Your muscle isn't just for strength—it's your metabolic organ, your glucose sink, your hormonal stabilizer, and your anti-aging insurance policy.

But here's the hard truth:
If your protein is low in leucine, hard to digest, or blocked by anti-nutrients, you're putting the brakes on everything you're trying to optimize.

🧬 In this episode of The Coach Debbie Potts Show, we explore how poor protein choices impact:

• 📉 Blood sugar and insulin resistance

• 🧠 Brain fog and neurotransmitter function

• 🔥 Mitochondrial energy production

• 🧘 Hormone health and thyroid function

• 💪 Muscle loss and metabolic decline

We dive deep into the science of anabolic resistance, leucine thresholds, and the dangers of anti-nutrients like phytates, oxalates, and lectins—especially for those navigating perimenopause, menopause, or andropause.

Let's design your protein-first, gut-friendly, muscle-building plan—customized to your:

• Metabolism

• Stress load

• Age & midlife goals

📅 Book your FutureYou Strategy Session today at
👉 www.DebbiePotts.net

Together, we'll test—not guess—and create the plan your body actually responds to. Because your symptoms aren't random… they're data.
Let's decode the root cause and build the strongest, most resilient version of you.

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.

Dr. Nathan Bryan is an international expert in nitric oxide biochemistry and molecular medicine. With more than two decades of groundbreaking research, Dr. Bryan has made numerous seminal discoveries, holds dozens of U.S. and international patents, and has created technologies that have improved patient care worldwide. He earned his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. from LSU School of Medicine, followed by post-doctoral training at Boston University's Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute under Nobel Laureate Dr. Ferid Murad.

In this episode, Coach Debbie Potts and Dr. Bryan explore:
✅ What nitric oxide is and why it's vital for cardiovascular, metabolic, and brain health
✅ Why nitric oxide production declines with age and modern lifestyle habits
✅ How to naturally restore nitric oxide through nutrition, sunlight, exercise, and targeted supplements

Learn more about Dr. Bryan's work and nitric oxide-based innovations at www.N1O1.com (save with code COACHDEBBIEPOTTS), www.drnathansbryan.com, and www.nitricoxideinnovations.com.
Connect with Dr. Bryan on Instagram @drnathansbryan | Twitter @drnitric | LinkedIn @drnathansbryan.

In this FutureYou Blueprint™ deep-dive episode of The Coach Debbie Potts Show, we explore one of the most overlooked truths in functional health:

👉 Protecting your brain begins in the gut.
👉 Up to 70–80% of neuroinflammation is driven by digestion, blood sugar, and lifestyle—not age.

If you want sharper memory, better focus, emotional resilience, and long-term cognitive health, you must understand how your daily choices directly affect your gut, mitochondria, nervous system, and blood-brain barrier.

Today, I break down the four most powerful lifestyle levers you can start using immediately to reduce neuroinflammation and build a stronger brain from the inside out.

🔍 In This Episode, You'll Learn:

How 7.5–9 hours of sleep activates the glymphatic system, repairs the blood-brain barrier, calms microglia, improves gut motility, and regulates inflammation.

Why lifting weights 2–3 times per week supports brain plasticity, improves mood, and stabilizes blood sugar—the biggest driver of neuroinflammation.

How Zone 2 cardio improves oxygen delivery, enhances mitochondrial function, supports gut motility, and reduces stress on the nervous system.

How everyday exposures—like Wi-Fi at night, fragrance, plastics, pesticides, and mold—affect brain inflammation, sleep, and BBB integrity.

🧠 Why This Matters

Brain aging is not random.
Brain fog is not normal.
Cognitive decline does not start in the brain — it starts in your gut, your environment, and your lifestyle signals.

By adjusting these four non-negotiable foundations, you lower neuroinflammation, strengthen your gut-brain axis, and build long-term cognitive resilience.

This is how you train the WHOLE you… to become your strongest, sharpest FutureYou.

💬 Connect with Debbie

Website: www.DebbiePotts.net
FutureYou Blueprint Sessions: https://DebbiePottsCoaching.as.me/futureyoublueprint
PNOĒ Metabolism Testing & Coaching: www.DebbiePotts.net

Are you doing all the right things—clean eating, daily workouts, supplements—yet feeling tired, inflamed, or stuck in a midlife plateau?

On today's deep-dive episode of The Coach Debbie Potts Show, we unravel the hidden biology behind slow metabolism, stubborn fat gain, chronic fatigue, and the loss of muscle as we age.

