Renewed Hope Nutrition Center

09/15/2026

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The Renewed Hope Wellness Podcast has given us the opportunity to sit down with some truly incredible people over the years, ask big questions, explore new ideas, and have honest conversations about health, healing, and what it means to live well.

And now, those conversations have a little home of their own.

We’re so excited for what’s ahead, the guests we’ll get to welcome around this table, the things we’ll continue to learn, and all the conversations we haven’t had yet.

A very special thank you to Tommy at Tommy Williams Custom Signs https://share.google/6CKQCjPNdvFj1TeTx for making the beautiful Renewed Hope sign and helping bring this little space together. It couldn’t be more perfect.

Same curiosity. Same mission. A cozy new place to keep the conversation going. 🤍

We can’t wait to have you listening along.

09/11/2026

Today, we remember. 🇺🇸

We remember the lives lost on September 11, 2001.
We remember the families whose lives were forever changed.
We remember the first responders who ran toward danger and the countless acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion that followed.

25 years later, may we continue to honor their memory by choosing kindness, unity, and gratitude for one another.

We will never forget. ❤️🤍💙

09/11/2026

25 years later, we remember.

The lives lost. The heroes who ran toward danger. The families forever changed. And a nation that came together in the face of tragedy.

May we never forget. 🇺🇸

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09/10/2026

🌈 “Eat the rainbow” sounds like simple nutrition advice… but there’s actually a lot of science hiding inside those colors.

The pigments that make blueberries blue, tomatoes red, carrots orange, and leafy greens green aren’t there just to make our plates prettier.

Many of them come from phytonutrients — naturally occurring plant compounds like anthocyanins, carotenoids, flavonoids, and chlorophyll.

And different plants bring different things to the table.

🫐 Anthocyanins
🥕 Carotenoids
🍅 Lycopene
🥦 Glucosinolates
🧄 Sulfur-containing compounds
🌿 Plus different types of fiber that help feed a diverse gut microbiome.

The goal isn’t to create a perfectly rainbow-colored plate at every meal.

It’s diversity over time.

More colors. More plants. More variety. More opportunities to give your body the nutrients and plant compounds it needs to thrive.

So take a look at what you’ve eaten this week…

How many colors can you count? 🌈

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09/09/2026

MOUNTAIN MEDICINE • EP. 02 🌿
Jewelweed

Sometimes the remedy is growing right beside the thing that hurts you.

Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) has long held a place in traditional plant medicine, especially for irritated skin and encounters with poison ivy. Its cool, watery stems and leaves have been crushed and applied topically for generations.

You’ll often find it growing in the damp, shaded places Appalachia does best — creek banks, wet hollows, and the edges of the woods.

The science around jewelweed and poison ivy is mixed, and traditional use shouldn’t be confused with a guaranteed treatment. But there’s something worth preserving in the knowledge of the people who learned these mountains by living closely with them.

Not everything old needs to be forgotten.

Here’s to remembering the old ways. 🌿

Thanks for tuning in to Episode 2 of Mountain Medicine.

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09/03/2026

You may be asleep—but your body is anything but inactive. 🌙

While you sleep, some pretty remarkable biology is happening behind the scenes.

🧠 Your brain is doing maintenance.
Sleep supports the brain’s waste-clearance systems, including glymphatic activity, which helps move fluid and metabolic waste through brain tissue.

💭 Your brain is processing the day.
Sleep plays an important role in consolidating memories, learning, and newly acquired skills.

💪 Your body is recovering.
Deep sleep is associated with pulses of growth hormone, an important part of tissue repair and physical recovery.

🦠 Your immune system is communicating.
Sleep influences immune signaling and regulation, while consistently inadequate sleep can interfere with normal immune function.

🩸 Your metabolism is affected, too.
Even short periods of insufficient sleep can affect insulin sensitivity and glucose regulation. Sleep can also influence the systems that regulate hunger and appetite.

We spend so much time thinking about what we need to do for our health.

Another workout.
Another supplement.
Another protocol.

But sometimes health looks like giving your body enough time to do the work it was already designed to do.

Sleep isn’t time lost. It’s biological maintenance. 💤

Save this as your reminder that recovery is part of the work, too.

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09/02/2026

🌿 MOUNTAIN MEDICINE — EPISODE ONE: YELLOWROOT

There are things you learn from books—and there are things you learn from the people who came before you.

For Happy, yellowroot (Xanthorhiza simplicissima) is one of those things.

She remembers her grandmother using it. Knowledge passed down through experience, observation, family, and generations of people living closely with the land.

And it felt like the perfect place to begin Mountain Medicine—our new series exploring the plants, remedies, and traditions woven into life here in Appalachia, alongside what modern science can tell us about them.

But the story of yellowroot begins long before our own family stories.

Yellowroot has a documented history of use among Indigenous peoples of the Southeast, including Cherokee, Catawba, and Lumbee communities. Later, the plant became woven into broader Appalachian folk traditions.

Traditionally, yellowroot preparations have been recorded for uses ranging from digestive complaints and sore mouths and throats to use as a bitter tonic.

And here's where the old knowledge gets especially interesting.

Yellowroot contains berberine, the alkaloid largely responsible for its striking yellow color, along with other naturally occurring alkaloids, flavonoids, and phenolic compounds. Modern laboratory research has found biological activity—including antimicrobial activity—in yellowroot extracts and compounds isolated from the plant.

Does that mean every traditional use has been scientifically proven? No. Human clinical research specifically on yellowroot is still limited, and traditional use shouldn't automatically be treated as clinical evidence.

But science can help us understand why some of these plants may have been valued for generations.

That's what Mountain Medicine is about.

Not romanticizing every old remedy.
Not dismissing generations of lived knowledge, either.

We're going back to the plants, the people, and the stories—and looking at them again through the lens of modern science.

And we're starting with one Happy remembers from her grandmother. 💛🌿

Welcome to Mountain Medicine.

09/02/2026