Attention all mamas: we had integrative board certified pediatrician and mama herself, Dr Elisa Song, MD on the show! She shared with us her best evidence based tips for common childhood troubles ranging from fevers to earaches to sniffles. Dr Song gave us some great tips for products you can easily find over the counter to have on hand. As well as some hands on stuff like acupressure and essential oils to use when kiddos are sick and want to be held. So much power in actively helping them feel better!
We also touched on more chronic childhood issues like eczema, ADHD, autism and discussed the alarming rise in autoimmunity in children and what we can do about it. And perhaps our favorite part of the show was talking about how to help kids manage their stress - tough huh? Dr Song had some great tips and some excellent book suggestions:
Learn more about the lovely Dr Elisa Song here and grab her ebook on fevers (the thing that gets all us moms freaking out) here.
As always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
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Holy guacamole was Lara an absolute WEALTH of information! She dropped all the non-toxic knowledge bombs on everything from parabens and phthalates to fire retardants to water filters. We talked about “green washing” and how some of our healthy products are actually not so much as well as how things like “BPA free” lead us to feel safer about that water bottle but what replaced the BPA can be as bad or even worse. Yikes, right?
But before we all freak out we can take Lara’s level headed approach to change what we can control instead of flipping out about what we can’t. We live in the modern world and this stuff is part of our life, but Lara talked us through a step by step way to start to make a difference in your environment, home and health.
Learn more about Lara here and you be bet she’ll be back on our show!
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As always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
OK can we just say that Debra was an absolute delight to have on the show?? She provides such an empowering option to women frustrated with lack of results with dieting and exercise as hormones start to wane with perimenopause and menopause. Debra shares her midlife crisis story and how that helped her harness her background in Exercise Science and Exercise Psychology into a dedication to helping women that like her that found themselves at this crossroads where what used to work didn’t anymore, where stress all of a sudden became an even bigger deal and where women start to feel less at home in their bodies.
Of all the questions we receive, losing weight after menopause or during perimenopause by far rank at the top. Women simply have to do things differently during this time and we covered it from weights to walking to what to eat in this episode.
Learn more about Debra here.
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As always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
With finding our genetic mutations (or rather our genetic polymorphisms) just a click away these days, in this episode we interview leading epigenetic expert Dr. Ben Lynch, ND about what to do with this information.
One of the most common polymorphisms is MTHFR, hear Dr. Lynch tell us what this gene does, why it's becoming more common to have issues with it and just how big a deal it is if you have it. We discuss how genes are the computer and our lifestyle and environment are all the software, applications and "stuff" we load up on to our computer (great analogy Dr Ben!). So you can see where your power is to effect the hand you were dealt.
We ask Dr Lynch if everyone should run out and get a 23andme test and know all of their genetic issues, is the best thing to do when you have MTHFR to start taking "MTHFR approved supplements" like l-methyl-folate and the top three things we can all do to improve our home environment to help our genetics.
And stay tuned for Dr Lynch's new book out early 2018 called Dirty Genes. You can bet we're going to be grabbing it! Learn more about Dr Lynch here.
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As always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
Today we’re back answering your questions and we kicked it off with a great one from a listener who like us is a working mama asking: how do you two do it all? Well, as you can imagine we shared the not so pretty behind the scenes look at how we juggle it all, how we dial it up in some areas and down in others (only to flip flop that next week) and where we get it right with food, sleep and exercise and where we still struggle.
Next we had big, meaty question about food allergies vs. sensitivities, the problem with elimination foods especially if you have a very reactive system and what to do when you’d rather just eat foods that bother your system because it just feels too dang hard to manage it all. We spent over thirty minutes digging deep into this question because it touched on oh so much of what we know so many women struggle with.
And finally there are SPOTS STILL OPEN for our retreat! Get registered for this event because we CANNOT wait to see you in person in April. Details here.
And as always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
Good vibes only today! Not that we ever don't keep it all good right? But today we have a good vibe expert!
