Mapping Story with Andrea Nakayama
In the 100th episode of the 15-Minute Matrix podcast I take you to the heart of the matter. To story. A patient’s story is a critical part of how we understand them and determine our next steps in care.
Reclaiming Ownership of Your Health
Andrea is leading thousands of students, practitioners, and individuals around the globe in a revolution to offer better solutions to the growing chronic illness epidemic. By highlighting the importance of systems biology, root cause methodology, and therapeutic partnerships, she helps historically underserved individuals reclaim ownership of their health.
The Most Important Question You Need to Ask Yourself
Have you ever stopped to ask yourself what are your health non-negotiables? We need to get better at asking ourselves this question, especially when we are dealing with chronic symptoms or diseases. While everyone's approach to healing is different, we all need to get clear on what is 100% true for us in order to heal our bodies and create agency over our health.
The Nutrition and Mental Health Connection
What we eat is deeply connected to our brain chemistry, our hormonal balance and our mental and emotional health. And it’s different for everyone. Andrea discusses the connection between nutrition and mental health and how we can make mindful choices that support our health and happiness.
Developing a Holistic Self Awareness
Andrea's passion for functional nutrition began when her husband, Isamu, was diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. It was through the trying experience of prolonging his life for another 2 years that she discovered a burning passion to transform the health industry. In this episode, you'll discover the power of functional nutrition and how you can use holistic self-awareness to heal your body.
3 Pillars of Health
In this episode, Andrea discusses what she calls the 3 Pillars of Health: Genes, Digestion, and Inflammation. Andrea is a Functional Medicine Nutritionist, educator, speaker, founder of Functional Nutrition Alliance, and the host/producer of the 15-Minute Matrix podcast.
Creating Energy and Abundance
Andrea leads individuals, coaches, and clinicians around the world in a revolution reclaiming ownership of both their own and their clients’ health. Andrea draws on systems biology, mental models, root cause methodology and the therapeutic partnership to offer long-awaited solutions for the rapidly growing chronic illness epidemic.
Biases in Health Care and Medical Gaslighting
Systemic biases can have profound impacts on how we receive medical care and support. Members of marginalized communities may be brushed off, misunderstood, misdiagnosed, and mistreated within the medical system, sometimes with catastrophic effects. In this episode, Andrea discusses bias, medical gaslighting, a systems approach to health, and how to advocate for yourself in medical settings.
Crash Course in Functional Nutrition
In this episode, Andrea discusses the state of chronic health conditions in the United States, gut health tests (when to test and why a diagnosis is just one piece), what is pre-diabetes and why 1 in 3 Americans has it, and finding diet health in a way that nurtures & includes instead of removes foods.
Become the CEO of Your Own Health
Are you tired of feeling like you don’t have your health under control or given answers or solutions that don’t really solve your problems? Then this is the episode for you! Andrea is determined to empower patients to exercise their own self-health and become the CEO of their journey. In this conversation, Andrea discusses how our health is more than a simple quick fix and ways in which we can look at all parts of our systems to find methods and practices that work best for us.
Using the Big Picture to Identify the Roots
In this episode, Andrea talks about how she helps people understand what’s going on within their bodies with functional nutrition, precision medicine, omics, and Epigenetics.
Functional Blood Test Analysis
In this episode, Andrea walks us through two blood tests that are very common: a CBC with Differential and a Complete Metabolic Panel, and tells us how she interprets these from a functional perspective.
Fatigue
Fatigue is a common side effect of autoimmune disease, but it can have many other root causes as well. For some people, it’s mild and manageable. For others, it can be disabling. Yet it’s not a diagnosis in itself – it’s a symptom. In this episode, we take a detective’s perspective on fatigue. If symptoms are messengers, what is our fatigue trying to communicate about our own unique body? How can we restore our vitality again?
How Purpose Promotes Health
If you asked me what my passion is, it would be difficult to capture with one word. My passion is an assortment of interests that have manifested in “nutrition”.
How a Noble Prize Winner in Economics Informs Our Self-Health Care
I have a reframe for you. It's inspired by the Nobel Prize-winning Israeli-American economist and Princeton University professor emeritus Daniel Kahneman.
How-To Move On after Being Gaslit by Your Doctor
We haven’t yet established any of the How-Tos, and we definitely can’t gloss over these practicalities. They’re how we develop the skills of awareness and self-care.
The Cycle of Chronic Illness
Elusive symptoms. No clear diagnosis. You can’t get the right lab tests run (or the right person to read them). You’re frustrated. But you can’t just abandon your doctor. Time. Resources. It’s just not an option.
Medical Gaslighting
I’ve seen more accounts of medical gaslighting on social media and popular news channels lately. And that’s a good thing! We need to bring more awareness.
Individuality in Healthcare
There are so many terms used to explain individuality in healthcare today. Yet it can be confusing to know what any signifier in front of the word “medicine” actually means.
Mapping Healing Mindset with Eileen Laird
In this episode I welcome back my friend Eileen Laird to discuss her new book, “Healing Mindset.” Using her own experiences and deep research, Eileen explores concepts of psychoneuroimmunology and does a brilliant job of outlining a vast array of tools we can employ to help clients and patients on their healing journeys.