Welcome to Dishing Nutrition, brought to you by Nutritional Weight and Wellness.

I'm Melody Beasley, and I'm a registered and licensed dietitian with over 30 years of experience, working with a variety of clients in many different settings.

And today, I'm in studio with co-host Nikki Doreen, who is also registered and licensed dietitian.

Nikki, share a little about yourself for our listeners.

Good morning, Mal.

It's so nice to do this show with you today.

I know.

We never see each other.

No, it's so nice.

So, yes, like you, I'm a dietitian, and I also have had a variety of work experiences,

including one in an outpatient setting in a medical and surgical weight management clinic at the University of Minnesota, but I've

also worked in long-term care. So that kind of is a great experience for me for our topic

today, which we'll get into in a little bit.

But my real understanding of nutrition came from healing my own memory.

That's interesting.

I'm looking forward to you sharing that with our listeners today.

The onset of my memory loss was the result of experience a serious concussion due to an auto accident.

So the concussion affected my memory and my concentration, and it caused many other symptoms.

But by eating real food in balance several times a day, I was able to restore my memory

and concentration each day and every week.

I experienced better moons and sharper memory and better concentration because I gave up sugar and processed foods by starting to eat those real foods.

So when I say real foods, what am I talking about? Yeah, what are you talking about?

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