Sugar Solved Podcast

Dr. Amanda is a chiropractor who focuses on Neuro-Optimization. Her tools and strategies aim to help people regulate and optimize their nervous systems.  When people undergo pain and stressful events in their life, their nervous system can become dysregulated. This shifts their body from the parasympathetic to the sympathetic nervous system.Over long periods of time, this could lead to various symptoms in one’s body.In her chiropractic practice, Dr. Amanda uses revolutionary approaches that are gentle, light touch, and specific.  Her motto is: "The doctor determines the diagnosis, the patient decides the prognosis". Dr.Amanda believes that patients have more power and control over their healing than they think. They simply need the tools and strategies to support them on their healing journey.In this episode, we discuss what neuro-optimization is and how we can use it to help heal our bodies from the inside out. You'll learn techniques you can do on your own in the comfort of your own home like breathwork and meditation.Connect with Amanda Chen:https://optimizemyhealing.com/https://www.instagram.com/dr.amandachan/https://www.facebook.com/neurooptimizationConnect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Jenna Volpe is a holistic-minded dietitian, functional nutritionist, clinical herbalist, and energy healing practitioner who helps people “crack their code” so they can finally address long-standing health issues at the root-cause level.As a “wounded healer” who has gone through her own gut-healing journey for the better, being forced to navigate her way through the mainstream healthcare system at an early age and finding great success, Jenna’s goal is for her first-hand lessons, wisdom, and insights acquired through those experiences to now help to pave the way for many others.Jenna is a believer in the power of “food as medicine” and the ability of the body to heal itself.As a student of life, Jenna practices what she preaches and makes time each week to keep up with continuing education so she can stay updated on the latest cutting-edge research for her clients and community!In this episode, we discuss how to get to the root cause of mystery health ailments by diving deep into your microbiome and gut health. Learn about pre and probiotics and how healing your gut can heal your body overall.Connect with Jenna Volpe:https://www.wholeisticliving.com https://www.facebook.com/wholeisticliving https://www.instagram.com/wholeisticliving Connect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Marion Reinson is the executive director of Eating For Your Health by Suppers, a nonprofit in Princeton, New Jersey that takes nutrition out of the clinic and into the home kitchen, where real change happens.Under Reinson, the group educates participants about how to source and prepare delicious, whole-food meals—without processed ingredients. She works meaningfully and inclusively with all stakeholders including schools, higher-education institutions, older adult communities, faith- and civic-based organizations, businesses, and other local nonprofits to deliver robust, judgment-free nutritional curriculums rooted in science and research.She believes that with the right foods, anything seems possible—improved health, sharper focus, a stronger spirit. A better you. As the executive director of Eating For Your Health by Suppers, Reinson leads a team of experienced medical advisors and dietitians who tailor each program's curriculum to the specific dietary needs, tastes, budget, background, and culture of the course’s participants.That's because Reinson knows every person is unique. No single approach to food is suitable for everyone. So, the nonprofit doesn’t tell you what to eat. Instead, it advises which foods are proven to strengthen your mind and body, leaving the rest up to you. You decide which foods are the best and most practical for you. And they don’t judge.The organization is rooted in several key pillars. The most important one, perhaps, is ensuring a judgment-free environment. Eating for Your Health knows people don't learn well when they feel judged. Here, they never will be.Prior to being appointed executive director, Reinson was an advisory board member for the group under founder Dorothy Mullen, who started the nonprofit by coordinating shared meal meetings in homes and public spaces.Outside nutrition, Reinson has 20-plus years of experience in business consulting, designing strategies to meet the wide-ranging needs of businesses at distinct stages and challenges.In this episode, we break down how to take the overwhelm out of healthy eating. With simple and actionable small changes to your meal planning, shopping, and cooking, you'll be able to discover a healthy food diet that works for you without added stress, expensive ingredients, or time-consuming planning and cooking!Connect with Marion and Eating For Your Health:https://eatingforyourhealth.orghttps://eatingforyourhealth.bloghttps://www.instagram.com/eating4urhealth/Connect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Until the age of 45, Netta had always eaten "normally"... that is, 3 meals a day, sometimes a snack or two, and treats. She was a self-identified sweet tooth. Not a day went by without her eating chocolate, cookies, or some kind of sweet dessert. And she didn't have a problem with that. She was lucky in that she didn't have a weight problem. But weight isn't the only sign of health. From her early thirties, Netta had been suffering from very slow digestion, with bloating and pain, as well as infertility issues, depression, anxiety, mood swings, achy joints, and signs of a fatty liver. In July 2015, after months of resisting the idea, Netta tried the unthinkable: she cut out sugar, sweeteners, and flour for a period of two weeks - no more!But after only a few days she started feeling so much more energetic! Within a few weeks, her extra weight and cravings disappeared, as well as her cellulite, PMS, and frequent headaches. She had better concentration and mental clarity, better digestion, less joint stiffness, less swelling (no more inflammation), clearer, more glowing skin, and her moods stabilized. Intermittent fasting came naturally as a result of appetite correction a few months after she cut sugar. Now she eats once or twice a day, is never bothered with cravings or the need to snack, and enjoys her food like never before.   