The Chronically Healthy Author Platform

Chronic health issues can feel overwhelming, but they don’t have to define your life. Host Juliet Clark welcomes Andrew Nam, co-founder of Chronically Healthy Life, to discuss how he transformed his health after a life-altering accident. Andy dives into the power of functional nutrition, biohacking, and reducing toxins to repair the body and live a thriving, vibrant life. From practical tips to inspiring insights, this episode is packed with tools to help you take control of your health and unlock your potential for longevity and vitality. Whether you’re seeking better energy, reduced inflammation, or a deeper understanding of holistic healing, this conversation offers something for everyone.

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The Chronically Healthy Author Platform

Welcome to Promote Profit Publish. I’m your host, Juliet Clark, and we’re going to talk about a platform building with one of our platform-building clients. Before we get started, I want to remind you to go over to BAMagTraining.com. Our trainer for the month of March is Anthony Jones, and he’s a LinkedIn expert. If you’ve been thinking about how to get more conversion on LinkedIn, how to spiff up your profile, this is the event for you. If you go over to BAMagTraining.com, you can get the link, you can sign up, you can get all the details over there.

I highly encourage you to sign up and do it. Get all the training you can, be that constant learner. Our guest is Andy Nam, and Andy is a leading expert in reversing chronic health conditions and optimizing longevity. As a life coach specializing in functional nutrition and longevity biohacking, he is a best-selling author and a dynamic international speaker. Andy is dedicated to helping others take control of their life, thrive as they age, and unlock the secrets to living longer while looking and feeling younger. His journey came after a life-altering accident, which he survived in his teens, that led to decades of chronic pain.

Andy took his health into his own hands through biohacking, functional nutrition, and cutting-edge stem cell activation, and he healed his body and unlocked the secrets to thriving as he aged. As the co-founder of the Chronically Healthy Lifestyle, along with his wife, Minna Wong, Andy has made it his life’s mission to inspire others to reduce inflammation, repair their bodies, and live longer, healthier, and more fulfilling lives. I think you’ll find this interview really interesting because we’re going to go along the progression of how Andy started building his platform, and his book is not even ready yet. He’s still in the process of writing it, so he’s gathering people as he’s going along. So stay tuned for Andy. Andy, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Juliet. I’m honored to be part of your show.

Thank you. You didn’t have to say that. Tell us, how did you get into this biohacking? Tell us, what was your journey?

Journey To A Chronically Healthy Lifestyle

The journey started from my own journey. When I was in my teens, in my graduating year of high school, I got into this really bad car accident, which basically fractured my neck, bent my back, and caused a lot of internal injuries, dislocated a lot of joints. From 18 to the next 20 years, I’ve been on various types of pain medication, all these specialists and doctors, and stuff like that.

Over the years, things just wasn’t improving. It was managing everything, but it came to the point that it was getting hard to get out of bed. It was getting hard to concentrate, lots of brain fog, lots of gut dysfunction. We talk about IBS. I couldn’t hold anything in. You eat something, and the next thing you know, ten minutes later, you’re in the restroom. It was very inconvenient to go out to eat. If you know me and my wife, we’re foodies. We love eating out.

That was a major inconvenience. It got to the point where I couldn’t sit or stand for more than ten minutes at a time. That’s when I started asking my specialist. I was 43 at the time. I was like, what’s it going to look like in the next 10, 15, 20 years? Because I married my high school sweetheart. We have this whole thing planned out. We’re going to retire and travel the world. Here I am, I can’t sit or stand for more than ten minutes at a time. That’s going to be a problem traveling around the world.

Breaking Free From Big Pharma To Live Chronically Healthy

The worst, he said, it could only get worse. We can only manage your symptoms. It’s not going to get better. At that point, I said, that’s it. I’m done. There’s got to be other ways. I read all these miracle stories of people healing themselves or following other people that guided them on a dream for healing. That’s when I went from loving fast life. I used to love fast cars.

I dove everything into holistic health. That was literally eleven years ago. From there, I started studying supplementation and then dove into what causes inflammation, all the toxins in our environment, and all the toxic stuff that’s coming in our minds, and everything that’s causing inflammation, which was causing all these problems. Mainly, what I realized was all these drugs that were on, my health was being governed by big pharma, as opposed to me controlling, they were controlling my health. They were able to give me enough to get by each day, but not enough to live life. Does that make sense?

