The Body Wisdom Podcast

In this Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast episode, host Jamie Belz talks with fellow FNTPs (Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners), John Bridges and Kristy Corah, co-owners of Best of the Bone USA. Learn more about all things bone broth, from the abundance of health benefits to how to make bone broth at home (22:19).

Visit them at: https://www.bestoftheboneusa.com and use coupon code "NTA15" for 15% off sitewide.

Connect with them at: [email protected] and [email protected].

Note: This is not a paid sponsorship spot – these are just great people doing great things to promote wellness in the world.

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This episode of the Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast brings together host Jamie Belz, FNTP, MHC and Kristin Rowell, Founder and CEO of Energetically Efficient as they discuss Kristin's career journey from trial attorney to FNTP (Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner) and all things wellness. They discuss the gizmos, gadgets, and easy "to do" things - biohacking and habit stacking - in the pursuit of optimal wellness.

4:30 Running 25 marathons - using GU Energy Packets (The GU Packets - NOT recommended! Ha!)

5:30 Breaking her leg in ten places - wondering how it was possible - became interested in nutrition and researching nutrition - surgery - recovery - came back better than ever

9:20 Standard American Diet (carbohydrate heavy)

10:30 Learning about the Nutritional Therapy Association (NTA) and leaving her law practice to become a wellness practitioner

11:15 Wellness enlightenment - nutrition as the cornerstone of optimal health - craving more

12:14 Hydration as a simple first step for leveling-up your wellness

13:11 Kristin's Practice - Energetically Efficient - working with busy business professionals - "experiential learning"

16:30 Being a life long learner - brain health apps

17:50 Dr. Lindsey Berkson - HRT and learning about hormones - experimenting with a 30 day Carnivore Experiment - fasting

19:25 Habit Stacking and Biohacking

22:00 Where Kristin has all her clients start their fitness journey

23:22 Not just gizmos and gadgets - simple things you can do

25:40 Four fifteen minute walks and building lean muscle mass to increase insulin sensitivity

26:50 Sleep hygiene - melatonin production - blue lights

28:00 It seems overwhelming but it's about small shifts and common sense - grounding - being outside - being barefoot

30:41 Kristin's favorites (https://energeticallyefficient.com/kristins-favorites/)

31:19 Oura Ring vs Apple Watch for sleep tracking

32:30 Time management and prioritization of your health and wellness habits - hacks to incorporate to bring wellness habits into your busy schedule

40:10 Do a time audit - where do you spend most of your time?

41:45 Meditation and energy systems - silence the distractions - receive messages, satisfaction, and peace

49:55 Other resources Kristin recommends

Kristin's website: www.energeticallyefficient.com

Cynthia Thurlow's Everyday Wellness Podcast: https://cynthiathurlow.com/podcast/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everyday-wellness/id1435214303

Huberman Lab Podcast: https://www.hubermanlab.com/all-episodes

Huberman Lab Podcast on Alcohol: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/what-alcohol-does-to-your-body-brain-health

Huberman Lab Podcast with Dr. Mary Claire Haver (on perimenopause): https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-mary-claire-haver-how-to-navigate-menopause-perimenopause-for-maximum-health-vitality

Book: The New Menopause - Mary Claire Haver, MD https://energeticallyefficient.com/kristins-favorites/

Mastering Your World Through Frequencies Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mastering-your-world-through-frequencies/id1455797208

The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-joe-rogan-experience/id360084272

Mike Mutzel's High Intensity Health Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/high-intensity-health-with-mike-mutzel-ms/id910048041

The Ultimate Human Podcast with Gary Brecka: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ultimate-human-with-gary-brecka/id1709740887

53:14 Perimenopause symptoms and being prescribed SSRIs/anti-depressants and HRT

53:58 Dr. Lindsey Berkson on Hormones - "Let's Talk Estrogen"

55:14 ALL things work better with THIS!

58:00 Become an NTP! www.nutritionaltherapy.com

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This episode of the Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast hits a topic many parents can relate to. "Eyeball Tastebuds" - picky kiddos - and the conundrum that comes with blended families accommodating a variety of flavor palettes. The mealtime food fight can be a real problem and holds the potential to create unwanted and unnecessary conflict.

Mike and Jamie discuss various ways to address picky eating and share their experiences navigating this landscape with their five kids in their blended family while trying to avoid negative marital and familial consequences. Food should be nourishing, delicious, and FUN! It CAN BE when it's done with intentionality.

3:33 Blended-family mealtime challenges

5:15 You don't have to be a blended family to have food struggles in your home.

5:50 When to start picky eating prevention

6:32 The greatest gifts we have been given for enjoyment in life

7:35 Religion, politics, and NUTRITION?

