The Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast Jamie Belz, FNTP, MHC - The Nutritional Therapy Association

In this episode of the Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast, Mike throws Jamie a pop-quiz-style twist to the format as they dive into what's been coined "greenwashing" or "health halos" as the buzzwords Big Food uses to convince you to buy their foods because these words have become known to signify or indicate healthier food options. The problem is, the front of the package doesn't always align with what you see on the back when you flip it over to read the nutrition facts and ingredients.
 
06:03 - GLUTEN FREE
08:39 - Email Jamie for a link to a sourdough recipe that is actually easy to understand - jbelz@nutritionaltherapy.com
10:20 - GRASSFED
18:47 - NATURAL
21:36 - ORGANIC
28:55 - LOW FAT or FAT FREE
29:21 - PLANT BASED
31:26 - SUGAR FREE (Sugar alcohols, sugar substitutes, aspartame, Stevia)
 
The cost of food has climbed exponentially with rocketing inflation over the past few years. Learn what these terms mean and the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to the marketing mayhem on our grocery store shelves. What's worth the spend and what's just a "greenwashing" money grab.
 
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Here's the link to the study Jamie mentioned regarding sugar substitutes and weight gain:
Pub Med Article: The impact of artificial sweeteners on Body Weight Control and Glucose Homeostasis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7817779/
 

This episode of the Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast features Hunter Schwietz, a Certified Personal Trainer, a Corrective Exercise Specialist, a Functional Patterns Human Biomechanics Specialist, and the founder of Form First in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Hunter opens up about his own wellness journey and shares how he chased numerous physical symptoms down many rabbit holes with abundant research and expensive testing. He sought help from various allied practitioners before concluding that his “health ailments” were largely due to anxiety. Hunter describes his anxiety attacks and how they impacted him both mentally and physically, creating doubt, confusion, and frustration as a professional in the wellness space. Counseling, diet, and supplementation have helped Hunter in his personal recovery journey, but what really helped him was the tools and discipline he used for stress management.
 
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In this episode, Jamie Belz, host of the Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast interviews the CEO of The Nutritional Therapy Association (and her husband), Mike Belz. The two discuss the various credentials available through the NTA, program changes made over the past few years, including the return of the FCA, the future of the NTA, health freedom, nutrition freedom, and government involvement.
4:13 – Mike details his career background in higher education, then crossing over into commercial realty just before the world shut down for COVID.
10:26 – Pandemic closures
12:34 – The NTP Program’s impact on a family
14:37 – Changing your stars – three things
17:00 – Mike comes to the NTA, and things that have been done since
17:40 – Certification programs, NTA versus other nutrition education schools and programs (again at 50:15), non-profit versus for-profit schools, accreditation, shifts in post-secondary education system structuring in the past decade, school funding, predatory recruitment, federal funding, grants, overpromised career outcomes, admissions ethics
24:15 – NTP program re-structure, allied health associate and bachelor’s degree program structures
27:12 – NTP (Nutritional Therapy Practitioner), FNTP (Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner), Health Coach  (again at 37:29)
29:03 – Government control in nutrition education, two-year and four-year program possibility, funding, tuition, inflation, student loans, accessibility
32:50 – K-12 Public Funding, American Experiment Podcast
33:05 – Keeping the government out of it, CEO of Babylon Bee’s talk on censorship was censored
34:24 – Direction of the NTA, students, graduates
41:51 – Nutrition, Politics, Religion
42:51 – Health epidemic
43:13 – Nutritional truth, legitimate scientists and doctors, special interest funded “science” versus veal science, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Media,  Health Freedom, Nutritional Freedom, government/American Heart Association endorsement of Cheerios as “heart healthy” cereal
47:20 – It’s not about looking good. It’s about feeling good; then the aesthetics come along with wellness.
48:15 – Profit and corruption in nutrition
48:54 – “You are what you eat” – health at the cellular level
49:40 – Dead foods versus living foods, Raw Milk Mama
50:15 – NTA’s competitors
54:44 – Healing through nutrition
Somewhere in the mix of this podcast is a discount code and a tease for the greatest discount the NTA has ever offered for their NTP program. Find it and call the Admissions Team at (360) 800-5682.
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American Experiment Podcast – How Education is Funded
Raw Milk Mama Substack
 

