Meet Dr. Rahil Roopani MD and Dr. Natalie Kash MD, FAAD, board-certified hair restoration surgeons. Dr. Kash is also a board-certified dermatologist. Together, they founded “Root Hair Institute” in Bellevue, Washington, bringing their skill set and extensive knowledge of hair loss treatments to the Pacific Northwest.

On this episode of the podcast, Dr. Roopani and Dr. Kash bring on Anisa Woodall, a holistic Certified Nutritionist. Food is an integral part of our overall health; Anisa and the doctors discuss how what we put into our bodies impacts performance, health and hair!

In this episode, we welcome Anisa Woodall, a holistic nutritionist, to discuss her journey from dealing with debilitating periods and fatigue to achieving optimal health and vitality. Anisa shares her deep knowledge of hormones, dietary impacts on health, and fertility. She candidly talks about her two home birth experiences, and her transition from a vegetarian diet to one rich in animal proteins, which proved crucial in her health transformation. Additionally, she highlights the importance of preconception preparation and understanding bodily signs for maintaining hormonal balance. This episode is a wellspring of wisdom for women seeking to understand and harness their hormonal health and reproductive power.

In this episode, Lindsey gets right to the point with pre-submitted questions from our BIRTHFIT Community (via Instagram and our monthly membership). Anisa shares her preconception wisdom as she answers questions about PCOS, Endometriosis, age, egg quality, and an animal based diet. Anisa is all about identifying and addressing the “smoke” before your “house is burning down” and has a keen ability to listen and pinpoint areas of improvement that helps her clients heal and improve faster.

Anisa shares her story of having a midwife-assisted homebirth with her first baby, and a freebirth with her second. She says that birth can just keep getting better when we take back more of our autonomy, and especially when intentional preconception preparations for mind, body, and spirit are made.

We learn from Anisa Woodall, MS CN:

• Why vegan and vegetarian diets (particularly non ovo-lacto) are not only unethical during preconception and pregnancy but also dangerous to mom and baby.

• What prompted Anisa to transition from plant-based to animal based once she entered nutrition school.

• Why certain “health foods” like açaí aren’t actually as nutrient dense as we believe and which nutrients we need to prioritize for optimal fertility instead.

• How much epigenetic impact both parents  have on their future baby during the preconception period through their diet, lifestyle and environment verses what their genetics will dictate.

• Which specific lifestyle changes women actually need to optimize to increase their odds of having a healthy pregnancy on their desired timeline.

Sould the key to fertility and healthy pregnancies be hidden in our past? One of the biggest questions facing women today is“what foods should I eat for a healthy pregnancy?”

And despite following mainstream advice and ‘doing all the right things’, many women still struggle with the emotional, physical and financial turmoil of infertility and challenging pregnancies. In Nourished, we meet the mothers and medical specialists who have gone against the grain, and returned to the traditional animal foods that have always been known to support mother and child.

Meet Anisa Woodall, MS CN and a real-food, holistic Certified Nutritionist who helps women connect and listen to their intuitive voice to develop a healthy relationship with food and with themselves, so they can realign with their values of minimalism, health, and environmental respect and raise healthier children. In today’s episode, we discuss how everything from your food and clothing choices prior to conception, can impact your unborn baby’s health, why we, as a society have become so disconnected from ourselves and the role nature plays, and why sustainability in our food and clothing is a much deeper conversation than just having less pollution. In this informative episode, you will discover what it takes to live a healthy life from the inside out, how to use food as medicine and turn your own genetics on and off to heal disease, and how to teach your children how to listen to their own bodies so they can make better decisions as they grow up.