EPISODE 092 | Optimizing Health through the Gut, Your Second Brain

Human Amplified

This month, we’ve been focusing on themes of listening to your body, taking care of your body, and healing holistically. Several guests so far have even talked about how body dysmorphia, food restriction, and eating disorder fueled by traditional wellness activities have played into their lives.

That’s why I’m excited to introduce you to this week’s guest, Samantha Lander, or Sam for short. Not only does she have similar experiences, but she’s a St. Louis, MO-based single mom, personal trainer, and functional diagnostic nutritionist who DJs on the side. I don’t know if she would say this, but I would definitely say she’s not your traditional nutritionist.

Sam used functional nutrition to heal herself from allergies, food sensitivities, hormonal imbalances, and parasites. She’s also founder of See Fit where she coaches people back to optimal health when they just can’t quite put their finger on why they feel bad.

In this episode, we really explore Sam’s life and the events that contributed to her feeling so sick before she got into functional health. We talk about everything from drinking lake water as a kiddo to a meth addiction and doing time in a federal prison.

However, Sam mainly packs in actionable advice for how you can clean up your eating habits, heal your gut, and make healthier choices.

She gets deep into why most people feel bad regularly, what leaky gut is and how it happens, and what it actually feels like to feel good — something you may not even know you’re missing, even if you’re not sick.

You’ll come away from this episode knowing:

-How food sensitivities form

-How people get parasites and some ways to avoid them

-Tips for how to start healing your gut

-Tips for how to start eating clean at home and in restaurants - Sam lists the most common foods to avoid that cause inflammation

-And you’ll even find out how many times a day you should be pooping

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This episode is brought to you by my free Healing Priorities Workbook. Get it at: https://mailchi.mp/dbbcd037309e/healing-priorities-workbook.

I personally created this workbook to help you intentionally decide on and prioritize which part of your holistic health you need or want to work on first and then I give you tools to take action in the area you choose.

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