The Health Courage Collective

Cologuard at home test link: https://www.cologuard.com/insurance To learn more about preparing your brain for anesthesia, read the Amen Clinics Blog on Anesthesia and POCD or the Amen Clinics Blog on Surgery Risks . Are Colonoscopies Helping Us? How to Make Colon Cancer a Problem You Don’t Have to Have www.healthcouragecollective.com Are colonoscopies actually helping (women and society)?  Colorec...

What if your body were doing something automatically without any conscious control from you that contributed to fatigue, weight gain, sleeping problems, respiratory problems, mental health struggles, heart disease and poor athletic endurance?  Tons of people’s bodies are doing this and they have no idea.  They also have no idea that they can change it.  For free.  And if they do, they’ll age at a...

Since our body breathes without us having to think about it, it seems like it would do this automatic job correctly and optimally.  Unfortunately, since the industrial revolution, we have drifted away from our proper way of eating, moving, sleeping, AND breathing.  What?  There are simple, easy, and free things we can be doing to improve our body’s ability to more fully oxygenate all of our cells...

Do driven, high achieving people ever have days when they just don’t have any motivation?  I think yes.  I think they’d tell us they experience the same feelings and motivational deserts as the rest of us.  The only difference is in how they reflexively act when they have no motivation.  It’s easier to reactively act like your more ideal self when you have a pre-established protocol in place for d...

How do you feel about mammograms?  Have you had one?  More than one?  Or, are you feeling guilty or reckless for not getting one yet?  Conventional medical dogma is definitely to get regular mammograms.  Mammograms are our first line of defense against breast cancer.   You probably personally know someone who has encouraged you to get a mammogram because a mammogram discovered cancer in them or so...

What if you had the opportunity to invest in something with guaranteed returns?  You'd be crazy not to.  If you're in your 40s or 50s, now is the critical time to make the investments that will payoff huge in your 70s and 80s! Come to my website: www.heatlhcouragecollective.com Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to...

If you’re thinking about replacing your hormones as they decline with age, it’s important to really think through why you want to take hormones and how you want to take hormones.  So that you’re a thinking woman making intelligent decisions about her future rather than an object being acted upon.  Standard practice is that the only reason to take hormones is to take the edge off your most botherso...

Aging at an elite level requires acting strategically right now, while you’re in your 40s and 50s to give your future self an advantage.  Not just biologically, but also mentally.  The way you choose the things you want to work toward affects whether you’re going to be able to push the envelope in terms of what you’re capable of becoming in your 70s 80s and beyond. come to my website: www.healthco...

How confident are you in choosing the right dose and right form of melatonin to optimize your health in your 40s and 50s?  Our natural production of melatonin decreases with age and with declining sex hormone levels.  And it affects more than just your sleep.  So is it something you should be taking?  And how much should you take and how often should you take it?     www.healthcouragecollective.co...

Good overall health for women requires good vaginal health.  Good vaginal health requires your lube to be made of high quality ingredients.   This is applicable for all women using lube vaginally, but especially around the time of perimenopause when vaginal dryness becomes more common, vaginal pH often starts to shift, the vaginal microbiome often changes and risk of infections goes up.  Most lube...

You’re not functioning at your highest level if you have more inputs coming into your brain than it can successfully digest, assimilate, and utilize toward constructing the life you want to live in your 50s, 60s and beyond.  If you don’t feel capable of being fully present with your loved ones and daily experiences and using them to evolve into a better version of yourself, you might be suffering...

In order to get to your 80s and beyond with more energy, strength and independence than most people, you need to do different things than most people do right now.  Things that require some grit, determination and perseverance.  This is no surprise, right?  But did you know that there’s a physical location in your body that’s largely responsible for the motivation to persevere and achieve exceptio...

Is bioidentical hormone replacement therapy for perimenopause/menopause an option for you if you've had a blood clot before or have a family history of blood clots? If you don’t want your options for treating perimenopausal symptoms and decreasing your risk for the chronic diseases of aging to be limited without so much as an informed discussion because you’re at an increased risk for blood clots,...

Did you know that you can decide not to develop injuries and pain as you age?  There are some simple things you can do now to avoid a lot of musculoskeletal pain in the future.  Why are more people not telling us this? Ballistic book by Henry Abbott Pete Egoscue’s boo k Structural Elements: https://www.structuralelements.com/   email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com My website: www.healthcour...

There’s a mindset inherent in “cheat days” that’s keeping you locked out of your next level of health and success.  Your reality is what you make it, and you're making yours less impactful than it could be by thinking that cheat days boost your motivation to “be good” the rest of the time. my website:  www.healthcouragecollective.com email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com Are you ready to giv...

There are a few supplements I think pretty much everyone should take if they want to be able to live well into their 80s and 90s.  Today we’re going to talk about one of them.  If you’re not taking creatine every day yet, you're missing out on an opportunity to live a higher performance life. List of supplements I trust Other free stuff email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com Are you ready to...

Did you know you have the ability to change the physical structure of your brain and become someone with a set of almost superhuman skills that are as sought after now as being a genius used to be?  That you can prevent or drastically delay the brain changes that happen to everyone else as they age?   www.healthcouragecollective.com Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to...

 I think having a deeper understanding of issues that typically get glazed over as either “normal parts of aging” or “unrelated” to one another  helps you get the kind of care you deserve now and build an abnormal future for yourself.  One where you don’t have to stop living before you die if you don’t want to.  The link between thyroid function and sex hormone changes at the time of perimenopause...

 If you’ve created or downloaded some awesome plans that you really believed were the answer to how you were finally going to achieve the thing you’ve always wanted to do, just to be disappointed again, you’re probably missing a key piece of the successful planning puzzle.  If you don’t want to keep making awesome plans and not getting the outcome you want, you need to include this critical elemen...

While many things tend to decline with age, there’s one common decline that you’re probably not thinking about.  Because almost nobody talks about it.  But it’s tremendously important if you want to be more independent and physically capable than most people your age when you’re older.  It’s a decline that can be delayed and slowed down if you’re one of the few people in the know.  www.healthcoura...

Come to my website: www.healthcouragecollective.com Work with me: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/services-9377 Most of what we create in our life (including the experiences we have at particular ages of life) is determined by our subconscious beliefs.  We all do subconscious things that hold us back.  The extent to which we can develop systems to purposefully curate and cultivate our subc...

A lot changes during perimenopause and menopause, so how does your exercise program need to change to be optimized for this phase of your life? Once you know the answer to that question, you can move forward with confidence doing the highest leverage behavior to put more years lived in good health into your future. email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com work with me: https://www.healthcourage...

Will you be an inherently better person with a magical life when your blood pressure is in the optimal range, your body fat % is at your goal, your bone density is higher, or your fasting insulin is lower?  Then what’s the point of doing all of the healthy behaviors we’re told we should deeply care about and we berate ourselves for not getting serious about?  I think it’s useful to really question...

www.healthcouragecollective.com Get your Free EMF resource guide with tons of clickable links to get you started on your electropollution curiosity journey: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/emf Are electromagnetic fields really affecting your body?  Does being near electronic devices affect your physiology?  If so, how?  Most people seem fine.  But will you age better if you become one of t...

www.healthcouragecollective.com Get your Free EMF resource guide with tons of clickable links to get you started on your electropollution curiosity journey: https://www.healthcouragecollective.com/emf   Are electromagnetic fields really affecting your body?  Does being near electronic devices affect your physiology?  If so, how?  Most people seem fine.  But will you age better if you become one of...