Meghan Telpner heals her Crohn’s Disease symptoms by turning to real whole food as medicine
Meghan knows how devastating inflammatory digestive issues can be. She eventually received a Crohn’s disease diagnosis after living for years with gut ache and a host of other health issues before finally saying “enough is ENOUGH”. That’s when Meghan took her health into her own hands and healed herself of the pain, exhaustion and other tribulations that come with digestive disorders. In this episode of the Eat Real To Heal podcast, Meghan brings you into her world of integrative therapies so you can learn the key steps you need to take to reclaim your health, rebuild your digestion, get your energy back and be free of chronic pain and discomfort once and for good.
“Then I discovered that place in my apartment, called the kitchen and I went to cook and I was just deep into reading all the textbooks for nutrition school... cover to cover and highlighting them and making my own list of food that potentially would elevate inflammation in the body and a list of foods that would exasperate inflammation in the body and I only ate from the one column, which was very very long and predominately made up of food I’d never seen or heard of before and on the no list was, gluten, dairy, sugar, alcohol and caffeine. ”
Meghan is a Toronto-based nutritionist, author and founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition which is growing a global tribe of vibrant living advocates. She’s also the author of two bestselling books, UnDiet: Eat Your Way to Vibrant Health and The UnDiet Cookbook, which are creating a revolution in how people think about their health. In addition to being featured in Forbes, Meghan is also ranked as one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in Canada, and she was named Best Holistic Nutritionist in 2017 and 2018 with National Nutrition. Meghan currently lives in Toronto with her husband Josh Gitalis, a functional medicine practitioner, and their son Finley.