My response lately on my podcast- Eat real food and mixture of macros that balances your blood sugar, provides long lasting satiety, energy and curbs cravings… we want to be fat burners not sugar burners!
If we only treat our symptoms, even if getting functional detailed labs to find out our imbalances, we only feel “good” temporarily. As a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and soon to be a FDN-Practitioner, I am implementing my training into my coaching program – The WHOLESTIC Method. In order to feel alive and thriving each day- we need to work on putting the pieces of the puzzle together with a combination of WHOLEIST method approach:
- Functional Lab Testing
- Nutritional Therapy Assessment
- Nutritional Therapy Functional Evaluation
- Genetic Testing assessment via DNAFit
- The WHOLESTIC Method Lifestyle Improvements
- Metabolic Typing Assessment
- Metabolic Efficiency Testing
If we don’t find answers…we should look at the WHOLE picture as lab testing and supplementation is only part of the solution. Treating the symptoms is similar to placing a band-aid on the problem- instead we should look at the WHY and work on correlating the answers. We need to put the pieces of the puzzle together- or else we continue to have symptoms downstream. We need to work north and work our way south with the use of labs, nutritional assessment, food log with symptoms, lifestyle habits and genetics. As a FDN-Practitioner and a NTP, my job as a health coach is to use all the “tools”, including functional labs, to identify healing opportunities to restore function and balance back to a client’s body- “Optimal NORMAL” is their homeostasis.
The secret sauce on restoring health and vitality, is a client’s commitment to adopting new lifestyle behaviors, nutritional therapy and healing therapy plan. If a client is not motivated to do their homework, then we are not able to work together. In FDN as a practitioner, we coach clients with the tools to rebuild their vital and metabolic reserve while we “coach down” their contributors to “METABOLIC CHAOS” to help the client return to the land of vitality.
As we work together to create an individualized plan to solve the reason a client experiences “METABOLIC CHAOS” – their symptoms ideally disappear!
As FDN Practitioners, we don’t treat anything specific since we don’t treat the symptoms- but we treat the WHOLE body as one system and get the “engine” running back at optimal level. Healing takes time, and I know it as my healing journey has taken years to rebuild and renew myself.
My client needs to have reasonable expectations as we all should learn from my errors or mistakes- there is not an easy fix or a magic pill (or supplement) that fixes you. A new you must be built with a new approach to how we live life each day!
“Symptoms may be far removed from the causal factors or stressors found upstream” ~ Reed Davis, founder FDN-P
As a certified FDN practitioner, we help improve the function of body systems with the right assessments including identifying internal and external stressors. The internal “HIDDEN” stressors with functional lab testing:
- Hormones
- Immune
- Digestion
- Detoxification
- Energy
- Nervous
The individualized healing program for clients ideally will improve function as we remove the HIDDEN internal stressors. The lab testing we use as a FDN Practitioner will help identify dysfunction and sources of imbalance leading to METABOLIC CHAOS. As we identify the individual’s healing opportunities and find the right nutrition plan with Metabolic Typing, we can implement the right protocols for success along with observations, re-evaluation and re-testing as appropriate.
The lab testing packages include: self treat and send payment to lab as per directions
- Biohealth 205A Hormone Panel – saliva for hormones (or DUTCH test)
- Biohealth101 Metabolic Assessment Profile- urine for assessing protein digestion, liver detoxification and oxidative stress
- Biohealth Intestinal Permeability- signs and symptoms of leaky gut
- Biohealth 401H GI Pathogen Screen or the GI Map– stool testing for gut infection and infestation (parasites, bacteria, fungi, yeast and Biofilms)
- Oxford Mediator Release Test (MRT) or ELISA/ACT for identifying food sensitivities that may cause stress via inflammation and irritating the gut. Stool culture to assess pathology and dysbiosis including tri-chrome stain, stool antigens, yeast, Occult blood and H. pylori.
- OATS- Organic Acids Test
Debbie Potts
The WHOLESTIC Method
Burn Fat. Optimize Health. Improve Performance.
Trainer, Coach, Speaker & Podcaster
FDN Practitioner
Nutritional Therapy Practitioner
Kion Coach, NASM CPT, CHEK HCL, USAT
The WHOLE Athlete Podcast
(425) 466-3653
Author and Speaker of “Life is NOT a Race” & “The WHOLESTIC Method”
