33. Valerie Agyeman: Encouraging Diversity and Empowering Women in Health & Wellness

Ancient Health Podcast

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week Dr. Axe is joined by dietitian and women’s health expert, Valerie Agyeman. Valerie shares her experience overcoming struggles with body image and how she learned to love her body and change her relationship with food. She explains the five tips she abides by for physical and emotional wellbeing and she and Dr. Axe discuss the importance of mental health. Plus, she shares how she is empowering fellow black women to change the health and wellness industry.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody Dr.
0:08.2	Dr. Axe here.
0:09.2	Welcome to the show.
0:10.2	This week I have a guest.
0:11.2	I am really excited to talk to it to it is Valerie Agumen and she is a women's health dietician.
0:17.1	She's the founder of Flourish Heights and through her platform she really helps empower women to take control of their health.
0:26.0	And she has a lot of great stuff.
0:28.0	I spent some time going through and looking for some of the best experts in the country when it comes to nutrition and diet and
0:36.3	you know came across Valerie was just so impressed with what she's doing now Valerie has
0:40.7	written for many magazines everything from Reader's Digest
0:44.4	Women's Health magazine Southern Living. She's been shown on local networks such as the
0:49.2	ABC's Good Morning Show and others and so and you know and today we're going to talk a lot about
0:54.8	nutrition, hormonal health for women and so much more I want to say Valerie, hey welcome
1:00.3	the show.
1:01.3	Thank you so much for having me.
1:02.3	I'm excited to be here.
1:04.0	Awesome, well same here.
1:05.0	Well, you know, I know we've got a lot to cover today and one of the things again I was so
1:08.9	impressed about with is looking at, you know, what you teach your clients.
1:13.2	The thing that I also noticed is you sort of keep it simple.
1:17.1	You talk about diet.
1:18.3	You talk about things like nutrition supplements, lifestyle.
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