Hello, everyone, and welcome to the podcast episode that supports the final chapter of my book, Nutrition Brought to Life. It’s Chapter 20: Creating more flow: putting together a personal action plan.

I’ve given you so much information and guidance in the book, and a lot of it in this podcast series too. And I want you to be able to use it to make meaningful, positive change to your health and your life. And for those of you who are practitioners, I’d like you to be able to successfully support the people you are working with. 

So this chapter/episode is about how to go about putting a nutrition programme together that is achievable and beneficial. 

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Hello everyone, and happy new year to those of you listening as this goes out. Whatever year or season it is for you right now, thank you for tuning in. We’re now up to Chapter 19 of my book, Balancing hormones, so that’s the focus of this episode. We look at what hormones are, some of the jobs they do, the nutrients they need and how to keep them in balance.

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Hello again and welcome to episode 18, which is based on Chapter 18: Liver whispering – from my book, Nutrition Brought to Life.

Your liver deserves all the love you can give it, it’s such a workhorse. And like a horse, it seems to respond better to whispering than to being kicked and whipped into action. This goes against the grain of many of the detox regimes you may have come across, but I truly believe that, at least most of the time, we need to be gentle with our livers.

In chapter 18, I reflect on how what we’ve learnt about the liver and its functions match so beautifully what the ancient Chinese Five Elements describe. This oriental approach describes the liver as the planner, and indeed it does regulate a lot of your body’s activity, including blood sugar, balancing hormones, processing and distribution of nutrients, processing of fat soluble toxins and a whole lot more. Unsurprisingly, it gets easily overloaded, especially in this modern, heavily polluted world. 

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Last time I talked you through the basics of your immune system, and shared some of the nutrients you need to make white blood cells. You may remember the immune system is a complex, multi-layered wonder, and it has a lot to do with inflammation. In this chapter, I discuss inflammation a bit more – what kind of things can trigger it as well as some natural anti-inflammatories. There’s also a little more on foods that can regulate your white blood cells.

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Hello, I’m back – and thank you for sticking with this. Or perhaps you’re new, in which case, welcome to the Nutrition Brought to Life Podcast, based on my book of the same name.

This episode and chapter is an introduction to your immune system: what it is, and some of the nutrients it needs. Then next time we’re going to look at more ways to strengthen and support it.

Immunity has been a hot topic of late. There has never been so much talk in the mainstream media of antibodies, T cells and immune responses. But do you really understand how your immune system works? Actually, does anyone? It really is a complex and amazing aspect of your inner universe, and scientists will readily admit our knowledge if it is still quite superficial.

So I’m going to attempt to give you a concise overview, but please remember this is all just the tip of a very impressive iceberg.

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Welcome back. This week it’s all about the lipids, as we focus on Chapter 15: Oils – structure and light from my book Nutrition Brought to Life.

Fats and oils are made up of varying mixtures of fatty acids. These fatty acids can be long, short, wiggly or straight, and determine the properties of the oil you are using. So butter, for example, contains a range of fatty acids from short to long, very straight to very wiggly. But because most of them are straight, butter tends to be more solid at room temperature, and that’s why we call it a fat rather than an oil.

This episode talks about the wiggly ones, the straight ones, and what that means for the fats and oils in your diet. Plus their many varied and essential uses in your body.

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Hi there, Kirsten Chick here, back with another instalment of the Nutrition Brought to Life Podcast, and this week we’re focussing on Chapter 14: Protein power.

Whenever I ask a new group of students why we need protein, the answer is invariably “to build muscles.” Which is correct – but there’s so much more to protein than that. 

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Hello, I’m Kirsten Chick, and I'm back with some more Nutrition Brought to Life for you - bite-sized highlights from my book of the same name. This week I’m focussing on Chapter 13: Tissue protection and repair. Your body is made up of several different types of tissue, like different fabrics might be used to make a sofa or a doll, for example. There is endothelial tissue lining your gut for example, so if you want to address gut health, it’s useful to know what helps to keep the tissue there in good shape. Different types of tissue make up your joints, bones, muscles, brain, heart, liver and even your blood.

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Hello, hope you’re all well, wherever you are. I know most of you are in the UK, but apparently I have listeners in the US, Norway, Germany, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, Portugal, Jersey, Italy, Greece, France, Egypt, Bangladesh and Nigeria! So this podcast is doing a bit of a whirlwind world tour each week.

I’m still here in sunny Sussex, and the focus is still on your microbiome. Last week we looked at what your inner ecosystem is and some of the wonderful things it does. This week is based on Chapter 12: Nourishing Your Microbiome – so the chapter in my book that looks at how to feed your microbes and help provide the perfect environment for them.

Feeding your microbes may include eating fibre from lots of different kinds of plant foods, as I talked about last time, including fermented foods, and maybe even adding prebiotic and probiotic supplements. But you also need to tend to the environment in which they live, so we’ll look at that too. In chapter 12 I look at both, and here they are condensed into 7 Top Tips for nourishing your microbiome.

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Hello everyone, welcome to new listeners, and to those of you who have been tuning in regularly, thanks for your support and some of the wonderful feedback I’ve been getting. It’s always lovely to hear that people are finding this podcast useful – please feel free to rate it via your podcast platform too, and share it with your friends, family and community.

This episode is on one of my favourite topics, and is based on Chapter 11 of my book: Your microbiome – your inner ecosystem. I often compare the human body to planet Earth, with is rich and diverse ecosystems – remember we are very much part of that planet, so it’s no coincidence that there are so many similarities. At the time of recording, COP26 is going on in Scotland, so working out how to rebalance our environment is very much a hot topic.

I’m going to talk more about how to nourish your inner ecosystem next time – today I want to explain more about what it is and what it does.

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