Its is the New Year and I am hearing about everyone’s new plan to do keto or go to the gym.
Don’t we need to take time out to determine our imbalances or our “areas of opportunities”?
I am focused on improving my aging process- my LONGEVITY which begins with my MITOCHONDRIA function.
Are you ready to prioritize your HEALTH & WELLNESS this year?
Remember we are to “put the oxygen mask on first” before helping others. If you want to be the best version of yourself…the best spouse, the best parent, the best family member… find the best version of you first!
Maybe you need to take time out and disconnect with yourself to reflect on the past year before you set new intentions for 2020.
Maybe you need guidance, support and motivation?
Learn more about the role of a health coach and the 3-step program to resolving your “METABOLIC CHAOS” in my many blog posts and podcast episodes.
CHRONIC stress isn’t always visible -as we have the sometimes obvious external stressors of financial stress, family, work, over exercising, environmental toxins, processed foods and even negativity.
The first step of FDN Practitioner health detective process starts with assessing the WHOLE you from the inside out with functional lab testing and intake forms.
We assess your “Metabolic Chaos®” which includes running well chosen functional labs to identify YOUR healing opportunities and malfunctions within the H.I.D.D.E.N. internal stressors:
- Hormone
- Immune
- Digestion
- Detoxification
- Energy Production
- Nervous Systems
We look at the WHOLE you from the inside out starting with the HIDDEN stressors & malfunctions that are underlying most chronic health complaints!
More of my thoughts below…as I found my purpose.
Do you struggle to reach your health, wellness and fat loss goals?
Do you have unresolved health complaints even though you have tried searching for answers from various doctors?
Don’t your want to be and feel your BEST self this year?
You must learn how to stop the cycle of trial and error! There is an overwhelming amount of information out there with endless amount of practitioners with every kind of treatment or remedy. I learned this personally and share my story in my book on Amazon- LIFE IS NOT A RACE. Healing and repairing our main health complaints isn’t by taking lab tests and taking supplements. That approach didn’t work for me and I am sure it won’t work for you either- for the long term. How much money and time have you spent trying to get answers and feel like yourself again??
The traditional medical appraoch provides medication based on lab results and surgery. If you are like me, I was searching for the quick solution to make me feel alive and thriving again… just give me which supplements my body needs to heal and repair itself! After spending lots of money on supplements, various therapies and treatments, I finally figured out the solution myself. It was looking at the WHOLE picture and treating the WHOLE individual all together.
The main game changer for me was working on adjusting my attitude and life schedule to slow down, relax and unplug more often. What you may need is different that what worked best for my health and recovery. As a FDN Practitioner, we work on filling the gap between what other medical practitioners and doctors were offering clients.
In order to fill the “gap” to help our clients heal, rebuild and recover from “METABOLIC CHAOS“, we stop chasing symptoms and start sorting out our “METABOLIC CHAOS“. We need to start by identifying healing opportunities with the right tools as functional lab testing, coach up function while we coach down HIDDEN stressors with respect to metabolic individuality. FDN practitioners acts as healthy detectives and help guide the client to self treat to heal the WHOLE individual from the inside out.
Instead of chasing symptoms- we work together with clients to identify the underlying conditions by correlating functional lab test results with the client’s main health complaints (clinical correlation) by implementing a therapeutic individualized “DRESS for Health Success” protocol to improve overall health rather than the typical solution of treating only the symptoms.
We can all order functional lab tests online these days but there is not just one lab to use or order. Many health practitioners order one lab for clients and treat the test results. In FDN, we order five main labs to help put the pieces of the puzzle together and look at the WHOLE picture instead of being sucked into the “cycle of trial and error” doing test after test.
As a certified FDN Practitioner, we help identify the main health complaints and correlate with lab results then create an individualized health rebuilding protocol with the “DRESS for Health Success” program. The body can heal itself with the right natural therapies that will guide the body into building back up the health- we don’t treat anything specifically but treat everything all at once non-specifically.
We may never find out the root cause but we don’t need to as there usually isn’t just one thing that leads to METABOLIC CHAOS. In order to unravel and solve the METABOLIC CHAOS puzzle, we need to follow as step by step approach to healing and CHRONIC STRESS is a major contributor to our chaos.
We have HIDDEN internal stressors that lead to METABOLIC CHAOS so we need to run functional lab tests to identify healing opportunities that will help guide the body back to “normal” function – a state of ease instead of dis-ease!
In order to restore our health from the inside out, we need to take a different approach and gradually (ideally) the symptoms disappear and complaints are (ideally) resolved. If not – we take a different approach.
