Every day we are surrounded by poor food choices.

So how do we make the right choices for us and our bodies? Today we'll discuss how you can make the best nutritional choices every day.

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Today we're excited to talk to Sharon McDonald about supporting your body with the best nutrition. Sharon, thank you so much for being here

with us today. Thank you for having me. I'm so happy to be here. Now, my first question is kind of a big one,

and that is why is nutrition so important

and what problems can a lack of good nutrition cause? So nutrition is another window to the soul

from my experience. And when our nutrition is in line, our whole body can really communicate with itself and be able to really

move the dial whether the immune system needs to go up or needs to come down. It just can take care

of so much. So nutrition is the hub for all of that. And a lack of good nutrition, right, whether it's, whether it's ourselves, whether it's

our body's ability to, you know, the thyroid to function well, the gut to move things,

the mitochondria to give all the information that is necessary to the muscles and everything that makes us move and function

relies on that nutrition and that absorption. So what are some of the roadblocks that people might

encounter when it comes to getting this optimal nutrition? Well, let's look at the nutrition of our soil. I think that's really the basis of

what we really need to look at. I was just talking to a friend the other day, another nutrition

lover, and she was talking about how the soil in her area was really rich and really black.

And that's the way it was where I grew up in Washington State.

And the richer and the darker and the blacker it was because of decomposing leaves and whatnot.

You can really tell the health of the forest when you see this really deep rich dirt and the same in your field

when you're growing food. And we live in Vermont and there, it's granite here. So there's lots of

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