By Olivia Amitrano
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Have you ever wondered what could be behind your brain fog? Is a thyroid disorder a forever thing or something that can be improved with intentional nutrition? Fiona Smith, a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, is on a mission to help her clients naturally support their hormones, brain function and thyroid health. In this episode, Fiona breaks down the detailed practices her clients complete to unpack the deeper “why” on their health journey and get to the bottom of their symptoms with true autonomy. She dives into the gut-brain axis, offering tangible, actionable steps for folks with ADHD to stick to healthy habits in the long term – and covers the one protein that could be directly contributing to brain fog and mental health decline more than any other. Fiona’s excitement and joy around sharing real-life solutions to the deeper root problems around gut-brain health and ADHD is palpable and infectious.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
How Fiona teaches her clients to develop a strong relationship with their bodies through symptom journaling and curiosity around their inner knowing
The brain-gut bidirectional highway and how fight or flight mode wreaks havoc on your gut
Why children are experiencing an over-activation of their immune systems at younger ages
What are the non-celiac gluten reactions that can happen in the lens of mental health, and how to test if you may have a non-celiac gluten intolerance?
Answering the question: If you have Hashimotos, do you need to cut out gluten forever?
A deeper dive into focusing on nutrient density in your diet and the life-changing results that can happen
What are the top 5 minerals crucial to thyroid function?
How neurodivergence and ADHD play a role in gut health + taking steps to improve your health and stick to habits with ADHD
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What is the best way to prepare for having a baby? Sandra Sharpe, Certified Functional Nutrition Practitioner, and Health Coach, specializes in comprehensive, holistic, mind, body, and spirit postpartum support. In this episode, Sandra dives into all the nitty-gritty details of preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum. She talks about the global infertility crisis and how poor mental health and undernourishment could be two of the main contributing factors. Sandra highlights the importance of the first 40 days after giving birth, highlighting practices utilized across cultures to support the pregnancy and postpartum journey, showcasing a beautiful alternative to the commonly heard “bounce back” mentality.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
How pregnancy and motherhood often heighten mental health issues and insecurities, so addressing those problems BEFORE pregnancy can be incredibly beneficial
Why cultivating awareness in our bodies and being vocal about what we need can be the catalyst in changing the perfectionist “I Can Do It All” mindset
How Diet culture from the 90s has created an undernourishment epidemic (and nourishing our bodies is so crucial for pregnancy!)
Tangible ways to identify support and communicate your needs to make the postpartum period smoother
Sandra’s health journey and the changes she made in her postpartum healing from her first child to her second
Why journaling and writing letters can be healing and how to utilize this practice as a tool during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum
What Middle Eastern cultures practice in the First 40 Days postpartum to promote healing
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Calvin Scheller is an 18-year-old science extraordinaire who began studying and mastering medical literature in order to better communicate with his physicians after his own experience with autoimmune disease at the young age of 13. His courageous journey of self advocacy during a time when he felt alone and baffled by his symptoms led him to memorize, digest, integrate, and teach others about the complex mechanisms within our bodies (and how to heal through nutrition and lifestyle). He is a superb science communicator and now health coach – taking the difficulty out of reading medical studies, and putting the power of their information in our hands. Today, Calvin gives us a master class on insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, PCOS and why carbohydrates are NOT the cause of these conditions. We discuss the dietary factors that contribute to insulin resistance (and the many misconceptions you’ll find online), as well as the best ways to increase your insulin sensitivity and master your metabolic health well into old age.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
Why carbohydrates are not the cause of insulin resistance
How excess dietary fat is more problematic for insulin resistance than excess carbs or sugar
Why saturated fats can be more inflammatory within the context of insulin resistance than plant fats
The true mechanism behind insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome: excess fatty acids within our cells
How we can burn off the fatty acids that cause insulin resistance and why blood sugar spikes aren’t the FULL issue, they’re more of an effect
Why insulin resistance begins and how it’s actually an adaptation
How inflammation also drives insulin resistance and other holistic factors you need to take into account like chronic gut infections, to mineral deficiencies like zinc, to stress, processed foods, sleep issues and more
Why insulin resistance within the ovaries is specifically tied to PCOS and exactly how to target this with diet and lifestyle
Watch the full episode on What’s The Juice YouTube Channel
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Alan Aragon’s Research Review Papers
We’re kicking things off with an impromptu hello and life update from Olivia — then diving into the nitty gritty with Courtney Swan, a real food activist who is on a mission to fix our broken food system. Today she’s answering the question: are GMOs safe for consumption? There are five genetically modified crops on the market that have become so abundant that they’re used in almost all packaged foods… knowing what they are and where they’re found is the key to learning how to eat your way around corruption in our food supply. In this episode, Courtney articulately breaks down the practices being used in agriculture today – clarifying ways we can be supporting farmers doing things right (and tangible ways to not fall victim to our current food system).
