Filipa Bellette
Co-founder of Chris & Filly Functional Medicine; clinical nutritionist, functional medicine practitioner and author of Ending Body Burnout, specializing in burnout recovery.
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Sep 16, 2026
Filipa BelletteGUEST
I guess why I do what I do, I had my own burnout episodes, three major ones actually.
Filipa BelletteGUEST
And it wasn't just the classic working too hard, need to have a break, brain is a bit overloaded.
Filipa BelletteGUEST
I was actually showing up with a lot of weird health issues where I hit a wall in the conventional medicine.
Filipa BelletteGUEST
Basically, all the tests that GPs, medical specialists run, they're like, oh, your tests are fine.
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Filipa BelletteGUEST
And within that part of the brain, there's the amygdala and there's a few other parts of the brain, but just to simplify it, the amygdala is part of the limbic system, part of the brain.
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