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Is your smart watch messing with or enhancing your wellness? Do you need to toss your electrolyte pouch? Is your high protein breakfast messing with your metabolism? Do you feel intuitive in your eating or bound to food rules? 

 

Join Ali Miller RD in the October edition of Ask Me Anything where she answers all these questions and more! You will also learn about sauna vs. cold plunge mechanisms and concerns, natural approaches for A. Fib and supplement support, and Fall Favorite recipes. Ali also covers the real risks of raw milk and how to protect your body from food-borne illness. This episode is robust and filled with a-ha moments and food-as-medicine inspiration. 

 

Links in this episode:

Vitamin D Balanced Blend 

Relax and Regulate

CoQ10 Complex 

 

Prior episodes referenced:
https://alimillerrd.podbean.com/e/episode-508-is-your-high-protein-breakfast-not-working/

https://alimillerrd.podbean.com/e/episode-431-harnessing-the-healing-power-of-light-with-infrared-with-connie-zack-of-sunlighten-sauna/

https://alimillerrd.podbean.com/e/episode-488-can-dirt-make-you-healthy-humic-and-fulvic-minerals-with-caroline-alan-ceo-of-beam/

 

Recipes:

https://alimillerrd.com/blogs/blog/real-food-pumpkin-spice-latte

Pumpkin Pie Spiced Nuts 

 

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Recipes on the blog, 1 every other week or so: Summer Stew, Chicken stir fry, PSL redo, grape gelatin and more!

Do you know your vitamin D status? Are you supplementing with Vitamin D3 and K2 but not with magnesium? Have you been dealing with fatigue and mood concerns or memory decline? Are you always catching some kind of infection? 

 

Join Ali Miller RD as she discusses how our body makes vitamin D, causes and symptoms of deficiency, food-as-medicine sources, and the best way to assess our vitamin D status. She covers up to date research on vitamin D supplementation influencing hormones, mental health, immune, and cardiovascular health. Learn about the industry standards and bioavailability of vitamin D in relationship to vitamin K2 and Magnesium. Ali covers how magnesium and vitamin D should be supplemented together and how vitamin D supplementation without magnesium can drive low magnesium status. 

 

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Learn about formulas that support hormone balance and breast health in my October Collection. Shop Women’s Wellness Formulas.

 

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Get your Vitamin D level and RBC Magnesium along with 47 biomarkers in my Comprehensive Wellness Panel. 

 

Book discussed in today’s episode: The Healing Power of the Sun

 

Research Links discussed in this episode:

Impact of Vitamin D status on age at menopause: A prospective cohort study - PMC

 

Vitamin K2 and D3 Supplementation in Patients With Severe Coronary Artery Calcification: The DANCODE Trial | Circulation 

Magnesium, vitamin D status and mortality: results from US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001 to 2006 and NHANES III | BMC Medicine

Role of Magnesium in Vitamin D Activation and Function - PubMed 

The effect of combined magnesium and vitamin D supplementation on vitamin D status, systemic inflammation, and blood pressure: A randomized double-blinded controlled trial - ScienceDirect

The Effects of Vitamin K2 on Recovery from... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise

Are you concerned about your breast health? Are you are estrogen dominant or have hormone imbalance? Do you want to stay proactive in breast cancer prevention? Are you looking to support breast cancer treatment with natural medicine?

 

This episode is for you, Ali Miller RD, discusses the hormone influence on breast tissue and breast cancer. She unpacks the three types of estrogen, the role of the liver and various metabolic pathways of estrogen clearance and how this impacts whole body health and cancer risk. Learn about herbs, foods, and supplements that influence estrogen metabolism and strategy for prevention and cancer mitigation. Learn about the various mechanisms of cancer fighting foods including anti-tumorigenic, anti-angiogenesis, apoptosis drivers, and metabolic modulating. 

 

Learn about the importance of a low-glycemic diet, stress management, and movement in cancer prevention. You will be empowered with food-as-medicine, targeted supplement tools, access to functional labs, and lifestyle support. 

