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The Funk’tional Nutrition Podcast
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Episode 183: Looking for a Functional Approach? Where to Get Started
Today’s episode is for you if you are interested in getting started with a functional approach for your health, but not really sure where to start. Erin recognizes that the cost of functional medicine can be a limiter for some, so she makes a case for starting with ONE budget-friendly intervention. This is the ONE PLACE Erin recommends everyone start before jumping into her 1:1 practice!
Listen in as Erin discusses the difference between functional medicine/nutrition and the conventional/allopathic approach, and uses real world case examples of clients as it relates to all of this - where conventional medicine can fall short, where to start with the functional approach, and why you should start there.
Episode 182: The Risks of Low Vitamin A & How to Increase Your Levels
If you have skin issues, immune issues, autoimmunity, allergies, asthma, food sensitivities, or get sick often—you’ll want to listen in, because Vitamin A is crucial for all of these things!
In today’s episode Erin explains the Beta Carotene/Vitamin A connection and differences, and why a vegetarian or vegan diet may not give everyone the Vitamin A their body needs. To break down the importance of Vitamin A, Erin dives into the conditions often associated with low Vitamin A, the benefits of having healthy Vitamin A levels, and what you can do to increase your Vitamin A if you have secured the data that you’re low (hint—the first step is to find the reason why!
Episode 181: SIBO & IBS - The Latest Research & Testing Options with Dr. Mark Pimentel
Erin sits down with Dr. Mark Pimentel, researcher, clinician, and cofounder of Gemelli Biotech™, to discuss the latest research on IBS, SIBO, and new testing options for people who have struggled with these conditions. This is definitely a higher level podcast interview, so this episode is great for clinicians, practitioners, anyone who loves to geek out on gut health and research, or anyone who’s been struggling with IBS or SIBO and looking for answers.
Episode 180: Beauty Industry Brainwashing & Holistic Skincare with Lee Zavorskas
Erin sits down with her own esthetician and friend, Lee Zavorskas to discuss what is broken in the beauty industry, what to avoid when it comes to skin care, how important it is to embrace aging - and natural and safe ways to give you and your skin the love and care they deserve.
Episode 179: Natural Options to Support Your Period with Berrion Berry
Menstrual health educator Berrion Berry comes on the show to get back to basics on common culprits behind period pain (spoiler alert: stress is a big one!) and talk strategies to help relieve problematic periods in a natural way. Tune in to hear how anything that can influence your overall body can influence your cycle, and how implementing certain strategies and principles can not only change your health, but also change your life.
Episode 178: My Thoughts on the New Nutrition Scoring System
Erin gives you her thoughts on the “new tool” developed by Tufts to help consumers, food companies, restaurants, and cafeterias choose and produce healthier(?) foods and officials to make public nutrition policy. She discusses why these scores aren’t perfect and how they continue to vilify certain nutrients & foods (like fats & meats), which can have negative health consequences.
Episode 177: Alternatives to Refined Sugars & Seed Oils
This episode helps shed awareness on the omnipresence of low quality ingredients in our packaged foods—even the ones coming from stores we think of as “health food” stores—and gives you actionable steps you can take to get them out of your diet.
Episode 176: Reducing Dinner Overwhelm with Cassy Joy Garcia
Erin sits down with bestselling author Cassy Joy Garcia to discuss meal planning versus meal prepping, how your partner can actually help, and navigating cooking for picky eaters. Cassy Joy doles out real, actionable steps to simplify healthy eating so we can create meals for our families that we feel good about. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the thought of cooking, planning out your weekly dinners, or creating more whole foods-based meals, this is definitely the episode to tune into!
Episode 175: Our Food, Our Immune System & Our Kids (A Town Hall on Health)
Today Erin takes a more of a town hall approach to discuss our modern food system and how this plays a role in not only our immune and overall health, but also our kids' health. This episode packs plenty of food for thought: stats and information surrounding our rapidly changing food system, chronic illness, autoimmune disease, access to food, and key factors for a solid health foundation.
Episode 174: Benefits of Cold Exposure Therapy
Robert van der Heyden returns to the podcast to expand on his and Erin’s last conversation regarding therapy practices for increasing resiliency, and today they dive into Cold Exposure Therapy. If you’ve been curious about cold exposure or are looking for ways to better manage your life stressors, this is an important episode to tune into!
Episode 173: Wim Hof Breathwork for Resiliency & Immune Health
Erin talks to Resiliency Coach Robert van der Heyden about why the Wim Hof style of breathwork is beneficial from an immune and overall health standpoint. Robert and Erin discuss how this invigorating style of breathing compares to others, benefits to gut and immune health, cultivating more presence through breathwork, the benefits of nose & belly breathing vs mouth breathing, plus Robert leads us through a 15min breathwork practice that you can do anywhere.
Episode 172: Vitamin D for Viral Infections & Immune Health
Vitamin D status can play a big role in your overall immune health, so today Erin unpacks a lot of data on Vitamin D and what you can do with this information. She’ll dive into Vitamin D deficiency, cofactors that play a role in absorption, and shares practical strategies that you can implement into your life over the next many weeks and months.
Episode 171: A Root Cause Look at Blood Pressure
Today we’re getting into specifics with blood pressure, and Erin dives into possible root causes of high/low blood pressure such as diet, lifestyle, and other internal factors that can contribute. Because there are usually no warning signs until there’s a problem, Erin unpacks contributing factors that can lead to this imbalance and offers practices you can incorporate to reduce your risk.
Episode 170: Fatigue, Low Cortisol & Radical Momming
There’s this normalization that, especially as a caretaker, your needs are not as important or relevant compared to the needs of others. But what if prioritizing your own needs not only helps you take better care of yourself, but also teaches those you caretake how to take care of themselves, too?