Low-carb Conversations

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the Podcast, Leah and Holly take a journey with Jonathan Shane, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner at The Keto Road. In this episode: Jonathan shares his transformation health journey and struggles with weight and body dysmorphia. Leah and Jonathan chat about what lead Jonathan to study as a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. Find out more about the Nutritional Therapy Association here for USA classes and here for Australia classes. Enrollment for February closes soon! Holly Jean and John discuss the latest controversy over Cosmopolitan magazine and the cover photo featuring obese women with the caption “this is healthy”. The magazine has come under criticism, being accused of glamorizing obesity, for being irresponsible for displaying obesity as the picture of health during a time where a global pandemic is disproportionately affecting peopl

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the Podcast, Leah, Holly and Amber are together for the first time in 2021 to discuss goals and intentions for the new year as well as review some of the predicted top trends. Holly Jean shares her number one tip on goal setting. This is a good one you will want to write down. Leah shares some yogi wisdom and we discuss what helps us stay on track for achieving our personal and business goals, or intentions, at any time during the year. The Host’s review the Top 10 Wellness Trends for 2021 and then some more. Amber is most excited by Chicory so we discover what the fuss is about Chicory and how to make it into a lovely tea. Leah is most excited by Air Fryers and mentions a funny You tube video about appliances and the Air Fryer is the cool kid! She also mentions Aaron from Fat for Weight Loss new book full of Air Frying recipes. Holly Jean is most excited about

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the Podcast, Leah and Holly chat with award-winning Science and Health journalist, Cofounder and Director of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI), Author of The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat, and Good Calories, Bad Calories, and the latest book The Case for Keto, Gary Taubes. In this episode: Gary shares his journey into writing and what drives him to write books to change the paradigm of the way we eat. He shares his new book The Case for Keto. Leah and Gary discuss why this book is different to your usual “Keto” book and why this book is a must to pass on to your Medical Practitioner, Friends and Family. Holly reviews an article with Gary on questioning bad science. Does Gary agree with the Forbes article or is the answer more complicated? What do you think about this article? Articles: You must not ‘do your own research’ when it comes to science

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. In this special event podcast, Holly Jean shares a masterclass about exploring the nutritional journey and discovering mindfulness and the mind-body-nutrition connection in during periods of stress.⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Food and eating and dieting don’t need to be an additional stress in our lives. Perhaps you are someone who has fallen into an eating pattern that you know is not serving your body, or your goals towards your best health; or perhaps you have noticed new habits developing that are contributing to some unwanted side effects…⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In this episode we cover:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ • How to be attentive and mindful about how you communicate with yourself in regards to food. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ • What our relationship with food, eating issues, weight challenges, and health concerns teach us about ourselves. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ • Embracing the pleasure principle of eating food that makes

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the podcast Leah and Holly Jean are joined by Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, AIP Certified Coach and Blogger at Gutsy By Nature, Jaime Hartman. Jaime is the creator and Host of the upcoming AIP Summit which is a free summit running from January 4 -11 2021 exploring the management of Autoimmune conditions via nutrition and lifestyle management. Jaime shares her story living with Autoimmunity and we explore the topic of stress and Autoimmunity. Can stress cause Autoimmunity, how does it add to an existing condition and how can you manage this? Articles: 5 Things to Do When You’re Feeling Defeated by Inflammatory Bowel Disease Autoimmune disease and stress: Is there a link? Exciting news! Leah is a featured speaker at the upcoming 2021 AIP Summit. Leah will be discussing ways to minimize stressors in your life, whether they are food, environment, e

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the podcast the Co-hosts are back together for a special episode to guide you through reducing stress around the holiday period. We all know 2020 has certainly been a year so we don’t want to feel any added or unnecessary pressure (whether it is emotionally or financially this holiday period) so the Hosts will share their tips with you. Thank you for supporting the podcast in 2020 and we will be back in 2021 with some great new guests and health news articles to debate! Articles: Unwrapping Holiday Stressors Healthy Choices This Holiday Season With These Top Tips From Leah Williamson Exciting news! Leah is a featured speaker at the upcoming 2021 AIP Summit. Leah will be discussing ways to minimize stressors in your life, whether they are food, environment, emotional etc in order to help optimize your health. Stress can be the underlying reason why you not at

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. Carlee Hayes is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and the Lead Dietitian at NutriSense, a company that leverages continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) technology and data to prevent disease and improve health span. With an extensive background in nutrition counseling, weight management, and metabolic health, Carlee is on a mission to stop preventable disease and help people live their healthiest lives. Conversations around blood sugar dysregulation and blood sugar balancing are important because blood sugar affects all aspects of human physiology. Inflammation and disrupted hormones caused by high blood sugar directly contribute to specific diseases and conditions, including diabetes, PCOS, leaky gut, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and even cancer. What factors are most important in weight loss – calorie restriction or blood sugar regulation? In this episode we explore that qu

