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Picky Eating Solutions with Jess Sherman

Picky Eating Solutions with Jess Sherman

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 Jess Sherman is an international speaker and author, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner and award winning Registered Holistic Nutritionist™, board certified in Practical Holistic Nutrition. In this episode, she talks about the roots of picky eating, her approach to helping patients, and much more!-Highlights3:17 - Jess talks about her background and what got her into helping resilient kids8:04 - Jess talks about the granular approach she takes to analyzing a picky eater’s diet10:04 - The roots of picky eating13:52 - Creating a culture of nourishment in your family16:21 - Working with teenagers20:48 - A good approach to teaching picky eaters about nourishment24:11 - Jess goes into specifics on how she helps her patients27:33 - The importance of making sure a child’s support system is on the same page when it comes to their nutrition29:55 - The importance of community for parents that are on this journey32:20 - Where to learn more about Jess34:04 - Some epiphanies Jess has learned as a health detective-About Jess ShermanJess Sherman is an international speaker and author, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner and award winning Registered Holistic Nutritionist™, board certified in Practical Holistic Nutrition. She is also a certified teacher and holds a masters degree in Education from The University of Toronto.As a family health educator she has guided parents in at least 44 countries towards safe, natural and effective tools to improve the lives of their children with learning differences, anxiety, ADHD, autism and mood disorders.Back when she was teaching high school, Jess became deeply concerned to learn that at least 60% of her students were on medication - either to help them learn, focus or stabilize their mood, or to help them sleep, poop or manage their allergies.  When she discovered the profound impact of nutrition and stress on resilience she set her mind to helping the busy, frustrated, worried parents of these kids find natural, simple ways to help them thrive. She now reaches parents around the world through her book, Raising Resilience: Take the stress out of feeding your family and love your life, her virtual community, and her online coaching program. Jess has been featured as a nutrition and family health expert for online and offline audiences where she has spoken about the impact of nutrition and connection for audiences of parents, medical professionals, social workers and teachers. She is a regular contributor to blogs and print magazines, where she translates complex research into practical action steps for busy parents.In 2019 Jess received the award for Clinical Excellence from The CSNNAA for her work with families and was picked as a featured speaker in The Future Of Health series at the Mindshare Leadership Summit where she spoke about the challenges of raising resilient kids today.-Connect with JessWebsite | jesssherman.comThe Resilience RoadmapBiology of Behavior-Connect with Dr. LaurynFacebook | Dr. Lauryn LaxTwitter | @drlaurynlaxInstagram | @drlaurynlaxWebsite | drlauryn.com -Transcript (Episode website contains full transcript)Dr. Lauryn (00:02):Hello, welcome to the Health Detective Podcast, a show dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. I'm your host, Dr. Lauryn, former TV news journalist, an ex-chronic illness patient gone health detective with my master's in functional medicine, nutrition, and my doctorate in occupational therapy. Today, bringing you over 20 years of clinical and personal experience helping patients radically take their health back into their own hands. On this show, I love having real conversations with a variety of interesting guests who are all a little bit of health detectives in their own way, like our guest today, Jess Sherman. Today we're talking about the problem of picky eating and behavior problems in kids, which are often related to food. Family wellness specialist and nutritionist Jess Sherman is the founder of the Resilience Roadmap. She helps parents and families create systematic plans as well as nutrition solutions for ultimately helping build resilient kids in your own lives.(00:57):Picky eating and letting food be thy medicine are two of the frontal topics of today's conversation. And absolutely just loved this conversation because I have 20 years of my own experience of working with kids and families as well. I remember when I was 10 years old, starting my own babysitter's club. I was a solo babysitter at the time, but I just absolutely loved working with kids. And as I began to become more of a healthcare practitioner, realized a lot of the things that I was seeing kids for in my therapy clinic, such as ADHD, sensory processing, autism spectrum, just like chronic anxiety with kids, were really related not only to the food they were eating but also what was going on under the hood. So things like their gut microbiomes and their limbic system slash brain health and how ...
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