Becky is talking today with Liz Georges who is a health coach, a lifestyle consultant, energy therapist, and a consulting practitioner at Thrive Healing Center in Chesterton, Indiana. Liz helps her clients overcome metabolic dysfunction and return to a more balanced state of health so they have more energy, less pain, and are able to participate in activities they love.
Since her pre-teen years, learning from her grandmother, Liz has taken an interest innutrition and natural health. After continually resolving her own health concerns in her 30s, while working as a radiology technologist
in a family practice, she realized the medical industry has a very limited but crucial function--treating disease or delaying death--but not teaching patients how to avoid or reverse health conditions.
Feeling frustrated at her inability to counsel patients in her role and wanting to help people achieve better health the way she experienced, Liz left her job and returned to school. Earning her Bachelor's degree in General Studies with a concentration in Social and Behavioral Sciences and a minor in Sociology, graduating with high honors. Not satisfied with her opportunities, she became a certified health coach and started coaching clients. The following year, wanting to dig deeper into her clients' health concerns, Liz discovered Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and has been helping her clients restore their natural vibrance ever since.
When someone calls Liz for her services, she first explains what a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition practitioner is. She lets them know that she bridges the gap between a health coach and a doctor. She looks at more clinical
aspects.
She runs six lab assessments in order to see what is going on in the body in order to find healing opportunities in the body.
All the body systems are connected to each other, so she finds out where her client is experiencing dysfunction in the body--in the adrenals,
the gut, if it's oxidative stress, liver congestion. She looks at very targeted areas of the body, which are all connected so that she can provide detailed self-treatment opportunities.
She says that food sensitivities are a big issue and if you are sensitive to lettuce and you are eating salads to lose weight, you are actually harming yourself. She wants to figure out what is not working for her clients so that she can figure out what will work. She tests so taht she doesn't have to guess.
It's not like she is doling out a bunch of things that don't work. She actually gets to know her clients' physiology. She says that people's lifestyles are also a major contributor to stress. Besides people using drugs and alcohol, how much sleep are you getting? The body needs more than five hours of sleep each night to be able to function properly. The body does a lot repair, detoxification, and work all night, is seven to eight hours is necessary for proper healing of all the systems of the body.
She also finds out if her clients are taking care of their food sensitivities and stress. What cookware are you using, what chemicals are in your home, what skincare products are you using? These things can also cause a great deal of stress and toxicity on our bodies. If you are in a really stressful relationship or have to take on your partner's stress, how is this affecting your health?
She had to learn from her own stressful relationship situation that she had to make herself a priority and focus on herself in order to help her relationship improve and to be able to even help her boyfriend out at all.
She goes really deeply into her clients' lives to get the overall picture of their total health. She needs to go in depth so that she can find the right protocol that is feasible for her clients' lifestyles. She wants the client to be able to actually do the program and not feel defeated by trying to do something that is not manageable.
When someone...
