The Health Courage Collective

Christina Hackett
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The Health Courage Collective Podcast is for women who are too busy to slog through hours of generalized, inapplicable and often contradictory health information, but too smart to ignore that a few minutes of focused attention now can prevent years of suffering in the future. Hosted by Christina Hackett - a pharmacist who doesn’t want you to live on prescriptions, a certified coach specifically trained to maximize your potential, and a compulsive learner obsessed with preventative, cutting edge, holistic and integrative medicine. Take a few minutes a week to increase your physical and mental resilience so you can fearlessly look forward to your next 40 plus years, age like a pro, and have fun doing it! Episodes are brief and publish every Wednesday.

  1. 2d ago

    265: Don't Miss These 5 Midlife Screening Tests

    5 Midlife Screening Tests That Give You a well deserved Unfair Advantage Where to get a DEXA scan Where to get a Continuous Glucose Monitor  I’ve used Ageless Rx and had a good experience Where to get a VO2 max test Feeling overwhelmed by “all the guidelines”? In this episode, I narrow it down to five screening tests that are actually worth your time in midlife.  Especially if you want to feel strong, independent, and fully alive in your 70s and beyond. We start with the biggest threat to long-term health (metabolic dysfunction) and why tracking your glucose (ideally with a continuous glucose monitor) can change everything. Then we cover the DEXA scan for bone density, muscle, and visceral fat, plus the VO2 max test as the #1 predictor tied to all-cause mortality. We also talk smarter cardiovascular risk screening (beyond basic cholesterol, plus blood pressure) and cancer screenings that still matter: colorectal, breast, cervical, and skin. The theme: don’t aim for normal.  Aim for optimal. 00:00 Why Screenings Matter 00:32 Show Intro And Mindset 03:06 What Counts As Screening 04:42 Aim For Optimal 07:39 Test One Glucose Tracking 09:41 Test Two DEXA Scan 11:59 Test Three VO2 Max 15:21 Test Four Heart Risk Labs 20:16 Test Five Cancer Screening 23:30 Wrap Up And Next Week Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started?  Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve! Join the Waitlist Here Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com

    265: Don't Miss These 5 Midlife Screening Tests

  2. Jul 22

    264: How Shakespeare Helps You Age Better

    How Shakespeare Helps You Age Better: The Missing Half of IntelligenceIn this Health Courage Collective Podcast episode 264, host Christina Hackett argues that aging “abnormally well” requires more than logic, data, and risk stratification: it requires story-based “primal intelligence,” a set of human abilities AI cannot replicate. Drawing on Angus Fletcher’s book Primal Intelligence and examples of influential figures inspired by Shakespeare (including Steve Jobs, Maya Angelou, Abraham Lincoln, Darwin, and Tesla), she explains that modern education trains people to think like computers, which fails when life demands decisions with little or no data. Fletcher’s four elements of primal intelligence are outlined: intuition (spotting exceptions and anomalies), imagination (leaping into uncertain futures), smart emotion (using feelings as feedback on your life narrative), and common sense (knowing when you do not know and detecting unknown unknowns). Hackett connects these skills to adapting plans amid chaos and creating healthier outcomes as we age. 00:00 Big Questions 00:33 Podcast Welcome 01:21 Logic Versus Wisdom 02:55 Shakespeare Changed Minds 07:19 Clausewitz And Surprise 09:28 Primal Intelligence Explained 10:36 Why Story Beats AI 14:50 Four Primal Powers 15:31 Intuition Spotting Anomalies 16:27 Imagination For Uncertainty 17:25 Smart Emotion Dashboard 18:23 Common Sense Unknown Unknowns 19:59 Aging Better With Story 21:23 Planning For Chaos 24:12 Practical Takeaways And Close 26:49 Outro And Disclaimer Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started?  Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve! Join the Waitlist Here Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com

    264: How Shakespeare Helps You Age Better

  3. Jul 15

    263: Don't Waste the Gift of a Bad Day

    Do you ever have bad days?  Do you think that if you were somehow different or better…you wouldn’t?  Nope.  Everyone has bad days sometimes, and there are 6 things you can do to extract all the value out of the gift of a bad day.  Instead of spiraling down, you can spiral up.  Your bad days won’t take you as low or last as long.  But you’ll still have them sometimes.  And that’s OK.  You’ll know exactly what to do. www.healthcouragecollective.com 00:00 Bad Days Happen 00:29 Podcast Intro 01:19 When Plans Fall Apart 03:56 The One Day That Matters 04:59 Elite Performers Expect Slumps 07:03 Step 1 Expect Bad Days 08:13 Step 2 Catch Turnarounds 11:00 Step 3 Learn From It 12:25 Step 4 Play Badly Well 13:49 Step 5 Commit To Protocol 15:14 Step 6 Design Great Days 18:37 Six Steps Recap 20:08 Closing And Disclaimer  Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started?  Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve! Join the Waitlist Here Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com

    263: Don't Waste the Gift of a Bad Day

  4. Jul 8

    262: Are Colonoscopies Helping Us?

