Healthy but practical living to improve our overall health with Jessica Campbell

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04/16/19 • 51 min

Who is Jessica Campbell?

Jessica Campbell, MS, NTP is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner with a master’s degree in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. She sees patients at the Freyja Clinic in Redwood City and Love Heal Thrive in San Carlos. Jessica runs seasonal detoxes to help you fall in love with your food, your body, and your life. You can find her blog at http://foodfoundation.guru where she shares holistic health tips and healthy recipes for families that love comfort food. Jessica speaks yoga, Ayurveda, paleo, keto, ancestral diets, microbiome, mindfulness, and her superpower is the language of dance.

Show Highlights

Jessica shares her journey into human nutrition and functional medicine
Terri and Jessica talk about lifestyle changes we can make to improve our health and the importance of reducing the stress in our lives by getting our bodies into parasympathetic response
Jessica talks about the work she does with her patients to help them improve their health and how she works with them
Jessica and Terri discuss hormone changes in perimenopause/menopause and how we need to talk about this and do more to help our bodies better deal with the changes
Jessica talks about how our bodies are bombarded and are having trouble with dealing with the bombardment
Terri asks about how Jessica’s services are paid...out of pocket or with insurance and they discuss health inequities
Jessica loves working with postpartum, working moms to design programs that work for them and fits within their lives with their families
Terri comments on how confused we are about what is healthy and what we should be consuming, and Jessica goes on to talk about how our bodies don’t recognize certain foods any longer

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Making small and incremental lifestyle changes can have major impact on our lives.

References in the Podcast

Planned Parenthood: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/facts-figures
University of Western States: https://www.uws.edu/
Article on listening to Mozart reducing allergic response: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14977243/
Article on how being outside is good for your health: http://bit.ly/HealthBenefitsArticle

Contact

You can follow Jessica on Twitter @JessicaFoodF, on Facebook @foodfoundationguru and her blog http://foodfoundation.guru.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Who is Jessica Campbell?

Show Highlights

Jessica shares her journey into human nutrition and functional medicine
Terri and Jessica talk about lifestyle changes we can make to improve our health and the importance of reducing the stress in our lives by getting our bodies into parasympathetic response
Jessica talks about the work she does with her patients to help them improve their health and how she works with them
Jessica and Terri discuss hormone changes in perimenopause/menopause and how we need to talk about this and do more to help our bodies better deal with the changes
Jessica talks about how our bodies are bombarded and are having trouble with dealing with the bombardment
Terri asks about how Jessica’s services are paid...out of pocket or with insurance and they discuss health inequities
Jessica loves working with postpartum, working moms to design programs that work for them and fits within their lives with their families
Terri comments on how confused we are about what is healthy and what we should be consuming, and Jessica goes on to talk about how our bodies don’t recognize certain foods any longer

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Making small and incremental lifestyle changes can have major impact on our lives.

References in the Podcast

Planned Parenthood: https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/facts-figures
University of Western States: https://www.uws.edu/
Article on listening to Mozart reducing allergic response: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14977243/
Article on how being outside is good for your health: http://bit.ly/HealthBenefitsArticle

Contact

You can follow Jessica on Twitter @JessicaFoodF, on Facebook @foodfoundationguru and her blog http://foodfoundation.guru.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

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undefined - A conversation about philosophy, mental health and expressing feelings with Terri's son Adam as he is about to turn 18 and launch into the real world

A conversation about philosophy, mental health and expressing feelings with Terri's son Adam as he is about to turn 18 and launch into the real world

Show Highlights

Terri asks Adam about turning 18, looking forward to college, and working with his therapist for the last year
Adam shares the four truths he knows about himself and how he’s learned to feel and display his feelings
Terri encourages Adam to seek help when he needs it in college
Terri comments on how, as GenXers, she and her husband have parented by providing love, support, and have been intentionally more permissive
Adam talks about being an outlier, playing a part in life, and shares his thoughts on hype beasts (Urban Dictionary: a hype beast is a kid that collect clothing, shoes, and accessories for the sole purpose of impressing others)

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Life is going to be pretty dull in the Mead household when Adam goes off to college.

Contact

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

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Terri talks with Dr. Samantha Nazareth to discuss and dispel the myths around the gut microbiome.

Terri talks with Dr. Samantha Nazareth about the evolution of our gut microbiomes, the importance of diverse data in gut research, and ways for us to improve and monitor our gut health.

Who is Samantha Nazareth?

Dr. Samantha Nazareth, MD, FACG is double board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology/hepatology, who practices in New York City. She is also a noted researcher, writer, and speaker on nutrition, wellness, and the microbiome. Dr. Nazareth has research published in The New York Times and continues to be sought out by the media as an authoritative source on a wide range of topics that include eating, wellness and gastrointestinal health. Her work has been featured on CNN, Huffington Post, US News & World Report, Women’s Health, Bustle, POPSUGAR, Shape, and Reader’s Digest, to name a few. She is also a medical advisory board member for Women’s Health magazine

Show Highlights

Sam talks about the various microbiomes and how the gut microbiome is the body’s first interaction with the outside world
Sam explains how delivery at birth, how you were feed after birth, and the other factors that continue to shift our microbiomes
Sam talks about age 3 when the gut microbiome reaches its ‘adult’ state
Terri and Sam talk about the importance of diverse data in the research and tech around the gut microbiome and how we need to move away from self reporting
Sam shares her tips for women to better and proactively manage our health through adding more plants to your diet, reducing sugar, and checking out your poop

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Younger people are dying from colon cancer and screening starts at age 45 now!

References in the Podcast

Floragraph: http://www.floragraph.me/
uBiome: https://ubiome.com/
Viome: https://www.viome.com/
Jessica Campbell, MS, NTP: https://foodfoundation.guru/
HITLab: https://www.hitlab.org/

Contact

You can reach Sam through her website www.drsamnazareth.com and on Instagram/Twitter: @drsamnazareth.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium: https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected].

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.