That totally makes sense. This was a journey to thrive. It’s so funny because I know you and I have talked many times because you’ve taken a couple of my classes. I’m very holistic. My daughter is very pregnant. A couple of weeks ago, I was trying to help her with her back. It was yoga. She’s like, “I could be dying, and you’d shoot me a yoga pose.” I think that’s part of it too, that we grew up in a time where our parents didn’t run up to the doctor. It was always, “I had a high fever, take a hot bath.” Everything was organic. I tend to go in that direction as well. You got into this, you started working with inflammation, you healed yourself, and then you started helping others along the same track.

It got to the point I was like sharing free tips. One of my really good friends said, “If you’re giving this all free, why don’t you do this as a business?” Because I never looked at it as doing it as a business. That’s okay, we need business, you need credibility. I got my certified functional nutrition certification. I got certification as a personal trainer. That was dangerous because a lot of people, and not dishing any personal trainers out there but basically, I wanted to learn what they teach about nutrition. It’s funny, because you mentioned back in the day. You’re a few years older than me.

Revealing The Hidden Toxins In Food And Their Impact On Health

Back in the day, like you said, everything was organic. What personal trainers tell you to eat back in the day, probably was healthy. Nowadays, what you eat, if they say, you need to eat this protein, or you need to eat this many servings of vegetable, guess what, now you’re eating servings of chemicals. Even though you think you’re eating healthy, you’re not. I think that’s where the biggest problem is. Like I have clients saying, “I think I’m going vegan and carnivore.” It’s all great if it’s clean. Vegan is the biggest problem. Vegan, you think about for vegetables, there are so much chemicals in that. Fertilizers, herbicides, and they’re sprayed on them. Here you are eating kale, which is obviously one of the most healthy things on the planet. It is one of the most toxic things on the planet because it’s so chemical-laden.

One of the funny things about that, my first degree is in ornamental horticulture. Even back when I was in school in the early 80s, the dilemma was, how do we get people to buy pesticide- and herbicide-free food? A lot of times, it’s not perfect like what’s in the store. That’s been a dilemma as far back as I can remember. I think what’s worse is I noticed now my tomatoes last too long. They’re putting something in it that is, I would imagine, inhibiting the ethanol, which is what? Is it ethanol?

I don’t know why that doesn’t sound right. Basically, there are gases as it decomposes that it gives off. I’m imagining that it stifles that. How good is that for your body, that that thing is in there to not break that down? I think there’s even stuff in our fruit, and I don’t eat processed foods at all. You’re reliant on that fresh fruit, meat, all that that’s been pesticide.

It’s getting very hard to determine what is good and what isn’t. I love what you said, like back in the day, you’re trying to encourage people to eat more of the organic stuff. If you look at more of the farmer-grown stuff, they’re all different sizes. They’re ugly. They’re not shiny. There’s a reason they’re like that. That’s what natural should look like. When you go to the supermarket and an apple is shiny like the apple from Snow White, you shouldn’t be eating that because apples on a tree growing naturally should not be reflecting your reflection in the apple.

You’re talking about the coatings. I can understand from a grocery standpoint, they want more shelf life because it’s all about money. But the latest coating, I don’t know if you’re familiar with, is called Appeal. What’s scary is Appeal is normally sprayed on non-organic, but now they actually have organic Appeal also. Here you are buying organic fruits and vegetables, and they’re spraying on it. What it does is it keeps the outside looking like it’s fresh, but it’s literally rotten from the inside out. You can’t even tell when something goes bad.

I’ve had that happen a couple of times where I’ve cut into something, and it’s like, “This looked really good on the outside.” I do this infused water every day. I’ve noticed it on oranges, where the outside of the orange will look good. I’ll cut in, and there’s one side that doesn’t look good.

Sometimes for citrus, something that happened to me and Minna not too long ago, we bought some lemons, organic, from Whole Foods. Hopefully, I don’t get in trouble by saying Whole Foods. Anyways, it came from Whole Foods. We’re thinking Whole Foods and fully organic. They looked great. Then she was slicing it, and it got so hard, like the outside looked great, but it was so hard. The knife slipped, and she cut her finger. But inside, it was completely dried out.

On the outside, it looked like it was good. These are things that you have to worry like, what’s keeping it looking fresh? How safe is it? Back in the day when we were growing up, when the apple started rotting, whatever, you threw it away. If it looked bad on the outside, it was obviously not good on the inside. But now, we can’t tell that anymore. That’s the biggest problem when I talk about, we need to be aware of what we’re putting in our bodies.

In the University of Montana, somebody sent me a study on these new foods, like the Bill Gates. They had done deep-dive scientific stuff on them and found that they’re worse for you than processed foods. Basically, you’re putting artificial chemicals in your body, which cracks me up because he’s always like, “My Impossible Burger, once you get used to the chemical taste, you’ll love it.”

