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153: Ancient Physician Wisdom

I have a total crush on Hippocrates - a Greek doctor who lived over 2000 years ago. I am blown away by his instinct and foresight and the way he practiced medicine. He prescribed real food, walking, sunshine, fasting, rest, massages and wine. 🙌🏻 He’s the one who said all disease begins in the gut, something science is now starting to prove.

In this week’s episode, we’re seeing how the advice of Hippocrates - who is considered the father of medicine - aligns with the provision of THE Father of Medicine. He left us some key nuggets of health wisdom and is our “honored guest” on the podcast this week. This is all about holistic medicine at its finest - come listen!

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Wednesday Word: Struggling with Oreos

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

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152: The Iron Episode with Michael Rutherford, FNTP

Fatigue, shortness of breath, restless legs, high cholesterol, circulation issues and gastrointestinal problems are a few of the symptoms you can experience with poor iron regulation. Being too high or too low are equally problematic and, yet, many people are advised based on the ferritin marker on their blood panel which is a poor way to assess iron levels.

In this week’s podcast episode expert Michael Rutherford explains the markers, the foods, the supplements and everything you need to know when it comes to iron. Listen and learn about one of the most critical minerals in your body!

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Wednesday Word: The Original Grocery Store

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

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151: Healing Hormones Naturally with Dr Beth Cook

Many women who struggle with their hormones feel so lost and frustrated. They want to get their health on track but are given such limited (and often terrible) options by their doctors. Things like - birth control, HRT, a hysterectomy, depression meds or even being told they’re totally fine when they’re not.

In this week’s episode Dr Beth Cook and I talk about what to address when it comes to your hormones instead of band-aiding it with prescriptions or surgery.

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Wednesday Word: Cot Buddies

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

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150: What Is A Biblical Diet?

There are a lot of books and differing opinions about what a Biblical diet is. I get asked about this often - mostly regarding whether or not we should all be plant-based vegans because God put Adam and Eve in The Garden. Spoiler alert: we sinned and got kicked out of The Garden AND God gave us meat to eat (not only that, He even specified what kind - see Genesis 9:3 and Leviticus 11).
Another spoiler alert is that we don’t all live in the Middle East and so what was native to Biblical people is not necessarily “the” food list every person is meant to follow. There’s more critical thinking we need to do when it comes to being in alignment with a Biblical diet. That’s what we’re talking about in this week’s episode: the overarching Biblical concepts that best inform our approach to Biblical eating and what it means.

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Wednesday Word: Esau was Hangry

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

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149: Discipline, Restriction and Disordered Eating with Carly Stagg, RN, FNTP

Carly’s story starts out like many of ours do when we set a health goal– eliminating unhealthy foods and exercising regularly. But what began as a pursuit of health quickly unraveled into disordered eating and a constant compulsion to exercise. She restricted her food, she worked out incessantly and she panicked in social settings that interfered with her food and exercise plans.

In this week’s podcast episode, my friend and colleague Carly bravely shares her story in hopes of shedding some light on the spectrum of disordered eating to eating disorders.

Now, on the other side of it, she’s also researched the fascinating connection of dysregulated hunger hormones and neurotransmitters associated with these conditions.

There are lots of signs and behaviors we need to be aware of for ourselves, our friends, and our daughters. Listen in for important information on this sensitive topic.

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Wednesday Word: The Eye of the Beholder

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

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148: Covid Prep Pack

I didn’t do anything to artificially lower my fever when I recently had Covid. Unless a fever gets dangerously high, it’s best to let it do its thing. Fever is our body’s natural immune response to help kill infection. Even though fever is inconvenient and doesn’t feel great, it serves a purpose. Our perception is that it’s something we “get” as a result of being sick instead of looking at it as a tool our body uses to help us get well.

Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said, “Give me a fever, and I can cure any disease.”

In her book Gut and Physiology syndrome, Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride says,

“Fever is good for us. It is a major tool our immune system uses for killing disease-causing microbes, destroying toxins and removing cancer cells. If you have a fever for a few days and do not interfere with it, you clean your body, remove chronic infections, prevent cancer formation and rejuvenate yourself. During fever your immune system re-sets itself, re-balances its various branches, re-groups and becomes more effective at dealing with the environment. It is particularly vital to allow fever to run in our babies and small children. Children are born with immature immune systems, which require education. The first fever your child develops is a major educational experience for the child’s immune system. If the fever is not allowed to run, the child’s immune system has missed an important lesson. Instead, it has received a wrong lesson, which may lay the ground for allergies and autoimmunity in the future.”
In this week’s podcast episode, I’m talking about this and other approaches I took when I recently got Covid. Come listen!

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Wednesday Word: Top 10 Health Tips

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

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147: Medical Field Lies with Amanda Wilcox, RN

In this week’s episode I’m interviewing Amanda Wilcox, aka:The Uncensored Nurse. She left conventional medicine after witnessing it fail herself, her family, her friends and her patients. She started making connections after both her daughter and her best friend’s son suffered reactions from their immunization shots.

Amanda personally continues to battle hormonal issues after spending years on birth control.

She wants to know why doctors take out things like tonsils - lymphatic glands that play a role in immune function - without considering root cause issues.

She exposes information like how J.D. Rockefeller influenced the death of holistic medicine in America in favor of big pharma.

You never know what kind of information she’s going to share but it’s always fascinating! Come listen to this week’s episode where we open all kinds of cans of worms. 😂

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Wednesday Word: Shiny Diet Syndrome

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

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146: Why Low Carb Works So Well

You may have heard that a low carb diet is effective for health and weight loss but do you know why? In this episode, we’re talking about the top three reasons a low carb diet works so well and how many grams to target to stay in the low carb range.

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Wednesday Word: Seasonal Beauty

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

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145: The B- Approach to Health and Weight Loss

Many people are very black or white, on or off, A or F when it comes to their health goals. If they don’t do it perfectly, they consider it a failure and often give up. But when your kid comes home with B (or even less), do you say: You might as well stop trying and get an F? And you might as well make it the F of all F’s? Let’s see how low you can go!

Of course we don’t. And, yet, it’s what we do with our health goals.

Well, I wasn’t an A today, I didn’t do it perfectly, so forget it, where’s the ice cream and the chips and the vodka?

We take our B- straight to the toilet and flush all of our efforts and previous good work down the tubes because we didn’t do it perfectly. One of the hardest things we have to learn is grace for being imperfect without allowing ourselves to pity party into deeper failure. Do you know how much weight you could lose and health you could gain with B- work? A lot my friend. You can accomplish much more in your consistent imperfection than in your sporadic perfection.

That’s what we’re talking about in this week’s podcast episode. Come listen to more about

the B- Approach health and weight loss.

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Wednesday Word: Every Perfect Gift

Word Up, friends! Exciting news! Each Wednesday I’m bringing you a quick hit of Scripture Inspiration to keep you in His Word and remind you of all of the power and blessings available to you as a Christian. These mini-episodes are only a few minutes long and a wonderful way to be instantly lifted in Spirit, Mind and Body. Listen in for more love and light in your week! ✨

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