Root Cause Revival: Unlocking Kingdom Healing + Whole-Body Wellness with Margie Setterlof

In this powerful episode of Hope Unlocked, Kristin Kurtz welcomes functional nutritionist and lifestyle medicine expert Margie Setterlof, founder of Sunlight Health. Margie shares her inspiring journey from physical therapy to Kingdom-rooted wellness, blending holistic nutrition and faith-based healing. Margie equips women with 7 Kingdom Keys to radiant health, identity restoration, and spiritual breakthrough. Tune in to discover how surrender, detox, and supernatural wisdom unlock lasting healing.

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Website - www.sonlighthealth.com

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Hope Unlocked
• 3:14 From PT to Functional Nutritionist
• 10:54 Early Health Journey and Evolution
• 20:45 The Shattering Loss and COVID Battle
• 28:36 Kingdom Health Principles Revealed
• 34:26 Client Success Story: Susan's Transformation
• 42:07 Thyroid, Hormones and Cell Reception
• 46:28 Sunlight Health and Closing Prayer

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:16

Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm your host, Kristen Kurtz, and I'm also the founder of New Wings Coaching. I help and empower wildhearted and adventurous women of faith feeling caged and stuck, unlock their true purpose and potential, break free from limitations and thrive with confidence, courage and hope. If you're curious to learn more about coaching with me, head to newwingscoachingnet and be sure to explore the show notes for ways to connect with me further. Get ready to dive in as we uncover empowering keys and insights in this episode. So tune in and let's unlock hope together. Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host. I pray this episode is like a holy IV of hope for your soul. Please help me. Welcome my sweet friend, Margie Sutterloff to the show. I am so thrilled to have her here today. I feel like it's been a long time coming, but we know that his timing is perfect and I cannot wait to have her share her story and what she's up to these days. So, Margie, would you be open to sharing a little bit about yourself before we get started?

Speaker 2: 1:18

Well, absolutely, kristen. Thank you for having me on your podcast. I'm honored to be here, so I appreciate that. Yeah, I will share just a little bit of background. I've been a physical therapist for multiple years and most recently I really just moved more into being just a functional nutritionist and what I call a lifestyle medicine expert. Just because of my journey that I've been on and where God has called me to be, so it's a really good space to be in at this point in my life.

Speaker 1: 2:03

Yes, well, so you went from physical therapist to tell me again the. I love the title you have.

Speaker 2: 2:08

A functional nutritionist I. I went back and got my master's in holistic nutrition when I was 50 years old, back before, before anybody was doing any of this, and I was kind of paving my own path and kind of they didn't have, we didn't have Google to look things up in, and so I sort of had to just do it on my own. I, you know, I realized that traditional medicine wasn't wasn't going to cut it for the people that I was working with. You know they were a lot of. These women were struggling with chronic issues, chronic pain, just a lot of chronic diseases that they were. Chronic pain, just a lot of chronic diseases that they were.

Speaker 2: 2:45

I was seeing them on the rehab side of everything. I wasn't able to really see healing going on in them. So that's when I knew that there was so much more to the healing journey than just simply traditional medicine. We need it but we don't want with the chronic condition. So that's why, you know, the Lord had me go back and and just I studied all about it without the, without the credentials, until he finally said, okay, open that door. But like you said, there was hardly anybody doing this way back then. So I've learned a lot along the way this way back then.

Speaker 1: 3:26

So I've learned a lot along the way, but that was the. That was Hmm, wow, such a such a pivot um that he had you take, was there? I mean, was there any hesitation to go down that road at all?

Speaker 2: 3:38

I just knew that, I I knew that this is where he called me and I just it just made sense yeah, it just made sense to do it. And because I was always interested in natural things from the get go, even even you know, in my younger years, and even even when I was practicing physical therapy, it was I was always had a bend towards the natural. You know, what can we do that would be healthier? What can we do to? Even in, you know, my, when, my, even when my kids were little, I, I was kind of one of those crunchy moms way back when before it was popular.

Speaker 1: 4:13

Yes, well, I love that, like I, you know, see you as like a trailblazer, obviously, and I have to highlight that you like started this, you know, educational journey at 50,. You like started this, you know educational journey at 50, right, yes, yes. So I want to highlight, if anybody's listening out there.