Let’s take a moment to define what is “STRESS”?
Reed Davis, the founder of FDN-P, defines stress as any influence, internal or external that causes or leads to malfunction. Stress is often well hidden and may involved several layers of investigation- which is what we do as FDN practitioners. We act as a health detective to help guide the client to healing and rebuilding the WHOLE you from the inside out.
Not all stress is bad stress. We can experience distress or eustress. Small doses of stress are healthy but when the stress becomes non-stop it is chronic and we don’t have time to recover from the stressor.
When our body functions become to malfunction from chronic stress… and when our body systems are at ease but become dis-eased as we used up our vital reserves leading to various unexplained symtpoms and contribute to what is termed “METABOLIC CHAOS”.
Distress includes –ongoing and chronic sources of stress …
a. mental and emotional stress (percieved) = fear, worry, excitement, anxiety, relationships, existential angst, lack of purpose, convertness, negative perceptions or a bad attitude.
b. biochemical and trauma (physical) = trauma, micro-trauma, fractures, muscle injuries, weakness, nerve compression, repetitive or positional injury, intense and prolonged exercise, poor posture and accidents.
c. chemical and biochemical HIDDEN stressors and contributors to METABOLIC CHAOS. Inflammatory foods, additives, pesticides, herbicides, GMOs, alcohol, caffeine, blood sugar, prescription medication, recreational drugs, chemicals, metals, radiation, EMF’s, antibiotics, OTC meds, exogenous hormones, parasites, bacteria, fungi, viruses, allergies, over active immune system, sleep deprivation and no exercise!
The Chronic Stress Cascade: HIDDEN stress and imbalances- if not soon resolved – cascades into other areas- metabolic chaos ensues (the problem)- causing serious dys-function (weak link dependent)- leading to dis-ease and symptoms -how the problems appear or show up.
The FDN Practitioner program is an emerging field and growing body of work that bridges the gap of medical care and self care- taking ownership of that bridge.
FDN stands for Functional Diagnostic Nutrition which means-
Functional is a meaningful indicates working with and respecting the innate intelligence of the body, how the body really works. It is the desire for equilbrium and balance (homeostasis).
Diagnostic with “functional” means to find healing opportunities, uncover opportunities to evoke the healing response, and to indentify and remove obstacles to recovery.
Nutrition to nurture, to feed the cells, tissues, organs and systems- the organism. to provide everything the body genetically requires.
An FDN practitioner is similar to a health detective- we work with you to help investigate why you are experiencing your main health complaints and help identify healing opportunities, instead of treating symptoms, and areas of health that need improvement (areas of opportunities). We coach up clients to achieve their desired results.
We use functional labs to help create clinical correlation and to use results to help put the pieces of the puzzle together- an individualized approach to healing. We do not treat the test results. Instead we use the DRESS For Health Success program to help guide a client to healing from the inside out.
What is the difference between the MEDICAL MODEL and the FDN MODEL?
Medical treatment is for specific diseases or a “diagnosis” – which manages symptoms only. The medical treatment depends on drugs and surgery. The FDN model offers choices- an opt-in self care model as compared to the medical model which is a “forced-in disease care model”.
Doctors give labwork and often provide the patient with the response that your lab results are “normal” and you are “fine”. The FDN-model approach believes that symptoms are not the problem but the results of the problem- dysfunction in the body usually far removed from the problem and found upstream.
As a FDN-P, we offer an individualized approach to healing by being a health detective and coach. We are able to run labs but we don’t treat the test results. We treat the WHOLE person. FDN’s work in a non-specific manner to identify healing opportunities and discover the underlying causes.
We educate the client and provide an “opt-in” model of self care to follow to help create healing opportunities.
FDN-model uses the “DRESS for Health Success” health building system. We don’t treat the symptoms or treat one thing specifically. We apply wellness principles on a journey to provide deeper insights about individual obstacle to health and opportunities for overcoming the obstacles. FDN’s treat the WHOLE body systems non-specifically to help heal the body and bring back to homeostasis.
The Association of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner’s mission statement:
“To educate as many people as possible to “Get Well and Stay Well Naturally” so that they in return may educate others.”
Please contact me, Debbie, if you are interested in learning more about the FDN Practitioner “health detective” coaching programs via here
Debbie Potts
The WHOLESTIC Method Program
Certified Functional Diagnostic Practitioner & Nutritional Therapy Practitioner
NASM CPT, KION, DNAFit, CHEK HLC, USAT
Author “Life is Not a Race” & “The WHOLESTIC Method”
Host of THE WHOLE ATHLETE podcast
www.debbiepotts.net