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Thrive Podcast!
by Karin Allumbaugh
I'm Karin Nicole Allumbaugh, functional medicine nutritionist. How in the world do I navigate the healthcare system to finally find health and healing? What are the real steps to restore my health and finally have the power to eliminate annoying symptoms for good? What does healthy eating even mean and how do I make it easy, fun, and an everyday part of my life? This, and much, much more so you can Thrive! through life!
Episodes
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28. Perimenopause- Am I Losing My Freaking Mind?
If you're a woman between 40 and 50 who's been feeling off and can't figure out why, this episode is for you. You're not losing your mind — the rules have changed. We break down what's really happening in perimenopause, the ripple effects on your gut, nutrients, sleep, and brain, and what you can...
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27. What's Actually Driving your Kidney Disease: The 7 Hidden Contributors Nobody Connected for You
If you are like most individuals diagnosed with kidney disease, rarely are any contributors uncovered. Today, we discuss the top 7 contributors to kidney disease. It's definitely not what you might think... and the good news, we give you a strategy to deal with each one! Ready to catch the free...
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26. What Am I Supposed to Eat?! Meal Planning for Kidney Disease, Diabetes & Hypertension
If there’s one thing that creates confusion after a diagnosis of kidney disease, diabetes, or hypertension—it’s FOOD. What should you eat? What foods are “bad”? Should you avoid protein, potassium, sodium, fat, carbs… all of it?! In today’s episode of Functional Medicine Meets Faith, Karin breaks...
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25. Inside the Kidney Care Blueprint: How I Help Clients Stabilize and Support Kidney Health. Inside the Kidney Care Blueprint: How I Help Clients Stabilize and Support Kidney Health
Kidney Care Blueprint: A Faith-Centered, Root-Cause Program for Chronic Kidney Disease Karin Allumbaugh introduces the “Functional Medicine Meets Faith” podcast and explains enrollment for her six-month Kidney Care Blueprint program, offered in person in Redmond, Oregon, or virtually. She shares...
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24. Heavy Metals and Kidney Disease- What no on is Talking About
What if your kidneys aren’t actually failing… but overwhelmed? In today’s episode, we uncover one of the most overlooked contributors to kidney dysfunction—heavy metal toxicity. While conventional approaches focus on managing symptoms, we take a deeper look at what may be silently driving kidney...
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23. Are your Medications Fixing You or Making Things Worse? (The Band-Aid Approach vs Root-Cause Healing)
Are you taking your prescriptions faithfully but still feeling worse? Do your labs look “normal” while your body feels anything but? In this episode, Karin Allumbaugh shares the functional medicine perspective on why so many chronic conditions aren’t healed by managing numbers alone. We walk...
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22. Fear, Shame and the Mid-January Reset
By mid-January, many people feel discouraged, unmotivated, or burdened by shame over goals they’ve already abandoned. In this episode of Functional Medicine Meets Faith, Karin Nicole Allumbaugh invites you to pause the pressure and embrace a different kind of reset—one rooted in faith, grace, and...
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21. Playing Small and Settling - Taking Steps to Get out of Your Own Way
In This Episode, You’ll Learn: 🌿 What it really means to “play small” in your healing journey—and how fear keeps you stuck. 💡 How to recognize when guilt, shame, or routine are running your decisions instead of faith. 💪 A personal story of overcoming physical setbacks and reclaiming strength.…
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20. Overcoming the Limiting Beliefs of your Diagnosis with Guest Karen Dwyer, MS to Success
What if the very diagnosis meant to define your condition has also limited your healing? In this episode, Karin Allumbaugh is joined by Karen Dwyer, MS to Success Coach, to explore how labels like “chronic” or “incurable” can quietly shape your mindset, your choices, and ultimately, your results....
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19. The Fallacies of the Dreaded Kidney Diet
Think you need to cut protein, salt, bananas, or beans to protect your kidneys? Think again. In this episode, I’m busting the biggest myths about the “kidney diet” and showing you how overly restrictive rules can actually make things worse. From protein-energy wasting and muscle loss, to the…
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18. Gut Health, Kidney Decline & the Truth About Heartburn Meds
If you’re taking a PPI (like omeprazole or the “little purple pill”) to manage heartburn or reflux—and your labs keep getting worse—this episode is for you. Today we uncover the surprising truth about conventional heartburn treatments, the damage they can do to your gut and kidneys, and what you...
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17. The #1 Longevity Health Hack
If you’re ready for the #1 longevity hack that helps you live longer and better—while also improving kidney function—this episode is for you! We’re talking about one simple thing that lowers your risk of early death, protects your kidneys, improves your blood sugar and blood pressure, lifts...
