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“If you really want to prime yourself in terms of being connected to nature's rhythms, you have to eat what nature provides.”

Summary

In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Deanna Minich, a certified functional medicine practitioner and nutritional scientist with over 20 years of experience. Join us as explore the importance of circadian rhythms and how they affect our health, practical steps to align your eating and lifestyle with natural cycles, the impact of seasonal eating and lunar cycles on our well-being, the connection between food colors and energy centers in the body, and strategies for detoxification and emotional healing.

💡Episode Highlights:

00:00:00 - Episode Trailer

00:02:55 - The Role of Nutrition and Lifestyle in Health

00:06:43 - Understanding Circadian, Lunar, and Seasonal Rhythms

00:10:03 - Optimizing Morning and Eating Patterns

00:12:00 - The Importance of Evening Light and Melatonin

00:14:31 - The Connection Between Light, Health, and Aging

00:17:46 - Exploring the Lunar Cycle's Influence on Health

00:20:18 - Birth Month and Disease Risk

00:22:26 - The Impact of Seasonal Eating

00:24:00 - Toxin Load and Its Effects on Health

00:26:41 - Detoxification and Purification Practices

00:30:34 - The Interconnection of Energy Centers and Health

00:35:13 - The Spiritual Aspect of Detoxification

00:41:00 - The Interconnectedness of Body Systems

00:46:00 - The Phyto-Neuroendocrine System and Plant Intelligence

00:47:15 - The Role of Plants in Human Health

00:58:21 - Deanna’s message to the world

📃Guest Bio:

Deanna Minich, MS, PhD, CNS, Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (IFMCP), is a nutrition scientist, international lecturer, educator, and author, with over twenty years of experience in academia and in the food and dietary supplement industries, currently serving as Chief Science Officer at Symphony Natural Health. She has been active as a functional medicine clinician in clinical trials and in her own practice (Food & Spirit™). She is the author of six consumer books on wellness topics, four book chapters, and over fifty scientific publications. Her academic background is in nutrition science, including a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1995) and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Medical Sciences from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (1999). She has served on the Nutrition Advisory Board for The Institute of Functional Medicine and on the Board of Directors for the American Nutrition Association. Currently, she teaches for the Institute for Functional Medicine, University of Western States, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and Institute for Brain Potential. Through her talks, workshops, groups, and in-person retreats, she helps people to practically and artfully transform their lives through nutrition and lifestyle.

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