Be Well by Kelly Leveque – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Today’s episode is all about the vaginal microbiome, and I’m joined by Dr. Jacques Ravel, a leading expert in microbiology and immunology. Dr. Ravel has been deeply involved in research on the vaginal microbiome and co-chairs the Seed Health Scientific Advisory Board. We dive into the science behind Seed’s new VS-01™, a vaginal symbiotic probiotic that introduces Lactobacillus crispatus to promote a healthy vaginal environment.

Dr. Ravel explains why vaginal acidity is key to preventing infections and how a balanced microbiome can help prevent common issues like bacterial vaginosis and UTIs. We also touch on how everyday practices like douching, lubricants, and even antibiotics can disrupt the delicate balance of the microbiome. Dr. Ravel also explains how supporting the vaginal microbiome during and after pregnancy can offer long-term benefits. I’m so grateful to Dr. Ravel for pioneering safer, more effective treatments for women’s health!

We also cover:

(00:01:39) Vaginal Microbiome 101

(00:10:08) The Most Common Vaginal Health Disruptors

(00:21:10) A New Approach to Preventing UTIs & Yeast Infections

(00:35:26) VS-01™: A Breakthrough in Vaginal Health & Microbiome Balance

(00:53:18) Research Behind VS-01™ & How it Supports Vaginal Health Pre & Post Pregnancy

Resources:

• Click here for full show notes

• Visit seed.com/bewell and use code 25BEWELL for 25% off you first month on any Seed product

• Website: ravel-lab.net

• X: @jacquesravel

• Website: Seed Health

• Website: Ravel, Jacques | University of Maryland School of Medicine

Connect with Kelly:

• kellyleveque.com

• Instagram: @bewellbykelly

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly

* Content from this podcast is provided for information and education purposes only, and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. The use of information from this podcast is at the user’s own risk. Always speak with your healthcare professional before taking any medication, nutritional or herbal supplement.

Be Well By Kelly is produced by Crate Media.

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James Nestor is an acclaimed author and journalist who has written for Scientific American, Outside, and The New York Times. His latest book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, explores how humans have lost the ability to breathe properly and how to regain it, becoming an instant bestseller with over 2.5 million copies sold.

In today’s episode, James talks about the powerful connection between our breathing patterns and overall health, shedding light on how modern diets and industrialized foods have impacted our respiratory health and even shaped our faces. We also dive into practical, actionable tips to help improve breathing habits, especially in our little ones.

James shares simple strategies for better sleep like mouth tape, breathwork techniques for stress management, and how to optimize breathing during exercise. He also talks about the role of posture in breathing properly, and reveals the new science on the benefits of nasal breathing.

(00:00:39) Why We’ve Lost the Ability to Breathe Properly

(00:11:47) The Impact of Industrialized Foods on Respiratory Health

(00:21:25) Sleep Solutions: How to Create Better Breathing Habits for You & Your Kids

(00:38:11) Benefits of Nasal Breathing for Stress Relief, Reducing Anxiety & Exercise

(00:47:56) Posture for Better Breath & The Science Behind Nasal Breathing

Resources:

• Click here for full show notes

• Website: mrjamesnestor.com

• Read: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

• Instagram: @mrjamesnestor

Connect with Kelly:

• kellyleveque.com

• Instagram: @bewellbykelly

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly

* Content from this podcast is provided for information and education purposes only, and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. The use of information from this podcast is at the user’s own risk. Always speak with your healthcare professional before taking any medication, nutritional or herbal supplement.

Be Well By Kelly is produced by Crate Media.

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In 2005, the New England Journal of Medicine predicted that, for the first time in history, our kids are expected to have shorter lifespans than us – their parents. To address this startling statistic and figure out how to help our kids be more happy and healthy, we're joined by Dr. Elisa Song, a Stanford, NYU, and UCSF-trained integrative pediatrician and pediatric functional medicine expert.

