Rewilded Wellness
REWILDED Wellness is a podcast about understanding your body in context—and rebuilding the conditions that allow it to become more resilient.
Hosted by functional nutritional therapy practitioner Lydia Joy, the show explores chronic health through a rewilded lens: one that recognizes that human biology cannot be separated from the environment, rhythms, nourishment, relationships, movement, stressors and lived experiences continually shaping it.
We have access to more health information than ever before. We can use functional testing to look at our minerals, microbiome and bloodwork; explore our genetics and hormones; track symptoms; research every pathway; and accumulate increasingly complicated protocols.
But more information doesn't always create better health.
REWILDED Wellness asks a different set of questions:
What is your body doing—and why might it make sense in the context of what you've lived? What conditions does it need now? And how do we rebuild greater capacity without turning your entire life into another health protocol?
Through personal stories, client observations, functional nutrition and explorations of physiology, Lydia brings together topics including gut health and the microbiome, HTMA and mineral balancing, chronic health patterns, perimenopause and women's health, nervous system function, nourishment, movement, environmental health and our relationship with the natural world.
Functional testing and targeted interventions can absolutely have a place here. But they aren't the destination.
The goal is to understand patterns rather than chase individual symptoms, work with the body rather than continually override it, and gradually rebuild the conditions that support greater resilience.
Because rewilding your health isn't about returning to some imaginary perfect past.
It's about remembering that your body is part of nature—and learning how to work with it again.
Rewilded Wellness
Ditch the Diet Dogma
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In this episode I'm share why I’m so tired of all the over analyzing about what foods humans should or shouldn’t eat and people talking about this diet or that diet for this dis-ease state/ label or that.
There is no single diet created by a human- that will ever work long term for anyone or anything. I don’t even care how much ‘scientific literature’ there is behind a given diet- there is no scientific literature out there that has the ability to observe all humans over the span of a lifetime.
What I can say is, quality matters and to the degree it is possible I encourage sourcing quality outside of the modern slave system that has been created to mass produce cheaply for a profit with zero intention of benefiting the consumer’s health.
That said - if you study ancestral health and the foods of your ancestors you will learn that humans have always had to adapt to a variety of factors - depending on the region and climate that would.
Everyone’s body is different and there may be some healing to do to tolerate certain factors in given foods.
The big problem is not the original source of the food but the altered version in your altered state.
Read the full blog with additional links to the past blogs I mentioned in the episode:
https://lydiajoy.mykajabi.com/blog/ditching-the-diet-dogma
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