Coach Debbie Potts—FDN-P, FNTP, NASM-CPT, and certified PNOĒ Metabolic Analyst—guides you through the interconnected systems that determine how you age, burn fat, build muscle, and generate energy from the inside out.

This is not your typical "eat less, move more" conversation.
This is FutureYou Biology—the science of rebuilding metabolism, rewiring resilience, and restoring cellular safety so you can thrive, not struggle, in midlife.

PNOĒ Metabolic Testing — Your Real-Time Metabolic Blueprint

How RER, VO₂ Max, FatMax, and ventilatory efficiency reveal whether your metabolism is stuck in sugar-burning mode or capable of efficient, flexible fat oxidation.

AMPK — The Fat-Burning, Repair, and Longevity Switch

Why Zone 2, fasting windows, cold exposure, and specific nutrients activate AMPK to improve mitochondria, reduce inflammation, and enhance metabolic flexibility.

The Cell Danger Response (CDR) — When Mitochondria Hit the Brakes

Based on Dr. Robert Naviaux's research, we explore why chronic stress, toxins, infections, or trauma push your mitochondria into "protection mode"—slowing metabolism, lowering energy, and blocking fat loss.

The Vagus Nerve — The Hidden Root of Weight Loss Resistance

If your nervous system doesn't feel safe, your metabolism won't unlock. Learn how vagal tone affects digestion, hormones, inflammation, and fat-burning—and how to train the vagus for better metabolic outcomes.

mTOR + Protein After 40 — How to Rebuild Muscle & Strength

Why women and men after 40 need higher protein, targeted leucine, and heavy strength training to overcome anabolic resistance and maintain metabolic rate and longevity.

Cortisol, Hormones & Aging

The stress-metabolism connection: how elevated cortisol suppresses thyroid function, blocks fat burning, and accelerates aging—and how to fix the rhythm.

The FutureYou™ Formula

How AMPK, mTOR, the vagus nerve, and mitochondrial health integrate into a personalized, test-not-guess blueprint for metabolic harmony.

Protein-forward, leucine-optimized meals to turn on muscle protein synthesis, maintain metabolic health, and improve fat-burning—especially for midlife women and men.

"Protein is the ignition switch for metabolism. Leucine is the spark plug." — Coach Debbie

Aging well isn't luck—it's strategy.
When you retrain metabolism, restore cellular safety, and rebuild vagal resilience, your body becomes capable of fat-burning, muscle building, and long-lasting energy again.

It's time to rewrite your midlife biology and create your FutureYou.

Ready to stop guessing and start testing?
Book your PNOĒ Metabolic Test or schedule a discovery call at:
👉 www.DebbiePotts.net

Escape METABOLIC CHAOS® and rebuild METABOLIC HARMONY so you can strive to thrive as you age—not struggle.

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.

Are you eating all the right foods, taking supplements, and still feeling tired, bloated, or stuck with stubborn weight?

You might not have a food problem… you might have a digestion problem.

In this episode of The Coach Debbie Potts Show, Debbie takes you deep inside the root cause of many "mystery" symptoms — low stomach acid (HCl) — and explains why this one simple imbalance can create a domino effect across your metabolism, hormones, energy, and brain.

You'll learn:
✅ How stomach acid actually works — and why it's the spark plug for your entire digestive system
✅ The connection between low HCl, fatigue, hormone imbalance, thyroid function, and brain fog
✅ The weird clues your body gives you (like brittle nails, reflux, or even body odor)
✅ How HCl "unlocks" essential minerals like iron, zinc, and magnesium — and what happens when it doesn't
✅ Why PPIs and antacids can make things worse long-term
✅ The fascinating nitric oxide connection for gut health, motility, and LES tone
✅ How to safely restore your stomach acid, rebuild digestion, and reignite your metabolism
✅ The step-by-step FutureYou™ Rebuild Plan to move from metabolic chaos to metabolic harmony

"Your stomach acid isn't the problem — it's the messenger. When you restore that first spark, everything downstream—your energy, hormones, and metabolism—starts working again."

00:00 – Intro: Digestion as the missing link
04:30 – What stomach acid really does
08:00 – The mineral vault: how HCl unlocks nutrients
13:00 – Weird signs of low stomach acid
17:00 – PPIs, antacids & rebound reflux
22:00 – Nitric oxide and the vagus nerve
27:00 – The FutureYou™ Rebuild Plan
35:00 – Closing: How to test, not guess

🌐 Learn more: www.DebbiePotts.net
📊 Book your PNOĒ Metabolic Test + Functional Review
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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.