Also a mother of two thriving children, Dr. Song has dedicated her career to helping parents and practitioners bridge the gap between conventional and holistic pediatrics with an evidence-based, pediatrician-backed, parent-approved approach.

Acknowledging the rise in mental health issues and chronic illnesses in the younger generation, we tackle the tough conversation around how to help our kids make better food choices and manage stress to support their gut health and overall wellbeing. From dissecting the impact of diet choices to connecting the dots between stress and gut health, Dr. Song offers research-backed practical strategies for nurturing resilience in children and encouraging informed food choices.

Through empowering discussions on nutrition education, stress management techniques, and navigating the influence of the food industry, this episode will give parents a guide to teaching their children tools for living their most healthful and happy lives.

If you're a parent who wants to know that you're doing everything you can to help your kids be well and stay well, look no further. Dr. Song has you covered with her practical, proven steps to raising resilient kids one microbiome at a time. For more information and support on this topic, make sure to preorder Dr. Song’s new book, Healthy Kids, Happy Kids.

We also cover:

(00:01:11) Why Kids Today Aren’t Happy or Healthy

(00:13:12) The New Normal: Links Between Stress & Gut Health

(00:23:40) The Stress Performance Curve & Nervous System Regulation

(00:35:04) Practices to Help Parents & Kids Manage Stress

(00:47:01) Helping Kids Build Gut Health & Resilience Through Informed Choices

Resources:

• Click here for full show notes

• Website: healthykidshappykids.com

• Instagram: @healthykids_happykids

• Read: Healthy Kids, Happy Kids by Elisa Song, MD

• Whole Family Wellness: Helping Our Kids Thrive with Dr. Elisa Song #208

Connect with Kelly:

• kellyleveque.com

• Instagram: @bewellbykelly

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly

* Content from this podcast is provided for information and education purposes only, and is not intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. The use of information from this podcast is at the user’s own risk. Always speak with your healthcare professional before taking any medication, nutritional or herbal supplement.

Be Well By Kelly is produced by Crate Media.

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You open Instagram and it hits you right away, a sense of perfection or idealism that seems just a little too shiny, a little too great to be real. And guess what? Most of the time, it isn’t. Today's guest, Dr. Whitney Goodman, assures us of that much and more. She's the radically honest psychotherapist behind the popular Instagram account, @sitwithwhit, the book Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy, and the owner of the Collaborative Counseling Center, a private therapy practice in Miami. She helps individuals and couples heal past wounds and create the life they've always wanted.

We spend this episode unpacking the false perception of perfection all around us, the world’s constant striving for “happiness,” and why finding center in your life is so much more complicated than that – and should be! Whether it’s content-friendly or not – feeling all the feelings, really embracing them and chershing them, can be as healthy for us as a diverse and nutrient-rich diet.

Dr. Goodman offers up a more diverse experience, more layers to really dive into and learn about ourselves and the people we love. We get tips on listening (it’s more than just hearing!), recognizing toxic positivity and understanding why it sells, the importance of values over happiness, and prioritizing focus time – even thirty minutes a day – to help keep your mind sharp.

It’s time to get honest about – well, everything! There’s no time to waste striving and stressing over goals that only move further into the distance the harder we work at them. Life is perfect as it is, we’re so glad Dr. Goodman took the time to share this message with us today.

You will learn about...

