014: Adrenal Dysfunction: How Your Diet and Lifestyle Are Impacting Your Health with Brigid Tigemeier a Registered Dietitian

Aug 25, 2020

You can be doing everything you possibly can to be healthy and still be wreaking havoc on your body.

Adrenal dysfunction is a widespread problem that impacts nearly every organ system. It’s often very misunderstood and is at the core of many health issues people face today including fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, and anxiety.

In this episode, Brigid Tigemeier, a functional medicine Registered Dietitian who trained under Dr. Mark Hyman, joins us to talk all about adrenal health, common symptoms of adrenal dysfunction and how you can get it back into balance.

Episode Highlights: 

• 3:27 How Brigid found her way into functional medicine 
• 7:23 Brigid’s “food as medicine” approach as a Registered Dietitian and the much-needed shift that needs to happen in health care
• 12:35 What adrenal glands are and how our “always on” culture is contributing to adrenal dysfunction
• 17:14 Who you should really be listening to when it comes to your health
• 18:12 The startling majority of people who have adrenal dysfunction and how even those attempting to be “healthy” can be wreaking havoc on their bodies
• 20:59 Bio-individuality: When it comes to health there is no “one size fits all”
• 23:39 Four common indicators of adrenal dysfunction
• 28:41 How COVID-19 is impacting adrenal health
• 32:06 A shift in perspective around living with the reality of COVID-19
• 33:40What optimal adrenal health looks like throughout the day
• 36:50 How to spot high cortisol and common triggers of it
• 40:20 Mine and Brigid’s experience with coffee and the surprising effects of giving it up
• 42:57 Nutrition interventions for adrenal dysfunction
• 47:29 Free lifestyle changes you can make to improve cortisol levels
• 51:26: Shortcomings of food sensitivity tests and why they might not be the best solution for you
• 56:46 The gold standard for determining how different foods affect your body
• 58:13 Brigid’s preferred tests for people interested in exploring their health
• 59:46 How you can work with Brigid

Links and Resources: 

• Brigid’s Website
• Brigid on Instagram
• My Food is Health Program
• Mind Body Greens Convention
• Dutch Testing
• Genova Testing
• Cyrex Testing
• 478 Breathing Technique by Dr. Andrew While
• Byron Katie’s Four Questions

Guest Bio

Brigid Titgemeier is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with board certification in Integrative and Functional Nutrition. She is on a mission to help more adults use a personalized food is medicine approach to finding health. She is the founder of BeingBrigid Functional Nutrition LLC, a functional nutrition and wellness consulting business. 

Brigid is also a graduate-level instructor at Case Western Reserve University, where she teaches graduate students a functional nutrition course that she co-created. Brigid was a founding dietitian at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, where she worked with more than 3,000 patients and trained under Dr. Mark Hyman. Prior to that, Brigid worked at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute for Dr. Michael Roizen. 

Guest Bio

Brigid Titgemeier is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with board certification in Integrative and Functional Nutrition. She is on a mission to help more adults use a personalized food is medicine approach to finding health. She is the founder of BeingBrigid Functional Nutrition LLC, a functional nutrition and wellness consulting business. 

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