
Hosted by Jena Salisbury · EN

In this episode, Jena talks with Meg Bowman, author of the book This is Your Body on Trauma, co-founder of Clinician's Incubator, and fellow CNS. Jena and Meg discuss how trauma and stress play a role in many clients' healing journeys, as well as how different tools and strategies best support their feelings of safety when doing the work that comes with clinical nutrition. Meg also shares a case study of one of her own clients, and walks Jena through how she took a slower approach with an anxious client to finally give them some relief from their IBS symptoms. Check out Meg's book This is Your Body on Trauma, in addition to her Substack, Nutrition Needs Nuance. If you're interested in learning more about Clinician's Incubator, go to cliniciansincubator.com.To get in touch with Jena, check out innateclinicalnutrition.com. Follow @innateclinicalnutrition on Facebook and Instagram. Remember to follow or subscribe so you never miss an episode!Listeners! We want to hear from you. Are you curious about functional medicine and have specific questions you want Jena to answer? Do you have experiences moving away from traditional medicine and into functional medicine to get answers for your health concerns? Are you studying to become a CNS and want to know more about Jena's practice or functional modalities? Send us an email at cnsunfiltered@gmail.com for a chance to be featured on the show!Are you a CNS practitioner or nutrition professional? Are you interested in being interviewed? Click here.

In this episode of CNS Unfiltered, Jena shares a case study detailing the worst yeast case she has ever seen in her practice. Jena discusses the complexities of a yeast infection, including why she deviated from normal protocol and approached resolving the yeast infection in her client before anything else first, how yeast often evades traditional medicine, and why maintenance is important when it comes to optimizing your health.To get in touch with Jena, check out innateclinicalnutrition.com. Follow @innateclinicalnutrition on Facebook and Instagram. Remember to follow or subscribe so you never miss an episode!Listeners! We want to hear from you. Are you curious about functional medicine and have specific questions you want Jena to answer? Do you have experiences moving away from traditional medicine and into functional medicine to get answers for your health concerns? Are you studying to become a CNS and want to know more about Jena's practice or functional modalities? Send us an email at cnsunfiltered@gmail.com for a chance to be featured on the show!Are you a CNS practitioner or nutrition professional? Are you interested in being interviewed? Click here.

In this episode, Jena talks with Yulia Glotzer, fellow CNS and owner of Vibrant People Nutrition. In this conversation, Jena and Yulia discuss several different strategies for emerging CNS professionals looking to start their own practice. They also talk about why building community with your region is so crucial to your professional career and practice. In addition, Yulia brings an eye-opening case study of a woman looking to conceive and considering undergoing IVF. Yulia explains how she used targeted nutrition and supplementation to help her client restore her menstrual cycles after a year and a half without them, and ultimately optimize her health enough to achieve pregnancy—without IVF.To get in touch with Yulia, go to vibrantpeoplenutrition.com. Follow her on Instagram at @vibrantpeoplenutrition.To get in touch with Jena, check out innateclinicalnutrition.com. Follow @innateclinicalnutrition on Facebook and Instagram. Remember to follow or subscribe so you never miss an episode!Listeners! We want to hear from you. Are you curious about functional medicine and have specific questions you want Jena to answer? Do you have experiences moving away from traditional medicine and into functional medicine to get answers for your health concerns? Are you studying to become a CNS and want to know more about Jena's practice or functional modalities? Send us an email at cnsunfiltered@gmail.com for a chance to be featured on the show!Are you a CNS practitioner or nutrition professional? Are you interested in being interviewed? Click here.

In this episode, Jena talks with Autumn Beam, CNS practitioner and founder of Hope Wella Functional Nutrition and also The Practitioner's Growth Lab. In this conversation, Jena and Autumn discuss the numerous complexities surrounding MCAS (Mast Cell Activation Syndrome) and the role that nutrition plays in treating and managing it. In addition, Jena also talks with Autumn about The Practitioner's Growth Lab, and how Autumn provides mentorship and coaching to CNS and other nutrition professionals wanting to grow their own practices. To get in touch with Autumn, go to www.hopewella.com. To get in touch with Jena, check out innateclinicalnutrition.com. Follow @innateclinicalnutrition on Facebook and Instagram. Remember to follow or subscribe so you never miss an episode!Listeners! We want to hear from you. Are you curious about functional medicine and have specific questions you want Jena to answer? Do you have experiences moving away from traditional medicine and into functional medicine to get answers for your health concerns? Are you studying to become a CNS and want to know more about Jena's practice or functional modalities? Send us an email at cnsunfiltered@gmail.com for a chance to be featured on the show!Are you a CNS practitioner or nutrition professional? Are you interested in being interviewed? Click here.

In this solo episode, Jena unpacks the myth of diagnosis as beginning and end of health concerns. In this case study, the client's severe malnutrition and gut imbalances that followed her COVID infection caused her to lose over 35 pounds. Jena discusses the diagnostic testing that led to her discoveries, as well as the protocol and treatment plan that ultimately allowed her client to regain the weight, nourish her body, and get back to enjoying her life, her family, and her job as a kindergarten class volunteer.To get in touch with Jena, check out innateclinicalnutrition.com. Follow @innateclinicalnutrition on Facebook and Instagram. Remember to follow or subscribe so you never miss an episode!Listeners! We want to hear from you. Are you curious about functional medicine and have specific questions you want Jena to answer? Do you have experiences moving away from traditional medicine and into functional medicine to get answers for your health concerns? Are you studying to become a CNS and want to know more about Jena's practice or functional modalities? Send us an email at cnsunfiltered@gmail.com for a chance to be featured on the show! SIGN UP FOR ICN'S WEBINAR HERE! Are you a CNS practitioner or nutrition professional? Are you interested in being interviewed? Click here.*SHOW CORRECTIONS*There are a few moments in this episode where Jena mentions testing her client for spirochetes. Jena actually meant to say that she tested her client's steatocrit to detect her client's level of fat malabsorption, or steatorrhea. There are a few moments in this episode where Jena discusses her client's use of psychosomatic drugs to suppress the involuntary movements she was experiencing, but Jena accidentally calls them "anti-somatics." When she says this, she is referring to psychosomatics.