Less Stressed Life: Helping You Heal Yourself

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, we have the macros queen and four time return guest, Emily Field, a registered dietician who teaches a mindful macros approach. Emily is here to share how she uses a personality typing tool called The Four Tendencies in her practice.  Developed by Gretchen Rubin, The Four Tendencies is how someone responds to inner and outer expectation...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I have my dear friend, Kari Natwick, who's a registered dietician nutritionist and an integrative and functional nutrition certified practitioner. On this episode, Kari talks about the mind-body connection for chronic gut issues. We talk about how most people have unrealized stress, how to realize it and simple but effective exerci...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am excited to be joined by bestselling author, keynote speaker, nutrition and functional health expert,  Dr. Mindy Pelz. In this episode, we dig into how fasting isn't as simple as it sounds, time restrictive versus calorie restrictive fasting, and affects of fasting on your hormones. Dr. Mindy also talks about her new book, Fast...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Megan Abernathy. I found Megan on Instagram and felt like her content was a breath of fresh air when people have concerns about body composition and the nuances around it.  We talk about periodized nutrition which includes the concept of reverse dieting and the psychological and physiological side of this and why it'...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Jesse Coomer. Always a teacher, Jesse shares how life changing breathwork can be and breaks down easy and fun breathing techniques for adults and kids. He wants to share that our breathing is a language that we can use to speak to ourselves in a way that no other method allows.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Types of breathwork Consciou...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by nutritionist, personal trainer and podcaster, Katy Saltsman, who is such an inspiration. In this episode, we discuss how moving your body and nutrition are important for health, but often overlooked is mental and emotional health. Looking at all of these together can help make lasting changes. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Distractions...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Jolene Brighten, who also appeared in episode #112, Post Birth Control Syndrome . Dr. Brighten is back to talk about burning hormonal topics including night sweats, low progesterone and testosterone, hair loss and lots about libido.  We also fielded questions from my teenage daughter, asking about advice for teens tra...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by the delightful Elizabeth Yarnell. In this episode, we discuss Elizabeth's diagnosis of MS, getting parasites in Asia, and the transition of learning how to cook whole foods after growing up on gummy bears and soda and her departure from journalism into naturopathy.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Food sensitivities Parasite infectio...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Chelsea Haines. I met Chelsea at my friend Kaely's event, Restore and Reconnect, in Austin this past fall. Chelsea's just one of those people who is a ray of sunshine when you meet her. In this episode, we discuss the subconscious mind’s role in physiological healing. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Subconscious programming Neur...

Send us Fan Mail On our next thyroid episode this week, I am joined by Dr. David Brownstein.  I would say one of my favorite things about him is that he is a storyteller. He uses a lot of case studies in his books, which I love. He tells us his personal story, then we dig into iodine and it's relationship to the thyroid. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Iodine & the thyroid Iodine deficiency epidemic Iodin...

Send us Fan Mail Our first episode this week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Eric Balcavage.  It’s a GOOD week on the podcast if you are interested in thyroid.  In this episode, we discuss all the things about thyroid physiology. Plus some rapid fire questions at the end from our audience.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Allopathic vs functional medicine approaches Vitamin D relationship to...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Dawn Huebner. In this episode, we discuss helping children face their fears, phobias and anxiety. Bonus, this can work for adults too.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Cognitive behavior therapy triangle Exposure based approaches Amygdala vs. prefrontal cortex How to retrain the brain Dr. Dawn tells us about her new book series, Dr. D...

Send us Fan Mail After practicing nutrition for 13 years, it's time to share some of the things I've learned to help you shortcut your own success in either private practice or with your health goals. In this behind the scenes episode, I get into the frameworks, approaches and timelines I use when guiding clients to overcome root causes of inflammation, rebalance hormones, and optimize g...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Barrie Tan. In this episode, we get SUPER NERDY about types of Vitamin E. Dr. Tan sources Vitamin E from annatto, the stuff that colors your cheese yellow and is from a tree in South America. Since I had just returned from South America right before recording this episode, we hit it off talking about Incan cultural us...

Send us Fan Mail This week on the Less Stressed Life, I invited Jeffrey Smith to talk about his passions for controlling biotechnology. He caught my attention at a small dinner I attended for a lifestyle medicine conference I attended in September when talking about how gene editing is getting as accessible as EasyBake ovens once were, which could unleash superbugs into the environment with catast...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by  Dr. Nathan Bryan . In this episode, we discuss episode topics : Nitric oxide for long haul CV, altitude sickness, hypertension and cardiovascular improve .  KEY TAKEAWAYS: What is nitric oxide?  Why should people want to know about nitric oxide? What are some common lifestyle habits that disrupt nitric oxide production?...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Ritamarie. In this episode, we discuss functional approaches to blood sugar and three causes of subclinical thyroid dysfunction. I don’t know about you, but I LOVE to learn. My favorite thing is when I can learn something new in a podcast interview, and Dr. Ritamarie really delivered in this one.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: 6 thi...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by  Thomas Hemingway, MD. In this episode, we discuss getting older and feeling younger, a topic I’m always interested in.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: How you jump from conventional to integrative in healthcare  5 principles for preventable conditions How to EAT for energy, clarity, weight loss, and the BEST health of your life without...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Louise Swartswalter. In this episode, we talked all about emotions stored in the body. While my guest had the calming aura and appearance of my son’s kindergarten teacher, she used some of our interview time to read my ancestral energy and how it might be affecting blocks for me currently. 😳 So if you’d like to hear...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stressed Life Podcast, I am joined by holistic dentist Dr. Kelly Blodgett. In this episode, we discuss how to naturally support your gums and oral health.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: Ways to protect our gums beyond gentle brushing and flossing.  Can you heal cavities naturally without any fillings? Can we detox through our teeth? How to find a holistic dentist? ABOUT GUE...

Send us Fan Mail We know about vapor, liquid, and ice, but what if I told you water has another state? Today we’re talking about the preferred state of water between liquid and ice, which is structured or coherent water. In nature, the natural vortex of water movement creates structured water. When you use a structured or coherent water wand, the water immediately gains clarity, and the taste beco...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stress Life Podcast, I am sharing audio from our Live Community Call in January. On this call, we covered topics related to immune support. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Common causes of immune system suppression? Normal illness vs “too much” illness? What would I do in times of “stress” and illness opportunity? Should you “stimulate” the immune system all the time with her...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stress Life Podcast, I am joined by Dr. Jack Wolfson. In this episode, we discuss natural heart health, cholesterol, Afib, inflammatory markers, myocarditis, thrombosis & more. KEY TAKEAWAYS: The link between a toxic lifestyle, mitochondria, and heart health Does your cholesterol matter? Stealth infections can drive inflammation and cause issues in the he...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stress Life Podcast, I am joined by  Dr. Elisa Song.  I love Dr. Elisa Song’s calming demeanor. In this episode about anxiety in kids, antibiotic use and more, she gives so many practical pearls you can start doing with your kids now to set them up for success. We talk about the unsung hero of health, the nervous system. We talked about the gut, brain exercis...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Less Stress Life Podcast, I am sharing audio from our Live Community Call in December. On this call we covered topics related to testing stress hormones.  KEY TAKEAWAYS: + What to know about stress hormones + Testing these hormones + What to do about high/low cortisol and also touched on other nuanced questions like PCOS/adrenal connection, thyroid connection, pos...