

Light Up Your Metabolism
Danielle Hamilton, FNTP
Welcome to the Light Up Your Metabolism Podcast, where we explore the profound impact of light, environment, and nature on your metabolic health. Hosted by Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and passionate health expert Danielle Hamilton of daniellehamiltonhealth.com, this show is designed to help you break free from the cycle of fatigue, cravings, hormone imbalances, and weight struggles.In today's world, where over 93% of the population is metabolically unhealthy, many people feel stuck despite their best efforts with diet and exercise. Dani delves into the incredible world of quantum and circadian biology, uncovering how simple yet powerful strategies like sunlight, grounding, lowering deuterium, and blocking blue light can transform your health.It's time to reconnect with nature and her cycles. Discover how your environment—including light, electromagnetic fields, temperature, sounds, and even the people around you—affects your metabolic health. Learn actionable tips and bioindividual approaches to charge your body like you charge your phone each night, using the free resources nature provides.Join Dani for insightful discussions and practical advice that will empower you to optimize your blood sugar, boost your energy, improve your sleep, balance your hormones, and feel amazing. Tune in to 'Light Up Your Metabolism' and start your journey to vibrant health today!
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Oct 26, 2020 • 1h 46min
Episode 58: Taking Control of your Blood Sugar with Continuous Glucose Monitoring | Carlee Hayes, RDN, CD
If you want to get on the VIP wait list for Unlock the Sugar Shackles Group Coaching, click HERE: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f6a5ccf9af1f885b1c308efEnrollment begins October 28th & ends November 1st. The course starts November 1st!I am so excited to welcome Carlee Hayes, RDN, CD to the show today! Carlee is the Lead Dietitian at Nutrisense, a company that personalizes nutrition with the use of Continuous Glucose Monitors. If you don't know what a CGM is, it's this small, white, circular device that tracks your blood glucose continuously. It hooks up to an app on your phone so you can see the graph of what your blood sugar does over time which is incredibly eye opening and enlightening. On this episode, Carlee and I chat about:The benefits of wearing CGMsWhy you want to know what your blood sugar is doingWhat is glycemic control and why is it imporantWhat are the ideal blood glucose rangesWhat do you want to see your blood sugar doing - what's considered "good" or "normal"Hacks to reduce blood sugar from elevatingWhat we can infer about insulin from looking at our blood sugarWhat are some non-food factors that we see spiking blood sugarWhat causes people to wake up in the middle of the nightHow circadian rhythm and sleep affect blood glucose and vice versaHow alcohol impacts blood glucoseIf you want to get your hands on a CGM from Nutrisense, click HERE: https://www.nutrisense.io/ and be sure to use my code SUGARSHACKLES to get $25 off any of their monthly packages.Remember, CGMs require prescriptions in the US and Nutrisense takes care of the prescription for you! You even get paired up with a dietitian to help you interpret your data!To learn more about Carlee & the team at Nutrisense, click HERE: https://www.nutrisense.io/teamAs always, thanks for listening! If you're liking the show, please show the love by leaving a rating & and short review for the show! It helps others to find it and it helps me get great guests on the show! Love you all!

Oct 19, 2020 • 51min
Episode 57: My Simplified Method of Low-Carb/Keto Meal Prep (Less cutting, less shopping, fewer dishes!)
If you want to get on the wait list for Unlock the Sugar Shackles Group Coaching, click HERE: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f6a5ccf9af1f885b1c308efI can't even call what I do "meal prepping" because anything involving extra dishes and excessive vegetable cutting gives me adrenal fatigue. But in this episode I break down how I shop for my food, some of my favorite stores and online places I get food, and how I simplify the process of cooking all my meals from scratch. When it comes to cooking, I'm not fancy and have gotten pretty lazy over the years so this is my attempt to synthesize and describe how I can make all my food from home, make it delicious, nutritious, and really simple. Some of my favorites I mentioned in today's episode:ButcherBox: http://fbuy.me/pV0Gn The best meat (& seafood) delivery! Grass-fed beef, heritage breed pork, pastured and organic chicken plus some wild caught seafood delivered to your door in sustainable packaging! I absolutely loveeee ButcherBox and they make meal prep such a breeze! You just open up your freezer and choose the meat which makes deciding on the rest of the meal so much easier. Use this link to get $15 off your purchase when you sign up!Primal Kitchen: https://bit.ly/2AXBonH. Primal kitchen has some of my favorite dressings and condiments ever made! They are ALL made with real food ingredients, healthy avocado oil, and don’t contain any unwanted sweeteners, seed oils, preservatives or artificial flavors. My favorite dressing is the Sesame Ginger & I love their 100% avocado oil mayo! Use code SUGARSHACKLES for 10% off your order!Redmond Life: https://shop.redmond.life?afmc=sugarshackles Redmond Real Salt is by far my favorite salt ever! It is unrefined so it still contains trace minerals which are essential for proper hydration (especially important if you do keto or fasting!) They also have other amazing spice blends, salt refills, and other products such as clay masks, bath salts, and mineral toothpaste (which I loveeee!). Use code SUGARSHACKLES to get 15% off your entire order!Thank you for listening to the show!You can find me on Instagram @daniellehamiltonhealth and on Facebook at Danielle Hamilton Health.My website is daniellehamiltonhealth.com. Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter to get all the best tips, coupon codes, and to be the first to know about my upcoming programs!Submit potential podcast topics to me at dani@daniellehamiltonhealth.com or just DM me on Instagram!If you are liking the show, please head to Apple Podcasts or iTunes to leave the show a *5-star rating* & a quick review! It helps the show to grow and lets me know what you’re liking!Thank you for subscribing, rating, reviewing, sharing and reposting the show! I appreciate each and every one of you!

