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Episode 344: What a Functional Nutritionist Eats in a Day for Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Meals
What does a day of eating look like for a 40-year-old functional nutritionist focused on hormones, health, and longevity? In this episode, Erin shares her gluten-free, dairy-free daily routine, blending over 15 years of experience with her personal journey managing autoimmune illness and disordered eating. With practical tips and insights tailored for women in their 40s, Erin highlights how intentional, nutrient-dense choices can support both health and happiness.
Looking for more support? Join The Funk’tional Nutrition Collective for proven nutrition programs, hormone testing, personalized lab analysis, and one-on-one appointments. Enrollment is open now—we’d love to see you there!
Episode 343: Cortisol Face, Adrenal Cocktails & Cortisol Testing – Debunking Cortisol Myths & Facts
Advice can be amazing—or a total miss—depending on who it is for and who it’s coming from. That’s especially true when it comes to hormones, where one-size-fits-all solutions from TikTok and Instagram don’t work. In this episode, Erin clears up the confusion about cortisol’s role in the body, addresses popular trends like adrenal cocktails and cortisol face, and discusses what high and low cortisol levels really mean for your health. Learn why lowering cortisol doesn’t always lead to weight loss and how to navigate testing options to get the most accurate results.
Episode 341: Building Your Autoimmune Tool Kit
In this episode, Erin is joined by The Funk’tional Nutritionist’s new practitioner and Collective Community Manager, Nicole Antes, RD. They dive into creating an Autoimmune Healing Toolkit—a personalized approach to managing autoimmune conditions and supporting your body during flares. Nicole shares her extensive experience working with clients with autoimmunity, emphasizing the importance of addressing both symptoms and root causes to rebalance the immune system.
Interested in working with Nicole in our Functional C.A.R.E. Method™ 1:1 services? We have limited spots available to get started! Send us your application here.
Episode 340: Balance Your Hormones in Under an Hour
Today Erin is teaching you how to balance your hormones using the 5 key elements of hormone health – do these things and you WILL balance your hormones.
If you need more specificity, resources and support, then we invite you to join us for Your Hormone Revival™, our 3 month program that teaches you how to balance your hormones (with the option for lab testing for even more insight as to the root cause of your hormone imbalance!).
Get access to Your Hormone Revival™ within the Funk’tional Nutrition Collective - our monthly health membership to start feeling like your best self again that reopens on January 7th!
Episode 312: Estrogen Dominance & Detox: What You Need to Know
Grab your DUTCH test and your headphones because this episode is a companion guide to your test, specifically the estrogen section. Learn the symptoms of estrogen dominance, how excessive estrogen can lead to diseases like PCOS and endometriosis, and why estrogen dominance is so common in this day and age. If you suspect you have estrogen dominance, you’ll learn about the supplement and food as medicine approaches we use in practice to help balance hormones. The biggest take-away from today? Never underestimate the importance of regular bowel movements.
Episode 311: Supporting Your Hormones with Food & Nutrition
Food can be medicine, especially when it comes to balancing your hormones. In this episode, you'll learn how to make simple and effective shifts to your nutrition for hormonal health. We're talking about caffeine intake, seed cycling, detox, and minerals. While we love a good functional lab test here at Team FN, you really can (and should!) move the needle with your hormone health just by starting with the basics - food!
Episode 310: Ways to Naturally Increase Progesterone
Progesterone has always been an unsung hero in our eyes, but now it’s getting its time in the sun - which is a good thing! Progesterone is super important for mood regulation, brain clarity, and thyroid health. That being said, it’s a very common hormone imbalance and the conventional solution is to treat with synthetic Progestin. At Team FN, we start with a root cause approach. Today we’re going to talk about WHY low progesterone is so common, how to identify if you have it, and what you can do about it.
Episode 302: Ambition & Adrenals | Why highly ambitious people burnout - and what we can do about it
Are you an entrepreneur or a highly ambitious person that seems to be stuck in the “go-go-go” mentality and may benefit from learning when and how to rein it in? If so, this episode is for you. Erin uncovers the common hormone imbalances she sees in highly ambitious people and how our culture fosters an environment for burnout. Erin explains tools to rewire your self-image and identity to ensure you put your body before your business.
Episode 300: The Fertility Episode with Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
In this week’s episode, Erin welcomes back Lisa Hendrickson-Jack, previous podcast guest and co-author of the groundbreaking book "Real Food For Fertility." They embark on an insightful exploration of the menstrual cycle as a vital sign, the profound impact of nutrition on fertility, and the nuanced effects of hormonal contraceptives. They also navigate the terrain of timing conception, delve into male fertility considerations, and uncover key factors influencing sperm quality. Get ready for a deep dive into reproductive health as they guide you on your path to fertility success.
Lisa Hendrickson-Jack is a certified Fertility Awareness Educator and Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner who teaches women to chart their menstrual cycles for natural birth control,
conception, and monitoring overall health. She is the author of three bestselling books The Fifth Vital Sign, the Fertility Awareness Mastery Charting Workbook, and her most recent book Real Food For Fertility, which she co-authored with Lily Nichols RDN. Lisa works tirelessly to debunk the myth that regular ovulation is only important when you want children by recognizing the menstrual cycle as a vital sign. Drawing heavily from the current scientific literature, Lisa presents an evidence-based approach to help women connect to their fifth vital sign by uncovering the connection between the menstrual cycle, fertility, and overall health. With well over 4 million downloads, her podcast, Fertility Friday, is the #1 source for information about fertility awareness and menstrual cycle health.