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. 401: Keeping it Spicy with Metabolism Boosting Tips from Nagina Abdullah  This week on the podcast Leah and Amber chat with Nagina Abdullah of MasalaBody. We have a great chat about simple ways to boost your metabolism starting with your morning routine, plus the addition of delicious spices throughout your day. We also talk about how to simplify family meals for a more sustainable and healthy lifestyle. Nagina also shares her 40/40/20 template and how to get the most from your food choices. Get Nagina’s Spicy Meal Plans here! Find out more about Nagina’s 5 Day Slimdown starting November 30   Articles: Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Follows ‘Special’ Diet Working mothers ‘struggling with pressure to provide healthy meals’   Come follow our new Instagram page! Ways you can help support the Podcast!  We are truly appreciative of any support you can give to the podcast! H

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners.   This week on the Podcast we are celebrating 400 Episodes and we have back with us some old friends of the podcast including Jimmy Moore and Kara Halderman. Jimmy chats with us about how the podcast started and we reminisce about past hosts and past episodes. Kara chats to us about what she has been up to and all about coffee enemas including her You tube video which you can watch here. Join us as we celebrate 400 episodes of the podcast! Ways you can help support the Podcast! We are truly appreciative of any support you can give to the podcast! Here are some ways you can help us reach more people each week: SUBSCRIBE to the podcast (if you don’t already) so it automatically downloads for you each week and you never miss an episode. REVIEW – Leave a review on Apple Podcasts – it does not take very long to do and this really helps get the podcast seen by others. RECOMM

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the Podcast, Leah and Amber chat with Marty Kendall from Optimising Nutrition. If you are a long time listener then you will recognize Marty’s name as he has been on the podcast a few times – even as a Co-Host! Marty discusses his new project: Data-Driven Fasting. DDF revolves around the concept of using your Blood Glucose as a fuel gauge. You just wait until your Blood Glucose level is below your personalised trigger so you know you actually need to refuel. As you chase a lower pre-meal blood sugar trigger, the fat loss follows. Join DDF to receive a 145-page manual and baselining sheet. The next challenge starts November 21, 2020 or  January 2,  2021.   Marty has a new book called Big Fat Keto Lies  which is a compilation of his learnings from his adventures in low carb and keto land.  Designed to help people who might have stalled on their journey, Marty

This week on the Low Carb Conversations Podcast Amber and Holly Jean chat with Kiran Krishnan, microbiologist and co-founder of Microbiome Labs. Kiran has a background in research and has been at the forefront of designing clinical trials for the supplement industry. His company, Microbiome Labs, is dedicated to continued research on the microbiome, as well as providing research based probiotics and other supplements to practitioners. He also has a lot of great videos on YouTube if you want to go on a deep dive! In this episode we talk with Kiran about the importance of a balanced and healthy microbiome (gut bugs!) and how that relates to our immune system and ability to fight off all forms of pathogens from viruses and bacteria to other bugs. We also talk about the connection between gut health and gut microbiome and how that impacts the oral and skin microbiome. Science is just scratching the surface of the human microbiome and how probiotics and other support can help with overall health and wellness. Thi

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the Low Carb Conversations Podcast Amber and Holly Jean chat with fitness and weight loss coach, Zane Griggs. Zane can be found on his website, as well as Instagram and YouTube. He is also author of the book Low Carb Lifestyle & Weight Loss Made Simple and has a popular podcast, Hunger Hunt Feast where he explores practical applications to achieving optimal health and work and life success. In this episode we talk with Zane about the adverse health impacts of industrialized seed and vegetable oils, or what Zane labels the “Hateful Eight”. We learn so much about heavy chemical processing and oxidation that happens to these oil and how it impacts health. We continue our conversation by talking about the increase in high fructose corn syrup and fructose in the Standard American Diet and how it is leading to unprecedented rates of metabolic disorders, diabetes,

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. On this episode Leah, Holly Jean, and Amber catch up and recap the amazing guests we’ve had on over the last month. 393: The Importance of Family Nutrition with Justin Nault 394: Leanne Vogel on why she is discussing Keto again 395: Breast Implant Illness and Detoxification with Gretchen Tseng Then the discussion shifts to the importance of self care and what it means to them. Self-care is a popular buzz word, but what do people really think when they think of taking time for self-care. Or, perhaps a better question is, how many people make an effort to actually prioritize self-care? On this episode our hosts explore the expectations and realities of what self-care looks like. They also share their personal tips for self care. Here is a hint: Self-care is not just an act of luxury, taking bubble baths, or pampering yourself.  Tune in to find out how to find rest and resto

On this episode we chat with fellow FNTP, Gretchen Tseng of FitQuest Nutrition. Gretchen shares her personal experience with breast implant illness and explant surgery. Through her story and life experiences we discuss the risks associated with breast implants, risk factors, and the importance of being informed as a patient and consumer of these products. In this episode we also discuss detoxification protocols as well as the body’s own natural detoxification processes and answer the question, does weight loss and fasting release toxins in the body? Articles Discussed: Ways to help your body detoxify according to functional MD, Terry Wahls Does fasting release toxins in the body FDA recommends most serious warning label on breast implants Links/References from Episode: Facebook group: Breast Implant Illness and Healing by Nicole Red light therapy Cellcore Biosciences – Use Gretchen’s Patient Direct Code: CUB8FPNV for 15% off for the life of your account. Be sure to DM or email Gretchen that you’ve created

