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Old Fashioned On Purpose

S17: E2: The Missing Piece: Mastering Nutrition for the Homesteader

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Farm, Canning, Education, How To, Home & Garden, Gardening, Cows, Farming, Homesteading, Leisure, Hobbies, Cooking, Chickens, Homestead

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

As homesteaders, we often focus on sourcing high-quality, real food—but what about understanding how to truly fuel our bodies? In this episode, I sit down with Johnna Sutton, a functional nutritionist and seasoned homesteader, to discuss the finer points of macronutrients and how they fit into a seasonal, whole-food lifestyle. From balancing protein, fats, and carbs to adjusting your diet for the seasons and life stages, Johnna explains how this often-overlooked knowledge can help homes...

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0:00.0

So here on the podcast, we talk a lot about food, of course. It's one of my favorite topics.

0:13.8

And we cover everything from the industrial food systems to how to grow food, to how to cook it,

0:18.5

to how to source the best ingredients. I mean, we talk about food a lot.

0:23.0

But I think one area in this topic of food that perhaps I have neglected, and I think maybe

0:28.8

the homestead space in general, has neglected, is how to take our food knowledge and what

0:35.6

we know about nutrition and soil health and good ingredients

0:38.3

to the next level. Because even if you have the cleanest food supply possible, in order to fuel

0:45.5

our bodies with that good food in the best way we can, we have to take into consideration

0:49.9

what our body actually needs. Now, that's way easier to have and done because it's definitely a moving target.

0:55.7

And it depends on you and your unique genetics and your stage of life and even the

1:00.4

seasons of nature, which is one of my favorite parts of this conversation that we're going to

1:03.7

get into.

1:04.4

So I have an incredible expert joining me today.

1:07.4

I'm joined by John A Sutton.

1:09.3

She is a functional medicine certified health coach,

1:11.9

and she has a really awesome background in sustainable agriculture, nutrition, exercise, physiology,

1:17.8

and law. So I was just reading through her bio and I'm like, she is a jack of all trades. I know

1:23.8

she brings so much to the table. And she has a deep rooted passion for connecting where our food comes from and how it also impacts us and our health.

1:32.0

So welcome, Donna.

1:33.2

I am so pumped for this conversation.

1:35.5

Oh, my.

1:36.0

Thank you so much for having me.

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