Today, I sat down with Helene Leeds and Penelope Popken, mom and daughter who both struggled with their health and weight. In this conversation and interview with mother and daughter we discuss what lead to Penelope's struggle with weight, as she was 15 and 350 pounds and how she tried every diet, and how the quick fixes didn't help. We speak about weight loss drugs like Ozempic and how losing weight does not have to be with drugs.

In the interview with Helene, we take a deep dive into her past with food and how she grew up in a home with dysfunctional eaters. Both learned that food addition is real and it was the patterns that contributed to their unhealthy lifestyle.

Since Helene and Penelope have had to overcome their individual struggles with unhealthy eating and obesity, they have started the Step it Up program to help other women in their position. After failed attempts at diets, injections and pills they are on a mission to help everyone learn how to nourish their bodies more deeply to live their best life!

Visit Helene and Penelope's websiteshttps://www.getstepitup.life/stepitupaccountabilitygroupCheck out Palmetto Integrative medicine as we help women with obesity, gut health and we get to the root cause of chronic disease. You can set up a 15 minute discovery call.

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Today, I had the pleasure of having Jeff Hoehn, an online coach that helps busy professionals over the age of 30 with body composition, building muscle and improve long term health. Jeff has over a decade of experience with helping men and women build muscle, drop fat and overall help people feel great! Jeff has his master's degree in human performance, Nutrition, Functional Nutrition and metabolism specialist. He is also a Certified strength and conditioning coach. Jeff also has a podcast called The Mind Muscle Connection.

Our conversation covered:

1. Why you should not be in a calorie deficit for a long period of time.

2. How to get your metabolism to adapt back from being in a calorie deficit.

3. Reverse diets and how to approach them.

4. Strength training, how many days, what you should do and how it can be different for everyone.

5. Calories in and calories out.

6. Sleep and how important it is for recovery

7. Hormones and stress and how it play a roll on inflammation.

You can find Jeff on Instagram instagram.com/jeffhoehn_/and follow him on his podcast The Mind Muscle Connection.

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On today's episode, I take a deep dive with Dr. Larry Wilson, OBGYN for 25 years delivering babies and now has a practice that helps women and men feel their best with Bioidentical Hormone replacement therapy. Dr. Larry Wilson and his wife, Dr, Susan Wilson have a practice called the Charleston Healthspan and help many people start to feel human again with HRT. We talk about

1. HRT and how when we lose estrogen it effects our brain and heart health. How low estrogen causes anxiety and depression.

2. Debunking the myth that HRT can cause cancer.

3. The difference between Bioidentical hormones and synthetic .

4. Lifestyle choices and how they play a role into your health and how you can support your hormones

5. How in medical school that do not get the proper education on HRT or how to help holistically to balance out the hormones.

While we know that as we age our hormones decline especially once we hit menopause, but we do not have to feel that way and hormones are actually helping people feel normal again. For all the women out there, we hit perimenopause in our early 30's and from there our hormones slowly decline.

If you are struggling this episode is for you.

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Home - Charleston HealthSpan Institute

In today's episode, I talk about Q&A's that I often get asked. Are you tired of getting mislead information or are you confused about what is health and what is not. I will tell you that one lifestyle or diet is not a one size fits all and you have to do what is best for your body. But I will tell you in this episode, I clear a lot of mis information up when it comes to creatine, when you should take it, how much protein to get, what macro percentages should be at, how to fast and when to fast the loner fasts, are eggs causing high cholesterol and do I eat before a workout.

Some of my go To's and brands I use

creatine: Creatine Monohydrate Powder - NSF Certified For Sport – MomentousElectrolytes : All flavors — Ultima ReplenisherProtein: ALLISONPAVONE (Get 15% off with my code)

Real Food to Fuel Your Body – Equip

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Welcome to my show, my name is Allison Pavone, and I am a Holistic Health Coach This podcast is designed to educate. empower and inspire you all to achieve your health and wellness.

Today, I had the honor of having Dr. Porcelli on my show, a biological dentist who practices integrative medicine. Biological dentists look further to the root cause of oral health and why people get symptoms of chronic illness. Dr. Porcelli's patients learn about nutrition, gut health and its connection to chronic disease.

Today we talk about what biological dentistry is.

Why he became a biological dentist.

The conversation between root canals and how root canals can become infected overtime and cause Autoimmune disease.

The importance of the microbiome and how gut health plays a roll into our oral health and brain health

Why you should not, or your family should not take fluoride.

Also, what type of scan you should have in order to see 3 dimensional images

You can find a Biological dentist at IABDM - Professional Dental Organizationor The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology - IAOMT

When looking into finding a biological dentist be sure to check their credentials when it comes cosmetic, and surgery as well as dentistry.

www.biologicalcenterfordentistry.comYou can follow Dr. Porcelli on his Instagram and FB page

Insta BiologicalCenterForDentistry

FB  BiologicalCenterForDentistry

Remember, this is not intended

Once again, if you like this podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcast. You can also share and subscribe so I can help as many people as possible with their health and wellness.

