Fully Alive: Unlocking the secrets to your healthier, happier, longer life
Aug 20, 2026 · 49 min · 12 segments
Pharmacist and health coach Amy Behimer joins host Zach Gurick to share her journey of navigating four autoimmune diagnoses while building a vibrant life. Instead of…
Well, I would love for you to maybe break down from your perspective too, like, what is the root cause of something like MS and f- from a functional medicine or root cause analysis perspective?
Since you understand that, you know, both personally, you're feeling it, you're living with it, uh, but you also have this, this pharmacy and, and functional medicine background.
Well, if I would've gone the practitioner route and become an expert in all the pathways and supplements and things, you know, the enzymes, I would probably be giving a very different answer for the root cause of what's causing all these diseases.
But I think the root cause that I wanna shine a light on here is essentially the, what we're feeding our bodies and our brains.
So you hear the word feeding, and yes, food is a big part of what can either draw us towards health or potentially away from it, but we also are feeding ourselves how we move our bodies, thoughts, emotions, um, relationships, how we rest, how we sleep.
You know, I'm kind of going through these different pillars, um, of lifestyle medicine, the things that really help a body thrive.
And when we go through these things, it's good to know that I haven't invented some, um, area of lifestyle that isn't already very well documented of the fundamentals, you know, the, the basics of what helps us feel good.
Um, there's the Institute for Functional Medicine, there's the Academy of Lifestyle Medicine, ancient wisdom, modern science.
It's these basics that we go back to, but really asking ourselves, are we doing it in a way that feels good? Are we, are we really looking at the basics and not worrying about all these fancy things before we really nail, um, yeah, these...
So the habit hub is the way I have made sense of the world in terms of life with an autoimmune condition.
It's, it's the things that we can control in a disease, in a life, in a world that has uncontrollables and controllables.
So I call these six areas of our lifestyle the controllables because when we wanna get, or when we are getting too lost in all the things we can't control and the loss and the grief of certain symptoms and certain diagnoses, it's a gentle nudge back to, okay, what in this situation can we control? And that's where we land on these six controllables in health, um, where when we shift our attention and focus, it really just feels better 'cause we can start to see and feel progress of doing our part, so to speak.
Well, I would love for you to maybe break down from your perspective too, like, what is the root cause of something like MS and f- from a functional medicine or root cause analysis perspective?
Since you understand that, you know, both personally, you're feeling it, you're living with it, uh, but you also have this, this pharmacy and, and functional medicine background.
Well, if I would've gone the practitioner route and become an expert in all the pathways and supplements and things, you know, the enzymes, I would probably be giving a very different answer for the root cause of what's causing all these diseases.
But I think the root cause that I wanna shine a light on here is essentially the, what we're feeding our bodies and our brains.
So you hear the word feeding, and yes, food is a big part of what can either draw us towards health or potentially away from it, but we also are feeding ourselves how we move our bodies, thoughts, emotions, um, relationships, how we rest, how we sleep.
You know, I'm kind of going through these different pillars, um, of lifestyle medicine, the things that really help a body thrive.
And when we go through these things, it's good to know that I haven't invented some, um, area of lifestyle that isn't already very well documented of the fundamentals, you know, the, the basics of what helps us feel good.
Um, there's the Institute for Functional Medicine, there's the Academy of Lifestyle Medicine, ancient wisdom, modern science.
It's these basics that we go back to, but really asking ourselves, are we doing it in a way that feels good? Are we, are we really looking at the basics and not worrying about all these fancy things before we really nail, um, yeah, these...
So the habit hub is the way I have made sense of the world in terms of life with an autoimmune condition.
It's, it's the things that we can control in a disease, in a life, in a world that has uncontrollables and controllables.
So I call these six areas of our lifestyle the controllables because when we wanna get, or when we are getting too lost in all the things we can't control and the loss and the grief of certain symptoms and certain diagnoses, it's a gentle nudge back to, okay, what in this situation can we control? And that's where we land on these six controllables in health, um, where when we shift our attention and focus, it really just feels better 'cause we can start to see and feel progress of doing our part, so to speak.
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A diagnosis does not determine every future outcome.
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