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Food Heals

Food Heals

By: Allison Melody
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Being hailed as "Sex and the City for Food," The Food Heals Podcast brings together experts in the field of nutrition, health and healing to teach you the best-kept natural secrets to being a hotter, healthier, happier YOU! The Food Heals Podcast is hosted by Allison Melody with guest co-hosts like Suzy Hardy, Leslie Durso, Whitney Lauritsen, Sophie Uliano and more – all self-proclaimed natural chicks who will rock your world and change your beliefs about health! This sexy, savvy show provides eco-friendly advice on a variety of issues including the healing power of nutrition, living authentically, turning your passion into your career, choosing the best natural health and beauty products, the benefits of a plant-based diet and so much more! Past notable Food Heals Podcast guests include NutritionFacts.org's Michael Greger, The Universe Has Your Back Author Gabby Bernstein, The Miracle Morning Author Hal Elrod, NBA Champion & Vegan Activist John Salley, The McDougall Program Author Dr. McDougall, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead Director Joe Cross, What The Health Directors Kip Andersen & Keegan Kuhn, Producer & TV Personality Tracey Edmonds, America's Healthy Doc, Dr. Joel Kahn, Radio Host & TV Personality Kerri Kasem, Proteinaholic Author Dr. Garth Davis, A Tribe Called Bliss Author Lori Harder Fitness Expert Ben Greenfield, The Food Babe Vani Hari, Born For This Author Chris Guillebeau, Entrepreneurs On Fire John Lee Dumas & Kate Erickson, Eaternity Author & Host of How to Live to 100, Jason Wrobel, and Producer & Wellness expert Kimberly Van Der Beek, just to name a few. Hygiene & Healthy Living Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
Episodes
  • Doing Everything “Right” and Still Feeling Sick? Become the CEO of Your Health with Amanda Soukoulis

    Doing Everything “Right” and Still Feeling Sick? Become the CEO of Your Health with Amanda Soukoulis
    11 Oct 2026
    What do you do when your labs look “normal,” but you feel anything but? Amanda Soukoulis was a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader finalist with a thriving career in private equity. From the outside, she looked like the picture of health. But in her mid-20s, her energy crashed, brain fog stole her focus, and she gained 35 pounds despite no changes to her diet or workouts. After spending $70,000 searching for answers, Amanda discovered gut dysfunction, mold exposure, and postmenopausal estrogen levels. Being dismissed by doctors became the turning point that led her into functional medicine and nutrition, first to understand her own body, then to help others. In this episode of Food Heals, Allison Melody sits down with Amanda to explore her recovery journey, the connections between gut health and hormones, and the role peptides played in her experience. In this episode, we cover: • Why “normal” labs don’t always explain persistent symptoms• Amanda’s journey through fatigue, brain fog, bloating, and hormonal imbalance• How stress, nervous system regulation, and sleep fit into the bigger health picture• What Amanda discovered about mold exposure and her gut health• Her experience with peptides and why testing, sourcing, and individualized guidance matter• Her U3 framework: Uncover, Uproot, Unleash• What it means to become the CEO of your own health If you’ve ever been told everything is fine while knowing something feels wrong, this conversation will remind you that your experience deserves to be heard, and that asking more questions can be the beginning of a new chapter. Connect with Amanda: Instagram: @amandasouksWebsite: amandasoukoulis.com DM Amanda “FOODHEALS” on Instagram to learn about her Peptide Playbook and the custom health blueprint session discussed in this episode.
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    53 min
  • At 22, He Couldn’t Feed Himself. Then One Doctor Changed Everything: Miguel’s Chronic Fatigue Recovery Story

    At 22, He Couldn’t Feed Himself. Then One Doctor Changed Everything: Miguel’s Chronic Fatigue Recovery Story
    3 Oct 2026
    At 22, Miguel Bautista was so sick that his 75-year-old grandmother had to feed him and help him bathe. He experienced debilitating fatigue, brain fog, heart palpitations, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. After seeing dozens of specialists, his tests kept coming back normal. He was a medical mystery, and no one seemed to have answers. Eventually, he landed in the ICU and was ready to give up. Then a psychiatrist reviewing his records identified something the tests hadn’t revealed: his nervous system was stuck in survival mode. Learning to regulate it became the turning point. Within a month of working with that doctor, Miguel went from bedridden to walking on his own and leaving the hospital. Today, he exercises, travels, and helps others navigate their own recovery journeys. So what did that doctor see that everyone else had missed? In this episode of Food Heals, Allison Melody sits down with Miguel, founder of CFS Recovery, to explore his experience with chronic fatigue and the turning point that helped him rebuild his life: understanding his nervous system and learning to move out of survival mode. Miguel shares the three pillars he teaches, why constantly pushing harder can backfire, and how he approached symptoms with less fear. Allison opens up about her own experience with functional freeze after losing her parents, financial security, and sense of safety. She also shares how her rescue beagle Dolly is learning to feel safe, one small experience at a time. In this conversation, we explore: • Miguel’s journey from being bedridden to reclaiming his independence.• The frustration of feeling seriously unwell while tests show nothing abnormal.• Fight, flight, freeze, and what it can feel like to stay in survival mode.• Miguel’s three pillars: understanding what’s happening, responding to symptoms, and gradually building capacity.• Neuroplasticity, repetition, and the practice of creating a sense of safety.• Why community and support matter when recovery feels lonely.• The resources Miguel offers people navigating chronic fatigue, long COVID, and related symptoms. Plus, Miguel shares a free Recovery Roadmap Protocol for Food Heals listeners, including his Recovery Stage Identifier and a personalized recovery report. Access Miguel’s gift for Food Heals listeners:https://cfsrecovery.co/foodheals
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    57 min
  • Why a Lifelong Vegan Believes Eating Real Meat Could End Factory Farming with Bruce Friedrich

    Why a Lifelong Vegan Believes Eating Real Meat Could End Factory Farming with Bruce Friedrich
    6 Aug 2026
    Could we see the end of factory farming within our lifetime? What if the answer is not convincing everyone to stop eating meat, but completely changing how meat is made? In this episode of Food Heals, Allison Melody sits down with Bruce Friedrich, president of the Good Food Institute and author of Meat: How the Next Agricultural Revolution Will Transform Humanity’s Favorite Food and Our Future. Bruce is vegan. Allison is vegan. And they both support cultivated meat, which is real meat grown directly from animal cells instead of raising and slaughtering animals for food. Cultivated meat has the potential to give meat eaters the same product they already want without factory farming, animal slaughter or animal suffering. It will also reduce the environmental destruction, food contamination, antibiotic resistance and pandemic risks connected to conventional animal agriculture. Bruce explains the difference between plant-based and cultivated meat, why cultivated meat could eventually become more affordable than conventional meat and why some of the world’s largest food and meat companies are investing in this technology. They also discuss why global meat consumption continues to rise, the surprising enthusiasm cultivated meat receives from heavy meat eaters and whether this agricultural revolution could end factory farming within our lifetime. • What cultivated meat is and how it is made• The difference between plant-based and cultivated meat• Why cultivated meat does not require animal slaughter• How factory farming affects animals, human health and the environment• The connection between animal agriculture and antibiotic resistance• Why cultivated meat may reduce bacterial contamination• Why governments and major food companies are investing• What needs to happen before cultivated meat becomes widely available• Whether factory farming could end within our lifetime The Good Food Institute:https://gfi.org Get Bruce’s new book, Meat:https://meatbook.org
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    1 hr
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