By Judith Smith-Meyer for Foodbank of Santa Barbara County | January 29, 2020 | 9:00 a.m.

The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County expands its public nutrition education series Food as Medicine with Digestion Connection: How Digestion Impacts States of Health and Disease, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19, in Santa Barbara Public Library's Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St.

Admission is free, but seating is limited. To reserve seating, email [emailprotected] or call 805-357-5754.

Presented by local nutrition experts Vibeke Weiland and Randi Miller, the talk will cover the impact of digestive health on overall well-being and how to choose foods to improve digestion.

Participants will enjoy local wine and probiotic beverages, and will be able to taste freshly prepared recipes such as Italian wedding soup, mushroom soup, winter citrus salad, vegan stuffed mushrooms and fermented foods. Attendees will take home recipes for gut-friendly foods.

In conjunction with the talk, two new Food as Medicine free podcast episodes are available at https://foodbanksbc.org/get-help/fam.

Lacey Baldiviez, the Foodbanks nutritional biologist and director of community education, talks with Weiland and Miller about how the digestive process works, how to decipher clues from your body about the health of your digestive system, and ways to improve the health of your entire body by improving your gut microbiome.

The first new podcast episode, Digestion Connection, Part 1: Introduction to Digestion, explores the effect of digestive health on the rest of the body, including skin, sleep, neurological and autoimmune conditions; elimination and how it can affect hormonal balance.

Weiland and Miller discuss how to care for your gut microbiome, and how to eat for your best gut function. The podcast subtitle elaborates that, in this episode, listeners will learn why the gut is not Las Vegas, what normal digestion looks like in the toilet, and how to slow things down to get the most from your meals.

The second new episode, Digestion Connection, Part 2: Acid Reflux, Liver Detox and Gluten Specs, illuminates anatomy, digestive processes and strategies related to acid reflux/heartburn and G.E.R.D. (gastroesophageal reflux disease).

This podcast aims to teach about causes of acid reflux, how to eat to detoxify your body, and why you might consider testing glutens effects.

Weiland is a certified nutritional therapy practitioner practicing at Santa Barbara Wellness for Life in Santa Barbara, and is the immediate past chair of the Foodbanks board of trustees.

Miller is a certified health coach in integrative nutrition. She practices functional diagnostics nutrition, helping people optimize their health via diet and lifestyle based on lab test results and symptoms.

For more about the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County, visit http://www.foodbanksbc.org.

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