In this episode, Tina sits down with her functional practitioner, Curtis Gillespie Sayers, to dive into her long and complicated journey with ulcerative colitis, a “tough case,” as Curtis describes it. They explore how healing goes far beyond diet and supplements, highlighting the powerful impact of environment, light exposure, and lifestyle adjustments. Curtis shares his insights on the connection between the nervous system and healing, the importance of mitochondrial health, and what most people overlook when dealing with chronic illness. They also discuss the role of peptide therapy, including the key immune, mitochondrial, and healing peptides they’ve used, as well as nutrition strategies to support deeper recovery. If you’re feeling stuck on your health journey or looking for a more holistic, data-driven approach to healing, this conversation is packed with value.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The powerful role of light in the healing process
- The critical connection between the nervous system and healing
- What most people are overlooking when it comes to chronic illness
- How the Cell Danger Response impacts your ability to heal
- The role of mitochondria in chronic illness and overall health
- Nutrition strategies to support mitochondrial function
- Top foods and supplements that fuel mitochondrial health
- Key immune, mitochondrial, and healing peptides we’ve used
Join beta testing and test FREE workouts:
https://carrotsncake.kit.com/lss-beta
Connect with Tina Haupert:
https://carrotsncake.com/
Facebook: Carrots ‘N’ Cake https://www.facebook.com/carrotsncake
Instagram: @carrotsncake https://www.instagram.com/carrotsncake
YouTube: Tina Haupert https://www.youtube.com/user/carrotsncake
Pinterest: Carrots ‘N’ Cake Hormone Testing & Nutrition Coaching https://www.pinterest.com/carrotsncake/
About Tina Haupert:
Tina Haupert is the owner of Carrots ‘N’ Cake as well as a Certified Nutrition Coach and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P).
Tina and her team use functional testing and a personalized approach to nutrition to help women find balance within their diets while achieving their body composition goals.
Connect with Curtis Gillespie Sayers:
https://lifestylempowerment.ca/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1lifeestyleempowerment/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@curtisfunctionalhealthcoach
Instagram: https://instagram.com/that.coach.curtis
About Curtis Gillespie Sayers:
From a young age I was in and out of the hospital suffering from health complications for as long as I can remember, breathing difficulties being the most apparent but as I grew older more serious issues began to come to light. I was diagnosed with an extremely severe case of sleep apnea, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and a pre-diabetic status. At this time, I was also struggling with substance abuse, which would obviously contribute to my health complications, but most were from birth. After receiving the news from running tests, the doctors had informed me that I was lucky to be alive.
My psychological health was greatly impacted by my physiological health, evoking feelings of anger, and negativity which caused me to constantly argue with people around me. This affected several of my relationships and was creating a miserable life.
This lead me to seek out the help of a bodybuilding coach (not knowing a damn thing about health at the time). The main focus was “getting shredded,” not understanding how much internal health affects one’s physique. Interestingly enough, shedding the weight had really helped with my sleep apnea, but still, quite a few health complications were present. At this time hunger was ignited in me to learn more. I became determined to solve what was going on in my body.
I decided to acquire my first nutrition certification through the ISSA (International Sports Science Association).
This gave me the confidence to begin to help others, and I did and the joy that it brought me was some of the most I had ever felt in my life, and I knew this was my purpose.
I sought out to learn through as many resources as I could, research papers, courses, mentorships, I was addicted. But through all the learning and helping others, I was still unable to help myself. I was determined to correct my issues, and this is what sent me down the functional health realm (insert functional health description here).
This enabled me to begin to understand why the human body does what it does based on more than just the food you eat. Why certain environments can be beneficial to some but negative for others, and why certain training programs cause the effects they do, whether that be good or bad. What genes do you what and how they impact your physiology, how hormones impact every aspect of your life, how to read and understand complex testing, the importance of gut health and so much more.
Through all of this I was able to discover (via testing), a severe overgrowth of bad bacteria and a condition known as SIBO (small intestinal bacteria overgrowth). As well as severe hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalance and some genetic defects that contributed to my health complications. Of course, this was something at that moment in time I was incapable of addressing on my own, so I was connected with my current mentor and genius to guide me step-by-step to give my body the ability to heal itself from within.