58. Colorful Foods for Mood, Hormones, and Wellness with Deanna Minich, PhD

How many colors do you eat in a day? Do you know about the powerful connections that color has to our biology, chakras, and deeper meaning of who we are? We are excited to offer you this conversation with Dr. Deanna Minich, a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (IFMCP), nutrition scientist, international lecturer, teacher, and author, with over twenty years of experience in academia and in the food and dietary supplement industries. This is a really enlightening conversation about the power of the rainbow in our food and how each color connects to different body systems, chakras, and elements in our bodies. If you want to better understand how food can be a powerful medicine for our health and wellness, don’t miss this conversation. 0:00 - Introduction 5:16 - What motivated Dr. Minich to become a functional medicine practitioner and nutritionist? 8:18 - Why did color become a focus of your practice? 14:47 - How does eating color impact us on a mind, body, and spirit level? 18:50 - Benefits of the different colors 50:24 - What most people don’t realize about eating color 51:21 - What Dr. Minich eats every day 53:35 - How to work with Dr. Minich