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This week, I had the honor of getting to interview my hero in the functional-food-as-medicine space, registered dietitian Ali Miller. She is an integrative functional dietitian, author of Naturally Nourished, The Anti-Anxiety Diet, and The Anti-Anxiety Diet Cookbook, and has over a decade of clinical experience using a whole foods ketogenic diet, to help others regulate their stress response system (a.k.a the HPA-axis), balance hormones, optimize metabolic health, improve autoimmune conditions, repair “leaky gut,” and reset the gut microbiome. Her method is supported by the most up-to-date scientific literature, offering a functional approach to whole-body healing. 

In The Episode:

• Ali’s personal journey to becoming a registered dietitian, and what ignited her passion for using food, therapeutically, to treat anxiety
  
• Why and how Ali transitioned from a raw vegan lifestyle, to an ancestral, “nose to tail,” ketogenic dietary approach
  
• Ali provides a deep dive of the HPA-axis (a.k.a the “fight or flight” response). Ali breaks down each component of this system
  
• Indicators of HPA-axis dysregulation. We could all probably use some more support here!
  
• The gut-stress connection. Understanding the difference between dysbiosis in the microbiome, and “leaky gut”
  
• How stress drives leaky gut
  
• The role leaky gut plays in autoimmunity, inflammation, and food sensitivities
  
• Common drivers of leaky gut
  
• Therapeutic foods to aid in the healing of leaky gut
  
• The overwhelming benefits of a ketogenic diet on managing HPA-axis imbalances
  
• The “Nocebo Effect”- how mantra and belief impacts HPA-axis regulation

Resources:

Naturally Nourished Blog

Naturally Nourished YouTube Channel 

Anti-Anxiety Diet Cookbook

Anti-Anxiety Diet Book

Probiotic Challenge

Naturally Nourished Supplement Line

Naturally Nourished Podcast

The MRT-Inflammatory Food Panel 

The Power of Mantra

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