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Each week host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares with her listeners Nature's Secrets to a healthier body.
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1504wl5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
- Guest Website https://drsusanne.leadpages.net/essentialnutrients101/
- Length (mins) 10
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- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
You may know how important it is to stay at a healthy weight, you also know how hard it can be to stay on track when dieting.
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- Segment Number 4
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- Featured Speaker Susan Smith Jones, PhD
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As a Behavioral & Transformational Specialist, Dr. Susan helps people lose weight and get fit, heal their bodies, create success, and live their dreams. And as a much sought-after motivational speaker, wellness consultant, talk show guest, and holistic lifestyle coach extraordinaire, Susan travels throughout the U.S. and internationally working with Fortune 500 companies; community, spiritual, and women's groups; corporations and businesses; and with families and special individual clients. Susan shares her wealth of knowledge and expertise on how to live successfully and create your best life in body, mind, and spirit. A guest on 2,500+ radio and TV shows, Susan always motivates and inspires the audiences. She's also written over 2,000 articles published in magazines and journals worldwide on all aspects of holistic health.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
You have a friend in your battle with weight loss and maintaining a healthy weight; it's called your metabolism.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1504wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susan Smith Jones, PhD
- Guest Website Susan Smith Jones
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Guest Bio
As a Behavioral & Transformational Specialist, Dr. Susan Smith Jones helps people lose weight and get fit, heal their bodies, create success, and live their dreams. And as a much sought-after motivational speaker, wellness consultant, talk show guest, and holistic lifestyle coach extraordinaire, Susan travels throughout the U.S. and internationally working with Fortune 500 companies; community, spiritual, and women's groups; corporations and businesses; and with families and special individual clients. Susan shares her wealth of knowledge and expertise on how to live successfully and create your best life in body, mind, and spirit. A guest on 2,500+ radio and TV shows, Susan always motivates and inspires the audiences. She's also written over 2,000 articles published in magazines and journals worldwide on all aspects of holistic health.
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: Friday, January 23, 2015
Hosts: Dr. Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Susan Smith Jones, PhD
Dr. Susanne: A healthy weight is so important to us. Not just because we feel better about ourselves aesthetically, but it keeps us healthy and out of the danger zones of so many chronic diseases. My next guest is here to explain how we may be overlooking the key to weight loss, our metabolism. Please welcome to the show, leading holistic educator and author Dr. Susan Smith Jones. Dr Jones, please share with us why extra weight is so dangerous to our body.
Dr. Susan: Gosh, there are so many problems. By the way, Hi, Dr. Susan. There are so many problems that go hand in hand when you’re carrying extra weight or you are obese. From heart disease, certain cancers, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, gout, stroke, sleep disorders, to diabetes, just to name a few. I’m a very positive person; I like to look at the glass as half-full. So to put it in a more positive way, even losing a little weight will significantly improve your health and well being.
Dr. Susanne: I totally agree with that. Once you start going, your body really feels the potential of getting to that level of optimal health and wellness. What is metabolism? What does that really mean? Can you share with us the definition of what that really means?
Dr. Susan: Yes, we’ll go over metabolism 101. Keep in mind that the control mechanism for obesity is not diet; it is muscle metabolism. Your basal metabolic rate is the rate in which your body utilizes energy. In other words, how efficient your body burns calories. When your metabolism is higher you burn more fat and you have an easier time losing weight, losing fat, and maintaining your ideal body weight. You can feed your body and muscles the best food and vitamin supplements, but if exercise is not part of your plan then you won’t burn off all of those calories in the food. As you age, if you don’t continue to keep your muscles exercised, your metabolism slows down and you will gain weight much more easily than you did when you were young. Exercise is the key to controlling metabolism. To be more precise, you need aerobic exercise, like a brisk walk, to burn the fat out of your muscles then you need to add strength training, weight lifting, whatever you call it, to build up your muscle which, in turn, increases metabolism.
Dr. Susanne: I’m totally a true believer in making sure that your muscle mass is at its peak. You don’t have to be huge, everyone. You don’t have to be bodybuilders. We need to maintain muscle mass because there is a little organelle called mitochondria. I call it the mighty mito. The mitochondria are specifically needed for fat burning. I know that aerobic exercise is awesome, but I really enjoy burst training, which is called interval training, because you get to burn fat even after you’ve stopped exercising. You know what I’m talking about, right Dr. Susan?
