What is health coaching? How does it work? These were the questions that crossed my mind when I deliberated whether to enrol in the Accredited Health Coaching Course.

I consulted my inner circle, Nah, you’re a pharmacist and worked on the Phone Lines, you don’t need it.

However, when I conducted medicine reviews, I felt like I could dig deeper with patients and transform their health habits, long-story short. I enrolled and completed the course.

What was it like? The experience was life-changing. As part of the course, you bring real-life habits to practice with other students. Many times I put my hand up to be coached by Shivaun, just because the results were transformative. I no longer am a potato chip addict, have 1 less self-limiting belief and am on my way to become My Dream Self.

Shivaun Conn is a Certified Health Coach, Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD), Accredited Nutritionist (AN), Certified Trainer and Assessor, Director of Accredited Health Coaching Australia, Director of Discovery Health Coaching, former Vice President of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine and Professional Member of Health Coaches Australia & New Zealand (HCANZA). Shivaun has worked for 19 years as a dietitian, health coach and presenter.

Shivaun currently coaches individuals in nutrition and lifestyle, trains practitioners in health behaviour change, and develops health and nutrition programs across a range of sectors.

Today, I managed to persuade Shivaun to join us and share her secrets of behaviour change.

In this episode, you will discover:

• How a health coach can unlock any powerful and limiting beliefs that are preventing you from living a healthy life
• Role of a health coach: tap into motivation, change behaviours and create healthy habits, prevent relapses, challenge any limiting beliefs that interfere with your ability to achieve any health goals
• If it’s important for you to be your optimal self, here’s a reminder of the importance of self-care. If you’re a practitioner and want to show up without burning out, find out Shivaun’s philosophy on ‘Being Committed but not Attached’

Resources: Accredited Health Coaching Australia

Executive Health Coaching with Shivaun Conn

HCANZA (Australia New Zealand accreditation body for health coaches)

Other episodes you'll enjoy: Introduction to The Enlightened Pharmacist

Dr Marc Cohen – Smart Health & Wellness

Nicole Bijlsma Environmental Toxins Impacting Health & What You Can Do

Dr Ron Ehlrich: Holistic Dentistry & How It Can Improve Your Breathing

Dr Sandeep Gupta: Reverse Engineers Type 2 Diabetes

Dr James Muecke: What an Eye Surgeon is Doing to Prevent Blindness

Connect with me: Website: https://pharmacistedit.com/

Hi everyone! Welcome to The Enlightened Pharmacist Podcast. Today, we're going to be talking to South Australian Eye Surgeon, Dr James Muecke co-founder of the social impact organisation , Sight for all, who deliver sustainable eye health care projects free of charge to countries and communities in need.

We know that diabetes is one of the leading causes of blindness, one of the most-feared complication of type 2 diabetes

Listen to how James uses his 2020 Australian of the Year platform to help prevent type 2 diabetes after his own personal health journey and the simple and effective health tips he has for everyone.

In this episode, you will discover:

• Why an eye surgeon who was treating blindness related to type 2 diabetes is now an advocate for a change in nutrition guidelines and what he is doing to help patients with diabetic retinopathy (eye disease related to diabetes) resolve their condition
• The continuum of metabolic disease (how the body converts food to energy) and how too much sugar from one’s diet gets converted to fat, stored in vital organs like the liver and pancreas, resulting in organ dysfunction and contributes to the continuum of chronic condition and permanent organ damage
• Role of sugar, refined carbohydrates and industrial seed oils in the continuum of metabolic disease and how Dr James resolved his fatty liver disease with satiating foods, intermittent fasting, eat real food that avoids processed food, resistance training to prevent muscle wasting and optimising circadian rhythm

Resources:

Blinded by Sugar video

World Health Organisation waist-hip circumference

International Diabetes Federation Consensus of Metabolic Syndrome

Dr Jason Fung’s Diabetes Code book

Other episodes you'll enjoy: Introduction to The Enlightened Pharmacist

Dr Marc Cohen – Smart Health & Wellness

Nicole Bijlsma Environmental Toxins Impacting Health & What You Can Do

Dr Ron Ehlrich: Holistic Dentistry & How It Can Improve Your Breathing

Dr Sandeep Gupta: Reverse Engineers Type 2 Diabetes

Welcome to The Enlightened Pharmacist podcast. If you’ve been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, prediabetes, have risk factor for diabetes, today’s episode will help you dig deep into the root cause of this condition and what you can do to control your diabetes.

Our guest today is Dr Sandeep Gupta, Integrative Physician based in Queensland and Educator of health practitioners

After transforming his own health, Dr Sandeep Gupta, reverse engineered his symptoms, studied with the best in integrative medicine and today shares his philosophy on the root cause of chronic disease and is helping his clients do the same.

He is an Australian-trained doctor with a special interest in integrative medicine, chronic illness, depression and anxiety treatment, adrenal gland and thyroid dysfunction and treatment of parasite and other gastrointestinal infections.

Dr. Gupta established the Lotus Institute of Holistic Health in 2017, to provide training in integrative medicine for those who seek it. 

In his spare time he plays guitar and keyboard, and enjoys tennis, golf, practicing meditation and enjoying new music and philosophical concepts.