Speaker 2: 4:32

It's never too late, that's true. It's never too late, right.

Speaker 1: 4:35

Yes, wouldn't you say that a lot of people, um, you know, I I just think of kids, you know, going to college and like, hey, you need to figure out what you're doing with your life. You know, people just get so boxed in, like at a young age, and then I don't know about you, but I just feel like there's so many people that are just miserable. And you know they went to college when they're 18.

Speaker 2: 4:58

And you know it's 20 years later and they're just like yeah, I think it's about listening not just to, not just to your heart, but listening to the Lord. I think that's really the key is is not just going through the motions and feeling like there's no way out. Right, because there always is there. There's a way out if you, if you are called to do something. You know the Lord will show you, and sometimes you have to.

Speaker 2: 5:26

Now I will say that I have physical therapy in my blood. I mean, I love being a physical therapist because I loved helping people. I just knew there was more to it. So it wasn't like I was not in my calling at that point in time, because I was. He was just taking me into the next level and, um, something I was going to say about that um, in terms of of growing in that, um, I forget now exactly what it was. It was on my heart there, but it'll come back anyway. It was.

Speaker 2: 5:56

It's about just staying in the stage of, in the phase of life that he has you, and so, oh, I know what it was going to say. Sometimes you have to stay in something while you start something else, but you can't. He won't open doors unless you take that step. So, in other words. I knew that traditional medicine wasn't going to be my end road, but I stayed in it while I opened up other doors because I had to pay the bills, so you know. So I stayed there, knowing that my heart was really being pulled into the natural health. And then and then I, just as I stepped more and more into that, he opened more and more doors and then it just was one of those processes where I could just finally leave and just do the natural healing in and of itself.

Speaker 1: 6:47

Yes, well, I love that you noticed that too. It's not like everybody ejects right yeah On the path, and some do, others don't, and I love that you were able to just really recognize that this was obviously the Lord was calling you to the more right. And I think sometimes and I don't know about you, but I'm not one who can like be on one track I feel like I'm kind of multi-passionate. Would you say that about yourself as well?

Speaker 2: 7:22

Oh, yes, yes, and sometimes that drives me crazy. Sometimes I think, oh my gosh, you know I have to stop. Okay, yeah, I just have to let it all go for a while and then pick it back up because, yes, I do, I have multiple interests, I have multiple ways that the Lord has called me to share with people. And you know, also, I think I find it interesting that along our path he prepares us for the next phase and he just gives us opportunities to learn and grow. And then sometimes we look back and we go oh, that's why I was going through a certain thing, because now it's coming back to help me, but in a way that is much more suited for the kingdom work that he's called me to, even though I may not have understood what I was going through at certain times.

Speaker 2: 8:20

So, and he did that with you know, he did that with this, with, with what his my professional calling, or I call it. I say it's a professional calling, but really it's. It's a business ministry, it's a business Business ministry. Yes, Because it's never felt like work, you know, it's never felt like it's something that that I had to do, it's something that I've just been called to do. So I've always loved. I've loved that mission, but he has. There have been times along the way that you know the peaks and the valleys and you can't go through those peaks unless you've just struggled through the valleys and walked through the fire, and and that's, that's the things that that that he's, that he's taught me along the way.

Speaker 1: 9:10

Yeah, well, I know, like actually the first season for Hope Unlocked was called Voices of Hope from the Valley and it was really. It's been beautiful because this season and last season has been launching pioneers and I really believe that like there's an aspect of you know I had a conversation with somebody yesterday and how you know so many of us who walk through a lot, um, I find it rare to come across to anybody that has been through a lot and isn't then turning around and helping people.

Speaker 2: 9:45

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 9:46

Would you say as well.

