If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that relying on doctors, experts, or specialists to figure out the answer to your symptoms will only keep you in a cycle of sickness.

How do I know that?

With my recent struggles with kidney failure, it’s been crucial for me to just find a path forward every single day, even on my hardest days. But it’s been nearly impossible to get a straightforward answer from my medical team.

If you’ve been stuck in the healthcare system, then you know how specialized it is. And this message is for those who have gone from specialist to specialist, or your labs don’t match up with how you’re feeling, so you walk away with less than satisfactory answers.

Each practitioner can either talk to you about the specific organ or body part that’s being affected, or refer you to another specialist if you have questions about another organ or body part that is out of their scope of practice.

So it’s now crystal clear to me that our doctors’ role is to MANAGE our symptoms. But it’s OUR role to BUILD our own health.

If you want to take control of your health once and for all, you have to become your best health advocate. And in this Mind Your Health episode, I share 5 guaranteed ways you can start to build your health back up – but they’re likely not what you’d expect. 

Sometimes the answers are right under our nose, but we’re too busy looking for the most complex solutions.

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If you’re like most people who struggle with irritating symptoms that they just can’t figure out, whether it’s gut issues like bloating and constipation, chronic fatigue, stubborn weight gain, foggy brain, etc., maybe you’ve gotten stuck on what I call the “hamster wheel” of ineffective health and wellness solutions.

I’ve been there too – going from doctor to doctor or expert to expert, or searching for the next answer, whether that’s a diet, supplement, medication, treatment or program. I can’t even tell you how many books I’ve read on health or how many hours I’ve researched my symptoms on the internet.

And maybe these various approaches have provided some relief, but ultimately the symptoms come right back. OR you end up having new symptoms that you’re left to address. Does the cycle ever end?!

Well let me tell you…I learned a lot in my recent experience with kidney failure. Sometimes the experts we were conditioned to look to don’t always have the answers. And how can they? Outside of your symptoms and the specific body parts or organs associated with your symptoms, they know very little about the rest of your life…

…your home life, your relationships, your stressors (including stress about your health, your finances, your family, your work). ALL of which affects your nervous system regulation.

And guess what? Your nervous system is the control center for every single function within your body. 

In other words, your body function is controlled by YOU (via your nervous system), yet we are conditioned to look for an answer OUTSIDE of us. And if you’re starting to think this is a broken strategy…it is.

If you’re serious about eliminating your symptoms and getting off the hamster wheel of ineffective health approaches, then this episode is for you.

By listening to this episode, you’ll discover: 
➡️ Why the medical system’s role is to manage disease, NOT to create health
➡️ How your nervous system is influenced by YOU, not by supplements, diets, exercise, treatments, or programs that are outside of you
➡️ The exact steps you can take to regulate your nervous system to cause EASE in your body, versus DIS-EASE that leads to symptoms and sickness

If you haven’t listened already, click here to check out last week’s episode on “Your Symptom Root Cause Might Be Something You Can’t See, Measure, or Test”. 
Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/vn0CkBMu_0Y?si=MjVhJUnfu1k5OCnJ

If you've ever been confused about your symptoms and you know there's something that's not quite right with you, yet your doctors just shrug their shoulders because your labs come back "normal", then this episode is for you.

I have a unique perspective when it comes to the medical system because I've not only studied various health disciplines, including Psychology, Nutrition, and Physical Therapy, but I've been a patient with complicated health issues that cause doctors to scratch their heads. And when my labs and data don't match up with what they've studied or experienced in their practice, they're unable to provide me with any solutions...which doesn't help me as the patient and I'm left to figure things out on my own.

I started to recognize that emotional events that caused distress and unease in my life, like an unhealthy marriage and difficulties with a family member, were directly correlated to flare ups in my health.

And while the doctors can provide me with lots of knowledge and data about my labs and symptoms, they don't see me as a WHOLE person, failing to consider my home life, relationships, stressors, patterns, triggers...all of which influence my lab results and data.

This is when I realized that health is something only I can create for myself, rather than relying on "experts" to figure it out for me. So if you've gone from practitioner to practitioner and continue to leave with very little answers and solutions for your health concerns, it's time for you to take a different approach.

In this episode, you'll discover:

➡️ My personal experience with both conventional and holistic medicine, and the insights I gained from the practitioner perspective and the patient perspective.

➡️ The difference between YOUR role and your doctor's role in your healthcare, and how to identify a good practitioner that's invested in your well-being.

➡️ 3 questions I ask all my patients to uncover the true root cause of their issues.

➡️ How to uncover unease in your life that might be contributing to your symptoms, and practical tools to help you cultivate self-awareness so that YOU become your best health expert.

Be sure to subscribe to our podcast and YouTube channel so you never miss an episode of the Mind Your Health Show! We release new episodes every week.

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