Stephen Anderson

In this conversation, we discuss the newly released Blood Chemistry Calculator that Chris Kelly developed (he was a software engineer in a past life) in collaboration with Dr. Tommy Wood, Dr. Byran Walsh, and Megan Roberts.

Chris Kelly is the Co-Founder of Nourish Balance Thrive (nbt), an online functional medicine practice that specializes in helping athletes optimize their health and performance.

This is one of the most exciting episodes I’ve done because of the potential this software has to change the way health coaching and functional medicine is done.

Getting In Touch With Chris and His Team 

Website: www.nourishbalancethrive.com

Social: Facebook  |  Twitter  |  IN  | Instagram  | Google +

Blood Chemistry Software: www.bloodcalculator.com

I really hope you enjoy this one!

Show Notes:

1:50 – What areas of your business have you had to grow in order to make Nourish Balance Thrive a success?
4:30 – Compared to five years ago, how has your consulting style changed over the past 5 years?
10:50 – The types of problems many people on AI are working on in the medical industry.
12:15 – What were the frustrations that made you want to create a blood chemistry software?
16:32 – Research project on optimal vitamin D levels.
19:00 – How the Blood Chemistry Calculator gets the data into the software.
21:00 – How the machine learning algorithm works.
24:00 – Could machine learning allow health coaches to make predictions and then implement lifestyle changes without doing extensive testing?
27:24 – Some of the current limitations of the machine learning algorithm.
31:12 – The difference between working with athletes and non athletes.
34:09 – Simon Marshall, PhD Performance Psychologist.
34:35 – Optimal ranges versus standard ranges, and why Chris choose not to use the term functional ranges.
36:44 – Chris’s interview with Dr. Pedro Domingos, Ph.D. on machine learning
40:45 –How Chris uses Trello to manage his consultation.
42:20 – The extended narrative component of the software and the usefulness of this visual page for educating patients.
44:05 – The Forcast section of the Blood Calculator Software.
47:00 – The software calculates a predicted age based on the blood chemistry, how does that work?
49:20 – Can the blood chemistry software be used by health coaches to quantify progress?
51:10 – The advantages of only using basic biomarkers combined with machine learning vs doing an extensive blood chemistry panel.
53:15 – The cost of running the Blood Calculator markers in Australia.
55:20 – The 5 year predicted health score and how this is calculated.
59:00 – How the machine learning works to come up with predictions.
01:02:05 – Support and education for practitioners using the Blood Chemistry Calculator.
01:06: 14 – Where to go to use the Blood Chemistry Calculator 20% off reports
01:10:35 – Who Chris thinks will use the Blood Chemistry Calculator.

Erin Knight regards herself as a health engineer who specialises in uncovering and addressing the underlying causes of Migraine Headaches.

Erin was a long-time sufferer from migraine headaches and eventually got fed up with the impact it was having on her life and started to seek solutions other than symptom management.

Over time her headaches disappeared and so she decided to reverse engineer what had worked for her and made the shift from a career as an engineer in the pharmaceutical industry to helping other migraineurs solve their migraine issues using a functional medicine approach.

In this interview, we discuss Erin’s approach to helping people suffering from migraines.

Getting In Touch With Erin

Website: www.engineeringradiance.com

Social: Facebook  | Instagram  | Linked in

Show Notes:

1:30 – Erin’s first experience with a migraine headache
7:27 – The tipping point where Erin decided enough was enough and chose a different approach to addressing her migraine headaches.
15:46 – Erin’s Migraine Freedom Plan, a framework she uses to help people through their migraine healing journey.
17:45 – The hidden causes of migraine headaches and the lab tests used to uncover these.
22:05 – The Migraine Summit that Erin hosted in July 2017.
25:13 – Gluten and its relationship with migraine headaches.
30:25 – Erin’s approach to working with patients.
34:00 – How long does it usually take for people to see results?
36:18 – Exercise and migraine headaches.

Resources: headachesummit.org, migrainert.com, engineeringradiance.com

Jennifer Ellis-Schuetz is a holistic health coach who uses a functional medicine approach to helping her clients recover their health.

