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EP 124 - Your GENES hold the keys The story your genetic blueprint can reveal about your optimal health

The Real Dish - May 10, 2024 10:23 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Your GENES hold the keys: The story your genetic blueprint can reveal about your optimal health

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EP 123 - Stress is Eating You Alive: How to keep cortisol from aging you prematurely and ruining your life

The Real Dish - April 30, 2024 13:11 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Stress – it's something we all experience at one point or another in our lives. But did you know that chronic stress can wreak havoc on both our physical and mental health? Today, we'll explore why controlling stress and cortisol, the body's primary stress hormone, is crucial for overall well-be...

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EP 122: Mastering fat and weight loss without semaglutides (aka Ozempic)

The Real Dish - April 20, 2024 16:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Nowadays, there’s a LOT of sizzling conversation semaglutides, aka Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro, which are actually intended for people with Type 2 diabetes to help manage blood glucose levels. At the time of this recording, they are not FDA approved for weight loss, but because they have an of...

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EP 121: Why HGH helps us age better and how to replenish it safely

The Real Dish - April 05, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
The decline of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) starts immediately after you finish puberty, sometimes by as much as 50% by 35, and it continues to decrease every year thereafter, significantly impacting optimal bodily function including longevity, muscle building and brain health. In this episode w...

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EP 120 - The dangers of mercury: How to avoid it and protect your brain from it

The Real Dish - March 29, 2024 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Mercury is a naturally occurring element that exists in various forms, including elemental mercury, inorganic mercury compounds, and organic mercury compounds like methylmercury. While mercury has industrial applications and is used in products like thermometers and fluorescent lights, its prese...

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EP 119 - Deep Dive Into Algae -The benefits of fish-free omega 3's

The Real Dish - February 23, 2024 22:09 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Welcome to Recipes For Your Best Life where we explore the fascinating world of nutrition and making shift happen in your health for good I'm your host, Chef Mareya and in today's episode, we're turning our focus to a seemingly humble organism that packs a powerful punch when it comes to health ...

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EP 118 - Feed your brain: How to boost mental health with better food and hydration

The Real Dish - February 02, 2024 17:47 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Our brains are incredible organs, responsible for everything from thoughts and emotions to complex problem-solving. But how often do we consider the impact of our daily food choices on this powerhouse within our skulls? Studies show 1 in 4 people globally has a mental or brain-related disorder, ...

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EP 117 - Unbreakable Strength: How muscle saves this trainer’s life

The Real Dish - December 22, 2023 15:36 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
I'm so excited for you to hear this episode because it's exactly the kind of story we all love - one where someone meets a life-threatening challenge and comes out better on the other side.  But there's much more to  Jared Maynard story and it has to do with the importance of being in the right ...

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EP 116 - How to meal prep for success: Change your life, your wallet and your waistline

The Real Dish - December 01, 2023 13:32 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
When you have 7 mouths to feed, thinking about food is a full-time endeavor. Even though it’s a big part of my career, making from-scratch sauces and foraging for ingredients is not part of my daily routine – especially with voracious teenagers and athletes in the family. Forget about 30-minut...

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EP 115 - Armor Up Your Immune System with Food

The Real Dish - November 07, 2023 15:03 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
We’ve heard it, and it’s engrained in us.  Food is medicine.  But really, let’s dive deep down into this idea. How did they deal with disease thousands of years ago, before conventional medicine and antibiotics?  The answer was in nature. Ancient civilizations became masters of using plants and ...

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EP 114 - Forever Chemicals: How to avoid becoming the walking dead

The Real Dish - September 20, 2023 15:02 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Could we be moving towards a real life species of the walking dead where chemicals are creating a new, toxic-laden humankind? They are born out of technology. They are here, and they are everywhere.  The problems with forever chemicals have been known for quite some time, and their  impact on...

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EP 113 - Nutrition Mythbusters - Debunking the top 5 myths in food today

The Real Dish - September 11, 2023 15:01 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
In this week's episode of Recipes For Your Best Life, I'm talking to Megan Lyons, certified nutrition expert, about the Top 5 myths in food today. The question is, do we eat them or not, and is what famous doctors like Steven Gundry and health experts like Dave Asprey say about them true? This i...

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EP#112 - What's the deal with Apeel - Coatings on your fresh produce

The Real Dish - July 22, 2023 15:03 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
In this episode, we explore the world of coatings on fresh produce. Unravel the mysteries behind companies like Apeel, their patents, and safety concerns. Discover the importance of understanding wax coatings on fruits, the debate over keeping peels for nutrition, and the truth about Apeel's i...

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EP 111 - Reduce, Reuse and Upcycle - Preventing Waste and Driving Innovation with the Upcycled Food Association

The Real Dish - June 16, 2023 15:44 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Have you ever wondered what happens to food that gets manufactured and grown, but not used?  Well here’s a scenario.  Cashews are commonly eaten - But did you know the cashew meat from inside the cashew fruit, which is normally thrown out, is a single ingredient, organic product that tastes ama...

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EP 110 - Psychedelic Mushroom Microdosing with Retreat founder Cori Sue Morris

The Real Dish - May 19, 2023 15:18 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
 In this episode, Chef Mareya interviews Cori Sue Morris, founder of Retreat, exploring the benefits of microdosing with psychedelic mushrooms for well-being. They discuss the global mental health crisis and the shift towards natural alternatives. Microdosing psilocybin mushrooms offer increase...

