Optimizing Health through Functional Nutrition
In this episode, Andrea discusses all the ways we can optimize our health using functional nutrition principles including the significance of holistic self-care, emphasizing the value of nurturing your body beyond restrictive diets or lifestyle interventions.
Implementing Functional Nutrition in Your Family
In this episode, Andrea discusses practical tips on incorporating functional nutrition principles into your household, regardless of your children's ages. We discuss the importance of understanding when to seek tests or labs, and Andrea sheds light on some of the conflicting aspects of traditional and functional medicine. If you're ready to take control of your health and discover how functional nutrition can transform your life, this episode is a must-listen!
Beyond the Evidence of Evidence-Based Medicine
If you’ve traveled the landscape of modern medicine in search of answers to your chronic health challenges, you’ve likely encountered the profound influence and appeal of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM).
Conventional Medicine vs Functional Medicine
In this episode, Andrea discusses the importance of understanding and addressing the root causes of health issues through a systems-based approach, investigating the roots (genes, digestion, inflammation), and encompassing food, movement, environment, and mindset.
Unlocking the Myths of Health Hacking: You Can’t ‘Hack’ Your Health, Part 2
Last week, I recorded a podcast hosted by a naturopathic doctor. As we got into the conversation, we found ourselves talking about our personal journeys through perimenopause and menopause. While we both diligently drew labs and collected plenty of data and biomarkers, we each noticed that it wasn’t this quantitative data that shifted our symptoms.
Filling the Healthcare Gap
In this episode, Andrea discusses her story of resiliency, the frameworks she’s created to help people heal, her experience with Hashimoto’s Disease, and so much more.
The Three Roots of Chronic Health Conditions
In this episode, Andrea discusses the gaps in the medical system when it comes to treating individuals as whole people rather than just their diagnoses.
Menopause, Disease Root Causes & Reversing Hashimotos
In this episode, Andrea discusses nutrition, autoimmune disease and some of the problems women face in menopause as well as what we can do to resolve them.
Unlocking the Myths of Health Hacking: You Can’t ‘Hack’ Your Health, Part 1
You can’t “hack” your health. If you don’t have a chronic health concern and you use biohacking techniques to optimize your physical performance, there’s no need to read any further. This post isn’t for you because you may be among the lucky few who can successfully hack a thing or two. But if you struggle with an unresolved health issue – whether it’s related to pain, fatigue, digestion, immune function, focus, or your ever-changing hormones – then I regret to relay that the hacks you seek may do more harm than good.
Letter to My Body
Here goes … I’m about to share something deep and personal that helped to shape my journey as a Functional Nutritionist.
Integrating Sleep Routines into a Busy Lifestyle
In this episode, Andrea discusses awakening through a personal health crisis, sleep and its importance, managing sleep and hormone imbalance, natural rhythms and health disturbances, and more!
Narrative Medicine & Whole Body Health
In this episode, Andrea discusses her origin story including mindset & health, cancer experiences and getting the full picture on your health. We also dive deep into Narrative Medicine (Timeline Medicine), how no food is good or bad, and nutrition and digestion.
Unlocking the Power of Personalized Nutrition for Chronic Illness
In this episode, Andrea discusses how to navigate the risks and rewards of behaviors that impact your health, empowering you to make informed decisions. You will also learn how to set boundaries for self-care that prioritize your well-being and enhance your quality of life.
Reclaim Your Health with the Power of Functional Nutrition
In this episode, Andrea discusses what narrative medicine is, thoughts on when to use lab testing, tapping into our intuition, and more, providing valuable insights for anyone looking to improve their health and well-being.
How To Reclaim The Power Over Your Own Health
In this episode, Andrea does a deep dive into the world of alternative solutions to the chronic health epidemic. Whether you're struggling with chronic health issues or seeking to optimize your well-being, this conversation with Andrea will empower you to reclaim ownership of your health.
The Healing Power of Functional Nutrition
In this episode, Andrea talks about leading thousands of students and practitioners around the globe in a revolution to offer better solutions to the growing chronic illness epidemic. She highlights the importance of systems biology, root cause methodology, and therapeutic partnerships and how that can help individuals reclaim ownership of their health.
Keeping functional nutrition FUNCTIONAL
In this episode, Andrea talks about integrating personal tragedy; how “everything is connected, we are all unique, and all things matter;” what she’ll NEVER recommend on a podcast; trauma, weight loss physiology, what the patient-practitioner relationship SHOULD look like, and much more.
Healing Thyroid Autoimmunity Through Functional Nutrition
In this episode, Andrea discusses the interconnectedness of all aspects of our health, the role of diet in managing thyroid autoimmunity, why we need individualized nutrition plans, her perspective on the limitations of restrictive diets for long-term health, how to make sustainable changes to your diet and lifestyle, and more. Enjoy the episode!
Taking Care of Your LGBTQ Life With Functional Nutrition
Our LGBTQ bodies are beautiful machines, but not unless we take care of them. Now add the stress of being LGBTQ, plus normal life stuff, and it can easily become a recipe for disaster. But what if you had a plan that stoked your body full of good just by eating right and knowing what is best for your body, not the fit you in the box way most medical professionals try to make you fit into.
How Does Functional Medicine Work?
In this episode, Andrea talks about how nutrition became her calling; the future of functional medicine; how being in a sympathetic dominant state influences our healing abilities; advice she’d give to her younger self when navigating a challenging health diagnosis; and much more!