LIVE WELL PODCAST | Ep #51 - Inflammatory Bowel Disease with Alexa Federico
Alexa was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at age 12 which set her on the journey to consider food as medicine and understand how to support her body holistically. She now works with others to help them learn how to utilize food in support of their health and not against it. Join us as we speak in depth about Inflammatory Bowel Disease and ways to support healing!
LIVE WELL PODCAST | EP #29 - Managing autoimmune disease without giving up your life with Phoebe Lapine
Phoebe Lapine is a food and health writer, gluten-free chef, blogger, recipe developer and speaker. She was born and raised in New York City, where she continues to live and eat. Her memoir, The Wellness Project, chronicles her journey with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis and how she finally found the middle ground between health and hedonism by making one lifestyle change, one month at a time. Join us as we speak about managing an autoimmune disease and the pursuit of health without giving up your life!
5 Ways to improve your digestion
The processes of digestion is a vitally important piece of the puzzle that determines what nutrients we actually receive from our food and how our body uses those nutrients as fuel. No matter what our symptoms are, we could all use some help optimizing our digestive process, because it has such a big impact on our overall health. Read on to learn why a healthy digestive system is so critically important (especially if you have an autoimmune disease) and simple 5 ways to improve yours!
LIVE WELL PODCAST | EP #23 - Using symptom journaling to crack the code on your health issues with Laura Mulkerne
Do you feel like your symptoms are a big mystery? Your digestive issues and your aches and pains seem to stay constant no matter what you do. You feel like you’re doing everything “right” and can’t understand why your symptoms still persist. You can’t tell if cutting out gluten is actually helping you feel better or if it’s one of the many other interventions you’ve tried that’s making a difference. Our diet and the things we do on a daily basis can affect us in so many different ways. Want to know how what you're eating and drinking is actually affecting you? Laura Mulkerne, creator of The Food Diary, is here to talk to us about symptom journaling as a tool to better understand and manage chronic illness.