Just Enjoy Health with Dr. Meghan Birt

In this week's episode, I talk with Robin Long of The Balanced Life. Robin is an amazing mentor and teacher of exercise and showing mamas like you how to live with grace over guilt.   Tune in to hear what tips Robin has to fit those workouts in during the day and what she also needs to start working on!

Welcome to Season 3 of the Just Enjoy Health podcast!   I am so excited to be back with you this week, especially because today starts the Simplify Your Health Challenge!   In this episode, I am dishing out all the details on the upcoming Simplify Your Health Challenge. A 30 day challenge specifically created to help busy, overwhelmed women like you take baby steps each day to take better care of yourselves.   Wherever you are on your journey to health, consistent, small changes will turn this short term challenge into a long term lifestyle.   It is my hope that this challenge encourages you and helps you prioritize your health. You DO have the ability to make healthy living happen!

Welcome to the final episode in Season 2! I'm closing out the season with a fun returning guest...my hubby, Phil! In this episode we will be discussing backup meals, date night activities, how to get a husband on board with healthy living, how wives can encourage their husbands, and budgeting. I hope you enjoy and we will see you back in September for the start of Season 3!

Exercise intensity and frequency is something that can be debated.  How much exercise is too much? How intense should your workout be? My answer is something that might make some of you really happy (or maybe not so happy!)   I think exercise and moving your body is very important, but there is such thing as too much exercise.  I believe the majority of the fitness industry is making us think we should be working out a lot more than we actually should.   In this episode I am dishing out 10 tips to help you figure out an exercise regimen that works best for your body, and how to know if you are OVER training and what to do about it.   When you are exercising, it's not just about the moves or the reps that you are doing DURING the workout. It is also about the recovery AFTERWARD. When you workout for an hour each day, you are doing so much more damage to your body when you don't recover.

Something you may find surprising is I don't actually believe we can live a TRULY non-toxic lifestyle.   Ottava and I were going to eat breakfast on our patio one beautiful morning and that's when it hit me. The smell of dryer sheets. The smell of toxins! Toxins I didn't ask for...   This event inspired me to do a Facebook Live in my group, as well as this podcast episode all about taking intentional steps to reduce toxic exposure.

Welcome back to Ask Dr. Meghan! You guys are submitting such amazing questions through email and the facebook group! In today's episode I'm going to be answering questions about what brand of activated charcoal I use, my honest thoughts on antibiotics, and tips for dealing with Candida.

Emotions. We all have them, and sometimes they get the best of us. They range from a moment of frustration all the way to an emotional pattern of feeling anxious and frazzled all the time.   I've been there. You've been there. We've all been there!   In this episode I discuss a broad overview of different strategies for supporting your emotions from a natural perspective.   Even though emotions aren't openly talked about, it is OKAY if you're not feeling your best or you don't have it all together. (We are not immune from experiencing emotions or feeling unbalanced with them!)   I could spend hours digging into supporting your emotions naturally, but because I love this topic so much, this episode is already longer than normal. I hope you enjoy!

Healthy eating is something that can be super challenging in our busy world, and I've often talked about how hard it can be on this podcast.   Actually, the majority of my podcasts are centered around how to eat healthy or healthy meal planning!   In this episode I am digging in and sharing all my best tips to help you prepare your home and kitchen for eating healthy.   I created this podcast because I want you to feel like your home is a place where you can fuel your body well, eating foods you enjoy that are full of nutrients, and free of the temptation of gluten or sugar (because we all know those leave us feeling less than our best!)

Intermittent fasting (or ditching breakfast as I call it!) is a hot topic right now. There's a lot of research behind the idea and I'll be the first to admit it can be a bit detailed and overwhelming to know where to start.   In this podcast I break down intermittent fasting into the simplest way I can. I go through the benefits of intermittent fasting, the downsides, and who should (and shouldn't) try intermittent fasting.

Since I had Ottava Ella I've gotten a lot of questions about what I feed her and what my baby feeding philosophy is. Aside from questions about her actual birth, these are the most common ones! This episode is a pretty organic conversation about why we choose to feed Ottava grain-free and some of the thoughts I had when deciding what to feed her, and when.