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Ep. 015 - Interview with Mike Belz, CEO of the NTA - Nutrition Freedom
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In this episode, Jamie Belz, host of the Nutritional Therapy and Wellness Podcast interviews the CEO of The Nutritional Therapy Association (and her husband), Mike Belz. The two discuss the various credentials available through the NTA, program changes made over the past few years, including the return of the FCA, the future of the NTA, health freedom, nutrition freedom, and government involvement.
4:13 – Mike details his career background in higher education, then crossing over into commercial realty just before the world shut down for COVID.
10:26 – Pandemic closures
12:34 – The NTP Program’s impact on a family
14:37 – Changing your stars – three things
17:00 – Mike comes to the NTA, and things that have been done since
17:40 – Certification programs, NTA versus other nutrition education schools and programs (again at 50:15), non-profit versus for-profit schools, accreditation, shifts in post-secondary education system structuring in the past decade, school funding, predatory recruitment, federal funding, grants, overpromised career outcomes, admissions ethics
24:15 – NTP program re-structure, allied health associate and bachelor’s degree program structures
27:12 – NTP (Nutritional Therapy Practitioner), FNTP (Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner), Health Coach (again at 37:29)
29:03 – Government control in nutrition education, two-year and four-year program possibility, funding, tuition, inflation, student loans, accessibility
32:50 – K-12 Public Funding, American Experiment Podcast
33:05 – Keeping the government out of it, CEO of Babylon Bee’s talk on censorship was censored
34:24 – Direction of the NTA, students, graduates
41:51 – Nutrition, Politics, Religion
42:51 – Health epidemic
43:13 – Nutritional truth, legitimate scientists and doctors, special interest funded “science” versus veal science, Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Media, Health Freedom, Nutritional Freedom, government/American Heart Association endorsement of Cheerios as “heart healthy” cereal
47:20 – It’s not about looking good. It’s about feeling good; then the aesthetics come along with wellness.
48:15 – Profit and corruption in nutrition
48:54 – “You are what you eat” – health at the cellular level
49:40 – Dead foods versus living foods, Raw Milk Mama
50:15 – NTA’s competitors
54:44 – Healing through nutrition
Somewhere in the mix of this podcast is a discount code and a tease for the greatest discount the NTA has ever offered for their NTP program. Find it and call the Admissions Team at (360) 800-5682.
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