• Pitfalls of toxic positivity
• How to respond instead → Really, truly listening to someone
• Finding room for validation beyond happiness 
• Seeing the world in black and white
• Setting realistic goals to actually feel fulfillment
• Values > happiness
• Whitney’s personal experience and growth
• Feeling all the feelings and that’s ok
• The power of 30-minute focus blocks 
• Recognizing toxic positivity
• How to give feedback to someone who’s “toxically positive”
• Setting boundaries with friends/family in a compassionate way
• How to find a therapist
• The flaw with “time heals all wounds”
• The “Good Enough” community
• Unpacking the perfection trend
• Social’s media place in all of this
• The truth about most influencers 

Resources:

• Website: sitwithwhit.com
• Instagram: @sitwithwhit
• Twitter: @sitwithwhit
• Collab Counseling: collabcounseling.com
• Read: Toxic Positivity by Whitney Goodman
• “Good Enough” Community: sitwithwhit.substack.com

Connect with Kelly:

• kellyleveque.com
• Instagram: @bewellbykelly
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly

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Today’s super informed guest on the podcast is Vanessa Rissetto MS, RD, CDN, the co-founder of Culina Health. Her magic lies in her realistic and personalized approach to nutrition with science as her first love. She's most interested in helping clients take an active role in their health journey through personalized lifestyle plans backed by evidence-based, science-driven nutrition counseling, adult weight management, and building a better relationship with food.

We start our conversation touching on the role of Culina Health in today’s medical world and how the rapid need for telehealth services created huge opportunities, and challenges, for the new company. The world is still changing on a daily basis it seems, but we have innovators like Vanessa to thank for keeping us in mind as it does.

Vanessa’s perspective on the space ranges from the past, where vast differences in family culture made for a different at-home eating experience in most cases, to the present, where shame and fear too often poison the well of wellness – even toward the future, where she encourages us to take small steps toward a cleaner life with actionable tips for doing so.

Her main advice is sound, and it always will be – sometimes simple is better! Especially when time is limited, opting for something that is easy, quick, and nourishing for your family is totally possible; you just have to know where to look (Hint: not Instagram).

You will learn about...

• Launching Culina Health during the pandemic
• Meeting the moment with telehealth
• The Bon Appetit article that started it all
• Villainous roles that shame and failure play in diet culture
• Breaking down emotional eating
• Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable
• Fighting human nature
• Pros and cons of most Instagram recipes 
• Sustainable eating habits
• Quick tips for getting nutrients – it doesn’t have to be fancy
• Cultural shifts that have changed how we eat
• Big picture on healthy eating
• Culina’s mission and what’s next

Resources:

• Article: “There’s a Nutrition Divide in This Country. So I Became a Dietitian.”
• Instagram: @vanessarissettord
• Culina Health: culinahealth.com
• Instagram: @culinahealth

Connect with Kelly:

• kellyleveque.com
• Instagram: @bewellbykelly
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly

Be Well By Kelly is produced by Crate Media.

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The esteemed Dr. Jeffrey Bland, an internationally recognized leader in the nutritional medicine field, joins the show today. He’s a biochemist by training, co-founding the Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991 while coming to be known to many as The Father of Functional Medicine. 

Dr. Bland invites us into his deep wisdom and vast experience as we explore his path to, and away from, traditional medicine, before delving into the issues we see in modern healthcare and what the rapidly changing space might look like in the near future. 

Today’s healthcare ills, as he points out, can be tied to money’s omnipresence in the market, which has urged the prioritization of disease treatment – for profit’s sake, mostly – rather than focusing on promoting societal wellness as its table-stakes mission.

We also talk about his latest project, Big Bold Health, which launched in 2018, through which he's on a mission to transform the way people think about one of nature's greatest innovations, the mighty immune system. That’s right, the gut remains front and center as Dr. Bland breaks down the differences between boosting and balancing, benefits to eating the rainbow, and much more.

By advocating for the power of immuno-rejuvenation to enhance immunity at a global level, he’s really doing some important work for the world – work that generations in the future (and today!) can look back upon and be so thankful for.

You will learn about...

