The Health Courage Collective

Christina Hackett
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  • Alternative Health
  • Updated Weekly

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. 6d ago

    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

  2. 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?

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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?

  7. Jun 3

    257: An Investment With Guaranteed Returns

    What if you had the opportunity to invest in something with guaranteed returns?  You'd be crazy not to.  If you're in your 40s or 50s, now is the critical time to make the investments that will payoff huge in your 70s and 80s! Come to my website: www.heatlhcouragecollective.com 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

    257: An Investment With Guaranteed Returns

  8. May 27

    256: You Want Me to Still Have Periods in my 60s and 70s?

    If you’re thinking about replacing your hormones as they decline with age, it’s important to really think through why you want to take hormones and how you want to take hormones.  So that you’re a thinking woman making intelligent decisions about her future rather than an object being acted upon.  Standard practice is that the only reason to take hormones is to take the edge off your most bothersome perimenopausal symptoms and that how you take them is to take the lowest effective dose of estrogen and only to add progesterone if you still have your uterus.  But those aren’t the only reasons or methods, and I think understanding alternative frameworks of thinking about hormone replacement will make your future better, whether you decide to keep having periods in your 60s and 70s or not. email me: healthcouragecollective@gmail.com 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

    256: You Want Me to Still Have Periods in my 60s and 70s?
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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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