As we discuss in this episode, Jennifer had a monumental struggle with her health, a battle that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and more than 15 years of her life.

She has a background in education and combines this with various health/life coaching methods she has learned as well as functional medicine to help her clients back to health.

Getting In Touch With Jennifer

Website: www.healthymindvibrantbody.com

Social: Facebook

Show Notes:

1:50 – How a trip to Central America led to many years of chronic health issues

5:10 – The symptoms that would lead to years of a long health struggle

11:30 – Some of the conditions that Jennifer was diagnosed with; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Lyme Disease, Interstitial Cystitis.

12:50 – A treatment with an integrative doctor that cost well over $200, 000…

17:25 – How removing a 20 cm cyst from Jennifers liver led to huge improvements in her health and resolved the Mast Cell Activation Syndrome

21:53 – The next health event that led to a complete and utter breakdown on all levels

25:45 – How Jen started to unravel the complicated health picture that had developed as a result of many years of sickness and drug therapy

27:18 – The importance of addressing physical stressors while working on the emotional/spiritual plane

33:45 – The stress chronic illness can put on a relationship

38:15 – The philosophy that Jennifer’s father passed on to her that has become the underpinning of her life and practice.

41:45 – The way in which Jennifer works with her clients and the reason why she prefers a package approach to working with her clients

47:00 – The way Jennifer layers her treatments

51:45 – The functional tests that Jennifer uses in her practice

56:35 – Jennifer’s health these days

Bella Lindemann is a Functional Nutrition Practitioner who helps people with chronic digestive issues. She specialises in helping people that have developed these issues after travelling to a developing country.

In this episode, we talk about the years of struggle Bella had with her health after a nasty food poisoning event in Africa. It was only after finding a functional medicine practitioner that she was able to move in the right direction and start seeing some results. Her journey back to full health took 5 years and included her remodelling every aspect of her life.

After recovering her health, Bella went on to study functional medicine and is now helping others get their health back. We spend a lot of time talking about what you can do leading up to a trip, what to do to avoid getting sick when travelling, and what to do if you do get sick, and how to return to full health once home.

Getting In Touch With Bella

Website: http://bellalindemann.com  |  www.meandmytravelbugs.com

Phone:  +61 438 187 605

Social: facebook  | Instagram

Show Notes:
0:52 – How Bella became a health consultant
3:43 – What was the timeframe from the food poisoning event to your health deteriorating significantly?
5:59 – What dietary changes did you make to try and recover your health?
8:20 – How many doctors Bella saw before getting some answers
9:04 – Tracey Randell IBS Clinic in the UK
13:10 – How long did it take to recover your health once you had identified some of the underlying causes?
15:25 – The diet that worked best for Bella when she was really unwell with a lot of digestive discomforts
19:16 – After recovering her health Bella studied Functional Diagnostic Nutrition
20:33 – Alison Vickery on Histamine Intolerance
21:40 – The Travel Belly Bible
22:09 – Preparing to visit a developing country
23:16 – Water purification products: Lifestraw straw and water bottle,
Fill2Pure stainless steel water bottle with filter
30:35 – Steps to take to prevent getting sick and what to do if you do
32:35 – What symptoms you should look out for after returning from a trip and what to do if you are not feeling well
39:17 – What the process of working with Bella looks like
47:46 – Nirala Jacobi’s podcast, The SIBO Doctor
50:37 – Jesse Lindemann – http://www.thephotobohemian.com

JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and Host of The Fit 2 Love Podcast Show. She is an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life, and author of Knack Absolute Abs: Routines for a Fit and Firm Core.

She was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine and has been part of the personal training and fitness industry for over 20 years.

In this episode, we talk about the importance of mindset and how this can often be the missing link for people wanting to make long-lasting changes with their health and fitness.

JJ will soon be releasing her third book, Invisible Fitness which focuses all of the unseen factors that contribute to fitness, health, and deep personal transformation.