Dr. Susan: Absolutely. If you’re walking or hiking or riding your bike, you just pick something a little farther ahead of you. If I’m hiking, like I did yesterday morning, I’ll pick an oak tree up in the hills. I’ll go as quickly as I can up to that oak tree for the short burst of getting winded. When you do this, you are forcing your body to recover under stress; in other words, while you continue to exercise. When I reach that oak tree I don’t stop, I keep moving. The fat burning enzymes are realizing that not only do they need to grow when you are doing regular aerobic activity, but they need to grow faster. When you put in these 4, 5, or 6 bursts of getting winded in your exercise routine, you will find that the weight will melt away quicker.
Dr. Susanne: Right, Right. Melting the fat away is what everyone wants to do. We are all in to making sure that we do that. Of course sleep has a lot to do with increasing metabolism. I don’t think people know that deep sleep will actually adjust your metabolic rate. You even burn fat during sleep, isn’t that right?
Dr. Susan: Yes, and it is crucial to get a good 7-8 hours a night. Research shows that when you skimp on sleep it interferes with your body’s ability to process carbs that leads to elevated blood sugar levels and an increased tendency to store calories as fat. That’s because when you’re sleep deprived you body produces more of the stress hormone cortisol which sets this chain reaction in motion. To take it a step further, keep in mind that chronically getting too little sleep, I don’t mean 2-3 times a month but I’m saying night to night, makes you hungry; especially for foods that aren’t good for you and primes your body to hold on to all of the calories you eat. You’ve got to make getting good sleep non-negotiable if you want to lose weight, keep it off, and be vibrantly healthy.
Dr. Susanne: That’s right. Some of us out there, some of the listeners, actually might have injuries in their knees, in their legs. How do these individuals, what do you suggest for increasing aerobic activity for people who are not ambulatory with their legs. Maybe they have an ankle sprain and can’t walk. What can they do?
Dr. Susan: Let’s say you can’t use your ankles or your legs, and let’s say that you have a stationary bike at home. They have those bikes where you can use your arms on the pedals and go around and around and around. You can do that. I’m also a big believer in taking infra-red saunas because a session in an infra-red sauna, and it’s great to have one in your home, is the equivalent of having a 2-3 mile jog in terms of what it does to your cardio vascular system. That’s a way of burning calories without getting exercise in. There are things you can do. You can sit, even when you’re driving, and tighten your core, release, and tighten your core. You can take dumbbells or bottles of water and you can do arm exercises.
The thing people need to realize is that this is magical and it has to do with muscle. Muscle burns fat, it’s that simple. When you do the right kind of strength training it increases muscle tone, it alters body chemistry, and increases your metabolic rate. More muscles in your body, more lean muscle tissue, means a faster metabolism and this is what is so important for everyone get. If you increase the muscle on your body, and like you said we’re not talking about body building muscles, we’re talking about just more lean muscle tissue. If you put 10 extra pound of muscle on your body, you will burn approximately 500 more calories a day. You’d have to job 6 miles a day, 7 days a week, to burn the same number of calories. With 10 extra pounds of muscle you burn a pound of fat in a week, 52 pounds in a year.
Dr. Susanne: That’s a great way of looking at it. I’ve always believed that we don’t want to become skinny fat people. What that means is that you have too much fat and you lose muscle. With a lot of these weight loss programs, you end up becoming skinny fat. You might look good on the outside but you don’t have that quality, strong muscle that’s going to increase your body. I’m really a big believer in just moving. If you can’t walk, if you have issues, then just move your upper body. Just moving in itself will really enhance the metabolism and the sweating mechanisms.
Thank you so much Dr. Susan, for joining us today. I really appreciate all of the info you’ve talked about today, especially what metabolism is all about. Dr. Susan’s weight loss tips, if you want to see those and she has so many self help books, please go to think link on my Wellness for Life show page on RadioMD. Until next time, this is Dr. Susanne Bennett sharing my natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD. Stay well everyone! - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Obesity has become an epidemic in the United States. Learn why one doctor doesn't think willpower is the problem.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1504wl5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Raphael Kellman, MD
- Guest Website Raphael Kellman
- Guest Facebook Account faceebook.com/drraphaelkellman
- Guest Twitter Account @doctorKellman
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Guest Bio
Dr. Raphael Kellman, MD, author of The Microbiome Diet, is a pioneer in functional medicine who has a holistic and visionary approach to healing. In 17 years of practice, he has treated more than 40,000 patients, many of whom have come to him from all over the world and after suffering without help for years. Dr. Kellman is driven by his desire to alleviate suffering and to help people regain health based on a new vision and understanding of healing and the causes of disease. As a doctor trained in internal medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Dr. Kellman uses the latest drugs and technology to treat specific diseases but his approach to medicine is patient- centered and holistic. He focuses on the complex interaction of systems — not just the disease but on you as a whole person who is greater than the sum of your parts.
