Salad With a Side of Fries Nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss

What happens when gut health, menopause, peptides, nutrition, and food policy all start converging? After seven years of conversations about the future of wellness, the trends are pointing toward a bigger shift: new tools may change how we approach healthspan, and yet the fundamentals still matter.

Host Jenn Trepeck closes out The Next Frontier Files, the seven-episode miniseries retrospective from Salad With a Side of Fries as she ...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-sized bonus episodes offer tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn is talking about Olive Garden. Yes, the chain restaurant with the famous unlimited breadsticks. Can a sit-down Italian favorite really fit into a healthy lifestyle? Jenn dug into the nutrition facts, and what she found surprised even her, especially when it comes to one number that shows up in nearly every dish. Olive Garden has...

Six years of experts. One question asked every single time, and a pile of predictions that either aged beautifully or fell apart on contact with reality. Some of the boldest claims came wrapped in credentials, while some of the quietest answers turned out to be the ones worth keeping. Year six was when the wellness conversation got loud enough that discernment became the real skill.

On this episode of The Next Frontier Files, Jenn T...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-sized bonus episodes offer tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn is talking about cozy cardio, the viral trend of trading intense workouts for pajama-clad walks, candlelit stretching, and low-key movement paired with your favorite show or drink. It sounds too easy to work, so does swapping intensity for comfort really move the needle on your health, or is it just a trendy excuse to skip the h...

Wellness trends keep circling back to one truth, and this The Next Frontier Files episode proves it louder than ever before. Across 104 episodes in year five of Salad with a Side of Fries, guest predictions kept pointing to the same signal from the human body, again and again, without anyone comparing notes or planning it that way.

Host Jenn Trepeck revisits year five of the podcast as part of this 7-episode retrospective of Salad w...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-sized bonus episodes offer tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn is talking about Retatrutide, the third-generation injectable making waves as the most powerful weight-loss drug studied yet. It targets three hormone pathways at once instead of just one or two, and early trial participants have lost staggering amounts of weight, some over 30 percent of their body weight. But is more always bet...

A robot showed up in everyone's pocket, and it changed how guests answered one simple question for an entire year. This episode of The Next Frontier Files rewinds to year four, when artificial intelligence collided with gut health, hormone balance, and a growing call to return to species-specific diet basics.

Jenn Trepeck weaves together voices from across the year four of Salad With a Side of Fries to show which predictions about w...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-sized bonus episodes offer tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn is talking about Cortisol Face. People online seem to have an opinion on that puffy, rounded, rosy-cheeked look, and stress is always the villain in the story. But is stress really the culprit, or has the internet gotten this one twisted? Jenn digs into what cortisol does in the body, why it isn't the same as the corticosteroids...

Personalized wellness is reshaping the entire health conversation, and this new The Next Frontier Files episode proves the old rulebook is officially closed for good. From psychedelics and genetic testing to women's health investment and metabolic health, expert guests from year three of Salad with a Side of Fries reveal the trends that would become some of the biggest wellness breakthroughs, long before the headlines ever catch up...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-sized bonus episodes offer tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn is talking about Kombucha. Is this fizzy, tangy drink really the gut health hero everyone on social media claims it to be, or is it just another trendy beverage riding the wellness wave straight into your grocery store fridge? Jenn digs into what kombucha is, how it is made, and what the research says about its impact on digesti...

Wellness trends move fast, yet volume two of The Next Frontier Files proves some predictions age well. Revisiting year two of the show, host Jenn Trepeck tracks the guests who forecasted metabolic health, gut health, and body positivity long before they became mainstream conversations, and shows how precision medicine and permission became the defining threads of an entire year.

Jenn Trepeck brings listeners of Salad with a Side of ...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-sized bonus episodes offer tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn is talking about frozen vegetables. With a summer Cyclospora scare putting salad greens on trial, is the humble freezer aisle the safer, smarter choice? Jenn breaks down exactly how frozen veggies are harvested, blanched, and locked in at peak nutrition, and whether that process really does more to protect you than your fresh pr...

Seven years of Salad With a Side of Fries, seven frontiers, one wild ride through the evolution of wellness trends. Jenn Trepeck is pulling back the curtain on every guest’s “Next Frontier in Wellness” prediction this show has ever recorded, and Volume One kicks things off right where the whole journey began in 2019.

Host Jenn Trepeck opens The Next Frontier Files on Salad With a Side of Fries by revisiting Year On...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-sized bonus episodes offer tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn is talking about what's in your cup, the mindset story that's been sitting with her all week. As Salad With a Side of Fries starts to celebrate its seventh anniversary, this week's Nutrition Nugget centers on a simple question a Buddhist monk once asked his students, one that Jenn says stopped her in her tracks the moment she he...

Sexual wellness isn't just about connection; it's a measurable driver of how long and how well you live. This episode reveals why intimacy and longevity are more linked than most people realize, and why so many couples never get the memo.

Host Jenn Trepeck sits down with intimacy expert Susan Bratton to explore orgasmic intimacy, hormone health, and the science of pleasure and desire. Together they unpack why pleasure-based sex educ...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-sized bonus episodes offer tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn is talking about Cool Whip. It's in the freezer of half of America and shows up in "healthier" dessert recipes all over the internet. Except does Cool Whip deserve a spot in your freezer? Jenn's digging into the ingredient list most people never bother to read, breaking down what happens when a company swaps out one ingredient a...

Chasing harder workouts when you're already stressed or exhausted might be the exact thing sabotaging your weight loss journey. This episode of Salad with a Side of Fries digs into why pushing through chronic stress with intense training backfires, and what truly helps your body recover.

Jenn Trepeck and guest Molly McNamee, founder of MFit Workouts, explore how hormone balance, cortisol, and simple daily tracking habits can help yo...

Nutrition Nugget! Bite-sized bonus episodes offer tips, tricks and approachable science. This week, Jenn is talking about Kodiak Frozen Waffles, the popular breakfast brand a listener swears by. Are these grab-and-go waffles really the wholesome, protein-packed breakfast the packaging promises, or is there more going on once you flip the box over and read the fine print? Jenn breaks down the calories, the fat, the protein, and the ...

Struggling with unexplained weight loss, racing heartbeats, or anxiety that won't quit? Your thyroid could be the hidden culprit behind it all. This episode uncovers the truth about hyperthyroidism and Graves' disease, from early warning signs to natural healing strategies most doctors never mention.

Host Jenn Trepeck sits down with functional medicine expert Dr. Eric Osansky on Salad with a Side of Fries to explore how diet, stress...