Keep Your Plants On Podcast

So we have been working on something huge in the background here at Keep Your Plants On, and it's finally time to share… After six years and 700 beautiful clients, we have hired a new CEO for KYPO, Jaime Boyachek! Jaime is a Functional Medicine Nurse and Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner who has spent the last twenty years helping patients and clients get to the root of their imbalances and hea...

It's finally time to announce... KYPO has a new Owner!!!!! After six years and 700+ clients, there is a new sheriff in town and her name is Jaime Boyachek. In the next episode you get to meet Jaime and learn how incredible she will be for this company and for your health journey. This episode is answering the question of where I am going. Drum roll please... I am pursuing my career as a full time...

I am so excited to introduce you to Dr. Jenn Anders, AKA The Anxiety Doc. Jenn is a Licensed School Psychologist, Registered Psychotherapist and mental health advocate who has helped thousands manage and even get rid of their anxiety. Mind: Building an internal vs external locust of control How to challenge anxious thoughts (+ examples that Dr. Jenn uses daily!) Choosing the stories we believe How...

In this episode with The Realistic Body Therapist, Clinical Psychologist Zeynep Demirelli shares about her too long isolated journey through her own eating disorder and body image struggles, and how that led her to becoming one of the most encouraging Clinical Psychologists online today. “Wow did you lose weight?” “My thighs are so big.” “I need to start a diet when we get back from vacation.” Fat...

Have you ever wondered if the way that you THINK about food can change even the way that your body digests and metabolizes it? If so, you’d be SPOT ON. Your brain is so much more dynamic in the role of metabolism, digestion, and your relationship to food than you may realize. The questions, “What should I be eating?” Is this good for me? or how much fat is in that?" all deal with the way our weste...

I'm so honored to introduce Dr. Adrian Chavez, an incredibly knowledgeable Nutritionist, notorious diet debunker, and self proclaimed Anti Biohacker. Today we are following one objective: helping you see through the wellness industry and find information that is helpful for you, rather than great marketing. We dive into Dr. Adrian's work in Academia, how the world of Academia doesn't account for p...

Joining us today is Board Certified Cardiologist and Founder of Walk With a Doc, Dr. David Sabgir! Dr. David is the epitome of walking the walk in the health industry. About 20 years ago, after feeling frustrated with how little he felt he could do for the activity and exercise of patients, Dr. David invited all of his patients to a walk in the park with him and his family on the weekend. Thus, a...

Today's episode is all about SKIN with Carolyn Yachanin, founder and CEO of Copina Co, a plant based collagen company born out of her experience healing her cystic acne and gut health issues through holistic medicine. We journey through Carolyn's story with cystic acne, gut health, and getting on prescriptions for her skin from a VERY young age! We journey through the pressure of having constantly...

Today on the podcast is me! This is the first of many to come KYPO Solocasts. I wanted to dive into Adrenal Fatigue and Burnout, since this is way, way too close to home for me. I speak often about pace, stress, and productivity because those are my own personal vices, the areas I have to be on guard from daily. Today, I want to explain the physiological response to hustle culture, and give you th...

It was such an honor to have this conversation with Emma Loewe, Senior Sustainability Editor at mindbodygreen and Author of Return to Nature, The New Science of How Natural Landscapes Restore Us. Is it okay to admit this was probably my favorite podcast I have ever recorded?   In this episode, we dive into what it looks like to simplify wellness, and without being too cheesy, to Return to Nature....

This week’s conversation is with Jessica THE Sports RD, you know, the one who works with the LA Clippers, who dances on tiktok to make fun of blasphemous nutrition misinformation? Yeah, that one. I loved getting to dive into Jessica’s story, from disordered eating as a body builder to teaching the world’s super athletes how to eat. We talk about the integral and surprising role RUGBY had in recove...

For the FIRST KYPOdcast Episode of the Second Season, PLEASE WELCOME ASHLEY STANEK, our newest, hippest, and smartest KYPO Coach and Functional Nutritionist! Today we dive into Ashley’s story and how messy and non- linear a “health journey" can really be. We get pretty raw on the perils of the Gymnastics, Ballet, and Long Distance Running fields on a young Childs relationship to their body, and th...