Dr. Kellman’s treatments are informed by his background in the philosophy of science, and administered with compassion and kindness. Drawing on the latest research, he addresses your biochemistry, metabolism, hormones, genetics, environment, emotions, and life circumstances to help you achieve optimal health. Dr. Kellman attended received post-graduate training in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, Lenox Hill Hospital, and St. John’s Hospital, and conducted Cancer research at Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital. He serves as Holistic Medical Director for Health Check in Bay Ridge, and Queens, and Medical Director for the New York Center for Addiction Treatment Services. He is also the author of three books included, The Microbiome Diet, Gut Reactions, and Matrix Healing. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Have you ever heard of the Microbiome? It's affecting your weight and health in a big way.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1504wl5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Raphael Kellman, MD
- Guest Website Raphael Kellman
- Guest Facebook Account faceebook.com/drraphaelkellman
- Guest Twitter Account @doctorKellman
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Guest Bio
Dr. Raphael Kellman, MD, author of The Microbiome Diet, is a pioneer in functional medicine who has a holistic and visionary approach to healing. In 17 years of practice, he has treated more than 40,000 patients, many of whom have come to him from all over the world and after suffering without help for years. Dr. Kellman is driven by his desire to alleviate suffering and to help people regain health based on a new vision and understanding of healing and the causes of disease. As a doctor trained in internal medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, Dr. Kellman uses the latest drugs and technology to treat specific diseases but his approach to medicine is patient- centered and holistic. He focuses on the complex interaction of systems — not just the disease but on you as a whole person who is greater than the sum of your parts.
Dr. Kellman’s treatments are informed by his background in the philosophy of science, and administered with compassion and kindness. Drawing on the latest research, he addresses your biochemistry, metabolism, hormones, genetics, environment, emotions, and life circumstances to help you achieve optimal health. Dr. Kellman attended received post-graduate training in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, Lenox Hill Hospital, and St. John’s Hospital, and conducted Cancer research at Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital. He serves as Holistic Medical Director for Health Check in Bay Ridge, and Queens, and Medical Director for the New York Center for Addiction Treatment Services. He is also the author of three books included, The Microbiome Diet, Gut Reactions, and Matrix Healing. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Each week host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares with her listeners Nature's Secrets to a healthier body.
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1503wl5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
- Guest Website Dr. Susanne Bennett
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/drsusanne
- Guest Twitter Account @drsusanne
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
How safe are hand sanitizers? Could they be stripping your defenses against sickness?
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1503wl5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker David Friedman, DC
- Guest Website Dr. David Friedman
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/drdavidfriedman
- Guest Twitter Account @drdavidfriedman
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Guest Bio
Dr. David Friedman is a Chiropractic Physician and certified Doctor of Naturopathy. He received a post-doctorate certification from Harvard Medical School and is a former teacher of Neurology. He’s been honored in the National Who’s Who Directory for Distinguished Businesses since 2002. He’s a member of the Naturopathic Medical Association, American Dietetic Association and a registered Naturopathic Diplomate (RND). The Hollywood Reporter called Dr. Friedman the “Chiropractor to the Stars,” as his list of patients has included some of today’s top celebrities and movie stars: John Travolta, Jenny McCarthy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Val Kilmer, and Paul Newman, to name a few. Dr. Friedman has authored three books and is a contributing writer for many leading health and fitness magazines. He’s a frequent guest on syndicated radio and television shows and his bestselling CD, America’s Unbalanced Diet, has been heard by over a million people and helped raise awareness about the foods people are putting into their bodies. As “The Health Expert” for Lifetime Television’s morning show, he has shared his “no holds barred,” cutting edge health segments with millions.
Dr. Friedman hosts the nationally syndicated program To Your Good Health Radio, which has changed the face of talk radio by incorporating entertainment, shock value and solutions to everyday health and wellness issues. The show is heard by millions every week on AM/FM and internet radio platforms including: TuneInRadio, SketcherRadio, SlackerRadio, RadioMD, PublicRadioFan and iHeart Radio. Podcasts are also available on iTunes. Dr. Friedman has exposed the artificial sweetener industry for CAUSING OBESITY, the milk industry for CAUSING OSTEOPOROSIS, and the synthetic vitamin industry for CAUSING SICKNESS AND DISEASE. Dr. Friedman has interviewed world-renowned doctors, celebrities, sports figures, and New York Times bestselling authors who all share one common goal—finding a healthy lifestyle in the unhealthiest developed country in the world... the good ol' U.S.A. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
What are your cravings really trying to tell you?