Are you over 40 and feeling like your body's not responding the way it used to—despite doing "everything right"? Fatigue, stubborn weight, restless sleep, and slow recovery aren't signs of failure… they're signs of adaptation.

In this powerful deep-dive episode, Coach Debbie Potts unpacks the real root causes behind midlife metabolic slowdown—through the lens of mitochondria, detox pathways, hormones, and nervous system balance. You'll learn how to read your body's feedback, retrain your biology, and build your Future You from the inside out.

Drawing on the latest research from Dr. Robert Naviaux, Ari Whitten, and leading functional medicine labs, Debbie guides you step-by-step through:

🧭 The North-to-South Map: How brain, vagus nerve, stomach, bile, and gut alignment control your metabolism.
⚙️ Mitochondrial Intelligence: Why your "powerhouses" switch into protection mode—and how to bring them back online.
💧 Detox & Drainage Foundations: Why "drainage before detox" is non-negotiable for real cellular repair.
🥚 Bile & Choline Connection: The missing link between hormone balance, brain clarity, and fat metabolism.
🧠 The Brain–Bile–Barrier Loop: How gut toxins (LPS) affect mood, motivation, and energy.
🏋️ Muscle as Metabolic Medicine: Why strength training is your longevity drug after 40.
🌿 The WHOLESTIC Method™: 8 Elements for restoring energy, hormones, and cellular coherence.
🔬 Data-Driven Health: How PNOĒ metabolic testing, GI-MAP, DUTCH, and OAT reveal your body's "energy story."
🧩 The Future You Blueprint: A strategic framework for stress recovery, detox, mitochondrial rebuilding, and hormone optimization.

This isn't another quick fix—it's a biology reboot.
Discover how to measure, map, and master your metabolism so you can thrive, not just survive, through midlife and beyond.

🌐 Schedule your PNOĒ Metabolic Analysis & Functional Health Review in Solana Beach, CA at www.DebbiePotts.net.

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💪 The WHOLESTIC Method™ & Future You Program

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SAFETY NOTE:
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.

Your gut isn't just about digestion — it's your foundation for energy, hormones, metabolism, and longevity.

In this episode of The Coach Debbie Potts Show, Debbie sits down with William Gabe Dough — serial entrepreneur, inventor, and creator of Good Bru, a science-backed prebiotic + probiotic blend that helps you rebuild from the inside out.

Gabe shares his personal story of overcoming years of reflux and fatigue, and how restoring gut balance inspired him to develop a simple, coffee-friendly, keto-approved formula combining organic inulin + BC30 Bacillus coagulans — a spore-forming probiotic that actually survives hot drinks.

Together they explore:
🌿 Why gut health shapes your hormones, brain, and metabolism
🧫 How spore-based probiotics support long-term healing
🔥 The power of butyrate & SCFAs for gut and immune repair
☕ Why Good Bru delivers better quality at a better price
🙏 How faith and gratitude play a role in recovery

If you're tired of bloating, reflux, or "doing everything right but still not feeling right," this episode will help you understand how gut health drives your Future You.

💻 Learn more & order Good Bru: www.goodbru.com
💰 Use code COACHDEBBIEPOTTS to save on your order!
🎥 Watch Gabe on Nino's Corner: https://youtu.be/OsG08VJn6Kc
🌐 Programs & metabolic testing with Debbie: www.debbiepotts.net

Disclaimer:
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.

In this solo deep-dive episode, I take you behind the scenes of my own functional lab investigation and show you exactly how I build a FutureYou Blueprint™ — using myself as the case study.

I walk through my GI MAP, blood chemistry, mitochondrial test (mescreen™), genetic reports (DNA Company, StrateGene, WildHealth Clarity), and symptoms — and explain how they all fit together to reveal hidden root causes behind power loss, slower recovery, dry skin, hormone challenges, mitochondrial dysfunction, and midlife metabolic resistance.

You'll learn how gut health, bile flow, LPS/endotoxemia, genetics, mitochondrial oxidation, stress responses, and nutrient absorption all shape your metabolism and energy… and how I use The WHOLESTIC Method™ to rebuild from the inside out through a phased, personalized plan.

If you're struggling with fatigue, poor recovery, gut issues, hormone imbalances, or feeling stuck doing "all the right things," this episode will show you how to start uncovering your own root causes — and build your FutureYou Blueprint™.

👉 Schedule your Discovery Call:
https://DebbiePottsCoaching.as.me/discovermore

👉 Learn more:
www.DebbiePotts.net