    Cologuard at home test link: https://www.cologuard.com/insurance To learn more about preparing your brain for anesthesia, read the Amen Clinics Blog on Anesthesia and POCD or the Amen Clinics Blog on Surgery Risks. Are Colonoscopies Helping Us? How to Make Colon Cancer a Problem You Don’t Have to Have www.healthcouragecollective.com Are colonoscopies actually helping (women and society)?  Colorectal cancer (the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the U.S.) is one of the most preventable because it usually develops predictably over about 10 years and colonoscopy can both find and remove polyps in the same visit. She contrasts this with mammograms (episode 258) and explains why colonoscopy payoff is high but not perfect: prep quality and provider skill strongly affect what gets missed, with an adenoma miss rate around 24%. She reviews updated screening guidance to start at 45 (earlier with risk factors), discusses alternative tests like Cologuard and SHIELD, and weighs real risks—prep complications, perforation, bleeding, and sedation—against the dramatic survival difference between localized and metastatic disease. 00:00 You Can Prevent This Cancer 00:49 Podcast Welcome And Breathing 01:37 Mammograms To Colonoscopies 04:19 Why Colon Cancer Is Predictable 06:42 Colonoscopy Removes Polyps 07:55 Rising Rates And When To Screen 09:35 Prep Quality And Doctor Metrics 12:23 Miss Rates And Screening Gaps 15:58 Risks And Sedation Concerns 20:26 Risks Of Skipping Screening 23:31 Other Tests And Costs 25:38 Wrap Up And Final Thoughts  Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started?  Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve! Join the Waitlist Here Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com

    262: Are Colonoscopies Helping Us?

  5. Jul 1

    261: How You Breathe Affects How You Age part 2

    What if your body were doing something automatically without any conscious control from you that contributed to fatigue, weight gain, sleeping problems, respiratory problems, mental health struggles, heart disease and poor athletic endurance?  Tons of people’s bodies are doing this and they have no idea.  They also have no idea that they can change it.  For free.  And if they do, they’ll age at a more elite level with fewer health conditions. my website: www.healthcouragecollective.com The Oxygen Advantage (work of Patrick McKeown) Book, program, etc Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started?  Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve! Join the Waitlist Here Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com

    261: How You Breathe Affects How You Age part 2

  6. Jun 24

    260: How You Breathe Affects How You Age part 1

    Since our body breathes without us having to think about it, it seems like it would do this automatic job correctly and optimally.  Unfortunately, since the industrial revolution, we have drifted away from our proper way of eating, moving, sleeping, AND breathing.  What?  There are simple, easy, and free things we can be doing to improve our body’s ability to more fully oxygenate all of our cells for better longevity, mental health and athletic performance, and it’s not breathing more.  It’s breathing less.   My email: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com The Oxygen Advantage (work of Patrick McKeown) - book, program, etc Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started?  Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve! Join the Waitlist Here Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com

    260: How You Breathe Affects How You Age part 1

  7. Jun 17

    259: Protocol For Days When You Have No Motivation

    Do driven, high achieving people ever have days when they just don’t have any motivation?  I think yes.  I think they’d tell us they experience the same feelings and motivational deserts as the rest of us.  The only difference is in how they reflexively act when they have no motivation.  It’s easier to reactively act like your more ideal self when you have a pre-established protocol in place for days when you have no motivation and all you have to do is unthinkingly obey it. my website: www.healthcouragecollective.com work with me for a limited time steal of a deal! Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started?  Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve! Join the Waitlist Here Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com

    259: Protocol For Days When You Have No Motivation

  8. Jun 10

    258: Are Mammograms Helping Us?

    How do you feel about mammograms?  Have you had one?  More than one?  Or, are you feeling guilty or reckless for not getting one yet?  Conventional medical dogma is definitely to get regular mammograms.  Mammograms are our first line of defense against breast cancer.   You probably personally know someone who has encouraged you to get a mammogram because a mammogram discovered cancer in them or someone they love, and they want to make sure you’re taking care of your health by getting screened before it’s too late.  We’re very indoctrinated that mammograms save lives.  Too bad they don’t. https://auria.care/science  coupon code: drjenn20 U.S.  QT imaging locations: https://www.qtimaging.com/locations/  Dr Jenn Simmons’ Podcast episodes:11,  34,  64,  96,  125,  142,  144 Cochrane report on mammographic screening Boobs: The War on Breasts Documentary by Megan Smith Article in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine to an article called “Mammography Screening is Harmful and Should be Abandoned.” Are you ready to give your cells their best chance to not have to stop living before they die by allowing them access to physiologic levels of hormones, but aren't sure how to even get started?  Join the waitlist for my new beta program here and help me figure out how best to help wonderful women like you get the hormone care they deserve! Join the Waitlist Here Come visit me: www.healthcouragecollective.com email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com

    258: Are Mammograms Helping Us?
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The Health Courage Collective Podcast is for women who are too busy to slog through hours of generalized, inapplicable and often contradictory health information, but too smart to ignore that a few minutes of focused attention now can prevent years of suffering in the future. Hosted by Christina Hackett - a pharmacist who doesn’t want you to live on prescriptions, a certified coach specifically trained to maximize your potential, and a compulsive learner obsessed with preventative, cutting edge, holistic and integrative medicine. Take a few minutes a week to increase your physical and mental resilience so you can fearlessly look forward to your next 40 plus years, age like a pro, and have fun doing it! Episodes are brief and publish every Wednesday.

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