Healthy but practical living to improve our overall health with Jessica Campbell

Who is Jessica Campbell? 

Jessica Campbell, MS, NTP is a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner with a master’s degree in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. She sees patients at the Freyja Clinic in Redwood City and Love Heal Thrive in San Carlos. Jessica runs seasonal detoxes to help you fall in love with your food, your body, and your life. You can find her blog at http://foodfoundation.guru where she shares holistic health tips and healthy recipes for families that love comfort food. Jessica speaks yoga, Ayurveda, paleo, keto, ancestral diets, microbiome, mindfulness, and her superpower is the language of dance. 

 

Show Highlights 

• Jessica shares her journey into human nutrition and functional medicine 

• Terri and Jessica talk about lifestyle changes we can make to improve our health and the importance of reducing the stress in our lives by getting our bodies into parasympathetic response 
• Jessica talks about the work she does with her patients to help them improve their health and how she works with them 
• Jessica and Terri discuss hormone changes in perimenopause/menopause and how we need to talk about this and do more to help our bodies better deal with the changes 
• Jessica talks about how our bodies are bombarded and are having trouble with dealing with the bombardment 
• Terri asks about how Jessica’s services are paid…out of pocket or with insurance and they discuss health inequities 

• Jessica loves working with postpartum, working moms to design programs that work for them and fits within their lives with their families 
• Terri comments on how confused we are about what is healthy and what we should be consuming, and Jessica goes on to talk about how our bodies don’t recognize certain foods any longer 

 

Terri’s Key Takeaway 

Making small and incremental lifestyle changes can have major impact on our lives.  

 

References in the Podcast 

• Planned Parenthood:  https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/facts-figures 
• University of Western States:  https://www.uws.edu/ 
• Article on listening to Mozart reducing allergic response: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14977243/ 

• Article on how being outside is good for your health:  http://bit.ly/HealthBenefitsArticle 

 

Contact 

You can follow Jessica on Twitter @JessicaFoodF, on Facebook @foodfoundationguru and her blog http://foodfoundation.guru.   

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.  

Feel free to email Terri at [email protected]. 

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.