175: Functional Nutrition for Women: Blood Sugar Balance, Digestion, and Sleep with Katie Kirklin

About this episode

In this episode, Jess interviews Katie Kirklin about functional nutrition and its impact on women's health.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with Katie, a registered nurse turned functional nutrition counselor, to talk about what it really means to support women’s health from a root cause perspective. We talk about how functional nutrition for women can help connect the dots between common symptoms like energy crashes, weight loss resistance, anxiety, eczema, bloating, reflux, PMS, perimenopause symptoms, menopause symptoms, and hormone-related changes. What We Talk About in This Episod...

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Host: Jess

Guest: Katie Kirklin

Topics covered

• functional nutrition
• women's health
• blood sugar balance
• digestion
• sleep
• hormonal changes

Keywords

• functional nutrition
• women's health
• blood sugar
• digestion
• sleep
• PMS
• menopause
• energy crashes

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