In this episode, you will discover:

• How Dr Sandeep Gupta reverse engineered his symptoms by improving gut health and how his holistic wellness practice is transforming client’s health
• Why Disconnection (to self or others) may result in habits and symptoms leading to chronic disease
• Never-ending vicious cycle between increased sugar intake, insulin production and insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome that can lead to inflammation and disease (type 2 diabetes, autoimmune conditions)
• Tell-tale signs and symptoms (weight gain, high cholesterol, hypertension) of metabolic syndrome
• Useful tests to assess metabolic syndrome
• Reversal of Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome through Reconnection, Detoxification, Nutrition and more

Resources: Lotus Holistic Medicine (Dr Gupta’s practice)

Other episodes you'll enjoy: Introduction to The Enlightened Pharmacist

Dr Marc Cohen – Smart Health & Wellness

Nicole Bijlsma Environmental Toxins Impacting Health & What You Can Do

Dr Ron Ehlrich: Holistic Dentistry & How It Can Improve Your Breathing

Are you stressed? Do you have low-grade inflammation that manifests as low energy and not being able to fulfil your life’s purpose?

Stress lowers immune function and drives chronic inflammation, a common denominator to all chronic disease and the pitfalls of ageing. To have good health, we first must understand stress by identifying ALL stressors in our lives and work towards minimising them as best as possible.

Today’s guest, Dr Ron Ehrlich will help us unpack this from his 40 years on the job as a holistic dentist

Dr Ron Ehrlich is a health educator, internationally published author and creator of the highly rated podcast Unstress with Dr Ron Ehrlich >300 episodes and counting

His book  A Life Less Stressed unpacks the 5 pillars of health and wellness whereby he was awarded a Fellowship in Lifestyle Medicine as a result of the book

In this episode, you will discover:

• What is holistic dentistry and how this differs from conventional dentistry
• How dental health can affect your digestive or respiratory system (pathogen load, how you breathe, sleep) and chronic disease (gum and tooth decay and association with heart disease )
• Why mouth breathing can adversely affect your health and the importance of nasal breathing
• 3 ways to assess if mouth-taping is useful for you
• How a dentist can tell how healthy you are by looking at the positioning of your teeth, size and shape of your mouth
• 5 main stressors of health (emotional, nutritional, environmental, postural, dental) and how to build resilience with the 5 pillars of health (sleep, breathe, nourish, move, think)
• The different life stages (child, adult, mature adult) and strategic dental interventions

Resources: Dr Ron’s Podcast on Upper Airway – Have You Fulfilled Your Potential

Unstress Health Membership

Dr Ron’s Health Assessment

Dr Ron’s website

Other episodes you'll enjoy:

Introduction to The Enlightened Pharmacist

Dr Marc Cohen - Smart Health & Wellness

Nicole Bijlsma Environmental Toxins Impacting Health & What You Can Do Connect with me: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepharmacistedit/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pharmacistedit/

Hi everyone! Welcome to our show notes for Episode #2 of The Enlightened Pharmacist.

Are you or anyone in your family being exposed to toxic chemicals? (hint yes).

The toxic load is high in our food, water, and environment, and can cause sickness in us, our children, and future generations. In this podcast, my guest Nicole Bijlsma gives simple tips on how to reduce your toxic load by eating organic foods, getting a water filter, taking off your shoes at the door, buying only what you need and more!

Nicole is the CEO and founder of the Australian College of Environmental Studies (est.1999) which was established to educate people about the health hazards in the built environment.

Her book, Healthy Home, Healthy Family, An Essential Guide for Every Home

Is a great resource for anyone interested in cleaning up their habitat, any unknown toxins and is an essential resource to those thinking of starting a family, buying a new house or who have allergies.

In this episode, you will discover:

• Nicole’s health crisis (miscarriages and electromagnetic fields, her unhealthy home) and how she transformed her life of struggle to one of impact and purpose
• Environmental exposures and impact on future generations
• Importance of maintaining a diverse microbiome/healthy gut microflora
• Precautionary principles regarding sunscreens and tattoos
• Simple changes you can make to help reduce your toxic load. (Buy seasonal/local organic food, use a water filter, take off your shoes before entering the house)
• If you are stuck in your health journey, learn more about the impact of your environment on her website or consult her accredited building biologists

This podcast was developed to spread the word about the latest interventions, beyond the traditional approach and how best to tackle and reverse disease. I interview thought-leaders who at the cutting edge of their practice and passionate about improving health.

How do you prepare for a pandemic, a crisis or the ultimate worse case scenario, an apocalypse?

Our guest today, Prof Marc Cohen has been pondering that since primary school.

He decided to spend his life studying and researching holistic health and wellness in the hope that it would lead to the most fun and fulfilling life and help tip the scales in the right direction when crisis came.

Dr Marc is a medical doctor, university professor, author, poet, entrepreneur, wellness trailblazer and perpetual student of life, trying to coax the world towards worldwide wellness.

In this episode, you will discover:

• How to lead the most fun and fulfilling life and eventually tip the scales in the right direction when crisis occurs.
• 2 things you can work on how to boost the immune system (hint: think gut and shut-eye)
• Using heat therapy to deactivate viruses
• What to do if you don’t have a bath-tub and would like to initiate heat therapy

Show Notes can be found here

Welcome to The Enlightened Pharmacist podcast.

Every fortnight, your host, Therese L’Seow will interview the brightest minds that have improved their health and clients using conventional and alternative medicine, diet, lifestyle, nutrition, science and technology.

As a Consultant Pharmacist and Health & Wellness coach, Therese helps you personalise the information to achieve your health goals. Listen in to revolutionize your health. Tune in every other Friday for new episodes and make sure to subscribe and leave a review

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This podcast is for educational purposes only. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. If you have or suspect you have a health problem, consult your registered health professional.

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