Today on the root cause medicine podcast. Your perspective can either be your pain or your perspective

can be your power. And I had to change my perspective because remember I was not feeling well

myself. And when you're not feeling well yourself, it's easy to just look down the road and say,

you know what, forget it, I can't do this. And then when you have all

of these responsibilities also putting yourself in the way on the back burner, and I think that's

what us moms also do and caregivers and parents is that we try to take care of everybody else besides

for us, but it really starts with that mentality shift that, no, I am important.

I need to take care of myself in order for everybody else to thrive.

Well, hello there.

I'm your host for today, Dr. Kate Kresge, and I'm interviewing Dr. Medea Saeed,

a family physician and holistic health expert.

She's going to reveal the powerful yet overlooked scientific insights

that transformed her health and her family's health as well. Among the most striking takeaways

from this episode are insights into how mitochondrial dysfunction and chronic stress can affect

chronic illness. Dr. Saeed explains her own experience with reversing chronic illness

using a holistic plan

that included a major focus on diet.

She also talks about the under-assuated impact of gratitude on cellular health and how specific

food choices can reprogram your gut microbiome and metabolic function.

Dr. Saeed breaks down why common foods like whole wheat bread and even processed snacks can wreak

on blood sugar and inflammation and offer suggestions for swaps that are kid approved including

things like lentil pasta and cassava chips she gives us the really amazing examples of actually

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