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Join Rachel Smith, a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, for enlightening conversations with top health experts around the world and insightful solo episodes unraveling the power of functional medicine and holistic health. You'll learn the root causes of health issues and practical tips on how to fix them through nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle changes. Whether you're exploring wellness or seeking natural solutions to health challenges, this podcast is your guide to a healthier, happier life. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rachel-smith11/support

The Natural Health Rising Podcast Rachel Smith

    • Health & Fitness
    • 5.0 • 16 Ratings

Join Rachel Smith, a certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, for enlightening conversations with top health experts around the world and insightful solo episodes unraveling the power of functional medicine and holistic health. You'll learn the root causes of health issues and practical tips on how to fix them through nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle changes. Whether you're exploring wellness or seeking natural solutions to health challenges, this podcast is your guide to a healthier, happier life. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rachel-smith11/support

    98: Energetic Time Management To Transform Your Life with Heather Chauvin

    98: Energetic Time Management To Transform Your Life with Heather Chauvin

    Heather Chauvin is a leadership coach who helps successful women courageously and authentically live, work, and parent on their own terms. Heather is an author, TEDx speaker, and has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, Real Simple Magazine, Mind Body Green, and Google.



    When Heather isn’t working, you will find her living out what she teaches which may include kayaking in Alaska, snowboarding, hiking, or anything else that challenges what she believes is possible for herself and inviting her children along the journey.


    More of what Rachel and Heather discuss in the episode:


    Symptoms of living out of alignment, leading to burnout and disease.
    How to reconnect with yourself to trust yourself and listen to your body.
    Sustainable ambition theory.
    5-minute journal prompt to help you get clear on what you desire.
    How to move past fear, resistance, and the inner critic.
    How to use energetic time management to manage your energy and not your time.
    Connecting back to your children as a mother.


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    💚 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Quality, Restorative Sleep Course HERE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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    • 46 min
    97: The Power of Algae to Boost Mitochondria, Energy, and Brain Health with Catharine Arnston

    97: The Power of Algae to Boost Mitochondria, Energy, and Brain Health with Catharine Arnston

    Catharine Arnston is an expert in algae nutrition and a wellness thought leader. Catharine has an MBA, is a board-certified health coach, and is studying for her PhD in Natural Health. Catharine left her 25- year corporate career to help her sister fighting breast cancer identify which foods were alkaline and this led her to algae - the most alkaline, chlorophyll-rich, high-protein, nutrient-dense food in the world. From this, Catharine founded ENERGYbits, a high-quality algae tablets company. Catharine has spent the last fourteen years researching algae, writing papers, giving presentations, lecturing at conferences, and speaking on 250+ podcasts to explain the benefits of algae. Catharine has made it her life mission to bring algae to the world so it can improve our lives and our world one bit at a time.


    More of what Rachel and Catharine discuss in the episode:


    Background of algae and the history of utilizing algae in our culture.
    Macro algae versus micro algae.
    Differences in spirulina and chlorella.
    How certain algae components can kill cancer cells.
    How to increase CoQ10 and cellular energy.
    Heavy metal detoxing with algae.
    How algae improves fitness, digestion, immunity, brain health, weight loss, and beyond.
    Proper algae dosing.
    Safety of consumption and nutritional value of algae based upon environmental conditions, location, harvesting, and processing.



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    • 1 hr 10 min
    96: Your Three-Step Plan To Reduce Inflammation and Heal Your Body with Maggie Berghoff

    96: Your Three-Step Plan To Reduce Inflammation and Heal Your Body with Maggie Berghoff

    Maggie Berghoff is a Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner, an entrepreneur, and USA Today National Best-Selling author of "Eat to Treat: Your Three-Step Plan To Reduce Inflammation, Detoxify Your Life, And Heal Your Body.” Maggie is also a proud mother of three children, embodying the balance of a thriving career, a fulfilling family life, and healthy self.



    More of what Rachel and Maggie discuss in the episode:


    Why functional medicine lab testing is so important to optimize your health and the top 4 labs you should do
    Mindset shifts to adopt to start making health changes and stick to them
    The three-step plan outlines in “Eat to Treat” and how they work together to support healing
    Crucial nutrition steps to reduce inflammation
    How to reduce stress around nutrition and making eating healthy easier
    Healthy food swaps for children
    Top brands for non-toxic makeup, self care products, and cleaning products
    Using “simplicity” to improve your health
    Maggie’s secret to balancing a thriving career, a family with three kids, staying healthy, and still enjoying life to the fullest



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    💚 Maggie's supplement and self-care product line: https://www.yourdetoxdaily.com/
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    💚 Social media (Instagram, Tiktok): Maggie_Bergoff



    CONNECT WITH RACHEL HERE:

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    • 56 min
    95: Improving Hormonal Health and Fertility Through Nutrition with Kaely McDevitt

    95: Improving Hormonal Health and Fertility Through Nutrition with Kaely McDevitt

    Learn how to optimize women’s hormones and fertility through nutrition in this episode with the expert guidance of Kaely McDevitt, a Registered Dietitian specializing in nutrition for women's health. Kaely owns a virtual private practice where she and her team help their clients reclaim their energy, optimize fertility and overcome hormone symptoms through personalized nutrition. Having experienced the pitfalls of a conventional approach to women's health first hand, Kaely is passionate about empowering women to build health from a place of connection: to self, to nature and to community.



