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Are you ready to discover which Salad With a Side of Fries episodes truly changed lives in 2025? Join Jenn for an inspiring countdown of transformative wellness conversations that tackle everything from heart rate variability to hormone health and pre-diabetic prevention. These game-changing discussions offer practical insights you can implement immediately.
Jenn Trepeck, host of Salad With a Side of Fries, reveals the top 10 episodes of 2025. She shares powerful conversations about blood sugar management, diet culture, and flexible habits that serve your health goals. From understanding how to improve heart rate variability naturally to demystifying hormones and breaking free from rigid wellness rules, this episode delivers a curated playlist of wellness habits that honor real life.
What You Will Learn in This Episode:
✅ How heart rate variability acts as a speedometer for your physiology and practical ways to improve it using wearable technology for better health monitoring.
✅ Why hormone health isn't mysterious or taboo—discover how hormones communicate what your body needs and why birth control effects differ from what you've been told.
✅ The truth about pre-diabetic prevention through daily food choices and why small, consistent changes matter more than once-yearly doctor visits for blood sugar management.
✅ How to break free from diet culture and rigid habits by embracing the "Yes, And" approach to wellness habits that honor both your body and soul.
The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast, hosted by Jenn Trepeck, explores real-life wellness and weight-loss topics, debunking myths, misinformation, and flawed science surrounding nutrition and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store.
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 The annual countdown tradition of reviewing the Top 10 Episodes of 2025
05:03 Episode 324: Have Your Cake and Feel Great—breaking free from food shame and diet culture while enjoying treats
06:55 Episode 302: The “Yes And” in Healthcare (feat. Andrea Nakayama)—combining Western medicine with lifestyle medicine and holistic health
09:09 Episode 313: Rigid vs.Flexible Habits (feat. Monica Packer)—escaping perfectionism and the all-or-nothing mindset
12:37 Episode 312: Daily Habits That Serve or Sabotage Your Health and Hormones —understanding context and nuance
14:13 Episode 324: Hormones Are Your Check Engine Light (feat. Jillian Greaves)—demystifying hormone health and birth control effects on women's bodies
20:03 Episode 288: Use Your Heart Monitor to Improve Your Health (feat. Torkil Færø)—tracking Heart Rate Variability
23:11 Episode 303: Everyone Is Pre-Diabetic Unless…—why prevention happens daily through food choices, not annual checkups
30:04 Episode 292: Your Fat Cells Have Memory, a New Study Finds (feat. Ferdinand Von Meyenn)—understanding cellular encoding and why sustainable weight loss matters
33:36 Episode 326: The Kids are Not Alright. Are We? #skinnytok #tiktoxic (feat. Dr. Jillian Lampert)—addressing skinny talk, body image, and self-care practices across all ages
41:00 Episode 327: Eyes Are the Window to Your Health (feat. Dr. Joseph Allen)—the first eye health-focused episode exploring disease detection through vision
43:00 Honorable mention: Emotional Vitality (feat.Jared St. Claire)—exploring vagus nerve connection, gut health impact on mental health awareness, and transformative self-talk practices
44:07 Bonus episode: Kegels are for more than Better Sex (feat. Liz Miracle of kGoal)—quality of life information for all humans, not just postpartum women.Get 10% off kgoal with this link: https://www.kgoal.com/discount/TREPECK or use coupon code TREPECK
45:47 Nutrition Nugget: 10-3-2-1-0 quality sleep formula—practical bedtime routine for better rest and recovery metrics
46:30 Nutrition Nugget: Minnesota Starvation Experiment—understanding severe undereating effects
47:15 Episode 293: More on GLP-1 Meds & How to Increase your GLP-1 Naturally for sustainable weight management
48:06 Nutrition Nugget: The Easy Way Out—making wellness habits as simple as possible for sustainable weight management in 2026
48:37 Episode 325: Book Talk: Uncomplicating Wellness—Jenn’s new book
49:11 Episode 296: Dry Beyond January Part Two (Jill Tietz)—award-winning stellar interview on alcohol impact and lifestyle medicine approaches
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
💎 Heart rate variability is your body's capacity to handle stress—the higher your HRV, the more physiological headroom you have, making it one of the most valuable metrics from wearable devices for tracking wellness habits.