8:50 Big Food marketing

9:45 What to do if you didn't start your kid with "picky eater prevention" when they were young

10:24 Mothers' guilt

11:54 Things to do for helping picky eaters expand their palettes

20:16 Jamie's trick for slow conversions to healthier options

25:05 What if, as a parent, I don't know how to cook?

26:28 Promoting a positive relationship with food - using foods a rewards and emotional eating

29:29 Behavioral issues - Are food dyes and sugar contributing?

32:01 It's okay to enjoy foods that may be less nutrient-dense as well. It's about balance and moderation.

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In this episode of the Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast, Mike throws Jamie a pop-quiz-style twist to the format as they dive into what's been coined "greenwashing" or "health halos" as the buzzwords Big Food uses to convince you to buy their foods because these words have become known to signify or indicate healthier food options. The problem is, the front of the package doesn't always align with what you see on the back when you flip it over to read the nutrition facts and ingredients.

06:03 - GLUTEN FREE

08:39 - Email Jamie for a link to a sourdough recipe that is actually easy to understand - [email protected]

10:20 - GRASSFED

18:47 - NATURAL

21:36 - ORGANIC

28:55 - LOW FAT or FAT FREE

29:21 - PLANT BASED

31:26 - SUGAR FREE (Sugar alcohols, sugar substitutes, aspartame, Stevia)

The cost of food has climbed exponentially with rocketing inflation over the past few years. Learn what these terms mean and the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to the marketing mayhem on our grocery store shelves. What's worth the spend and what's just a "greenwashing" money grab.

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Here's the link to the study Jamie mentioned regarding sugar substitutes and weight gain:

Pub Med Article: The impact of artificial sweeteners on Body Weight Control and Glucose Homeostasis

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7817779/

This episode of the Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast features Hunter Schwietz, a Certified Personal Trainer, a Corrective Exercise Specialist, a Functional Patterns Human Biomechanics Specialist, and the founder of Form First in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Hunter opens up about his own wellness journey and shares how he chased numerous physical symptoms down many rabbit holes with abundant research and expensive testing. He sought help from various allied practitioners before concluding that his "health ailments" were largely due to anxiety. Hunter describes his anxiety attacks and how they impacted him both mentally and physically, creating doubt, confusion, and frustration as a professional in the wellness space. Counseling, diet, and supplementation have helped Hunter in his personal recovery journey, but what really helped him was the tools and discipline he used for stress management. Hit subscribe!

In this episode, Jamie Belz, host of the Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast interviews the CEO of The Nutritional Therapy Association (and her husband), Mike Belz. The two discuss the various credentials available through the NTA, program changes made over the past few years, including the return of the FCA, the future of the NTA, health freedom, nutrition freedom, and government involvement.

4:13 – Mike details his career background in higher education, then crossing over into commercial realty just before the world shut down for COVID.

10:26 – Pandemic closures

12:34 – The NTP Program's impact on a family

14:37 – Changing your stars – three things

17:00 – Mike comes to the NTA, and things that have been done since

17:40 – Certification programs, NTA versus other nutrition education schools and programs (again at 50:15), non-profit versus for-profit schools, accreditation, shifts in post-secondary education system structuring in the past decade, school funding, predatory recruitment, federal funding, grants, overpromised career outcomes, admissions ethics

24:15 – NTP program re-structure, allied health associate and bachelor's degree program structures

27:12 – NTP (Nutritional Therapy Practitioner), FNTP (Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner), Health Coach (again at 37:29)

29:03 – Government control in nutrition education, two-year and four-year program possibility, funding, tuition, inflation, student loans, accessibility

32:50 – K-12 Public Funding, American Experiment Podcast

33:05 – Keeping the government out of it, CEO of Babylon Bee's talk on censorship was censored

34:24 – Direction of the NTA, students, graduates

41:51 – Nutrition, Politics, Religion

42:51 – Health epidemic

43:13 – Nutritional truth, legitimate scientists and doctors, special interest funded "science" versus veal science, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Media, Health Freedom, Nutritional Freedom, government/American Heart Association endorsement of Cheerios as "heart healthy" cereal

47:20 – It's not about looking good. It's about feeling good; then the aesthetics come along with wellness.

48:15 – Profit and corruption in nutrition

48:54 – "You are what you eat" – health at the cellular level

49:40 – Dead foods versus living foods, Raw Milk Mama

50:15 – NTA's competitors

54:44 – Healing through nutrition

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American Experiment Podcast – How Education is Funded

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This episode brings host Jamie Belz and fellow FNTP, Thomas Gilliford together for a very real conversation about food and wellness. They dive into all things from the perspective of thriving within the navigational beacons of the aggressive pursuit of optimal wellness and setting realistic expectations for functionality and quality of life.

