This month’s video is on a topic that is near and dear to my heart–and in fact, the starting point of my road to becoming a health coach today: inflammation.
This is a short video, but is a wonderful overview of how what we eat translates to inflammation and what that does to us. We touch on identifying sources of inflammation a bit in our group programs, but most of my individual coaching clients for the last 7 years have been people trying to find the sources of inflammation and irritation in their bodies. It is a topic that is often disregarded in mainstream medicine.
So here is an introduction to inflammation…
Dr. Mark Hyman is a traditionally trained medical doctor with some additional exposure and training in Oriental Medicine. He has testified at White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine hearings, and has consulted with the Surgeon General on diabetes prevention. He is Chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine. I had the pleasure of meeting him during training he conducted on diabetes in 2012.