773. FDA, Food Dyes + Our Health: Food Industry Secrets Revealed

Almost 30

Krista Williams & Lindsey Simcik

Education, Alternative Health, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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In this episode, meet Brigid Titgemeier—a Functional Medicine Registered Dietitian who’s on a mission to help you use food as medicine. The founder of BeingBrigid + The Being Collective, Brigid has guided thousands in transforming their labs, symptoms, and relationship with food. Ahead, Brigid reveals jaw-dropping truths about the inner workings of the U.S. food industry, the (shady) creation of dietary guidelines, and what’s actually in our food. This is your chance to finally understand the subtle ties between Big Food, Big Pharma, and our healthcare system. Plus, Brigid helps us navigate conflicting health advice, discern nutrition truths versus popular myths, and find grounded confidence in the wellness choices we make for ourselves—and our families. It’s all about reclaiming your power, tuning in spiritually, and embracing your intuition. We also talk about: -Functional medicine and integrative nutrition—what they actually mean -Food dyes, childhood health issues, and what’s hiding in your pantry -Women, intuition, and why millennials are questioning the “experts” -The emotional side of processed food + changing family habits -Easy ways to eat more phytonutrients + boost your energy -The real story behind “following the science” in nutrition -How to advocate for healthier food at schools + in your community -Practical food swaps + Brigid’s 28-day anti-inflammatory challenge Resources -Instagram: @beingbrigid -Website: beingbrigid.com -Try the 28-day challenge: https://thebeingcollective.co/?a_aid=almost30podcast -Get our book, Almost 30: A Definitive Guide To A Life You Love For The Next Decade and Beyond, here: http://bit.ly/Almost30Book. Sponsors: Pendulum | Go to amazon.com/pendulum and use code ALMOST30 at checkout under the payment section for 20% off Pendulum subscription first orders. LMNT | Receive a free LMNT Sample Pack with any order when you go to DrinkLMNT.com/Almost30. To advertise on this podcast please email: [email protected] or go to https://advertising.libsyn.com/almost30. Learn More: -almost30.com/learn -almost30.com/morningmicrodose -almost30.com/courses Join our community: -facebook.com/Almost30podcast/groups Podcast disclaimer can be found by visiting: almost30.com/disclaimer. Find more to love at almost30.com! Almost 30 is edited by Garett Symes and Isabella Vaccaro. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome and welcome and welcome and welcome to almost 30 podcast.
0:17.1	It's so good to have you here.
0:18.4	It's Lindsay and Krista, your best friends, your big sisters, in times of transition and change. We talk about everything from health and wellness, spirituality, relationships, lifestyle, you know us, just dynamic duo.
0:35.2	Fashion, beauty. Please don't. Don't, I don't know. Yeah. Fashion, beauty.
0:38.2	Please don't.
0:39.8	Don't, I don't know.
0:42.4	Yeah, oh, actually, I'm looking at the framing.
0:45.4	The lower half is not on.
0:52.4	I don't think the upper half is great, but like we were talking about my ankle socks and what I'm wearing shoe-wise and my sleeves.
0:53.4	Oh, is it?
0:55.1	Lord have mercy. No, it's not.
1:00.0	You're a fashion icon. I'm an icon in my own world. Anyway.
1:02.3	Mom icon. Here we go, wink, wink. Hey, my claim to faint in fashion was getting best dressed in Ohio in my high school. In what year?
1:09.9	Yeah, honestly, in 1914. No, you've had like a fashion revolution. Yeah.
1:17.0	Fashion rebirth. Uh-huh. Fashion. I've had, it's called revolve. It's called
1:22.4	working with revolve. Revolve. I was doing the three fashion words with my friends.
1:29.2	Olivia, she's my special girl.
1:32.1	She just gets obsessed with something.
1:33.8	And for a month, she'll be asking her, Olivia, organic Olivia, she'll be asking everyone, what's your three fashion words?
1:39.1	And just like, so she was like for a month being like, what's your three fashion words?
1:43.3	And one of my other friends, Jessie, was like, revolve about me.
1:46.9	Oh, that's hilarious.
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