In this episode, your host, Melissa talks about the different fasting and time restricted eating protocols. She busts some myths about fasting and highlights the benefits. She focuses in particular on fasting for women and listening to your body, taking it slow to start and fasting intuitively.

Get an explanation of what is happening in the body on a hormonal level when we eat at specific times of the day and learn more about the anti-ageing science of autophagy.

She talks about metabollic flexibility and offers up some of the main studies completed on low calorie diets and compares with fasting, so you can see the difference between the two as to what is happening on a metabollic level in the body.

Your host, Melissa Whitty, naturopathic nutritionist, yoga teacher and HIIT teacher talks to you in this episode about the increase of hormone dysregulation issues in society today and the reasons for this.

She talks about 6 key hormones that matter as well as some of the key hormone disruptors in our environment.

She explains how diet and natural protocols like seeds cycling has helped her regulate her own cycle and hormonal issues.

There will be another full episode on seed cycling and exercising according to our cycles later so in this episode, they are just mentioned and the focus is more on diet and environmental toxins, as well as an exploration of these key hormones in the body.

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In this episode, we speak with naturopath and kids nutrition specialist, Jessica Donovan from Adelaide, Australia.

Jessica runs her clinic in South Australia but also has an online business called natural super kids.

Jessica shares her journey with us, suffering with mood issues and acne as a teenager, when she worked with a naturopath to heal.

We talk about top nutrients for kids, supplementation, fussy eaters and tips to get your kids to eat more veg.

Jessica has offered some free resources to download:

Links below:

Free Kids gut health Ebook

Free Ebook: 8 essential wholefoods for kids

In this episode, I interview Michelle Flynn Health coach about stress, what is happening in the body in long term stress, key symptoms to look out for and the importance of adding stress management techniques daily on an ongoing basis.

I summarise and add on to the interview at the end on all of the different types of stress and stressors, a list of the symptoms in short term stress, long term stress and stress management techniques.

Tune in to hear Michelle's own personal health story about stress and her top tips on stress management.

Follow Michelle Flynn on instagram @michelleflynncoaching or @lovetolearnto for the breathwork.

In this episode, your host, Melissa talks about the deep fascia and what it means for your flexibility and emotional release in the body.

She talks about typical places that we tend to hold emotional baggage and stresses and about the meridians or energy channels.

She talks about the emotions and the relative organs they relate to.

In this episode, your host, Melissa, naturopathic nutritionist, yoga and HIIT teacher will address the following queries on gut health.

Your body is constantly giving you signs of imblance and once we are aware of some of the symptoms of a disordered microbiome or dysbiosis, we can go to the source to address the issue.

She will talk to you about the microbiome:

What is it and what are the symptoms of a disordered microbiome or dysbiosis?

What are the common symptoms of dysbiosis to look out for?

What are the various pathologies or diseases that can manifest when dysbiosis is left untreated?

What foods should I be eating and should I supplement?

What testing options are there and what will a test tell me?

She offers some general tips to support good gut health and to feed the good bacteria in the gut.

Your host, Melissa gives some practical tips on which foods to include more of in the diet to elevate mood and which to reduce.

She also gives insight into what is happening in the body in terms of converting the food we eat into our happy hormones and feel good neurotransmitters, what nutrients the body needs for this conversion and what other factors affect the process.

A mix of genetics, biomedicine and practical tips to help elevate your mood with food.