    This episode explores the detrimental impact of diet culture on hormonal health, debunking long-held nutrition myths that hinder our well-being. Whether you're grappling with hormonal challenges, seeking to enhance your fertility, or simply aiming to live a more vibrant life, Kaely McDevitt and Rachel Smith, FDN-P offer a roadmap to a healthier, more fulfilled you.



    More of what Rachel and Kaely discuss in the episode:


    Nutrition school information that actually isn’t good for our health and hormones.
    Diet culture is negatively impacting women’s hormonal health.
    Tuning into your body to understand what and how much to eat.
    Increasing calories and improving metabolism.
    Foundations of nutrition to support women’s hormones.
    PMS hacks to reduce pain, inflammation, and bad periods.
    Preparing both partner’s for pregnancy.
    Optimizing fertility with nutrition.
    Miscarriages and failed pregnancies.
    Low progesterone and low thyroid impact on fertility and pregnancy outcomes.
    Connection to self, nature, and community for hormone balance.
    4 Lows mineral pattern and low thyroid pattern details on HTMA testing.
    Mineral rich beverages.
    Burnout tips to reclaim energy.



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    CONNECT WITH Kaely HERE:

    💚 @kaelyrd on instagram
    💚 www.kaelyrd.com

    Free, 6-part pregnancy prep email series: https://kaelyrd.kartra.com/page/foptin





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    • 53 min
    94: Reclaim Your Voice Using Flower Essence, Connection, and Holistic Therapy with Jennifer Hendler

    94: Reclaim Your Voice Using Flower Essence, Connection, and Holistic Therapy with Jennifer Hendler

    If you’ve found yourself struggling to address conflict in a healthy way, use your voice, and life as your authentic self, then this is the episode for you.

    Jennifer Hendler is the founder of Claiming My Voice, a Holistic Psychotherapy practice that specializes in helping women break free from stifling their voice to reach their full potential. 8 years ago Jennifer created the Sisterhood Circle Program. In this program visionary souls of service and leaders get to the root of what’s holding them back from Claiming Their Voices in their relationships and careers. In the sacred container of Sisterhood, they are empowered to become Exceptional Communicators, create Soul-Satisfying relationships, and bring their Highest Vision to the World.



    More of what Rachel and Jennifer discuss in the episode:


    Women with eating disorders using food as a substitute for their voice due to unprocessed trauma and emotions.
    People pleasing, care taking, and extreme productivity used to suppress your voice.
    How suppressing your voice leads to burn out, anxiety, GI issues, headaches, and beyond.
    How to affects health (burn out, anxiety, gi issues, headaches).
    Listening to your inner wisdom.
    Creating a sacred pause in your day.
    The meaning of reclaiming your voice.
    How to practice speaking your truth and address conflict in a healthy way.
    How to grow into the next evolved version of yourself and break through fear.
    Flower Essences as a therapeutic approach to move from condition patterned into alignment with your authentic soul path.
    SAN Center in Arizona devoted to healing with Flower Essences.
    Flower essences history.
    Various flower essences, forms, and what they do.
    Jennifer’s favorite hobby, stress reduction tool, and book.
    Rescue remedy



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    💚 Website: ⁠www.claimingmyvoice.com

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    • 1 hr 2 min
    93: From PEMF to Quantum Healing: Biohacks to Transform Your Health with Ciaran Wentz

    93: From PEMF to Quantum Healing: Biohacks to Transform Your Health with Ciaran Wentz

    Get ready to "hack" your biology with the some of the best biohacking tools and processes out there.

    Ciaran Wentz, a Florida native, possesses a deep passion for entrepreneurship and wellness. With years of experience and ongoing education, he co-founded and currently oversees Vitality Wellness centers. Vitality Wellness’ mission is to bring holistic health services to the community, driven by a sincere desire to promote well-being and assist others.

    In this episode, Rachel and Ciaran dive into:


    What is biohacking
    PEMF therapy benefits, dosage, and frequency
    Ice bath benefits and timing
    Sauna therapy benefits
    The best time to use the sauna for optimal sleep
    Infrared sauna vs dry sauna vs steam rooms
    How to properly hydrate with quality water
    Using a vortexer to improve water quality
    How to restore electrolytes post sauna use
    The difference in benefits between cryotherapy vs ice baths
    Understanding quantum healing
    Quantum healing biohacking tools
    How to raise your vibration with food, sunlight, and water



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    *Don't forget to rate and follow the podcast to stay on top of the latest holistic health information, and rise up to your healthiest, happiest self! ;)


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    • 1 hr 1 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
16 Ratings

16 Ratings

@K.J. ,

Worth listening! Very informative!

Rachel does a great job reviewing topics that people can relate to and offer ways to lead healthier lives. I learn so much listening to her podcast. Great guests on the episodes with so much knowledge to share.

jgusty ,

Willing To Discuss Difficult Topics

Rachel allows conversation outside the typical Health & Wellness templates and narratives. The value and perspective gained from engaging her in discussion was well worth my time, and YOURS TOO.

~RJR~ ,

Incredibly knowledgeable!

Rachel is so informed about functional medicine and root causes of illness. I love her explanations and her comprehensive approach.

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