HERE’S THE JUICE:
What are the five genetically modified foods? WHY do we have such an overabundance of them on the market?
What food lobbying is and why soda is more accessible on food stamps than produce
How monocropping is negatively affecting farmers
How food hybridization and genetically modifying our crops are not the same practice
What the problem with corn is now, and why we are continually overfed and undernourished
Why seed oils are in so many of our foods – creation from industrial waste products
The best practices that you can adopt day-to-day to help decrease your consumption of seed oils and reduce inflammation
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Mentioned Documentaries:
Genetic Roulette (GMO documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnhB99I86G8
Kiss the Ground (soil documentary): https://kissthegroundmovie.com/
Common Ground (regenerative farming doc): https://commongroundfilm.org/
What if you’ve never actually experienced your true personality? The truth is, when our hormones are out of whack, we’re totally different people. While there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution, there are some key ways that we can all reduce inflammation and regulate our hormones, according to Dr. Corina Dunlap, a naturopathic women’s health and hormone specialist. In this episode, she gets juicy about the link between cortisol and ovulation (hint: we’re all too stressed out) and dives deep into the importance of relationships – with others, ourselves and mother nature.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
What does it feel like when we’re safe in our bodies? This is what balanced hormones feel like!
How inflammation can affect our mood, and make it hard to understand what our baseline or that “safe” feeling should feel like.
What the “goldilocks hormones” are – we don’t want too little or too much of them!
What the first line of action should be in addressing ovulation issues
Why unplugging your wifi at night could be the best trick to getting better sleep
How chronic stress doesn’t allow your body to feel safe enough to digest properly or ovulate
The best practices that you can adopt day-to-day to help with inflammation.
Clear questions you can ask yourself, like: is this me, or is this my hormones?
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Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to reverse the damage we have done to our earth? Have you been told that going vegan is the only way to do so? When Taylor Collins bought 900 acres of factory-farmed land, it was completely barren, desolate, and degraded. But by working with nature’s cycles and reintroducing animals in order to loosen the soil and give back to the land, Taylor transformed his farm into a thriving ecosystem that supports higher crop yields, healthier soil and more nutritious food. In this episode, we talk about the power of connection, the “green narrative,” and what we as consumers can do to help our earth today. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the second best time is now – let’s dive in!
