Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness.com Podcast.

We provide you with free exercise, nutrition, weight loss, triathlon and wellness advice

from the top fitness experts in the nation.

So whether you're an Iron Man triathlete or you're just trying to shed a few pounds,

get ready for non-runner-of-the-mill, conniage content from Ben Greenfield Fitness.com.

Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here and I get asked a lot by you guys writing into the

show and calling in about how you can actually get to the point where you're in a position,

kind of like I'm doing, where you can help people to have better health.

And probably the number one most common question I get when it comes to that line of questioning

is how you can help people when it comes to the eating part, the nutrition part.

And really even if you don't have the resources to say attend medical school and become a physician,

we still live in this era where you could become a personal trainer and nutritionist,

a dietitian, a health coach and still be able to help lots of people achieve better health.

So rather than me just sitting in front of the microphone and droning on to you about

about how to get health certifications or how to become a nutritionist or something along those lines,

I actually decided to bring somebody on who is living a life right now as a health coach

and who's really a wealth of information when it comes to this stuff. Her name is Maria Marlowe

from MariaMarlowe.com and she is certified through something called the Institute for

Integrative Nutrition, which is the world's largest nutrition school. She graduated at the top of

her class from Fordham University with a degree in finance and marketing and after she landed a

position in finance when she graduated, she moved on pretty quickly and started instead kind of

pursuing a passion for the healing power of food. So she attended the National Gourmet Institute

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