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The Functional Aesthetician
The Functional Aesthetician
Author: Samantha Dench
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Join licensed esthetician and student of functional medicine, Samantha Dench, to explore the deeper connection between your skin, gut, and hormones. The mission is to help you get to the root cause of your skin problems so you understand what your skin is trying to tell you.
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This week on The Functional Aesthetician Podcast, we're talking about a full-body scan that found brain cancer with zero warning signs And how a metabolic approach helped beat cancer without chemo or radiation. My guest is Andrea Schaffer, an oncology nutrition consultant whose own cancer diagnosis came out of nowhere. A preventative full-body Prenuvo scan found a mass in her brain before she ever had a single symptom. Three and a half years later, she's cancer-free, and walking us thro...
This week on The Functional Aesthetician Podcast, we're talking about nutrition, gut health, hydration, and supplements worth taking. We also talk about why so many women hear "your labs are normal" and still don't feel like themselves. My guest is Jackie Klein, a board certified holistic health practitioner and author of Holistic Healing From the Inside Out. Jackie builds her approach on the foundational things that move the needle before testing or supplements even come into play. If ...
This week on The Functional Aesthetician Podcast, we're getting into the gut-brain connection, hidden toxins, and the sleep habits that can quietly disrupt your mental health with integrative psychiatrist Dr. Krishna Taneja. Dr. Taneja treats the whole person instead of just prescribing and moving on, looking at gut health, toxin exposure, nutrition, and sleep alongside traditional psychiatric care. If you've ever wondered why medication alone isn't fixing how you feel, or how something...
This week on The Functional Aesthetician Podcast, we're talking about protein and sleep, the two habits doing more for your energy after 40 than almost anything else. Plus we do a quick gut-check on the avocado oil controversy and why so many women over 40 are eating "clean," sleeping enough hours, and still feel tired, puffy, or stuck. My guest is Lillie Kane, YouTube creator and certified nutrition health coach whose own turnaround started far from a health studio. She didn't learn ho...
This week on The Functional Aesthetician Podcast, we brought Zuzu back to talk about something most of us don't think about until something feels off. EMFs, electromagnetic frequencies, the invisible fields coming off your phone, your WiFi router, your smart meter, and just about everything else plugged in around you. If you've been doing all the "right" things for your health and still can't figure out why you're not healing, this episode might be the missing piece. Back again is Karen...



