Welcome to our weekly Dishing Up Nutrition Podcast.

I'm co-host Melanie Beasley and I have been registered in licensed dietitian for over 30 years.

I've had the pleasure of working with a variety of clients in many different areas.

Let's see. I've been a dietitian working for the Department of Corrections in a prison, a naval

dietitian. I've worked in multiple hospitals as a hospital dietitian, including the VA.

And for the past several years, it's been my joy to work at nutritional weight and wellness. I work

individually with many, many clients. I also teach nutrition classes along with some strategies to

change behavior. So one of my favorite classes is the menopause solution seminar. It is a six-hour

pre-recorded series. I teach with Kara

Carper, who's a certified nutrition specialist, and we have a lot of fun with that class.

Because of Kara's age, she represents the perimenopause stage of life, and I represent

the menopause stage of life. So, working with clients is one of my favorite things to do,

the one-on-one with clients. One of my passions is to improve bone health with my clients who have

osteoporosis or osteopinia. Or even like today, I worked with someone we're trying to prevent

bone loss because she is going through

a cancer journey and she's on some medication that can thin her bones. So those are some of my

passions that I love to do. Brittany, what about you? Hello, everybody. Well, one of my passions

is hormones, working with women to balance out their hormones.

And because of my own history with hormonal imbalances, I have a special interest in it.

And it's just lovely to have a follow-up appointment and hear how much better they're feeling and their symptoms

went away. So rewarding. That's the best part of our job. It really is. It's, it is so great.

Because we are dietitians and nutritionists, we get so many questions about commonly held beliefs by people

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