Tina Anderson’s journey into the world of health had a unique start and some unusual turns. She began her career as a trial lawyer who specialized in settling cases by bringing both sides together, a personal passion of hers.
Once her second child arrived, Tina left that high-stress job behind so she could focus on her family. Luckily, she was still able to use her considerable legal skills to point her career in a new direction as the in-house counsel for a family pharmaceutical company. But what Tina saw there made her change direction again. Frustrated by the many cases of abuse in the pharmaceutical industry, Tina turned toward the field of natural health and found her life’s work. She channeled her energy into learning all she could about disease prevention and good health maintenance. That led her to discover the importance of gut health and how connected and crucial it is for overall health and wellness.
To share her discovery with the world, Tina along with her husband created a unique supplement that contains the superior probiotic strains of renowned researcher Dr. Simon Cutting. By promoting gut health and probiotics, Tina shares her passion for wellness, helping others live their best physical and emotional lives.
Show Notes:
ABOUT TINA
I started out as a trial attorney
I was in medication for many years and after the crazy hours I work, I went into the pharmaceutical industry, and I was able to stay home a little bit more with my children at that time, and it was great
I was in the pharmaceutical industry with my husband, and after being in the pharmaceutical industry for many years, we saw a lot of abuses that were going on
We saw it with our own family members, the overprescribing of drugs
My job now is to go to every cardiologist in this hospital system and tell them to lower the number that they recommend in prescribing this medication for
We just realized that we were not doing our life’s work and we weren’t doing something that was the way we live our lives
We were very natural people, we really focused on a more holistic lifestyle
We just said that we should do our life’s work
One day, we were offered to license a product from London University together with Dr. Simon
From there, thrive was born and it has been incredible
2014 was we launched the product
WHAT PUT YOU INTO THAT HOLISTIC SPACE
I didn’t have any gut issues and neither did my husband or my children
We started learning about the gut and learned about the importance of it
We just knew that what people were doing to take care of their gut wasn’t really effective based on this new science
We now know that the gut is so much more than just digestive issue
The gut is responsible for every aspect of our overall health
Pharma is so focused on treatment and we wanted to focus on prevention
We wanted to focus on what we can bring to people that could help them live a happier, healthier, longer and meaningful life as they age
You thing that you have constant bloating or diarrhea or constipation, those types of things – people kind of associate that with gut issues
Most people don’t think about that there’s this huge gut-brain connection
There is this communication called the vagus nerve, it’s the biggest communication between your gut and brain
There’s this say, “trust your gut” and those are real things because there’s this huge communication going on
If people are thinking that they have anxiety, depression, Alzheimer’s or dementia, all of those things are all stemming from the gut
Pretty much all disease like cancer, dementia, Alzheimer’s, autoimmune disease, stems from your gut
All of these types these diseases are stemming from your gut
Make sure you’re getting an adequate amount of sleep
We should not underestimate sleep
Drink lots of water
Taking a high-quality probiotic is key
If you are inflammation going on in your gut, you’re not absorbing nutrients
Just to be defined as a probiotic, it needs to arrive alive
It doesn’t need to be alive in the refrigerator, that’s not necessary and that’s such a myth out there with probiotics
It’s not until they hit the intestines that they become alive
The probiotic is good for rebalancing and reconditioning your gut
Everything we do is based on a study and science
We recommend taking the probiotic with food
We have also prebiotics, one of the problems people have with prebiotics is they fee bacteria and they just don’t know how to distinguish good or bad bacteria
This prebiotics that we have are only feeding the beneficial bacteria in the gut
We have this IgG to find toxins in your body to safely remove there in your body
We have our Vitamin K2-7 product is not a gut supplement, but it is for removing calcium from the arteries and move it into the bones
This a very essential nutrient and can help you age stronger
If you’re taking vitamin D you should be taking vitamin K2
The probiotic, you take with food
The prebiotic, you can take with food and you can also not
The K2-&, you take it with food and food should be high in fat
The IgG, you take with food
The LPS toxins are toxins that are found in their gut
They aren’t really a problem until they go to the bloodstreams, and that’s what causes an inflammatory response in our immune system
Gluten is problematic by many people and we want to avoid gluten as much as possible