A Joy To Be Me

About A Joy To Be Me

REWILDED Wellness is a podcast about understanding your body in context—and rebuilding the conditions that allow it to become more resilient. Hosted by functional nutritional therapy practitioner Lydia Joy, the show explores chronic health through a rewilded lens: one that recognizes that human biology cannot be separated from the environment, rhythms, nourishment, relationships, movement, stressors and lived experiences continually shaping it. We have access to more health information than ever before. We can use functional testing to look at our minerals, microbiome and bloodwork; explore our genetics and hormones; track symptoms; research every pathway; and accumulate increasingly complicated protocols. But more information doesn't always create better health. REWILDED Wellness asks a different set of questions: What is your body doing—and why might it make sense in the context of what you've lived? What conditions does it need now? And how do we rebuild greater capacity without turning your entire life into another health protocol? Through personal stories, client observations, functional nutrition and explorations of physiology, Lydia brings together topics including gut health and the microbiome, HTMA and mineral balancing, chronic health patterns, perimenopause and women's health, nervous system function, nourishment, movement, environmental health and our relationship with the natural world. Functional testing and targeted interventions can absolutely have a place here. But they aren't the destination. The goal is to understand patterns rather than chase individual symptoms, work with the body rather than continually override it, and gradually rebuild the conditions that support greater resilience. Because rewilding your health isn't about returning to some imaginary perfect past. It's about remembering that your body is part of nature—and learning how to work with it again.

Publisher

Lydia Joy

Category

education · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Feb 2020

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

88 of 286 episodes have a transcript.

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   13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Fiber Can Make You Bloated: How to Build a Gut That Can Handle More Foods

   Host Dr. Will Cole explores why increasing fiber intake can cause bloating and offers strategies for building a gut that tolerates a wider variety of foods.

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   6 Oct 2026

   Why Healthy Eating Still Makes You Feel Bad: A Look at Your Gut Terrain

   Host [Host Name] explores why healthy eating can still cause discomfort, revealing insights into gut terrain and its impact on well-being.

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   29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How Our Bodies Adapt to Fall

   Host Dr. Sarah Evans explores how our bodies adapt to the changing conditions of early fall, revealing insights into seasonal physiological shifts.

Inside a recent episode

Why Fiber Can Make You Bloated: How to Build a Gut That Can Handle More Foods

Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And that's where I wanna start. So we know that there are different kinds of fiber, right? And they don't all behave the same way in your digestive tract. We have all these different fibers, functional fibers, prebiotics that end up becoming a food source for different types of microbes in your gut. Just to give you a really quick and dirty picture of what I mean, we have things like resistant starch, right? That includes beans, lentils, whole grains like oats and barley. And then there's also foods like rice or potatoes that when you cook them and let them cool, it can increase the amount of resistant starch that's available in that food, right? […]

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YouTube views

1,584

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

15 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 89 / 100

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Quality

97

Social presence

97

YouTube

68

Engagement

85

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