Summary: Nutrition after trauma may not be something you think about, but in healing your brain after trauma, it's enormously important! Almost two years ago I interviewed Dr. Terry Wahls about how nutrition cures depression, brain fog and lack of concentration. During our chat she revealed how she found a cure for Multiple Sclerosis in her own overcoming the disease through her use of nutrition, specifically by making green shakes. Like Dr. Wahls' condition, nutrition also can play a hugely supportive role in healing trauma. When our bodies experience trauma, it takes everything we have to fight off what could be terrible, long-term health issues. Many times, the trauma takes away our desire to care for ourselves and in doing so, we cause even greater harm to our health. In the end, we wind up with not only mental health struggles but physical ailments as well. Nutrition after trauma is a topic that every trauma survivor should take the time to learn and integrate into their healing path. On today’s episode of Changing Direction, I chatted with the USA Director of Compassion in World Farming, Leah Garces. Leah joined the show to discuss not only the importance of what you’re eating, but how and where your food comes from. She shareed what her organization is doing to promote healthier food for your table and focus on the increased nutritional benefits that come with eating meat that is properly raised and prepared, giving you the highest possible nutritional value. Plus, Leah talked about how you can shop (even on a limited budget) to choose foods with higher nutritional value (including your protein staples of beef and chicken) and increase the impact your food has on your health. About my guest: Leah Garcés is the USA Director for Compassion in World Farming, an organization based in the UK with offices around the world, dedicated to ending factory farming globally. She is a Global Animal PartnershipBoard of Directors member . She has worked to advance higher welfare for farm animals for well over a decade and has authored and edited several reports and books on animals in agriculture. A strong proponent of collaboration, she launched the multi-stakeholder Georgians for Pastured Poultry. The USA stream of work for Compassion focuses primarily on collaboration with US food businesses and making real and practical improvements for farm animals, in particular poultry. Along with building Compassion’s USA presence, she provides strategic and technical advice to food business to advance policies and practices that result in measureable improvements for farm animals. She currently lives in Decatur, GA with her husband and two young sons.
