May 3, 2021
#203 Alex is an Institute For Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner with a MSc in Personalised Nutrition and a BSc in Nutritional Therapy.
He is also:
- Co-founder of Healthpath, an at-home functional gut testing company
- Co-founder of The Applied Functional Medicine Mentoring Program.
- Chief Wellness Officer at Exhale Coffee - a healthy coffee hand picked for its chlorogenic acid content (the good stuff!)
Currently Alex is finalising his studies in Transformational Life Coaching.
After a powerful experience combining breathwork and psychedelics towards the end of 2019, Alex is also currently training to become a Transformational Breathwork Practitioner and has recently started a 12 month psychedelic practitioner program with The Synthesis Institute.
In this episode we discuss all things psychedelics, in particular:
- Alex shares his powerful psychedelic and breathwork experience
- What psychedelics have the most research, particularly for mental health
- The impact of psychedelics on the gut-brain axis
- How Alex see’s health practitioners, or himself safely integrate them
- Are there any concerns for their use (risks or side effects)
- Who should be avoiding them
- Where is regulation at with psychedelics
- We were so in the moment that we forgot to discuss micro and macro dosing
- And so much more