434: The best foods for blood sugar balance, heart health & metabolism | Functional medicine expert Amy Sapola, PharmD

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 12 September 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Amy Sapola, PharmD: “Get in as much color with your food as you can. Color is phytonutrients, and color is that sensory experience.” Amy, a functional medicine expert, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the all-time best nutrition hacks, plus: - Why blood sugar balance is critical for optimizing metabolism (~04:04) - How vegetables can increase your happiness (~07:38) - Why some processed foods don’t spike your blood sugar (~10:44) - Why you should boil your sweet potatoes (~12:36) - Why regenerative agriculture is crucial for health (~18:48) - How Amy prescribes food to her clients (~24:35) - Why you shouldn’t peel your vegetables (~29:51) - The best foods for heart health (~33:07) - The No. 1 most underrated & nutrient-dense vegetable (~34:05) - How to shop sustainably for food & clothing (~38:40) - The health benefits of making your meals aesthetically pleasing (~43:37) Referenced in the episode: - A study on vegetable consumption and happiness. - Learn more about the Culinary Vegetable Institute. - An mbg article on the Mediterranean diet. - Check out Jennifer Rubell's art. - Learn more about The Chef's Garden. - The CDC's list of powerhouse vegetables. Note: This episode briefly mentions eating disorders. If you are struggling with any of the signs and symptoms, you can call the National Eating Disorder Association hotline at (800) 931-2237. We hope you enjoy this episode sponsored by Cotton, and feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:30.0	What's the way for Champions League and Europa League live an exclusive on TNT Sports?
0:37.0	Dr. Amy Sepola is a certified wellness coach with the BSN Nutrition and is the director of pharmacy at the Chefs Garden in Huron, Ohio.
0:46.0	Pharmacy at the Chefs Garden is about building a greater understanding as to how your health is impacted by regenerative agricultural practices.
0:56.0	A regenerative ag is something we love, love, love here at MyBuddyGreen and do not talk enough about.
1:03.0	Now Amy and her role at Pharmacy at the Chefs Garden guides consumers towards a mindful relationship with food by connecting the benefits of healthy soil to healthy plants and ultimately to healthy people.
1:16.0	I love it.
1:18.0	And what's so cool here is what they're doing is out of Ohio.
1:23.0	Yes, all this innovation is out of Ohio. It's not out of LA or Austin or Boulder or Brooklyn, Ohio.
1:29.0	Don't sleep on Ohio. So cool. Amy, welcome.
1:34.0	Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.
1:37.0	So let's start with your personal wellness journey which involves struggling with an eating disorder, fertility and blood sugar.
1:44.0	And you say in your journey, you try it every diet imaginable.
1:48.0	Though fat, vegan, vegetarian, paleo, keto, go on and on.
1:52.0	So let's start there and what ultimately worked for you.
1:56.0	Yeah. So the first thing I would say is it's been a journey, right?
2:00.0	So nothing happened overnight. And I think that was what I needed to really stop.
2:05.0	And stop all the madness, start listening to myself. So really what ultimately worked for me was stopping trying to do all the other things people said.
2:13.0	I needed to do and really just start listening to what my body needed.
2:19.0	One of the things I'm really grateful for is that I got to the point where I really wasn't like it wasn't working to do all these different diets for me.
2:30.0	So I had been, I had been vegetarian, I had been paleo, I had done pescatarian.
2:38.0	And while all those were great, I still had health challenges. I was eating super clean.
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