Do you have the vision and desire to start your own Health Coaching business? With conscientious planning, good marketing and guidance from people who have been there, you too can start a thriving business – and 2021 is the perfect year to get started.  Today more than ever, healthcare is in crisis and people are searching for health coaches to work with. The massive rise in chronic disease, escalating medical costs, and conventional medicine’s limitations have caused the demand for Health Coaches to skyrocket. If you want to start a fulfilling career that the world truly needs, here are five tips [...]

Tis’ the season…that you might see a change in your client’s eating habits and drop in client compliancy with coaching recommendations due to an abundance of available sweet treats and holiday eats.  FDN Practitioners know how important it is to steer clients away from bad food and eating habits, but more notably they know WHY it is important and they have the tools to motivate clients to change. It is essential as a functional health coach to understand the true intricacies of why dietary changes critical to improve function and how to communicate this clearly, so that your client comprehends [...]

Intermittent fasting is a health trend quickly gaining popularity around the world. It’s claimed to help with weight loss, improved metabolism, and even increased life span. You’ve likely seen YouTube video diaries and blogs outlining the unique meal schedule of intermittent fasters. With the increased attention on intermittent fasting, functional health coaches are certainly encountering interested clients, but the question is, is it right for them? The Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® approach is about restoring homeostasis. Fasting is a good insulin regulation, and it is true that insulin sensitivity can be restored with intermittent fasting. Food of any kind raises insulin [...]

Health Coaches often start their work with clients with a range of onboarding and intake assessments to determine their health needs. But what if the health coach didn’t have to depend on subjective information provided by the client to help them understand all of the issues they need to overcome? What if the health coach could offer a series of tests to collect objective data to help identify healing opportunities that otherwise might not be known? These underlying issues can keep clients stuck in an exhausting cycle of trial and error – but what if instead of this time-consuming journey [...]

We’ve all had moments where we forgot a name, misplaced our keys, had trouble producing a word, or just felt a bit hazy. However, if your clients are having regular bouts of memory loss, feeling lost or confused, or having trouble concentrating, it could be attributed to more than just a simple slip. Brain Fog is not a disease or disorder.  It’s a result of cognitive dysfunction, or more specifically, Metabolic Chaos®.  In other words, the brain is not working correctly.  This doesn’t have anything to do with a person’s intelligence or IQ. That foggy-headed feeling is simply the expression [...]