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I'm Amanda Montalbo, functional and integrative dietitian, also known as the hormone healing RD.

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I'm so excited to share this episode with you. This is an interview I did with a colleague and mentor of mine, Brendan Bermeyer. He is a

mental and metabolic health scientist and researcher, functional medicine educator, writer, and speaker.

Brendan is board certified in holistic health. He has, he's a master nutrition coach, a master

personal trainer, USAW sports performance

coach, and a CrossFit trainer.

He goes through his story and kind of like how he got into this when he was only 18.

He was medically discharged from Navy SEAL training pipeline because he had an injury.

And he goes through just like how he even became a

personal trainer and nutrition coach in the first place. So you'll kind of hear him tell his story

in his own words. But just if you're wondering, like, how is he my mentor? How did I even get to

know, Brendan? It was a really, it was a really long time ago. We were chatting before the interview.

And I was like,

I think that we've known each other for like six or seven years. He is the owner of Metabolic

Solutions Institute for Functional Health and Fitness Practitioners. I met him originally through

FDN, the functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner program. He was like one of the mentors in there

and worked with the company. And that was kind of like my first exposure to him. And like I knew

metabolic solutions, followed him online. And he really started to be like such an advocate for

mental health. And eventually he created the functional mental health practitioner certificate course.

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