Blasphemous Nutrition
The orthodox wellness industry keeps you in purgatory with vague, overly simplistic advice or plunges you into the depths of hell with restrictive commandments that are impossible to sustain. At this point you may be tempted to pursue hedonism instead, but at the end of the day you want to feel and age your best and you know a devil-may-care attitude won’t serve you.
ITS TIME TO LEAVE THE CHURCH OF WELLNESS AND GO TO HEALTH.
Double-degreed functional nutritionist and holistic health coach Aimee shares over 20 years of clinical experience and emerging research on the impact of lifestyle on our healthspan, offering a holy marriage of practical street smarts and relevant data that will empower you to take action.
She’s not just another preachy face looking to sell you on the latest superfood or baptize you into the latest health cult; she’s on a mission to give you balanced, nuanced, honest information to help you make informed, grounded decisions about how to achieve your health goals, whether you aim to lose weight, manage blood sugar, prevent Alzheimer’s or simply age like a bad-ass.
The best results don’t come from listening to what any one person has to say but being able to discard the bullshit, be open to experimentation and learn how to make the best choices for yourself.
When everything is a polarized extreme of vegan vs carnivore or cardio vs weights, tuning in to Blasphemous Nutrition will give you a scandalously nuanced perspective on nutrition and actionable tips that you can begin to implement immediately, so you can rescue yourself from the eternal torment of chasing one dietary savior after another.
Blasphemous Nutrition
Ep6: The Eating Iceberg Explained: "What to Eat" doesn't even begin to address what ails you.
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Episode Summary:
In this episode, Aimee dives deep into the complexity of nutrition and explains why simply being told what to eat is not enough. She explores the various factors that impact our ability to implement diet and lifestyle changes, including our environment, work-life balance, and genetic variations. Aimee emphasizes the importance of incremental changes and addresses the challenges of meeting our nutrient needs in today's world.
Key Takeaways:
- Implementing diet, exercise, and lifestyle advice can be challenging due to various factors such as time constraints, work demands, and the strictness of recommended plans.
- Our environment, including marketing and advertising, can influence our food choices and make it difficult to maintain a healthy diet.
- Work-life balance and chronic work demands can impact the quantity and quality of our food choices, leading to unhealthy habits.
- Absorption of nutrients is crucial for maintaining optimal health, and factors such as digestive issues, genetics, and stress can affect our ability to absorb nutrients from food.
- Meeting our nutrient needs is essential but challenging, as nutrient density in our food has decreased over time, and genetic variations can impact our individual requirements.
Notable Quotes:
- "Most nutrition advice insists upon staying at this tip of the iceberg and really neglects a whole lot of shit that sits below the surface of that question."
- "Change is a challenge, and if you are like most of us, you have a lot that is going on, competing for your attention."
- "The desire to eat healthfully requires a great deal of persistent push back against the pervasive environment of our times."
- "Our body needs energy and vitamins and minerals. We know this. But we may not be absorbing them due to various factors such as digestive issues, genetic variations, and the nature of the nutrients we ingest."
- "98% of Americans are still not consistently meeting our current vitamin and mineral suggestions, which are just a starting point for optimal health."
Resources:
- Work with Aimee
- Blasphemous Nutrition Substack
- NPR: Food Stamps for Soda
- Stover PJ, Caudill MA. Genetic and epigenetic contributions to human nutrition and health: managing genome-diet interactions. J Am Diet Assoc. 2008 Sep;108(9):1480-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jada.2008.06.430. PMID: 18755320; PMCID: PMC5421377.
- Mullins VA, Bresette W, Johnstone L,
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Find Research Citations and Transcript at Blasphemous Nutrition on Substack
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