#76 How to Make the Right Food Choices to Optimize your Brain Health with guest Michael Hunsinger

This episode will make you think about food and nutrition differently. The impacts of food on our brains is profound and making the right choices can have a dramatic effect on your brain health and quality of life. In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Michael Hunsinger. Michael and his wife Dr. Isabel MD are the MD and Chef Coaching Team, offering Precision Personalised Medicine. Our Mission is to help you prevent and reverse disease, and to give you HOPE! Culinary Nutrition Expert, Chef Michael Qualifications Bredesen ReCode Protocol 2.0 Health Coach for prevention and reversal of Alzheimers/Dementia Graduate of California Culinary Academy, European-style school for professional chefs. Honors graduate of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition, Toronto, Canada Being the at-home dad for their two daughters gave him the knowledge of cooking for babies, toddlers, and teenagers. No awards, just the "BEST" experience of his life. Oh yes, and a lot of nappies! What is a culinary nutrition expert? Michael offers practical, everyday, natural cooking skills as well as a deeper exploration into the therapeutic properties of the foods we eat and how we prepare them. He uses food as medicine, to help you live your Optimal Health, not just normal health! He views nutrition as "Nutritional Psychology" to change our thoughts about food and how food works in our body systems. Michael is a Functional Nutrition Chef that spends time with his clients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, functional nutrition supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual. Connect with Michael: website: https://doctoronamission.com/ Optimizing Your Brain Health Community https://doctoronamission.mykajabi.com/brainhealthcoaching Instagram https://www.instagram.com/doctoronamission/ 00:50 Michael's journey of health 03:14 How to create a healthy life 07:55 Nutrition and brain health 15:30 Long-term impacts of food choices and dementia 21:08 Actionable steps to optimize brain health and get to the root cause 33:45 Why it's important to take an active role and age well 37:21 Why brain health is essential for success and achievement in life 38:45 Working through the barriers of eating well 51:08 Pain and inflammation 54:44 How to connect with Michael Hunsinger Connect with Kelly: Sign up for the Free 3-day Nervous System Workshop: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/64b694... Grab my FREE Morning Guide for Perfectionists https://view.flodesk.com/pages/64998a... Grab my FREE Daily Check List for Nervous System Regulation https://view.flodesk.com/pages/61a53a... Book a call with me: https://calendly.com/drkellykessler/s... Listen to my podcast Rewiring Health: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Visit my website: www.optimalyouhealthandwellness.com Dr. Kelly Kessler is a licensed physical therapist, transformation coach, host of the podcast Rewiring Health, the owner of Optimal You Health and Wellness, LLC and a mom of two boys. Kelly helps high achieving, people-pleasing, perfectionist women stop feeling burnt out and in pain and learn to heal through nervous system regulation and subconscious reprogramming. Kelly guides her clients through personal transformation to stop being held back by limiting beliefs, pain, and never feeling good enough to becoming resilient, experiencing abundance, and connected in the mind and body. Inspired by her own journey of recovering from an eating disorder and chronic back pain, Kelly has helped many women harness their profound ability to shift from survival mode to thriving. Kelly uses an integrative approach to healing including a personalized audit, education, community support, and actionable steps to create long-lasting results. Connect with Kelly: @drkellykessler