Norma Flood, MS, RDN

10/28/2026

🌱 30 plants in one serving? Let’s make our own!

This homemade 30-plant blend combines nuts, seeds, fruits, vegetables, mushrooms, spices, and botanicals into one easy, versatile topping.

✨ The ingredient list:
🥜 Nuts
* 1 tbsp walnuts
* 1 tbsp almonds
* 3 Brazil nuts
* 1 tbsp pecans
🌻 Seeds
* 1 tbsp chia seeds
* 1 tbsp flax meal
* 1 tbsp h**p seeds
* 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
* 1 tbsp sunflower seeds
🫐 Fruits
* ⅓ cup freeze-dried blueberries
* 2 tbsp goji berries
🥬 Vegetables & mushrooms
* 2 small sheets dried seaweed
* ½ tsp dried parsley flakes
* ½ tsp moringa powder
* ½ tsp five-mushroom extract powder (or 2 opened capsules)
🌶️ Spices
* 1 tsp Baharat eight-spice blend (or pumpkin spice blend)
* ½ tsp turmeric
🍵 Botanicals
* ½ tsp green matcha powder
* ½ tsp cacao powder

How to make it: Combine the ingredients and divide into 4 servings of ¼ cup each.

Each serving provides approximately 5g of fiber, plus nutrients like magnesium, zinc, selenium, omega-3s, vitamin E, and polyphenols.

Add it to yogurt, salads, soups, or hot cereal for an easy way to incorporate more plant diversity into your day! 🌿

10/27/2026

10/21/2026

What if your gut health is influencing more than just your digestion? 👀

From brain fog and mood changes to acne, eczema, migraines, and sinus congestion, the gut microbiome may play a bigger role in your overall well-being than you realize.

In this episode, we explore:
* What leaky gut is and how it can affect the body
* The connection between gut health, brain fog, mood changes, and anxiety
* How the gut microbiome may influence skin conditions, migraines, and sinus congestion
* The potential impact of food sensitivities, glyphosate, and mycotoxins on gut health
* Why gut-related issues can develop even without obvious digestive symptoms
* 5 practical strategies to support a healthier gut microbiome

Your gut health may be connected to more than you think. Tune in to explore the connection between your gut and whole-body wellness. 🦠

Full episode of Go With Your Gut available now on YouTube and Spotify.

10/14/2026

What if the key to building resilience against environmental toxins starts in the soil? 🌱

In Episode 27 of Go With Your Gut, we explore the connection between pesticide exposure, mycotoxins, and metabolic health, and why a healthy gut microbiome matters when it comes to supporting our body’s resilience.

But the solution isn’t perfection. It’s reducing our overall toxic burden and rethinking how we grow our food.

🌾 Healthier food starts with healthier farming. Regenerative agriculture may be an important part of that conversation.

Tune in to Episode 27 of Go With Your Gut to hear more.

10/12/2026

Fall honey harvest from our home hive! 🐝 Smoke the bees to calm, pull the frames, uncap the comb, and spin. This year’s honey is darker thanks to nearby avocado farm pollen. Raw, nutrient-rich, and made to share with loved ones this season!🍯

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10/07/2026

Mold toxins might not just be an indoor air problem.

In this episode, we explore the connection between:
• 🌱 Soil health & soil microbiology
• 🍄 Mold toxins & mycotoxins in our food supply
• 🧪 Pesticides, glyphosate & agricultural chemicals
• 🦠 The gut microbiome & human health
• 🥬 Nutrient density & the quality of our food
• 🧬 Genetics & individual susceptibility to environmental toxins
• 🌾 Regenerative agriculture & rebuilding healthy soil
• 👨‍👩‍👧 Potential long-term & intergenerational effects of exposure

Damone Richardson and I are joined by Dr. Allen Williams, Dr. Stephan van Vliet, Dr. John Fagan, and Dr. Dan Stein for a deep conversation about how the health of our soil, food, and bodies may be more connected than we realize.

Full episode of Go With Your Gut available now on YouTube and Spotify.

10/05/2026

I visited a school garden I helped start with other parents at my kids’ former elementary school, Painted Rock. What began as six small beds has grown into an outdoor classroom, reading area, pumpkin patch, and even a greenhouse. Kids get to witness and take part in how food grows, while applying their science and math lessons to real garden concepts. They can visit during recess, too. The garden even funds much of itself, through a farmer’s market and succulents made from their own harvested pumpkins. A school garden connects kids to the soil and the food they eat, and those lessons travel home to parents. This kind of learning is just as essential to kids’ health and well-being as anything else on the schedule. Want this for your school? Support an existing garden, or bring the idea to your PTA! 🌿🎃

09/28/2026

Found this in my garage: the poster board my son made for his elementary school science project. We brewed water kefir and used a simple stick figure to show how good gut bugs help calm stress, sharpen focus, improve sleep, and lift mood. If a kid can grasp this, imagine teaching gut health in school early. Kids would build a healthier relationship with food before the struggles start. Let’s make it part of the curriculum!

09/21/2026

Honored to be back Rancho La Puerta as the guest nutrition speaker!🌿
I spoke with guests about gut health, epigenetics, and bone health, and enjoyed whole, organic meals, a beautiful casita, and great conversations along the way.
The days were full: hikes, yoga, arts, meditative practices, and more. My cup is full! 🙏

09/14/2026

Doctors and the American College of Sports Medicine sounding the alarm on energy drink marketing on college campuses. Catch my upcoming episode on Energy Drinks posting Sept 16 on YouTube ()