on today's episode of the Real Foodology podcast. First of all, without the bees, we would lose

one third of our food supply. So apples, almonds, blueberries, you know, you name it. So it is,

it is really sad what's happening to the bees right now and we're losing them in the U.S.

And it's created this different industry of commercial pollination where, you know, beekeepers are

getting paid a lot of money to put their bees on a truck, bring them around to these different crops, let them lose sometimes

while pesticides are sprayed and then bring them all back. So, you know, it's really not treating

the bee is the way that they need to be treated and nourished to support our overall ecosystem.

Hi, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast.

I am your host, Courtney Swan.

For those of you that are new here, I have my Master's of Science in Nutrition and Integrative

Health.

I originally went down the dietetic track.

I decided that I wanted a more holistic natural approach, but that was still very heavily based in science,

which is how I ended up with my master's of science in nutrition and integrative health.

I started real foodology 11 years ago while I was getting my master's.

And at the time, it was just simply an outlet for me to share all the things that I was learning

about health and about our

bodies and recipes and just I was so excited about nutrition and learning about how we could

better our health in all these ways that I had never even been taught or heard of before.

Now fast forward to 11 years later, I have an Instagram, which is education-based,

and then, of course, I have this podcast where I feel so grateful that I get to have these

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