I have worked with many people with chronic health issues that have had a huge impact on their life in a negative way. Their illness, disease, lack of function has meant that they have had to miss out on their life in some way or meant they could not participate in life in the way that they wanted to. From being in chronic pain and unable to sit at a desk to work, to having chronic fatigue and being unable to get through the day. Many of them will tell me that they do not know who they are anymore and that they are but a shadow of their former self.

Along with that comes a lot of feelings of despair, unfairness, hopelessness and a lot of time searching for the root cause or the next protocol to heal them.

Of course I have felt like this too and so this episode is very personal to me.

To get better, from whatever we want to, we have to find a place in our mind to get us into a different state. We have to flip a bit of a switch from despair into a place of hope, so that we can take action. And not the action of spending more time on google trying to find a solution, but the action of being a part of our life.

Theresa Piela is an independent health researcher and brain rewiring coach. Theresa focuses on supporting the most complicated cases with “chronic illness” & trauma patterns that may have lost hope and the ability to connect to joy, as a result of their conditions.

I am super excited to have Theresa on the show today for a few reasons. She has profoundly changed the life of a dear friend of mine, Kitty Blomfield, with her work; She has some tools that I don’t use with my clients but have always been super curious about because I have seen the benefits of them in clients; AND she and I both recovered from mold illness.

In this episode Theresa is so kind as to do a demonstration so that you can have something to help shift out of that state straight away. We have put together a video for you, so you can see it and you can find that video here:

https://youtu.be/hn7nAnzjsTM

You can find Theresa Piela on instagram as @livingrootswellness She also has an app, Tapping with T. Her website is www.livingrootswellness.com

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We’re going a bit off the topic of myths this week, because so many of you have been asking me, in terms of fitness, health and recovery, what is the long way home? What does that really mean? And I get that, because a goal needs to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely otherwise it's just this obscure, arbitrary, vast unattainable thing way out in some time in the future, maybe never.

My guest today, Amy Kate Bowe is a Strength and Conditioning Coach who was once like me and many of my clients, followers and listeners. She found herself at the bottom of the pit and had to get back up. You might see her on instagram doing all these completely amazing things with her body. Hanging, rope climbing, handstands, beautiful clean and snatches and with this beautiful athletic body, but one day she got injured and she had to start all the way from the bottom. What happened to her was not able to be overcome in a 12 week transformation or by setting an aesthetic goal. She had to take the long road home.

Now in her Warrior School, she coaches women all over the world, to do just that. I have had the pleasure of working alongside Amy with some of her clients and I have seen first hand, their leaps and bounds forward in not just making aesthetic changes to their bodies, but first and foremost increasing their capability, capacity and performance for life, like no other.

In this episode, we discuss.

• Building a strong body from the ground up
• The short way home vs the long road home.
• A little bit about both our journeys to recovery.
• Stepping outside the Aesthetic
• Its ok to have aesthetic goals
• Aesthetics Vs Performance
• Functional Movement
• Technique
• Owning the Movement
• Cardio vs Strength
• What we see on insta vs real life
• Realistic training for Mums, exercise intolerant and busy women.

You can find Amy Kate Bowe on instagram as @amykatebowe

I encourage you to listen to her podcast The Warrior School Podcast where you can here the facets of the Long Road Home broken down into bite size pieces as well as a multitude of tips and knowledge for your strength training.

And don’t forget to check out her actual Warrior School https://warriorschool.carrd.co

Remember to share your biggest takeaways on instagram and tag Amy and me.

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Today we are talking all about supplements. The good the bad and the ugly. I will often see clients who have seen many people before me and some will come with a container of supplements that they have been prescribed or they have looked up on the internet and are taking for this and the other. So, are they really doing anything? Is it as simple as just looking at your blood test and saying, you’re low in vitamin X so take supplement X? Are you just wasting your money?

Today, my guest is independent researcher Giorgi Dinkov, whose focus is on biochemistry and physiology. Giorgi has become a great resource for me, which has helped with so many clients, and so I wanted his biology and chemistry expertise to talk about all things supplementation.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Blood test says lacking in x so you take pill for X
• Allopathic and functional medicine really work the same-one prescribes drugs, the other, supplements
• Cholesterol and statin
• Fish oil
• Is it true that diet can never be enough as the soil is depleted etc so we must supplement.
• Food works in combinations, not on their own ie. iron myth.
• The most over prescribed supplements like iron, zinc and vitamin C
• Why some don't work and can actually be bad for you
• The most underutilized interventions, medicinal and supplements?
• Niacinamide
• Thyroid
• Aspirin -
• Progesterone
• Thiamine
• Vitamin A
• Caffeine
• Copper.
• Vitamin E
• Cascara
• Cyproheptadine
• How does metabolic health affect our levels of vitamins and minerals
• How can under eating in general or under eating certain food groups effect our vitamins of minerals and thus lead us to think we need supplementation?
• Endotoxin
• Gut health
• Tamoxifen -Oestrogen - Vitamin E
• Cortisol atrophies everything discriminately

You can find all of Giorgi’s research on his blog www.haidut.me You can find his research products at www.idealabsdc.com

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