HERE’S THE JUICE:
How factory farming works against nature’s principles to yield a higher output yet lower nutritional value
Taylor’s belief that humans aren’t inherently destructive but our values of “more more more” absolutely are
Why monocropping as a “solution” to global food insecurity is promoting a broken system
How regenerative farming mimics the cycles of nature and creates community
Why we don’t need to stop eating meat but we need to rethink how we do it
The idea that healthy soil is the KEY to nutrient-rich foods and why topsoil is so critical
Why “Impossible” Meat isn’t actually a better or more sustainable solution than regeneratively farmed meat
Why our farmers are in crisis – both personally and financially
How to vote with our dollars when it comes to food and support the growing community of regenerative farmers
Watch the full episode on What’s The Juice YouTube Channel
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What if the key to weight loss isn’t actually about what’s on our plates? Today I’m chatting with a true gem of a human being as well as a kick-ass nutritionist. Nicki Parlitsis helps her clients achieve their goals but also understand WHY they might be harming themselves with food through binging or restricted diets. In this episode she unpacks how binging is often a deeper reflection on our lives, showing us exactly what we need to focus on within ourselves to ultimately heal our relationship with food. We also discuss why binging is both an emotional AND physical response for many of us and how we can tune into the signs our bodies are giving us before we start to go down toxic paths.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
The difference between physical and emotional binge eating
Why women tend to fear gaining muscle and what it actually means to “tone” your body
The importance of training your brain in steps and why intuitive eating is a graduate level course in dietetics
What an all-or-nothing mindset with food looks like and how it contributes to binge eating
The fact that something as simple as thinking about meals as events can help retrain your brain to get out of a snacking mindset and into a space of intentional eating
Nicki’s favorite client hack of meal prepping like a chef
Why binge eating is not the problem and how to get to the root of what’s happening in your body
Why listening to your hunger cues is the first step to take even if it means abandoning your diet
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When was the last time you did a radical 180 about a long held belief? Today I’m sitting down with a brilliant dentist who was once picketing in the streets for water fluoridation — yet was courageous enough to change her mind and speak out once she dug into the data once and for all. Meet Dr. Staci Whitman, a board-certified dentist who takes a whole-body, holistic and functional approach to oral health. In this episode, Staci unpacks the surprising factors that contribute to the decline of our oral health including mouth breathing, hormones, and gut dysbiosis. She explains why these underlying root causes are ignored by conventional dentistry and exactly what we need to be asking about and advocating for at our dentist appointments.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
Functional vs. conventional dentistry and the importance of both
Why dental professionals haven't introduced oral microbiome testing as a baseline for all patients
How hormone imbalance is leading to an increase in cavities in women and the signs to look for in prevention
What LPS is and how it contributes to pathogenic bacteria overgrowth
The fact that we aren’t taught about healthy bacteria and are encouraged to wipe out all our bacteria with products like Listerine
Why dentists are sometimes the first people to diagnose Crohn's disease and how your oral health can inform gut health
What a cavity is and how it forms
When we may be able to repair cavities without requiring fillings
Why mouth breathing is so detrimental to our oral health and how to retrain yourself into healthy breathing habits
Resources and recommendations for the products and services we should be talking to our dentist about to be proactive about our oral health
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Statistically, there are 15 core people in our lives who will show up when sh$# hits the fan – our mother’s funeral, a cancer diagnosis – they’re on the next plane. What if instead of filling our schedules working towards buying more things, we spent time nurturing the relationships that are truly all we have? In a modern day loneliness epidemic, lack of connection is becoming a disease, but our generation can turn it around. Sah D’Simone is here to say that even though relationships are hard, families are messy, and conflict is scary, this is the only path back to love and longevity. Sah is a spiritual leader, hospital chaplain who supports those at the end of life, and international best-selling author of Spiritually We. In this episode, he breaks down how to increase our capacity so that we can hold space for our people and right our relationships.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
Why human connection is a basic biological need (and how we’ve gotten so far away)
Why pop psychology is doing us a disservice by teaching us to cut off relationships with conflict instead of learning to face it
The difference between how easy it is to be spiritual alone in meditation vs. at the family dinner table when triggers come up
How to nurture true connection over complain culture and trauma-bonding relationships
Why your closest relationships are often the most triggering
How to live with integrity and what a lack of integrity looks like in your closest bonds
Why “conflict is your lovers” how to resolve conflict in a healthy way
Why time away from your parents may be necessary to grow and heal, but the goal is to always bring it back around
Why intellectualizing your feelings and making meaning keeps you from feeling your feelings
How to support someone in grief and the magnitude of holding space for loss
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What does “good nutrition” actually mean – and why have we built a BILLION dollar industry that only makes us more confused about how to feed ourselves? Why is it that one day the internet is telling you to be a raw vegan, and 5 years later carnivore is suddenly a panacea? Shyla Cadogan is a registered dietitian focused on making nutrition simple again. Shyla explores the extensive impact that processed foods have on our bodies, while at the same time not putting perfection, whole foods or ‘superfoods’ on a pedestal. She brings some much needed nuance (and humor) to the question: what the heck should I eat and who should I listen to?
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