Guest: Mihaela Telecan, Functional Nutritionist & Author of Make Peace with Fat
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Book: Make Peace with Fat
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Topics covered: Ancestral & traditional nutrition, functional aging, metabolic health, glucose monitoring, adrenal health, fasting, intuitive eating, mindset, the C.U.R.E. framework
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What Your Body Already Knew Before the Food Industry Told You Otherwise
There’s a particular kind of disorientation that comes from living in a world of infinite food choices and still not knowing how to eat.
We have more nutrition information available than any generation before us. Studies, podcasts, books, apps that track our macros to the decimal. And yet — chronic disease is rising. Fatigue is epidemic. More women than ever feel disconnected from their bodies, unsure what to eat, swinging between protocols, afraid of the wrong ingredient.
What if the information isn’t the answer? What if, underneath all of it, there’s something quieter we’ve stopped being able to hear?
That’s the thread that ran through my entire conversation with Mihaela Telecan — functional nutritionist, author, and someone who has spent decades asking what it actually means to nourish a human body.
Mihaela grew up in communist Romania, where the absence of a food industry turned out to be — nutritionally speaking — an accidental gift. Everything was local. Everything was seasonal. Fermented foods, bone broth, organ meats, sourdough — these weren’t wellness trends. They were just how her family ate. Nutrition wasn’t outsourced to a government agency or a cereal box. It was passed down through the hands of mothers and grandmothers who simply knew.
When she moved to the United States at 28, she watched almost anthropologically as a culture of convenience unfolded around her. She went on to study nutrition, earn her dietetics credentials, and deepen her training in functional and integrative medicine — all while holding onto a thread of ancestral knowing that the curriculum kept trying to cut.
Her book is called Make Peace with Fat. That title alone tells you something about the work she’s doing — and the fear she’s asking us to examine.
What struck me most in our conversation was how consistently she traced everything — the weight struggles, the hormonal chaos, the exhaustion, the disconnection from hunger cues — back to the same root: fear. Fear of fat. Fear of hunger. Fear of aging. Fear of stepping outside what the system has told us is safe.
And underneath that fear, a deeper disconnection. From our bodies. From our instincts. From the accumulated wisdom of the women who came before us.
Mihaela talks about the way we’ve been trained to see our bodies as problems to be solved. A number on the scale to be corrected. A hormone panel to be optimized. A symptom to be eliminated. And she’s gentle about it — she understands why we got here — but she’s also clear: that framing keeps us stuck. Because when we’re in problem-solving mode, we’re in resistance. And resistance is its own kind of stress.
What she offers instead is curiosity. Observation. The willingness to become, as she puts it, the observer of your own life.
We talked about what food actually is — and what most of what lines our grocery store shelves actually isn’t. About fasting, and how the hunger signal we treat as an emergency is often just a pattern the body learned because we taught it to. About the way our ancestors moved between feast and famine without catastrophe, and what that tells us about our own metabolic flexibility.
We talked about aging — not as a slow decline to be managed, but as something she calls functional aging. Keeping your vitality, your mobility, your aliveness, right up until the end. A plateau, then a swift transition. Not decades of diagnoses and dependency.
And we talked about her C.U.R.E. framework — the method she uses with clients that, I’ll be honest, applies to a lot more than nutrition. Connect to where you actually are. Unlearn the fear and the false information running on autopilot. Redefine what health means, what food means, what this season of life means. Experiment, and elevate from there.
I keep returning to something she said near the end of our conversation — that we are drowning in information and starving for wisdom. That the overload itself might be part of what makes it so hard to hear our own bodies.
I think she’s right. And I think the antidote isn’t another protocol.
It’s the pause. The moment before you reach for something — food, an answer, a fix — where you ask: is this what I actually need right now? It’s learning, slowly and imperfectly, to trust the knowing that was there long before any of the noise.
Your body carries centuries of wisdom. It knows how to regulate, how to heal, how to find its way back to balance. The question Mihaela keeps asking — and that I keep sitting with — is whether we’re willing to get quiet enough to listen.
Find Mihaela at mihaelatelecan.com and follow her on Instagram, Substack, and YouTube. Her book, Make Peace with Fat, is available on Amazon.
If this episode resonated, share it with someone who’s been told their body is the problem. It isn’t.