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EP 109 - Reversing childhood obesity: Lifestyle habits make the difference with Dr. Sheila Carroll

The Real Dish - May 05, 2023 17:19 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
It’s a sensitive subject. And it’s one I was a little hesitant to talk about but I think it’s really important and sometimes we just need to rip the band-aid off to let the wound heal. This episode, we’re diving into the subject of childhood obesity, and how as parents and working with doctors w...

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EP 108 - From Clif Bars to wine + honey The future of sustainability in Napa Valley with Clif Family

The Real Dish - April 21, 2023 16:06 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Did you know that renowned Clif family also produces wine? Nested in Napa Valley, the Clif family is working to create a healthier, more sustainable world through the enjoyment of wine, food and connection. We get into how the Clif family is really changing the wine and food experience and how r...

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EP 107 - Lettuce Not Waste - Tips for Keeping Produce out of Landfills

The Real Dish - April 06, 2023 15:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
The episode discusses the alarming amount of food waste in the US and the resulting environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions and methane emissions from landfills. It emphasizes the need to take action to reduce food waste and highlights the role of a company called Eat Cleaner i...

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EP 106 - Overcoming Crohn's Disease with Mr. America, Peter Nielsen

The Real Dish - March 08, 2023 23:25 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
In this episode of "Recipes for Your Best Life with Chef Mareya", Chef Mareya and her guest, Peter, discuss the power of positive thinking in the kitchen as well as Peter's journey of overcoming Crohn's disease and becoming Mr. America. They explore the power of positive thinking in overcoming ob...

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EP 105 - The Miracle of Light Therapy

The Real Dish - February 16, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
In this episode, we are diving into the benefits of red light therapy and near-infra-red. If you've never heard of those, we'll listen. What if I told you there's a completely natural way to get better skin reducing formation in pain, enhancing brain and cognitive function, helping with cardiov...

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EP 104 - Making a 3x Ms. Olympia Champion- Behind the physique and mindset of Andrea Shaw

The Real Dish - February 09, 2023 17:27 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Sometimes when you meet someone, you feel like you've known them your whole life. Well, that's what it was like for me to meet Andrea Shaw. Known to her friends and now to me as Draya. What impressed me about her, not just her incredible physique also her humility, light and her personality and ...

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EP 103 - 7 Hacks to Help You Get in the Best Shape (and not one is about exercise)

The Real Dish - January 24, 2023 15:37 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
What do we do to help us get to the place that we're going? So I'm gonna talk today about seven habits that we can all take on this year that will help us get to that place. And let me start by saying, I really do believe that these are ubiquitous. These are something that doesn't matter what yo...

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EP 102 - The Perfect 10: A bite-sized mashup of the last 10 episodes

The Real Dish - November 30, 2022 16:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
We’re taking you back to the highlights of the last 10 episodes of Recipes For Your Best Life so you can get a flavor of each one and hopefully, go back and listen to all of them.  From the benefits of fasting to hacking your thyroid to finding joy in your everyday to finding the right fitness r...

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EP 101- Happiness U: How your mindset can make you happier

The Real Dish - November 07, 2022 18:12 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
The pursuit of happiness. I mean what is it about some people that you meet, that just every time you’re around them they just radiate joy and happiness where some of us just have a really hard time finding it in our everyday lives? Well, my next guest is an expert in squeezing the joy out of li...

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EP 100 - Flexing with White House Chef Andre Rush

The Real Dish - October 25, 2022 17:45 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
It's episode 100. How exciting is this, man? It's been a journey over the last couple of years to get here. But I am so thrilled that we made it, and along the way, I've gotten the chance to interview so many incredible people, people with a true interest in Whole Health. I got to interview my g...

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EP 99 - Fittest ever at 53: Why I did my first NPC bikini competition at this age

The Real Dish - October 11, 2022 15:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
This is episode 99. That means that I've had a lot of really amazing people that I've interviewed and a lot of my own things to share about health and wellness, and this episode is very personal to me because I explain why I decided to enter an NPC bikini contest. I'll share more about what I we...

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EP 98 - Hashimoto's disease: How to have a healthy thyroid

The Real Dish - September 23, 2022 14:15 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
According to John Hopkins website, about 3% of the population has an autoimmune disease, Hashimoto’s being the leading one. Our guest Missy Beavers is raising awareness about thyroid symptoms that are so many times misunderstood. She discovered a few simple tests that revealed the root causes of ...

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EP 97 - Never Binge Again - How to break out of the prison of overeating

The Real Dish - July 26, 2022 17:14 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Why are overeating stress eating and binge eating so prevalent in our culture today? That is exactly what we're about to break down. Dr. Glenn Livingston is a Ph.D., veteran psychologist, and was the longtime CEO of a multimillion-dollar consulting firm. He has helped literally thousands of peop...

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EP 96 -Fit and FAB over 50 - The keys to getting that killer physique with Melissa Neill

The Real Dish - July 08, 2022 17:46 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Absolutely ripped in a bikini and having that great muscle definition even at the age of 50, Melissa Neil really breaks it down, while her professional background is in PR in communications. She became passionate about fitness and sculpting her physique at the age of 49. If you want to get in th...

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EP 95 - A Longer, Better Life by Fasting - Mimicking with Dr. Joseph Antoun

The Real Dish - June 28, 2022 15:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
Studies show that a periodic diet that mimics fasting promotes multi-system regeneration, enhanced cognitive performance. That's your brain and health span, which means a longer life. How do you do this? In today's episode, I'm interviewing Dr. Joseph Antoun. He wanted to be at the forefront of ...

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