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.
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.
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!
Purposeful Persistence
In this episode, Andrea discusses the beauty of balancing effort and trust in life. Andrea also shares her remarkable journey of finding purpose and perseverance amidst personal challenges.
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.
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.
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 Functional Nutrition Can Improve Your Health
In this episode, we take a deeper dive into how functional nutrition can help you solve unanswered health issues. Andrea explains how to individualize your health and wellness, how to understand your health triggers, and how food can be medicine.
Functional Nutrition Self-Health
Andrea teaches us how we can take full responsibility for our health by looking at all aspects of what influences both our mental and physical wellbeing. After taking the reins on her own health in battling Hashimoto's disease, she's now able to provide her clients with the tools to flip the idea of "health" on its head and to embrace a lifestyle that leaves you feeling empowered to make choices about your health.
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!
How Functional Nutrition Serves The Need of the Individual
As a functional medicine nutritionist, educator and speaker, Andrea is a pioneer in the movement to transform healthcare into a system that works for all individuals and is regularly consulted as a top expert for the toughest autoimmune and chronic illness cases. In this episode, we discuss Andrea’s own journey and have a detailed conversation with tangible tips on nutrition and functional medicine.
Functional Nutrition and Autoimmunity
In this episode, Andrea talks about the impact of a healthy diet on the body, autoimmunity, and epigenetics. She also speaks about medical gaslighting and why so many women navigating symptoms of chronic illness struggle to get an accurate diagnosis or receive sufficient care.
Reclaiming Wellness Through Functional Nutrition
In this episode, Andrea Nakayama discusses the growing chronic illness epidemic, the role functional nutrition plays, and the framework for how you can begin to reclaim ownership of your health.
Transforming the Health Industry with Functional Medicine
In this episode, Andrea Nakayama discusses the movement she is leading to transform the health industry into a system that works, empowering patients and practitioners alike with the systems and tools of Functional Nutrition.
Functional Nutrition in Healing Trauma
In this episode, Andrea Nakayama discusses the link between functional nutrition and trauma. She shares with us her story and lessons on navigating life adversities with grace, healthily moving through grief, the power of holistic healing, and how post-traumatic growth unfolds when you hold space for healing.
From “Why Me” to “Oh, Me”: Healing Autoimmune Disorders
In this episode of The Dr. Kinney Show, I sat down with Andrea Nakayama, a functional nutritionist to have a chat all about autoimmunity. Andrea shares some ways that you can adjust and begin to heal your body. By highlighting the importance of systems biology, root cause methodology, and therapeutic partnerships, Andrea helps historically underserved individuals reclaim ownership of their health.
Reclaim OWNERSHIP Over Your Own Health
In this episode, Andrea discusses how to reclaim ownership over your own health through listening to your body and utilizing the foundations of functional nutrition to identify solutions that are right and best for you.
Core Fundamentals of Wellness - Gut Health & Tuning In to Heal the Body
In this episode, Andrea discusses one of the core fundamentals of wellness, gut health. There are so many good nuggets in this episode as we talk about nutrition and how small shifts can make a big difference.