Speaker 2: 9:48

Yes, and I also feel like, yes, I totally agree with that. I think we have to be, we have to be refined by the fire and and we can, we can help people. But I think once we experience what it means to really surrender, that's what he can truly use us to to our greatest, his greatest advantage. And you know that. That's you know, I guess. I guess, from my perspective, health and healing has always been important to me. It's been one of those things that I think I don't know if I mentioned this today yet or not but even as a child, you know, I was not a very healthy child my mother would put messages in my head that you know that she told me I was a sickly child. It's like, well, ok, well then, guess, maybe I am, and so I would come down with colds and flus and and all those types of things. As a child. It's like, well, okay, well then, guess, maybe I am, and so I would come down with colds and flus and and all those types of things as a child, because I was never told I was, because that's what I was told that you're going to catch cold if you don't wear your coat. You know, those are things that I guess lots of moms would probably say that, but just the power in the word, power in the spoken word, over our health is huge, and so that's kind of what I had to break free from that in terms of when I got into going into physical therapy. I think one of the reasons I got into that in the beginning was because, well, I don't want to be unhealthy and I want to know, I want knowledge about how to, how to be healthy, and at that time that's all I knew, you know. So let's go, let's study this, because that would be, that would be, and then it was perfect. It was exactly what I needed.

Speaker 2: 11:35

Like I said before, I got to the point where the Lord was ready to grow me into the next, the next era of it. So that's when I realized that you know helping people with their food, and that's where the nutrition certification came in helping people eat better. And that was level one of my growth, you know, and so I, because I taught myself how to stay well with food and I learned that early on and I just started sharing that with others. And then the next level of that was really watching how my parents didn't age well, they did not age well. They were on lots of medications. But again, that was that generation your doctor knows everything and they got caught in that cycle, that downward cycle or spiral of getting on more and more medications. And so, ultimately, they struggled and I walked that path with them as they aged, while I was still. You know, I was, I was working in, I was, I had a natural health practice on the side, of course, back then.

Speaker 2: 12:39

But I was walking them through these, through this journey of end life, and really saying to myself okay, lord, this is not how I want to age, I don't want this. But I learned so much by walking that journey with them, and it was more about learning the root causes of things, just understanding more a depth of what it was. And so to me that was okay and I was doing what I was called to do, but the real challenge in terms of health and healing hadn't happened yet. That happened a little bit later, but, but we learned. We learned from what we go through, what we don't want and what we do.

Speaker 1: 13:22

So right, absolutely, and, as you know, like I'm walking through, you know things with my own mom and my dad passed away about eight years ago, and I think it's so interesting because I'm very holistic, you know functional medicine, naturopath minded, partly because you know, probably similar to you, I've I was kind of thrown around the medical system, my kids were, I was seeing things that I was just not okay with. My eyes started opening again, having to go through some really challenging and hard experiences to then go wait a second. This can't just be it.

Speaker 1: 14:04

And to really start questioning what. What would you say was like one of those first indicators or something that you saw that you were just like there's got to like. This is not okay.

Speaker 2: 14:53

Well, I, you know I saw multiple. I saw it so often in people that are you asking me like, what did I see in terms of the traditional medicine, or in terms of what?

Speaker 1: 15:19

it was kind of that first eye-opening experience for you that kind of had you to start going down maybe a another road of looking into things right, like way back, like back back when we started the natural health.

Speaker 2: 15:27

Yeah, yeah, well, I would. I would watch, uh, people that I was working with people, a lot of people with low back pain, a lot of people with a lot of people with low back pain, a lot of people with a lot of arthritis, and you know, they would just have so much pain and I would even suggest to them why don't you stop eating sugar for a little bit, you know? And so they would do an experiment and they'd stop for three days and then, all of a sudden, they'd come back. Well, my back feels better, but what I wasn't seeing and I think the trigger on that is it wasn't supported by the traditional doctors.

Speaker 2: 16:06

I think that and that's not to say anything against traditional medicine per se but it's like there were things that I would like to brought to the table with some of my patients back way back then, but the medical community just poo pooed anything that might be a little bit different than the straight and narrow, and so I realized I didn't fit there anymore, because I knew I think there were, there were things. There were things that I think would have helped people, but but it wasn't, um, it wasn't accepted.

Speaker 1: 16:38

Yeah, yeah, and that's really challenging to kind of be boxed in and yet you know that there's alternatives to you, know you can tell people what to do in that box. But then you're like, oh my gosh, there's something like super simple, kind of like we were talking about that a little bit before we got started with simple, right, I've had. Well, it's like how much you know most people, I know I'm how much water are you drinking? You're getting migraines all the time. Yes, drinking any. And I'm like, well, you know not saying do this. But it's like, how about? What would it look like for you over the next week to try drinking like three glasses? You know to start simple, start slow. That's so true To see people be delivered of migraines just by drinking water. And guess what? It's free.

