EP441: Tiffany Cagwin - Your Long Term Health: Treating The Cause, Not The Symptoms

Michael Palmer: Because of our fast-paced world and the noise and technology, our body doesn't actually know the difference. Like, the tigers that are chasing us are like our emails and our pings on our phone and all of our demands. And like, our body is constantly trying to respond to that. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fun one and a healthy one. Our guest is an experienced executive leader and transformational coach who's also a certified functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner and board-certified holistic health practitioner. Tiffany Cagwin, welcome to the show. Thank you. It's so great to be here. It's great to have you. You know, I love to start off with our listener getting to know you a little bit. So if you can let us know your career journey leading up to what you're doing today, that would be helpful.

TIffany Cagwin with Dext ad (Oct 22): Sure. I'll give you the, the cliff notes, 'cause it was a long winding journey. It actually started when I was 17, and I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Crohn's. And many people know that, for anybody who doesn't know, It's a pretty intense diagnosis. And so at 17, you can imagine like that was pretty devastating and I was trying to go to college and live my life. And at the time, this was in the '90s. And so there wasn't really anything for me to do to research it. You couldn't Google anything, you couldn't look things up. And so I just had to listen to doctors And what they were telling me was that there was no reason for it. There was nothing I did to cause it. There was nothing I could do to make it better. I was just gonna have to take a lot of medication for life, probably have multiple surgeries, just try to do my best to get through life, you know, between flare-ups. And that kind of sent me on the path of trying to figure out more about health. And because it just didn't, it didn't make sense to me intuitively that this was something when I ate, I was in pain and it affected my digestive tract. But they were saying food