Awaken Your Wise Woman

Functional Medicine for Sensitive Women

Elizabeth Cush Season 5 Episode 14

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If you’re struggling with a chronic health issue, the answer may be closer than you realize. Listen in on this episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, as host Elizabeth Cush welcomes Andrea Nakayama, a functional medicine nutritionist, for a talk about the healthcare journey for highly sensitive women.

“Functional nutrition is a place for those addressing chronic health challenges to settle into a different way of approaching them.”
— Andrea Nakayama

 

Listen and learn:

  • Two of the most glaring gaps in our medical system and how functional medicine helps address them
  • The three primary tenets of functional medicine and their implications for highly sensitive women
  • The three elements of the functional nutrition matrix and how they can help you understand and manage your health
  • How antecedents, triggers and mediators shape our health story—and help us shape it going forward
  • The benefits of making decisions in terms of risk and reward
  • Why looking for the one thing that will “fix it” is counterproductive
  • How to detoxify from a functional nutrition perspective—and it’s not what we’re hearing about in the media
  • How to tap into the pharmacy inside us
  • How our sensit

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