The Unspoken Truth About Your Health - with Louise Westra

On a Mission Podcast

Ellie McKay

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Health is wealth!

In this episode, I’m on a mission with Louise Westra, an award-winning online Naturopath and Health Coach, and best selling author who is passionate about helping women to harness their biology to create the health & resilience they need to live their best lives.

We need to stop settling for mediocracy when it comes to our health. Building up our natural immunity and taking responsibility for our own life choices has never been more relevant with many people harbouring a deep mistrust for the pharmaceutical industry.

In this frank chat, Louise’s passion and expertise make for an unmissable episode.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The job of a naturopath is to work alongside the accepted guidelines for health, and dig deeper to determine how well a person's body, mind and spirit is truly operating.
There is a huge gulf of misunderstanding between what is normal when it comes to health, and what is common. Many seek the advice of contemporaries, and simply because their circumstances dictate a certain health route, we take it to mean that this is normal.
The way that we feel, think, the actions we take and the behaviours we exhibit, are as much driven by our biology as they are by our brains and minds.
Keeping on top of our health is not just a matter of diet or physical attributes. It is a more holistic approach that takes in all input - from the food we eat to the company we keep, the music we listen to, and especially the media we consume.

BEST MOMENTS

'There is a recognition that ultimately we are all responsible for our own health'

'We have a misunderstanding between what's normal and what's common'

'We are miracles - we are supernovas wrapped up in a physical flesh and bone vehicle'

'The more we activate our negativity, that tends to broaden and build more of those cascades'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

On A Mission - https://omny.fm/shows/on-a-mission

Louise Westra - https://www.louisewestra.com

Louise Westra Instagram - https://instagram.com/louisewestrahealth?utm_medium=copy_link

Louise Westra Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/louisewestrahealthmastery/

ABOUT THE HOST

The On A Mission Podcast brings you Ellie Mckay's no holds barred chats with some of the UK's top business leaders, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, top thought leaders, influencers and mindset experts.

On a Mission is for unconventional thinkers that want to challenge the status quo. For all those people on a mission to live their best lives and take control of their own destiny.

Ellie is a straight-talking, successful property entrepreneur who passionately believes that everyone has the power within themselves to transform their lives no matter what their situation.

As a mumpreneur with 3 young children and multiple businesses, Ellie likes to keep it real with her no-bs insights and share the things that have helped her achieve the level of success she has enjoyed to date.

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Clubhouse: @ellie83

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0:00.0	Louise Westrod. Now Louise has actually been a naturopath for over 18 years. She is passionate
0:05.7	about helping women in particular to create the health and resilience that the need and they deserve.
0:11.2	She is now a best-selling author with her book, Youthers. She's got her own radio show,
0:16.6	she's a magazine columnist and she's featured in loads of media, The Sunday Times, Daily Mail,
0:22.2	Glamour magazine, which just sounds a little bit like a page three, so help and fitness
0:28.9	and loads more. So we know health as well. Thank you for joining me.
0:33.2	Oh thanks, and I feel like if I could like bottle you and take that introduction every time I walk
0:38.3	into a room, it'll be amazing. Right Louise, let's start with the basic sense. For anyone who doesn't
0:46.2	know what naturopath is, could you give us a little bit of an explanation?
0:50.4	Yeah, sure. So I actually trained in Australia, which is where naturopathy is much more
0:58.5	mainstream than here in the UK. So over there, certainly up until recently, for every visit there
1:06.4	is to GPs on an annual basis, there are the same number of visits to naturopaths. And I'll get
1:15.6	to what exactly we do in a sec. But I think one of the reasons that people pay directly from their
1:22.1	hard earn money rather than via the tax system over there is that there's a recognition that ultimately
1:30.9	we're all responsible for our own health. And whilst yes, of course, there is a time and a place
1:37.2	to take on board expert recommendations and to have medical interventions, surgery and so on.
1:47.1	At the bulk of the time, we're the ones that get to make the difference on a day-to-day basis
1:54.0	with all the decisions and the choices we're making about what we're consuming, whether that's our
2:00.0	food, whether that's what we're listening to, whether that's who we're spending time with,
2:05.3	whether that's geographically where we live and so on. And so as a naturopath, my job is really
2:13.5	to get down into the context of somebody's life to really position them in a relation to what
2:22.9	their needs are specifically and to move away from the really generic five servings of vegetables
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