Naked Nutrition - The LGBTQ+ Health Podcast

LGBTQ+ health and well-being can span over a huge subject area which include HIV support, transgender nutrition, fertility for those considering IVF treatment, substance use and addiction, sexual health, mental health and also weight management and fitness.

My aim in this podcast is to bring experts together to talk about various subjects with can offer practical tips for all gay men, lesbians, transgendered individuals, bisexuals, non-binary or allies.

Jacoby Ballard is a social justice educator and yoga teacher who leads workshops and trainings around the country on diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a yoga teacher with 20 years of experience, he leads workshops, retreats, teacher trainings, teaches at conferences, and runs the Resonance mentorship program for certified yoga teachers to find their niche and calling. In 2008, Jacoby co-founded Third Root Community Health Centre in Brooklyn, to work at the nexus of healing and social justice. Since 2006, Jacoby has taught Queer and Trans Yoga, a space for queer folks to unfurl and cultivate resilience and received Yoga Journal's Game Changer Award in 2014 and Good Karma Award in 2016. Jacoby has taught in schools, hospitals, non profit and business offices, a maximum security prison, a recovery centre, a cancer centre, LGBT centres, gyms, a veteran’s centre, and yoga studios. He lives with his partner, child, and innumerable plant friends on unceded Goshute, Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone land, now known as Salt Lake City, Utah. More at jacobyballard.net.

Jacoby's book, A Queer Dharma, is released 23rd November 2021.

In this episode, we discuss:

• How Jacoby got into yoga and meditation
• Why did Jacoby write A Queer Dharma
• Forgiveness - this can be so hard in the LGBTQ+ community.
• How we deal with anger
• Integration of self-love
• The queer and Buddhism link
• Equanimity
• Beyond the physical yoga

In this episode, we speak to Miguel who is a clinical neuroscientist and Nutritionist. We cover gut health from top to bottom which may be a big thing on the minds of LGBTQ+ individuals when it comes to sex. We speak about:

• The brain and gut health
• IBS and what it means
• What the two types of fibres are you need to know about and when to have them
• What foods to avoid for sex
• Douching
• Foods and Supplements that may help your sex life

Robyn is a Clinical Nutritional Therapist with a specialised interest in the Functional Medicine approach to health. Her passion for the healing power of food, has led her to work with complex cases, involving multiple diagnoses, and chronic health issues such as ME, auto-immune diseases and fibromyalgia. Robyn works with patients to nutritionally support their bodies, so that they can heal. She has successfully helped many people around the world improve their health and increase their quality of life.

In this episode we discuss the impact of childhood trauma and stress on chronic health conditions. We discuss fear, neglect and the daily micro-aggressions of past and present that LGBTQ+ people experience and how they impact your health. Robyn explains how to assess your current stress hormone status as well as nutriton and lifestyle modifications which can support your overall health and well-being.

For more information about Robyn then please visit her website: https://www.robynpuglia.com/

Damon Holzum is a sex positive clinical therapist based in L.A. where he sees clients in person and online. He is passionate about working on de-stigmatisation of all things sex and sexual with a focus on the LGBTQ+ community; polyamory, open alternative sexual practices, sex worker, kinked affirmatives, general couples counselling and thoughts and feelings and families.

In this episode we discuss: shame and sexuality, Covid-19 and impact on gay men, heteronormative ideals, sexual roles and stigma, shaming within the community and rejection.