When Nutrition Betrays You: What Your Body Does with the Junk It Can’t Use
- Kim-The Seasoned Lady
- Aug 10, 2025
- 4 min read
IMPORTANT: No one currently contributing to The Seasoned Lady is a health care professional. Rather, the information provided results from conversations with health experts, physicians and nutritionists, publically available resources and research, and personal experiences. PLEASE do your due diligence when making drastic changes in your health plan.
In the last post, we opened the door to what many are discovering to be an uncomfortable truth: most of what we’re eating these days isn't nourishing us—it’s overwhelming us. But what happens after we eat that box of “healthier” crackers or down that sports drink full of “essential vitamins”? Where does all that synthetic, lab-born nonsense go?
Here’s the short answer: your body doesn’t know what to do with it—so it tucks it away. And not in a cute little memory box, either.
Let’s walk through it, friends. HOWEVER, before we dig in...please take heart, because as part of this research and reporting back to you, we are bringing a variety of helps and resources. At the bottom of today's article are THREE FREE downloadable resources that you may find helpful. We don't want to point out problems without helping find solutions!
"First Steps To Whole Eating" checklist to use daily
"3 Ways To Eat Healthy" Week 1
1 simple recipe
The Body Is Smart… Until It’s Stumped
Your body’s beautifully designed to identify, absorb, and utilize nutrients from real food.
Give it a sweet potato, and it knows exactly how to turn that into energy and support for your muscles and brain. Give it a synthetic additive that pretends to be a vitamin, and your body raises a little eyebrow and says, “Excuse me, what is this?”
If it can’t use it, it has two options:
Try to flush it out (hello, overworked kidneys and liver)
Or store it somewhere to deal with “later”
Unfortunately, “later” usually means visceral fat—the dangerous stuff that wraps around your organs like a warm hug from a frenemy. It’s not just about appearance—this kind of fat actively contributes to long-term health problems. In effect, it smothers your organs in many ways.
The Calcium Crusade and Inflammation Nation
Sometimes, the body doesn’t store the synthetic leftovers in fat. Instead, it goes into warrior mode. It says, “If I can’t use it, and I can’t get rid of it, then I’ll wall it off and attack it.” That’s when we see things like:
Calcium buildup: Not the good kind for bones, but rogue deposits that the body uses to encase what it sees as threats. These show up in arteries, joints, even soft tissues.
Chronic inflammation: The body launches red and white blood cell attacks on these “invaders” over and over. The result? Inflammation becomes a full-time job for your immune system.
And let me tell you—when your body’s fighting its own storage bins, it has less time and energy to fight actual invaders like viruses, bacteria, and fungi. This is why so many folks are always sick, sore, sluggish, and wondering why their immune system seems to have taken early retirement.
The Immunity Trade-Off
Every moment your immune system is tracking and battling synthetic materials, it’s distracted from its real mission: keeping you well.
Think of it like this: You’re at home, trying to manage bills, groceries, and grandkids—and instead of focusing on that, you spend all day trying to chase raccoons out of the attic. You’re exhausted, and the real responsibilities pile up. Same thing happens in your body.
It’s not laziness. It’s misdirection. Your immune system wants to help—but it’s been buried under years of fake food, synthetic vitamins, and mystery ingredients we can’t even pronounce.
It’s Not Too Late To Embrace Real Nutrition
The good news? The body is incredibly forgiving. When we start feeding it real, whole foods—foods our great-grandparents would recognize—it begins to reset.
Inflammation can reduce.
The immune system gets to breathe and redirect its energy.
Fat storage begins to shift.
Energy returns, brain fog lifts, and symptoms start to ease.
You don’t have to be perfect. Just conscious.
Start small. Shift from boxed to fresh. Read ingredients. Choose what’s closest to the source. And above all, trust that your body wants to heal—it just needs the chance.
REMEMBER - THIS IS A JOURNEY - NOT A SPRINT. Our goal should be to start making replicable changes...changes that become new habits. And those don't happen overnight. BUT, the small, incremental changes you make WILL help your body to start healing overnight.
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More to come on how to begin that shift toward gentle, whole nourishment without shame, guilt, or overwhelm. (And don't miss the FREE resources below...keep scrolling 👇🏽
Because here at The Seasoned Lady, we believe in wisdom, not perfection—and friends, wisdom always starts with asking: Is this feeding me, or is it fooling me?
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