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1503wl5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Alexandra Jamieson CHHC, AADP
- Organization Women Food and Desire
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/alexandrajamiesonfanpage
- Guest Twitter Account @deliciousalex
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Guest Bio
Alexandra Jamieson, CHHC, AADP, is a best-selling author, functional nutrition coach, detox expert, professionally trained healthy gourmet chef and “cravings whisperer.” She has been seen on Oprah, Martha Stewart Living, CNN, Fox News, USA Today and People Magazine. Alex delivers inspirational keynote speeches and workshops around the globe, and was declared Elle Magazine's Coach for January 2015.
Alex was the co-star and co-creator of the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me and the The Great American Detox Diet and offers remarkably sane – and tasty – advice on how to detox, live healthfully and feel fantastic.
Her forthcoming book, Women, Food & Desire, will be published January 6, 2015. She lives in Brooklyn where she juggles, somewhat gracefully, raising her eight-year-old son, running her company AlexandraJamieson.com, and riding her bicycle to the food co-op. -
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: Friday, January 16, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Alexandra Jamieson CHHC, AADP
Dr. Susanne: Every single day patients come in to say: “Gosh, I’ve got these cravings. I’ve got to stop these cravings. What is going on? My body will just not stop.” These cravings that we have, when people reach out for various things, particularly sugar, as well as cookies and candies. Now, my next guest is going to answer this question: Why we do it? What is really going on? Alexandra Jamieson, co-star and co-creator of the Oscar nominated documentary Super Size Me and the author of the book Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body. Alright, J. Alex, how are you?
Alexandra: I’m great, thanks for having me.
Dr. Susanne: Now, where do your cravings come from. What’s going on? What is going on with our body here?
Alexandra: Well, here’s the deal, Susanne. We fight our cravings and our bodies, so much. We are at war with them. I believe that your cravings are actually messages from your body, that you need balancing of some kind. I’ve discovered after years of working with thousands of women, online and in person, my coaching clients, that there are four root causes of all of our cravings. They are bacterial, nutritional, emotional, and physical. Every craving you have, whether it’s for an apple or chocolate or wine or ice-cream or potato chips, there is a message in that craving. You can begin to discover what your body’s really asking for, to heal in a totally new way that’s not a restricted diet or another calorie counting binge that you have to go on. It’s really about intuitive eating and finally listening to and trusting your body.
Dr. Susanne: Let’s go over that again. You went really quickly over that, but I want our listeners to really understand the four root causes. Can you give them again please?
Alexandra: Absolutely. They are: Bacterial, which I really go into in the book Women, Food, and Desire about how your gut is your second brain, it’s your emotional brain. But also, we are more bacterial than we are human. So getting your bacteria balanced in your body, in the right way, is really important. That’s number one. The second root cause of cravings is nutritional. Your body may be asking for certain nutrients that it’s missing. One of the top mineral deficiencies we’re experiencing these days is magnesium. Your body knows that chocolate is a good source of magnesium. I offer charts on nutritional based cravings. Let’s say you’re craving bread. Maybe you’re missing nitrogen in your diet. These are the foods that are high in nitrogen, like peas and beans. Nutritional cravings are the second root cause.
Alexandra: The third root cause is emotional cravings: Anything from anxiety, stress, sadness, and loneliness. These emotional disruptions in our lives can actually manifest in a physical need. You’ve felt a broken heart; you’ve felt anxiety in your gut before. Often we try to answer that anxiety or discomfort with food. I really dive in to the emotional root causes of cravings and offer some great ways to start healing those and accepting them and turning them around. The final root cause of cravings, which I think may be the most fun and one of the biggest opportunities for people, is physical. We are physical creatures. We were designed, we evolved, to learn best as we move and we need each other. We need connection. We need hugs. Many scientists believe that we need at least 6-8 hugs a day, of at least 6-10 seconds apiece, just to feel whole and good about ourselves. There are lots of studies that show if you remove a mammal baby from the rest of its litter, it will start to deplete. It won’t gain weight. It will suffer. Humans babies that don’t get enough touch, they won’t put on weight, they won’t thrive. We think it’s just babies, just our children that need physical attention and hugs and love, but we adults need it too, right? We need fun and play and to have a great time experiencing pleasure in our bodies. So I go into how to play more, why it’s important to have a good, intimate, healthy, sexy relationship in your life: Either with someone else, or with yourself. Those are the four root causes.
