#Balance Banter

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E101: Easy Meals for Chronic Illness When You’re Too Tired to Cook

2026-10-1415:55

What do you eat when chronic illness leaves you too tired to cook? In Episode 101 of Balance Banter, Functional Nutrition Practitioner and Exercise Physiologist Kristie Calise shares simple, nourishing meal ideas for chronic fatigue, flare days, and those moments when making dinner feels completely overwhelming. Eating well with chronic illness does not have to mean preparing elaborate anti-inflammatory meals. Sometimes the goal is simply: How can I give my body protein, fiber, healthy fats, ...

E100- What to Do During a Chronic Illness Flare-Up

2026-09-1416:31

What should you do during a chronic illness flare-up? In Episode 100 of Balance Banter, Functional Nutrition Practitioner and Exercise Physiologist Kristie Calise shares a simple, gentle approach to supporting your body when chronic illness symptoms get louder. Whether your flare looks like increased fatigue, pain, inflammation, digestive symptoms, dizziness, nervous system overwhelm, or simply waking up knowing today is NOT going to be a good day, the first priority is simple: Rest does not ...

E99- After Symptom Tracking: What to Do Next With Chronic Illness

2026-08-1717:01

Symptom tracking can be incredibly helpful when chronic symptoms first begin. It can reveal patterns around food, movement, sleep, stress, menstrual cycles, and other triggers—but what do you do once you already know what's making you feel better or worse? In this episode of Balance Banter, Functional Nutrition Practitioner and Balance App founder Kristie Calise explains why symptom tracking has a time and a place—and why long-term chronic illness management eventually needs to move from simp...

E98- Working Out With Chronic Illness: Fighting for Your Life Back

2026-07-2016:23

How do you exercise with chronic illness without pushing your body into a flare? In this episode of Balance Banter, Exercise Physiologist and Functional Nutrition Practitioner Kristie Calise explains how to approach working out with chronic illness, POTS, fatigue, exercise intolerance, and fluctuating symptoms in a way that supports your body instead of fighting against it. When you live with chronic illness, exercise is not always about burning calories, losing weight, or looking a certain w...

E97- Visual Contrast Sensitivity Testing & Mold Illness

2026-06-2215:14

What if one of the most helpful screening tools for mold illness wasn't a blood test, urine test, or expensive laboratory assessment—but a simple visual test you can complete in just a few minutes? In this episode of Balance Banter, Functional Nutrition Practitioner Kristie Calise shares how Visual Contrast Sensitivity Testing (VCS) became one of the first clues in her own journey toward uncovering mold illness, Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), and the root cause of years of deb...

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