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Oct 5, 2026

Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:21
So we use that.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:22
Um, Designs for Health has good quality.
Kara SundlunHOST
14:24
Oh, Connecticut company.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:25
Again, Connecticut company.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:26
Yeah.
Kara SundlunHOST
14:26
Designs for Health.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:27
Yeah, I believe-
Kara SundlunHOST
14:27
Vital Nutrients, also a Connecticut company.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:51
So we use that.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:52
Um, Designs for Health has good quality.
Kara SundlunHOST
14:54
Oh, Connecticut company.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:55
Again, Connecticut company.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:56
Yeah.
Kara SundlunHOST
14:56
De- Designs for Health.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:57
Yeah.
Kara SundlunHOST
14:57
And I believe Vital Nutrients, also a Connecticut company.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:21
So we use that.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:22
Um, Designs for Health has good quality.
Kara SundlunHOST
14:24
Oh, Connecticut company.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:25
Again, Connecticut company.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:26
Yeah.
Kara SundlunHOST
14:26
Designs for Health.
Jennifer StaggGUEST
14:27
Yeah, I believe-
Kara SundlunHOST
14:27
Vital Nutrients, also a Connecticut company.
Rick HayHOST
19:30
Mm
Antony AdareGUEST
19:30
... worked for, um, a brand called Designs For Health.
Rick HayHOST
19:34
Mm.
Antony AdareGUEST
19:34
A practitioner brand in America.
Mat SteinwedeHOST
39:12
So fiber, I didn't realize how important it is.
Mat SteinwedeHOST
39:15
So I take a fiber supplement, like a powdered one that Tommy from Designs for Health or whatever it is.
Mat SteinwedeHOST
39:21
Tommy and the paleo thing.
Deena Jane KelaitaGUEST
39:23
The paleo fiber.
KikiHOST
1:10
Just by way of introduction, you're a clinician, a researcher, an educator who's worked at the intersection of psychology and nutritional science for more than 25 years.
KikiHOST
1:19
You're vice president of clinical education and practitioner support at Designs for Health.
KikiHOST
1:24
now you're born and raised in south africa where you were also one of the country's highest ranked amateur golfers and you began your career at fair oaks hospital in new jersey as a drug counselor and suicide intervention advisor before moving into nutrition so you have such a wide background of you know high level athleticism and sport psychology nutrition mental health particularly.
KikiHOST
1:50
So I'll just continue and then we'll come back to this.

7 MINS LATER

KikiHOST
9:18
And only by looking at those three components, can you really sustainably heal mental health.
KikiHOST
9:24
And so I'm very interested.
KikiHOST
9:25
I mean, I was listening to a lot of your podcasts before, and I'm very interested in your position on bringing this nutritional component via Designs for Health, not only to the psychiatric population of practitioners, but also especially to the psychotherapeutic psychologists, et cetera, people who are at the coalface of dealing very regularly with patients presenting with mental health problems who are not trained and don't necessarily have the knowledge to address these nutritional imbalances, which, as you say, could be so absolutely devastating.
KikiHOST
10:00
you know, imperative in the picture of what's causing these mental health issues.
Christopher ShadeGUEST
35:39
So now, like say you're getting capsules.
Christopher ShadeGUEST
35:41
you can get Thorne, you can get Pure Encapsulations, Designs for Health, Metagenics, these pro brands where everything is in there and it's all high quality.
Christopher ShadeGUEST
35:51
So start with somebody who's high quality.
Christopher ShadeGUEST
35:53
And then when you want to jump from capsule to high absorption, there's really not a lot of companies doing it.
Ping OngGUEST
5:17
Yeah.
Ping OngGUEST
5:19
So we are seeing advances in encapsulation technology, and I believe Designs for Health is leading the charge in that.
Ping OngGUEST
5:27
But before that, Livox was the first and only prebiotic that has been shown to increase FPROM and increase it by twofold in certain cases.
Ping OngGUEST
5:39
This is such a big deal because you have this bacteria that everyone knows is critical for gut health, but no one seems to be able to target it in a replicable way.

24 MINS LATER

Andrew Whitfield-CookHOST
29:43
Thank you.
Andrew Whitfield-CookHOST
29:45
And thank you, everyone, for joining us today.
Andrew Whitfield-CookHOST
29:47
Remember, you can catch up on all of the other podcasts and today's podcast on the Designs for Health website.
Andrew Whitfield-CookHOST
29:53
We're going to be putting up as much research as we can and certainly that nature paper.
Betty MurrayHOST
31:51
And so it can help Down-regulate cortisol activity in the brain without being a direct sedative.
Betty MurrayHOST
31:58
I happen to like a product called PS150 by Designs for Health, but there's lots of them out there.
Betty MurrayHOST
32:03
Adaptogens.
Betty MurrayHOST
32:04
These are all of your herbs and medicinal mushrooms that all have a nervous system resetting activity.

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