🚨 In this episode, we dive into:

• The dark side of the pharmaceutical industry 💊 (Inspired by "Our Daily Meds" & "Bottles of Lies")
• The reality that doctors aren’t trained in nutrition, lifestyle factors or root-cause healing 🩺
• The hidden driver of chronic illness: mitochondrial dysfunction 🔥 (from "Good Energy" by Dr. Casey Means)
• How toxins, stress & ultra-processed foods are destroying our health 🌍
• The DESTRESS Protocol — Diet, Exercise, Stress, Toxins, Rest, Emotional balance, Supplements & Success mindset 🧠 (from "The Rain Barrel Effect" by Dr. Stephen Cabral)
• Using functional medicine testing to pinpoint what your body truly needs 🧬
• Looking at all 4 bodies to attain total health – your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. 🧍‍♀️ 💖 🧠 ✨

✨ It’s time to ditch the Band-Aid approach and step into empowered wellness. Let’s reclaim our health — one conscious choice at a time!

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Episode Summary:

Chronic illness and the broken healthcare system @ 0:06

Melissa discusses how the modern healthcare system is failing to address the root causes of chronic illness, and is instead focused on symptom management and profit-driven pharmaceutical solutions. She highlights how the pharmaceutical industry prioritizes sales over health, and how the lack of oversight in generic drug manufacturing has led to dangerous quality issues.

Doctors' lack of training in holistic health @ 5:21

Melissa explains that most doctors receive little to no education on nutrition, environmental factors, and lifestyle impacts on health. Instead, medical training is heavily influenced by pharmaceutical funding, leading doctors to primarily prescribe drugs and procedures as quick fixes rather than addressing underlying causes.

Mitochondrial damage and its role in chronic illness @ 9:54

Melissa cites Dr. Casey Means' research showing that damage to the mitochondria, the powerhouses of our cells, is a key driver of chronic fatigue, disease, and other health issues. This mitochondrial damage is caused by factors like chemicals in our food, environmental toxins, chronic stress, and ultra-processed diets.

The path to true healing @ 11:02

Melissa outlines a holistic approach to healing that addresses the whole body, including diet, exercise, stress management, toxin reduction, quality sleep, emotional balance, and targeted supplementation. She emphasizes the importance of functional medicine testing to identify imbalances and create a personalized roadmap for restoring health.

Healing the emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies @ 15:02

Melissa explains that true health requires addressing not just the physical body, but also the emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of well-being. This includes releasing stored emotions, replacing limiting beliefs, and aligning one's work and purpose with their passions and values.

Call to action and resources @ 17:44

Melissa encourages listeners to educate themselves further by reading the books she referenced, and to take ownership of their health by making informed choices. She emphasizes the importance of sharing this information with others to help create a future where vibrant health is the norm.

About the Host:

Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements.  Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.

Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you wanto be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!

Melissa’s passion project is her non-profit, Girls Matter (www.girlsmatter.ca), breaking the poverty cycle 1 girl, 1 family, 1 village at a time.  The mission is to keep girls in school and stop teenage marriages, because school isn’t free in over 50 countries around the world and when parents have to make the difficult choices of feeding their kids or paying for school, food wins. And when the girls hit their teen years, they will often be married off so that someone else becomes responsible to feed them. Keeping girls in school instead creates a generational ripple effect, because an educated girl is more than twice as likely to ensure her on children are educated. Educating girls also grows the GDP of countries, when they get into the workforce. This is how together, we can change the world. Guests on this podcast are invited to donate to this important cause. Learn more here in this short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3-xqzJLZW14om1PhFClcU_oRSZ8zgip/view?usp=share_link

Melissa is the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.

Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more!  She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.

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