and IBS.

And so I went through a process of really discovering how to get back my own health.

And part of that was the gluten-free, dairy-free diet that your books were life-changing for me.

I was reading them when I was listening to audio books on my way to work.

And