Rebel Heart Radio

This week Gen goes solo to interview the amazing Amanda Torres on the podcast! Amanda is the creator of the food and wellness website The Curious Coconut and best-selling author of Latin American Paleo Cooking. She is currently writing a Fast & Flavorful Weeknight-friendly Paleo cookbook due to release in early 2020. Her professional background is as a neuroscientist and she worked for more than a decade in biomedical research, so you'll find plenty of fascinating science tidbits in all of her work. She is the lead researcher for the online fertility, pregnancy, and parenthood program Baby Making & Beyond. WHAT AMANDA IS ALL ABOUT: At the age of 25 after the intense stress of grad school, she found herself facing many painful and scary health conditions, including debilitating hidradenitis suppurativa, pre-diabetes, IBS, hypertension, as well as being obese. Western medicine only offered her a dozen different drugs and a bleak outlook. Knowing that there had to be a way to feel better, she adopted a