Welcome to the Functional Nutrition Podcast. I'm your host, Erin Holt. I'm a functional medicine

nutritionist with a feisty attitude in over a decade of clinical experience. I work with women

all over the world through my online programs, and I'm also the founder of the Functional Nutrition

Academy, a 12-month practitioner mentorship

where I help other nutrition pros level up with functional medicine methodologies.

I've got a bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional healthcare model that are both

systematically failing so many of us. Creating a new model is my life's work, and this is what the show's all

about. Please keep in mind this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never

be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. If you like what you hear today,

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and keep coming back for more. Thanks for joining me. Now let's dive deep.

Hello and happy New Year, lads and lasses. For those of you who celebrate, I hope everyone

enjoyed the holidays. And I'm coming out of the gate hot this year,

2022, talking all about metabolic health. So today is going to be part one of a three-part

series about metabolic health. I'm going to tell you at the beginning of this video of like,

why or this audio of why it's so important and why if this is not something you have considered yet,

you absolutely should. And then I'm going to answer questions that came to me from Instagram.

So in today's video, specifically I'm going to chat about more of like the high blood sugar

insulin picture. So what does high blood sugars and insulin have to do

with weight loss and what you should consider if weight loss is a goal? I'm going to talk about

the link between insulin and COVID, citing a newer study. And then menopause. That was a question

that came in about perimenopause and menopause, and why does it cause

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