About Let's Gut Real - Easy to Digest Nutrition Science
Making nutrition science accessible and easy-to-digest. Andrea Hardy, Canada's Gut Health Dietitian, is on a mission to connect people to credible, up-to-date nutrition information about gut health and digestive disorders.
Nutrition misinformation is rampant. If nutrition advice online scares you, it's probably not true.
Let's Gut Real is all taking the fear out of nutrition messaging, cultivating critical thinking, and helping you understand nutrition science. Andrea talks with guests about digestive health, the gut microbiome, hot nutrition topics, and nutrition misinformation, sharing messages that are easy to consume and that inspire sustainable action.
Andrea likes to say her goal is to get people to take nutrition a little less seriously – which may come as a surprise coming from a dietitian. Through humour, she injects fun into her science-based media messages. After all, poop jokes aren't her favourite kinda jokes, but they are a solid #2.
Connect with Andrea to learn and laugh on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @andreahardyrd or at www.andreahardyrd.com, or at her private practice www.ignitenutrition.ca
The number of people who have reached out to me and shared how the podcast has changed their practice, understanding, and life seriously can't be understated. Unfortunately, after three years and so many personal changes, I've decided to put the podcast on a hiatus. I feel so many mixed emotions about this, and given my personality, it's hard to take a step back but I look forward to bringing you more amazing content in the future.
I talk about:
1) How nutrition science is rarely sensational or extreme. As well as the importance of doing what feels good for your body - without making it dogmatic.
2) The value in trying to eat as many plant foods as you can each and every day. The importance of choosing a variety of foods that are acceptable to your palate, culture, budget, and lifestyle.
3) The value of having a member on your health care team that advocates for you, whether that's your dietitian, pharmacist, doctor, or physio. If you're struggling to advocate for yourself and your medical needs, it is important to find an allied health provider that can get the best care possible for you.
Connect with me on my website at www.andreahardyrd.com, my clinic website at ignitenutrition.ca, on Instagram @andreahardyrd, or Twitter (https://twitter.com/andreahardyrd) or Facebook here as well!
11 Apr 2023
Cannabis and Pain Disorders: Is there a Role in GI? With Dr. Katia Tonkin
Pain is a predominant feature in the majority of functional gut disorders. The higher risk of anxiety and depression when coping with any chronic illness, including GI disorders, as well as anxiety and depression impacting symptoms and symptom perception in many GI conditions are all very important aspect of medical care.
This week I interview Dr. Katia Tonkin on the role that cannabis plays in medical care – including in the treatment of anxiety, depression, and pain.
Dr. Tonkin is a medical oncologist who worked at The Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton Alberta Canada for 20 years and in London, Ontario Canada for 6 years prior to that. She became interested in medical cannabis in 2016 as many patients started asking about cannabis. After researching into it, Dr. Tonkin felt cannabis was likely to help many patients with a wide variety of problems. She started treating patients in April 2017 and wants to contribute to clinical research to further medical knowledge into appropriate uses of medical cannabis, as well as educating health care providers on the proper use of cannabis. She works out of Optimum Wellness Center as well as other clinics as a medical prescriber.
We talk about:
Tonkin’s background as a clinician and how they became interested in the role cannabis plays in medical care.
What cannabis is.
The components of the plant that have therapeutic impacts.
The role of a medical prescriber.
How cannabis, that is medically prescribed, differs from cannabis you might find in stores and why ’self medicating’ is not the best strategy to realize the benefits of cannabis
The conditions we have evidence for using cannabis with (including anxiety, depression and pain)
How these overlaps with gastrointestinal disorders.
How to find a medical prescriber.
Connect with Dr. Katia Tonkin at Optimum Wellness Centres in Edmonton, Alberta.
14 Mar 2023
Nutrition & Long COVID what’s the Role, with Marlee Coldwell, RD
Long-COVID is defined by The National Health Service as having symptoms that develop during or after a COVID infection which continue for more than 12 weeks. This week I interview Marlee Coldwell, RD on how long COVID presents and ways that it can be managed in our patients.
Marlee has been working with patients who have complex digestive health issues and food intolerances for the past 5 years. Marlee specializes in providing nutritional support for digestive disorders including IBS, IBD, SIBO, fatty liver disease, and much more. Marlee is the team lead dietitian for Ignite Nutrition, one of Canada’s top digestive health nutrition practices. With her specialized knowledge of gastrointestinal health, she also helps to train and support other dietitians to work with those who have unique and complex food intolerances and GI disorders.
In 2019, Marlee also wrote a cookbook called ‘Insulin Resistance Diet for Beginners’, which showcases her other great passion, women’s health and PCOS management.
We talk about:
· What long COVID is
· How many people experience it
· What the symptoms are
· How we see it influencing our IBS patients and how nutrition can help
· The influence of COVID on the GI tract
· The taste and smell changes, how they influence people’s nutrition, and if there is anything to help
· The inflammatory immune-mediated symptoms like rashes, brain fog, joint pain, chronic fatigue, gut pain, and diarrhea
· Why people have been curious about a low histamine diet when it comes to long COVID
· The overlap between MCAS and long covid, and why people are being managed like MCAS patients
· If using a MCAS approach can ´fix´ long COVID
Connect with Coldwell on at ignitenutrition.ca on Instagram here @ignite.nutrition.inc
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