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Sandi Star is a Holistic Practitioner and Clinical Nutritionist who specializes in functional nutrition and wellness with a focus on addressing the underlying triggers and root cause of chronic inflammation.
Sandi’s primary focus is treating and preventing disease and dependency on pharmaceuticals. Sandi incorporates naturopathic therapies, lifestyle and nutrition counseling.
She originally came across Meal Garden as a tool to help create a beautiful look for her recipe book, but has since incorporated it into several lines of her work with clients for long-term success and habit creation & maintenance.
Show Notes:
2:24 - How Sandi’s health issues throughout her life led her to discover the power of nutrition in healing
4:34 - What Sandi focuses on when she helps her clients
“Especially right now with everything going on in the world, we have to make sure that we're eating good food, that we're balancing our immune system and really being supported and mindset is critical too.”
6:18 - What prompted Sandi to start using meal planning software to help her clients
“With Meal Garden […] you can pick specialty diets, like gluten free, casein free, egg free, whatever that is. And that was very difficult back in the day to […] try to do that for every patient.”
7:11 - How Sandi uses Meal Garden to best support her clients with specific diet restrictions and requirements
10:14 - The role of medication vs. nutrition
11:11 - How Sandi has adapted her coaching style throughout the years to best help her clients
“The main goal is longterm success. Whatever we're working on. There's no short fix. […] I can't just give you a pill and tomorrow you're going to wake up great. It's you've got to put some work into this. […] I've had a lot of different personalities, let's just say, but there's always that reminder, okay, in six months, where do you want to be? And you, you know, you may lose and lot of people do all these bad diets and this and that and they lose weight. But then they also gain a lot more back. So it's just educating people on daily decisions for longterm success with anything to do with health.”
16:24 - How Sandi developed partnerships with local doctors and clinics
20:49 - The advice Sandi would give her younger self.
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