Dr. Deanna Minich: Personalised Nutrition, Eating The Rainbow, and Conscious Health Practices for Goal Focused Humans

Experible with Krati Mehra

In this episode, guest expert, Dr. Deanna Minich teaches us how best to create health practices that can optimise our performance, keep us healthy on all levels, and allow us to cleanse our inner system without creating unnecessary stress. This episode is a must-listen for goal focused, mission driven humans pursuing big ambitions - men and women who are constantly pushed for time. All of Dr. Minich’s advice is easy to implement and will fit in beautifully with our existing routines.

Deanna Minich, MS, PhD, CNS, Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (IFMCP), is a nutrition scientist, international lecturer, educator, and author, with over twenty years of experience in academia and in the food and dietary supplement industries, currently serving as Chief Science Officer at Symphony Natural Health. She has been active as a functional medicine clinician in clinical trials and in her own practice (Food & Spirit™). She is the author of six consumer books on wellness topics, four book chapters, and over fifty scientific publications. Her academic background is in nutrition science, including a Master of Science (M.S.) degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Chicago (1995) and a Doctorate (Ph.D.) in Medical Sciences from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (1999). She has served on the Nutrition Advisory Board for The Institute of Functional Medicine and on the Board of Directors for the American Nutrition Association. Currently, she teaches for the Institute for Functional Medicine, University of Western States, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and Institute for Brain Potential. Through her talks, workshops, groups, and in-person retreats, she helps people to practically and artfully transform their lives through nutrition and lifestyle.

Shownotes-

00:55 - Intro

03:45 - How Dr. Minich protected herself against COVID

05:40 - What is the #1 priority when it comes to healthy living

07:40 - Personalising health practices and nutrition

09:50 - What does it mean to put ‘ME’ first and why it’s so key to thriving health

13:25 - How to have it all without jeopardising your health

20:45 - Is junk ever okay?

27:00 - Detoxing without fasting

31:50 - Eating the rainbow

36:25 - Avoiding sugar crashes

40:20 - Diverse food for better gut

47:00 - Where does supplementation fit with healthy living?

51:10 - The most toxic habit

Connect with Dr. Minich -

Website: www.deannaminich.com

Dr. Minich’s Programs - https://www.foodandspirit.com/

Follow Dr. Minich on -

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/foodandspirit

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/deannaminich/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/deanna.minich

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