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Health Coaching and Stress Management: A Framework for Understanding and Managing Your Stress

June 26, 2020
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Page Contents: With stress, context is everything. In the right doses, and with the right mindset, stress can be a driver of performance and achievement. Stress can also be what keeps us out of harm’s way when we’re in imminent danger. However, chronic stress, whether it’s due to mounting daily hassles or dealing with difficult major life events, can have lasting consequences for our physical and mental well-being. What do we know about stress? How does understanding stress help health coaches work successfully with clients, and what can stress management look like in practice? Need help managing your stress? Check out this article from health coach Will Welch for a framework to help you understand and deal with stress. #healthylifestyle #changeagent #wellness Why Is Stress Important? Stress is a...

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The 13 Benefits of Fermented Foods and How They Improve Your Health

June 25, 2020
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Page Contents: Far from being a passing trend, fermented foods are a time-honored component of the ancestral human diet. High-tech food preservation methods using chemical preservatives still dominate in the food industry, overshadowing traditional preservation methods such as fermentation. But fortunately, the reemergence of fermented foods signals a welcome return to a more ancestral way of eating. With this growing interest in fermented foods, you might be wondering how these foods impact our health, and how you can best incorporate them into your diet. Read on to learn 13 benefits of fermented foods and how they improve your health, and discover delicious fermented food options you can easily incorporate into your diet.  Nearly every culture around the world has a characteristic fermented food. Check out this article...

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Sleep and Health: How Support from a Health Coach Can Help You Get the Rest You Need

June 19, 2020
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Page Contents: Yet, in our fast-paced, over-scheduled, highly driven, contemporary lives, sleep is often the first thing sacrificed. Furthermore, even if sleep is a priority, our busy, modern-day, plugged-in existence is interfering with our body’s natural ability to slip into slumber. It’s not surprising that studies report an increase in sleep disorders globally. (1) Although altering our sleep patterns and norms is possible on our own, increasingly, people are discovering and experiencing the benefits of partnering with a health coach to navigate the process successfully and long-term. This article, as part of an article series, will introduce you to the importance of quality, adequate sleep, and its effects on health and wellness, and give you a glimpse into what working with a health coach on sleep...

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Nutrition and Health Coaches: How Thriving Is like Driving

June 18, 2020
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Page Contents: These were questions I began to ask myself when I started my wellness journey, and now, they have become powerful questions that I ask new clients who decide they want to change their diet or nutrition choices. They are a natural fit for health coaching. As an ADAPT-Certified Functional Health Coach, I am a change agent—I empower clients to create a plan (or a road map) that will help them change their habits, reach their goals, and thrive. If you have your own set of diet goals, and you are ready to change habits, overcome obstacles, and strive to thrive, then let’s hit the road together! Being a change agent means understanding what it takes for people to make real, lasting changes to their health...

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RHR: Using Mindfulness to Manage Stress and Uncertainty, with Forest Fein

June 16, 2020
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Page Contents: In this episode, we discuss: What drew Forest to practice mindfulness What mindfulness is How mindfulness benefits your life Mindfulness versus meditation: what the difference is How mindfulness can be a support during COVID-19 The STOP practice Whether you need to embrace Buddhism to practice mindfulness Resources to help you start practicing mindfulness Show notes: [embedded content] Hey, everybody, this is Chris Kresser. Welcome to another episode of Revolution Health Radio. This week, I’m really excited to welcome Forest Fein as my guest. Forest is the founder and executive director of Wise Up: Greater Wisdom and Wellbeing for All, which offers innovative mindfulness-based, science-backed coaching and training to organizations and corporations. He’s also the head of mindfulness programs for teens and young adults at UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Through community partnerships,...

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Functional Health: What Is It, and How Does it Apply to Health Coaching?

June 12, 2020
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Page Contents: Four blindfolded men are brought into a room with an elephant and asked to guess what’s in the room with them. Each man touches one part of the elephant and shares what he has found. The first holds the tail and says, “it must be a rope.” The second feels the leg and declares, “no, it must be a tree.” The third grabs the trunk and says, “this is a snake.” And the fourth tugs on the ear and says, “you’re all wrong because I’ve got a leather jacket here.” Each man fails to see the bigger picture. He can’t grasp how each of the parts fits together to be an elephant. Imagine if they were able to take off their blindfolds or spend...

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Why Pasture-Raised Animal Products Are Better for Your Health and the Environment

June 11, 2020
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Page Contents: Do you want to eat healthy and also help the environment? Consider sourcing pastured animal products, which are both more nutritious and more eco-friendly than conventional products. Animal Products Are Part of an Ancestral Diet Animal products are key components of an ancestral diet, along with starchy and non-starchy vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds. Meat, eggs, bone broth, organ meats, and sometimes even milk provide high-quality nutrition for humans. Animal products often provide micronutrients that can be hard to obtain elsewhere, including: Vitamin B12 Choline Heme iron DHA and EPA (docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid) Vitamin K2 Selenium Preformed vitamin A High-quality protein Pasture-raised animal products are better for you and better for the environment. Check out this article from Katie Melville for an updated look at the benefits of pastured animal products....

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7 Ways Toxic Mold Affects Your Brain

June 5, 2020
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Page Contents: This article originally appeared in Paleo Magazine.  The average person living in the modern, Westernized world spends a whopping 80 to 90 percent of his or her time indoors. (1) Given the amount of time we spend inside, we must ensure the safety and cleanliness of our indoor environments. Unfortunately, a shocking number of residential buildings, schools, and workplaces today harbor an environmental contaminant that poses a severe threat to our cognitive health—mold. Read on to learn why the sharp smell of mold and unpleasant musty odors indoors should not be ignored if you care about your long-term cognitive health. Exposure to toxic mold can cause a number of worrying cognitive symptoms. Check out this article to find out more and to learn how to...

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How to Reduce Light Pollution to Sleep Soundly and Feel Energized

June 4, 2020
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Page Contents: Our hunter–gatherer ancestors didn’t have LED lights, iPads, or street lights ablaze all night. Instead, they were dependent on the sun, the moon, and fire for light. Consistent light cycles ensured that circadian rhythms, moods, and hormones were in check. But today, it’s a different story. We’re exposed to bright lights well past sunset, and during the day, we often don’t get enough real sunlight. Light can increase our productivity, but too much light has consequences. Artificial light at the wrong times creates a mismatch between our genes and the environment, with potentially dire health outcomes. Light pollution has an impact on your sleep and your overall health. Check out this article to find out how to reduce your exposure to light pollution at home...

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RHR: An Update on COVID 19 and Gluten Intolerance, with Dr. Ramzi Asfour

June 2, 2020
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Page Contents: In this episode, we discuss: Updates on COVID-19 A new method for diagnosing celiac disease and non-celiac gluten sensitivity What causes non-celiac gluten sensitivity How non-celiac gluten sensitivity manifests in patients What to do if your symptoms don’t stop after you go gluten-free Developments that Dr. Asfour is looking forward to Show notes: [embedded content] Hey, everybody, Chris Kresser here. Welcome to another episode of Revolution Health Radio. This week, I’m excited to welcome back Dr. Ramzi Asfour as a guest. Dr. Asfour is a board certified infectious disease and internal medicine doctor. He graduated from New York Medical College and completed an internal medicine residency program at California Pacific Medical Center followed by a fellowship in infectious diseases at UCSD [University of California San Diego]. He’s worked for the World...

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