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Pregnancy, Allergies, Probiotics and more with Clinical Pharmacist Melody Hartzler - Ep. 027

Welcome to the Tiny Fit Diva Podcast! Kylene Terhune is your personal Functional Diagnostic Nutritional Practitioner and she’s brought a fantastic guest to the show today. Meet Melody Hartzler, a Clinical Pharmacist and probiotic expert! Today on Episode 27 Kylene and Melody dive deep into allergies, probiotics and supplementation, with extra-helpful information for moms and babies, too!

 

Gut health can require a bit of management to keep strong and balanced. Luckily for children, gut health can be restored pretty quickly because they don’t have as many years of damage to recover from, like some adults do.

 

First, let’s look at what pregnant moms can do for their baby. Studies are showing that mothers who have enough Omega 3s and Vitamin D tend to have children with fewer allergic disorders and wheezing. We know that Folic Acid and Folate are essential, but be sure to find out if you have the MTHFR gene, which would mean that you’ll need to take Methylated Folate instead of regular Folate.

 

Now, once the baby is born we can talk about how to best support the baby’s gut health through either breastfeeding or other great practices. Depending on your situation, you may be planning to breastfeed or you may be planning to use formula. If you can’t breastfeed, rest assured Melody has some super-healthy things you can do for your baby, too. If you’re on the fence, it may be worthwhile to try to breastfeed because babies are born with a leaky gut, (since they need to get proteins absorbed through their gut lining) and breastmilk has Pre-biotics which decrease the risk of allergies and asthma.

 

For Vitamin D for infants and toddlers, you can supplement safely with Gummy Sun Dots which contain Polypodium Leucotomos, a fern extract.

 

For Probiotics for infants, toddlers and women check out Klaire Labs products.

 

Kylene and Melody also discuss possibly correlations between the Lip-and-Tongue-Tie-Connection and other allergies and gut conditions.

 

You can find Melody at https://pharmtotable.life/

Follow her on Facebook!  https://www.facebook.com/PharmtoTable.Life/

To see today’s interview check out the video: https://youtu.be/tkekF-yBu2g

 

Don’t forget to download Kylene’s free guide: 5 Steps to Crushing Your PMS which you can find at www.thetinyfitdiva.com 

 

The Tiny Fit Diva Podcast teaches you how to balance your hormones, eat what you want, release the guilt, and have freedom mentally and physically from the restrictive mentality of dieting. Your host, Kylene “The Tiny Fit Diva,” is the right person to help you do it! She is a personal trainer, online health coach, wife, stepmom and a certified FDN practitioner. It’s Kylene's passion to help you achieve and claim your optimum health. 

Health * Hormones * Happiness

Email Kylene at kylenet@thetinyfitdiva.com

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Stephanie Llacuna on Toxin-Free Living - Ep. 025

Welcome to The Tiny Fit Diva Podcast Episode 25 where your host Kylene Terhune is introducing us to another amazing guest to talk about healthy living! This week we’re focusing on toxin-free living. There are some things that we cannot control about our environments, but for the things we can control, like food and skincare products, we should try to limit our exposure to harmful chemicals. We want to be smart about this, though and not just fall for clever marketing campaigns.

 

Green washing is when a label tries to represent a food or a cleaning product as more healthy than it really is. If the terms “clean” or “organic” are used on a label, we may assume it’s toxin free, but it if you look at the ingredients you’ll see pernicious things.

 

Here are some tips to detox your environment:

 

The priority needs to be switching to an aluminum-free deodorant. Be patient as you find one that works with your body chemistry. Next, find a Flouride-free toothpaste.

 

Watch out for weed killer. Vinegar is great and there are some great baking soda alternatives, too.

 

For inside cleaning there is a cleaning version of vinegar that doesn’t smell as bad. 

 

Watch out for sunscreen that contains Oxybenzone and Octinoxate. A good zinc-based sunscreen is better, and avoid the spray-on sunscreens that expose you to breathing in those fumes.

 

If a product label lists “fragrance” or “natural flavors,” beware, as this can be referring to a multitude of unlisted ingredients. 

 

These days we may not have as much acute illness as people did two hundred years ago but we have a lot more chronic illness. Toxins assault us all day everyday so it’s no wonder. This is great information to try to protect ourselves.

 

Here are some tried and true recipes from Stephanie Llacuna:

 

Toxin-Free Weed Spray

1 Gallon Vinegar

2 Cups Epsom Salt

½ Cup (Toxin-free) Dish Soap 

 

Armpit Detox/Care

  • Bentonite Clay Armpit (or face) Mask

-1 TBSP Bentonite clay

-2 TBSP Apple Cider Vinegar

-Water (enough to get the right consistency)

-Mix in a non-metal bowl with a non-metal utensil.

-Apply to armpits and let dry for 5-10 min. Wash off. 

  • Activated charcoal soap (any brand)-helps to pull-out toxins while transitioning to a toxin-free deodorant.
  • For relief of itching/irritation/rashes caused by built-up toxins reacting with baking soda in natural deodorants, apply coconut oil and aloe vera as needed.

 

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