Personally coaching with me never replaces regular visits with your physician and is not considered medical advice.
Never make changes to your health protocol without your physcian’s explicit consultation.

ANDREW BATESON KORNFELD

Reconceptualizing Health Coaching

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Health coaching like you've never experienced

Your health is foundational to anything and everything. You have nothing without it. The development of a chronic health condition makes you face this reality head on, irrespective of your timeline or life plans, your days become a constant reminder of the exceptional fragility of your biology. Indeed, the body and mind are systems of change, providing insight not only to the pathogenesis of disease but also to human biology’s innate ability to heal (even) in the face of remarkable challenge and adversity. It’s my job to unleash this ability within you. The results of this science-based approach have been profound, exemplified in my own journey and even more in the life-changing transformations my clients experience everyday.

We'll target 3 biological entrance points

The body and mind are systems of change providing insight not only to the pathogenesis of disease but also to human biology's extraordinary and innate ability to heal (even) in the face of remarkable challenge and adversity.

It’s my job to unleash this ability within you.

Microscopy of regenerating wound | Washington State University

Brain & Mind

There are 80 billion neurons in the human brain, and 100 trillion synapses.  The way in which these cells connect greatly influences our behavior, personality, emotions, and the way we interact with the environment. Changing connections and brain states through neuroplasticity is key to healing both physically and physically. Brain and mind centric health issues I address through coaching include but are not limited to:

Gut & Microbiome

We are a human superorganism with trillions of microbes living on us and inside us.  They profoundly influence everything from our mood, to our food cravings, and play into all aspects of health, disease, and well-being.  Gut and microbiome centric health issues I address through coaching include but are not limited to:

Pain & Inflammation

The human immune system is a highly dynamic interplay in how the body interfaces with the microbial environment.  Like other systems, delicate checks and balances can easily over or under compensate with magnifying consequences leading to the development and pathogenesis of immune-mediated or autoimmune-based conditions and their respective comorbidities, especially pain. Inflammation and pain centric health issues I address through coaching include but are not limited to:

 

Andrew totally changed the way I approached my health struggles, and provided just the spark I needed. Within a month or two I was living the active, embodied life I had been too stuck to manifest on my own. The following year has been full of nothing but thriving, growth, and wellness.

Henrik

Severe IBS, constipation, and complex pain

It's personal

My odyssey through chronic disease

As a teenager and young adult, Crohn’s disease ravaged my body and clouded my mind. Inflammation was dangerously out of control in my small intestine with rippling systemic effects, not responsive to the powerful immunomodulators for which I was prescribed. I was malnourished, crushingly fatigued and running to the bathroom up to 20x per day among a seemingly endless list of other symptoms, complications, and side effects.  Everyday was a new nightmare as I felt trapped in my own body but never giving in.  I took advantage of the days I felt stronger and I utilized my training in neuroscience and psychology to initiate the critical actions that would ultimately save my life. I scoured the scientific literature for weeks and discovered (to my initial skepticism) that there was actually significant and real discrepancies between the findings in the science and the literal interventions taken by my healthcare system. 

I was challenged to think differently. I changed how I viewed my place in the world. I formulated a renewed understanding of human biology and then designed what would eventually become the foundation to a new science-based approach in navigating health: one in which the patient resides front and center at the helm of his or her unique ship.

With a renewed sense of control, everything in my life became overhauled: diet, medications, supplements, herbs, sleep, exercise, relationships, home, medical team and most importantly my mindset. While progress was non-linear (as it always is) my persistency and creativity paid off, and slowly but surely there were signs something was changing. I worked on multiple interventions and took careful note to how each interacted with one another to feed into the larger outcomes. 

It was not as simple as just removing foods out of my diet. It mattered what I actually chose to include: what I ate, when I ate, and how I ate carried equal weight in my healing.

Epiphanies like this were becoming more common and that’s when I just rebounded. It was like waking up from a bad dream to a beautiful room filled with light. My bowel movements and other symptoms returned to normal, my inflammatory markers stabilized, I gained weight I had lost and was back to surfing and spending quality time with friends and family. With the reluctant approval of my healthcare providers I discontinued the medications and my health only climbed. My physician’s were rightly stunned watching me in live time reverse my disease using interventions that they had been trained to ignore.

Today I have been in remission for nearly 8 years. I am in the best health of my life. I wake up living my dream everyday.

Within 6 months of working with Andrew, I was symptom-free for the first time in the 12 years I’ve had UC. I was able to get pregnant and have a healthy pregnancy and delivery of a beautiful baby boy! This would not have been possible without me going through the Andrew's process.

Haley

Intractable ulcerative colitis and anxiety

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