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Courtney Contos is an accomplished Chef who was featured on the cover of Food & Wine Magazine, and she is a Certified Functional Medicine Health Coach who is on a mission to help others heal from their autoimmune disorders.
In this episode, I sit down with Courtney who shares her inspirational journey of resilience and fortitude. After years of living in a state of chronic pain, immobility, and taking powerful medications, Courtney trusted her intuition and found the right doctors to help her completely reverse her autoimmune diagnoses of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.
After Courtney shares her personal journey, we discuss when and why autoimmune symptoms start to appear in your life and key factors to consider when doing the work to heal.
“Go to nature, you’ll find peace there, you’ll find answers there, you can listen to yourself. Start there.”
01:00 Courtney’s upbringing and childhood environment – a key to understanding autoimmune root causes
05:33 What happened when Courtney first started to experience autoimmune symptoms and full body inflammation
07:45 How Courtney dealt with her rheumatoid arthritis (RA) diagnosis and how it led her to being featured on the cover of Food & Wine Magazine
17:14 Courtney’s rock bottom and turning point
23:02 From rheumotologist to Functional Medicine doctor and root cause healing
26:00 What a top food sensitivity test revealed and how learning her food sensitivities changed everything
30:35 How Courtney’s lab results went from drastically out of balance to completely normal
34:00 The last piece of the puzzle for Courtney to live pain free
Courtney’s Website: https://ccontos.com
Connect on Instagram: @courtneycontos
Food Sensitivity Test: LRA ELISA/ACT Biotechnologies
Frank Lipman MD’s Book: How to Be Well
If you live in the continental U.S. and are committed and determined to be well, I offer Functional Medicine Total Health Transformation Programs over Zoom in collaboration with a skilled naturopathic doctor (ND). Get on my calendar for a free 30-minute discovery and clarity call.
This comprehensive book is the first to explore all six of the critical lifestyle factors that are the root causes of autoimmune conditions – and the sources of regaining health. Foreword by Mark Hyman, MD
Palmer is a certified Functional Medicine Health Coach who has helped thousands of people reverse autoimmune conditions based on her own two-decade battle to successfully beat multiple sclerosis (MS). She’s the author of the Amazon #1 bestselling book, Beat Autoimmune, which has a powerful foreword by Functional Medicine pioneer, Mark Hyman, MD.
