Detoxifying Foods
Our bodies naturally have the ability to detoxify and do it every single day. However, problems can develop, and that’s not uncommon with autoimmune disease. The answer isn’t an aggressive “cleanse” where we try to force our bodies to do a year’s worth of detox in 30 days. Instead, we need to support our bodies year-round.
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.
How to use Functional Nutrition to Improve Your Health
Andrea explains her methods of strategically approaching symptoms from a root-cause based mindset. She discusses the 3 tiers of nutrition mastery and her best recommendation to identify the source of your symptoms.
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.
How The Empathy Trap Impacts Healthcare
In this episode, Andrea discusses what the Empathy Trap is and why so many of us fall into it, leading to negative results. Tune in if you say you're empathetic but constantly feel anxious and overwhelmed! We discuss how to balance empathy with personal boundaries through her ART framework for patient care - which is a powerful tool for any leader in any industry.
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.
Integrating Nutrition and Lifestyle Habits for Better Health
In this episode, Andrea discusses the power of your story and narrative as a tool to understanding and improving your health.
Your Diagnosis Isn’t Your Root Cause
In this episode, Andrea discusses why your diagnosis isn’t your root cause.
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?
Hashimoto’s Disease
Andrea is a woman living with Hashimoto’s herself, who is also an expert in the field professionally. In this episode, learn what tests are included in a complete thyroid panel, how to find a good doctor, and how to manage ever-changing symptoms in a way that feels empowering, rather than disheartening. Even if you don’t have thyroid issues, this show is worth a listen. A surprising number of symptoms can have undiagnosed thyroid issues at their root.
Owning Your Health Journey
Each of us has a unique health journey. In this episode, Andrea reveals part of her personal journey to health. As Andrea shares her story she empowers you to take back your health and gives a big, bold reminder that you are so much more than your diagnosis!
3 Tiers Of Poor Sleep - Part 1
In this episode you will learn the 4 ways that sleep supports the healing paradigm and the 8 aspects that constitute tier 1 aspects of sleep deficiency. Andrea synthesizes art and science, empathy and physiology, intuition and problem solving, into a system that truly helps people get to the root cause of their illness, create a path towards wellness, and find their way back to life.