💎 Hormone health isn't about regulation but communication—symptoms aren't your body rebelling, but instead sending signals about what support it needs, especially regarding birth control effects that create medicated menopause rather than proper hormone balance.
💎 Pre-diabetic prevention starts with daily food choices, not annual doctor visits—what seems like small, meaningless changes in eating ultra-processed versus whole foods creates powerful prevention that moves you toward or away from disease.
💎 Diet culture and skinny talk affect everyone regardless of age—from self-care practices to curating social media feeds, being intentional about the messages we consume helps combat body image struggles and supports mental health awareness.
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Ep 324 Have your Cake and Feel Great
Ep 302 The "Yes And" in Healthcare (Feat. Andrea Nakayama)
Ep 313 Rigid versus Flexible Habits (feat. Monica Packer)
Ep 312 Daily Habits that Serve or Sabotage Your Health and Hormones
Ep 311 Hormones are Your Check Engine Light (feat. Jillian Greaves)
Ep 288 Use Your Heart Monitor to Improve Your Health (feat Torkil Faero)
Ep 303 Everyone is Pre-Diabetic Unless...
Ep 292 Your Fat Cells Have Memory, A New Study Finds (feat. Ferdinand Von Mayon)
Ep 326 The Kids are Not Alright. Are We? #skinnytok #tiktoxic (feat. Dr. Jillian Lampert)
Ep 327 Eyes are the Window to Your Health (feat. Dr. Joseph Allen)
Honorable Mentions:
Ep 331 Emotional Vitality (feat Jared St. Clair)
Bonus Ep. Kegels are for more than Better Sex (feat. Liz Miracle of kGoal) (Get 10% off kgoal with this link: https://www.kgoal.com/discount/TREPECK or use coupon code TREPECK)
Nutrition Nugget: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
Ep 293 More on GLP-1 Meds & How to Increase your GLP-1 Naturally
Nutrition Nugget: The Easy Way Out
Ep 325 Book Talk: Uncomplicating Wellness
Ep 286 Dry Beyond January Part 2: Living Sober w/ Jill Tietz
QUOTES:
00:30 "Heart rate variability is like having a speedometer for your physiology. I think there's so much that we have with wearables and information that we don't necessarily know what to do with, and so this took something and made it much more tangible." —Jenn Trepeck
06:22 "Stop “shoulding” the bed." —Jenn Trepeck
16:47 "One of the biggest mistakes we can make is overly fixating on the hormone itself. What we need to do is ask the deeper question of why—recognizing that all of this is communicating with us, that even the symptoms we're experiencing, it's not the body rebelling against you." —Jenn Trepeck
25:01 "Prevention is not once a year going for your blood work and then waiting for the doctor to tell you that you're pre-diabetic. Going to the doctor once a year is what we would call early detection, not prevention. Prevention is the stuff that we do all the time." —Jenn Trepeck
31:37 "For all the people out there who have ever thought that regaining weight after weight loss was an individual problem or a moral issue, or a failure of will or whatever it is, you're just patently wrong. There is so much physiology that goes into it." —Jenn Trepeck
37:28 "Use the algorithms to your advantage, not to your disadvantage. What if we make the internet a place where people are kind and we start to fill our feeds with all of that stuff and things that make us laugh and things that bring us joy?" —Jenn Trepeck
38:17 "I like to ask myself, who will benefit the most or profit if I believe what they're selling me? That is something I try to be mindful of on a daily basis." —Dawn
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Transcripts
[00:00:30] And then of course, we also talked about things that we could do to improve heart rate variability. Welcome to Salad with a side of Fries. I'm your host, Jenn Trepeck, talking wellness and weight loss for real life. We're here to clear up the myths, misinformation, bad science and marketing to teach you how to eat.
[:[00:01:12] And the criteria, frankly, is none other than. Our personal opinions. So who was the hour you asked? Well, each year it is mine and the person who joins me for this episode this year, joining us today is not only a listener, but she works on my podcast post-production team. So friend, please
[:[00:01:35] Dawn: Dawn.
