Optimizing open-heart surgery through nutrition

#3 Boots Knighton interviews her nutritionist, Georgie McNiff, about how Georgie came into her life at the right time. They talk about how to combat water retention and shedding excess estrogen and dream about starting a movement to get the medical community to better prepare heart patients for open-heart surgery.

0:00Intro

1:25 How I found Nurse Georgie

3:41 Nurse Georgie's qualifications

4:31 My main issues that took me to Nurse Georgie

6:12 Nurse Georgie's route to functional medicine and the impact the modern world has on our bodies

9:19 Why she doesn't treat symptoms

10:00 The Dutch Test and finding out my estrogen was very high

10:24 role of estrogens in the body as well as how pesticides are treated as estrogens in the body

13:00 How we treated my high estrogen

15:40 why our body retains water

17:30 Having levels tested before heart surgery beyond the usual testing and why that is important

19:30 Why it is important to have multiple people on your care team and how Boots worked on the emotional/mental stuff around surgery while waiting

21:00 Boots and Georgie want to start a movement to get the medical community thinking more about how to set open-heart surgery patients up for success better than how the medical community does it now.

23:00 the supplements Georgie prescribed for Boots with powerful outcomes and how listeners can apply the same protocol in their lives.

31:00 Boots's journey of weight loss and overall relationship with food in addition of the effects of toxins on her body

34:00 getting in touch with Georgie

35:00 Last nugget of wisdom from Georgie