Regenerative Farming Tour & Fat Soluble Vitamins
Regenerative Farming Tour & Fat-Soluble Vitamins: Why Your Health Depends on Real Food
Discover how traditional farming practices produce nutrient-dense foods rich in fat-soluble vitamins essential for hormonal health, fertility, and overall wellness.
Episode #130: Regenerative Farming Tour & Fat-Soluble Vitamins
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My 8-Year Journey with Regenerative Agriculture
In this revelatory episode, I take you along on my EPIC adventure visiting a local Pennsylvania regenerative farm where I've sourced my food for the past eight years. This isn't just about shopping local—it's about reconnecting with the fundamental source of human nutrition that modern food systems have obscured.
The True Value of Nutrient-Dense Foods
I delve into the extraordinary benefits of consuming foods raised using regenerative principles:
- Fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K2) found abundantly in pasture-raised animal products
- Why these nutrien...
Your Inner Stress Barometer
In this episode, I talk about what I'm calling your inner "stress barometer" which notifies you when your mind and body are under too much strain.
Listen to Episode #89: Your Inner Stress Barometer
On iTunes [ HERE ] or Spotify [ HERE ]
When you become aware of your inner stress barometer- it can help notify you when you need to give your body more of what it needs. In order to restore your equilibrium you have to find the right balance in your life in order to restore harmony.
Does your body "act up" when you are stressed?
Do you get strange sensations that make you worry you might have something seriously wrong with you?
Do you listen to your inner needs when you are spread too thin, or do you "power" through it, depleting yourself further?
There's a line in the Lord of Rings in which Bilbo tells Gandalf that “I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
If you can relate to that ^ be sure to tune in for a loving, yet firm, reminder of why this is not s...
PODCAST: Kidneys need minerals, not medication
In this episode, I'm talking about the health of your kidneys. Most of us take our kidneys for granted every single day. We don't really think about them until one day something goes wrong, like kidney stones for example. It's important to know in advance that the kidneys need minerals, not medication.
Listen to Episode #79: Kidneys Need Minerals, Not Medication : Find A Joy To Be Me on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify
The kidneys maintain mineral and healthy fluid balance.
But you've got to give them the raw ingredients to work with so they don't struggle to do their job.
✅Kidneys need hydration to be ON POINT.
True hydration is water plus minerals
Dehydration concentrates calcium and other minerals in the urine.
✅Water follows salt. Salt has to be ON POINT.
Real salt consumed for your daily functioning needs.
✅Magnesium has to be ON POINT.
The kidney has a vital role in magnesium homeostasis, deficiency (which is common)causes them to struggle
✅A potassium rich diet ...
PODCAST: Hair Analysis vs Blood Analysis
In this episode, I talk you through the difference between hair analysis and blood analysis.
Hair analysis (HTMA) and blood analysis are unique and measure different areas of the body. Since HTMA is less familiar, I thought I'd expound on how it offers a window into the cells to help balance body chemistry.
Listen to Episode #78 Hair Analysis vs Blood Analysis : Find A Joy To Be Me on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify
Modern medicine is unfamiliar with hair analysis because it's more of a corrective path to health versus diagnostic. We have to remember the allopathic model is very directly tied to a corrupt system with a focus on prescribing medication and surgery primarily. They are not trained in preventative medicine.
Nutritional Therapy centers on the belief that real health can be achieved through a holistic and bio-individual approach to nutrition and lifestyle.This functional approach to health focuses on restoring balance to the body through a nutrient dense diet, natur...
PODCAST: Mineral Balancing for Blood Pressure
In this episode, I chat about the many moving parts behind high blood pressure and how medication will never correct the underlying imbalance. The problem with a medication only approach is because the imbalances affect more than just one function.
Listen to Episode #65: Mineral Balancing for Blood Pressure: Find A Joy To Be Me on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify
Minerals are KEY in regulating blood pressure. Today we have so many mineral deficiencies or excesses that impact our physiology and they need to be looked at together. This is how we avoid ISOLATIONISTIC thinking that leads to adding bandaids on top of bandaids and never ever correcting function.
I share trends/patterns and imbalances I see in my practice working with HTMA that correlate with blood pressure. Unfortunately, high blood pressure is not assessed thoroughly in the allopathic world.