The absolutely lovely Shana Ekedal, a holistic nutrition expert and transformation coach joins us on this episode and we meandered through comparison, showing up in our lives more fully, and all about FEAR. Shana talked about the fear box and how to break out of it one step at a time. This alone is worth the listen but Shana also gave some totally unique insights on weight loss that you won't want to miss.
AND we broke the news that we are having our first ever Better Everyday Retreat! Get registered for this event because we CANNOT wait to see you in person in April. Details here.
And as always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
People-pleasers, putting yourself lasters and anyone else needing to step into their power listen up:
"I am responsible for my intention, not the reception."
"Guilt is designed to reroute poor behavior but we often use it to compound bad behavior to avoid the bad feeling."
Just a few of the soul-shaking knowledge bombs dropped by our amazing guest, Amy Smith AKA the Joy Junkie on this week's episode. Holy smokes was this a great show!
You'll want to have a notebook handy to nab all the practical and amazing advice Amy shared today. And in effort to show up authentically there were a few less than G rated words uttered in this podcast but it was a powerful show you absolutely won't want to miss.
Learn more about Amy here and grab her free eBook - it's just so good!
And as always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
Sometimes it’s all going well – great actually – and then the bottom falls out….
Sometimes it falls way out. Everything you’ve built, all you’ve worked for, how you’ve defined yourself slips away and you’re left to clean up the mess. Many of us have been there, some of us have crumbled under the weight of it and had to dig ourselves out down the road. With our adrenals shot, our relationships in shambles and questioning who we even are now.
Having survived just such a situation with her marriage intact, children thriving and with the strength to rebuild it all, Michele tells us exactly how she did it. When her business fell apart, her home was lost and her health was slipping away, Michele decided to be stronger than the storm swirling around her. In this episode, she shares with us the exact tools she used and what would become her new book.
And as always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
Yeah! Today we have my beautiful - inside and out - friend Karen Smith as our guest. Karen is a sought after kettle bell instructor and coaches people worldwide from beginners to elite miltary through her online programs and workshops. AND she is the only female Strongfirst Master trainer...in the world. Learn more about Strongfirst here.
Karen's also a mother and self-employed entrepreneur. Karen talks with us today about how to approach body weight strength such as pull ups, push-up, pistol squats and more. But it's not all strength training today, tune in to hear Karen tell her breast cancer scare and the strength it took to make some very tough decisions about what's best for her own health and how to ensure she would be around for her daughter for the long haul.
We hope all women come away from today's episode knowing that seemingly impossible things like a pull-up or a one arm push up are not impossible for you! You just need to get that strength, train for it like anything else. Find out more about Karen here and if you love getting great training tips like every day follow her on Instagram as well.
And as always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
In this Q&A episode we talked thyroid medications as well as the importance of knowing more than just your TSH when determining your dose, dealing with adrenal fatigue during pregnancy and how carbs affect your mood. We also got a great question from a healthy listener: does every woman have a hormone problem? Tune to hear this episode that’s chock full of great info!
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JJ Virgin is a longtime go-to for nutrition and fitness. With four NYT best sellers (The Virgin Diet and Virgin Diet Cookbook, The Sugar Impact Diet and Sugar Impact Diet Cookbook) under her belt and having been seen regularly on Dr Phil and Freaky Eaters, her new book may seem like a departure from her health and fat loss roots but she joins us to share how a solid foundation of health - body and mind - got her through the toughest time a mother could imagine.
Her son Grant was near death with dismal odds for recovery after being hit by a car near their home. Hear this amazing story of survival and the miraculous notion we are all stronger than we think. And learn all about JJ's upcoming book The Miracle Mindset (Available February 21 2017).
Happy New Year! It's that time of year when New Year New You, 21 Day Fixes and Whole30s abound. It's resolution time baby!
Hear what we think of resolutions in general, how to set better, more thoughtful and action oriented intentions and the almost always missing ingredient-secret sauce-must have for a resolution to stick.