[:[00:01:41] Jenn Trepeck: I was gonna say, welcome to the side of the mic. Thank you. It's an honor and I am kind of nervous. Don't be nervous. I know. Easier said than done. I'm excited for you to be here, and I invited you to join me for this because you often send me feedback.
[:[00:02:29] So think of this as a way to reflect on your own progress from this year, A guide for episodes that you may wanna go back to. Maybe over these holiday weeks you have some extra listening time, or maybe you need an escape from. The people around. You can put your headphones in and we'll be here. So think of it, it's like a curated playlist of sorts.
[:[00:03:15] You could probably add some protein powder if you wanted to up the ante even further. Even as the recipe has them, though they are. Already a healthier option than probably almost anything else that's gonna be on that dessert table at any event. And these taste super decadent. They're delicious, and you can change 'em up, do different add-ons with them.
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[:[00:04:59] Okay, [00:05:00] our top 10 dawn, we're gonna start with one of yours.
[:[00:05:24] While still feeling well and not shaming ourselves for enjoying, yes. A little treat. Absolutely. I,
[:[00:05:49] And I think I talked about this, you know, even in the episode, like, stop living by the shoulds, right? Or stop shoulding the bed and figure out consistency. [00:06:00] Because consistency in my mind includes holidays. So if you're feeling right now like you're very like black, white on off, or that all of those treats and things that you enjoy are just off limits, or if you start, it's all downhill.
[:[00:06:22] Dawn: Yeah, and just like remembering that food isn't good or bad. Yes, it's food and some of it, you know, may have more sugar in it or maybe a little more processed than other foods, but it's food and it's not morally good, or it's not morally bad
[:[00:06:40] Some things nourish the physical body. Some things nourish the soul Exactly. You're welcome. We're gonna make that a new quote. All right. So that actually reminded me, well, I dunno if it was quite the reminder, but one of my favorite episodes from this year. It's episode 3 0 2, the [00:07:00] Yes, and in healthcare featuring Andrea Nakayama.
[:[00:07:32] Look at things in such a binary way that I don't know the yes and is like all things are part of it and all things fit. I also love her story, like for those of you who don't know, so she wasn't originally in the wellness space. She came to all of this because of a diagnosis that her husband received and in trying to help him write the yes and doing the western medicine approach.
[:[00:08:17] I also appreciate the way she explained things. It's, she goes through her approach of three roots, many branches. So it's also a nice framework for us to think about all of our health stuff.
[:[00:08:41] Yes. With a life. Exactly. And that really impacted her. Like that was one of the things that stood out from the episode to me.
[:[00:09:05] That's right. Yeah. Alright, dawn number three. What's your pick?
[:[00:09:37] I've built in the time to rest. Like sometimes my mind is just. On like the cyclical thought process of like, I should do this, I should do this, and at the end of the day, I don't really feel rested because I wasn't resting
[:[00:09:51] Dawn: And yeah, like the all or nothing mindset isn't, at least it doesn't work for me personally, let's just say that.
[:[00:10:19] And she talks about how perfectionism even is a spectrum. And that frankly, no matter where on the spectrum we fall, there's sort of an underlying piece that's the same. Mm-hmm. And so I'll let you go back to listen for that, but I think I had an aha moment. With this episode, and you know how, and I don't think I'm the only one with these days, but you know how you sometimes just have those days where you're like, I don't wanna get off the couch.
[:[00:11:00] Dawn: I hadn't thought about it that way, like that end of the spectrum, me,
[:[00:11:28] Going, going, going. And then the one day where it's just sloth city.
[:[00:11:52] It was so great overcast. It was raining. It was like not cold enough to snow, but it was cold enough to make you a little miserable. [00:12:00] And I had a productive morning with work and I like sat an alarm for an hour and laid down and snuggled my puppy. And then when my alarm went off, I felt relaxed and then I got up and I did the other things that was on my list.
[:[00:12:15] Jenn Trepeck: love that.
[:[00:12:23] Jenn Trepeck: she was talking about, you know? Yeah. Like finding those moments. Amazing. So speaking of habits and kind of this idea, so that one was rigid versus flexible habits, my next pick are number four.
[:[00:13:01] But it's all of the things where. We can feel like we're doing so many incredible things, and there's nuance to ensuring that the way we execute those habits or those concepts truly serve us versus sabotage us.