Getting In Touch With JJ Flizanes

Websites: www.jjflizanes.com | www.fit2love.tv | facebook | Twitter

Books: Fit2Love | Knack Absolute Abs

Show Notes:
0:49 – Over the last 20 years in the fitness and health coaching business what are some of the trends that you have noticed?
3:33 – Did you come into the industry with a holistic approach or was it more on the physical dimension that you began with?
15:40 – After moving away from working in gyms, how were you working with clients?
18:26 – JJ’s first book, Fit2Love
22:18 – Do you think that mindset change can be bidirectional?
32:42 – Why changing underlying emotions is more important than changing behaviour
36:09 – Marshall  B. Rosenberg – Center For Non-Violent Communication
42:27 – Fit2Love podcast

Dr. Michael Ruscio is a practitioner, researcher, & speaker in the field of functional medicine.

His area of interest and specialty is on the topic of GUT health. He is also a strong advocate for a minimalistic approach to functional medicine and likes to push the boundaries of doing the least for the best possible outcome.

In this episode, we talk about his latest practitioner training resource; Future of Functional Medicine Review and go into depth on the January edition which can be accessed for free as a trial by going to www.drruscio.com/review

Getting In Touch With Doctor Ruscio

Website: DrRuscio.com | Youtube | Twitter

Show Questions:

0:50 – I know you’ve been working hard these days, what’s your clinic load like these days?
2:32 – What do you do with your clinic space the days when you are not in your practice?
3:54 – Working in a practice where you see clients in person and also clients via the web, which model do you prefer and can you see yourself moving to an exclusively online model?
5:51 – How’s your book on gut health coming along?
10:33 – You released the Future of Functional Medicine Review earlier this year, could you tell us what it is about?
14:38 – January edition of the Future of Functional Medicine Review and how it highlighted the effectiveness of a minimalistic approach to functional medicine.
19:01 – In the case study presented you used a glucose SIBO breath test and I wanted to get your opinion on the differences between glucose and lactulose as a substrate for a SIBO breath test?
21:46 – The pros and cons of using glucose and lactulose for a SIBO breath test…
23:17 – Research paper from the Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility – “Effects of varying dietary content of fermentable short-chain carbohydrates on symptoms, fecal microenvironment, and cytokine profiles in patients with irritable bowel syndrome.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27747984
34:55 – Reducing FODMAPS seems to greatly reduce IBS symptoms but I wonder if people do this and get relief, could they possibly not investigate a possible SIBO infection and stay on a low-FODMAP diet for an extended period of time and what are the consequences on the health of the microbiome?
40:29 – Research paper from the Journal of Hormone and Metabolic Research – “Anti-Thyroperoxidase Antibody Levels > 500 IU/ml Indicate a Moderately Increased Risk for Developing Hypothyroidism in Autoimmune Thyroiditis”; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27607246
49:10 – Why treating to lab ranges is not always necessary
55:00 – What is the cost to join the Future of Functional Medicine Review Newsletter?

 

John Coleman made a remarkable recovery from Parkinson’s disease, and as a qualified naturopathic practitioner is helping others do the same

John was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1995 and has been symptom-free for nearly 20 years.

In this interview, we talk about John’s journey of recovery and also the work that he is doing to help other people recover from not just Parkinson’s disease but other neurodegenerative disorders.  We also talk at length about Lyme disease and how it’s often connected to some of these chronic conditions.

As part of this interview, I also interviewed one of John’s patients who is recovering from a chronic Lyme infection, (it is also appended to this interview) or you can listen to that here.

Getting In Touch With John

Website: http://www.returntostillness.com.au

 

 

 

Chantelle Wegner talks about her recovery from Lyme disease.

In this episode, we talk about how Chantelle contracted a Borrelia infection as a result of being bitten by a tick. Within a couple of weeks being bitten, she started to notice some issues with her health and over time when these symptoms persisted she started to look into Lyme disease as a cause of her symptoms.

Eventually, she was able to get a diagnosis of Lyme Disease and was introduced to Naturopath John Coleman who has been helping her recover.

This interview with Chantelle was part of a longer interview that I did with Naturopath John Coleman talking about his recovery from Parkinson’s disease and how he’s helping others do the same.