Hey, it's Wendy!

And it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast,

your online resource for delicious and nutritious living.

Hey everyone! Thanks so much for tuning into another episode of the Food Heaven Podcast with Wendy and Jess.

Today we have Mary Perty joining us. Mary is an integrative dietitian who's worked

in private practice for eight years. She's also served as a professor and clinic supervisor

at Baster University. Mary currently provides lifestyle counseling to clients using personalized

genetic data and functional labs using a food as medicine approach. She's the host of the

really funny web series and podcast Mary's Nutrition Show and is also the author of the recently

published book, Serving the Broccoli God's Love It. And we are so excited to talk about

Hashimoto's thyroiditis with Mary. It is a type of thyroid disease and this topic is

really near and dear to me because I actually have Hashimoto's and thyroid disease runs in my

family. So my grandmother has thyroid disease, my mom, my sister and also myself. So we're super

excited. Welcome to the podcast Mary. Thank you too. I'm so happy to be here with you all.

Yay we're excited to have you and before we get into all things Hashimoto, we wanted you to tell

us a little bit about your background because you are an integrative dietitian and can you just

explain a little bit about what that means and how you got into this line of work? Of course. So when

I think of being an integrative, registered dietitian nutritionist, I really think of it from

three tenants. So number one is it's seeking out the root cause of disease and really thinking

about this as more of a food is medicine approach where we're looking to prevent disease and

reverse disease and address disease with food and lifestyle medicine instead of just addressing

or managing symptoms. So that's number one. Number two, I feel like it's about looking at that

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