[:[00:13:32] So, but why isn't that working for me?
[:[00:13:59] Dawn: And even just like [00:14:00] asking the questions is a stop towards making a change that can benefit you. Totally.
[:[00:14:13] Dawn: so this episode is from another one from July of this year and it was called Hormones Are Your Check Engine Light featuring Jillian Grieves.
[:[00:14:48] Yeah. Like there's just a thing that like, it feels like a buzzword sometimes and not something that like we're educated about. So it was nice to learn like this episode was packed full of information, [00:15:00] and I also picked this one too because of that. Like talking about it and demystifying things and like having a space where women of whatever age can feel safe bringing this up and seek insight or education or even just like normalize talking about it because for some reason hormones are.
[:[00:15:23] Jenn Trepeck: Isn't that wild?
[:[00:15:30] Jenn Trepeck: right? Everybody has hormones, right? And their fluctuations are in fact what we need, right? That's appropriate physiology, and yet we just think of them also as. You know, in that same black and white scenario of on off, good, bad, and that's not really what it is here either.
[:[00:16:11] Is helpful and I learned a lot from this episode. So ultimately I picked it. And also like I've been on birth control since middle school. Um, and so. I don't know. That's also just a personal reason why, just because I wanna learn. So,
[:[00:16:33] It doesn't regulate, and I use that in air quotes, right? It doesn't regulate our hormones the way we were told it does. It's really medicated menopause,
[:[00:16:47] Jenn Trepeck: our doctors don't know it. Right. So one of the things that Jillian said in that episode is like one of the biggest mistakes we can make is overly fixating on the hormone itself.
[:[00:17:26] Dawn: right?
[:[00:17:54] But just learning to listen to your body and what it's trying to tell you is [00:18:00] a takeaway that I had from that episode as well.
[:[00:18:17] You know how the wellness world just loves to bury us in rules and guilt and noise. Yeah. So I've experienced it. I've lived it, and it's why I wrote the antidote. My book, uncomplicating Wellness, ditch the Rules, quiet The Noise Reclaim Your Life is for anyone who has ever felt like they're doing everything right in air quotes, but still not feeling well, not feeling energized, not seeing the results of all this massive effort.
[:[00:19:11] And that's you, spoiler. So if you are ready to stop chasing wellness and start living it, grab your copy of Uncomplicating Wellness. Let's dish the rules, quiet the noise, and help you reclaim your life because you deserve it. You're worth it. So you can find Uncomplicating Wellness wherever books are sold.
[:[00:19:59] Thank you. I [00:20:00] appreciate the little clap that nobody else could hear or see, but I saw it. Oh, number six is one of my picks. Okay. This one, episode 2 88 from February 5th, 2025, use your heart rate monitor to improve your health featuring torque Pharaoh. Now forgive me on how this silly American pronounces his name, but basically the reason why I chose this one is because this is one of those episodes that.
[:[00:20:53] So heart rate variability, if you wear. A whoop, if you have any kind of a ring, a lot of [00:21:00] your wearables, your biometric devices will track heart rate variability and some of the watches will do it if you wear it all the time or wear it when you sleep, or you know, there are some caveats to that difference than some of the, like the whoop or the ring.
[:[00:21:45] It's like having a speedometer for your physiology. I love that. I think there's so much that we have with wearables and information that we don't necessarily know what to do with, and so this took something and made it much more tangible. And then of [00:22:00] course, we also talked about things that we could do to improve heart rate variability, so I love this one clearly.
[:[00:22:09] Dawn: I definitely want to get a wearable that a I will actually wear. And that measures things that actually, that I can use, such as my heart rate variability and the watch that I have right now isn't the best for that. So I'm, I'm on the lookout.
[:[00:22:37] Highly recommend, and you can use the link. In the episode notes from that episode to find Ring Con. What I like about Ring Con is that you just buy the device. You don't have to pay monthly for the app.
[:[00:22:50] Jenn Trepeck: my
[:[00:22:51] Jenn Trepeck: Yeah. But it's been interesting even to watch, like I can see the impact of having a cocktail on my heart rate variability.
