Thank you for your interest in Nutrition, Wellness, Epigenetics (if you happen to come here by way of Health Performance Coaching) and more!
You may not already know, I offer Nutrition and Wellness consulting and coaching. I provide meal guidance, meal and snack timing, macro breakdown, caloric intake based on your goals and staying in alignment with weekly movement suggestions. What you may not know is that I am a Certified Epigenetic Performance Coach which up-levels the Nutrition and Wellness of my business to a whole next tier! By offering DNA analysis to reveal what your genes suggest you may (or may not) have a propensity towards I can greatly offer you actionable steps to get you from where you are right now to where you want to be.
I am the founder of SZENNX. This is my new business where I offer a deeper more individualized dive into nutrition, fitness, stress management, sleep quality, and so much more, all using genetics! SZENNX.
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To give you an idea, say you feel you have a drive towards more sweet foods and/or maybe you believe you don’t metabolize dairy well but feel fine enjoying bread, by having a genetic report, your DNA markers tell a story of what your genes are geared toward expressing. But that does not mean you don’t have control to take over and become the best version of yourself! Your genetic blueprint will show a wealth of information as guidance and I, as your Epigenetic Performance Coach, will go over the results, we’ll work together to create a meal plan and I’ll offer supplement suggestions. So much more is included, such as how to get your body detoxing better, what muscle fibers your genetic propensity reveals you’re more prone to utilize efficiently and how well your recovery time is from exercise. Hormones, sleep, nutrient absorption, metabolic pathways all aid in offering the plan to upgrade your health overall. Go to my website:
to get more information and toe get started! You can order your kit to begin your journey of self-awareness today.
Since you’re here, I do want to welcome you to my original site and birthplace of my nutrition and wellness journey, My Whole Well-Being.
I created this site as a place to put out into the blogsphere ideas and experiences to live a life that is Well-Fit, Well-Nourished and Well-Defined. It all contributes to My Whole Well-Being! Within my posts, I hope you find some inspiration, fitspiration, foodspiration and funspiration. All while enjoying life and embracing who you are.
This original site here is not only everything that contributes to My Whole Well-Being, but YOUR Whole Well-Being! The world needs YOU to be authentically YOU! Happy, healthy and whole. So let’s work together on finding what makes you… you and what contributes to Your Whole Well-Being. With that in mind I have created my additional sister site, yourwholewellbeing.com where you can purchase yoga courses live or on-demand as I am a RYT with over 200 hours earned. I will also offer nutrition and meal prep courses and at yourwholewellbeing.com you can join monthly to have new meal and snack guides delivered to you every 4 to 5 weeks.
To introduce myself briefly, I love being outdoors, I love being active and I truly believe connecting with nature –> thus disconnecting with technology, is very good for one’s well-being. Those experiences and ideas can be found in the Well-Fit posts of this site. Hiking, running, swimming, yoga, mountain biking, having fun with the kids, gardening, ice skating, skiing, snowboarding, sleeping well, being well-rested and simply making time to get outside to unplug, meditate and sit with your thoughts, decluttering your mind. The options are endless. Opting outside at some time today and do something for your Well-Fit part of life contributes to Your Whole Well-Being.
I enjoy learning more about the health benefits of nutritious food and how to create flavorful recipes. I love eating healthy and I know the difference natural foods have on the body; I personally have experienced the negative side effects of eating unhealthy (along with lack of exercise and outdoor activities… and sleep!).This is the Well-Fed (or I have began referring them more as Well-Nourished) posts of this site. You’ll find recipes that avoid and completely omit refined sugar while taking every effort to opt for organic food items, choosing local farm-to-table produce when it is possible. I am mostly gluten-free so never will you find any refined flour here but I have found better options that do contain gluten, such as einkorn wheat flour. My journey of continued improvement is on-going. In the past I have enjoyed sprouted grain bread and I still believe it has health benefits, however for me personally I have removed it from my eating routine. This is where I understand each individual is unique, and you do need to consider what works for you, yourself. Simply knowing where all the food items, from vegetables, fruits, meat and fish, comes from is important. The options are endless here just as well. There is no one diet for everyone, some need Lectin-Free while others might require Grain-Free or prefer a Vegan lifestyle. I do not emphasize any strict diet or some unrealistic “X amount of days” which will simply warrant you to going right back to bad eating habits afterwards. I refer to my meals as “plant-based” not because I don’t eat meat ( I do) but because I do enjoy a lot of vegetables! But, and this is where Epigenetic DNA testing comes into play, some individuals do NOT do well on an eating routine that is highly plant-based. There is something known as Plant Sterols and for some individuals, lots of vegetables can lead to plant sterol build-up, which in turn can even lead to heart health problems. This is why individual coaching is ideal. Understanding yourself is key. Your eating routine should always be what is natural to you and what allows you to thrive! Nutritiously Well-Fed for Your Whole Well-Being.
