Welcome to the first episode of the Restorative Nourishment Podcast. This is your host, Alissa Segersten, functional medicine nutritionist and owner and founder of nourishingmeals.com, the meal planning solution for your unique dietary needs.

The purpose of this podcast is to help you go beyond the constraints of diet and help you tune into this innate wisdom you have to choose the foods that are right for you in each and every moment. We all have this innate ability to tune into this inner wisdom of our bodies and consume a diet that keeps us healthy, balanced and whole.

Diet and nutrition are absolutely foundational for restoring balance to the body so healing can take place, but it's often confusing to learn where to begin and what diet is best for you.

Part of this podcast is going to help to unravel these diet mysteries and help you choose continuously the foods and the diet that is right for you in each and every moment.

Additionally, without strong digestion, a healthy balanced gut microbiome, these are the trillions of bacteria and different microbes that inhabit your gut. The removal of foods your system is launching a reaction to. So these are your food sensitivity reactions to let's say gluten or dairy or corn or soy. This is what your immune system is perceiving as a threat and creating inflammation in your body. Without supporting your detox pathways, adding and missing nutrients, deep sleep, grounding and connection to the earth, as well as healthy relationships, healing can often become very challenging and often impaired.

Again, this podcast today is simply a brief overview of what's to come in the future.

Read the full blog post here: https://nourishingmeals.com/2025/01/episode-1-welcome-restorative-nourishment-podcast