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135: Dietary Needs of Babies: Food Allergies, Meat vs Plants, Iron and Responsive Feeding Styles with Megan Garcia a Chinese Medicine Practitioner Mar 07, 2023

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What are the dietary needs of babies? What we eat directly impacts our health, and what we feed our children can change the course of their life's health journey.

Guest: Megan Garcia

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6:55 Dietary needs for babies
14:49 Exposing babies to allergens
24:06 Using responsive feeding style and baby-led weaning
34:37 Why are food allergies so common in kids?
38:24 Not every good reaction is a sign of allergy

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134: Crash Course in Functional Nutrition: Sleep, Stress, Genetics, Healthfully Dieting (vs trend Dieting), Deficient Nutrients & More with Andrea Nakayama Feb 28, 2023

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Andrea is leading a movement to transform the health industry, empowering patients and practitioners alike with the systems and tools of Functional Nutrition.

Guest: Andrea Nakayama

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4:39 The state of chronic health conditions in the US
8:33 Gut health tests - when to test and why a diagnosis is just one piece
20:40 What is pre-diabetes and why 1 in 3 Americans has it
33:14 Finding diet health in a way that nurtures & includes instead of removes foods
38:21 One of the biggest deficient nutrients is fiber - why it's so important

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Podcast: 125: Our Cells Are Overwhelmed with Sugar! How Fasting, Stress, Sleep, Protein Intake and More Impact your Glucose Levels with Carlee Hayes, RDN

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133: Well That Sucked, Now What? How to Come Back from Hard Places with Author, Dr. Neeta Bhushan Feb 21, 2023

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I love talking about the hard decisions the hard times in life and how to move through them. This episode is just that with the author of That Sucked, Now What.

Dr. Bhushan shares her framework for moving through challenges and how the universe can teach us if we listen.

Guest: Dr. Neeta Bhushan

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5:41 Growing up as an immigrant in a household with high pressure to achieve
11:44 Some of the major tools to help personal development
18:23 How to active good stress
23:43 How to physically catch yourself before an emotional fall
30:36 Why you should lean into the suck (not away)

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Book: That Sucked, Now What by dr. Neeta Bhushan

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132: Holistic Modalities Combined With Conventional Medicine to Support Your Child's Immune System: RSV, Ear Infections, Fevers & Antibiotic Use with Dr. Elisa Song Feb 14, 2023

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The media has been full of stories of children's hospitals filling up and kids getting sicker more often and worse since the lockdowns of COVID 3 years ago. What's really going on with our kid's immune systems?

Today's guest is a doctor who uses holistic modalities combined with conventional medicine to support your child's immune system and health.

Guest: Dr. Elisa Song

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2:41 Are kids getting sicker right now? What exactly is going on with RSV and other diseases
9:24 What parents should focus on for immunity resilience in kids
20:53 When fevers are dangerous and when you should let them run their course
34:26 When antibiotics should be used
43:54 How to choose the right doctor for your family

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Healthykidshappykids.com

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131: Healing After a C-Section, Recovery, Scar Massage, Underwear Tips and More Feb 08, 2023

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When my home birth plan didn't go as planned, I ended up having a cesarean birth in the hospital. I've learned a lot about healing after a c-section since then.

My guest in this episode runs c-section rehabilitation.

Guest: Janette Yee

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8:01 The gap in care & why normal surgery release protocols don't happen for c-sections
19:03 I just had a c-section - now what
30:50 How to help your scar heal faster
36:09 What to do instead of scar massage if you're unable to massage the area

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Janetteyee.com

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Podcast 118: MY BIRTH STORY

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130: Mini Check-in from Carly Before 2023: How it's Going, What's Up, and The Plan for Next Year Dec 06, 2022

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What to get excited about for the new year with Doing It Different with a quick check-in from Carly before 2023.

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Life with a newborn
Building a house
Envisioning the future
New topics and themes for the new year

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129: Balance Personal Growth & Relationship Growth and Enrich Your Sex Life with Science-Based Sex Research with Dr. Amy Muise Nov 22, 2022

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The science behind keeping the spark alive (and what this really means). Enrich your sex life when you learn the secrets of love and sex research.

Guest: Dr. Amy Muise

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The secret to keeping the spark alive in your relationship
How to plan date nights that deeper the connection with your partner
What to do when you and your partner have different sex drives
Resources for improving your relationship and sex life

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128: How Crawling As An Adult (and A Baby) Can Uplevel Your Brain, Attention Span, and Make Life Easier with In The Cortex Nov 15, 2022

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Movement impacts brain development in children. As adults, we can reorganize our brains and unlearn past trauma and patterns by recreating early movement in our bodies.

In the Cortex shares the mind-altering (literally) work they do to help people move from a disorganized brain to an organized brain (and what that means).

Guest: Dani & Paloma with In the Cortex

Highlights

3:45 Programing to support better brain function
12:21 The symptoms of a disorganized brain
14:02 Why babies crawl & the specific way the human brain develops
20:50 How you move tells the story of your nervous system
30:25 Reorganizing your brain by recreating early movement patterns
44:20 Support better learning habits in your children's brains

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127: Is Your Environment Poisoning Your Body? Common Sources of Toxin Exposure, How to Create a Non-Toxic Home and the Truth about Regulatory Measures in the US with Laura Adler Nov 08, 2022

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Many of us experience the most common sources of toxin exposure every day.

There are more than 84,000 chemicals approved for use in the United States, and nearly 99% of people, when tested, show contamination with several harmful toxins.

Guest: Lara Adler

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The most common sources of toxin exposure
The law that protects businesses that produce environmental toxins and why it's so hard for consumers to fight back
Environmental toxins and birth defects: What you need to know and when moms-to-be should to start decreasing chemical exposure
The easiest things you can do right now to start having a significant impact on your health

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126: HEALING HANDS: Mercier Therapy For Increased Fertility, Healing from C-Section and Bringing Blood Flow To Reproductive Organs with Dr. Jennifer Mercier Nov 01, 2022

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Dr. Jennifer Mercier is a naturopathic doctor and midwife with over a decade of experience. She is known for the creation of Mercier Therapy.

This episode is about how important bodywork is and how much it can really improve and help us live healthier lives and reach our goals.

Guest: Dr. Jennifer Mercier

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