Today on the podcast we have Whitney Mundell, Founder of Restored Nutrition and Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. Whitney is passionate about helping people restore balance to their bodies, in the same way she worked through her own IBS and health struggles. Today we dive into the meaning of RESTORED. Why does our health need to be restored? Why may your relationship to food need some T...

"If you are giving over 50% of your thoughts towards your food, weighing, counting, and calculating every bite, are you controlling your food or is your food controlling you?" Ahhh, macronutrients. You may have heard about these if you have been in the wellness space long enough. You may have even been tracking them for the last decade! Sam and I wanted to take a moment to elaborate on the what an...

Today on the podcast we have Lindsay Taylor, Pregnancy and Postpartum Nutrition Coach, Doula, and author of The Food Doula Cookbook. Lindsay is rooted in evidence-based nutrition without guilt and shame, fear mongering, or “should-ing” people into behavior change. This episode is the nutrition version of what to expect while you’re expecting! In this deep dive through each trimester you will learn...

Today on the podcast we are Simplifying SIBO with Phoebe Lapine! Phoebe is the Author of Sibo Made Simple and The Wellness Project, she is a gut detective, and a recipe developer for those doomed to restrictive elimination diets for health conditions. After an incredibly inspiring wellness journey and experiment (that actually turned into a book!), Phoebe started down a rabbit hole of what it take...

Today on the podcast we have Lauren and Renee, the Biohacker Babes! They are sisters insanely passionate about teaching others how to discover their own unique bodies through the world of biohacking. Biohacking: making changes to benefit our biology to anything that is impacting your internal and external environment. We are all biohackers, to some degree, but what if actually started to pay atten...

Today on the podcast we have Ali Bonar (@alibonar), Co Founder of AvoKween and Granola Butter and one of the most authentic voices you can find on orthorexia, body image, and entrepreneurship. Ali and I dive into her entire journey from orthorexia, which is an eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. From studying Nutrition, to abusing nutrition, binging, and turni...

Today on the Podcast we have Courtney Bursich, @organic_blondie, an AADP Board Certified Health Coach and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner.  Courtney is passionate about gut health, understanding toxins, and finding the best way to beat disease and live our best lives. Courtney and I dive into some of the questions we wish people were asking: -What are environmental exposures and how d...

Today I get to welcome Laurence Annez, a Certified Health, Nutrition, and Life Coach, specializing in PCOS and the holistic approach to health and happiness. Laurence got into the niche of PCOS because she walked through it herself, was devastated herself, and works to heal and take charge of her own physiology every day. What is PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome)? The most common endocrine disord...

It’s a joy to introduce to you Brendan Vermeire, or @The_Holistic_Savage to the KYPO Podcast today! Brian is a Functional Medicine Educator and CEO of Metabolic Solutions Institute where he teaches that the best medicine is teaching people how not to need it. We dive into some biology, some issues with Big Pharma, some existential crises, and a bit of what you can do in your own life to live a lit...

On this week’s podcast, Sam and I dive deep into one of the most pervasive times of the year for diet culture thoughts. January 1st. Sam and I treat this podcast as we would a coaching session. We talk you through the ways we coach clients towards better, more transformative goals, clearer implementation, and sustainability. Here’s what we cover: THE ISSUE WITH CHRONIC STARTING OVER -Starting over...

Welcome to the rawest, most vulnerable KYPO podcast yet. Every part of my primal instinct to protect myself began to surface when sharing some of these stories about disordered eating. HOWEVER, if I had heard this message when I was in my darkest, most unhealthy moments, it would have saved me sooner and made me realize I was not alone. I hope this does the same for you. "We have this health indus...

ALL THINGS GLUTEN: When it comes to gluten free products, we see a phenomenon called the “health halo” come into play. It’s gluten free so it HAS to be healthy, right? WRONG. You can go gluten free and feel much better. You can go gluten free and actually feel worse. HOW? -gluten free does not mean healthy. -gluten free does not mean weight loss. -you may not have a sensitivity to gluten. -you may...

When you think of getting healthier you think of a cornucopia of fruits and vegetables, someone hiking with a water bottle in hand, or people exercising with a smile on their face. Essentially, we just picture ourselves in a probiotic commercial. But what about SLEEPING? The marines glamorize functioning pretty darn well without it, we seem to get by okay on caffeine even if we aren't sleeping wel...