As I mentioned, I am now a Certified Epigenetic Performance Coach. Your DNA is not your destiny! We all can find the right Well-Nourished foods, the ideal Well-Fit activity, and understand exactly who we are by unlocking what impacts our genes; our environment, our eating routine, our toxic exposure and so much more. Obtaining a genetic blueprint is easy, using a simple saliva swab will reveal whether your DNA make-up has the potential for insulin resistance or gluten sensitivity, doing better with more complex carbohydrates and moderate protein, and how well we absorb certain nutrients. Our potential is truly limitless. Go to my business SZENNX where I offer Epigenetic Performance Coaching to get started.
Your DNA or your genetic blueprint plays an important role in your health, but so do your behaviors and your environment, and what has a great influence is what you eat and how physically active you are. Epigenetics is the study of how such behaviors and what you expose yourself to in your environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Without causing genetic changes, the DNA will remain the same, it is the epigenetic changes that are reversible and do not change your DNA sequence, but they can change how your body reads a DNA sequence. So, while genetics determine which protein is made, epigenetics affect gene expression to turn genes “on” and “off.” If you have the genetic predisposition, gene markers to store fat more easily and have an average ability to build muscle but create an nourishing diet fit for your goals and lifestyle and make a daily effort to workout, you’re going to make epigenetic changes to turn those fat storing genes off and build muscle more easily due to your environment.
As an epigenetic performance coach, I examine an individuals DNA blueprint along with their current lifestyle, their eating habits and routine, we discuss their goals, their manifestations what they want to attract and achieve. From there I have a greater understanding of what their hereditary traits may be, what their genetic predispositions are and am able to build a highly individualized meal and snack guide, what supplements they will benefit from and ones they should not take, for example some people have an inflammatory response to high doses of Vitamin E. Very interesting one because there is a great deal of people who will take additional forms of vitamin E for the antioxidant benefits and there are benefits, but there is a large portion of the population who carry genetics that will actually increase inflammation when they take forms in higher doses.
Most importantly, I know who I am. And I want you to take the journey of self-awareness to realize your own goals and ambitions and have them for YOU. I know my past experiences, my successes, my (many) failures, my capabilities, my strengths, my weaknesses, my fears, my love and my goals. I know how to live in the present. I am so very grateful for what my life has entailed and everything that has led me here today. I make a promise to myself, every day, to never take for granted the good that is all around; from my family, my health, my home, my daily life decisions, my spiritual beliefs and my social interactions. Those aspects of life will be shared in the Well-Defined posts. I hope to contribute more to that side of this blogsite, filled with reflection of knowing where you are in life, who you are, those that are there for you and what your own responsibilities as a person are to others. And realizing that yes, it is always necessary to plan and dream with a positive outlook for the future, but to not do so too eagerly; the present is where everything is happening. And it’s happening right now. Unplug, look around, be involved in the great wide world that is alive right now right in front of you! And engage in it, fully. Being in the present, the right now, will plant the seeds for tomorrow, growing a better future. All of it will contribute greatly to Your Whole Well-Being.
So here’s to living a healthy, happy, fit and flourishing lifestyle! Well-Nourished, Well-Fit and Well-Defined for Your Whole Well-Being!
