Episode 298: Kristin Johnson and Maria Claps
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast.
Kristin Johnson is a functional nutritionist with advanced training in holistic nutrition and a specialty in peri-menopause and menopause health. She is Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition, a certified DUTCH hormone test practitioner, and a graduate of the Nutritional Therapy Association's Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner program. She completed a professional mentorship with naturopathic endocrinologist Dr. Rebecca Provorse in 2020 and is half—along with her partner, Maria—of the health coaching business, Wise and Well.
Maria Claps is a functional health coach with a specialty in peri-menopause and menopause. She graduated from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2013 and then went on to study in a hormone program for practitioners with Dr Sara Gottfried in 2014. She completed the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Certification Program and, in 2017, completed the Menopause Method Program for Physicians with Dr David Rosensweet. She has been personally mentored by hormone scholar Dr Lindsey Berkson and naturopathic endocrinologist Dr Rebecca Provorse. She now mentors other health coaches and nutritionists to help them understand the unique and profound hormone changes of midlife.
In this conversation, Tro, Brian, Kristin, and Maria talk about how Kristin and Maria met and founded Wise and Well, why Kristin transitioned from being an attorney to working in nutrition, how Kristin and Maria approach treating menopausal and peri-menopausal women, the place and purpose of various hormones in women's health, the effects of stress and spirituality on hormonal and metabolic health, and the deficiencies of the standard practice of medicine and coaching.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:03.8 | No one is beyond help. |
| 0:05.8 | No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:08.5 | As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.7 | but none of this is medical advice. |
| 0:15.7 | Please seek out input from your own doctor. |
| 0:24.8 | Hello and welcome back to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:27.2 | Yes, true. |
| 0:28.2 | We have a good one. |
| 0:29.2 | This is a really, really, really important topic. |
| 0:31.2 | A couple of people might be interested in. |
| 0:33.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:34.2 | I think this is the most, most common thing that we get approached with. |
| 0:37.4 | We have two awesome, awesome health coaches, and if you're not following them, you should |
| 0:42.4 | right now. |
| 0:43.9 | They make up the dynamic duo at Wise and Well. |
| 0:47.0 | Actually, maybe we be, you know, the second best dynamic duo out there, I think. |
| 0:51.2 | I'm running the second best. |
| 0:54.8 | So we have Maria Claps and Kristen Johnson, just a little bit about both of them. |
| 1:00.2 | Both of them are health coaches. |
| 1:02.2 | Kristen is, you know, a recovering attorney, a certain, you know, we were just talking |
| 1:06.4 | about this. |
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