Speaker 2: 17:27

Yes, I love that. I love that. I love that, and that's exactly what I'm saying is that you know, the basic core things that our body requires is rest and water and good food and no processed foods, and these are things that, without that, our bodies are not going to be able to heal. You know, we've got to supply the body. The body is intelligent, the body wants to heal, the body knows how to heal, but it has to have the right elements in order to flourish and to thrive, and you know when. But.

Speaker 2: 18:02

But it takes. It takes responsibility and action on the part of the person to do it. And I've found a lot of times that if people are caught up in the, in what's traditional, then that they would say well, those things take a lot of effort and I would rather just go take a pill and or go get that shot in my back or just take the circle out. And so I've just realized that I've got to go. I've got to be where people want to. They want more and they want to, um, go in a different direction and and and so it got to be a little frustrating to to stay in that world. I gotta say that it because I was working with people, but I was and I was helping them physically. You know they were getting, they were getting off of the processed foods they were, they were drinking their water. They're doing all of that and I was seeing a lot of things happening for people.

Speaker 2: 19:16

Physically, they were getting better, but I didn't know what. I didn't know at that point. The Lord had something bigger for me, but I didn't even realize that because I was focusing mainly on physical health and I studied a lot of things about it and I knew how to do certain things and detoxing, and I knew how to do all that, but I only knew it from the physical perspective. But what happened, what happened in 2019, was what really took me to the next whole, next level, and it just took me totally by by surprise.

Speaker 2: 20:04

That Lord had he I looking back, I know that this happened because he wanted me to grow and he really wanted to take me into this next level. But but what happened was that in 2019, my life basically was shattered because my, my, my son, who was 40 years old, he suddenly passed from from a cardiac arrest and it was just very unexpected and it was the grief was was so overwhelming that I didn't really know I couldn't even breathe for weeks. I couldn't either, was I've never experienced. I hope nobody ever has to experience what that is, but it's it's grief at the level that I couldn't even explain.

Speaker 2: 20:53

But it was working, it was doing something to my body obviously in a very negative way, but I didn't recognize that it was the again. I can't even explain how devastating that was during that time and all I did I wanted to do nothing but seek God during that time because I was so desperate that there was, there were no other answers. I know that when sometimes, when this happens, women seek other people or they or they don't know God and I don't know how many gets through this without it but but at that point in time I couldn't do anything but seek the father's face and so. But on top of that, we went right into COVID and I struggled with a very, very severe case of COVID, which then ended up with some residual health issues that took place. I had, you know, very severe fatigue for quite a while, unrelenting, what I would call unrelenting hormone shifts and just many, many gut-related issues that I had never experienced before.

Speaker 2: 22:07

So all along before Ben's passing and before all the things that happened with COVID, I was pretty healthy. I thought I was, and I never really struggled with much of anything. But this was a new experience for me. I was feeling what a lot of my clients were feeling and I think the Lord allowed me to go down that path so that I could learn what I needed to learn. But, you know, nothing was working. Nothing in the natural that I had known before was working, and so I was just getting worse and I could not get the symptoms under control until it was the surrender was, it was the surrender and it was. It was surrendering everything to him. You know, surrendering my child, which was the bigger, biggest thing I'd ever had to ask to surrender, but then just surrendering my health, surrendering it all to him and asking him to show me what's it going to take, and but, yeah, it was the stress of the grief that really took me down that, that, that path.

Speaker 2: 23:20

What he showed me at that during that time, he showed me what kingdom healing really means and what it's all about, and he downloaded seven kingdom keys to, to, to what we call kingdom health principles, and so I learned that. I learned a lot more about how to do some functional medicine lab testing. I learned much more about how to truly detox the body, how to cleanse the liver, how to cleanse the gut, and so it was a combination, and out of all of that, he really showed me what he gave me the vision of what we now call radiant health freedom. And that's where the freedom in becoming who, the best version of who God created us to be, comes from, first of all, surrendering it all to him and allowing him to be the healer, be and change who we are, who we, who we are on the inside, so that we can walk in that true health and that he's provided for us. So that's that was really.