We also share what we'll be up to personally and professionally in 2017. Happy New Year to our listeners! Muah!
Happy 2017! After two weeks off we're back with an extra special episode featuring Mr. Robb Wolf.
Be inspired in this episode by this amazing guest. Jenny is a cross fit athlete who repeatedly took first place several Cross Fit Strength Challenges and other strength competitions, who trains and coaches in Chico, CA and who is a women with epilepsy. Her most inspiring work is done through her organization Move Mountains where she is raising awareness for those living with epilepsy. Listen to Jenny’s story from “hidden secret” to running 500 miles across Colorado to raise awareness for her condition. Amazing.
Learn more about Jenny here and more about Move Mountains here. And as always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
Fasting, it’s all the rage right? Intermittent fasting, days of fasting, weeks of fasting - this strategy runs the gamut. And we get asked about it all the time! So we brought on the Living’ La Vida Low Carb Man himself, Mr. Jimmy Moore to break it down for us. How long, who can benefit – and you can bet Dr Brooke chimed in with her two cents (ok probably more than two…) about who this strategy may not be the best for. Learn more about employing fasting, what supplements and lifestyle choices can help should you decide to fast. And fasting aside, Jimmy is a very fun guest with a great story of reclaiming his own health after being over 400 pounds.
Learn more about Jimmy here. And as always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
When we started this podcast we wanted to talk about more than just hormones and going to the gym because women’s lives are so much bigger than all that. Today’s episode isn’t about lifting weights or not eating gluten or body image, it’s about money. But it does have a healthy, wellness spin because what’s a bigger source of stress than finances???? And women, let’s be real honest here: many of us aren’t all that great with money.
Today’s guest tells us why women struggle in this area, how they can do better and helps us see that we never really “learned money” – and we should! Krisstina Wise joins us today and tells her story of balancing money and health and why investing in YOUR BODY is her number one suggestion for women to be truly wealthy.
Oh it’s a great one.
Learn more about Krisstina here. And as always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
Holy guacamole do we have a special guest for you today....Sarah Vance.
Sarah is a food freedom and body image coach. Creator of the Breaking Boundaries program, Sarah helps women all over the world stop the madness around food and their body. And she's amazing.
In her work she helps women to let go of perfection, self-doubt, and all or nothing thinking so they can show up in this world feeling happy, confident, loved, worthy, and enough in whatever body they have. Her story is one you won't want to miss.
So yeah, you can just drop everything right now and listen to this episode :)
To learn more about Sarah visit her website or follow her in Instagram.
Keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
Today we have the man, the myth, the legend: Dr Jade Teta. The Sherlock Holmes of Fat Loss, female metabolism expert, two time published author and fellow ND. Jade talks about several metabolic “laws” that govern just how hard and in which ways you can push on your metabolism before she pushes back. A better understanding of these laws help you nudge past stubborn weight loss plateaus all the while keeping hormones in check. He shares his take on the perfect diet for women who are aiming to lose weight and you’ll find out just how long Dr Brooke and Jade have known each other…..
To learn more about Jade visit www.metaboliceffect.com
And as always, keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
In this episode we clear up confusion about naturopathic doctors, functional medicine "practitioners", health coaches, etc. We talk about how to find the right person to work with and also how to hire a personal trainer – with Sarah’s surprise advice. And we also cover two great questions on hair loss and acne explaining the different root causes of each issue and how to go about getting results with diet and supplements by targeting the underlying imbalance.
Keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
Today Sarah and Dr Brooke give you their best strategies for surviving the many stressful aspects of the holidays from food to social obligations to keeping up with exercise. We share our favorite traditions and what stresses us out about this time of year. Whether you're traveling or hosting a big meal, inundated with holiday parties or dealing with family stressors we have you covered. We even give you some great gift ideas and recipe suggestions from Sarah's blog. This was a super fun episode to do and we hope it gives you more peace and joy this time of year. And can you guess which one of us is more Who vs.Grinch?
