219 | How to use Functional Nutrition to Improve Your Health with Andrea Nakayama

Andrea Nakayama, functional nutritionist, explains her methods of strategically approaching symptoms from a root-cause based mindset. She discusses the 3 tiers of nutrition mastery and her best recommendation to identifying the source of your symptoms. With tracking in mind, she explains the importance of stool and elimination, and how the stool spectrum provides informative data about your health. Furthermore, she dives into gut bacteria, providing 3 key takeaways to allow the gut bacteria to flourish. As she explains 4 steps to creating an optimal meal, she approaches nutrition tests, blood glucose levels, and autoimmunity from a functional perspective. Listen in to learn more about functional nutrition! Coba Board Discount:  Feeling your back or knees instead of your Glutes? Try the Coba Board Plus. With the architecture of the board and the different levels of resistance, you’ll be able to fire up those Glutes without injuring yourself! Use code OPTIMAL at checkout! Grab Jen Health Annual Membership at almost 50% off! Prevent muscle tears with the Jen Health platform. With 11 different plans to choose from and 3 phases for each plan, DocJen educates through movement with daily videos that help you optimize foundational core, understanding movement, muscle activations, functional workouts, and mobility within short snippets of time daily. Get nearly 50% off the year – that’s a $120 discount! Sign up now! What you will learn in this interviewL 2:02 - What is functional medicine? 4:06 - 3 tiers of nutrition mastery 7:38 - Key to recognizing how food is affecting your digestion 10:46 - How to approach tracking 16:24 - Bristol stool chart - what the spectrum tells us 21:51 - Changing the bacteria in your gut 26:19 - 4 steps to an optimal meal 34:02 - Autoimmunity in women 37:20 - Testing for nutrition 40:34 - Getting from pathological range vs functional range 43:11 - Continuous glucose monitor 45:17 - Influencing autoimmunity Items mentioned: Andrea Nakayama's Instagram Andrea Nakayama's Website Andrea Nakayama's Podcast To learn more about Andrea and view full show notes, please visit the full website here: https://jen.health/podcast/219 Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Optimal Body Podcast. If you haven’t done so already, please take a minute to subscribe and leave a quick rating and review of the show!