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Hi!
Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, I am certain you will learn something new in this video about Keeping it Simple- The Therapeutic Power of Food: For Practitioners. You’ll walk away with pages of notes and practical pearls you can use in your practice right away.
Here are some of the things we’ll be discussing:
- The biggest, polarized nutrition myths which are alive and well in the practice of functional medicine.
- The X-Factor of Food – and why it goes way beyond nutrients and calories.
- Cravings are often the body’s cry for a specific nutrient. Some of the more common ones are probably not what you think!
- “You are what you eat”? Nope, not quite. In truth, you are what you eat, ______, _____, _____ and ______. Can you fill in the blanks?
- YES! Some chronic disease dynamics can be reversed with diet alone; would you know what to do?
- The dietary 1-2-3 punch that often helps with autoimmune diseases. And a key misunderstanding you might have about them?
- The simplest digestive enhancers ever
- Our microbiome shifts in response to diet: quick hacks for a better bacterial playground.
- The biggest practitioner mistake in translating great dietary ideas to clinical success with their patients
Thank you very much for joining in the fun and learning! Please share your thoughts (please be thorough) in the “Ask a Question” area below about what inspired you in this presentation! Include what type of practitioner you are, so that we can all see your unique perspective.
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138 Questions for “Keeping it Simple – The Therapeutic Power of Food: For Practitioners”
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Jo Coburn says:
I am replaying the piece about micronutrients being needed for optimal everything so it is coming out of your mouth not just mine!! I am, like many people this year, trying to support loved ones who spent last year not getting proper care and are really struggling to maintain just a baseline level of health. The necessity for just basic nutrients in real food cannot be understated. The downstream effects of malnutrition on all the different basic functions of the body are devastating and oh so real. By giving the body what it needs we can truly reverse these dis-ease processes and give people back their health and vitality. It begins with food and fixing digestion and absorption.
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Graziela Alexandrova says:
Excellent presentation full of so many pearls! The ones that stood out for me were:
1. We crave junk food because we have a deficiency in relaxation
2. Cravings for ice cream may be due to insufficiency in essential fatty acids. -
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Kristen Bauer says:
Love these pearls! Thank you for always inspiring us Tracy!
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Sarah Hammett says:
So so good! I absolutely loved the reminder to go back to the simple- making sure that our clients are educated on how to eat good food and what the effects are if they don’t change their diet. It’s also amazing to me to see how many people don’t get the concept that we get nutrients from our food and don’t have “extra storage” like your example. The quality matters!
Great takeaway about the serotonin and addiction connection! I’m seeing lots of clients with low serotonin right now. Crazy.Always appreciate these talks- thank you!
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Loved this live! Such a powerful topic as nutrition is not seen by the average person as medicine. They will take supplements before they will change their diet. Always important to educate prioritizing food over diet. As Hippocrates well said many decades ago “let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food.” Also very interesting to learn about the correlation between cravings and deficiencies. Thank you again for another great live!
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Melaina Marion says:
I’m really starting to understand the significance of stress on the body. More specifically, how the body gobbles up nutrients in dealing with stress (in all its various forms). I can see how dis-ease from nutrient deficiencies can manifest, which further supports the need to eat a nutrient rich diet! It all really is interconnected.
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Samantha Press says:
Loved today’s Live! I really appreciated the reminder about the connection to rituals that a person might have. Continuing to honor that in a persons life can is so important to the healing journey and willingness for them to make change. Thank you!
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Emily Stahl says:
I am a FNP and working on incorporating better nutrition into my own family’s diet as well! I loved the whole presentation but really appreciated the last comment on keeping the ritual. I had never considered before how often I ask myself or someone else to remove it when only something about the ritual needs to change. I’m excited to keep diving deeper!!!
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Tamara Trinder says:
This presentation was amazing!
The pearl for me was meeting people where they are at and preserving the rituals of the clients eating and drinking routine. Makes sense bug I had not thought about the importance of that!
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Brittany Atkinson says:
The statement that really stuck out to me was,
“You cannot replace vital nutrients with
Supplements.”I’ve been wavering about enrolling in a
Functional medicine course for years.
This video reignited a fire within me and
gave me the drive to actually apply.
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Natalia C. says:
Thank you Tracy! I enjoyed your presentation like usually! I found out why crave chocolate,also why coffee could be the trigger for autoimmune diseases.
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Sree says:
Tracy is amazing as always! I love the way Tracy teaches.
The most important take away for me is CHEWING and how eating hygiene can greatly influence how much we really absorb into our system. Sometimes it’s these little things that can make a huge impact. I am myself guilty if eating too fast and it’s a great reminder! -
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Kayla Hightower says:
Food is a great lover, is EPIC! I will definitely be using this in discussions with my clients. Biggest takeaway, meet people where they are.
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Michelle Harding Stopford says:
Feeding our microbiome is fascinating but challenging in current lifestyles. I loved the ideas of being creative and coming from a place of abundance. Food doesn’t have to be bland and boring. Thank you for the yummy ideas. Also interesting was the connection with cravings, addictions and our body’s need for specific nutrients. Always love learning with Tracey.
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Michele Strother says:
Great webinar. I shared it to my page and got positive feedback.
The Pearl about it taking two months to change ones taste buds and cravings jumped out at me. I’ll definitely start using this in my practice. Being able to frame it in a way that sounds doable will be good. -
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Yelena Borohov says:
Thank you so much Tracy for being the inspiration for transformation. One of the thing resonates with me – people are fueled by emotional experience in life and second is supplements should be taken to help to achieve optimal level of nutrients, after diversity of food is being introduced.
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Silvia Graber says:
such important info and reminders of what we have done to the natural quality of food from refinement, to pesticides and poor farming practices. we need to get back to the basics if we want our clients to be well! thank you!
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I really enjoyed this LIVE! People have such different relationships with food. Food is more than just what we put in our mouth. There are so many emotional components to food for people. I enjoyed how you talked about preserving the ritual and the practice they enjoy because I find that makes them so much more likely to stick to the changes we recommend.
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Hannah Sellers says:
Thank you for great information provided today. The two things I will take away is “food is a great lover” and consider that patient’s have food rituals. So definitely meet patients where they are in their journey, keep their rituals but make try and encourage a healthier option. So much info to consider rather than just telling a patient to bring back a food diary of the past week.
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Loved “food is the perfect lover” discussion…available, no bad breath, etc. is precious and accurate. Tracy is magical and so inspiring. Also liked the 20 days to change taste profiles, much more doable than clients would anticipate. Loved deeper dive into chocolate and salt cravings too, both so much more complex than face value!