Netta now enjoys a more healthy relationship with food because she sees it as a delicious and fun way to nourish herself, not as a calculation of macros and calories. She also has better self-esteem (because she feels and looks so great!). And it's been almost 7 years!   Netta also learned how to make her own probiotic (fermented) foods and drinks as a delicious way to look after her gut health. She makes her own yogurt, kefir, kombucha and lacto-fermented sauerkraut and kimchi.  Netta has an online private community (the After Sugar Club), a website, a YouTube channel, and a podcast called Life After Sugar. In her community, Netta gives personal guidance based on her 7 years of living happily sugar-free. She teaches small but powerful mindset shifts to make your intermittent fasting lifestyle easy, natural, and sustainable so that you can feel healthier with more energy and confidence... and less sugar!In this episode, we break down how to make the transition to living sugar-free, how intermittent fasting plays a key role in long-term success, and just how important it is to find community when starting and maintaining your sugar-free journey.Connect with Netta:https://aftersugarclub.com/https://aftersugarclub.com/podcast/https://www.instagram.com/mylifeaftersugar/Connect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Dr. Hayley Nelson earned her PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences from The Johns Hopkins University, is a tenured professor of Psychology in the Philadelphia area, and is an international speaker. She has several peer-reviewed research publications and previous research and faculty appointments with The National Institutes of Health, The Johns Hopkins University, and The University of Pennsylvania.By combining her knowledge of the human mind and brain health with her passion for education, teaching, and consulting, Dr. Hayley created the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience and Be Well with Dr. Hayley to make neuroscience approachable.  With the academy ACBN, she offers professional certificate programs in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience for coaches, wellness professionals, teachers, counselors and other helping professionals who are ready to stand apart and show up as true leaders in their field.With Be Well with Dr. Hayley, she offers individual and group consulting and speaking services. By learning easy-to-swallow knowledge of how the brain works in real-life situations, her graduates and clients are armed with an education in a subject they can use literally every single day. Not only that, they gain the power to serve their clients better and create an environment for their communities to thrive.In this episode, we break down how the human brain works, how habits and behaviors are formed and changed, and how you can take control of your mental and emotional health to live a better, longer, and healthier life.Connect with Hayley:https://academyofneuro.comhttps://bewellwithdrhayley.comhttps://www.instagram.com/bewellwithdrhayleyClubhouse: @dr.hayleyConnect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Orlena Kerek is trained as a pediatric doctor in the UK., Now living in Spain with her husband and 4 kids. Now she teaches busy women in their 40s and 50s how to lead a healthy lifestyle they love so they can lose weight naturally, fix their relationship with food, get bucket loads of energy and lead a long and healthy life. She is the host of the podcast, Fit and Fabulous at 40 and Beyond, as well as the author of Building Simple Habits to a Healthy Me.She is all about healthy living in a natural and easy way using the 4 pillars of health (healthy eating, exercise that lights you up, healthy sleep, and emotional wellness, including stress levels.) She teaches habits, systems, and routines so you can do it without thinking. She is a believer in creating a lifestyle you love (that works for YOU) so you can truly love your lifeAND be healthy at the same time.In this episode, we break down how to develop healthy habits you can keep and how you can start to structure your life in simple ways to reduce stress, clean up your nutrition, and increase longevity!Connect with Orlena:https://www.drorlena.com/https://www.instagram.com/dr_orlena/https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1446849695Connect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Dr. Jennifer Roelands is an integrative medicine trained OB/GYN with over a decade of women's health experience. She is the CEO and founder of Well Woman MD, a clinic dedicated to a holistic, whole-body approach to care by using nutrition, lifestyle, and cutting-edge testing. She is also the host of Ignite Your PowHer podcast, a platform for badass female entrepreneurs in the health and wellness industry.In this episode, we break down everything PCOS and women's hormones. How to get diagnosed, the signs and symptoms to look out for, how to heal your body, and manage PCOS holistically without medications.Connect with Dr. Jennifer:https://wellwomanmd.comhttps://www.instagram.com/wellwomanmdhttps://igniteyourpowher.buzzsprout.com/Connect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Shannan Bergtholdt, MS Ed, RDN is a Registered Dietitian with 19 years of experience and is highly adept at translating health information in engaging and effective ways. With a Master’s Degree in Exercise Science and Wellness, she designs custom fitness and nutrition strategies for her clients.  