Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition. Today's podcast is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

We're a company in Minnesota that specializes in nutrition education and counseling.

My name is Melanie Beasley, and I'm a licensed

and registered dietitian, and I'm here today with my co-host, Kara Carper, who's a licensed

nutritionist and she's also a board-certified nutrition specialists. So we are looking

forward to talking about a topic today that's not often talked about in general conversation,

and the title of our show is pelvic floor problems. Melanie, I know that you and the other

licensed and registered dietitians meet together on a regular basis to discuss new research,

kind of bounce ideas off one another when it comes to specific health conditions of your clients.

And another thing that I've heard gets talked about at these meetings is,

what would be a relevant podcast topic for upcoming shows?

Yeah.

So, in fact, the idea for today's show, pelvic floor problems, that was brought up by one of our dietitians.

And she said she had three female clients over a four-week time frame. They all came to see her for an appointment. And they all

mentioned that they were struggling with things like leaky bladder, overactive bladder, urinary

incontinence. I think urinary tract infections.

So it turns out the bladder issues were not what actually led them to make the initial

nutrition appointment.

So that was kind of interesting.

It really is interesting.

And I find that as well, Kara, when I'm seeing clients, is that they might make an appointment

with me to talk about elevated

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