271. Health Testing, Longevity & What Every Woman Should Know with Amelia Phillips

So in the years since you've been coaching and just in the industry, what have you seen change the most, especially in women's health or for, like, women over, let's say, 35 right now, 'cause that's kinda what we're gonna be talking a little bit more about right now.

What have you seen change the most?

I would say one of the things that has changed dramatically for me is people's health literacy, which is a really wonderful blessing but also a bit of a curse in that when I first started in the industry, we were educating.

We were out there doing a lot of the educating, whereas now what we see is there is so much information out there And people have become so much more health literate that they actually sometimes end up tying themselves in knots a little bit because it becomes overwhelming because they've got education coming at them out the wazoo.

And, you know, eat carbohydrates, don't eat carbohydrates.

Fast, uh, prolonged overnight fast is good for you.

No, you shouldn't fast.

It increases your cortisol levels.

And so I think the biggest change I have seen is just the tsunami of information that wasn't available before that I think makes things really hard.

But funnily enough, Andrea, the fundamentals have stayed exactly the same.

Like we- we're talking about strength training in the '90s.

Okay, yes, there was a bit of Jane Fonda and there was a bit more cardio, but there was a lot, you know, there was a lot out there about strength training.

So I see little shifts, but I'm actually really pleasantly surprised that the fundamentals that we've been teaching for a long time have not actually changed.

I love that you pointed out the information overload because I, I mean, I see that.

I feel like people can get information so fast now, and if they're not, um, as equipped at dissecting it as some of us who are in the industry, then it just feels like it's, um, competing or overlapping or they don't see the nuances between what people are saying and they think, "Well, if this is true, then this can't be true." And it's like, well, depends.

There's gray.

You have to understand, like advice is given for different people in different situations and different this and this and this, but it feels so overwhelming.

And you're right, I do feel like now people feel more... probably in some ways more confused than in years past with the information.

You are so right, and I will tell you the antidote to this.

So if you've got a listener sitting here nodding, going, "Yes, I feel so confused," there is a really simple fix to this, and the fix is to know and understand your body better than you do today.

Because the more you learn about your own unique body and you understand it in just a little bit more detail than maybe the number on the scale that you're standing on, but the more that you have access to personalized data that is really helpful for you, that is the antidote.

Because when someone comes to you and says, you know, y- you should be having breakfast because, you know, that's what all these amazing experts are telling us, you can say, "Well, actually, I've, you know, looked at my blood sugar control, and I know that actually for me, I can have a bit of a prolonged overnight fast and it's actually healthy for my blood sugar."

Yeah, I love that you pointed that out, and I think so many people are disconnected.

Like we often work with clients and we'll say, "Well, were you hungry?" And they're like, "I don't know." And I said, "Well, were you sleeping poorly?" "I don't, I don't know." Or, "Well, were you, um...

Did you feel more anxious? What was your nervous system like?" All those things, and we've disconnected, so even those biofeedback markers and testing, which we're gonna get into testing, makes a difference in learning to understand your own body.