Welcome back to The Simplicity Sessions, I'm delighted that you’ve joined us today. My name is Jenn Pike, your host, registered holistic nutritionist, medical exercise specialist, the best-selling author of the Simplicity Project, and the creator of the women's revolutionary health program, The Hormone Project.

Today, I am so excited and honored to be interviewing one of my dearest friends and nutritionist, Julie Daniluk. Julie has been on the podcast before and today makes it extra special because we are the first podcast to be interviewing her all about her brand new book, which is actually her fourth book called Becoming sugar-free.

The work, research, and time that Julie dedicates to the craft and art of what she puts out there into the world is inspiring. 

So in this episode, Julie and I talk about the impact that sugar, processed foods, sweeteners, artificial flavors, and colors can have on our digestive system and how our digestive system is quite literally the foundation of where all other elements and factors of our health begin.

We also touch on Julie’s upcoming sugar-free program, starting this coming October 2021, that will delve into the emotional parts of sugar-free living and really support people step by step through a 30-day process with a live group so that people can feel that support throughout their journey.

You can find links to Julie Daniluk’s multi-platform services, as well as social / websites and publications below in the ‘Connect with us’ section of the show notes. You will also find below-linked info about our partners and recommended products to try.

If you have a question for me and my team, send it over to [email protected] or via Instagram at @jennpike and I'll do my best to share helpful insights, thoughts and advice. 

Here are the main topics of today’s episode:

• Introducing our guest, Julie Daniluk
• Jenn’s product recommendations
• Becoming sugar-free
• Digestion and sugar intake
• Sugar-free lifestyle
• Hormone stabilisation 
• Recipes
• Training your digestive system
• How do we break up with sugar emotionally?

Connect with us - 

Thank you for joining us today. If you could do me the honor of hitting the subscribe button, leaving a review and sharing this podcast with a friend or on social media tagging me when you do @thesimplicityproject on Facebook, @jennpike on Instagram, @simplicityjenn on Twitter, I would be forever grateful.

You can connect to this episode on iTunes, Spotify, or Stitcher by searching The Simplicity Sessions, or visiting www.jennpike.com/podcast.

To connect with Julie Daniluk and find direct links to her published works, programs, and supports, click here to go to her website https://www.juliedaniluk.com 

To follow Julie on social media, find her on Instagram @juliedaniluk and Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/jdaniluk 

Online work with Jenn: 

Register for my signature program The Hormone Project and work with me 1:1 to support your health, hormones, and more via the following link www.jennpike.com/thehormoneproject.

Sign up for The Synced Program to learn how to tune your body to the lunar cycle and acquire a multidisciplinary approach to balance your body in less than 30 minutes a day! 

Interested in registering for the upcoming Audacious Women program? Send us a message via our website at https://jennpike.com/contact/ 

To learn more about the products mentioned in this episode, visit the link I’ve shared on my Instagram @jennpike. There you can discover where you can purchase these products and how you can start to make them part of your everyday simplicity approach. 

Learn more about the products and supports I recommend from of our amazing partners 

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Quotes

• “In this book is I actually outlined twenty-five alternative sweeteners and some of them have naturally occurring sugars and other ones, other sweeteners are truly sugar-free”
• “There's really two levels here. The first level is let's get off of refined sugar and corn syrup. Cause those are the two evils we know are profoundly inflammatory and hormone-disrupting. And then past that everything else is on kind of a scale.”
• “Sucrose is also a double sugar - half fructose, half glucose.”
• “When I realized that my brain chemistry was so altered, that every day I give the sugar-free lifestyle, I actually have a joyful day where I feel calm and relaxed”
• “I know that as long as you are consuming the foods that hit the bliss point that are engineered to suck you in; It's very hard for you to intuitively know what your body wants and needs when you're trapped in that cycle of crisis.
• “Whatever you're addicted to, you're most likely intolerant to.”
• “This is really about our vitality and our health moving forward”
• “A FODMAP approach is a short-term for somebody in an acute situation”

Additional Information About Jenn:

Jenn studied and graduated with honors in Human Anatomy and Physiology with such a passion that it propelled her to continue her education over many years. Jenn is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Medical Exercise Specialist, Registered Yoga Instructor and Faculty of the Toronto Yoga Conference, Pre & Post Natal Yoga Expert, STOTT Pilates trained instructor, Twist Sport Conditioning Coach, Spin Instructor Crossfit Level 1 Coaching, among other certifications she got along the way. She is also a guest Holistic Expert for Breakfast Television, Global, CHCH, Rogers Tv and writes columns for STRONG Fitness Magazine, iRun magazine, Savvy Mom and contributes to Inside Fitness Magazine, The Toronto Star, and Sun. She is also a proud educator and ambassador to Genuine Health, Nature’s Emporium, and Juice Plus.

Jenn is a proud mama to two beautiful souls and her best teachers of life. She resides on Lake Simcoe in Keswick with her husband and two children.