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The Dr. Hyman Show

Why Health Coaches Are Behavior Change Ninjas

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.68.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Why Health Coaches Are Behavior Change Ninjas | This episode is brought to you by Swanwick


Most health plans, whether they’re about losing weight, exercising more, or quitting bad habits, aren’t designed to last. This is because they’re based on an incorrect assumption that all you need is willpower and motivation. In truth, we all need a support system to help guide us toward sustainable behavior and lifestyle change. And the reality is that the majority of healthcare actually happens outside of the doctor’s office.


In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman speaks with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee and Chris Kresser about why behavior change recommendations from healthcare providers are largely ineffective, and why having the support of a health coach can make all the difference in achieving your health goals.


Dr. Rangan Chatterjee is regarded as one of the most influential medical doctors in the UK and hosts the most listened to health podcast in the UK and Europe, ‘Feel Better, Live More’. His first three books have all been #1 Sunday Times Bestsellers and his latest, Feel Better in 5, shows people how to transform their health in just 5 minutes. It has been a smash hit in the UK, selling almost 100,000 copies in just 7 months, and has just been published in the United States. Professor BJ Fogg, the world’s leading expert in human behavior, calls this book, "one of the best habit change programs he has seen—deceptively simple but remarkably effective.” Dr. Chatterjee regularly appears on BBC News and Television and has been featured in numerous international publications including The New York Times, Forbes, The Guardian and Vogue, and his TED talk, How To Make Disease Disappear, has been viewed almost 3 million times.


Chris Kresser M.S., L.Ac is the co-director of the California Center for Functional Medicine, founder of Kresser Institute, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Cure and Unconventional Medicine. He is one of the most respected clinicians and educators in the fields of Functional Medicine and ancestral health and has trained over 1,500 clinicians and health coaches in his unique approach. His health coaching program, called ADAPT, is the one I recommend for my staff at Cleveland Clinic and he’s the guy I trust with my own health.


This episode is brought to you by Swanwick. Right now, Swanwick is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners 15% off. Just go to swannies.com/hyman, and enter code HYMAN at check out.


Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, “Simple Hacks To Feel Better In Five Minutes” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DrRanganChatterjee2


Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Chris Kresser, “Is Meat As Bad As We Think: Breaking Down Nutrition Myths,” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/ChrisKresser




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Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.

0:03.0

Health coaches, when they're properly trained in these modalities like motivational interviewing

0:09.2

and character strengths, positive psychology, goal setting, you know, accountability, they

0:15.0

become what we call behavior change ninjas.

0:18.0

Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark.

0:20.8

Now getting good quality sleep is a big deal.

0:23.0

In fact, it's probably the most underrated aspect of health and personal performance.

0:27.4

But our modern lifestyle actually makes it difficult to get a good night's sleep.

0:31.7

It all comes down to our primal programming or what we call our circadian rhythm and

0:36.0

the most important factor in regulating your circadian rhythm is light.

0:40.3

Basically light from any source, especially blue light from our devices, TVs, light bulbs

0:44.5

and computers, enter our eyes and blocks the formation of melatonin in our brain.

0:48.5

Now melatonin you may remember as responsible for making us feel sleepy and it's essential

0:53.0

for quality sleep.

0:54.6

So the best way to ramp up melatonin formation at night is to block light from entering our

0:58.8

eyes.

0:59.8

And one of the easiest ways to block this light signal is wearing blue light blocking

1:03.7

glasses.

1:05.0

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1:15.0

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