Chanci Dawn Coaching

Intuitive eating assumes your internal cues are clear, steady, and reliable.

But what if hunger, cravings, mood, and focus are being influenced by hormones and neurotransmitters that are out of balance?

That’s where things get complicated.

Dopamine affects motivation and reward.
Estrogen influences appetite and blood sugar.
Cortisol shifts hunger and food-seeking under stress.
Insulin resistance changes how your body responds to meals.

When these systems are off, intuition isn’t broken ~ it’s being overridden.

Genetics helps us understand the biology behind those signals so they can be supported, not ignored or judged.

When the chemistry is supported, intuitive eating becomes far more intuitive!

This isn’t about rejecting intuitive eating.
It’s about creating the conditions where it actually works.

And this matters to me because I was an intuitive eating coach.

I still believe deeply in intuitive eating.
What I understand now is that intuition is clearest when the body feels supported, steady, and safe.

We regulate first.
We support biology first.

And then we listen.

When the body is regulated, intuitive eating isn’t harder ~ it’s more powerful.

Turmeric is often praised as a powerful anti-inflammatory. But for some people, it does absolutely nothing - or can actually lead to more inflammation.

Genetics explains why.

Turmeric slows Phase 1 detox.

That can be helpful if your Phase 1 is too fast and creating excess inflammatory byproducts.

But if your Phase 1 detox is already slow, adding turmeric can make things worse.

Instead of collecting inflammation efficiently, everything backs up.

Here’s the simplest way to think about it:
Phase 1 is the garbage truck.
Phase 2 is taking the garbage to the dump.

If your garbage trucks are already slow, adding more things that slow them down means inflammation never gets fully collected or removed. It just stays circulating.
Some people need support to slow detox down.
Others need support to speed it up.

There is no universal answer.
Genetics helps us figure out how your detox pathways actually work so we can support inflammation properly, not blindly.

If supplements haven’t worked the way you expected, it’s not a failure. It’s a sign you need better information.

📌 Save this before adding another supplement
📥 Link in bio to book your free Meet & Greet and learn how your detox pathways are wired

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Trends I’m Not Falling For:
(And why you shouldn’t either, if you care about real, personalized health.)

1. 1g protein per 1 lb of body weight
There’s no data to support this as a blanket rule. Eating more protein than your genes require can actually drive inflammation, not muscle.

2. Creatine is a miracle supplement
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Up to 30% of people (based on genetics) don’t tolerate creatine well and may experience adverse effects.

3. Boosting mTOR pathways
Eating constantly, BCAAs, and weightlifting can boost mTOR—but chronically stimulating this pathway shuts down sirtuins, your most powerful longevity genes.

4. Cold plunging for everyone
For those with a fragile nervous system, cold plunging can do more harm than good - keeping your body stuck in fight-or-flight instead of healing.

5. HRT without genetic testing
Throwing hormones at symptoms without knowing how your body methylates, detoxes, or stores estrogen and progesterone is risky. It’s not about avoiding HRT - it’s about supporting your body to process it properly.

You deserve health advice that fits your blueprint -
not someone else’s trend.

I used to feel so much frustration and shame for being too “sensitive”.

Even as a young child I can remember wanting to be different - to feel different and to not be so bothered by seemingly mundane things.

When I was 45 I finally learned my genetics.

For 45 years, I felt broken until I discovered that I was actually created to feel more stress, to clear my stress hormones out more slowly than most and that my nervous system feels heightened and in fight or flight long after the stressor is over.

With this new understanding came so much compassion.

Now I don’t feel weak at all. I feel like a little sweetheart, who needs a lot of tenderness and self-love.

For me lots of time alone is not-negotiable.

My genetically determined supplements are non-negotiable.

Morning yoga, long showers, decaf and sitting at the beach … all non-negotiable.

before integrative genetics regulating my nervous system felt like an uphill battle.

Now I have a blueprint to guide my way.

There’s been so many beautiful benefits for myself and my clients when we learned how to work with our genetics… but I tell you, for most of us, understanding our stress coding is THE most profound gift in it all!

Stress can turn on 90% of our genes to their adverse position - knowing how to support this shifts it all!

If you’re ready to feel better I’d love to help you.

It starts with a 15min meet and greet - you can book this in my bio.

Big hugs ❤️
C