Mental Health & Mindfulness for Health & Longevity · Ryan Kimball

11: 6 Weeks To Superwoman!

March 26, 2023·46 min·4 clips

Emily Brown keeps coming back to root causes. She talks about clients who have tried everyone and everything, then uses functional testing to look at genetics, hormones, toxins, deficiencies, and food or environmental sensitivities. The host keeps pulling it back to people who feel hopeless, symptomatic, and stuck without answers. Fasting gets a useful reset. Emily does not sell it as a harsh rule. She describes time-restricted feeding as a way to support digestion, nutrient intake, and rest-and-repair, but only when the window fits the person. Early work schedules matter. Trying to get pregnant matters. Elevated cortisol matters too. That is what keeps the advice from turning brittle. The host also lands on a bigger frustration: basic nutrition education missed people who clearly needed it. Protein is the everyday example. Emily mentions a client going to college for a post-doctorate degree who still had not learned how to eat protein. Then she adds the genetics layer, with AMPK and Sirtuins as part of why the body may benefit when food is not always present. The science gets dense in spots, but the conversation keeps finding its way back to what a listener could adapt. By the end, the host sounds hopeful about Emily's work as a toolset for investigating health barriers. Books come up too. Emily offers to send a list, including Lumiere Effect, so the learning does not stop with the episode.

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A practical root-cause health conversation that keeps fasting and nutrition tied to real-life constraints.

The episode keeps its feet on the ground. An integrative and functional nutrition practitioner walks through root-cause work with holistic health and functional testing, looking at genetics, hormones, toxins, nutritional deficiencies, and food and environmental sensitivities.

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You want a root-cause way to think about health issues and fasting.

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