289. Calm Your Nervous System & Embrace Food Freedom with Ali Miller #FabulousFriends
Be Well by Kelly Leveque
Kelly Leveque
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
I’m excited for you to listen to today’s episode with Ali Miller, a registered dietitian and author of the international bestseller The Anti-Anxiety Diet and The Anti-Anxiety Diet Cookbook. Ali’s “food is medicine” philosophy is supported by the latest research for a functional, integrative approach to healing the body.
We talk about how stress can mess with the body – from your hormones, to your mood, to your reproductive health. Ali shares tangible tools to help our bodies process cortisol and transmute stress. We also talk about the HPA Axis, and why it’s so crucial to regulating the body.
We explore foods to decrease inflammation, restoring micronutrient deficiencies, and rebalancing neurotransmitters. Plus, Ali shares her personal practices for living a balanced life. We close with a discussion on how to educate and empower our kids to embrace food as medicine.
This episode is filled with so many gold nuggets that I’m going to implement in my own life. I love how Ali encourages everyone to ditch diet doctrines and embrace an individualized approach. And that mission serves as the foundation of our chat today – so get ready to be motivated through emotional connection as opposed to shame and guilt.
We also cover:
(00:02:08) Ali’s Personal Path to Wellness
(00:05:15) Understanding Anti-Nutrients
(00:10:37) Stress Is the Achilles Heel of Wellness
(00:22:45) HPA Axis 101
(00:27:13) Tips To Process Cortisol
(00:30:00) Getting Just the Right Amount of Stress
(00:36:54) Eat To Serve Up Your Best Self
(00:43:39) How Parents Can Support Their Mood
(00:48:42) Ali’s Daily Routine To Stay Balanced
(00:55:03) Empowering Your Kids Around Food
Resources:
• Click here for full show notes
• Website: alimillerrd.com
• Read: The Anti-Anxiety Diet & Anti-Anxiety Diet Cookbook
• Instagram: @alimillerrd
• YouTube: @naturallynourishedRD
Connect with Kelly:
• Instagram: @bewellbykelly
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you have mismanaged stress or if your nervous system is spending too much time in that sympathetic |
| 0:05.0 | fight or flight mode and you aren't able to recalibrate back into regulatory parasympathetic space, that that will drive chronic illness and so my whole |
| 0:14.9 | kind of Achilles heel of stress is the Achilles heel of wellness. If we don't |
| 0:19.6 | manage our stress we will see leaky gut we will see dysbiosis, we will see nutrient deficiency, |
| 0:26.3 | we will see chronic inflammation, we will see hormone imbalance, adrenal insufficiency, thyroid |
| 0:31.9 | dysfunction, blood sugar irregularities, and it goes on. |
| 0:35.6 | And so I really realized this after 10 years of clinical work where I was working all these |
| 0:39.9 | protocols, but we weren't harnessing the parasympathetic nervous system. |
| 0:44.7 | And I think that again, the gift that we want to give future generations as women is the ability |
| 0:49.5 | to identify stress and then have some tools to be able to shift back into that |
| 0:55.8 | regulatory mode so we can transmute that stress response versus to suppress it and |
| 1:01.4 | actually create positive energy out of it or action plan etc. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm excited for you all to listen to this episode with Ali Miller. |
| 1:17.0 | Ali is a registered dietician with a naturopathic background and a contagious |
| 1:20.8 | passion for using nutrients and food as the foundation of treatment protocols. |
| 1:24.4 | She's the author of the international bestseller The Anti Anxiety Diet and the Anti Anxiety Diet cookbook. |
| 1:30.5 | Her Food as Medicine philosophy is supported by up-to-date |
| 1:33.2 | scientific research for a functional integrative approach to healing the body. Her |
| 1:36.9 | passion is to create public awareness and access to functional medicine approaches, |
| 1:40.6 | protocols, and supplement formulas to enhance whole body health, to |
| 1:44.3 | optimize and thrive, not just survive. |
| 1:46.6 | All right, Ali, finally, long time, no C. The last time we were together was at the Regenerative Farming Conference out by you. |
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