The Functional Health Coaching Show

6:00  Promote and produce - 2 things all businesses have to do.  14:00  Caller - Low number of reactive foods on MRT and Rx.  Do an elimination diet and work on other areas 25:00  Caller - Research on bedtime by 10pm recommendation - chinese medicine, observation, circadian rhythm and night-shift worker studies, www.howsleepworks.com 30:00  Caller - Effects of breast implants on health, hormones, lymph 39:00  Caller - filtering drinking water, Zero Water Filter 45:00  Is the Genova IP test a doctor-diagnosable test?  Have the results been correlated with biopsies or otherwise confirmed to correctly show leaky gut or are the results mainly theoretical (i.e. if lactulose is high, leaky gut is should be present)?  I’m not a doctor and I know we don’t diagnose anyway, but I’m mainly asking more b/c I’m curious about how the labs go through validation. 53:00  Selling packages - 5 labs vs 3 + 2 on occasion.  Diagnose and treat vs investigate and recommend  

Ask The Mentors 3:30: Case Management Question re: female who has been taking BC for 20+ years and is committed to staying on them. 15:00: Question re: Celiac client w/ significant dietary restrictions and food sensitivities who is in involuntary ketosis. How best to help her get out of a ketogenic state 28:00: The use of DIM when clients are taking hormone supplementation 33:30: MRT; avoidance of external application of MRT yellow and red foods. Also, guidelines for re-testing. 39:45: Recommendation for effective non-toxic store bought or home-made deodorant

5:00 - Bridgit Danner's experience specializing in fertility   9:00 - Infertility: The good, the bad, and the ugly. Effects on emotions and relationships.   12:00 - Results take time, set realistic expectations   16:00 - Infertility increasing.  Having babies later in life.   19:00 - Ways FDN is really great at addressing fertility issues   22:00 - What are some things we might overlook, as FDNs, when it comes to fertility? Developmental, anatomical, or structural issues, inflammation, age of client   27:00 - What are some of your favorite foods for fertility?  Whole, high fat, lower carb, quality animal proteins, seeds and nuts, leafy greens, butter, gluten-free   30:00 - Exercise for infertility.  Burst/high intensity for men to increase testosterone.  Women choose frequency over intensity, less sitting, watch too much running or crossfit   32:00 - Stress reduction, acupuncture, massage, spa retreat/TLC   33:00 - Supplements for infertility.   36:00 -  What should new practitioners in the field of fertility know? Niche marketing   38:00 - Caller: FDN + IVF   44:00 - Caller: How FDN can help after failed IVF   48:00 - Caller: Reasons for early menopause   52:00 - Women's Wellness Summit, April 11th, 2016, 35 experts including Reed!

5:00 - Graduates 5:45 - FDN course keeps improving 7:00 - Post-grad support, need for a grad space with membership & case studies 13:00 - “Any clients of your ever experience ravenous hunger while going through a parasite protocol? I’m usually not a fan of calorie counting but she’s requesting guidance since she feels her hunger hormones are out of whack.” 20:30 - Would you give a 16 yr old Support Adrenals if she has Phase 3 adrenal dysfunction? 25:00 - Relief care vs. corrective care and FDN 29:00 - Brain body diagram, how FDN’s work 30:00 - “MRT came out sensitive to milk. How much of a problem would it be to run the intestinal permeability test?” 33:00 - Forming and impression versus clinical diagnosis 37:50 - Immunolabs sub fraction food sensitivity testing, IgG 39:00 - “ I started the Candida diet and cleanse 2 weeks ago, today I found out I have H Pylori. Do you think I can continue the Candida Diet/protocol and start the H Pylori protocol. I would love to do them together but not sure.” 40:30 - Commission on ordering labs, PLP, how FDN’s charge for kits. 44:00 - Medications, pharmaceuticals, getting off of meds safely “I am considering some potential clients that are using pharmaceuticals.  I know we can never tell a person to come off pharmaceuticals or change their dosing but I was under the impression there was to be some education or examples given on how to deal with clients that wish to come off their drugs, especially SSRIs. Do you have any experience with this or how do you handle conversations around the drugs or do you have a network of doctors you know that will titrate clients off. “ 52:00 - Caller, bovine adrenal if sensitive to beef on MRT 55:00 - Julie from MA, re-testing hormones, interpreting re-tests, cortisol-cortisone-licorice root

