(1st EP of the new chronic illness leader series!)

“If you do not solve your inner piece problem, all of these dietary changes not going to fix these chronic illness issues"

Contents

·      2 min: Adrienne’s story – her and her families battle with Chronic Lyme and Hypothyroidism --> Hashimoto’s Disease

·      7 min: diet affecting her period leading to Amenorrhea

·      11:30 min: the tragedy of her mother’s mental health and how it impacted her

·      14 min: Adrienne’s ignited dream to fix our healthcare system

·      16 min: her journey through business school and first creating WellBe + her ironic work in Chronic Disease management in a hospital

·      19:30 min: benefits of experience in healthcare before launching a healthcare company

·      22 min: becoming a board certified chronic illness advocate, and discussing never having regrets

·      25 min: knowledge on issues with Chronic Lyme testing

·      27 min: what “woo woo” medicine really is; how integrative medicine is full of brilliant professionals

·      28:30 min: natural medicine can improve all aspects of your health issues but you need to include a few or several different modalities, not just one. Why it takes a “team” and the “who” treating you matters

·      31 min: her testing journey

·      (whoops! Lawn mower interruption!)

·      3:30 min: Getting personal with nutrition and finding a “ferocious investigator” practitioner

·      36 min: Eva not having fibro fog for weeks (lasted for 3 months and still barely there!)

·      37 min: Adrienne’s management of Hashimoto’s

·      42: chronic illness tied to emotions and freeing the immune system

·      46:30 min: re-evaluating the healthy lifestyle vs. healthcare system culture – disconnected even though trying to do the same thing, using WellBe to bridge the gap (bringing research to the conversation with their weekly wrap up

·      49 min: how all of her films/interviews of chronic illness recovery stories involved them having a perspective change

·      49:30 min: “[Changing your mindset] - it’s the hardest work of all, and I think it’s much easier to each vegetables than to sit quietly and connect with your dark thoughts….especially with chronic illness…[those voices] build up so much inflammation”

·      51 min: what WellBe is all about – stories, videos, research, newsletter, podcast, events, etc.

·      56 min: how it’s going to take a village to make true change in the chronic illness community 

ADRIENNE NOLAN-SMITH

In her personal and professional experience, Adrienne Nolan-Smith has seen how integrative health and wellness are key to preventing and reversing disease. When she was 11, Adrienne was diagnosed with Lyme disease. Her conventional doctor prescribed antibiotics, but they didn’t work and her mother was then told there were no other options.

Two years and multiple integrative therapies later, Adrienne was Lyme-free. Over the years, other health issues came up and each time it became clear that conventional doctors had tools to treat her symptoms, but they never got to the root of the problems, nor did they really try to cure them...

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