Carbs and fats: eat em all at once? All in one day? Separate them? Spread them out? We let you know what we think of this whole idea - and we get into how much calories matter too. And best weight loss advice for a 49 year old runner. Ladies looking for birth control options, you're not gonna wanna miss this episode! We dive deep into the pill, IUDs, condoms and vasectomies - wondering which is our favorite???
Keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
You asked and we answered! Today's episode kicks off with a great question about Bipolar and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. We talked about using medications with or without natural medicine, how these issues relate to thyroid disease and what genetic testing is super important here. We got asked a biggie: how do you actually quit foods that make you feel like garbage? You can bet we had a ton to say about that! And we fielded a belly fat question from a listener who is doing it all: grad school, single parenting and ultra-marathons. Whoa! We got tired from just reading her story! Tune in and hear all the good stuff.
Keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
Whoa do we get into it today! Hear what Sarah and Dr Brooke think of vegan and vegetarian diets, if we thinks meds like SSRIs are ever the answer, how to eat and sleep with a newborn, PCOS nutrition for breastfeeding (is the answer actually more carbs??), what to do about frustrating menopausal weight gain and just how bad is it not to get a period?
Keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke atbetterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
The podcast can officially be over now cuz it's going to be hard to top this episode. OK this won't be the last episode - promise! But today we we have Dr Brooke's spirit animal: the one, the only, The KSD.
Krista Scott-Dixon (or Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon to be exact) joins Dr Brooke today to talk all about resiliency. How you get through stuff, how you grow, how you weather the storm, how you be all like a rubber band and get totally stretched to the max and somehow bounce back. Resiliency, heartiness and how you should spend your "care units". We also talk about Grandma Ruby, who will quite possibly be your new hero.
In addition to being one of the smartest, sanest women in nutrition and training world, Krista has a knack for dropping these little zen bombs. I told my husband all I wanted for Christmas was to somehow be able to carry Krista around in my pocket. Listen and you'll see why.
Krista has an amazing blog at Stumptuous.com and she is a key team member at the incredible Precision Nutrition where she creates much of the training for the growing tribe of PN Coaches.
Do you have a question or topic you’d like us to cover? Email questions and show ideas to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com – we want to cover topics you need to know about! This podcast is for you ladies, we’re so glad you’re here. Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke atbetterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.
Baby rattle roll please…….it’s pre and post-pregnancy expert and fellow GGS Advisory Board member: Jessie Mundell! There’s so much to love about this lady but perhaps most of all is her down to earth, don’t stress about it, never losing her mind sensibilities about training and motherhood. While Jessie is an expert at helping moms get healthy and fit before, during and after pregnancy (you can follow her own mommy shenanigans here) and we do touch on pelvic floor and abdominal separation healing in this episode (way more on on this topic in episode #6), today we focused on all the other pregnancy "stuff". We share our birth stories ranging from home birth to medicated hospital delivery to emergency C-section and we dive into the stuff your girlfriends seem to forget to tell you about like the myriad of concerns with using the bathroom after delivery, what you REALLY need to bring to the hospital and how to handle the “fourth trimester” of no sleep, a unique blend of terror and bliss and getting back to exercise – and hear how poor Jessie managed to nurse and care for a newborn with an IV in her arm for an infected C section scar! The range of normal in pregnancy, delivery and motherhood is HUGE! We hope this episode helps moms to be and new moms feel better prepared for what lies ahead and seasoned moms relive those magical, crazy experiences of delivery and baby-hood.
Learn more about Jessie and her programs on her website, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Keep those questions coming to bettereverydaypodcast@gmail.com! Follow us on Facebook together or keep up with Dr Brooke here and Sarah here. Learn more about working with Dr Brooke at betterbydrbrooke.com and with Sarah at sarahfragoso.com (obviously). Oh and you can find Dr Brooke and Sarah on Instagram as well.