Bill Wolcott's help and history with FDN Course development FDN and Metabolic Typing approach compared to other symptom-based approaches Genetic potential and vitalism 2x4, sawhorse, and brick analogy Degenerative disease occurs over time because the body can't resolve the stress The stairway to health Poor health is abnormal No fulfillment in treating symptoms or test results; only in discovering root cause False sense of security when only treating symptoms If you are defending, you are depleting Any symptom or any disease can arise from any stressor or number of stressors Education of the client is our greatest work Stick with and trust in the process Right expectations and client motivation come from right understanding Clients need to have faith in the process It's okay to threaten to fire a client if they are not compliant The more difficult the health challenge, the more strict you have to be as a practitioner Bill's opinion of genetic testing/MTHFR

Practitioner Spotlight – Maggie Reinke  –  Brandon discussed Lesson 8 update, Testing food sensitivities. Sample consults now available – Midterm, Lesson 6, Lesson 7, Grads will have full access to these, trainees will need to take the quizzes to have access. –   Maggie’s background, what brought her to FDN. Maggie’s symptoms were abdominal pain, bloating, and digestive issues. She worked at a research hospital, wanted to get out of research and do something she was more passionate about. – FDN testing on herself helped her to understand better (not just depend on someone else to tell her what to do), it helped her to take responsibility for her own health. Maggie tries to educate her clients now so it gives them power to help themselves and to heal.  She wants to help clients to learn to think for themselves. – She discussed who she works with. – The biggest challenges/obstacles she comes up against when working with people: 1) Financial, a lot of the time it’s people’s priorities needing to be shifted. 2) Changing the way people eat, it’s a HUGE shift in thinking for some people.  Some are more willing to make lifestyle changes over food changes. – She decided to face her fears of public speaking so she would have the opportunity to help more people in her community. – Marketing, what she uses right now is word of mouth, referrals, other practitioners, she is looking into diversifying this. – She had to set boundaries for herself because she wants to learn and study so much. What you have and where you’re at right now is enough to help a lot of people out there.

- Environmental Toxins: The scope of the problem, and why practitioners need to be better informed - Ways that chemicals can interfere with our delicate hormonal system - High doses vs. low doses: why low doses matter - Top areas to start working with clients on reducing exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals - Important considerations for how to talk to clients about environmental chemicals

Welcome Christa Orecchio! Intro to Gut Thrive program Christa's philosophy behind healing the gut from a genetic perspective Step 1 - Slash inflammation Step 2 - Pathogen purge and the antiquated approach to addressing pathogens and imbalances in the microbiome Step 3 - Reseeding with good bacteria and the specific bacterial strains that Christa recommends Step 4 - Restoration of stomach acid Details for the webinar this Wednesday, 2/3

Intro: Reed discussing the FDN philosophy/paradigm and what sets us apart from other traditional methods. 4:30 Talk about upcomoing new FDN material and video tutorials 6:15 – 14:30  Reed continues to discuss trouble-shooting & doubling down on DRESS;  Brandon announces graduates 15:00 – Question: How do you go about weaning off PPI’s with supplements to increase stomach acid?  (already ruled out Hpylori).  Reed: Reed discusses weaning clients off of PPIs and why stomach acid is so important to our health and  vitality.  29:00 – Live Question: Can Reed speak to hyper-parathyroidism  Reed: discusses parathyroid function and its role on calcium in the blood/bones.  Speaks to how the  process of FDN reduces metabolic chaos regardless of the  client’s “diagnosis”.  47:30 – Question: I have a client with a total cortisol of 9.5 for the whole day. I mentioned that he might want to  get tested for Addison’s since that was what the FDN program suggests. He doesn’t seem to have the other typical symptoms of Addison’s other than the low cortisol. Reed shares that he has seen Addison’s maybe twice in the last 15 years – it is very rare.  54:30 – Question from caller. How does the cyclical drop of progesterone before menses set off the  inflammatory cascade that triggers migraines.   Reed: Does it matter? The solution is to balance the contributors to MC and work non-specifically w/ FDN protocols.