Oct 12, 2020 • 1h 27min
Episode 56: Treating acne from the inside out (cystic, hormonal, PCOS) | @thepreventionpharmacist
Today’s episode is brought to you by Beautycounter. Check out their amazing, high-quality, safe beauty and personal care products. Some of my favorites are their sunscreen (won’t harm the sea turtles!), the Countermatch Adaptive Lotion, Skin Twin Foundation, Vitamin C Serum, Overnight resurfacing peel, and their eye liners! Beautycounter has a list of over 1800 Chemicals they never use in their products. Many of their products are even EWG verified!.I love their Sunscreen because it works SO well (even in the Florida sun!) and it's safe for marine life and for our bodies. They have a *new* face sunscreen as well that is my new favorite! _______________________________________________________________I am so excited to welcome @thepreventionpharmacist onto today's show! She is a busy wife, mom, pharmacist and functional health practitioner. She is such a wealth of knowledge. Together with the Prevention Pharmacist, we break down the root causes of acne & give you take home tips so you can start actively working to reverse and heal your acne TODAY!Thank you so much to Dr. Campbell for being here. Please check out her website: https://the-prevention-pharmacist.mykajabi.com/aboutAnd follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepreventionpharmacist/_________________________________________________________________Thank you for listening to the show!You can find me on Instagram @daniellehamiltonhealth and on Facebook at Danielle Hamilton Health.My website is daniellehamiltonhealth.com. Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter to get all the best tips, coupon codes, and to be the first to know about my upcoming programs!If you are liking the show, please head to Apple Podcasts or iTunes to leave the show a *5-star rating* & a quick review! It helps the show to grow and lets me know what you’re liking!Thank you for subscribing, rating, reviewing, sharing and reposting the show! I appreciate each and every one of you!

Oct 5, 2020 • 1h 17min
Episode 55: Common Pitfalls in Keto & Carnivore | Maria Emmerich
If you want to sign up for the #SugarFree30, click here (it's free!!) https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f6a5ccf9af1f885b1c308efIf you want to get on the wait list for Unlock the Sugar Shackles Group Coaching, click here: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f6a5ccf9af1f885b1c308efIf you want to work with me 1:1, click here: https://daniellehamiltonhealth.com/workwithme________________________________________________________________Today's guest is Maria Emmerich who is a wellness expert with over 15 years of experience in Keto nutrition and helping clients heal their bodies. She has helped thousands of clients around the world use a well formulated ketogenic diet to get healthy and lose weight. She is an International Best Selling Author of over 10 books and cookbooks on the ketogenic diet. She has an amazing ability to create incredibly tasty recipes that keep you in ketosis and burning fat for fuel using innovative ingredients. Maria and I had an amazing chat about SO much great information. This episode is like a candy bag episode (I guess I should use a different term, huh?) because there are so many fun nuggets of information that Maria shares and I love how our views are so aligned with regards to making your healthy way of eating into a lifestyle. Maria's website (where you can find her Macro calculator) is here: https://mariamindbodyhealth.com/You can find Maria on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/mariaemmerich/Thanks for listening, liking, sharing, commenting & for being here!

Sep 28, 2020 • 59min
Episode 54: How to Heal your Gut & Get Rid of your Allergies
Hi Friends! I'm back with another episode. This episode is all about how I healed my very severe seasonal allergies and asthma, and got off all my prescriptions and inhalers, with real food and lifestyle. In the episode I'll teach you to do the same!If you want to sign up for the #SugarFree30, click here (it's free!!) https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f6a5ccf9af1f885b1c308efIf you want to get on the wait list for Unlock the Sugar Shackles Group Coaching, click here: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f6a5ccf9af1f885b1c308efIf you want to work with me 1:1, click here: https://daniellehamiltonhealth.com/workwithme________________________________________________________________The books I mentioned in today's episode: The Paleo Solution by Robb Wolf (changed my life!) https://amzn.to/335j87sPractical Paleo (the Paleo Bible) https://amzn.to/3jmoFMVThanks for listening, commenting, liking, sharing and sending in new podcast topics! I appreciate you all! <3