Shannan runs a private practice and freelance writing business. Her articles have been featured on prominent health-related sites, most recently in Fasting.com and Top10.com. Her original research studies were published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association as well as Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise. In private practice, Shannan takes a practical approach to help her clients use Food, Fitness, Stress, and Sleep strategies to optimize their health. In this episode, we break down the importance of movement and fitness in every lifestyle and how it is an essential complement to nutrition. Fitness and nutrition are two key components in living a healthy lifestyle as they work together but it doesn't have to be all or nothing!Connect with Shannon:https://revolutionrd.comhttps://www.instagram.com/revolution.dietitianConnect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Dr. Uzma Jafri is a Family Physician Board certified in FM and Geriatric Medicine. She runs a mobile private practice and concurrently did that while working nights as a hospitalist in a busy medical center. The shift work and stress of the job, as well as running out of space on her metabolic dance card, left her at her highest weight in 2016 when she realized she had to practice what she practiced on her patients at long last. Having never before struggled with weight and newly learning that whatever she had told her patients in the past regarding nutrition was defunct, Dr. Jafri had to go “back to school” to put all the pieces together that she always referred out to RDs and diabetic educators and apply it in her own life. As a practicing Muslim, fasting had always been a part of her life, and using it in conjunction with a ketogenic lifestyle, she easily shed 32 pounds in 3 months and kept it off. The science of fasting made sense to her as a person of faith, but it only made sense to her as a physician once she settled on learning more about obesity medicine.In this episode, we break down the science and feasibility of fasting. Is it safe? How do you start? What actually happens to your body and blood sugar when you begin fasting? If you've been curious to start, check out this episode!Connect with Dr. Uzma Jafri:https://mommyingwhilemuslim.com/https://www.instagram.com/mommyingwhilemuslimpodcastConnect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Toby Amidor is the founder of Toby Amidor Nutrition, PC, where she provides nutrition and food safety consulting services for individuals, restaurants, and food brands. She has eight published cookbooks with her most recent The Family Immunity  Cookbook, released in November 2021 and nominated for a Gourmand Award. Her ninth cookbook, Diabetes Create Your Plate Meal Prep Cookbook will be released in April 2022. For over 13 years she has been the nutrition expert for FoodNetwork.com, and a founding contributor to their Healthy Eats Blog. Toby is a regular contributor to U.S. News and World Report Eat + Run blog, Shape.com, Sparkpeople.com, and has her own “Ask the Expert” column in Today’s Dietitian Magazine. She has been quoted in hundreds of publications and appears on local and national television shows like The Dr. Oz Show and CT Style. For 11 years she was an adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University teaching food service management, and is currently an adjunct at CUNY Hunter School of Public Urban Health in New York City. Previously, she taught Foodservice for 10 years at the Art Institute of New York City. Toby trained as a clinical dietitian at New York University. Through ongoing consulting and faculty positions, she has established herself as one of the top experts in culinary nutrition, food safety, and media communications. In 2018, Toby was awarded by the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics the coveted Media Excellence Award.In this episode, Toby shares how to pre-plan and meal prep healthy and delicious recipes for every meal, while staying sane and not having to be a master chef in the kitchen!Connect with Toby Amidor:https://tobyamidornutrition.com/https://www.instagram.com/tobyamidor/Connect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Betty Murray, PhD-Candidate, MS, CN, IFMCP is passionate about transforming the lives of women who struggle with menopausal weight gain, insomnia, and fatigue. After witnessing firsthand through working with thousands of women across the U.S. and abroad, Betty observed that women (herself included) often wait to live the life they want until after they “fix” the things about our body that they don’t like – their weight, shape or clothing size. She found that when she helped women balance their hormones and reclaim their power, they become unstoppable. Her transformative The Coming Into Our Own Project is a lifestyle brand designed to empower and enrich women’s lives so that they can be the empowered leaders, woman, mother, sister, daughter, and partner they want to be so they can live their legacy.Betty’s interest in nutrition and functional medicine came from her own health struggles. In her early 30s, Betty was diagnosed with colitis. She just knew there was more she could do to get to the root of