Thomas covers his newly developed FCA (Functional Clinical Assessment) Program available to NTPs who desire to add the "F" on the front of their credential to make them FNTPs (Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners). This skill set, formerly called the Functional Evaluation, utilizes hands-on and lingual neural testing to help identify which nutrients and nutrient formulations are best for each person's bio-individual receptivity. This enables the practitioner to cut through the sea of options available when it comes to nutraceuticals and supplementation protocols to quickly identify which product is right for each individual's needs.

Their conversation continues to run through many aspects of navigating diet, supplementation, expiration dates and ultra-processed foods, alcohol, surgeries and prescriptions, sleep and stress, and other wellness inputs. They discuss the challenge of trying to balance rigid rules and expectations with being realistic and enjoying life.

Additional topics they touch on: eating out, alcohol, progression, EMFs, hydration, avoidance of surgery by incorporation of water, Lyme, Green Washing, Big Macs, glyphosate, dairy/milk, vegan/vegetarian, gallbladder removal (cholecystectomy), blind spots, trauma, grief,

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In this Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast episode, host Jamie Belz interviews Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, AIP Coach, Functional Blood Chemistry Specialist, and Author, Sonia Sidle.

Sonia, originally from France, saw a need for more resources and filled it by writing an AIP (Autoimmune Protocol) book in French.

4:00 - FBCS – Functional Blood Chemistry Specialist Credential, "normal" ranges

6:05 - AIP Coach – Autoimmune Protocol Coach, Hashimoto's diagnosis, specialized diet for symptom management and seeing improvement, nightshades, Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, career change

10:07 - A better approach to elimination diets, seeing changes immediately

11:10 – AIP Diet, stress, sleep, lifestyle, connection, socialization, appropriate exercise/movement, environmental toxins

12:40 – Joint pain, hydration

14:00 – Authoring her AIP book and the process of working with a publisher

20:46 – Greatest takeaway from Sonia's book

23:15 – Health in Europe versus United States

24:20 – Glyphosate (Round-up)

25:17 – Common symptoms associated with various autoimmune symptoms

26:26 – Inflammation, pain, skin issues

28:34 – The foods we don't want to give up, food sensitivities, food inflammatory test, reintroducing foods

30:00 – Buying locally

30:34 – LNT (Lingual Neural Testing), FCA (Functional Clinical Assessment), FNTP versus NTP, identifying which supplement or nutrient your body is begging for

Sonia Sidle's journey to become a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (FNTP) and a Certified Autoimmune Paleo Coach began with her own struggles against autoimmune disease. Fueled by her personal experiences, she is driven by a passion to assist others facing similar challenges. Originally from France, Sonia's fluency in French empowers her to serve a diverse clientele, spanning both French and English speakers. In order to expand her expertise, she pursued additional certifications as a Certified Functional Blood Chemistry Specialist, a Restorative Wellness Practitioner, and a Functional Supplement Specialist. Teaming up with a fellow French-speaking AIP Coach, Sonia co-created a pioneering program in French aimed at guiding individuals through the transition to and maintenance of the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP). Alongside this initiative, she co-authored a French book about what AIP is, how it can help people and containing 60 AIP-friendly recipes. Together, Sonia and her colleague aspire to shed light on the AIP within French-speaking communities, where awareness of this protocol remains limited.

Sonia's website: www.yourwellnessrevealed.com and IG handle: @AIP_alltheway

Sonia's book: Soigner l'auto-Immunité Avec le Protocole AIP: La Méthode Naturelle Révolutionaire Qui Réduit Au Silence Les Maladies Auto-immunes - Book Link

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In this Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast episode, host Jamie Belz interviews Rachel Ballard, an RN who wasn't willing to accept the prognosis of a slow, painful, premature death.

Rachel is a Registered Nurse, farmer, and Food As Medicine teacher who is currently completing her Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) certification. After battling back from a rare, paralyzing autoimmune disease, she's helping individuals use food as a tool so they can fight back against chronic conditions and defy the odds.

A lover of British television dramas, raising medicinal plants, and scratch cooking, Rachel lives on her Kentucky cattle farm with her husband of twenty-three years and two teenage children.

In talking with Jamie, Rachel walks us through her declining health, eventual diagnosis of CIPD (Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy), and her long road to recovery.