[:[00:23:11] Dawn: Number seven. I picked episode 3 0 3 from May of this year and it is, everyone is pre-diabetic unless,
[:[00:23:48] Yay. Thank you. And I've learned. Learned. Yeah. Shout out. Salad with the side of fries. I also like, I don't quite remember when I realized what the standard American diet was, but [00:24:00] definitely listening to your podcast, it's like much more of an awareness factor now, and just something that I am a lot more mindful of.
[:[00:24:32] Thank you.
[:[00:24:34] Dawn: Thank you. I feel like I'm all over this place with my thoughts
[:[00:25:01] Mm-hmm. That we're waiting. Like we're essentially just living our lives waiting until at whatever age we go into the doctor and they say, okay, now you have higher blood sugar than we would really like to see. And it's like, well, this didn't happen overnight. We didn't wake up one morning, flip a switch, and all of a sudden have this, that it's been building.
[:[00:25:49] It's just a function of whether or not your doctor or the Western medical system has decided that it's kicked in now. That now is the point that we're gonna tell you about it. And so my hope [00:26:00] with this one is that everyone can take a step back and just look at some of the seemingly small choices that we're making every day.
[:[00:26:19] Dawn: Yeah, and just being aware too of like the differences, like just the difference that ultra processed foods versus Whole Foods can have on your health and like getting to, even if you just are making like one choice in a week.
[:[00:26:40] Jenn Trepeck: great. Yes, that is in fact more powerful prevention. Showing up to our doctor once a year. Right. I said in the episode like, prevention is not once a year going for your blood work and then waiting for the doctor to tell you that you're pre-diabetic. You know, going to the doctor once a year is what we would call early detection, not [00:27:00] prevention.
[:[00:27:16] Dawn: This is a little caveat, I guess. So I remember my senior year of high school, I'm not an early riser and high school in my county started super early, so I'd literally like get out of bed, get dressed, grab a honey bun, and eat it on the way to school.
[:[00:27:56] I was literally running on honey bun. And [00:28:00] now as an adult, knowing what I know about nutrition and like what I like and what my body needs, I
[:[00:28:18] We can quote, unquote, get away with that stuff in a way that, especially as we age, we don't respond as well, we respond more dramatically. It's not that those things didn't affect us at all, it's that we sort of had. More wiggle room. You know, we had more of a buffer at that time.
[:[00:28:36] Jenn Trepeck: But yeah, if only we knew then what we know now.
[:[00:28:59] She [00:29:00] used what she had and what she knew. And I was fed. Yes. And I was safe and got to live a full childhood. So I was like, I also don't wanna be guilt tripping people if they're struggling with this also.
[:[00:29:24] All we can do is enough. And look at how amazing you turned out. Right? Like your mom did an unbelievable job. It's incredible. Right? Thanks mom. Yeah. And that's the, you know, I think the beauty of the human body is that it's not stagnant. Like at any point we could decide to make another choice and the body responds.
[:[00:30:11] Your fat cells have memory. A new study finds, so this is one where I read about this study and then I cold outreached to this man, the researcher who did this study, bless him that he agreed to come on the show and talk about it. So long story short, what they found is that essentially our fat cells have, they almost get encoded.
[:[00:31:04] Patients, when we quickly lose weight, those fat cells. Don't necessarily have the time to adapt to a new environment. And so they send signals essentially that we need the other environment, we need the obesogenic environment and it can contribute to regaining weight. And so for all the people out there, and I don't know that that many of these people listen to salad with a session fries, but for all the people out there who have ever thought that.
[:[00:32:01] But even here we see there's a genetic. Change inside a cell where physiologically the cells on this person's body are different than the cells on another person's body. And so I just appreciate this and my soapbox a little bit, but it also lends itself to like, I mentally extrapolate, you know, he, the researcher is like, well, this was the study and this is what we found, and that's where we leave it.
[:[00:32:52] Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
[:[00:33:06] Jenn Trepeck: Exactly. It's interesting too, 'cause the human genome is 99.9% the same. Turns out that 0.1% is a lot.
[:[00:33:36] Dawn: So for number nine, I picked episode 3 26 from October of this year called the Kids Are Not.
