Ep. 99: The Journey to Health & Finding the Right Practitioner with Samantha Lander

<p class="">Full shownotes: www.jessiefritz.com/blog/samantha-lander</p> <p id="yui_3_17_2_1_1628090636746_4471" class="">Today’s podcast is with the wonderful Samantha Lander! Samantha is a Functional Diagnostics practitioner, certified personal trainer, and holistic lifestyle coach who got into the field to take control of her own health. After years of struggling with how she was feeling, a few misdiagnosis and slipping into the world of drugs, Samantha’s story is so interesting to hear - not only on how she’s changed her own life and health, but how she’s helping others.</p> <p class="">I hope you enjoy this episode with Samantha!</p> <p class=""><strong>In today’s episode we chat about:</strong></p> <ul data-rte-list="default"> <li> <p class="">Samantha’s story growing up with chronic symptoms and misdiagnosis of IBS</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Finding out she was dealing with anxiety and hypothyroidism in college</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Junior year of college and entering into the music world as a DJ, she started partying and using drugs like meth to self medicate for how she was feeling</p> </li> <li> <p class="">She got into selling drugs after college and her life started falling apart where she ended up in prison for a few years</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Changing her life and becoming a personal trainer after prison, but she was feeling like crap all the time</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Finding out she had parasites, mold, candida and heavy metals (along with hypothyroidism)</p> </li> <li> <p class="">She got into the FDN world to help herself and also to help her clients</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Finding the right practitioners who will help you on your journey</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Both Jessie and Samantha understanding and working through body dysmorphia and eating disorders</p> </li> <li> <p class="">Struggling with strict, extreme elimination diets and how those can affect our healing</p> </li> <li> <p class="">The REAL difference in working with someone in functional medicine vs. western m