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16. The Prediabetes Trap: Why ‘Eat Less Sugar’ Isn’t Enough
In this episode, Karin shares why prediabetes isn’t just about food and exercise. You’ll learn why typical advice like “eat less sugar” falls short, especially when it comes to kidney health, and how stress, toxins, and poor sleep play a much bigger role than you might realize. Karin also...
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15. Is Your High Blood Pressure REALLY the Problem?
You’ve been told high blood pressure is the cause of your kidney issues, your fatigue, or even your declining health. But what if that’s not the full story? In this episode, we’re turning that idea on its head. Join me as we unpack the real root cause behind elevated blood pressure—and why…
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14. Feeling Overmedicated? Why it matters...
Do you feel you are taking more prescriptions than you would like? Do you wonder if some of the adverse things you are feeling might be due to prescription stacking, or taking multiple prescriptions? Today we discuss the hazards of multiple prescriptions, we will discuss how this may be…
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13. My Most Successful Clients All have THIS in Common!
Today we are talking about WHY- the podcast, the Kidney Care Blueprint, all of it. And we'll talk about what all of my most successful clients have in common. I sure could use some help from you- please can you share on social media, and tag me. That would be a great way that I can reach more...
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Kidney Disease and Sleep: Why it Matters So Much!!
What if getting better sleep meant that your kidney function would get better? I hear what you’re saying… but ever since my kidney disease got worse I sleep terribly. Ok, let’s bring in some tools to make it better. Because bad sleep correlates with your kidney disease getting worse. And when you...
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Kidney Disease- Can it be Reversed?
For individuals who are diagnosed with kidney disease, a great number are told that there is little that can be done. Furthermore, many are even told that chronic kidney disease is irreversible. In this episode, I bring you research that proves that kidney disease is indeed reversible. And I also...
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Caution with Iron Supplementation
Anemia is pretty straightforward, right? I mean, you need iron to transport oxygen throughout your body. That means if your iron is low, you better supplement, right? Well today I discuss why supplementation may be actually making your symptoms worse, and how to know if you need to add more iron...
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What Sarah’s Mood Swings Taught Me
Sarah was a client that taught me a lot about symptoms that sometimes don't make any sense. She taught me that there is one misunderstood concept that lies right there in the midst of all of the most common health conditions currently. And when it's a factor, there can be a train wreck of other...
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My Cholesterol is High. Now What??
Have you recently found out your cholesterol is running high? What does it mean? What should I do? In this episode: What is cholesterol and why do we want it? Is LDL cholesterol really bad? What is the hazard for taking a statin to reduce LDL cholesterol levels? What extra labs should I have run?...
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Podcast Intro
The Podcast Intro
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Metabolic Syndrome- The Confusing Diagnosis Plaguing 1 out of 3 adults
The increasing blood pressure and cholesterol, the increasing blood sugar levels, and climbing weight, especially around the middle- these are the trio of symptoms that are confusing an alarming 1 out of 3 adults. These are not only scary, but also leave most clients feeling like a failure. In…
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How to Get out of the Hot Mess
Feeling like a hot mess? Tried the resolutions and feel like a failure because you can't stick to them? You're not alone! It doesn't work! But this here, this is the WAY to get out of the hot mess! Beyond the resolutions, this is the way to get started creating your health by design, creating the...
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New Year’s Resolutions- How to finally get it right this time!
We approach New Year's Resolutions the wrong way- and then before the month is even over, we feel defeated. Let's talk about how to finally get it right this time, and make sure that this new year is one that leaves you achieving your goals and becoming a better version of you!
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From Hot Mess to Health
Today's episode is my own story about how I transformed my health from a big hot mess into finally thriving and feeling amazing. I talk about why conventional medicine does not bring about healing by outlining what is being done wrong. And I give you an approach to begin your own healing journey.
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Stop Quitting on Yourself!
In today's episode I discuss why we quit, and how to stop quitting on yourself- on your goals, your aspirations, your dreams. It starts with one realization of who you ARE!
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Exhaustion, brain fog, joint pain and overwhelm
Helping you to understand your symptoms and put the control to managing them into your hands! Today's podcast is 5 ways you may begin eliminating them for good, starting today!
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Restoring the Energy
Today we talk about how you can begin to restore the energy- and gain control back to eliminate your symptoms.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I'm Karin Nicole Allumbaugh, functional medicine nutritionist. How in the world do I navigate the healthcare system to finally find health and healing? What are the real steps to restore my health and finally have the power to eliminate annoying symptoms for good? What does healthy eating even mean and how do I make it easy, fun, and an everyday part of my life? This, and much, much more so you can Thrive! through life!
HOSTED BY
Karin Allumbaugh
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