I like to solve the biochemistry problem versus thinking we are 'solving' the problem with a medication, which is just a banda...
How Mineral Imbalances Impact Our Personality, Emotions & Physical Health
In this podcast episode I was a guest on my friend Cailee of The Ripened Heart's podcast. We chatted about how I've observed that mineral imbalances do affect our emotions and personality in addition to our physical health.
Did you know that having a mineral imbalance can have an impact on your personality and how you see the world?
Mineral balancing is a delicate dance because all minerals have a relationship with each other. Take too much calcium and you get a magnesium deficiency. Consume too much salt and you deplete potassium. It's complicated stuff! And with all of the stress we've been experiencing in the past year our bodies are more depleted of minerals than ever before.
Find this guest episode of mine with Cailee over HERE.
I shared some personal stories and examples so you can realize just how interconnected we are individually. As a whole person, it makes sense that all of who we are; mind, body, emotions, personality or soul is all connected. It's then really no surpris...
PODCAST: What is Mineral Balancing?
Several years ago, when I began creating my practitioner program teaching others about hair tissue mineral analysis, I had to come up with a name for it. We decided on holistic mineral balancing and it stuck. It then seemed to be a term others were using too; mineral balancing.
In this podcast episode, I expound on what exactly it is in case you ever wondered.
Listen to Episode #59: What is Mineral Balancing - Find A Joy To Be Me on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify
Holistic Mineral Balancing is essentially a way to help guide a whole system approach to restoring health through understanding the mineral system of the body and using a tissue analysis for guidance on an appropriate whole body approach.
Mineral balancing is not just about minerals alone, however, it recognizes that minerals run the show so to speak and need to be addressed from the start so whole body function can be recover and optimized.
Want more episodes like this one? Check out; Mineral balancing for blood pr...
PODCAST: Why Practitioners Love Using HTMA
In this episode, I have a conversation with Margaret Barry, a fellow practitioner who went through my HTMA Practitioner Jumpstart program. She shared why she wanted to get started with hair tissue mineral analysis for herself (and family) as well as add it to her virtual nutritional therapy practice. I think you will lover her enthusiasm about what she experienced and learned.
Listen to Episode #48: Why Practitioners Love Using HTMA : Find A Joy To Be Me on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify
You can also WATCH this conversation via video, on this page HERE. There are several other practitioner testimonials as well. Margaret's is the only video on the page.
I also shared in a past blog/podcast; How I help practitioners get started with HTMA. You can read or listen to that episode HERE.
More and more practitioners are realizing the incredible importance of functional testing in addition to how not knowing how to address minerals is a missing piece for their practice. Without miner...
How I Help Practitioners Get Started with Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis
I've shared my story about how I personally got started using hair tissue analysis (HTMA) in my holistic health practice (HERE). In this post, I am here to share how I got started helping other holistic practitioners, primarily functional nutritional therapy practitioners, learn how to interpret and integrate HTMA for their own practices.
Listen to the podcast version of this post- Episode #47 : Find A Joy To Be Me on iTunes, iHeartRadio, Stitcher or Spotify
I often felt like I needed more support and more insight. The truth is, I was already knowledgeable enough to help people and had a lot to offer the world. However, I felt I lacked experience and wasn’t clear on what was possible for me as a practitioner.
I had a DEEP desire to learn more and my top desire was to get my own hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA) done after reading some amazing things about this test. Not to mention, my intuition told me minerals were going to be a key player in my own healing as well as for others.
T...
You Need To Know How To Put Your Health First
Over the years I've worked with a lot of women to help unravel their health concerns. One of the biggest things I've noticed is that it's really hard for women to put themselves and their health first. And I'm on a mission to shift that paradigm.
Your health is your greatest asset and gift. It's no one else's job to take care of your physical health. Only you can do that. Sure other people can encourage you, but no one can do it for you.
I learned the hard way and didn't put my health first for a long time as an adult. I wasn't really modeled how. I grew up on processed food just like you probably did. Once I finally learned better, I to make the choice to do better. So when my health finally did come crashing down, I finally took heed and started putting my health first.
I hope I can help others not wait that long. You can do so much NOW to prevent your health from crashing, but only if you put your health first. Stop making it a backburner priority and put it on the front burner...
