In this eye-opening episode of The Soft Focus, Corinne challenges conventional wisdom about pork, revealing how pastured, corn and soy-free pork offers remarkable nutritional, environmental, and hormonal benefits. Discover why this misunderstood meat might be the perfect addition to your diet—especially for women recovering from depletion or seeking hormonal balance.

What You'll Learn

• The crucial differences between pastured and conventional pork
• How pork's nutrient profile compares to grass-fed beef and lamb
• Key nutrients in pork that support female hormonal health
• The environmental benefits of integrating pigs in pasture systems
• Tips for sourcing high-quality, nutrient-dense pork

Nutrient Highlights (8 oz pork chop with fat cap)

• Protein: 51g (102% DV)
• Thiamine (B1): 1.2mg (100% DV)—10x more than beef
• Zinc: 5.5mg (50% DV)—supports ovulation & hormone production
• Selenium: 55mcg (100% DV)—supports thyroid & fertility
• Vitamin D: ~60 IU—higher than beef or lamb
• Potassium: 1080mg (23% DV)—supports adrenal and metabolic health
• PUFAs: Only ~1.5g thanks to a clean, soy-free diet

Why This Matters

Not all pork is created equal. When raised properly on pasture with natural diets, pork becomes a nutritional powerhouse especially beneficial for women supporting hormonal balance or recovering from burnout and postpartum depletion. This episode connects thoughtful food choices with both personal health and regenerative agriculture.

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Welcome back to The Soft Focus!

Imagine a food system where our choices aren't just guided by labels like "organic" or "grass-fed," but by deep relationships, integrity, and care. In today's solo episode, we're peeling back the layers of industrial marketing and exploring what it truly means to nourish ourselves—and our communities—through conscious connection to our food.

Inside the Conversation: What You'll Discover

This heartfelt episode is for you if you:

• Want to deepen your understanding of food sourcing beyond buzzwords
• Are curious about the real practices behind food labels
• Believe food choices can be a revolutionary act of relationship and stewardship
• Want practical ideas for supporting ethical, relationship-centered farms

Together, we'll explore:

• Why Labels Aren’t Enough: How marketing tactics like greenwashing mislead consumers, and why relationship over checklist matters.
• The Loss of Family Farms: What’s truly at stake when we lose small farms—and how that loss affects our health, environment, and communities.
• The Power of True Nourishment: How food raised with care impacts not only nutrition but our vitality, joy, and connection to the earth.
• Your Role in Healing the Food System: Practical, empowering steps you can take to align your eating habits with your values.

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In this week’s episode of Soft Focus, I’m joined by Dr. Erin Borbet—licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and doula—for a nourishing conversation on women’s hormone health from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective.

Together, we explore what it means to live with our cycles rather than in resistance to them. Erin shares how TCM views the phases of a woman’s life—menstruation, fertility, perimenopause, and menopause and beyond—not as problems to be fixed, but as sacred windows of transformation and renewal. We talk about how the energetics of food, the importance of rest, and simple, seasonal practices can deeply support hormonal balance and long-term vitality.

We also discuss the difference between protein and good protein, and why quality and energetics matter so much when it comes to nourishing a woman’s body. Erin offers gentle insight into the all-too-common state of running on fumes in midlife, and how we can begin to restore from a place of wisdom and rhythm, rather than depletion and force.

This conversation is both grounding and illuminating—a reminder that the answers we’re seeking are often already within us, waiting to be remembered.

In this episode, we explore:

• How Traditional Chinese Medicine understands women’s hormonal health
• Why seasonal and cyclical living supports balance and energy
• The importance of good protein and food energetics in nourishment
• How to support yourself in fertility, perimenopause, and midlife
• The cost of pushing against our hormonal rhythms—and what’s possible when we stop
• The role of herbs, rest, and ritual in long-term vitality

Connect with Dr. Erin Borbet
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