Designed To Heal Podcast: Your Body's Amazing Healing Power · Achieve Wellness

How To Listen To Your Body (ft. Dr. Brook Sheehan)

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Dr. Ben Rall says the body creates millions to billions of living cells daily without human intervention.

1. Designed To Heal Podcast: "How To Listen To Your Body" focuses on Dr. Brooke Sheehan's approach to bodily signals and healing. 2. Ben Rall hosts the episode, and Brooke Sheehan joins as a chiropractor and the creator of Body OS. 3. The episode asks what it means to listen to the body without turning health into fear or obsession. 4. Ben opens by saying humans have never created one living cell, while the body makes cells, hormones, and detox chemicals "24-7 on the clock." 5. Brooke says people often see their bodies as adversarial, while God designed them with "so much wisdom." 6. Brooke warns that wellness culture can swing from neglect to "idolization of health and wellness," including cold plunges and constant protocols. 7. Ben says stewardship of the body can become an idol when it takes the place of other priorities. 8. Ben describes a conversation with a middle-aged woman who had worn an IUD for 15 years and did not know how to read her own cycle. 9. Brooke says listening to the body is a practiced skill, like learning to heed the voice of the Holy Spirit. 10. Brooke gives the example of a sneeze without watery eyes or a drippy nose as a sign that the immune system is "kicking into gear." 11. She says that signal should lead to more water, more rest, and less sugar for the next two days. 12. Ben adds that inflammation and swelling can be the body saying to stop loading weight on an ankle or joint. 13. Brooke says digestive symptoms like bloating, constipation, and diarrhea can reflect travel, stress, or eating too little. 14. She says dry skin is not always a lotion issue and can point to nervous system stress and adrenal strain. 15. Ben and Brooke both say that many people want a supplement or pill when the body may be asking for rest. 16. Brooke argues that functional medicine can become "more expensive conventional medicine" when testing leads to 50 supplements. 17. She says she has seen patients do better on less supplementation after labs and careful interpretation. 18. The conversation stays conversational and pastoral, with Ben pushing examples and Brooke answering in a direct teaching style. 19. People interested in chiropractic, biblical health language, and practical symptom reading would likely enjoy this episode. 20. People wanting a rapid protocol, dense lab talk, or drug-focused advice may skip it.

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A faith-forward case for listening to the body before trying to override it.

This episode treats the body less like a machine to manage and more like something worth listening to. It lingers on self-correction, digestive cues, and the idea that fear eases once the body is no longer assumed to be working against you.

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