289: How Nutrition Can Transform Your Recovery Journey with Dr. Brooke Scheller
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.8 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered how nutrition could be the missing link in your journey to sobriety? Join Duane as he sits down with Dr. Brooke Scheller, a trailblazer in clinical nutrition and the founder of Functional Sobriety. Brooke shares her compelling journey to sobriety and how she's transforming alcohol recovery through nutritional and functional medicine. She explains how alcohol can wreak havoc on our bodies, affecting everything from the endocrine system to gut health, and how simple dietary changes can effectively reduce cravings and improve overall wellness.
This episode highlights the often-overlooked but critical connection between diet and the ability to maintain sobriety. They also dive deep into the physiological aspects of cravings, focusing on the interplay between blood sugar levels, mood, and gut health. Brooke demystifies how blood sugar fluctuations can lead to increased cravings for alcohol and sugar, often mistaken for a lack of willpower. By understanding these physiological signals and making informed dietary choices, individuals can significantly enhance their recovery journey. From increasing protein intake to utilizing functional medicine testing, this episode offers a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to support their sobriety through better nutrition.
In this episode, you will hear:
- Nutritional health and alcohol connection
- Alcohol's impact on health and wellness
- The importance of nutrition in health
- Power of helping in recovery
- Alcohol, blood sugar, and cravings
- Understanding brain chemicals and mood
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. My name's Dwayne Osheland. I'm your host, and we are on to another episode. Today, my guest is Brooke Scheller. |
| 0:16.5 | Doctor of Clinical Nutrition. She stands at the forefront of a transformative movement in health |
| 0:23.5 | and wellness as the esteemed founder of functional sobriety and author of How to Eat to Change |
| 0:30.3 | How You Drink. Dr. Scheller had dedicated her career to revolutionizing the approach to alcohol, |
| 0:36.8 | recovery, and holistic well-being. This is really inspired by her career to revolutionizing the approach to alcohol, recovery, and holistic well-being. |
| 0:39.1 | This is really inspired by her journey to sobriety. |
| 0:42.6 | In 2021, Dr. Scheller embarked on a mission to empower others to reclaim their lives through |
| 0:48.5 | nutrition and functional medicine. |
| 0:50.8 | And drawing upon her extensive experience, she crafted an innovative approach that not only |
| 0:56.0 | liberates individuals from the grips of alcohol, but also fosters profound improvements in brain |
| 1:01.5 | health, mood regulation, energy levels, focus, gut health, and hormone balance. So today, Dr. Scheller |
| 1:09.4 | is going to share her story of how this book came to be, working as a |
| 1:14.2 | nutritionist and at the same time struggling with her own relationship to alcohol and how she had |
| 1:20.8 | a lightning bolt moment to change how she was showing up for herself. And then in doing that, really putting into practice |
| 1:30.6 | all of her knowledge, all of her wisdom that she had gotten from being a doctor of clinical |
| 1:36.1 | nutrition and applying that really to herself in a deep way and how that helped her write |
| 1:43.4 | this book and share her journey. |
| 1:46.1 | We talk a lot on this episode about her story, |
| 1:48.7 | but also just about how alcohol impacts our endocrine system, |
| 1:54.9 | our gut health, our neurochemistry, |
| 1:57.9 | and in changing some of these things with nutrition |
| 2:00.4 | and what we put in our body |
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