Why Does a Pharmacist Become a Functional Medicine Health Coach?
It was shocking to discover that the principles of health that I’d been taught all my life (including during my time in pharmacy school), were completely wrong.
Making the changes was surprisingly simple and made all the difference in giving me the body that I feel amazing in.
When the same changes also fixed my friends and pharmacy clients that I had shared with, I knew that I needed to step out from behind the pharmacy and really start helping people get healthy.
The Maverick Pharmacist Functional Medicine Health Coach was born. Remember this: Don’t let anyone blame your health issues on “getting older”. There’s nothing “normal” about feeling crappy.
What IS normal is to feel great and have excellent health right through old age. Really.
I know this because I was already heading down a bad path, but I’ve come through the other side.
MY STORY
My issues started just a few years after my second child was born. I was so tired all the time. I just chalked it up to having 2 young children, but my fatigue just kept getting worse and worse.
Adding to that, not only was I unable to lose the pregnancy weight, I was actually gaining 2 or 3 pounds every year. I also had pretty serious knee pain that was getting alarmingly worse, to the point of severe throbbing all day long.
And then came the sleep problems. I was waking up at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning for no particular reason and could not fall back to sleep until a half hour before the alarm went off. So frustrating and exhausting!
Fast forward a few years and I started having more frequent, miserable, and painful periods. I also started getting PMS and mood swings, which I’d never had before. It’s amazing how you can hear yourself snapping at everyone, yet you can’t actually stop it.
I was shocked and frustrated. These symptoms are only supposed to happen to people who don’t take care of themselves, right? And what really freaked me out is that I had seen my situation enough times in the pharmacy to know where this was heading…
So being the geeky scientist type that I am, I started doing a whole bunch of research to figure out how I was going to turn my health around. I needed help with overcoming fatigue, natural health weight loss, as well as stopping chronic pain and hopefully everything else too.
Why doesn't your doctor tell you about this?
Most doctors don’t know about these fixes. They get the same standard medicine misinformation that I got. For some reason, medicine is quick to jump on the latest technology/drug/procedure, yet despite reams of quality research over many decades, anything to do with lifestyle, diet, etc, is dismissed as “alternative medicine” that isn’t taken seriously.
I’m not sure when or why medicine stopped focussing on the whole body to ensure excellent health, but thankfully my research showed me a different path.
Within only a couple of months of applying what I had learned, my knee pain completely went away, without the need for any painkillers.
Another bonus is that I don’t get sick anymore, which is unheard of in the pharmacy. In short, I’m feeling fabulous.
The funny thing is, I didn’t realize what a mess I really was until I looked back and compared it to how I feel now.
If you had asked me 15 years ago, I would have told you I was one of the healthiest people I know.
This is why I decided to start functional medicine health coaching.
I know that many of you can relate to my story and are also tolerating issues that you likely don’t even realize, because they have come on so gradually that it becomes your new normal. Honestly, if it wasn’t for the fact that my knees and my extra weight were threatening my ability to play basketball (which would have devastated me to give up), I might not have done the research and learned these principles. I don’t even want to imagine how I’d be feeling today if I hadn’t.
This is why I decided to start personal health coaching. I saw how people were struggling to do the right things for their health but were still not getting any results.
My specialized education in functional medicine, and my experience as a pharmacist equips me with the skills necessary to pinpoint the underlying causes of your health problems.
My professional background has provided me with the valuable tools for accomplishing life-changing results. I give people natural health weight loss, help with overcoming fatigue, stopping chronic pain, and basically get rid of all the health issues that are interfering with their lives. Permanently.
I can honestly say that I’ve helped more people in the last few years, working as a functional medicine health coach, than I have in my almost 30 years as a pharmacist (which is pretty sad isn’t it?) That’s probably why I won an award for excellence in Health & Wellness as a functional medicine health coach.
If I hadn’t seen the before and after with my own eyes, I would never have believed that making just a few simple changes would have such a profound impact on someone’s life. Once I discovered that, I made it my mission to educate as many people as possible about this. There is no reason for people to be suffering when they don’t need to be.
I am now living my life in a body I love and helping others achieve the same for themselves.
Discover the functional medicine difference. You WILL be amazed.
What Others Are Saying
Andy A.
Thank you Kristy for what you’ve given me. Working with you last year was the best