04:50 – Symptoms and red flags leading up to diagnosis: Hashimoto's, muscles in eye, limp leg, loss of strength, paralysis, felt like she was "on fire"

07:10 – CIPD Diagnosis with Central Nervous Symptom Overlap causing issues with vision, hearing, digestion, bowel and bladder control, and promoting cardiac arrhythmia

9:00 - IVIG (Intravenous Immunoglobulin) Treatment, Plasmapheresis, Stem Cell Transplant, slow decline

10:10 – Five years to live

11:02 – Subcutaneous IVIG Therapy Failed

13:02 – Hitting the point of desperation, looking at natural medicine for the first time, found the wrong natural medicine professionals for her preference and bio-individuality at the time

19:34 – Buying-in on the alternative approach

21:30 – Corruption in science, "follow the money"

22:30 – Working with an NTP, starting with digestion, making slow progress

27:53 – New hope, new career

30:31 – Bioindividuality

31:57 – TALKING ABOUT FOOD! Simple swaps, things to buy

40:17 - Mindset

42:04 – Car analogy

43:15 – Rachel's list of reversed symptoms/conditions

44:21 – Last question

As you'll hear, taking the first steps into a more natural approach to wellness can be challenging, frustrating, expensive, and a little "weird." Rachel shares how she didn't find any luck or answers with the alternative medicine practitioners she initially saw.* Her story is fun, relatable, and inspirational for those suffering from illness, as well as those looking to peek over the fence from the world of conventional medicine.

You can find Rachel's food blog at www.feastandfarm.com.

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*Not all practitioners of each title are created equally. Remember to give multiple practitioners under one umbrella a chance. This is true for both allopathic and alternative care. :)

Optimal digestion is crucial for overall health and well-being. It ensures that the body efficiently breaks down food into nutrients, which are then absorbed and utilized for energy, growth, and cellular repair. Proper digestion supports a strong immune system, maintains a healthy gut microbiome, and helps prevent gastrointestinal disorders. Additionally, it plays a significant role in mental health, as the gut is often referred to as the "second brain" due to its impact on mood and cognitive function. Therefore, maintaining optimal digestion is vital for sustaining physical and mental health, enhancing quality of life, and preventing chronic diseases.

In this episode of The Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast, host Jamie Belz, FNTP, MHC, continues along the journey of digestion, explaining that if someone is not properly digesting their food, they will not be able to absorb and assimilate the nutrients from the foods they are eating, regardless of how healthful those foods are.

Jamie brings back another historical audio clip from a lecture initially given by the founder of The Nutritional Therapy Association, Gray Graham. In Episode 10, Gray discussed the optimal function of digestion. This time, he walks you through "Digestive Hell" – the myriad of diseases, conditions, and other unpleasantries that arise from a suboptimal digestive system.

The health of the organism is dependent upon the health of the organ systems, which are dependent upon the health of the organs, which is dependent upon the health of the tissues, which is dependent upon the health of the cells, which is dependent upon digestion. Thus, all wellness begins with digestion. Therefore, does all disease stem from digestive dysfunction? Not exactly, but you can eat the healthiest diet possible for your bio-individual needs, and if you're not breaking it down to the necessary molecules your body can utilize, what's the point?

Every single cell in all tissues, organs, and systems of an organism relies on the ability to properly absorb nutrients from food. Factors such as stress, poor eating habits, gallbladder removal, and reduced levels of stomach acid (HCl) can hinder digestion. Given the critical role of nutrition in maintaining healthy cells, any disruption in digestion can be harmful in various ways. When the digestive system is compromised, it can lead to a domino effect, impacting the functioning of other bodily systems,

02:35 – Recap of optimal digestion

04:07 – Start of digestive dysfunction

05:23 – "Where's 'Digestive Hell'?"

06:56 – Distraction, stress, sympathetic state

13:22 – Pancreatic amylase

13:30 – Dysbiosis, yeast, pathogens (Also at 19:50)

13:55 – It's all about acid/pH levels

15:17 – Macronutrient degradation

15:47 – Inputs for the production of HCl

16:20 – Things that cause hypochlorhydria (stress, too much protein, zinc, other nutrient deficiencies, allergies…)

17:13 – Dr. Jonathan Wright, the use of the Heidelberg Test for diagnosis of hypochlorhydria, pH for proper hormone function and enzymatic action

21:37 – Pasteur vs. Bechamp / Microorganisms vs. Terraine (Which is to blame?)

23:34 – Hpylori

26:53 – Heartburn, acid reflux, GERD, ulcers

37:50 – Homework/experiment

39:40 – Chyme into the duodenum, secretin, pancreas, bicarbonate, incomplete digestion, whole food particles in the small intestine

42:11 – Gallbladder, bile, fats, cholecystokinin, liver, fat-free or low-fat diet as the cause of gallstones and gallbladder dysfunction, cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal)

52:06 – Burping up fish oil and delayed release fish oil

55:04 – Undigested proteins, microvilli, leaky gut/gut permeability, immune dysfunction

56:03 – Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, healing her autistic child, GAPS Diet

58:04 – Large intestine/colon, ileocecal valve, dysbiosis, inflammation diverticulitis, irritable bowel, Crohn's disease, celiac disease/gluten reactivity, hormones/endocrine system, enzymes, heart health, allergies, butyric acid and foul-smelling feces

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