If you've been eating clean, working out, & trying to do everything right but still feel exhausted, inflamed, & just not like yourself, this episode is for you! We sit down with integrative health coach Curtis Gillespie Sayers to uncover 3 sneaky things that are quietly driving inflammation in your body, & why most of us have no idea any of them are happening.
Curtis has been working with Kim directly for almost a year. She sought him out after failing two biologics, & he helped her get her chronic inflammation under control to the point where she is no longer on any medication for her Crohn's. Kalee is also a member of his Skool community.
Curtis works with some of the most complex chronic illness cases out there, often seeing clients who have already been through ten or more providers before finding him. His approach goes far beyond symptom management. Using comprehensive lab work, stool & urine panels, genetic data, & detailed history-taking, he builds personalized protocols around what is actually driving someone's experience, always with the philosophy of stabilizing the foundation first.
His training spans functional medicine certification through the Institute for Functional Medicine, advanced peptide therapy with Professor Vladimir Khavinson & Dr. Robin Rose, methylation & clinical nutrigenomics with Dr. Ben Lynch, blood chemistry analysis, biometric coaching through Traditional Chinese Medicine, & more. He now works with clients & mentors other practitioners & physicians.
His motto says it all: if it breathes, I work with it.
A central thread throughout the episode is one Curtis comes back to again and again: nothing in your body works in isolation, and sustainable healing rarely happens in a body stuck in chronic stress or dysregulation.
In this episode you'll learn:
- Why modern stress hits your biology differently than it did for our ancestors
- How our dopamine-driven world is depleting your body's ability to handle stress
- The hidden viral infections like Epstein-Barr
- Why suppressing symptoms with Tylenol and NSAIDs could be making inflammation worse long term
- The cortisol confusion: what high and low cortisol each do to inflammation, and why testing matters
- The free foundational habits Curtis says move the needle more than any supplement
Connect with Curtis:
Instagram: @funct.med.curtis
Skool Community: The Healing Path
Website: Lifestyle Empowerment
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