• When Dr. Bland started to think for himself
• Circumventing traditional medicine
• Diseasecare vs. healthcare
• Money as the pitfall of modern medicine
• Focusing on what it means to be well
• Big Bold Health
• The super system: nervous system and immune system 
• Balancing vs. boosting your immune system
• What are zombie cells?
• Exploring the link between damaged cells and inflammation
• The benefits of autophagy and how to activate it in your body
• Writing your own “book of life” - your genes are not your destiny
• Gene plasticity and epigenetics
• Diet as the unlock
• Learning about phytonutrients
• Benefits of Himalayan tartary buckwheat
• Why we should be eating the rainbow
• Looking ahead to the future of healthcare

Resources:

• Website: jeffreybland.com
• The Institute for Functional Medicine: ifm.org
• Big Bold Health: bigboldhealth.com 
• Instagram: @drjeffreybland
• Linkedin: Jeffrey Bland PHD
• Enjoy 20% off Big Bold Health with code BEWELL20 [Expires 11/30/2022]. Discount cannot be combined with other offers. Big Bold Health only ships to US and Canadian addresses. Other restrictions may apply. Void where prohibited.

Connect with Kelly:

• kellyleveque.com
• Instagram: @bewellbykelly
• Facebook:

Dr. Anthony Jay is the President of the International Medical Research Collaborative, a nonprofit organization based in Boston that trains medical students from around the globe. He is also an author and renowned expert on estrogenics, substances that merely act like estrogen in our body, oftentimes tricking it into negative chain reactions in our health – even cancer.

So, where are these tricky imposters in the products around us? And, how can we avoid them in the future? Dr. Anthony details the long list in his book, and is kind to share many examples in our conversation today. Specifically, he touches on fragrances, petroleum products, soy products, and mold, which is so much more common in shelf products like coffee, grains, and peanuts than you might imagine.

We also talk about the role that the gut microbiome, an old familiar friend, plays in our processing of these chemicals, and draw a very real connection between the harms of estrogenics and everyday plastics like water bottles and shower liners.

If you’re listening to this and looking around your life with a newfound stress, know that you’re not alone in this collective journey to a more natural, non-toxic, and simple life. Knowledge is key. Understanding complexities like those presented today is the first step toward making positive changes. And we’re here to help you get there, every step of the way.

You will learn about...

• What are estrogenics? 
• Estrogenics vs. testosterone
• Link between estrogenics and an increased risk of cancer 
• Common products and ingredients to avoid broken into three categories: food, plastics and personal care
• Major players to know: mold, red dye, flax and soy
• Chemical risks of plastic water bottles
• Sources of other plastics to avoid
• Why “BPA-free” isn’t good enough
• The science of estrogen in plastic
• High estrogen leading to early puberty in girls
• Common home products to be aware of
• What these chemicals do to your hormones
• Benefits of sweating and sauna use to expel chemicals 

Resources:

• Linkedin: Anthony G. Jay
• Instagram: @anthonygjay
• YouTube: Dr. Anthony Jay
• AJ Consulting Company: ajconsultingcompany.com
• Recommended Personal Care Products: ajconsultingcompany.com/whatiuse 
• Updated List of Estrogenic Substances
• Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and Infertile
• Check out the Purify Guru: purifyguru.com

Connect with Kelly:

• kellyleveque.com
• Instagram: @bewellbykelly
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly

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Dr. Vivian Chen was practicing conventional medicine in the UK when her own debilitating symptoms of fatigue, brain fog, mood swings, and acne were dismissed as “normal” by the medical community. Then, she took matters into her own hands, becoming her own health detective and uncovering a holistic approach to understanding health at a whole body level. 

With this new informed practice, Vivian, like so many in our space, healed herself. These days, she's a certified integrative health practitioner and the founder of  Plateful Health, through which she helps her clients find true long lasting vitality of body and mind.

This one is packed with relatable experiences and stories, like her daughter’s scary allergy event; deep dive clinical data and scientific reasoning, particularly as they connect to the gut’s microbiome and detoxing; and actionable real-life advice, from prepping your body for a detox to supplement use and daily routine tips. Dr. Chen is a deep well of knowledge; we’re so glad she took the time to fill our cups today.

You will learn about...

