Best Alexa Schirm Podcasts (2024)

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#336: What Should We Really Eat for Optimal Health? 29:14

1M ago29:14

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If it feels like we’ve been here twenty times over, asking what is good and what is bad food. While it might seem elementary, food is still the most debated topic in health. The health space seems to continuously change what food they claim is ‘good.’ It’s like the flavor of the day. Fifty years into the bloom of the health era, we’re still asking …

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#335: The Metabolic Power of Feminine Energy 49:48

2M ago49:48

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Even after getting my nutrition degree, I spent a lot of time thinking that health was a to-do list. I believed health was the product of what you did or didn't do. And in a lot of ways, this is true. But there is something more true. What is more accurate is that your body isn't just responding to what you do. It's responding to your perspective o…

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#334: Are You 'Resting' Too Much? 26:56

2M ago26:56

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We might be living in our rest era, but are you really resting? Or maybe you're resting too much. Rest is essential, but like hustle culture, too much of anything can become toxic. If you're resting too much, your body will get bored. Just like if you're not resting enough, your body will get sick. Both lead to similar results. In this podcast, lea…

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#333: How To Lose Weight (The Healthy Way) 30:29

2M ago30:29

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Weight loss isn't one of my favorite topics, but it is important. I decided to answer the question of how to lose weight in a way that helps you understand why the traditional way hasn't worked and what will. There are many ways to lose weight, but not all are healthy. If you want to keep it off, you must choose the healthy route from an expansion …

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#332: When To Let Go Of The Plan (The Intro Of Bioenergetics) 25:45

3M ago25:45

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When I lost my health, doing everything right, and by everything, I mean eating all of the ‘right’ foods and working out at least once a day, I realized everything right wasn’t right for me. No matter what anyone said, the best health plan didn’t pan out for me. At the time, I had no idea how much of a blessing this was. It felt like a battle I had…

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#331: Do You Need Hormone Replacement Therapy? 1:06:22

3M ago1:06:22

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Today, I interviewed Dr. Jolene Brighten, asking her all of your hormonal questions, including if you should take hormone replacement therapy, how to prepare for menopause, how to tell when you're in perimenopause, what blood sugar has to do with your hormones, and so much more. Listen to the podcast and check out Dr. Brighten's latest book, Is Thi…

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#330: The Three Most Common (Root) Causes of Hormone Imbalance 20:08

3M ago20:08

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Hormones are the conversation everywhere right now. Honestly, it’s easy to fall into the trap of believing you probably have a hormonal problem just because it sounds like everyone does. But the common causes of hormone imbalance are not what you think. Just the other day, I was on Instagram, and ten posts in a row made me think my hormones were ou…

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#329: Your Perspective Changes Your Biology - Learn How! 29:21

3M ago29:21

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I was sitting in an old lecture hall, daydreaming about health. As my professor scribbled on the whiteboard different caloric equations, I couldn’t help but question if there was something more my education had failed to teach me. I couldn’t understand the idea that health, or at least weight, could be summed up into basic equations. There had to b…

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#328: Are You Stuck In The Stress Response? 27:40

3M ago27:40

27:40

I know a thing or two about stress. No matter how much I hate it, or at least hate to admit it, I find a lot of comfort in being stressed. Somewhere along the path, I attached the idea that stress is a measurement of productivity keeping me stuck in the stress response. If I wasn't stressed, was I being lazy? Learn more about this and how to get ou…

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#327: Are Seed Oils Bad For You? 18:03

4M ago18:03

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There's a lot of chatter in the health space about seed oils, which has opened up all kinds of room for confusion. But today, I want to clarify the answer to the question: Are seed oils bad for you? Not to throw shade at another food. We all know we can't possibly risk losing one more staple in our diet and feel okay about it. We've shamed sugar, p…

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#326: The Healing Power of Self-Identity 24:41

4M ago24:41

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The rain was pounding on my window to the same degree that tears were streaming down my face. I had just left a counseling session talking through my sense of self-identity. I was desperate to uncover who God made me. The problem was I had spent most of my life trying to be something others would respect. I wanted to be something that others would …

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#325: Why You Need An Emotional Detox 26:15

4M ago26:15

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Health is difficult, and not in the way you think. It's difficult not because you don't know what to eat but because it's emotional, making healing less about food detox and more about emotional detox. It might feel like food complicates things. But it's not food but the reason you eat what you do. If you remove the emotional aspect, eating healthy…

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#324: Do Calories Really Matter? 23:04

4M ago23:04

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Calories tend to be another controversial and somewhat confusing subject. But I'd argue that is only because we don't understand how they interact with our bodies. If you've ever wondered if calories matter, the answer is yes and no. Let me explain. Calories are a metric of energy often used to describe the nutritional value of food. Technically, a…

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#323: How To Build Metabolic Flexibility: Three Truths + One Lie 23:22

4M ago23:22

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Metabolism is a sexy word in the health space. Everyone wants that flourishing metabolism. The same one we assume is why some people can eat anything and never gain an ounce. It's easy to envy those people while hating our bodies for not functioning in the same way. But truth be told, this understanding is a bad perception of your metabolism. Yes, …

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#322: How To Get Healthy: The Most Important Thing 21:34

5M ago21:34

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How do you get healthy? The typical approach is certainly not working. In fact, it seems to be doing the opposite. It's not making you healthy, but there is something that is. Learn the key to living healthy so you can stop asking the same questions. The first episode of the new podcast series, Health School, starts with quite a bang. I share what …

