If you’re struggling with a chronic health issue, the answer may be closer than you realize. Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Andrea Nakayama, a functional medicine nutritionist, for a talk about the healthcare journey for highly sensitive women.
“Functional nutrition is a place for those addressing chronic health challenges to settle into a different way of approaching them.”
— Andrea Nakayama
Listen and learn:
- Two of the most glaring gaps in our medical system and how functional medicine helps address them
- The three primary tenets of functional medicine and their implications for highly sensitive women
- The three elements of the functional nutrition matrix and how they can help you understand and manage your health
- How antecedents, triggers and mediators shape our health story—and help us shape it going forward
- The benefits of making decisions in terms of risk and reward
- Why looking for the one thing that will “fix it” is counterproductive
- How to detoxify from a functional nutrition perspective—and it’s not what we’re hearing about in the media
- How to tap into the pharmacy inside us
- How our sensitivity and our health might be connected
Find the full show notes and resources for all the episodes here.
