Can You Use Food To Heal From Emotional Trauma? with Christa Orecchio
The Energy Blueprint Podcast
Ari Whitten
4.7 • 751 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I'm speaking with Christa Orecchio, who is a holistic and clinical nutritionist. We discuss her unique approach to getting her client's nervous systems out of stress and back into healing mode.
In this podcast, Christa and I discuss:
- Why chronic disease can be caused by an imbalanced nervous system
- Why approaching gut problems from the level of the brain is vital for success
- Christa’s dietary approach to support recovery from stress-induced illness
- Meal frequency - long-term vs. short-term effects of eating every few hours
- The best breakfast recommendations to make a calm, energetic start to the day
- How to create a place of calm and peace in your body so you can begin to heal
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode, I'm speaking with Krista Oreckio, who's been a holistic and clinical nutritionist for the last 17 years, |
| 0:14.3 | and we are talking all about her unique approach to getting people's nervous systems out of fight or flight overly stressed |
| 0:24.7 | mode and putting them back into healing mode. |
| 0:28.1 | She's got a lot of unique insights and a very novel approach and a novel way of thinking |
| 0:31.9 | about this. |
| 0:32.9 | So enjoy the podcast. |
| 0:34.5 | So welcome back to the show, Krista. |
| 0:36.0 | Such a pleasure to have you. I always love chatting |
| 0:39.1 | with you. Ari. Thanks for having me. Yeah. So first of all, let's talk about the nervous system. |
| 0:47.0 | Yeah. That's the thing that you've been focused on for the last few years now is what's going on in the body when we've got a nervous |
| 0:56.5 | system and a brain under chronic stress. So tell me what's going on. And obviously there's |
| 1:02.6 | different lenses and paradigms through which one can look at this story from a sort of purely |
| 1:07.9 | neuroscience perspective or a hormonal perspective or a biochemistry perspective |
| 1:12.0 | or a mitochondrial perspective or a whatever or a vagus nerve perspective or these kinds of things. |
| 1:19.2 | So what is kind of the paradigm that you have landed on as far as what you feel is most insightful? |
| 1:26.5 | Yeah, and all of those things that you mentioned are so incredibly important. |
| 1:30.8 | And my roots have always been in gut health, and I know you know that. |
| 1:34.7 | And the more I progressed, it's like, okay, well, yeah, I always said a million times, |
| 1:39.3 | all disease begins in the gut, right? |
| 1:40.9 | But I really have started to see how all disease begins in the nervous |
| 1:45.4 | system. And modern life has changed so much. And so really what kind of got me shifted into this |
| 1:52.5 | is seeing when I was in private practice, you know, 15 years ago, we didn't see a ton of SIBO, |
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