Welcome Future Memebership Program and upcoming post grad program Announcement of new graduates Running Tests in Kids and implications Discussion on braces and stressor related to braces. Discussion on Klebsiella Verbal Final Discussion Discussion on Parasite and Bacterial Infections Discussion on H.Pylori and panic attacks Business building discussion and tips from Reed Closing  

Reed Intro and Welcome Graduates Reed is doing a Webinar with Steve Wright on How To Build Your Practice Practitioner Spotlight:  Beginning Interview with Jenn Culver Malecha Reed: “how did D (Diet) and R (Rest) come about?  Jenn:  Making 3 main points to share that simplify what you do as a FDN-P. Jenn:  The importance of following up with the 90 day protocol and testing.  Reed:  “The market for ‘us’ is growing exponentially” Jen:  Discussing welcome gifts to clients who do her programs. Jen:  Working Smarter not Harder.  Taking on 2-3 clients/month Reed:  How he started with 2-3 kits and move to 5 kits.  Learning how your beliefs can inhibit how you work.  Brandon and Jen:  How setting expectations on retesting prepares you and your client for success. Brandon asking Question:  “How do you Market?  What do you do to build your Business?” Reed Closing

1:00--Graduates!! Brandon announced our 3 graduates this week. 3:00--encouraging graduates to finish the course, standard of delivery and shifting practice clients to mock up clients 4:00--New lessons 8, 9 & 10 coming soon; encouraging FDN's to run all 5 labs on clients 5:00--benefits of running all 5 labs, implementing DRESS, not-treating symptoms with FDN 10:00--FDN 2, membership coming in 2016 for post-grads, bonus course 11 being added 15:00--will have another guest next call FDN grad Jen Molecka 17:30--Cieley called in, multi-level marketing concern question; Reed comments on MLM and what sets FDN apart; difference between diagnosing and looking for clues to help our clients 29:30--reach out in community to build business; how to build referrals even outside of your community 31:00-Reed's opinion of colonoscopies 34:00--Ella from Idaho called in; CBD oil; arms-length transaction versus MLM (multi-level marketing) 39:00--discussing the risks of regular colonoscopies versus stool blood test or virtual colonscopies; sterilization protocols for equipment 45:00--Reed further discusses virtual colonoscopies; kidney stones and stone-breaker supplement by Raintree 49:00--Brandon makes announcements for new year; new order form for medical director kits 52:00--thyroid and elevated thyroglobulin; Hashimoto's; Celiac's 55:00--Lesson 9 (thyroid) may be moved to FDN 2 56:00-upgrades to the course; re-testing and case studies; value of trainee/graduate feedback 59:00--Happy Holidays!

This week on FDN Support Talk Radio: Reed at A4M Conference Announcements, new Medical Director order form, and our 3 graduates for the week Welcome our special guest, Sarah Paino, http://www.sarahpaino.com Sarah's background (from Macrobiotics to Acupuncture school to Energy Work to FDN) Sarah's personal journey of transformation using FDN and the value of patience with the process The similarities and overlaps between Chinese Medicine and FDN Overcoming challenges using the DRESS protocols Sarah's outreach talk that got more than 50 attendees How to work through the biggest challenges with clients How successful clients integrate lifestyle changes Value of the basic 5 labs and the benefits of the FDN Medical Director program The most rewarding things about working as an FDN-P

Covered in today's Call: FDN developing higher standards for getting people through the course more quickly and with more consistency in delivery New Lesson 7 Updates and Quizzes New Lesson 8 is in the works and will provide some awesome new content Shift in course requirement towards using mock up clients with all 5 labs in place of the client reviews 13 Graduates!!! Common questions about business that come up during Reed's post graduate interviews and Reed's top two answers to those questions Your customer is not the problem and how to move past the blocks that are keeping YOU from really helping your clients Focus on running all 5 labs and really practicing FDN New lecture package. What it entails and how to use it to build up your client base for the next year.

Topics: New Lesson 7! Sean Croxton’s final podcast with Reed Mission of FDN/Continuous Improvement How the BH205 became one of the core diagnostic labs Phases of supplementation HTMA How long does it take for intestinal permeability to heal? FDN-P’s are educators The mold conference and the work of Dr. Ritchie Schumaker