Yovana Mendoza started her Youtube channel and Instagram account about 6.5 years ago after she adopted a new healthy lifestyle. While the initial switch to her new found diet led her to feel amazing at first, she would later start to develop signs of health issues that would indicate that maybe her diet wasn’t working so well for her long term after all. In this episode, Yovana will walk you through some of the red flag signs she wished she would have listened to earlier on and encourages listeners to approach their healthy lifestyle with an open mind. 

In this episode you’ll learn: 

• How Yovana got started in the health world 
• What exactly a raw vegan diet is
• Why vitamin B12 and other supplements are so important for vegans
• Why the vegan diet didn’t work Yovana and how it affected her health
• About her experience developing health issues like amenorrhea, candida, etc during her last year as a vegan
• What SIBO is and how it caused her to change her diet to include animal protein
• What her vegan doctor’s recommended to help with her SIBO 
• What it was like for her to transition from a vegan diet to eating animal products 
• About the backlash she got from the vegan community when she changed her diet
• What exactly caused her SIBO
• How the vegan diet can lead to Candida
• Why eliminating processed foods is  the key, rather than eliminating protein 
• What Yovana ate to cure her SIBO and what she eats in a day now
• About how she buys her meat and tries to opt for the highest quality whenever possible 
• About the symptoms to look for 
• Yovana’s advice for listening to your body and finding what works best for each individual 
• Yovanas’ tips for those that decide vegan/vegetarian diets work best for them 
• What she looks for when purchasing animal products like eggs, fish, etc.
• Yovana’s thoughts on the recent documentary Game Changers 

Connect with Yovana: 

Youtube: Yovana Mendoza | Instagram @Yovana | Pinterest Rawvana