Coach Clients on Maximal Nutrition_Final
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>> Hi there.
Hippocrates once said,
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."
As a Health Coach,
you know that immense healing power food can have.
In this module, you will learn
how to maximize nutrition for hormonal health.
To do this, we'll look at foods
in terms of macronutrients, fats, carbs, and proteins
and how you can leverage each macronutrient
to help your clients balance their hormones.
Nutrition is such a fundamental aspect
of hormonal health.
As an expert in this field,
this is the kind of information your clients
will come to depend on you for.
So it's great to be well-versed in this area.
No matter what health challenges
or hormonal imbalances your clients may experience,
everyone can benefit from a boost in nutrition.
One thing that's important to remember,
as we discuss diet in relation to hormones is that,
most of your clients will come to you feeling confused
and overwhelmed about healing foods.
Changes are, they've looked for some information
before landing on your doorstep.
They've likely googled solutions
for what they are experiencing
and came up against a ton of information.
Some of it conflicting.
As you know, there are so many different diets out there.
Humans are bio-individual.
And there's a lot of misinformation out there
on the internet.
To make matters even more confusing,
you will encounter many clients
who've read up on symptoms online
and diagnosed themselves
because they're feeling certain
that what they are experiencing
is estrogen dominance, for example.
Now you're working with someone who claims
they've already tried everything under the sun,
but really they were trying to solve the wrong problem.
When it comes to their lives and their bodies,
your clients are the best experts on themselves.
But as a Health Coach,
you're their nutrition and health expert.
Your clients hold all the clues
when it comes to themselves,
but it's your job to take this information
and decode it.
It's important to approach this information
with a mind like a blank slate,
rather than approach a client with preconceived notions
about what's going on for them.
When a Coach comes from a place
of powerful personal experience
with a particular health condition or they swear
by certain dietary practices or healing regiments,
it opens up the potential for them to create a bias
and how they collect an interpret clues.
We encourage you to really take the time
to familiarize yourself with a variety of healing diets
and approaches, not just the one
that you personally subscribed to.
Maybe you have celiac disease, for example,
and you turned your life around
with a gluten-free diet.
This doesn't mean every client who comes to you
with digestive distress has gluten intolerance
or would benefit from going gluten-free, too.
Even if this was your niche,
you'd still want to build your knowledge base
about other allergies and conditions,
to be sure you're helping everyone
how they need to be helped.
If it turns out that a client could be best supportive
by a different practitioner,
you owe it to them to connect them
with the help they truly need.
At the end of the day,
you want to have the highest success rate
with the people you worked with,
not the largest client roster.
So when it comes to balancing hormones,
why does a particular way of eating for one client,
but not another?
The reason is the bio-individuality,
which is a concept I'm sure you'll recall
from the Health Coach Training Program.
To refresh your memory,
bio-individuality refers to the biochemical factors
that influence our individual behavior,
immune functions, mental health, personality,
allergic tendencies, tastes, and abilities
to process different chemicals.
It's commonly agreed upon by health experts
that people require variety in their diets.
But beyond this, opinions and what constitutes
an optimal diet often vary from one expert to the next.
How can so many theories exist?
Which one's correct?
As you have learned, they may all be valid.
This is possible because dietary theories
typically neglect a huge part
of what nutrition is really about, the individual.
Most guidelines describe what you should eat
without any reference to important factors
like, gender, age, lifestyle, or body type.
As a Coach, it's your job to clarify
that all individuals have their own specific need
when it comes to health,
and help each individual discover what that is.
As an expert in hormone health,
it's important to be aware
of the vast genetic diversity
at the root of a wide variety of health problems,
dietary needs and metabolic abilities.
Consider this.
There are over 70 trillion possible chromosome combinations
every time an egg needs a sperm.
All of these genetic combinations result in a child
who's entirely different
from either of her parents or siblings.
So it's not surprising that this person
has the potential to metabolize their food differently.
For instance, genetic abnormalities exist
that can hinder hormone health.
Several of these gene mutations interfere
with the body's ability to metabolize food.
For example, people who are born
with the MTHFR gene mutation are way more likely
to have deficiencies of folate and B12.
And beyond the documented mutations like this one,
there are many other combinations
that haven't yet been studied.
While researchers have uncovered so much information
about how genes impact hormones, health, and nutrition,
there's still so much that we don't know.
There was a major recent study
involving 800 participants
that measure their blood sugar levels after eating.
Everyone was fed identical meals,
yet blood sugar levels varied significantly
from person to person.
Using the data obtained from these participants,
the authors then created individualized diets
for a separate group of 100 participants.
The participants in the group with a personalize diets
showed significantly more stability
in their post-meal blood sugar levels.
This all adds up to the fact
that diets should always be catered
to the needs of the individual,
because this course is about hormone balance,
we're going to look at the different ways
to adjust for each client's hormonal issues as well.
One thing to keep in mind as we discuss
dietary modifications for your clients is to remember
that drastic changes are hard to make
and maintain for most people.
It's better to make slow,
gradual changes that allow the brain
to adjust over time.
Allow your clients to embrace their own pace,
not yours for creating change,
so that their diet and lifestyle adjustments
become manageable lifelong habits.
You will get clients who want relief
from their symptoms right away and show up motivated
to take on a list of recommendations,
but that doesn't mean you should hand them
an entire protocol at once.
Don't set your clients up to crash and burn.
The point is, to help your clients make changes
they can work into their lives
and stick with long-term.
Remember, it's easier for a driver to navigate
to a new destination when you give them one step
in the directions at a time,
rather than a full list of directions
before they even back out of the driveway.
Create frequent opportunities
for wins for your clients to achieve.
Emphasize the things they are doing right
and praise them for these efforts
every step of the way.
Positive reinforcement will encourage
these modifications to become permanent.
It keeps clients motivated and excited
about the positive shifts they're making,
even when they're challenging.
Reminding your clients of all the repercussions
of their negative habits
and what they are not doing to heal their hormones,
creates a doom and gloom attitude
and can set clients out for self-pity and sabotage.
As we talk about maximizing nutrition
in the upcoming lecture,
and as you apply this information
in your coaching sessions, I encourage you
to keep all of these guidelines in mind.
To recap what we discussed today,
all your clients can benefit from a boost in nutrition,
but what's most beneficial in healing
varies from person to person.
Bio-individuality extends beyond general nutrition.
It applies to the healing nutritional protocols
we create for hormone balance as well.
You can best support your clients by approaching them
for clues as a blank slate and familiarizing yourself
with a wide variety of healing diets,
so that you can create a protocol for healing foods
that's tailored specifically to their needs
and unique composition.
Help them succeed by offering no more than
one or two suggestions at a time
and creating moments of victory by celebrating
and positively reinforcing their wins along the way.
Remember, how you help clients
adopt a nutritional protocol
to help balance their hormones,
can be just as important
as what is in the protocol itself.
Anyone can google diets and information.
Your support, encouragement,
and empowerment is what will
ultimately help your client succeed
when it comes to taking control
of their hormone health.
What's your unique story?
Are you interested in this topic
because of a personal health challenge
that you or someone close to you overcame?
What dietary guidelines do you abide by in your life?
What have you tried that hasn't worked?
I encourage you to share your experiences
in the Facebook group.
Afterwards, pause to reflect
and how your unique experiences
may differ from other peoples' stories.
Remember this, as you work with clients
to help keep personal bias at bay.
Thanks so much for joining me.
I really enjoyed sharing this information with you.
See you soon.