Hey guys, it's Diane, San Felico of Valence Sites, and welcome to the Valence Sites Podcast.

Just a reminder, the materials and content contained in this podcast are for general health information only,

and they're not intended to be a substitute for

professional medical advice diagnosis or treatment. Today I am here with

Karen Pendergaff, a special guest to talk to her a bit about her business and what she's got going on and I'll let her introduce herself.

Liz is not here today, but she'll be back with us next week.

She's just away for a little bit on a little vacation and yes

so she'll be back have no fear. But Karen welcome. Welcome to the show.

Thanks Diane how are you?

Awesome. So what we're going to talk about today is

Calio Approve, which is Karen's whole gig and what that's all about, where it came from and talk a bunch about

sustainability as well as food choices and making optimal food choices.

We know that a lot of times some people kind of move to a more paleo-oriented diet that, you know, the first steps there to get rid of foods that we don't want to be eating, you know, grains, legumes, pasteurized

dairy products, sugar, refined foods, etc. But you know, sometimes when we get

farther into things, we start really looking at making the best choices possible and where to focus our

attention especially when it comes to animal products so that's why I wanted to talk to

caring about today so once you give us a little bit of your background and tell us how your whole thing came to be?

The way that this whole thing started was essentially back in 2008 I got really sick and I didn't have an

answer to what was wrong with me and my mom's gym trainer told her about the paleo diet and I started the paleo diet to kind of

ameliorate symptoms that I was having from CeliaX disease. And kind of the long

story short it worked and then I went to France and I got really sick.

And then when I came back, I noticed that I was more sensitive than I had ever been in my entire life.

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