My Biggest Health Mistakes: What I’d Do Differently If I Could Start Over

EPISODE #90 — MAY 1, 2026

My Biggest Health Mistakes: What I’d Do Differently If I Could Start Over
Tanya Ellie, Functional Practitioner & Health Coach

If I could go back to the beginning of my health journey, I would do things very differently. I honestly made things a lot harder than they needed to be. For a long time, I thought healing meant doing more. More supplements, more routines, more restriction, more effort and constantly trying to optimize everything. But looking back, a lot of that was just adding stress to a system that was already majorly stressed. In this episode, I’m walking you through the biggest shifts that actually made a difference in my healing and the things I had to stop doing in order to finally feel better. If you feel like you’re putting in so much effort and still not getting the results you want in your health, this one will help you create a better wellness strategy.

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In this episode:

01:06 – Finding balance as a working mom 

03:35 – Looking back on my healing journey

05:56 – Why doing more didn’t help me heal faster

07:17 – Simplifying everything

10:38 – Personalizing the “checklist”

12:40 – How functional lab testing helped me

14:40 – Back to the basics

18:06 – Leaning into a more natural life

19:57 – More advanced protocols

21:05 – Phasing out your health plan

22:30 – A real supplements strategy

25:23 – Using my current labs to create a targeted plan

26:35 – Noah joins us 😌

27:55 – Building a life that actually supports your health

29:19 – Nervous system support and slowing down

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