Speaker 2: 24:25

That was six years ago, and so he's been taking me now from one step to the next. He's been taking me now from one step to the next but helping me actually put his supernatural healing on the natural health practice that I had for years. But now it's now. It's all about him and seeking him and surrendering all to him in order to really walk in that freedom. And I just, you know, I, just I I I'm so honored to help and talk with women about what it is that their identity and not allowing their pain and their suffering to be their identity and to be able to work through whatever barriers they have to walking in that radiant health that he's called us to.

Speaker 1: 25:08

I don't know if that makes sense, oh my gosh, so much goodness I mean I'm thinking about, like you know, I often say like listen in. You know, listeners, this is a key and I love how I love keys too.

Speaker 1: 25:22

So at the scope unlocked, like she was given seven keys to really help women specifically walk radiantly and live life abundantly. And I will say like, if you guys could see her, she is a radiant one, like he shines through her. And again, like you've walked through a lot these last six years and you still have like the joy and the peace of the Lord and you know that you've been with him.

Speaker 2: 25:54

Yes, it's that joy. I don't think I ever understood what true joy was until I knew what true pain was, because they're so, they're so opposite. But that's why I and I didn't think I'd ever smile again and I felt guilty about I'd ever smile again and I felt guilty about feeling good again. But then the joy wouldn't be there if it weren't for the Lord. And he has been so faithful and so good to bring me through all that so that I could have a sort of a renewed purpose and desire to help women, whether they've been through that type of a grief or you know, because there is, there is life after that. Whether it's that or whether it's.

Speaker 2: 26:39

They may not have suffered the same trauma, but whatever it is has affected their health. It's keeping them from what he's called them to do. It's been, it's a. It'll get a hold of you and it'll take you down. If you don't, if we don't recognize what that root is and tip it in, most often it's a spiritual or emotional root, because the physical manifestations are typically negative, just a result of what's going on in our mind and in our stress levels and in the spiritual level and all of that. And so that's the gift that's come from the pain that I've gone through is being able to help others see that in themselves and help them break through some of those things that hold them back.

Speaker 1: 27:33

Yeah, well, I know, like both of us being, you know, coaches and ones who come alongside others, we both have confidentiality right. So, without like giving any names or full details, would you be open to sharing a testimonial of somebody that you've walked alongside that could be kind of in a general sense, without giving it away? Is that possible?

Speaker 2: 27:57

Oh, yes, I, yeah, I I have there. There is a we'll. We'll call her Susan because that's not her name, but if I, if I use that name, then we'll be fine. Yeah, susan, uh uh came to me a couple of years ago and she was really struggling.

Speaker 2: 28:17

She couldn't lose weight, no matter what she did. You know, it was just a total struggle and she was quite a bit overweight at the time. She couldn't, she was on medications, she had a lot of chronic pain, a lot of digestive issues, just a lot of, a lot of what we, what I see often in in midlife women, but the, but she was stuck, I mean just really stuck. Energy level was down, and so so we just put her, we, we, we, we put her on a path, first of all, to just help her understand who she is and get her, get her solid in her identity and and as as a woman, as a daughter, as a child, as a child of God, and and help her with that identity, knowing that, you know, jesus has paid it all. And it was about walking through, walking out her healing. Not that she wasn't healed, not that she and she wasn't broken, she, she just needed to walk into her healing.

Speaker 2: 29:17

So she, yeah, so she. We got her off of sugar. She, at that point, in the beginning, she didn't know that. She didn't know what was what was bad, and I wouldn't not bad. That's not the right choice of words. Thank you, lord, for changing me on that.

Speaker 2: 29:33

Foods that would fuel and heal her versus foods that were inhibiting her healing. So we talked about all of that and it was a new concept for her. She didn't know she couldn't have fried foods, she didn't know what was good and what wasn't. So we helped her get her nutrition under control, and that was hard because she didn't have a lot of family support. So I think that's another thing that I want to make sure people women realize is that this can be done even if the rest of your family isn't on board with it. You know, it's our own bodies, where bodies are the temple, and even if it's done in simple steps, it doesn't all have to happen at once, and that's what this took to almost two years before she, and it doesn't take everybody that long. So I'm not saying that full healing takes that long, but, but, but for but. There were challenges along the way. So I got her eating well and then we worked on the gut, the gut health, and getting her digestion cleaned up, and that was that was not not not that difficult, but but that was the next step. And that was that was not not not that difficult, but but that was the next step.

