Welcome to the Functional Nutrition Podcast. I'm your host, Erin Holt. I'm an integrative

in functional medicine nutritionist with a feisty attitude in well 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 school in practitioner mentorship

where we help other clinicians 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 this 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, I would love for you to subscribe to the show, leave a review in iTunes, share with

a friend, and keep coming back for more.

Now give me the mic so I can take it away.

Hello, my friends. I am excited to be here with you today. And I mean that wholeheartedly.

I feel good today. I've got some good energy to share with you.

Hi, Vibein.

If you're in a down day, tune in and you can pick up some on some of this energy.

I'm kind of interrupting our regularly scheduled programming a little bit.

I had a different episode that I was planning to release today.

But someone near and dear to my heart

told me that she listened to last week's episode and she started implementing a couple of things

that I talked about on the show. She said that she was getting outside every morning to drink

her coffee and sit in the sunshine and take some deep breaths. And I thought,

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