In this episode of the Health Coach Show, Sharon Curtain, dietitian and accredited health coach is joined by Liv Brown, health coach and longevity and optimisation program lead at Melbourne Functional Medicine. Liv is going to be sharing her insights into the role that health data plays for clients, and how health coaches can use this data within their scope of practice.

In this episode, we discuss:

1. What is health data?

   
   



2. What is objective vs subjective data?

   
   



3. How data motivates some people, and plays a role for monitoring progress

   
   



4. How data may create anxiety in some people and the role of the coach may also be creating space to support the client to manage the emotional impact of results or data that are unexpected.

   
   



5. How health coaches can use data to generate awareness through use of tracking, food/mood diaries, and therefore generate insights into patterns, triggers etc)

   
   

With so much data at our fingertips, and as we work with other health professionals who are doing diagnostic testing it is essential that health coaches understand what is inside scope and what is outside their scope. 

1. A coach should not interpret results -  we help with the implementation 

   
   



2. A coach should not provide advice regarding the results

   
   



3. A coach should not make any commentary about values or information on results

   
   

Data can enhance Personal Health Literacy- our ability to listening to our body (symptoms) and then decide what changes we can make in response to this insight. 

Read more about data, lab testing and the role of a coach in this fantastic article "How lab testing can enhance the client coaching experience" written by Liv and fellow coach, Bee

Learn more about MFM programs: https://mfm.au/optimise-bridge