[:[00:33:49] Jenn Trepeck: Hashtag
[:[00:34:18] And we definitely don't want to be normalizing things like eating disorders or things like that, which has happened before. Um, I mean, it's
[:[00:34:28] Dawn: Yeah, so I also picked this one too because like I am a woman in my thirties and have done a lot of work around my self-confidence and. Worth and everything.
[:[00:35:06] Early on in our friendship, I found myself like subconsciously comparing myself to them and comparing my body a lot. And you know, I've done that a lot as a like growing up. And normally I would just like stew in those thoughts and that wouldn't end up in a healthy place. Yeah. With these friends, I felt safe bringing it up in conversation and it actually opened up, I mean, a conversation from all of us.
[:[00:35:50] So just all of that to say like having that conversation really helped me realize like, I am affected by skinny talk [00:36:00] to this day, even when I don't want to be. And so that was like, I'm not the only one I know that
[:[00:36:17] And it's so interesting. So when we first talked about this episode, and it aired in October because of bullying awareness month, and then as we were recording the episode, I was like, I'm sorry, this is not. Just about the kids at all. And one of the things that she talked about was this idea of self bullying and that our feeds, especially as adults, can create that.
[:[00:37:06] And so. I loved this conversation and the awareness piece that it brought to all of these things, and then some of the things that we can do, like she talked about, how to reset your feed so that you can just start from scratch and recurate the information that comes to you. You know, because it may not be serving you.
[:[00:37:47] Right.
[:[00:38:17] It is important. I like to ask myself, who will benefit the most or profit from this if I believe what they're selling me? And that is like just something I try to be mindful of on a daily basis, but thousand percent, especially if
[:[00:38:38] Then guess what you are, what somebody else is paying for. Mm-hmm. You know, we are the product if we're not the client.
[:[00:39:00] Uhhuh on the big screen before you see your movie. I was mad. I looked at the person next to me, I was like, what is this? That's not what I came here for. Totally. They're every, oh, but yeah, it's literal everywhere. Yeah.
[:[00:39:25] Dawn: I also just one more like, again, not to be commenting on people's bodies, again, for the sake of gossip or entertainment or whatnot. There have been a lot of, on my for you page, a lot of conversations around how skinny people are getting in Hollywood. Yes. And it's like coming from a place of concern and I guess the silver lining of all of this is seeing that there are conversations there, there is friction from that.
[:[00:40:06] Jenn Trepeck: not gonna lend here and stay here. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I hope so too. I hope that those conversations, questioning the health are also reaching the people who are looking at it with envy.
[:[00:40:28] Dawn: right. And it's like it's such a big beast that we can't control ourselves. We can only lend our 2 cents and hope that Yeah, it's helping somebody.
[:[00:40:41] Dawn: And talking about it is one way to do that.
[:[00:40:45] Jenn Trepeck: So the episode with Dr. Jillian Lampert called. The kids are not. All right, are we hashtag's? Kitty talk hashtag toxic. Okay. Featuring Dr. Jillian Lambert. All right, number 10. This was [00:41:00] my pick. Episode 3 27. Eyes are the window to your Health featuring Dr. Joseph Allen. So this one made the list because hard to believe in six years of this podcast.
[:[00:41:39] And so I love this one also, Dr. Joey has an incredible YouTube channel and he's just a great presence and the way he explains things makes it super accessible. Um, so eyes are the window to your health, like stress impacts the eye. Even we talked about like cosmetic things with, you know, circles. Bags. We tried to [00:42:00] tackle as much of the eye stuff as we possibly could, but it's awesome.
[:[00:42:08] Dawn: If you have eye twitches that you don't know what's causing them or how to get rid of them, listen to that episode.
[:[00:42:17] Dawn: Well, I don't know. That's just something that I hear people. Okay. Like my eye won't stop twitching, and so I'm like, well.
[:[00:42:28] Jenn Trepeck: I love it. I will just say thank you. Yeah, it's awesome. He talks about so much I'm looking through here. You know, he even talks about washing your eyelids and cleansing your eyelids. Like there's so many little things that we often overlook. So all that was our top 10.
