035: How To Better Coach Patients With Andrea Nakayama

There's a lot of overwhelm when patients experience health challenges… and oftentimes, health practitioners unknowingly add to the overwhelm.

In their quest to identify and resolve the underlying root causes for a patient, health practitioners frequently jump straight to protocols and treatment – without allowing enough time for a patient to “get ready” for treatment.

In this episode with Andrea Nakayama, one of the leading functional nutritionists in the world, we’ll unpack how health practitioners can better coach their prospective clients or patients to a decision to seek professional help.

As the host of the 15-Minute Matrix Podcast and the founder of Functional Nutrition Alliance, Andrea has been leading thousands of students and practitioners around the globe in a revolution to offer better solutions to the growing chronic illness epidemic.

After losing her young husband to a brain tumor in 2002, she discovered a passion for using food as personalized medicine and is now regularly consulted as the nutrition expert for the toughest clinical cases in the practices of many world-renowned doctors.

You’ll learn why we need to prioritize cultural competency, trauma-informed care, and patient education when working with clients – and why it’s so critical to focus on the three root factors of genetics, digestion, and inflammation

Plus, we discussed the importance of a true therapeutic partnership, understanding that the patient is the other expert in the room, and that practitioners should focus on educating them on why they are making the recommendations they are, creating a more sustainable approach to health.

• “We have to slow our role as practitioners and recognize this is about the person. We're not fixing them. It's not our job to fix them. Patients are coming in feeling broken.” (10:28-10:41 | Andrea)
• “So what I also find in the world of trauma out there is a lot of patients are looking for the root. We have to actually change where the roots live, which is in the soil, in the terrain.” (13:31-14:11 | Andrea)
• “I invite people to sit in that discomfort. That's where we learn, that's where we grow, and that's how we serve.” (21:25-21:33 | Andrea)
• “I'm just gonna remind people, yes, everything is connected, but who we are and what we do also informs what's happening in the body.” (27:07-27:18 | Andrea)

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