Speaker 2: 30:38

And then the detoxing came and and I don't know about going into all this conversation, but not that it's personal to her, but but it may be more than we want to go but parasite cleansing and heavy metal cleansing and those are things that those are, those are very, very common. People don't realize how common that is and they think it's something that just people in third world countries have. But I would say, venture to say that 90 over 90 percent of people here that are walking around today have some type of parasites, some type of parasites plural, I should say parasites in their bodies and that is the, as I've been discovering and realizing later, that's the catalyst for a lot of diseases that we see as we age. So, bringing it back to the testimony for her, yeah, we got rid of an awful lot of parasites and it was a journey but it was so free testimony for her.

Speaker 2: 31:35

Yeah, we got rid of an awful lot of parasites and it was a journey but it was so freeing for her. And we worked a lot in the physical realm of at first with her because she wanted, she needed to see some results and so she felt so good and she dropped a lot of weight. But then what we noticed too is that she would get stuck. You know, her weight didn't drop more, things weren't working like they were. So we would tackle some of the what are the mindset blocks that were going on and what were some of the spiritual blocks. So the Lord really helped her walk through areas that she needed to let go of. And it was like again peeling back layers of the onion. And we didn't force it, we just when the time was right, she was ready for that next level of healing.

Speaker 2: 32:22

So she is such an absolute beautiful woman. She walks with the Lord. She knows now how to let things go. She knows how to heal her body from a physical, emotional, spiritual level. She's she's just, and you know we she's just the. She's really been a perfect example of how radiant health can just blossom up from the inside when you, when you follow what the Lord has for you and and and follow his leading.

Speaker 1: 32:51

Yes, and I mean, I can only imagine like how, how you know, we all know this when you're feeling well, you are more likely to go do the thing you're called to do, or you know oh yes because when you're not feeling well, I mean it's. I haven't been sick since 2022, but back then I was sick for a little while. I didn't want to talk to anybody, I just wanted to hide.

Speaker 1: 33:16

And when you're feeling well, like you're, I mean, it's truly like John 1010. The thief came to steal, kill and destroy, but there's the other side of that. We can have life and life abundance. So, absolutely, she had quite a flip in her life that not only affected her, but it's like legacy. You're doing legacy work.

Speaker 2: 33:36

Oh, I love it Because, yes, because it'll pass on. You know she'll pass that on to her family and she already is. She's already got people do that. And so something you said, chris, is very, very profound and it's like I want to piggyback off of that. Said something about. Said something about you know, health being healthy is not the absence of disease, it is the, it is it's. We want optimal health, you know, and that's what.

Speaker 2: 34:07

That's where the John 1010 does come in. It's like the enemy doesn't want us, the enemy's happy if we're just not feeling disease in our body but we're not actually walking in true health and abundance. And there is a difference. And so that's one thing that I think in traditional medicine, well, if nothing's showing up on your labs, then you're well and you're okay, because there's nothing that can be done until quote, disease shows up. So they'll tell you just go and do that, do what you're doing.

Speaker 2: 34:40

But if you really want optimal health, it's it's so much more than just the absence of disease or the or, the or or or something's. You know, things showing up normal on a lab, because you can still be quite, things can still not be well with you and your labs can look okay. So that's another. Another area that I've I like to help women understand is that your labs don't tell you everything, but they can tell you more than what, what you're getting right now. You know that a lot of times we read more things into those when we look at them from a functional standpoint.

Speaker 1: 35:16

Yeah, I remember, just even for myself, back after I had my oldest son he'll be 20 this summer. You know I was just dealing with some things. You know postpartum, you know all these different things, and immediately and I was still not, I would say I'm awake now, that's my way to put it. You know more awake to to what's going on in this world, especially in the medical realm, and, um, you know, the first thing they said was oh well, you have depression and anxiety. And I didn't even question, I just wanted to feel good. So they're like pop a pill. Well, come to find out.