[:[00:42:57] Dawn: Yes. So this was a recent one. Um, it [00:43:00] was December 3rd. It was called Emotional Vitality featuring Jared St. Claire. I mean, everything that you guys talked about in this one, I was like taking notes like, wow, gut health.
[:[00:43:33] Remind me. I'll
[:[00:43:34] Dawn: Okay, thank you. What stood out to me the most was when you guys were talking about your self-talk and the way you speak to yourself and what you tell yourself you are has a huge impact on the way your brain is wired. And so that conversation just kind of, it was like towards the end of the episode and he was just going on about like, you're not, you are not this, you are not that.
[:[00:44:02] Jenn Trepeck: Awesome.
[:[00:44:03] Jenn Trepeck: love it. Go through all of yours, your honorable mentions, and then I'll do all mine.
[:[00:44:17] This one, like I have struggled with pelvic floor weakness and tightness and muscle spasms for. Most of my life. And I was like, I went to doctors, like nobody knew what was wrong with me. And then one day I Googled exactly what my symptoms were. And this was before AI, by the way. And I was like, oh, I'm having pelvic floor muscle spasms.
[:[00:45:00] Jenn Trepeck: Right. Well if we hear about it, it's for women only and like after childbirth.
[:[00:45:26] Dawn: Right. And the focus of the practice isn't, I guess, like you said.
[:[00:45:39] Jenn Trepeck: Yeah. Yeah. And this one, that was a great one too. I've gotten such great feedback from that episode. For sure. Yeah.
[:[00:45:53] It's from July of this year. Quick recap, 10 hours before bed stop, caffeine, [00:46:00] three hours before bed. Stop food and alcohol. Two hours before bed, no screens, one hour before bed. Stop work. That one has been a really big game changer as far as like just nighttime routine. Although it is hard 'cause I read on my Kindle, so like sometimes I do look at a screen until I fall asleep.
[:[00:46:20] Jenn Trepeck: I get it. I get it. I am a work in progress on the sleep thing too. Yes, that was a good one. Alright, my honorable mentions. Okay, so there were two of these that I'm putting in here as the honorable mentions that relate back to the glp. One thing that you were saying of like the ads, so one of those is the nutrition nugget from January 3rd, 2025 called the Minnesota Starvation Experiment.
[:[00:47:14] All of these things. Okay. Then episode 2 93 called More on GLP One Meds and How to Increase Your GLP one Naturally. This is from March 12th of this year. Please listen, like GLP one Medications can be a tremendous tool. They're not the only tool to harness the power of. This hormone glucagon-like peptide.
[:[00:47:57] This is more on the Yes. And with the [00:48:00] GLP as well. So those two together I think can be really helpful. This time of year, my next honorable mention is Nutrition Nugget, the Easy Way out from May 23rd. I encourage you to listen to this and then think about how you're approaching 2026. A lot of you are going to think that it's connected to the glp.
[:[00:48:43] Um, with the launch of my book, complicating Wellness and hearing people talk about it, it was like the first time we had a conversation with people who had read it and it was so powerful for me to hear what they took away from it. And I hope everybody found that helpful too. I think it was [00:49:00] interesting, like the women and their age differences and lifestyle differences and all that kind of thing, you know?
[:[00:49:28] Right? I know. All right. And what's an honorable mention without highlighting our next nutrition nugget? So on Friday and this week's bite-sized bonus episode, we're talking about perk energy. So Amanda s sent this to me on Instagram. She said, I love to hear your opinion and deep dive about this product on your podcast.
[:[00:50:11] Awesome. Well, as always, everybody, I'm your host, Jen Trebeck. Connect with me on Instagram or all social media. I'm at Jenn Trepeck, J-E-N-N-T-R-E-P-E-C-K. Website is a salad with the side of fries.com. Pick a platform, send a message because I love hearing from you. Dawn, thank you again for being here and joining me.
[:[00:50:37] Dawn: Yay. Yeah, this was so much fun. It, and again, it was cool to see the side of.
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[:[00:51:31] In the new Year. Well, friends, that's it for today's episode of Salad with a Side of Fries. Congratulations for making yourself and your health a priority. Thanks so much for joining us. Be sure to click subscribe or follow on your favorite podcast platform. Share us with a friend and we'll be back next week.
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