Sep 14, 2020 • 1h 6min
Episode 53: The Journey to Balanced Hormones with Dr. Halie Schoff
Get on the Beyond the Macros VIP list here! https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f528be322a9aa00261bf4beThere are so many reasons that we might not be reaching our health goals, balancing our blood sugar, losing weight, etc. Sometimes we need to look further than JUST what our macros look like!!In today's episode we talk about some non-food reasons your blood sugar and hormones might be imbalanced.And the solution??My new Beyond The Macros Membership Course: Health is more than carbs, fats and protein!In the course, you will get weekly content all about how to truly make a healthy diet AND lifestyle. I will be providing a ton of content ranging from digestion, to liver health, to hydration, to micronutrients, and so much more.AND I will also be bringing in experts in fields way outside of my expertise to bring you all some amazing new healing modalities and things to try. By learning about and trying these new things, by creating a morning/evening routine, and being consistent with adding in these new modalities, you will learn to create a healthy lifestyle that supports your health and your goals.Just some of the many topics the experts may cover are: breathwork, Yoga Nidra, sleep hacks, mobility, acupressure, mindset work, manifestation meditations, Tai Chi, the vagus nerve, lymphatic massage, acro yoga, and soooooooooooo much more!! This membership course allows you to try what you want, and leave what you don't! I can't wait! Make sure you get on the list here: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f528be322a9aa00261bf4be_____________________________________________________________My guest today is Dr. Halie Schoff. You can find Dr. Halie hanging out on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/drhalieschoff/. Dr. Halie also has a podcast: https://anchor.fm/halie-schoff1!Dr. Halie has a Doctor of Chiropractic with an advanced certificate in sport science and human performance & a Masters of Science of Applied Clinical Nutrition. After not getting the answers she needed to further her health journey, Halie sought to find why she was experiencing hormonal issues instead of using a "band-aid" approach. This inspired Halie to focus on getting to the root cause of my the issues her patients and clients are experiencing. Halie uses a combination of movement, mindset, whole foods and non-toxic lifestyle choices to support the body and allow the body to heal and function as optimally as possible. On today's episode we talk about Dr. Halie's story, Post-Birth Control Syndrome, If the Pill helps to balance hormones, What nutrients The Pill Depletes, plus 6 amazing tips to help balance your hormones!The books that Halie mentions are:Beyond the PillFix Your PeriodThe Period Repair ManualThanks for listening! <3

Sep 11, 2020 • 45min
Episode 52: Surprising Non-Food Causes of Blood Sugar, Insulin & Hormone Imbalances
Get on the Beyond the Macros VIP list here! https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f528be322a9aa00261bf4beThere are so many reasons that we might not be reaching our health goals, balancing our blood sugar, losing weight, etc. Sometimes we need to look further than JUST what our macros look like!!In today's episode we talk about some non-food reasons your blood sugar and hormones might be imbalanced.And the solution??My new Beyond The Macros Membership Course: Health is more than carbs, fats and protein!In the course, you will get weekly content all about how to truly make a healthy diet AND lifestyle. I will be providing a ton of content ranging from digestion, to liver health, to hydration, to micronutrients, and so much more. AND I will also be bringing in experts in fields way outside of my expertise to bring you all some amazing new healing modalities and things to try. By learning about and trying these new things, by creating a morning/evening routine, and being consistent with adding in these new modalities, you will learn to create a healthy lifestyle that supports your health and your goals.Just some of the many topics the experts may cover are: breathwork, Yoga Nidra, sleep hacks, mobility, acupressure, mindset work, manifestation meditations, Tai Chi, the vagus nerve, lymphatic massage, acro yoga, and soooooooooooo much more!! This membership course allows you to try what you want, and leave what you don't! I can't wait! Make sure you get on the list here: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f528be322a9aa00261bf4be

Aug 21, 2020 • 25min
Episode 51: Weight Loss Plateaus & Plateaus on Keto
Want to do keto but don't know where to begin? Have you done keto in the past but it "didn't work"? Are you confused by macros, tracking your food, blood sugar, insulin resistance, workouts, ketones and wondering if you should really be eating this much butter?!If you answered YES to any of the questions above, you need to get on the VIP list to my upcoming Keto Academy: Keto 101 Course! https://view.flodesk.com/pages/5f2a9bf4406ce8002669f36bBy getting on the VIP list you will be the first to hear when the course launches and have access to exclusive VIP discounts, promos, and bonuses!Course comes out Fall of 2020!__________________________________________________Thank you for listening to the show!You can find me on Instagram @daniellehamiltonhealth and on Facebook at Danielle Hamilton Health.My website is daniellehamiltonhealth.com. Be sure to sign up for my weekly newsletter to get all the best tips, coupon codes, and to be the first to know about my upcoming programs!If you are liking the show, please head to Apple Podcasts or iTunes to leave the show a *5-star rating* & a quick review! It helps the show to grow and lets me know what you’re liking!Thank you for subscribing, rating, reviewing, sharing and reposting the show! I appreciate each and every one of you!

Aug 17, 2020 • 1h 14min
Episode 50: How Blood Sugar Affects Sleep & How Sleep Affects Blood Sugar with Mollie McGlocklin, #SleepIsASkill
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Aug 14, 2020 • 40min
Episode 49: Most Common Mistakes I See People Make on Keto
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