Episode 292: The Power of Bioidentical Hormones — Are They Right for You?
There is a huge spectrum of opinions on the use of hormone replacement therapy. On one side, it’s presented as the only option to balance your hormones, and on the other, it’s villainized.
Today, Erin unpacks it all with Alise Greenfield, a Funk’tional Nutrition Academy graduate and NP with over a decade of experience in both conventional and functional medicine. Their discussion dives into the nitty-gritty of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), how it’s used, and what options are available on the market today. This episode offers a fresh perspective, challenging the narrative that aging for women must simply be accepted as "it is what it is."
Alise Greenfield is a functional medicine nurse practitioner with a focus in women’s health and wellness. Her expertise includes hormone health, period problems, bio-identical hormone replacement and gut health, as well as skin health from an inside out perspective. She received her degrees from the University of New Hampshire. She has over a decade of experience in conventional and functional medicine in various settings. She has also been a patient herself with chronic Lyme and overcame complications by blending these two medicines. These experiences led her to the conviction there is no one right way to health and when combined appropriately, these two modalities can drastically improve people’s lives. Her practice is located in Dover, NH.
When she’s not working, you can find her in the kitchen cooking or baking gluten free treats, in the ocean on her stand up paddle board, spending time with her young daughter and husband, at the gym or reading an entertaining book.
Episode 290: Imbalanced Cortisol: 2 Questions to Ask Yourself
If you’ve ever seen imbalanced cortisol on a hormone test and thought “how do I fix this?”, then this episode is for you.
There are MANY reasons for imbalanced cortisol, and Erin lays out many of them in this episode. But after 12 years of practice, there is something that she consistently sees as the NUMBER ONE reason for burnout, stress and cortisol issues. As a functional medicine practitioner, these are the 2 questions she asks anytime cortisol shows up as high or low on a hormone lab.
This is exactly what you need to uncover and correct burnout, stress, “adrenal fatigue” and cortisol issues – and prevent them from coming back again.
Episode 288: Metabolism, Hormones & Weight Loss with Dr. Jade Teta
On today’s show, Erin talks to Dr. Jade Teta about all aspects of health - from stress management to metabolism to hormones to the best exercise for you. Dr. Jade has worked in-person with over 10,000 clients — most of them women. As a result, he’s become an expert in female metabolism, hormones and weight loss. His unique depth of knowledge makes him the perfect candidate for this well rounded discussion.
Dr. Jade Teta is an integrative physician and personal trainer with over 25 years of experience. The majority of his clients are women, so as a result, he’s become an expert in the unique attributes of the female metabolism and its hormonal strengths and challenges.
To date, he’s worked in-person with over 10,000 people, helping them achieve their weight loss and health goals. And he’s helped hundreds of thousands more with at-home programs he’s created.
Dr. Teta has a Bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and a Doctorate in naturopathic medicine, a distinct specialty of medicine focusing on lifestyle approaches to health, fitness and weight loss. He carries his license to practice medicine in Washington State and California where he is a registered primary care physician.
Dr. Teta writes and lectures internationally as a continuing education provider for the medical and fitness fields. He is the author of several other best-selling programs including Metabolic Aftershock and Metabolic Prime. He also contributed both the exercise and sport nutrition chapters to The Textbook of Natural Medicine, the most widely used natural medicine textbook in medical schools across the country.
Episode 274: Supporting the Perimenopause Transition
Perimenopause is a significant shift in a woman’s life, and brings with it a mix of mental and physical changes that often comes with little support. On today’s episode, Erin sits down with Lauryn Mohr, the newest member of Team FN and FNA student, to dive deep into this transformative time. Lauryn’s unique background in integrating functional health modalities within a conventional health model makes her the perfect guest to shed light on navigating perimenopause. By the end of this conversation, you’ll know how to accurately identify perimenopause, ways to approach it holistically, and strategies for an empowered journey in this phase of life.
Lauryn Mohr is a nutrition practitioner with over a decade of experience. After earning her Bachelor’s & Master’s degrees in Exercise Physiology & Advanced Nutrition, she held various roles for a prominent health club corporation. With a passion for educating along with her clinical experience in functional medicine, Lauryn is another headhunted practitioner of Erin’s Funk’tional Nutrition Academy.
Episode 270: Understanding Anxiety & the Brain-Body Connection
Anxiety can feel like a heavy burden that keeps you from doing the things you love and being your healthiest self. However, navigating anxiety becomes far more manageable once we understand how it happens and harness it as a means of communication with our body.
On today’s episode, Erin delves into the foundational aspects of anxiety. This includes a breakdown of the brain’s physiological response when anxiety is triggered, as well as an exploration of the seven most common causes of this mental state. For real-world strategies, Erin shares solutions to anxiety that can transform it from a burden to a pathway for self-awareness and healing. You can use the tools in this episode to uncover what your anxiety may be telling you, learn how to listen to its signs, and support your overall well-being.