Aaron Zober welcomes registered dietician Laura Poe Mathes to his podcast. Laura explains how she sees benefited having learned both conventional nutrition and the functional nutrition with traditional foods which she practices now. A major principle of her current nutritional counseling is maintaining good gut health. She explains why she focuses a lot on the gut and how introducing foods you may not be consuming are a big part of healing it. Aaron and Laura discuss making nutrient dense foods yourself vs. buying them. They both agree we're seeing better options of real foods at supermarkets. Laura recommends eating all kinds of fermented foods, broths, organ meats, and digestive bitter. In the show, she delves into how all of these are key in your journey to a healthy gut.