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We'll explore the connections between gut health, hormones, metabolism, nervous system health, and everyday life so you can understand what's actually going on in your body and how to support it.

A little bit about me, I'm Kylie Avenir, registered dietitian, functional nutrition practitioner, and founder of Within Nutrition, where we support women around the world in healing their gut, balancing hormones, and restoring that steady, grounded energy.

With degrees in physiological sciences from UCLA and human nutrition from Columbia University Medical Center, my work blends evidence-based science with a root cause, whole person approach to health.

Through our private practice, programs, and incredible community, we've helped hundreds of women feel better in their bodies without restriction, confusion, or overwhelm.

So whether you're dealing with fatigue, inflammation, digestive symptoms, hormone imbalances, fertility challenges, or simply want to feel more like yourself again, you're in the right place.

So just another inspiring story that will hopefully show you like you don't have to put your body through the misery of just eliminating a bunch of foods because that's not always the answer.

OK, secret number two, it's not just about what you eat, but it's about how you eat it.

So many times when it comes to nutrition and health, there's this black and white of this is good and this is bad.

I'm a performance nutritionist specializing in sex differences in sport.

I work with athletes from all over the world through my online private practice and sports nutrition programs.

We here at nutritional revolution are here to cut through the BS promoted in the media and give you the science literally straight from the research articles, as well as share client success stories and experiences around nutrition and racing.

Please keep in mind, this podcast is created strictly for educational purposes only and should never be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis and treatment.

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shoot yeah wow that is incredible so do you think that is fueling do you think it's gear like bike components like what do you think I think

it's a lot it's a combination of lots of small things all adding up so I think like nutrition's definitely a part of it I think like the bike's like equipment is a part of it obviously just like training consistency over a long period of time that's probably the main thing I only started cycling when I was 20 so I think there's something in that actually I didn't have that many years of training in me when I did the for the first time for example um and like just no experience I mean I had no idea about the mud I didn't have a mud stick and I just tried to ride through it and then just completely wrecked my bike basically and then just walked for an hour yeah um so I think yeah I think there's like lots of different small elements and then them all coming together to like make such a big improvement

Whereas the side effects like the high heart rate and gallstones, that actually showed up more frequently for people who were not exercising and taking the medication.

Again, the medication can be effective at the scale, but your nutrition and your strength training, that is really gonna determine what you're losing and what the weight loss looks like.

Is it more fat loss or is it muscle loss? And whether you keep it off long-term, especially for those who are wanting to wean off of a GLP-1.

So the most common side effect, and I'm sure you've all heard this, is the GI stuff.

It lowers food noise.

It can be actually a lot easier to implement new healthy habits.

And so that is why I would recommend, can we make some changes beforehand and then take full advantage of that window, that first 90 days, 30 days, start making really important changes with your nutrition.

Like really start focusing on eating enough protein at your meals and making sure that you're eating on a consistent meal pattern and balancing your blood sugar.

The data comes from a large trial called COSMOS, the Cocoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcome Study.

Researchers analyzed 16,027 adults aged 60 and older and presented the findings at Nutrition, 2026.

The trial was randomized, double-blind, and placebo-controlled.

For three years, participants took a daily multivitamin mineral supplement, a cocoa extract, both or matching placebos.

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Plus, we look at portrayals of food and nutrition in popular U.S. picture books.

I think reading is the greatest gift that we can give to our children.

They'll never be lonely.

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Coming up, we'll look at portrayals of food and nutrition in popular U.S. picture books.

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Let's go with any other way to push it out because the other organs are just unable to take it.

Well, from another case that I researched, it was in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

There was a man with a history of gout and kidney stones who went nearly all meat after watching a YouTube video, hoping that it would help his gout.

Well, instead, his stone risk climbed, and the stones only stopped when he came off the diet.

It goes back even further to a dentist named Weston A.

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So let's start with the nervous system because it's the foundation of everything we do and of Dr. Gonzalez's book, Nutrition and the Autonomic Nervous System.

Can you just explain the autonomic nervous system in plain language, the sympathetic side and the parasympathetic side, and how Dr. Gonzalez came to see people as sympathetic dominant, parasympathetic dominant, or balanced?