It's complicated in the fact of like, oh, all these different things can affect me, and it's not complicated in the way of drink water, move your body, breathe, sleep, and nourish yourself correctly, and you're probably going to be good.

It's just nourishing yourself correctly is what's so confusing now.

Welcome to The Whole View. I'm Stacey Toth, April Everything, and I'm here each week to dive deeper into how we can find happiness and health inside and out through self-love, body positivity, and discovering new ways to be our best selves.

Before we get started, a reminder that this podcast is for general educational purposes and not intended to diagnose, advise, or treat any physical or mental illness, and we always

recommend that you see a licensed health professional accordingly. I am excited to welcome Dr. Christine

Smith, who is a functional medicine practitioner and doctor of chiropractic with a background in cognitive

neuroscience. She specializes in holistic injury recovery and chronic inflammation prevention.

So basically all the things I'm into, and I hunted her down on the internet and was like,

please have come on the show. Christine likes to teach clients how to

recover using time as a gift to restructure lifestyle and learn to speak the language of their body.

I like the way you put that through education and heal beyond scars. Her work focuses on seeing

the whole person through personalized, integrative

health care, and regularly works with other trusted providers to create holistic care plans.

And her path has included many experiences outside the straight academic path, leaving her to

where she has a day. I do want to just put out there, Christine, so you're aware, I have had some people who are

doctors of chiropractic or functional medicine practitioners, and I'm using kind of air quotes

when I say that because there's a lot of pseudoscience in the things that they come with.

And I wouldn't just like tell listeners, like, pet you a little bit to calm down, let your nervous system, just feel okay that Dr.

Christine is coming from a place that is really like working with your body and using science as a base.

And so we're going to talk about protein today because I feel like that is huge in

social media and culture and everything, especially for me right now. I've been doing a lot of

like my own education around being in perimenopause and the things that I need to change a little

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