• Dr. Chen’s journey from conventional medicine to functional medicine
• Serious allergy scare w/ her young daughter 
• Getting to the root cause for resolution
• Impact of a sneaky leaky gut
• Do’s and don’ts while breastfeeding
• Getting scientific on the gut microbiome
• Prepping your body for detoxification
• The need for fiber 
• Hormone issues associated with modern diets
• Myth busting on detoxing and supplements
• Balance as the key 
• The phases of detoxification
• Dr. Chen’s  food-first approach, health hacks, and tips

Resources:

• Instagram: @plateful.health
• Plateful Health: platefulhealth.com
• Course - “Detox Right”: joindetoxright.com
• PlatefulHealth E-cookbook: platefulhealth.gumroad.com

Connect with Kelly:

• kellyleveque.com
• Instagram: @bewellbykelly
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly

Be Well By Kelly is produced by Crate Media.

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In today’s episode, Ron Belldegrun and Devon Kuehn, CEO and CMO of ByHeart no-compromise nutrition infant formula, spotlight their amazing formula brand and discuss the critical importance of high quality baby nutrition in a world increasingly filled with, well – filler products and other junk ingredients.

In fact, ByHeart is the first new formula brand in fifteen years, breaking down sturdy barriers in an industry that hasn’t kept up with the latest in science. Their willingness to invest time and money for the sake of a better product for better health is something I can stand behind with my full support.

We also chat about the recent formula shortage, the clinical process of replicating breast milk as closely as they can, laying the foundation for baby growth and development, and the importance of owning your supply chain and inspecting your own ingredients – two pillars of good business that I am also very familiar with.

You will learn about...

• Launching ByHeart
• Breaking into the formula industry 
• The infamous formula shortage 
• Breast milk vs. formula
• Clinical studies, outcomes, and FDA approval
• Optimal protein intake and infant growth
• The ByHeart formula 
• Prioritizing supply chain and ingredients 
• Working with parents (and Joe Biden!)
• The ByHeart family promise

Resources:

• Whole Nutrition Infant Formula — Join the waitlist!
• ByHeart clinical trial – Learn about the latest research 
• ByHeart nutrition spotlight — Breast milk is the blueprint
• The ByHeart story — An evolution that’s years in the making
• Twitter: @byheartbaby
• Instagram: @byheart
• Facebook: @byheartbaby

Connect with Kelly:

• kellyleveque.com
• Instagram: @bewellbykelly
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly

Be Well By Kelly is produced by Crate Media.

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Today’s guest is the esteemed Dr. Stacy Sims. She's a forward-thinking international exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who aims to revolutionize exercise, nutrition, and performance for women. Her contributions to the international research environment and the sports nutrition industry have established a new niche in sports nutrition and her shining reputation as the expert in sex differences in training nutrition and health.

We chat about her research background (70 papers and counting!), how she’s addressing the gender gap in male-to-female studies related to the fitness and athletics space, the critical role that iron plays in fatigue and performance, and the salty truth about healthy hydration.

This episode is also chock full of tips on how to up your iron levels if you're at that low anemic level, how to hydrate properly based on your cycle, and learn how to build up that lean muscle mass prior to menopause so that you don't have negative or limiting symptoms.

You will learn about...

• Dr. Stacy’s place in the research world 
• Leveling the playing field
• Focusing on the female athlete
• Iron levels during specific hormones phases
• The true key to hydration 
• What causes cramping?
• Myths about menopause
• Writing her book “Next Level”

Resources:

• For 20% off of Dr. Sims' Microlearning courses, use code: KELLY
• Next Level: Your Guide to Kicking Ass, Feeling Great, and Crushing Goals Through Menopause and Beyond
• DrStacySims.com
• @DrStacySims on Instagram

Connect with Kelly:

• kellyleveque.com
• Instagram: @bewellbykelly
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/bewellbykelly

Be Well By Kelly is produced by Crate Media.

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