The 5 Things You Need To Do to Be Healthy with Amanda Hinman
Channel: Robyn Graham, LLC
Date: 2023-04-26

If you don't know how to be healthy and don't have health and wellness as a priority in your life, your business is going to suffer. 
There are 5 things you need to do to be healthy.

Your overall health and wellness, the mind, body, and soul connection, impact your business and the level of success that you can achieve. When your body is not healthy, when your hormones are out of whack, or when your body is deficient in something that it needs, you will not feel well and therefore won’t perform as well. 

Many different physical signs and symptoms can occur, which are going to impact your mental health, your mind, whether you're foggy in the afternoon, or not foggy in the afternoon, your productivity level, and overall happiness. And if you aren't in a place where you have complete health and wellness, you could be experiencing a lack in other areas of your life, like your business. 

Five strategies that you can implement to help your body heal and become more healthy so you can be more productive, more successful, and more abundant. 

Health and wellness are very critical in terms of how we not only perceive ourselves and our lives but how we put ourselves forth into the world. And it really does impact our businesses, our relationships, and our lives as a whole. 

The industry of functional medicine - how to be healthy naturally
Functional medicine is unique and different from other licensed medical practitioners, doctors, nurses, and PAs. All of these have licensed medical boards in the world of functional medicine,  there is no universal licensing board, as of yet.

There are currently several programs and areas of study that you can go through, and you have to have prior certifications to be able to qualify. Functional medicine is more of a study of the interconnectedness of the body systems and how they are all related.

Nutrition and food are a component of knowing how your body has the ability to detoxify and handle hormones and stressors in the body. Your mind-body connection is so critical to balancing that sympathetic or parasympathetic state. All of these different components in the body systems work together in a unique, brilliant fashion. 

The natural hormone solution - how to be healthy using the 5 Rs
Root Cause 
The first is identifying the root cause. Each person has a unique set of circumstances and biochemistry that is going to impact her body. You need to get clear on what that is and know where your hormone levels are. Knowing how your body is processing and handling stressors and waste and whether it needs to detoxify or not. 

An Example of a root cause for someone who wanted to be healthy and pain-free
Someone struggles with feeling low energy and it's hard for her to get up and go. She's had a hypothyroid diagnosis and has been on thyroid medication but still gained weight.

In the mornings she feels drained and energetically low. In addition, she had aches and pains in her joints and body. When looking at her hormone levels, we saw that she doesn't have what's called the cortisol awakening response.

Her CAR activity is really low. She has a flat-line cortisol curve. Cortisol, a stress hormone, usually peeks shortly after arising. It gives us our get-up-and-go energy and then gradually tapers off throughout the day and into the evening. Then the body makes more melatonin.

She didn't have that. Her body didn't have the ability to produce enough cortisol. After further evaluation, we realized she was taking a statin medication for the past eight years. Statin medications can be helpful because they reduce the production of cholesterol in the liver.

However, cholesterol is a necessary component to be able to have your body make cortisol in the adrenal glands, and it has a strong mitochondrial function. The result was that she had depleted levels of CoQ 10. We know that statin medications deplete CoQ 10 intentionally, and she hadn’t been supplementing CoQ10. Healthy fatty foods and a CoQ 10 supplement were key for her to gain more energy and live pain-free. 


Robyn Graham
Brand Strategist and Business Coach | Host of The Robyn Graham Show | Author of "You, Me, and Anxiety"

www.therobyngraham.com