Hi friends, welcome back to another episode of the Real Foodology podcast. I'm your host, Courtney Swan.

And today's episode is a little bit different because I am actually being interviewed.

I recently went to Austin and I was a guest on the Meat Mafia podcast. You may recognize that

podcast because I actually had those guys on a couple months ago.

It was a great episode.

When I was in Austin, they had me come in their studio and we recorded an episode together.

And you guys, it's really good.

I really loved their questions a lot.

I think we had a great conversation and we covered a lot of topics.

And we reached out to them and asked if we could share it on my podcast

because I wanted to share it with my audience. We dive into my transition from working in music

and then over to nutrition. We also talk about my transition between being vegan. Actually,

I was vegetarian, not vegan for five years and then

going back to eating animal foods. We also talk a lot about women's health, women's hormones,

balancing, coming off of hormonal birth control, and so much more. It was a really great

conversation. So I hope you guys love it. And if you are enjoying the podcast, please, if you could take a second to leave a rating and review, it means so much to me. And it really, really helps the show out. With that, let's get into the episode. Did you guys know that over 70% of sodium in the U.S. diet is consumed from packaged and processed foods? When you adopt a Whole Foods diet, you are eliminating

or hopefully eliminating these processed foods and therefore sodium from your diet. Now, the solution

is not to reintroduce processed foods in your diet, but by not replacing that sodium, you can actually

negatively impact your health and performance. If you guys listen to my episode, The Salt Fix,

with Dr. James

DeNick, we learned that sodium is actually a really imperative mineral for the body. Sodium helps

maintain fluid balance. It's an electrolyte, so it helps keeps us hydrated. It also aids in nerve

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