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Do You Want To Live Or Do You Want To Thrive?

Do you want to live or do you want to thrive?  This was the question I asked myself so many times! 

Hi!  My name is Jurgita Caballero and I am an IIN Certified Holistic Health Coach and a student at The School of Applied Functional Medicine and The Institute for Functional Health Coaching

My interest in a healthy lifestyle started about 16 years ago.  But it really took a turn about four years ago when I lost my beautiful mother, my best friend, to cancer.  I wanted to know why people are getting sick so much more than ever?  What is causing it?  What are we missing? What are we not doing right?

I had many health issues growing up.  I was on a prescription antibiotic for seven years since my birth.  At one point in my life, I was more than 40 pounds overweight.  It took me years of trial and error, but thankfully it has been more than 15 years that I am at my healthy weight. 

I know what it feels to be hopeless.  When you are not feeling well and no one can give you any answers, and you can’t enjoy your life to the fullest, it stinks! 

People often ask me what do I eat, what do I do to keep my weight in balance and stay healthy.

I say, it doesn’t really matter, because in reality what had worked for me, might not work for another person. That’s BIOINDIVIDUALITY. The secret is to discover what works for that unique body.

Becoming educated in the field of functional medicine gave me an opportunity to really dive deep in understanding how all our body parts, glands, organs, hormones work together.  There are no islands.  Everything is interconnected.  No one way of eating or lifestyle works for everyone. 

My passion is helping people to find what works for them, identify the triggers that are in their way for maximum wellness, and help them to change it at the pace that feels comfortable for them. 

We are so used to popping a pill to numb our pain, without realizing that the body is sending us signals that it needs our attention.  By ignoring those symptoms, we are only promoting the diagnoses of some sort of ailment or disease in the long run. 

It doesn’t have to be that way.  I coach people to learn to listen to their bodies and address these symptoms by getting to the true root cause of the problem.

How do we do that?

Maximize what their unique body needs (food, sleep, raw materials your body needs to function optimally, oxygen, water).

Minimize what their unique body struggles with (toxins, infections, allergens, stress, trauma, limiting beliefs, fear, negative expectations).

Prioritize and create an environment for healing for this unique person (sleep, rest, laughter, stress reduction, exercise, stretching, breathing, meaningful relationships).

My goal is to Educate, Inspire, and Empower people to own their wellness!  True health starts with us when we decide to be well!  

Do you want to know how a healthy body feels like?  Then let me help you!

Thank you,

Jurgita

www.JurgitaCaballero.com

www.LivingAnAbundantLife.com

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Do you want to live or do you want to thrive?

Functional Medicine

Two words -- functional medicine.  This has been the answer to the  questions I've had regarding my pressing health condition.

For nearly a year and a half I have been questioning, up late searching online for answers to my increasingly difficult and mysterious fatigue issues.  Could I have chronic fatigue or adrenal fatigue?  How will I ever recover and how can I take care of my family if I can't even take care of myself?  

How?   And why was this happening again?

After completing the Clean Program (once in December 2014 and again in January 2015), I felt better and found that my energy levels normalized.  However, by the end of April 2015 I found myself slipping back to complete uselessness.  My debilitating fatigue returned but this time with a vengeance!  I was pretty much stuck back in bed spring and summer of this year.  Traveling was out of the question and most Sundays I could not muster the strength to attend Mass.  

You could say that I was homebound.  My dear husband and son were on their own most days.  Martin was mama and daddy to our son as well as managed to work a full time job.  By the grace of God, he was guided and given the strength to persevere during those tough times.

I believe that our faith guided us to functional medicine.  I was curious about an ad on the back of the church bulletin that read "Center for Holistic Medicine".

I was familiar with functional medicine because I had learned about it in Clean by Dr. Junger.  In one of the last chapters, he highly recommends seeing a functional medicine doctor especially if you do not feel better after completing the Clean Program.  He asserts that this could mean that there are issues that need to be addressed before you can reach optimal health.

I looked up the doctor who heads the Center for Holistic Medicine on the functional medicine website and sure enough she was listed as an accredited functional medicine doctor.  

For those who have never heard of functional medicine, it is also known as integrative or holistic medicine which integrates western and eastern medicine.  Many functional medicine doctors were trained in traditional medicine but found drawbacks in their practice.  These doctors wanted answers to give to their patients and desired to delve deeper to get to the root of their patients' health problems.  The pill for an ill method was no longer a viable solution to help their patients' needs so these doctors have taken courses in functional medicine and are certified.  In my opinion you get the best of both worlds.  In this kind of medicine, west meets east, and with this awesome knowledge these doctors help patients get to the root of the problem.

No more patient packed waiting areas at clinics and no more short fifteen minute visits talking with the doctor.  Instead expected wait times are very minimal and one on one time with the doctor could last between 60 to 90 minutes!  (I spent 90 minutes at my first functional medicine appointment.)

I think that the above scenario is the most ideal.  Patients deserve better treatment methods and answers.  The beauty of functional medicine is that practitioners can recommend effective options other than over-the-counter drugs, prescription medicines, and surgery.  They can also administer specialized testing and get to the bottom of your health issues.

By no means am I downgrading western medicine.  Western medicine is needed for some cases as it can save lives as it has in the past for my own mom!  I'm saying that having knowledge in both western and eastern medicine can be very beneficial in determining the best course of action for patients.  

Over the next weeks I will be sharing my experience with functional medicine, my test results, and how functional medicine has helped me to the path of recovery.  

If it was not for the knowledge that I've gotten from functional medicine, I would be on antidepressants and possibly other medications right now.  Who knows what side effects these medicines could have caused?

I am extremely grateful to the Holy Spirit for leading me to functional medicine and to the functional medicine doctor who is treating me as well as my family and loved ones who support and love me.

In my experience functional medicine has been a Godsend.  If you are suffering from an illness or condition that isn't getting any better or can't seem to be diagnosed properly, I would encourage you to see a functional medicine doctor.   

Thanks be to God, I am definitely on the road to recovery as I feel that my energy levels have lifted and I can function on a daily basis.  As I am hopeful that I will make a full recovery in the months ahead, I will continue to give updates about my progress.         


Resources

Center for Holistic Medicine

Dr. Katarzyna Ferraro M.D. (Dr. Kathy)

9 Brookwood Avenue

Carlisle, PA 17015

Phone:  (717) 243-0616

 

Functional Medicine website

 

Clean Program

 

Dr. Mark Hyman

 

Dr. Frank Lipman

Resources for Clean Eating

My 1 Month Health Coaching Program

Advanced TRS


Bestselling Books On Functional Medicine

 

No more patient packed waiting areas at clinics and no more short fifteen minute visits talking with the doctor. Instead expected wait times are very minimal and one on one time with the doctor could last between 60 to 90 minutes!

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