386: Andrea Hannemann (Earthy Andy) on Healing Chronic Health Issues by Embracing a Plant-Based Diet
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/tuhpandyhannemann386
Andrea Hannemann, aka Earthy Andy (IG: @earthyandy), is a health and wellness influencer and creator of the popular Earthy Andy blog and Instagram account.
After years of battling IBS, celiac disease, hypothyroidism (Hashimoto's), asthma, brain fog, and chronic fatigue, she healed her chronic health issues by embracing a plant-based diet.
Andy is a surfer, free spirit, and mother of three. She lives in Oahu, Hawaii with her family.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Andy growing up in Saskatchewan and travelling to Hawaii at age 11
- Moving to Hawaii for college
- Meeting the man she was going to marry, Shem
- The love of surfing
- Being diagnosed with celiac disease
- Andy keeping her 30-day plant-based challenge a secret
- Feeling worse detoxing before feeling better
- Simplify your life, go back to your roots, and eat in season
- Food was controlling Andy, now she is in control
- Fruits & vegetables are easy to grow in Hawaii
- The people & documentaries that inspired Andy to go plant-based
- Everyone is their own brand
- Helping others by sharing your personal experience
- Turning Earthy Andy into a family business
- The challenges of working together as a couple
- The pressures of growing an Instagram following of over a million followers
- Trust the process
- Best advice... grow your email list
- Reversing Hashimoto’s with a plant-based diet
- Teaching kids to understand food and how it supports their bodies
- Making fruits and vegetables the new normal
- Buying "healthy" processed food is not much better for you
- Writing Plant Over Processed, Andy’s new book
- Stay tuned for... Andy’s new meal plan app and protein powder
- Do something active every day
- Keeping social media organic and authentic
- Why Andy stays neutral online
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Related links:
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Andrea Hannemann's website (Earthy Andy)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the ultimate health podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Fruit and vegetables are the most gentle foods for your body to digest. |
| 0:06.9 | And I'm having such a difficult time digesting |
| 0:09.7 | that maybe if I just only do those things for say 30 days was my goal now that it would give my |
| 0:17.6 | body a chance to like reset or something and so I didn't have a lot of confidence in it. I didn't want to tell anyone because I didn't know what I was really doing. |
| 0:28.0 | I didn't have confidence in it and I was nervous to just tell people so I kept it a secret and that was the day I opened |
| 0:35.8 | earthy Andy and I was using it as a journal. |
| 0:39.5 | I said for 30 days I'm going to journal I'm going to just make sure I do it every day and see if I can just get |
| 0:46.3 | through this 30 days of my health change of using plants to heal. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 386. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 1:05.0 | Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 1:09.7 | This week I'm speaking with Andrea Heneman, aka Earthy Andy. She's a health and wellness |
| 1:14.4 | influencer and creator of the popular Earthy Andy blog and Instagram account. |
| 1:18.6 | After years of battling IBS, Celiac Disease, Hypothyroidism, asthma, brain fog, and chronic fatigue, |
| 1:26.4 | she healed her chronic health issues by embracing a plant-based diet. |
| 1:30.3 | Andy is a surfer, free spirit, mother of three three, and lives in the Oahu, Hawaii with her family. |
| 1:35.6 | Andy and I had a great conversation. She has just such a fascinating story that we went deep into, |
| 1:40.9 | and it's just so good to see her go from all the health challenges |
| 1:43.7 | who's experiencing to having thriving health now and she's a fellow Canadian |
| 1:48.1 | and it's just so interesting seeing somebody from Saskatchewan make their way |
| 1:51.6 | over to Hawaii and start a life there and you can check |
| 1:55.2 | out on her Instagram account Earthy Andy, what she's doing day and day out with her family, and it's just |
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