Are you eating clean, training smart, managing stress — maybe even using hormone replacement — but still struggling with fatigue, inflammation, stubborn weight, low energy, or poor recovery?

👉 This isn't "just aging."

In this episode of The Coach Debbie Potts Show, Debbie takes a deep dive into the Cell Danger Response (CDR) — a groundbreaking biological framework developed by Robert Naviaux — that explains why so many people feel stuck despite "doing everything right."

Chronic symptoms aren't random.
They're often signs that the body is stuck in survival mode and hasn't completed the healing cycle.

• What the Cell Danger Response is — and why it's protective, not broken biology

• The four major triggers that activate survival physiology

• The difference between fight/flight and freeze/shutdown at the cellular level

• Why digestion, hormones, mitochondria, and inflammation won't normalize if the nervous system doesn't feel safe

• Why chronic illness often reflects incomplete healing, not permanent damage

Debbie shares how she connected patterns across multiple functional and metabolic tests to uncover what was really happening under the hood, including:

• GI-MAP gut testing (dysbiosis, low butyrate, endotoxins/LPS)

• Genetics influencing oxidative stress, detox pathways, and cell membrane repair

• mescreen™ mitochondrial testing (ROS, membrane integrity, energy efficiency)

• Vagus nerve tone & HRV data

• Hormones and thyroid signaling at the cellular level

👉 The takeaway:
It wasn't age.
It wasn't willpower.
It was unmeasured cellular stress driving a prolonged survival response.

Healing doesn't happen by pushing harder.
It happens by restoring safety, calming danger signals, supporting mitochondria, and allowing the body to complete the healing cycle.

This episode explains why testing beats trial-and-error — and how Debbie uses this approach to build a personalized FutureYou Blueprint™ for clients who want to thrive as they age.

Learn more about the Cell Danger Response:
👉 https://chronicillnesstraumastudies.com/cell-danger-response-disease/

Work with Debbie & build your FutureYou Blueprint™:
🌐 https://www.debbiepotts.net

Educational only. Partner with a qualified practitioner—especially if you're on medications, have gallbladder disease, significant anemia, active IBD, are pregnant, or have complex conditions.

How to Rebuild Men's Health from the Cellular Level Up | Dave Readyhough – Healthy Terrain Nutrition

What if your body isn't broken — it's just operating in a damaged terrain?

In this episode of The Coach Debbie Potts Show, I sit down with Dave Readyhough, founder of Healthy Terrain Nutrition, functional nutrition coach, and blood chemistry expert specializing in men's midlife health.

After more than 30 years of addiction, chronic pain, and chasing symptom-based solutions, Dave completely rebuilt his health by addressing the cellular environment that drives metabolism, inflammation, hormones, and recovery.

Now in his late 50s, Dave feels stronger, leaner, and more energized than he did in his 20s — and he helps men do the same by restoring the body's internal terrain so it can heal itself.

✔️ Why "fix-the-symptom" approaches fail long-term
✔️ How blood chemistry reveals hidden metabolic stress
✔️ The root causes of belly fat, joint pain, and chronic inflammation in men
✔️ Why midlife metabolism slows — and how to rebuild it
✔️ The role of nutrition, lifestyle, and mindset in cellular repair
✔️ What it really means to "heal from the inside out"

Dave's philosophy is simple but powerful:
👉 When you repair and support the terrain at the cellular level, the body knows how to innately heal.

If you're a man in midlife — or you coach or support one — this conversation will change how you think about health, aging, and what's actually possible in your 40s, 50s, and beyond.

🔗 Connect with Dave Readyhough & Healthy Terrain Nutrition
🌐 Website: https://www.HealthyTerrainNutrition.com
📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HealthyTerrainNutrition/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healthyterrainnutrition/

🎧 Subscribe to The Coach Debbie Potts Show for science-backed conversations on metabolism, hormones, mitochondrial health, and aging stronger — not slower.

🌱 Learn more about The FutureYou Blueprint™ and functional testing at
👉 www.debbiepotts.net

with Coach Debbie Potts, FDN-P, FNTP, Metabolic Health Practitioner

Welcome to the Rabbit Hole Deep Dive Series — where Coach Debbie Potts guides you through the complex, interconnected systems that shape your metabolism, hormones, and longevity.

In this series, Debbie unpacks one of the most overlooked drivers of midlife health challenges:
vagus nerve dysfunction and its downstream impact on thyroid health, sex hormones, blood sugar balance, inflammation, mitochondrial energy, and the aging process.

Through detailed explanations, case studies (including Debbie's own GI-MAP, MEScreen, HRV and blood chemistry results), and science-backed strategies, you'll learn:

• Why the vagus nerve controls digestion, nutrient absorption, and gut-hormone signaling
• How chronic stress suppresses thyroid conversion (T4 → T3) and increases reverse T3
• The role of autonomic balance in menopause, perimenopause, and andropause symptoms
• How low vagal tone accelerates aging by impairing mitochondrial function
• The connection between HRV, metabolic flexibility, and fat-burning
• Early signs of vagus nerve toxicity — and how to reverse it
• Practical tools to strengthen vagal tone, reduce inflammation, and rebalance hormones
• How Pulsetto Vagus Nerve Stimulation fits into a data-driven recovery strategy

Debbie blends her decades of experience as a practitioner and athlete with functional testing, genetic insight, mitochondrial analysis, and real-world lessons from overcoming her own burnout and metabolic chaos.

If you feel like you're aging faster than you should…
If your metabolism has slowed…
If your hormones feel "off" despite doing everything right…
If your stress resilience and HRV are declining…

This series will help you connect the dots, understand the root cause, and start building your strongest, most resilient Future You.

🔗 Explore the FutureYou Blueprint™
www.debbiepotts.net

🔗 Support your vagus nerve with Pulsetto VNS
https://pulsetto.sjv.io/YRQyQP