This episode brings host Jamie Belz and fellow FNTP, Thomas Gilliford together for a very real conversation about food and wellness. They dive into all things from the perspective of thriving within the navigational beacons of the aggressive pursuit of optimal wellness and setting realistic expectations for functionality and quality of life.
Thomas covers his newly developed FCA (Functional Clinical Assessment) Program available to NTPs who desire to add the “F” on the front of their credential to make them FNTPs (Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioners). This skill set, formerly called the Functional Evaluation, utilizes hands-on and lingual neural testing to help identify which nutrients and nutrient formulations are best for each person’s bio-individual receptivity. This enables the practitioner to cut through the sea of options available when it comes to nutraceuticals and supplementation protocols to quickly identify which product is right for each individual’s needs.
Their conversation continues to run through many aspects of navigating diet, supplementation, expiration dates and ultra-processed foods, alcohol, surgeries and prescriptions, sleep and stress, and other wellness inputs. They discuss the challenge of trying to balance rigid rules and expectations with being realistic and enjoying life.
Additional topics they touch on: eating out, alcohol, progression, EMFs, hydration, avoidance of surgery by incorporation of water, Lyme, Green Washing, Big Macs, glyphosate, dairy/milk, vegan/vegetarian, gallbladder removal (cholecystectomy), blind spots, trauma, grief,     
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In this Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast episode, host Jamie Belz interviews Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, AIP Coach, Functional Blood Chemistry Specialist, and Author, Sonia Sidle.
Sonia, originally from France, saw a need for more resources and filled it by writing an AIP (Autoimmune Protocol) book in French. 
4:00 - FBCS – Functional Blood Chemistry Specialist Credential, “normal” ranges
6:05 - AIP Coach – Autoimmune Protocol Coach, Hashimoto’s diagnosis, specialized diet for symptom management and seeing improvement, nightshades, Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, career change
10:07 - A better approach to elimination diets, seeing changes immediately
11:10 – AIP Diet, stress, sleep, lifestyle, connection, socialization, appropriate exercise/movement, environmental toxins
12:40 – Joint pain, hydration
14:00 – Authoring her AIP book and the process of working with a publisher
20:46 – Greatest takeaway from Sonia’s book
23:15 – Health in Europe versus United States
 24:20 – Glyphosate (Round-up)
25:17 – Common symptoms associated with various autoimmune symptoms
26:26 – Inflammation, pain, skin issues
28:34 – The foods we don’t want to give up, food sensitivities, food inflammatory test, reintroducing foods
30:00 – Buying locally
30:34 – LNT (Lingual Neural Testing), FCA (Functional Clinical Assessment), FNTP versus NTP, identifying which supplement or nutrient your body is begging for
Sonia Sidle's journey to become a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (FNTP) and a Certified Autoimmune Paleo Coach began with her own struggles against autoimmune disease. Fueled by her personal experiences, she is driven by a passion to assist others facing similar challenges. Originally from France, Sonia's fluency in French empowers her to serve a diverse clientele, spanning both French and English speakers. In order to expand her expertise, she pursued additional certifications as a Certified Functional Blood Chemistry Specialist, a Restorative Wellness Practitioner, and a Functional Supplement Specialist. Teaming up with a fellow French-speaking AIP Coach, Sonia co-created a pioneering program in French aimed at guiding individuals through the transition to and maintenance of the Autoimmune Protocol (AIP). Alongside this initiative, she co-authored a French book about what AIP is, how it can help people and containing 60 AIP-friendly recipes. Together, Sonia and her colleague aspire to shed light on the AIP within French-speaking communities, where awareness of this protocol remains limited.
Sonia’s website: www.yourwellnessrevealed.com and IG handle: @AIP_alltheway
Sonia's book: Soigner l'auto-Immunité Avec le Protocole AIP: La Méthode Naturelle Révolutionaire Qui Réduit Au Silence Les Maladies Auto-immunes - Book Link
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In this Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast episode, host Jamie Belz interviews Rachel Ballard, an RN who wasn’t willing to accept the prognosis of a slow, painful, premature death.
Rachel is a Registered Nurse, farmer, and Food As Medicine teacher who is currently completing her Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP) certification. After battling back from a rare, paralyzing autoimmune disease, she’s helping individuals use food as a tool so they can fight back against chronic conditions and defy the odds.
A lover of British television dramas, raising medicinal plants, and scratch cooking, Rachel lives on her Kentucky cattle farm with her husband of twenty-three years and two teenage children.
In talking with Jamie, Rachel walks us through her declining health, eventual diagnosis of CIPD (Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy), and her long road to recovery.
04:50 – Symptoms and red flags leading up to diagnosis: Hashimoto’s, muscles in eye, limp leg, loss of strength, paralysis, felt like she was “on fire”
07:10 – CIPD Diagnosis with Central Nervous Symptom Overlap causing issues with vision, hearing, digestion, bowel and bladder control, and promoting cardiac arrhythmia
9:00 - IVIG (Intravenous Immunoglobulin) Treatment, Plasmapheresis, Stem Cell Transplant, slow decline
10:10 – Five years to live
11:02 – Subcutaneous IVIG Therapy Failed
13:02 – Hitting the point of desperation, looking at natural medicine for the first time, found the wrong natural medicine professionals for her preference and bio-individuality at the time
19:34 – Buying-in on the alternative approach
21:30 – Corruption in science, “follow the money”
22:30 – Working with an NTP, starting with digestion, making slow progress
27:53 – New hope, new career
30:31 – Bioindividuality
31:57 – TALKING ABOUT FOOD! Simple swaps, things to buy
40:17 - Mindset
42:04 – Car analogy
43:15 – Rachel’s list of reversed symptoms/conditions
44:21 – Last question
As you’ll hear, taking the first steps into a more natural approach to wellness can be challenging, frustrating, expensive, and a little “weird.” Rachel shares how she didn’t find any luck or answers with the alternative medicine practitioners she initially saw.* Her story is fun, relatable, and inspirational for those suffering from illness, as well as those looking to peek over the fence from the world of conventional medicine.
You can find Rachel’s food blog at www.feastandfarm.com.
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*Not all practitioners of each title are created equally. Remember to give multiple practitioners under one umbrella a chance. This is true for both allopathic and alternative care. :)