her disease! Betty’s tenacity led to a 20+ year educational journey that included immersion into the world of nutrition, biochemistry, and functional medicine that has become the backbone of her approach to restoring health. Betty was honored to be among the first 300 Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner with the Institute for Functional Medicine in 2014. Betty holds a Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Biochemistry from American Health Sciences University, a Master of Science in Integrative & Functional Nutrition from Saybrook University and is currently a PhD-Candidate at Saybrook University where she is researching the complex interaction of women’s sex hormones and IBS. She is a member of the American Nutrition Association and the Institute for Functional Medicine.Betty is also the founder and CEO of the Living Well Dallas Functional Medicine Center, a premier integrative multi-specialty functional medicine medical center in 2004. She had a vision of creating a center where medicine together with nutrition, counseling, health coaching and other mind-body treatments work together in partnership to not only treat illness, but also help support patients in preventing and reversing disease. Betty has helped tens of thousands of women and men reverse chronic symptoms, regain their health and transform their lives. Betty is the host of This Functional Life podcast and is a frequently featured nutrition expert on National Fox News Broadcasting, CW33, NBC and CBS. Betty has lectured at leading conferences, including as a Keynote speaker at The Go Red Campaign, C300 Women's conference, and SHEICon2017.In this jam-packed episode, we dive into the science behind chronic disease, genetics, metabolism, and hormones. Connect with Betty Murray:https://www.bettymurray.com/https://www.instagram.com/bettymurray_phd/https://thisfunctionallifepodcast.com/Connect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Dr. Lisa Young is a registered dietitian nutritionist (RDN) in private practice and has been counseling adults and children for 3 decades. Dr. Young offers individual counseling as well as group programs on a wide variety of nutrition-related issues including obesity and weight control, disease prevention, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis, pregnancy, lactation, and gastrointestinal disorders. Young has been involved in clinical obesity research studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center; and has consulted for various weight management programs in New York City. She is a contributor to US News and World Report, NBCnews.com and TODAY.com on current issues related to portion control, nutrition, and health and serves on the medical advisory board for Eat This, Not That! Dr. Young serves on the expert advisory for US News and World Reports “Best Diets.” She was a regular contributor for Huffington Post and an advisory board member for Fitness magazine and Bottom Line Women’s Health.In this episode, we break down what a healthy diet looks like and how not all sugars and carbs are bad and off-limits!Connect with Dr. Lisa Young:https://drlisayoung.com/https://www.instagram.com/drlisayoung/Connect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Dr. Angela Tran is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine and is an active member of the American Board of Obesity Medicine Association. She has practiced in primary care since 2007 and recognized that obesity was often the root cause of many chronic medical conditions that she saw in her office including diabetes and high blood pressure. Because of her Internal Medicine background, she has a greater understanding of the medical complexities that often serve as barriers to weight loss. She has seen the many struggles her patients have had with their weight, and therefore she has now dedicated her practice solely to weight management.At Med-Fit, the primary focus is to teach patients and their families about healthy living through a variety of medically supervised diet and fitness programs. She also has a daughter, Haley, whom she gained 40 lbs during pregnancy. Along with being in her 40s, she met the challenges of her own metabolism but followed her own formula she has crafted for years and is living healthfully at her ideal goal weight despite also being a busy professional herself. She believes in modeling the way for her patients which is why she became a medical weight loss doctor in the first place.In this episode, we break down metabolism, how to healthfully lose weight, and how we don't need to kill ourselves with fad diets.Connect with Dr. Angela Tran:https://denverweightlossclinic.com/https://www.instagram.com/denvermedfit/https://www.facebook.com/medfitdrtran/Connect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show

Isaac Pohlman is a registered dietitian and diabetes coach, currently residing in Chicago. He was inspired to pursue nutrition after developing a series of health issues himself, including hypothyroidism, hormonal imbalances, and type 1 diabetes, during his high school and early college days.He uses his personal experiences and education when working with clients in his business and believes health is more than one single value or condition. There are real people behind health data and many times that is forgotten. He believes we need to treat the people rather than the condition or bloodwork.In this episode, we dive into the importance of nutrition and listening to your own body when dealing with chronic health issues.Connect with Isaac Pohlman:https://www.isaacpohlman.com/https://www.instagram.com/isaacpohlman/Connect with Sugar Solved:https://www.instagram.com/sugarsolved/Support the show