Listen To Your Mother

We dig deep into the endocrine system to understand how food and our environment effects our hormones. We talk about the most common hormone disruptions and simply things you can do keep your hormones balanced.   

Our show's guest Michelle Oltman Gottfried shares her story growing up in a household that paid attention to proper nutrition. It was't always easy however this influenced her to invest her career and education to understand the science behind food. She started her blog; Wellness Through Food (WTF) to help educate others on the science behind proper nutrition. Michelle shares the top 3 things everyone can do to improve their health. You can follow her work:  Blog: http://www.wellnessthroughfood.com Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/wellnessthroughfood/?pnref=lhc  

Inspired by the olympics we talk about the performance of food, and how different foods effect our levels of performance. We catagorize the bronze, silver, and gold level of health and share ways to improve your nutrition to move into a new category.   

Learn how a running enthusiast who suffered from IBS (Irritable bowel syndrome) found the paleo diet to heal her body, increase her running time, and incorporate this lifestyle into her family. It hasn't been easy and it's challenging to not be labeled the 'crazy food police mom.' She gives great practical tips on things she has done to improve her health and the health of her family, while still having a life.   Michele of paleorunningmomma.com comes on the show to share her story of how she got started and what's she's doing now to help others with her blog, recipe (which look so delicious), and inspiring journey. 

In this week's episode we flip the switch and my mom interviews me. I attended the Paleo f(x) conference in Austin and shared the highlights of what I learned. We interprete the good, the bad, and the ugly that is the Paleo movement, so people can choose if this lifestyle is for them. 

Understanding which fats are 'good' and which fats are 'bad' for the body can be tough. In today's show we give you an easy explanation on how to navigate the debate and choose wisely. My mom returned from the Phillipines to learn her people have gotten, sicker and fatter because of all the food of commerce. Learn what she's doing to fight off this epidemic. We end the show with 3 tips you can do to upgrade your health.  

The world of health & nutrition are being heavily influenced by our new understanding about the gut micro-biome. More and more health professionals are studying it's impact to how we live our lives, how we gain & loose weight, and achieve a healthy lifestyle. In this episode we break down, what is the micro-biome, how it impacts our health, and why it's so important.

Heart disease is the #1 killer around the world, and it's linked to so many poor lifestyle choices. Learn tips on what you can do to prevent heart disease. Our guest, Sultan Shakir talks about this journey with weight loss, and things he is going to loss some body fat, and we talk about what vegetable you can use when you are missing carbs. 

We discuss why it's harder and harder for couples to get pregnant these days, and what could be causing so much infertility in our population. Our special guest Mike talks about how living life in the Big Easy, wasn't so easy when it came to his health, and what he did to turn it around, we end the show with discussing why sprouts are all the nutrients, and how to eat it. Spoiler alert...it's super easy. 

Why arthirtis impacts the body and what you can do about it, our guest Mike Dieterich talks about growing up on a farm, eating seasonally, and sustainable farming practices, we close the show discussing on why wheatgrass is beyond wonderful for the body.   

In this weeks episode we discuss ways to look at your poop to give you a gauge on your overall health, we invited another client over to discuss how her version of eating healthy was causing her to gain weight and what she did about it, and we close the show with that leafy green we now see everywhere, kale. 

In this weeks episode we talk about why people become insulin resistant and how to prevent it, our special guest Rory Linehan was able to use principles of the paleo & real food to treat his autoimmune disease. To help more people with that disease he started his own blog to talk about his journey, http://thepaleopi.com. Here what Rory did to take control of his health using food to heal himself. We end the show with talking about the power of the almonds and how this nut can do so many wonderful things to our bodies. 

In this week's episode we dive deeper into my mom's career of using her health knowledge in running her Army reserve unit, why the health of our guts are so important to our health, pro tips from a professional body builder and what he tells his clients about proper nutrition, and why avocado are so damn good. 

In this week's episode we talk about the difference between using healing foods as medicine verse medications, what exactly is Hashimoto's disease and how it effects our metabolism, how a prostate cancer survivor used food & lifestyle to get into remission, and what your missing by through away those pumpkin seeds.  

In this week's episode we talk about why everyone is so tired, what causes adrenal fatigue, we interview our retired neighbor who lived the NYC food lifestyle the consequences of living that lifestyle and what he did to change his life to be in his 80's on zero medications, we end the show talking about the vegetable that has been proven to lower your blood pressure. 

In this week's episode we discuss inflammation, probiotics, reversing diabetes, and things you don't know about water.

Our launch episode. We talk about why we got started, the myths behind food & weight loss and the power of eggs.