Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan M Hunter, Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about why we need rituals and routines, the Power of Team when creating habits, and the positive benefits of a healthy lifestyle for your gut health. Winning Strategies: When creating a new lifestyle habit, always set your intention and use it as motivation when you feel resistance to change. Track your progress and celebrate your small wins. ...
Apr 12, 2024•24 min
Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan M Hunter, Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about how daily activity is great for your gut health, and how to be active in your daily life without traditionally “exercising”. Winning Strategies: All movement is good movement and daily movement has been shown to increase the diversity of microbiota in our gut, improve the gut lining, reduce inflammation and increase immune function. Move...
Apr 05, 2024•23 min
Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan M Hunter, Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about how stress negatively impacts the microbiome, how to manage emotional eating when you feel stressed, and the importance of relationships to reduce stress. Winning Strategies: High stress levels, due to the bi-directional gut-brain axis connection, reduce biodiversity in the microbiome and high cortisol hormone levels can cause the gut li...
Mar 29, 2024•21 min
Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan M Hunter, Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about the impact of sleep on the microbiome and how to practice good sleep hygiene to ensure your body can rest and recover at night. Winning Strategies: Adults should aim to sleep 7-9 hours per night. Less sleep negatively impacts the biodiversity of our microbiome, affects the gut lining, and causes inflammation and illness as a result. Slee...
Mar 22, 2024•30 min
Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan M Hunter, Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about the effects of our environment on our gut microbiome. Winning Strategies: Antibacterial soaps and cleaning products can negatively impact our gut microbiome. Avoid the ingredient triclosan and opt for more natural products such as vinegar and baking soda. Studies suggest that owning a pet is beneficial for our gut microbiome because we a...
Mar 15, 2024•13 min
Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan M Hunter, Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about the difference between food allergies and food sensitivities, how to know if an elimination diet is right for you, plus a Game Plan to win your elimination diet. Winning Strategies: The elimination diet has two phases. The first phase, elimination, is a ten-day minimum ‘season’ where you eliminate all foods that could be causing you prob...
Mar 08, 2024•34 min
Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan M Hunter, Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about pantry essentials, how to read nutrition labels and how to win your grocery store visits. Winning Strategies: Reduce processed foods and eat a whole foods, plant-focused diet to get natural fiber and prebiotics that are essential for a healthy microbiome. Look for nutrition labels without added sugar and only have a limited number of ing...
Feb 24, 2024•29 min
Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan M Hunter, Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about Winning Strategies: Most of our serotonin is created in our gut so our gut health directly impacts our mood and happiness levels, as well as our immune and digestion support. Probiotics help reintroduce good bacteria into the gut and are found in fermented foods or supplements. Look for a probiotic that has strain diversity, high CFUs, c...
Feb 16, 2024•21 min
10 Talks CONVERSAT10N – 10 Ways 2 Win Gut HealthEpisode 2: Leaky Gut and Common Gut Concerns Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan M Hunter, Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about symptoms and causes of Leaky Gut syndrome and other common gut concerns, plus new thinking and new recipes to own your gut health. Winning Strategies: Reflect on the symptoms of Leaky Gut and identify what could be the possible causes in your lif...
Feb 09, 2024•36 min
Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan M Hunter, Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about signs and symptoms of poor gut health, what contributes to a healthy gut, and how we can feel empowered to win our health. Winning Strategies: The key factor for gut health is our diet. Whole foods contribute good bacteria whereas the Standard American Diet of cheap fat and sugar disturbs the delicate bacterial ecosystem in our gut. Poor...
Feb 02, 2024•36 min
Join Carlette Patterson, CEO & Co-founder of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Eroni Clarke, former international rugby player for the New Zealand All Blacks, to learn about the life lessons in the traditional Maōri Haka dance including unity, the power of team and asking for help. Winning Strategies: 1) Have the courage to be vulnerable and ask for help from your community. Always have the right people around you and know you can reach out to them. 2) When you care about something, you will o...
Jan 26, 2024•52 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Kerry Graham, LPGA Golf Instructor and Author of The Power of Mental Golf, to learn about the power of single focus and how to quiet the anxiety, or the “electrical storm” in our minds. Winning Strategies: When we use a cue we like and we own it, it shuts down the “electrical storm” in our minds and allows the brain to give the correct messages to our body for peak performance in sport or life. The nat...
Jan 19, 2024•23 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Kerry Graham, LPGA golf instructor and author of The Power of Mental Golf, to learn about how golfers find “The Zone” and manage overthinking. Winning Strategies: Focus on slowing down and getting mentally quiet by using cues in golf and in life. Take a step back and a reset if you find your mind is moving too fast. Our brain creates new myelin soft tissue to help repeated patterns become automatic. We...
Jan 12, 2024•21 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Zandara Kennedy, Licensed and Professional Stunt Driver, to hear about accepting our truth, faith as the absence of doubt, and how courage overcomes the fear of rejection. Winning Strategies: Zandara learned that leading with vulnerability is a source of connection to other people because they might see a piece of themselves in your story, and often they will be drawn towards you for fully showing up a...
Jan 06, 2024•49 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan Hunter, Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to Join the Challenge and practice these 10 Ways 2 Win your Wellbeing including identifying your stressors and reconnecting with your heart tribe. Winning Strategies: Create your 10 Life by incorporating awareness into your life and ‘statting up’ how you feel as you challenge yourself to make changes to your sleep routine, diet...
Dec 29, 2023•48 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan Hunter, Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about the neural link between gut health and mental health, and how sleep, stress and exercise can affect your gut microbiome. Winning Strategies: Our gut microbiome loves fiber and plant-rich diets because the organisms in the gut are working together to keep a delicate balance. A Standard American Diet of cheap fat a...