Welcome back to my show where I try and give the best content for health and wellness. I hope these episodes inspire and empower you to become the best version of you. Today, I would like to welcome Jessica, my client, to my show to talk about how amazing she transformed from the inside out, but also to be inspired by her story. Jessica is a flight attendant that does not have much consistency with her schedule, but she maintained a lifestyle and still continues.

This episode is to inspire someone and to show you that consistency is key to success. But also, no matter what is going on in your life self-care is a choice and Jessica choose her regardless of the obstacles in her way.

This is an episode you're not going to want to miss and once again please put a review on Apple podcast as well as share it so I can help as many people as possible with living a healthy lifestyle.

Hormones are the balance of our entire system and when we go through perimenopause which can start around age 35, our hormones start to decline slowly eventually leaving us without our hormones such as estrogen, progesterone and testosterone. Dr. Larry after 25 years of delivering babies, him and his wife, Susan, have dedicated their practice to focus on women with hormonal shifts and the sages of menopause.

This conversation will defiantly clear some misinformation about HRT and the importance of HRT. Symptoms, when you should start looking into HRT and the benefits of HRT.

Dr. Larry Wilson and Dr. Susan Wilson have an office in Charleston, Georgetown and Myrtle Beach. Their practice is called the Charleston Healthspan Institute.

If you are looking for a Healthcare provider that specializes in hormones, follow the link below to find a provider near you. Also, make sure they specialize in Bioidentical Hormones.

The Menopause Society | Homepage

Darren G. Candow, Ph.D., CSEP-CEP, is Professor and Director of the aging Muscle and Bone Health Laboratory in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina, Canada. Dr. Candow has published over 90 Peer-refereed journal manuscripts. Dr. Candow serves on the editorial review boards for the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, Nutrients Frontiers, Advanced Exercise and Health Sciences and as a Scientific Advisor for AlzChem.

Research https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=iUYFaeoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdatehttps://www.instagram.com/dr.darrencandow/?hl=enIn this episode we discuss:

What are the benefits of Creatine

Who is creatine best for, and if it is safe.

The best dose amount

Can taking creatine improve your mental and bone health.

Debunking the Myths of Creatine

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Today, I am excited to have Dr. Scott Sherr, a board-certified internal medicine physician. He is the COO of Troscriptions a company that sells pharmaceutical grade supplements to help support energy, focus, stress, sleep and immune support.

Our conversation focuses on the Gaba system, the parasympathetic nervous system and how Gaba and it's iteration with progesterone is important. We also talk about how stress plays a role and how we are always in a fight or flight (sympathetic response) due to demands of life, ultra processed foods, mitochondria and gut health and how this plays a roll on the Gaba and how holistic approaches can help you get calm and, in the rest, and digest phase.

In this episode you will learn:

1. How Gaba calms the neurons and regulates information processing.

2. The link between Gaba deficiency and conditions like depression, anxiety, insomnia, ADD or ADHD

3. How progesterone increases Gaba and how we go through menopause and lose progesterone. Why we wake up at night.

4. Ways of calming the nervous system down and doing medication or breath work. Different lifestyle strategies.

5. Why Gaba supplements are not working and if they are you may have leaky brain or gut.

6. How methylene Blue enhances mitochondria function and that women that can't get HRT this may be an option to help with supplements from Troscriptions.

You can follow Dr. Scott Sherr on Instagram @drscottsherr

@troscriptions and @onebasehealth

You can also inquire about his supplements at

Just Blue™ – Troscriptions®

You can follow me @livingmybestlifecoaching on Instagram and Face Book.

Again, this podcast is to educate and empower you to achieve your health and wellness goals. My goal is to help you all gather the best information as possible so you can all live your best life.

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I am a mom of three, Holistic health Coach that has a passion to help women who are struggling with fatigue, nutrition to balance their hormones, habit change, becoming intutive to their bodies and helping women transform from the inside out,

Are you struggling to lose body fat over the age of 40. Hormones play a role in this for sure and we can't do what we did in our 20's in our 40's.

In addition, I talk about cardio and how cardio is good, but not a lot of cardio. Cardio helps us lose BF, but certain cardio like HITT training 2x's a week. Cardio like running miles only makes us lose muscle and creates our body to be in a stress state that does not help us. The more muscle we have the more Calories we burn in a resting state!

In this episode, I talk about cardio, carbs, listening to your body, nourishment, fad diets, stress management and how sleep cam impact losing BF.

Also, if you like this podcast, please leave a review on apple, like and share so I can help as many people as possible with their lifestyle and getting healthier.