Speaker 1: 35:52

You know, somebody, thankfully, had said you have, you had your thyroid checked. And I was like I don't even know what a thyroid is. And you know, of course they do. The labs, and you know, put you on a pill and not saying anybody who's on pills. You know, please hear me on this Like we all make choices and but they didn't. You know, I didn't know that there was more than three things to read on the labs. There's more, more to go deeper on, especially like I'm speaking just of thyroid right here. So that was kind of like one of my awakening moments back in that time. Um, and I love like the functional side of things, because they don't, the numbers are different, right, like as far as that goes, would you? I feel like a lot of people have thyroid issues.

Speaker 2: 36:41

Yes.

Speaker 1: 36:42

Literally like so many people have been coming to me lately and I'm like, would you be willing to just even talk a little bit about how you look at things?

Speaker 2: 36:50

Yes, I would. Um, I thank you for mentioning that, and and yes, and with uh, typically, when you go to the doctor, when you go to your annual checkup, the doctor will order your TSH, that's your thyroid stimulating hormone. It's really not a thyroid hormone, it's a brain hormone, but that's what the that's what the baseline is that they look at, and that's that's just like looking at the tip of the iceberg. That doesn't tell us really anything about it. So, yes, when we order a thyroid labs, we always order the full panel, the T4, the T3, the free T3, and then the antibodies that will tell us whether there's an autoimmune condition going on. So that's much more.

Speaker 2: 37:35

It's a clearer picture of the thyroid. However, one thing that we have to remember is that there are other hormones that affect the thyroid as well. The thyroid and the adrenals are intimately connected, and so there's a different way to look at hormonal balance, and that's what I wanted to really mention is that many times, women will come to me and they'll say, especially midlife, they'll say my hormones are just all out of balance and my doctor says I need to go on hormone replacement therapy, and I need to know my doctor says I need to go on hormone replacement therapy, and so this is.

Speaker 2: 38:18

This is again in my world. It's like putting the cart before the horse. Nothing wrong with hormone replacement therapy if you need it, and that's that's so again, I want to make sure that we're saying it's not not anything that someone shouldn't be on. But what I encourage women to do is look at what's going on with gut health, what's going on with our adrenals you know, as far as our stress is concerned what's going on with our detox pathways. Are they open? Are we?

Speaker 2: 38:53

Because if we work on getting the gut cleaned up, if we work on getting the liver cleansed and the cells more receptive, that's one of the biggest problems when it comes to the hormonal issues is that it's not always a problem with the hormone. It's a problem that the cell is toxic and cannot hear with the hormones. Hormones are messengers and many times the cells can't hear what the hormones have to say because they're loaded with toxins. So back to the key. The example of the key hormones. Like there's a, there's a receptor on every cell. That's fit, that fits a hormone.

Speaker 2: 39:32

And if that cell is blocked, if that keyhole is blocked because the cell is not healthy, then it again. It can't hear what the hormone has to say and it won't do what the hormone is there to do. So that's why we go back and we clean up the gut, we detox the cells and then we make them more receptive. So once that happens, the hormones especially like the reproductive hormones estrogen, progesterone, things like that they can be heard and then they're more effective and sometimes the symptoms that the women came with in the beginning are no longer there, because now the hormones have a voice. Basically, if you put it that way, Beautiful.

Speaker 1: 40:10

That makes sense. Yeah, they're happy hormones. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Whereas before they're like I call them, she moans, they're moaning, they're just like ah, she's moaning, that's right, that's right. I love it, but isn't it? It's so incredible and that's what I love so much about. You know the supernatural, you know I call it supernatural ways of healing.

Speaker 2: 40:37

Like it's. It's so fascinating, yes, and things are reversed in the kingdom. What we, what we think we need to do in to be healthy, is really the opposite in the kingdom. Yeah, you know, it's like, um, we think we have to medicate and really, what we really disease is really nothing more than either a lack, either overabundance of something that isn't healthy for the body or a lack of something that is so our bodies don't go around with lacking Advil. It's not a deficiency of Advil that our bodies need, it's just that's how we treat things. We treat the symptoms, but truly by getting to the root cause and really addressing that. That's where the true healing comes. And when we say root cause, we're talking both physical, emotional and spiritual, because that's the, that's where the surrender comes in and that's where the that's where the true lasting healing comes is when we get to that point in the, in the journey.

