Wellness + Wisdom Episode 402
Co-Founder of Paleovalley, Co-Host of the Optimize Paleo Podcast, and Certified Eating Psychology Coach, Autumn Smith, returns for a third time to discuss the magic and myths of apple cider vinegar, what inspired her team to create their Apple Cider Vinegar Complex, how she healed her own chronic health issues including IBS with supplements and lifestyle changes plus her own favorite tips to help you on your wellness journey for greater physical, mental, and emotional health.
Discover how it can help you stabilize blood sugar, increase energy, burn more fat, reduce inflammation, improve gut health, and why Paleovalley decided to create their product in a tablet form.
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Paleovalley's Apple Cider Vinegar Complex
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Introducing a powerful organic blend of apple cider vinegar and four more gut & health supportive superfoods.
Paleovalley Apple Cider Vinegar Complex is a powerful aid to get organic apple cider vinegar into your body faster, easier, and without having to tolerate the taste.
Their Apple Cider Vinegar Complex also contains four additional superfoods shown to support gut health, inflammation reduction, weight loss, and blood sugar stabilization. Unlike other similar products, they use all organic ingredients in order to avoid the pesticides and herbicides so prevalent in our food system today.
They use gentle processing in an effort to preserve as many of the unique and fragile nutrients found in apple cider vinegar and these other four superfoods as possible.
Listen To Episode 402 As Autumn Smith Uncovers:
[1:30] Is Your Energy Being Robbed?
- Paleovalley's Apple Cider Vinegar Complex
- 352 Autumn Smith: How To Heal Your Brain With Food
- Optimize Paleo Podcast by Paleovalley
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What is blocking people from achieving true health and wellness in 2021.
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Why she wasn't afraid in 2020 because she knew she had all of these tools to support and protect her from COVID-19.
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The fear she saw in her community from the pandemic and how that has increased rates of mental health issues, anxiety, and depression.
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How parents and busy people are under attack as their energy is being depleted and they struggle to stay afloat.
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Why getting rid of caffeine has actually helped Autumn increase and stabilize her energy.
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How fear and overstimulation can easily decrease our stores of energy.
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Healthy boundaries that Autumn puts up for herself around social media and work to avoid stress and fearful thoughts in her free time.
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Why it's so important to spend time doing things during your free time that you love.
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How she has cultivated love and gratitude within her family and friendships with easy practices that you can also apply to your life.
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Why we actually receive more from acts of kindness when we're the ones giving to others.
[8:30] How Apple Cider Vinegar Can Stabilize Blood Sugar
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How nutrition and supplements can support your self-love practices, reduce stress, and let go of fear.
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Autumn's own health struggles with imbalanced blood sugar and brain inflammation.
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Why balancing your blood sugar calls for an approach that is unique to you and your health.
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The power of improving your health by first focusing on your blood sugar levels.
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Josh's experience doing a recent 10-day Vision Quest and the power of nature to connect us to what is real.
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Why people with the most stable blood sugar will live the longest lives.
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How apple cider vinegar (ACV) can stabilize blood sugar and improve your health overall.
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Other benefits of ACV which include increasing fat burn and reduce cravings.
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Why liquid ACV can damage tooth enamel and that is why PaleoValley's ACV Complex is in tablet form.
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Other beneficial ingredients in Paleovalley's ACV Complex: cinnamon, turmeric, lemon, and ginger which also help reduce the production of gas in your digestion tract.
[18:30] Guidelines for Taking Paleovalley's ACV Complex
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Josh's experience taking the Paleovalley ACV Complex plus added benefits he has noticed such as a calming effect.
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How often, how much, and when Autumn recommends take the ACV Complex.
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What to be aware of if you're on certain medications especially for diabetes and blood thinners.
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A breakdown of all you need to know about ACV from how it's made to truths and myths about it.
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Why it's the acidic acid, not the nutrients, that are actually key for all the health benefits you receive when you take ACV.
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The evidence out there at ACV can help improve your cholesterol levels especially HDL.
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How liquid ACV can impact the skin and esophagus and thus it's so important that it has been diluted.
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Why you shouldn't rely on ACV 100% without also living a healthier lifestyle with exercise and good nutrition.
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How long Autumn has been taking ACV in tablet form.
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Differences between taking ACV as a tablet compared to liquid form.
