Hello there, hello! Welcome to Almost30, has everybody feeling? It's Lens and Krista. I hope we find you in a cozy place, listen to our show, maybe on a walk, or thankful that you're here.

You don't need to be 30, you're almost 30 to listen, just a little disclaimer. You can be who you are, and where you're at. We started the pod during that time.

So, just a little info for you. We talk about health, wellness, spirituality, and yeah, we're so grateful you're here. We've been doing this for a while, you could say we're OGs.

We're OGs, baby. You could say we're OGs.

Inducted into the Hall of Fame, a podcasting, yeah, I mean, I feel like we are. It was funny, we had someone as a guest and they were like, I'm so inspired, like I just love your process. Like you said, guys, send that agreement and you, it was like they're inspired by our, our sisters.

Our sisters.

Sure. I mean, it's an important part of I think how everything flows and what you see on the outside.

Has to be backed up by a nice, nice, nice, nice, on the inside, just like our bodies, which takes us into just, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So in this conversation, we talk about the relationship between mental health and diet nutrition, which I think is super cutting edge.

I saw Dr. Uma at an event and I was blown away by just the concept and the conversation around this because I know for me that my mental health is directly impacted by what I eat.

And there's the conversation around your mental health and your relationship to your body and what your expectations of your body are and your body journey and, you know, that whole thing that's a whole mental health conversation, but then there's like the science of mental health related to anxiety depression, you know, things like Parkinson's or different types of diseases related to the mind or afflictions related to the mind that are directly impacted by what we eat.

And I'm so about giving people easy ways to support themselves and their mental health, especially when it's something like nutrition.

Yeah, you know, I think medication for mental health is incredibly important and so often it's prescribed without taking a honest and thorough look at nutrition, lifestyle, what have you.

So I think this is a really important piece of the puzzle that so many of us are just missing because life is so fast.

There's so much going on and I think the thought of food becomes kind of secondary and just like, let's just consume. I'm either hungry or I'm emotional or whatever.

And it's just kind of this thing that we that we do so mindlessly often and once I became aware of how food made me feel and made that connection with sounds like, hey, duh.

It was like, wait a second.

So I've been feeling like really faulty in the morning and kind of uninspired and like just not myself because of this what I'm eating late at night or whatever it is or I'm not getting enough water or there's just a whole host of symptoms that you could be experiencing and that also could be exacerbating your mental health.

Yeah, as an example for anyone that has anxiety, you could have an iron deficiency. So for people that might feel anxious or might experience anxiety, you can think about different minerals to increase in your diet or different things to support you in feeling better.

And we all know that mental health is so important to how you show up in the world to being on purpose, to having relationships with people you love to having an amazing relationship with yourself and successful career. So all of these like foundational items are key in that.

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And I know with me with caffeine or with too much sugar.

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