Functional Medicine for Sensitive Women
Episode 14 season 5: Andrea Nakayama on Functional Medicine and Nutrition
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.”
Show Notes:
What is the road to wellness? Modern medicine can do amazing things, but it’s not perfect. There’s something missing. If you’ve ever felt like your doctor saw you as your diagnosis instead of as the person you are, if you’ve been frustrated with cookie-cutter treatment protocols that don’t provide the relief you’re looking for, then you have experienced some of those gaps. So where do you turn? In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth “Biz” Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and a mid-life women’s coach, welcomes Andrea Nakayama, a functional medicine nutritionist, founder of the Functional Nutrition Alliance and host of the 15-Minute Matrix podcast to talk about the science and art of functional medicine. They’ll explore the concepts behind this holistic approach to health and wellness, why it might be of particular interest to highly sensitive women, and how this approach can empower you on your journey to healing.
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
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Learn More:
Andrea’s 15-Minute Matrix podcast
Andrea Nakayama on Instagram
Andrea Nakayama on Facebook
Andrea Nakayama on LinkedIn
Andrea Nakayama on Pinterest
Biz’s Guided meditations on Insight Timer
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Resources mentioned in this episode
Functional Nutrition Alliance website
Functional Nutrition Alliance YouTube channel
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