Podcast 489: Healthy Celiac Coach


Welcome to another episode of the Life Enthusiast podcast! On today’s episode,  Martin Pytela chats with Belinda Whelan, the Healthy Celiac Coach, about the complexities of celiac disease. Belinda shares her personal journey, emphasizing the importance of proper testing and diagnosis, which is often missed or mistaken for other conditions. She explains the genetic factors and how life events can trigger symptoms.
Belinda also highlights the wide range of symptoms beyond digestive issues, including brain fog and fatigue, and discusses her coaching services and online program to support those managing the disease. Tune in to learn more about the proactive steps needed to live well with celiac disease and improve your quality of life.
To find out about Belinda’s coaching program, you can check out her website: Belindawhelan.com
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MARTIN: Greetings. This is Martin Pytela for Life Enthusiast podcast. And today with me, Belinda Whelan. She is the Healthy Celiac Coach. We’ll ask Belinda to explain, but welcome.
BELINDA: Thanks, Martin. Thank you so much for having me on your show. It’s great to be here.
MARTIN: Yeah, I appreciate the fact that you bring yourself a different continent, different accent, different experience, all of that. That’s just awesome. I love that.
BELINDA: Yeah, yeah. It’s always great to connect with people on the other side of the world. I’m in Australia, so. Yeah, we were just saying earlier, winter here and summer for you. So, yeah, it’s great to connect.
MARTIN: And it’s great that, of course, now it’s possible for us to consult with people using the same tool that you and I are using right now, talking over the Internet as if we were in each other’s face.
BELINDA: Yeah, it is wonderful isn’t it?
MARTIN: Yeah, great.
BELINDA: Love it.
MARTIN: So you come to it with Celiac in your business title. Most of the people that come to Life Enthusiast website come here looking for a solution to a problem that they may not necessarily understand. And I think that there are way more celiacs out there than what meets the eye or than what people think. They think, oh, I have just a little bit of indigestion, or I have a little bit of brain fog, or I have a little bit of immune challenge. Turns out, and I’m telling you, the world, that if you have a leaky gut, you also have a leaky brain and you also have a leaky immune system.
BELINDA: Yes.
MARTIN: What can you say to that?
BELINDA: Yeah, I mean, celiac disease is one of those autoimmune diseases that I guess is becoming more and more known, whether that’s to do with more awareness or more people getting diagnosed, but it is, when we look at it, it’s not uncommon. Around 1 in 100 people do have celiac disease, and unfortunately, so many people are undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, and this is a big one. So they go to their medical practitioner and they’re b...