 

Episode offerings:

Test Don’t Guess! Understand your body’s hormone status and true risk association with a DUTCH panel 

 

Save $50 off DUTCH Complete only $449 through October Use OCTOBER50 to save 

https://alimillerrd.com/products/dutch-hormone-panel

 

Supplements discussed:

Reset Restore Renew Detox packs

Cellular Antiox

BroccoDetox

Calm and Clear

Relax and Regulate

Vitamin D Balanced Blend

 

FAM priorities:

Broccoli seed/sprout, radish sprout 

Cruciferous veggies ⅔-1 cup cooked 4x/wk

Bile drivers for liver health: lemon, artichoke, dandelion, greens

Ground Flax 1 Tbsp 3-4x/wk

Citrus 3-4x/wk

Pomegranate seeds or diluted juice as a spritzer

Green Tea

Garlic, onions, shallots, leeks

Low glycemic diet

Other episodes on this topic:

https://alimillerrd.podbean.com/e/episode-313-estrogen-metabolism-and-breast-health/

 

Episode 280: Why You Need Estrogen | Naturally Nourished

 

Episode 281: Estrogen Concerns and updates on Estrogen Dominance! | Naturally Nourished

 

Episode 464: Thermography, Mammograms & Dense Breast Tissue with Guest Patricia Luccardi | Naturally Nourished

Research studies discussed:

Supplementation with flaxseed alters estrogen metabolism in postmenopausal women to a greater extent than does supplementation with an equal amount of soy - PubMed

 

Estrogen Metabolism and Breast Cancer - PMC

 

Dietary Natural Products for Prevention and Treatment of Breast Cancer - PMC

 

The effects of tamoxifen and its metabolites on circulating estrogen metabolites among pre- and postmenopausal women - PMC

How can I raise my ferritin levels? Should I worry about the estrogenic effects of Ashwaghanda? What the heck is going on with our beef? Are we all eating cell cultured dairy, eggs, and chicken?

 

In this September edition of Ask Me Anything, Ali Miller RD hits all your burning questions from whether or not you should supplement with iron for low ferritin, seeking root causes of low iron status, and understanding lab values. She covers the role of stress and gut infection on malabsorption and even touches on the connection of heavy metal toxicity with solutions. Next she provides all you need to know for stye treatment and supporting a healthy ocular (eye) microbiome including topical sprays and internal ways to support symbiosis in the body. 

 

Learn about the role of ashwagandha on HPA-axis and cortisol as well as the estrogen receptor connection. Ali shares research on ashwagandha aiding in PCOS, PMS, and even breast cancer treatment. Finally, Ali takes on the industrialized food system in lab grown proteins including what they are, where and how they are being sold, and priorities in purchasing your protein!

 

Resources and links discussed:

Join my Beyond Keto Community and become a member $49/month or $500/year

Explore my Beyond Keto Community for 1 month $99

Comprehensive Wellness Lab panel 

Force of Nature Meats 

 

Naturally Nourished Supplements discussed:

MultiAvail Mama

Multidefense with iron

Cellular Antiox

Rebuild Spectrum Probiotic

NanoSilver

GI Immune Builder

Whey Protect

Calm and Clear

Have you ever used herbs as medicine? Are you curious about how plants work in the body and the various ways that herbs can be consumed? In this episode of the Naturally Nourished Podcast, Ali Miller RD interviews Sajah Popham of Evolutionary Herbalism and Natura Sophia Spagyrics. Sajah shares his beautiful perspective on how herbs can cultivate whole person healing as he unpacks their ability to calm to HPA-axis, clarify the mind, open the heart, and aid in connecting you deeper to your true self. 

 

You will learn about various classifications of herbs and which plant Sajah first was moved by. Get empowered with his epic list of must-have herbs for an at home medicine cabinet and learn about Sapgyric preparations along with tinctures, infusions, teas, and topicals. Learn about the nuance of considering constitution and mechanisms when selecting herbs and how some serve as foundational tools whereas others will be more cyclical. This episode is packed with information and will have you excited to add a new herbal remedy to your supplement routine.

 

Links discussed in this episode:

Sajah’s book Evolutionary Herbalism

www.evolutionaryherbalism.com

www.naturasophiaspagyrics.com

https://naturasophiaspagyrics.com/pages/the-spagyric-process

Take courses with Sajah: https://www.evolutionaryherbalism.com/home/online-herbalism-courses/

 

 

Top herbal recommendations:

Wood Betony

Milky Oats

Lemon Balm

Holy Basil

Echinacea

Chamomile

Yarrow

Oregon Grape Root

Wormwood

Boneset 

You can shop single herb formulas at Natura Sophia Spagyrics

 

Naturally Nourished formulas that use herbs as medicine:

Berberine Boost

Herbal Immune

Calm and Clear

Adaptogen Boost