Are food allergy tests legit? and how to improve digestion In 60 Seconds with Michelle Shapiro

Heal Thy Self with Dr. G

Wellness Loud

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Special Guest Segment: Dietitian Michelle Shapiro joins the show to give us the low down on the dietetics industry on how it is affecting our health, often times negatively. Is the dietitian academy RUN by big diary, meat, and sugar industries? The most TOXIC go to drink for dietitians in hospitals and nursing facilities. How do we focus on PROPER digestion? Quick HACKS for better brain gut connections. The PROBLEM with how we treat weight loss and diets. Is INTUITIVE eating helpful or harmful? And more incredible info on today’s episode of Heal Thy Self. Knowledge Bomb: Doctor. G reviews the facts behind food intolerance tests. They are all the rage in alternative medicine but are they legit? How do they work? Are they the same as food allergy tests? If the results say you are intolerant to a food, what next? What are more effective ways to heal food sensitivities? GUEST BIO: Michelle is an Integrative/ Functional Registered Dietitian and Patient Advocate practicing virtually in New York City. In her one on one practice, Michelle helps clients heal from chronic stress and digestive issues so they can lose weight lovingly and restore their energy, while experiencing a deeper connection with themselves and with life. In her supportive client work, Michelle is eager to bridge the gap between intuitive eating/ body positivity and functional nutrition, whereby there is generally a dichotomy. She believes clients can approach health changes lovingly, without force, and through their own agency. Michelle created Wellness Map, a monthly functional medicine patient advocacy membership to empower clients to become the boss of their own healthcare and teach them to navigate the healthcare system , advocate for themselves in appointments, all while getting access to discounted services. Michelle works to connect members with Naturopathic and Functional Medicine Practitioners to create sacred spaces for healing. The goal of Wellness Map is to get every single member in the driver's seat of their health journey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Within the first few bites, I also just have my clients kind of check in and see like,
0:04.2	how is this feeling going down? What thoughts are kind of coming up, especially in the beginning
0:08.5	of our work together, and just getting like really excited around the food, but at the same time,
0:13.1	just checking in with every part of ourselves as it's coming down.
0:21.2	All right, everyone. Welcome to the show. Healed by self has always taken the time out of your day.
0:25.7	All the love to you, all the gratitude to today opening ourselves up to really powerful
0:32.6	information that may just change your life or change your loved one's life. Regardless,
0:38.3	this is what we do. Give out some really good stuff. Now, in the knowledge bomb, I'm going to be
0:43.6	talking to you about food sensitivity and intolerance tests. A lot of these companies are online.
0:49.9	You can order it. Check out with a blood stick if you're intolerant to all these different types
0:56.0	of food, maybe over 200. Are they real? Are they beneficial? Should we be taking them? Should we
1:02.8	be spending our money on them? And then our special guest is awesome all the way from New York City.
1:08.4	She's coming and she's going to be talking to us all about dietetics. Really nutritionally,
1:14.4	what foods and how we should be eating those foods to really, really optimize our overall health,
1:20.6	including our digestive system, but also the scope of dietetics or how is the education being
1:26.8	influenced by the big food industries and how's it trickling down and affecting the way you're
1:32.4	getting your recommendations for eating better and being better. It's going to be an amazing
1:37.1	podcast because she's so passionate about her work and really being a pioneer as a dietitian
1:44.1	and changing the game. And that's what we want to do. We want to bring people who change the game.
1:47.2	So, real excited to share that with you. So, before we get into our show, I want to say a few
1:51.2	things about our awesome sponsors to make this show possible.
2:00.7	I want to talk about athletic greens. It's something I literally use every single day. The reason I
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