Dr. Susanne: What I like is that you’ve definitely separated each one. Each one is such valuable information and are things that do affect every part of our life. Right now there is so much information about the gut and the microflora; I even talk about the skin-flora. It’s all connected to your nervous system, your brain. When you talk about that second brain and how important it is to listen to it, how do you teach that in the book? What are you saying that you need to do to listen to your gut? How do you ask people to do that?
Alexandra: Well, the first step is: Before each meal, take 5 really deep breaths and tune in to your body. It’s not something that we’re taught so if you’re like “Wow I’m not good at feeling what my body is saying to me right now,” don’t worry. You’re not alone. It’s not something that we’re taught in school and most of our parents don’t know this information either. You may be the first one in your family to think about this. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths and just notice where you feel any sensation in your body, especially before you sit down to eat. Often we hold our tension, anxiety, and our stress in our guts. Many people feel it in their chest, maybe you feel it in your forehead, but just start to tune into it and breathe into it and consciously relax your body. It is so important to do that before a meal because you can either be stressed or you can digest. You can’t do both at the same time. If you’re stressed out and you’re running through your lunch or dinner, you really need to clam that down. And this will allow your gut, you’re digestive system, to actually relax and do the work of digestion. That’s a key, key part of beginning to heal digestion. Just that breathing, calm awareness exercise before each meal is so important and it’s really one of the simplest ways to start tuning in to your body and your guts. That’s how you need to start balancing your bacteria. Now there’s a lot of nutritional information in the book as well about how to balance that, but you can start breathing into it right now.
Dr. Susanne: So basically, we’re talking about cravings. You’re saying let’s listen to our cravings as well. Listen to that gut. That gut is going to tell you, your second brain. Now, what are the dangers of not listening? What can happen if you don’t listen to your body clearly?
Alexandra: We’re seeing the results of that all around us now. I’ve worked with hundreds, thousands, of people who don’t listen to their bodies. When the body is anxious, we are so stressed out, we are so time-starved and we ignore the physical pain and the inflammation that arises. We ignore it and we try to mask it with more sugar, more caffeine, more comfort foods, more prescription and over the counter drugs, more shopping, and more reality TV. We are trying to cover up what our bodies are really telling us. “I need better sleep,” or “I need better food,” or “I need more fun or play or rest or stretching.” Our bodies are always telling us what they need, but we haven’t been taught to listen to it. I really encourage you to start listening to and honoring your food cravings and desires. That might actually be the getting the body and the life you want, not another deprivation style diet.
Dr. Susanne: Great book that you have, Women, Food, and Desire: Embrace Your Cravings, Make Peace with Food, Reclaim Your Body. This is a new book out there, everyone. It’s fantastic. Alex, thanks so much for sharing your great information about cravings and how to connect with your body. Anyone who needs to get more information about Alex can go ahead and go to www.RadioMD.com, on my show page. We’ll get all of that information out there. You can also go to Amazon, Barnes and Noble; wherever you go, you can get this book. Fantastic. Thank you so much Alex. This is Dr. Susanne on RadioMD, sharing with you the natural strategies for ultimate wellness. Until then, stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Alex Jamieson, of the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me, explains why you don't want to do that... ever.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1503wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Alexandra Jamieson CHHC, AADP
- Organization Women Food and Desire
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/alexandrajamiesonfanpage
- Guest Twitter Account @deliciousalex
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Guest Bio
Alexandra Jamieson, CHHC, AADP, is a best-selling author, functional nutrition coach, detox expert, professionally trained healthy gourmet chef and “cravings whisperer.” She has been seen on Oprah, Martha Stewart Living, CNN, Fox News, USA Today and People Magazine. Alex delivers inspirational keynote speeches and workshops around the globe, and was declared Elle Magazine's Coach for January 2015.
Alex was the co-star and co-creator of the Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me and the The Great American Detox Diet and offers remarkably sane – and tasty – advice on how to detox, live healthfully and feel fantastic.
Her forthcoming book, Women, Food & Desire, will be published January 6, 2015. She lives in Brooklyn where she juggles, somewhat gracefully, raising her eight-year-old son, running her company AlexandraJamieson.com, and riding her bicycle to the food co-op. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
It's flu season, and avoiding the flu bug takes more than just avoiding germs. Learn five effective ways to boost your immune system.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1503wl5a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
- Guest Website Dr. Susanne
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/drsusanne
- Guest Twitter Account @drsusanne
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