Speaker 1: 41:49

So much goodness. Wow, I think we need to have you back on again sometime. I would love that. So your business tree, tell us the name of it.

Speaker 2: 42:01

The business is called Sunlight Health, and the Lord gave me that after my son passed, because it was spelled sun S-O-N light, not sun as in sun in the sky S-O-N light, not sun as in sun in the sky. But it's really because I believe that his passion just for people was tremendous, and so I know that he lives on through this business and also the son of God.

Speaker 2: 42:40

I couldn't do this business if it weren't for Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit. Behind all of this so that's the name of the company is Sunlight Health and it's all I do everything virtual pretty much. I just I love. I love that that relationship building with people and getting to know them and what the Lord speaks to them and help them go from where they are to where they see themselves based on what God's shared with them, and it's a beautiful journey.

Speaker 1: 43:07

Yes, I love, I just love you dearly and there's so much goodness coming, so much expansion coming so you can work with people around the world. Is that right?

Speaker 2: 43:19

Yes, absolutely. That's what the beauty of Zoom and the Internet has opened up doors and opportunities all over.

Speaker 1: 43:29

Isn't that amazing? Well, what would be the best way for somebody to get a hold of you? And I'll be sure to put it in the show notes too.

Speaker 2: 43:37

Actually, the best way is they could just go straight to my website and go to the contact page, and it's very simple sunlighthealthcom, okay. Or I'm always on my email and that's margisett S-E-t at gmailcom, okay sounds good.

Speaker 1: 44:00

Well, um, you are such a joy and I'm so thankful for another voice in this world that is, you know, pioneering health. Who is? What I am so excited to see is um a system, flip, parallel systems that give people options, opportunities for supernatural wellness, healing right.

Speaker 1: 44:26

I can do many things on that, but I'm so thankful for you and as we close today, I just you know, as we were talking before this, I really do this for the one, and if you could just think of the one that's listening in today, is there something that you'd like to share over this person? Encouragement, any wisdom that you're led to speak over them, and then would you pray us out today?

Speaker 2: 44:50

Absolutely yes. I would just like to say that, regardless of your age or your stage in life, it is never too late to experience a healthy and whole body, soul and spirit. That is something you never want to give up on. Just never give up, because your freedom is right around the corner.

Speaker 1: 45:18

Yeah, yes, amen, so good, yes, margie. Well, would you pray us out? I feel like you're just speaking to somebody today, for sure.

Speaker 2: 45:30

Yes, I will Thank you.

Speaker 2: 45:32

Thank you, lord, for this opportunity to be a voice through Kristen.

Speaker 2: 45:38

Kristen is such a vessel for your glory and your goodness for everyone, and I just thank you for bringing her into my life years ago so that we could have this moment today.

Speaker 2: 45:53

And I thank you years ago so that we could have this moment today, and I thank you, lord, that you gave me a message to share. This is from you and I just know that. I pray that it has touched the heart of, like we said, at least one person, and I just pray now that, as these words go out, that they would be inspirational to whoever needs to hear them, that, knowing you and knowing that you are there for them and that you already paid the price for their health, all they need to do is surrender to you, and I pray that that is what, whoever it is that needs to hear, that. I pray that that is what they will do, and I also pray for everyone who has heard this podcast, that you would be their light, their radiance, and allow them to shine their light and know that it is from you, and we pray all this in Jesus' name.

Speaker 1: 46:56

Amen. Thank you, Margie. I'm so thankful for you and your friendship.

Speaker 2: 47:03

Thank you, Kristen, for the opportunity. It's been a joy, absolute joy.

Speaker 1: 47:07

Well, as we close today, I'm going to close with our Hope Unlocked anchoring verse, and it is may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing so that, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you may abound in hope, and that's Romans 15, 13. So, thank you again, margie, and thank you for being a brave voice. Who's setting so many free? I'll be back with another episode next week. Bye, bye-bye.