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson,Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the Low Carb Conversations Podcast Leah and Holly Jean chat with Leanne Vogel. Leanne is a Keto Nutritionist, host of The Keto Diet Podcast, and best-selling author of The Keto Diet & Keto for Women. On this episode Leah and Holly Jean chat with Leanne about her pivot away from Keto into New Age Spiritualism and why she has recently pivoted back to Keto.  Leanne shares her thoughts on why she believes the New Age world wasn’t right for her and why Keto is so right. Leanne also shares some great discussion on continuous blood glucose monitors and how she helps women through her Keto programs. Articles Discussed: The wellness realm has fallen into conspiritualism – I have a sense why Mindful Mondays: Are you distracting with self-help? Ways you can help support the Podcast! We are truly appreciative of any support you can give to the podcast! Here are some w

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson,Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. Low-Carb Conversations Ep. 393 with Justin Nault This week on the Low Carb Conversations Podcast Amber and Holly Jean chat with Justin Nault, the Founder and CEO of Clovis, a health & wellness brand dedicated to building communities of like-minded individuals looking to build a healthy life together. He is also a Certified Nutritional Therapist and Health Coach, host of The Clovis Culture Podcast, musician and inventor of the popular line of superfood powders, “The Perfect Paleo Powder.” In this episode we talk with Justin about how the invention of an infant feeding tube formula was the catalyst for his company and passion for educating people about the importance of nutrition within families. We then break down a couple of articles. The first article sounds great at first glance, but then becomes a real teachable moment into the importance of ancestral foods and our o

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson,Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the Low Carb Conversations Podcast the Leah, Holly Jean and Amber are back together for their Co-Host Catch Up.  The ladies recap the following episodes: 389: Demystifying the healing powers of a GAPS diet with Elyse Comerford 390: Tricia Nelson Discusses Emotional Eating, Hunger & Appetite 391: Danette May: The Power of Healing Foods and Life Changing Rituals The discussion then turns to what has happened to the discussion on food? On social media we see prominent players in the nutrition world digging into deeper even somewhat complicated topics around food and often forgetting the simple things such as the positive impact of drinking water or eating real food. And even though we have more access to more knowledge about nutrition than ever before our Millennial generation is becoming sicker. The ladies discuss why this might be and then look at making po

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson,Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the Low Carb Conversations Podcast Amber and Holly Jean chat with Danette May. Danette is a health and mindfulness expert, founder of The Rise Movement, author of the book The Rise as well as seven health and fitness books and programs, and she is the founder of Earth Echo, a phenomenal superfood company.  In this episode we talk with Danette about the psycho-emotional roots of disease in relation to our health and wellness and how using different types of stress relief can help us to decrease and manage the stress in our lives. Our last article that we discuss is goal setting for self-improvement and Danette has an incredibly fresh take on this topic that was incredibly fun to talk about! Articles: Mind-Body Connection: Understanding the Psycho-Emotional Roots of Disease 5 Emotion-Focused Coping Techniques for Stress Relief Tips for Goal Setting: Helpful Su

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. This week on the Low Carb Conversations Podcast Leah and Holly Jean chat with Tricia Nelson. Tricia is an internationally acclaimed author, transformational speaker and emotional eating expert. Through her workshops, retreats, books and online content, Tricia has helped hundreds of people overcome a variety of eating disorders and addictions. Tricia discusses the rise of Emotional Eating due to COVID. We explore whether Emotional Eating a problem and what coping strategies you can put in place. Tricia also explains the difference between emotional eating, hunger and appetite. Lastly we wrap up the podcast with why Tricia believes 98% of diets fail. Tune to hear this and more! Articles: Emotional Eating During COVID-19 Pandemic What is appetite? From purse strings to waistlines: why budgets and diets both fail TRY the Nutritional Therapy 101 FREE 7 Day course and get a tas

Welcome to Low Carb Conversations with Leah Williamson, Holly Jean Barrett and Amber Horn, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners. Our Guest today is Elyse Comerford – Integrative Nutritionist and Certified GAPS Practitioner, Holistic Health Coach, Exercise Scientist, Keynote Speaker, Mentor, and most importantly, a mother! In today’s episode Elyse shares her health journey with Leah and Holly Jean and does some myth busting on some misconceptions about the GAPS diet. It’s not as big and scary as some people would like to you believe. Spoiler alert: the benefits diet pros can outweigh the cons; the truth lies in the context of bio-individuality and unique healing needs. The conversation also gets personal as we discuss the pressure of motherhood and our experiences with mom shaming. We think you will enjoy hearing about the importance of self care and the relationships we cultivate to support us in nourishing our bodies and souls. We wrap up this episode with a chat about how nutrition has changed over