206: Josh Gitalis - Support During Pregnancy • Boost Your Immunity • Testing For Heavy Metals
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 20 December 2017
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Josh Gitalis is a Clinical Nutritionist and is a recognized expert in the fields of clinical detoxification & therapeutic supplementation. He runs a Toronto-based private practice, with a worldwide client base. Josh is the first Canadian nutritionist to become an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP).
In this episode, we discuss:
- Taking your healthy lifestyle to the next level well before conception (men & women)
- The connection between omega-3s/6s and sperm
- Food aversions/cravings during pregnancy
- Being supportive during the pregnancy, labour, and delivery
- Walking is one of the best exercises you can do
- Josh's morning routine pre and post baby
- A baby can be a great teacher
- What is colostrum?
- Refined sugar is a serious offender to your immune system
- Sleep is crucial for your immune system
- Setting yourself up for a quality sleep (and baby)
- Meditation has been shown to boost the immune system
- The normal range vs the optimal range for vitamin D
- Megadosing with vitamin D when you first start feeling sick
- In health, no news is good news
- Culinary mushrooms vs medicinal mushrooms
- Specific nutrients that are really powerful for your immune system
- When you're sick, you can handle more vitamin C
- Liver is an excellent source of vitamin A
- Common autoimmune conditions Josh sees in practice
- 3 things that need to be in place for autoimmunity to develop
- Testing for heavy metals
- We all have some body burden of heavy metals and toxins
- Detoxification capacity is different from person to person
- Removing heavy metals from the body
- A pregnant woman should not do a detox
- Bundle up and get outside throughout the winter
- Removing your "slivers"
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315: Genevieve Howland aka Mama Natural – Preparing For A Healthy Pregnancy & Childbirth
309: Focus Friday – The Ultimate Baby (Our 1st Trimester)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Over the past hundred years we've introduced 80,000 plus toxins into our environment, |
| 0:06.3 | many of which have never been tested for human safety. |
| 0:10.1 | These things are what are called persistent organic pollutants. |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 206. Jesse Chapp is here with |
| 0:24.0 | Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the |
| 0:27.9 | next level. This week our featured guest is a return guest he's been on a |
| 0:32.2 | number of times he's a great friend of ours, he's a clinical nutritionist, his name Josh |
| 0:37.8 | Gitalis. Josh is the first Canadian nutritionist to become an Institute for Functional Medicine certified practitioner. |
| 0:45.2 | One of the many great things about Josh is he's great at breaking down complex health topics |
| 0:49.7 | in a way that everybody can understand. |
| 0:52.1 | And he's also great at bringing in the science |
| 0:53.9 | to back up the information he's providing. And just to give you guys perspective, |
| 0:58.0 | Josh is Megan Telkner's husband and partner, so he was there for the whole |
| 1:02.2 | birth story of Finn, so he's going to share some of his |
| 1:05.0 | side of what took place. And of course so much more because Josh is just such a wealth of knowledge. |
| 1:11.3 | So some of what we get into today with Josh is how to be a |
| 1:14.8 | supportive partner during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, mega dosing with |
| 1:18.8 | vitamin D, what colostrum is is and its benefits, |
| 1:22.8 | the most common autoimmune conditions and how they develop. |
| 1:25.8 | So get your pens and papers ready, |
| 1:27.6 | you're in for a treat with Josh Gatalis. |
| 1:30.0 | Hello Josh, welcome back to the show. |
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