Whole-Hearted Eating ™ with Dana Monsees & Cristina Hoyt

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Welcome to Whole-Hearted Eating™ : where non-diet nutrition, weight-inclusive care, and integrative health collide. Whole-Hearted Eating is a philosophy created by your hosts, Dana Monsees and Cristina Hoyt, Licensed Integrative Clinical Nutritionists and Body Image Coaches. We believe you deserve to have a joyful relationship with food and your body even if you have a chronic health condition or symptoms that just won’t quit. This show goes beyond introducing you to new, expanded ideas - we’re bringing the real talk (no BS) vibe with tangible tools to get you officially out of the all or nothing mentality, learn to accept your body, and how to untangle nutrition from diet and wellness culture.

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Natural ozempic – does it exist?

May 01 2024 51 mins

This week we’re doing a deep dive on tools, foods, and supplements that are being touted as ” natural ozempic “, including oats, berberine, akkermansia, and continuous glucose monitors (CGM’s) . Does a natural ozempic even exist? How do these tools work in the body, and do they actuallly work as social media says they do? Why is no one talking about potential s

Aging, botox and body image with Dr. Colleen Reichmann

Apr 17 2024 50 mins

Dr. Colleen Reichmann joins us again this week for a very needed, very nuanced conversation around aging, self-care, botox and body image! We talk about how it’s normal to experience conflicted feelings about aging and ‘tweakments’ like botox, fillers, red light therapy, etc. We also discuss how insisting people should just love their bodies as they age and calling age a pri

Big Food and anti-diet influencers?

Apr 10 2024 51 mins

This week we have a nutrition in the news episode all about Big Food and anti-diet influencers & dietitians! A juicy article came up on Washington Post that we *needed* to dig into, titled: As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice – and you KNOW we were going to have some opinions on this one. We discuss how anti-diet language is being co-opt

Breaking down gut health trends (part 2)

Apr 03 2024 45 mins

In this episode we’re breaking down more gut health trends, gut supplements, testing, and more – inspired by your questions! In this episode we’re covering: food sensitivity testing, stool testing, hydrogen water, Seed probiotic, $100 probiotics (from Pendulum), and at-home breath testing for symptom management. Don’t forget to check out part 1 – Colo

Negative Body Image: Is your gut health to blame?

Mar 20 2024 51 mins

This week we’re doing a deep dive on the negative body image and gut health connection! It’s natural when things aren’t going great internally with your body that you’re not going to feel good about your body image. Why is this? We’re digging into the gut-brain connection, how and why having a diagnosis (or cluster of symptoms) can really send your body image into a ditc

Cycle syncing and shark bait OOH HA HA

Mar 13 2024 48 mins

We’re bringing you another trending topic in the nutrition and wellness world this week – cycle syncing! This is a recently re-popularized trend where more functionally-minded circles are sharing how you can live, eat, exercise, etc. in line with the four phases of the menstrual cycle. And while it’s refreshing to see more information out there about understanding womens

Colostrum, creatine, and 75 no thanks I’m busy that day {listener questions}

Mar 06 2024 54 mins

Today we have an episode driven by your questions on a lot of recent nutrition and wellness trends lately: we’re digging into 75 hard, colostrum, creatine, and collagen! What do the studies actually say? Are these worth the hype? And what would we avoid with a 100-foot pole? PS – check out the studies mentioned in today’s episode on creatine and colostrum here.

Managing IBS and stress overload with Kate Scarlata, RD

Feb 21 2024 44 mins

Kate Scarlata joins us to talk about managing IBS and stress overload, the gut-brain axis, IBS mimickers, and when to re-examine your gut symptoms with your doctor. What do you do when you feel like you’ve tried everything to manage IBS, and you’re still experiencing symptoms? We also discuss: the more stressful the diet is to apply in your life- the more counterproductive it

Why millennials can’t love their bodies

Feb 14 2024 32 mins

This week we have a body image-centered episode for Valentines’ Day week – Why Millennials can’t love their bodies. We know a lot of millennials can relate to the “oh that’s cool for them, but not for me” to embrace body acceptance and neutrality. We’re digging into the layered impact that diet and wellness culture has set for our generation, and the difficulty o

When resolutions lead to burnout (and what to do about it)

Feb 07 2024 41 mins

If you’re feeling like your resolutions or intentions for the new year have already crashed and burned, or if you’re feeling on very shaky ground – you’re not alone! On this week’s episode we’re talking about when resolutions lead to burnout, and what we can do about it. Raise your hand if you feel like you set the same resolution every year. Tune in to hear why it