Nutrition is one of the major pillars of our health. What we eat can translate to how good we feel, how fast we think, and how far we can go without rest. Because of this, many common illnesses can be attributed to nutrition gaps, and a simple nutrition plan can serve as a form of treatment. How do you know which foods can heal you? Are all the bad foods we see online really harmful to us? Brigid Titgemeier of BeingBrigid joins us to answer these questions.

Brigid Tigmeier is a registered dietitian who emphasizes on using nutrition over conventional drugs as a treatment option. She champions the idea of functional medicine because she once experienced being healed through dietary changes instead of prescription pills. She is also a health coach who has helped thousands of people transform their lives.

Brigid joins us to share how functional medicine helped change her life for the better. She discusses the time she saw functional medicine as a weird fad and the moment that ultimately made her pursue a career in it. She explains how simply going with diet trends is harmful and how people develop orthorexia because of it. Brigid also describes her thoughts on the ketogenic diet and why fat shouldn’t be consumed in excess.

 

“Nutritional interventions can create therapeutic outcomes.”- Brigid Titgmeier

 

This week on The Lab Report Podcast:

• What her path to functional medicine was like.
• How her parents intervened when she was diagnosed with narcolepsy.
• Why fixing a person's relationship with food can be a treatment option.
• The way she starts a conversation with her patient.
• Orthorexia and how she helps patients reintroduce foods.
• What she's considering regarding dairy, lactose, gluten, and other types of foods.
• Her thoughts on the ketogenic diet's popularity and its surge of followers.
• Should we be worried about increasing saturated fat intake?
• How she treats athletes who want to optimize performance through diet.
• The one mistake many athletes make and how to fix it.

 

 

Resources Mentioned:

• Peak Performance

 

Connect with Brigid Titgemeier

• BeingBrigid

 

 

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