87. Elemental Interbeing, Food Information Overwhelm, and Cell Deep Nourishment for Women - Kymber Maulden (prometabolic, bioenergetic nutrition)
Release Date: 03/15/2022
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Dive much deeper with Kymber’s online course Habitually Healthy.
Check out the two info-packed bonuses that accompany this episode at the Medicine Stories Patreon.
TOPICS:
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Energy and structure are interdependent at every level
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Metabolism is not what most people think it is
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Removing major food groups limits your body’s ability to generate energy
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Metabolic safety for women- the body can’t heal if it’s in survival mode
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What disrupts a woman’s metabolism
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Restrictive diets are metabolic-lowering stressors to the female body
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Women’s “progress” in society has come with a metabolic price
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Being overwhelmed by constantly changing nutritional information & how prometabolic is different
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The problem with too much plant consumption
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Nutritional rigidity and a look at raw, vegan, keto, and paleo/carnivore diets through a metabolic lens
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The importance of carbs- when we don’t have enough glucose the body will start relying on stress hormones for energy production
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Kymber’s past with extreme food intolerances and how she healed them
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The few foods that should be avoided because of their metabolism-lowering, gut-destroying effects
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What fear of food, and black and white nutritional thinking, does to us
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PUFAs- what to know about polyunsaturated fatty acids
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The story behind the post-industrial vegetable oil toxic sludge we’ve all been consuming for decades
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The way our skin responds to the sun is largely contingent on the foods we’re eating
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When the body rusts from the inside out- iron, PUFAs, estrogen, and internal oxidation
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Everything you’ve learned about iron is wrong and you’re almost assuredly iron toxic (this is so important, especially if you or anyone you know has been diagnosed anemic)
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The trade-offs of trying to get our nutrients from synthetic sources
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Copper, magnesium, and remembering that minerals are elements that originated in stars
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Technology cannot make us healthier
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The nutrients in animal foods are vastly more abundant and bioavailable than those in plant foods
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Eating this one food everyday has dramatically improved both my and Kymber’s health
RESOURCES (if listening on an app that doesn’t support embedded links, find these at https://mythicmedicine.love/podcast):
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Kymber’s online course Habitually Healthy
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Medicine Stories Patreon (2 info-packed bonuses for this episode)
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Kymber’s website
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Kymber’s ebooks Reparative Eating Guide & Nourishing Our Sanity
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Kymber on Instagram
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Real Food Gangstas on Instagram
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Carnivore Aurelius on Instagram
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This Is Your Brain on Birth Control by Sarah Hill
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Jessica Ash on Instagram
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Katya Nova on Instagram
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An article on the debunked Ansel Keys study
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Cure Your Fatigue by Morley Robbins (iron/copper/magnesium balance bible)
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Cure Your Fatigue and Slow Down the Aging Process- Morley Robbins on the Wise Traditions podcast (amazingly helpful simplification of his book)
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Mind blowing video of iron shavings in cereal (these are in all iron fortified processed food- you have consumed so much of this!)
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Strong Sistahs YouTube channel
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Heal Your Metabolism by Kate Deering
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My website MythicMedicine.love
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Take our fun quiz Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine?
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Medicine Stories Facebook group
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Mythic Medicine on Instagram
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Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)