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#321: Your Body's Not That Sensitive 42:45

5M ago42:45

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Your body’s not that sensitive. It can be, but only because it’s been pushed into forms of dysregulation so long it’s turned to survival. Survival means your body will do anything to keep you alive, even if that means it works against what is healthy. It’s not the intended design. The intended design is to thrive. But when forced, it will revert to…

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#320: 10 Habits of The Healthiest People 41:24

7M ago41:24

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For decades, health has existed in a black-and-white space. It’s been a series of rash and often unrealistic lifestyle changes, leaving one to believe the extreme lifestyle is the only one that will help you reach your goals. It’s also why resolutions have become such a focus of the new year. They bring the hope that you can change. The more extrem…

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#319: Five Health Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed 27:49

8M ago27:49

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I spent many years attempting to hack my behavior. Forcing change, trying to make something budge. It’s the typical approach to life and health that appears like it should work. Logically doing something should create something different. And it does, but only if you change the pattern because your pattern produces the outcome you experience. If yo…

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#318: Psychology Of Setting Resolutions You'll Keep 32:01

8M ago32:01

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I’ll be the first to admit I’ve set many resolutions. Yet I’ve never achieved a single one. At least not that I can recount. Yet, I keep going back to the same approach, hoping one of these years it will work. I never blamed the act of setting resolutions for why they didn’t work, but I always blamed myself. In the last few years, I re-evaluated th…

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#317: How Your Nervous System Impacts Your Digestion 1:06:02

9M ago1:06:02

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Leaky gut seems to be a national crisis. While diet is certainly a factor, the larger issue is stress or the lack of safety inside your physiology. Maria-Victoria Albina of The Feminist Wellness Podcast came on this podcast to share the response of the nervous system on our GI tract and the fight for safety within our biology. We talk about the pol…

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#314: Three Healthy Things Making You Unhealthy 42:17

9M ago42:17

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It’s easy to get sucked into the black-and-white trap of health. It’s either good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. Leaving many people attempting tasks and eating foods that perhaps are healthy for some but not others. The problem with this picture is it diminishes the secret of health. That secret is what your body is doing with what you provide. And…

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#315: Change How You Feel Using A Body Scan 1:01:16

9M ago1:01:16

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My therapy journey began because I wanted to stop feeling. Most therapy begins because you want to change how you feel. At least feeling the things you didn’t want to feel. Just like I wanted emotional control in the form of only feeling what I wanted to feel and never feeling what I didn’t. Arguably, we’d all love that superpower. To feel the good…

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#314: How To Stop Complicating Health 41:01

10M ago41:01

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Health has been hard. I want to emphasize the has as a past-tense explanation. Because while it might have been difficult, it doesn’t have to be that way. You don’t have to live complicating health. It’s only difficult because we’ve let it become that. Perhaps not you personally, but the endless external ideas about what health means are overwhelmi…

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#313: We Tried Continuous Glucose Monitoring (Levels) for 30 Days, This Is What We Learned 53:53

10M ago53:53

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Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) seems to be trending right now. While traditionally, I shy away from the fads of the moment. I had my eye on this one. Rather than another shot in the dark, continuous glucose monitoring offered tangible results in real-time. Unlike the scale, CGM opened up the internal workings of my biology to understand how it…

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#312: Five Reasons You Can't Stop Emotionally Eating 54:34

10M ago54:34

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Food can be such a fight. In one breath, you genuinely enjoy food and want to enjoy the process of it. But in other, it’s terrifying. Your mind races with questions on what to eat, how much, will this make me fat, or what if it’s not good for me? There are so many messages and ideas it’s hard to imagine thinking anything but dread when it comes to …

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Alexa Schirm Podcasts

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#336: What Should We Really Eat for Optimal Health? 29:14

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#335: The Metabolic Power of Feminine Energy 49:48

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#334: Are You 'Resting' Too Much? 26:56

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#333: How To Lose Weight (The Healthy Way) 30:29

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#332: When To Let Go Of The Plan (The Intro Of Bioenergetics) 25:45

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#331: Do You Need Hormone Replacement Therapy? 1:06:22

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#330: The Three Most Common (Root) Causes of Hormone Imbalance 20:08

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#329: Your Perspective Changes Your Biology - Learn How! 29:21

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#328: Are You Stuck In The Stress Response? 27:40

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#327: Are Seed Oils Bad For You? 18:03

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#326: The Healing Power of Self-Identity 24:41

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#325: Why You Need An Emotional Detox 26:15

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#324: Do Calories Really Matter? 23:04

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#323: How To Build Metabolic Flexibility: Three Truths + One Lie 23:22

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#322: How To Get Healthy: The Most Important Thing 21:34

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#321: Your Body's Not That Sensitive 42:45

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#320: 10 Habits of The Healthiest People 41:24

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#319: Five Health Skills You Didn’t Know You Needed 27:49

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#318: Psychology Of Setting Resolutions You'll Keep 32:01

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#317: How Your Nervous System Impacts Your Digestion 1:06:02

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#314: Three Healthy Things Making You Unhealthy 42:17

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#315: Change How You Feel Using A Body Scan 1:01:16

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#314: How To Stop Complicating Health 41:01

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#313: We Tried Continuous Glucose Monitoring (Levels) for 30 Days, This Is What We Learned 53:53

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#312: Five Reasons You Can't Stop Emotionally Eating 54:34

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