Dec 22, 2023•35 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan Hunter, Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about performance barriers when trying to make a change, and how we can train our brain to create a new habit. Winning Strategies: Change comes with resistance. When we start to feel uncomfortable about a new change we have to remember our why. When we get into a negative automation loop, we can ask ourselves: “Is this...
Dec 15, 2023•24 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan Hunter, Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about the dangers of losing muscle, how to incorporate ‘lifestyle exercise’, and if you really need 10,000 steps per day. Winning Strategies: Create a routine of muscle-building activities two to three times per week, on non-consecutive days, and incorporate daily balance and stability exercises, and daily ‘lifestyle e...
Dec 08, 2023•30 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan Hunter, Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician, to learn about how to reduce cardiovascular risk, change your cravings, and the way to lose weight without counting calories. Winning Strategies: Using the MyPlate method, half your plate should be fruits and vegetables, while one remaining quarter should be lean protein and the last quarter should be whole grains. Choose high ...
Dec 01, 2023•20 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan Hunter, Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician to learn about raising our LeadershipQ, the effects of the Standard American Diet, and why we should “eat the rainbow”. Winning Strategies: Look for convenient but healthy foods, like frozen fruit, and do batch cooking and meal prep to save time throughout the week. Dr. Hunter sets a goal with her patients to “eat the rainbow” b...
Nov 24, 2023•23 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan Hunter, Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician to learn about raising our Wellbeing Q including healthy sleep hygiene, new thinking about alcohol consumption, and the Power of Connection. Winning Strategies: New data suggests that there may not be a healthy level of alcohol consumption due to its impacts on the heart. Practice new thinking and ask yourself: “What does having...
Nov 17, 2023•34 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Chief Wellbeing Officer® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, and Dr. Joan Hunter, Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine Board Certified Physician to learn about the importance of lifestyle medicine, how to raise our Wellbeing Q, and keys for stress management. Winning Strategies: Lifestyle Medicine is focused on whole person wellness and healthy behavioral changes that can positively impact a patient’s health for a lifetime. Stress management includes recognizing differen...
Nov 10, 2023•32 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Head Sports Life Coach® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, Mark R. Allen, M.D. and Peak Performance Psychiatry, LLC, and Chris McLaughlin, MSW, LCSW and NASW Maine Executive Director Inspired Consulting Group, LLC, to hear about how to create a safe sport environment within your role and winning strategies for being an authentic ally. A special thank you to Chris for being with us today; our hearts are with Maine as we continue to send love and support to everyone ...
Nov 04, 2023•38 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Head Sports Life Coach® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures®, Mark R. Allen, M.D. and Peak Performance Psychiatry, LLC, and Chris McLaughlin, MSW, LCSW and NASW Maine Executive Director Inspired Consulting Group, LLC, to learn about authentic allyship within athletic environments and how to be a CHAMP10N in supporting others being their authentic selves. Winning Strategies: Begin by educating yourself and others. Understand where bias and stereotypes originate and era...
Oct 06, 2023•39 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Head Sports Life Coach® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures® and Caio De Souza, Sports Nutrition Coach to learn about the winning strategies and performance barriers during the process of weight loss or weight gain. Winning Strategies: Weight gain depends on a calorie surplus, whereas weight loss depends on a calorie deficit. Weight loss should not be a goal during competition season due to the amount of energy availability (EA) your body needs to perform basic functi...
Sep 29, 2023•19 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Head Sports Life Coach® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures® and Caio De Souza, Sports Nutrition Coach to learn about the importance of energy availability and how to fuel for prolonged performance before, during and after strenuous training. Winning Strategies: Energy availability is the amount of energy that remains available to sustain your body’s normal functions, excluding (subtracting) the energy you spent during high intensity exercise. The nutritional choices ...
Sep 22, 2023•18 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Head Sports Life Coach® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures® and Caio De Souza, Sports Nutritionist and Health Coach to learn about the symptoms of dehydration, when athletes should drink water and the best tips for hydration. Winning Strategies: The symptoms of dehydration include dizziness, brain fog, exhaustion, and the best way to check your level of hydration is by observing your urine color. The correct amount of water depends on the person’s sweat rate plus env...
Sep 15, 2023•17 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Head Sports Life Coach® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures® and Caio De Souza, Sports Nutritionist and Health Coach to learn about fueling for peak performance, why the timing of your nutrition matters, and how to build a balanced meal. Winning Strategies: Macronutrients – carbohydrates, fats, and proteins – are essential for maintaining levels of energy for peak performance and optimal recovery. Three to five hours before training athletes should eat large, well-bal...
Sep 08, 2023•29 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Head Sports Life Coach® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures® and Caio De Souza, Sports Nutritionist and Health Coach to learn about how to figure out what foods or diets work best for you, being conscious and aware of your body’s messages, and how to trust the nutrition process. Winning Strategies: Bio individuality is all about being able to tune into our bodies and recognize how they are trying to speak to us. Listen to those signs and Watch Your Film to ask yoursel...
Sep 01, 2023•17 min
Join Carlette Patterson, Head Sports Life Coach® & CEO of Patterson Sports Ventures® and Caio De Souza, Sports Nutritionist and Health Coach to learn about supplements, nutrition for young athletes, the connection between food and mood, and if fasting is right for you. Winning Strategies: Take care of your gut. Gut health affects mood because 70% of the immune system is affected by the gut biome. When the bad bacteria in our gut takes over the good bacteria, called dysbiosis , it puts our bo...
Aug 18, 2023•18 min
