How health coaching can support your health & well being

We now know that with the right diet & lifestyle, we have the ability to prevent disease, rebuild health, and optimize our biology as we age!

Current research is now touting the efficacy of diet and lifestyle not only in disease prevention and increasing health but, in managing and even halting the progression of illness. Conventional medicine has often ignored the use of ‘lifestyle’ despite their use in ancient practices as an effective healing modality.

In coaching sessions, we will bridge the gap between health and healing, merging natural healing practices with current science and research. We reach out with all levers including diet, sleep, exercise, stress management applied in a personalized and intentional way aiming to rebuild, maintain and optimize health .

Let’s get to work creating new sustainable lifestyle habits in the direction of health.

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‘In my view, healthy aging and health optimization starts with diet - this is a key foundation piece . Knowing what to eat can give us incredible power over our health - the ‘right’ diet sending us in the direction of health; a ‘poor’ diet sending us toward negative health outcomes and disease states’.

This program cuts through the dietary noise, considèrs your biology, teaching you not only what you need to eat to support your body but, how to do it while considering why you should.

Highlights

• Diet & Lifestyle Assessment - how past/current diet and lifestyle patterns are impacting health

• Understanding Macro-nutrients (protein, carbs, fats) - the key to learning what and how to eat

• How much protein do we actually need to support body and skeletal function

• Healthy fat intake

• The importance of eating a rich phyto-nutrient diet and how to do it

• Fiber: why we need it and how to get enough?

• Core Food Plan - a road map for learning what to eat

• Modern dietary strategies/philosophies that we might consider to support health

• What top foods best optimize metabolic health (inflammation/blood sugar/cholesterol/ blood pressure)

• Are supplements needed?

  Science based tools to sustain dietary change in the direction of health

  Offered as 5 bi-weekly sessions via Zoom or, in person.  

  Small group or, one to one sessions available

  Tools: diet and lifestyle assessment/macro-nutrient hand-out/core food plan/ phyto-nutrient checklist/anti inflammatory food list/what is fiber/smart goals

In these sessions, we work with the four pillars of health (POH): diet, exercise, sleep optimization and, stress management - all critical lifestyle factors that support health and its optimization.  The key to the efficacy of ‘lifestyle medicine’ is not so much in the ‘what’ but the ‘how’, taking a personalized approach, finding the right balance and, approach within each of the elements. In POH, we work to develop a personalized program, one that this sustainable and supports your own health goals and genetics. And, might there be a fifth element? Exploring all, the end result will be and modifiable lifestyle precription that will move you toward of sustained health.

4 sessions with one follow up session.

Diet and lifestyle can provide powerful medicine on its own or, used in conjunction with traditional medical protocols. Are you interested in knowing how diet and lifestyle can support your unique health issue? Are you interested in knowing what is the best strategy to gain agency over your health? In specialized sessions, we work together using a very individualized and supportive approach, targeting your specific health concerns with science-based diet and lifestyle protocols.

where lifestyle can support your health concerns or diagnosis (list not exhaustive):

• Menopause & post menopause symptoms (middle weight gain/poor sleep/ mood swings/hot flashes)

• Maintaining muscle mass and function

• Weight control

• Metabolic dysfunction (inflammation, high blood pressure, cholesterol, or insulin sensitivity)

• Nervous system regulation

• Cognitive issues

• Sleep disorders

• Adrenal and thyroid dysfunction

  Sessions offered as needed

Tools: timeline/functional medicine matrix/diet and lifestyle assessment/ cardio- metabolic food plan/mito diet/elimination diet/detox diet/ diet and lifestyle prescription

For those who have completed an earlier program and want continued support or, those wishing to have the support of a health coach on their personal health journey.  These sessions take me along as your guide,  keeping you accountable to your health goals,  adjusting to meet new goals along the way, exploring new areas and concern, while providing you on-going support. 

Monthly/quarterly/ bi-annual sessions