Calm Your Nervous System & Embrace Food Freedom with Ali Miller

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Calm Your Nervous System & Embrace Food Freedom with Ali Miller

I’m excited for you to listen to today’s episode with Ali Miller, a registered dietitian and author of the international bestseller The Anti-Anxiety Diet and The Anti-Anxiety Diet Cookbook. Ali’s “food is medicine” philosophy is supported by the latest research for a functional, integrative approach to healing the body.

We talk about how stress can mess with the body – from your hormones, to your mood, to your reproductive health. Ali shares tangible tools to help our bodies process cortisol and transmute stress. We also talk about the HPA Axis, and why it’s so crucial to regulating the body.

We explore foods to decrease inflammation, restoring micronutrient deficiencies, and rebalancing neurotransmitters. Plus, Ali shares her personal practices for living a balanced life. We close with a discussion on how to educate and empower our kids to embrace food as medicine.

This episode is filled with so many gold nuggets that I’m going to implement in my own life. I love how Ali encourages everyone to ditch diet doctrines and embrace an individualized approach. And that mission serves as the foundation of our chat today – so get ready to be motivated through emotional connection as opposed to shame and guilt.

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Show Notes

 

(00:02:08) Ali’s Personal Path to Wellness

  • Ali’s holistic, nutrients-first philosophy 
  • Detailing her history of an autoimmune condition
  • Her transition from a vegan diet to eating animal proteins

(00:05:15) Understanding Anti-Nutrients 

  • What are anti-nutrients? 
  • Taking an individualistic approach instead of a diet doctrine
  • The power of food freedom 

(00:10:37) Stress Is the Achilles Heel of Wellness 

(00:22:45) HPA Axis 101

  • What is the HPA Axis? 
  • Why the hypothalamus is key to regulating your body 
  • How the HPA Axis impacts hormones, fertility, mood, and more 

(00:27:13) Tips To Process Cortisol 

  • Amino acids that help metabolize cortisol 
  • Women under-nourishing, over-exercising, and over-caffeinating 

(00:30:00) Getting Just the Right Amount of Stress

  • Balancing selected stressors like exercise, cold plunge, and fasting
  • How Kelly shifted her postpartum approach after her third child 
  • Not normalizing mediocrity in how we feel

(00:36:54) Eat To Serve Up Your Best Self 

  • Ali’s 6Rs approach to nutrition 
  • Foods to decrease inflammation 
  • Ways to reset the microbiome and repair the gut lining
  • Restoring micronutrient deficiency 
  • Rebalancing neurotransmitters 

(00:43:39) How Parents Can Support Their Mood

(00:48:42) Ali’s Daily Routine To Stay Balanced 

(00:55:03) Empowering Your Kids Around Food 

  • Tips for helping your kids embrace food as medicine 
  • Guiding conversations with your kids about food 
  • Educating without shaming 
  • Leading your kids in taste adventures 

* Content from this podcast is provided for information and education purposes only, and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. The use of information from this podcast is at the user’s own risk. Always speak with your healthcare professional before taking any medication, nutritional or herbal supplement. 

 

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