How can health practitioners coach patients more effectively?

In this episode, Uli dives into this crucial question with Andrea Nakayama, a leader in functional nutrition and founder of the Functional Nutrition Alliance. With decades of experience training practitioners and addressing chronic illness, Andrea shares 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.

• Andrea explains how combining behavioral strategies with physiological insights creates a more holistic approach to patient care.
• Learn why patients ghost their practitioners and how slowing down the process can build trust and ensure long-term success.
• Discover Andrea’s "Three Roots, Many Branches" model, which shifts focus from “fixing” patients to fostering a therapeutic partnership.
• How trauma-informed care and cultural competency can transform your practice.
• Understand how moving from a top-down approach to collaborative care empowers patients to take ownership of their health.

• “Patients are coming in feeling broken. It’s not our job to fix them—it’s our job to partner with them.” (10:00 | Andrea Nakayama)
• “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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