[31:30] Why Small Steps Make A Huge Health Difference
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What steps you can do to improve your health when experiencing high levels of stress in addition to adding ACV to your healthy habits.
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Small, easy to do changes you can make like drinking more water every day and then go from there with bigger goals.
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What Autumn didn't understand about nutrition when she was a professional dancer especially about calories.
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How Autumn's blood sugar roller coaster took her on dramatic mood swings when her nutrition was off.
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Why poor blood sugar levels can increase your risk to chronic degenerative diseases including Alzheimer's, insulin resistance, Type 2 Diabetes, and heart disease.
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The power of stabilized blood sugar for greater energy, vitality, and sleep.
[45:00] The Difference Between People Pleasing & Serving People
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What Autumn has added to her Wellness Wheel since the COVID-19 pandemic began to support herself.
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How Autumn set up healthy boundaries to connect to herself and her intuition to find out what exactly she wants for her life, what she wants to create, what relationships are helping her, and what is holding her back.
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Struggles we all face here and there with being People Pleasers and the downside to that behavior.
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How taking care of yourself can help you operate at a greater capacity to truly serve the people you care about.
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The true difference between people pleasing and the power of serving others.
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How she helps people along their wellness journey to make radical change when they're ready for it.
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What steps Autumn has taken to step into her higher self and recognize that she is enough.
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Breathwork for letting go of shame, comparison, and self rejection.
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How to become the best version of yourself and let go of fear.
[46:00] Unpacking The Organic Certification Process
- Paul Chek | All Is God
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What the organic certification process actually looks like and what roadblocks Paleovalley has faced.
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Why the organic regulation process globally isn't perfect yet when it comes to soil samples, what ‘natural' means, and importing products or ingredients from other countries.
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How Paleovalley works directly with their famers for products such as their beef sticks.
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The transparency Paleovalley offers their customers and business partners with their organic certifications.
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Why some farmers may be doing regenerative practices but they're not certified yet or they don't know about specific certifications they can get.
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Upcoming changes that are happening for Wellness Force after Josh's Vision Quest as we rebrand to honor Mother Nature.
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The three massive problems Autumn believes regenerative farming will help us solve.
- Belcampo Meat Co
Power Quotes From The Show
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Stabilize Your Blood Sugar & Beyond with ACV
“Having stable blood sugar is so central. They find that the people who have the most stable blood sugar actually live the longest lives. When I got married, I realized just how amazing life is and so I wanted to create a tonic that would help me promote longevity on a regular basis. So I found ingredients that would first of all help bring down inflammation naturally but also stabilize blood sugar because I know it's so important and so many people are lacking it. This search led me to apple cider vinegar and I was just blown away by it. Hippocrates supposedly it and it's been used for thousands of years for so many different applications.” – Autumn Smith
Our Beautiful Connection With Nature
“We are in this world today where we think there's a pill for every ill and that's the answer were should be looking for but our company, Paleovalley, and our products like our Apple Cider Vinegar Complex are about sharing the beautiful wisdom that exists between earth and our bodies. We've evolved using that intelligence yet somehow I feel like we have become very disconnected from nature and so our product line focuses on trying to help people come back to that. We look at the wisdom of Mother Earth and we just bring the highest quality ingredients from nature into a version that people can use on a daily basis.” – Autumn Smith
High Blood Sugar & Chronic Disease
Links From Today's Show
- Paleovalley's Apple Cider Vinegar Complex
- 352 Autumn Smith: How To Heal Your Brain With Food
- Optimize Paleo Podcast by Paleovalley
- The #1 Nutrient to Boost Your Mental Health
- 293 Dr. Jade Teta
- Paleovalley Beef Sticks
- Leave Wellness Force a review on iTunes
- Belcampo Meat Co
- breathwork.io
- M21 Wellness Guide
- Paleovalley
- Autumn Smith
About Autumn Smith
Autumn Fladmo Smith has been a health enthusiast her entire life. She began her academic career with a Bachelor's degree in psychology and a minor in dance from the University of Montana. Upon graduation, Autumn danced professionally while becoming a certified yoga instructor. Hoping to combine her love of dance with her passion for health, Autumn became a celebrity fitness trainer with Tracy Anderson, most notably completing a world tour with Jennifer Lopez.
Autumn's Mission