It’s so funny because I cringe every time someone talks about the Impossible Burger because it’s obviously fully vegan, good protein. I tell people, if you cannot replicate this at home, it’s not real. They make it look like when you’re cooking it, they claim it’s beet juice coming out and that’s how it bleeds and everything. All you are eating is chemicals, and a lot of these chemicals are petroleum-based. It’s like, are you drinking oil from your car or gasoline from your car? That’s essentially what you’re eating when you’re eating all these things that are labeled as healthy, vegan, all these things. It’s like all this greenwashing is what’s getting scary as to eating real food again, right?

How The Chronically Healthy Show Began And Its Mission

Yeah, it definitely isn’t. I read Callie Mean’s book. I just switched from Pam to Ghee because, as I recall in the book, it says something about you’re sprinkling your food with lighter fluid, basically. I just switched. You took all of this, and you made it into a business, and then you have a very healthy show. Talk about that. How did you get it started? What is it? Where can people find it?

For the longest time, my wife and I, we call ourselves the Foolish Couple. We still call ourselves the Foolish Couple. We used to have our website called Fulco Academy and everything. A lot of people didn’t understand what we did. Fulco was a short stand-in for Foolish Couple. We’re saying we need to get people to understand what our message was. We’re just brainstorming with some friends. With Christy, she said, “What do you really want to pass on?” I said, “We want to put a twist on it because everything that we look at, I think enjoying life is very important. You have joy in your life.” Like I said, me and my wife, we’re a little bit foolish.

We always do something that everyone else is not doing. We came up with a show called Chronically Healthy Life. Usually, when people hear chronic, anything chronic is a bad thing. We said, we’re going to put a spin on this. We’re going to say Chronically Healthy, this is like extremely healthy beyond means. That’s where the whole idea of the show came about. My struggle in these last eleven years is I find that I can help a lot of strangers, strangers will come up to me and tell me this, tell me that, but I cannot help close friends and family. They never listen to me. They just never listen to me either.

That’s really where the whole vision of Chronically Healthy Life came in. I’m going to give some tips, but we’re going to interview people who will teach you how to live healthier. Sometimes, a lot of times, it may be the same thing that we’ve been saying for the last eleven years, but when it comes from a different specialist, people get that aha moment. I’m really hoping that we can help a lot of people’s families and friends get the aha moment coming from someone else because that’s what we struggled with, and that’s what we’re hearing. A lot of people say, “Wow, I say this all the time, but when you say it, it’s true.”

That’s where the whole idea of Chronically Healthy Life came in. In our mind, when we’re talking about Chronically Healthy Life, a lot of people think it’s just about eating and exercise, but there’s so much more. Your business comes into it, your health, your finances, your mindset. Everything that you’re exposed to, the people you’re exposed to, the environment you are exposed to. All our specialists are not just about food and exercise. We’ve got people teaching what people call woo woo, which has been proven to help a lot now because that is in that holistic space.

A lot of people really need that because their minds are in such a frenetic state. They don’t know what to think anymore. All they have is all these negative thoughts. I said in the very beginning, our bodies are so toxic. That starts with our brain, too. If your brain is toxic, your body becomes toxic. Even when you’re having all these negative thoughts, you’re literally driving inflammation in your body.

You took that show, and we started working together, and you had already built a pretty big show, big audience. You have this other show. This is where I love it, you guys, because listen to what he did, he’s now generating revenue to cover the other show and building even bigger audiences. Tell us about Chronically Healthy Lifestyles every Friday, but then you took that other show and you allowed other people to run it. Tell me about that.

This is a brainstorm. I have to give you credit, Juliet, because that was the brainstorm that you helped me with. We’ve been struggling to figure out how we can have a bigger impact on people. Our first show, we did it for two years, coming into a third year. We know who our niches are, our followers, and stuff like that.

The Chronic Health Collective: Expanding The Chronically Healthy Community

We interviewed so many specialists over the last two years that we found out there are other specialists here that we really connect to. I think it’s really important, the group of people you hang out with, because you want to be around people that have a similar mindset, similar values. We came up with the idea of having twelve other specialists, and we came up with what’s called the Chronic Health Collective.

Now, we’ve got twelve other specialists in their field. Each week, we’re cycling through them as a specialist, teaching their specialty to help all our audience out there. Coming together, everyone is almost like, I don’t want to say time-sharing, but everyone shares a little bit. At least it’s paying for the show monthly. We’re putting together a monthly magazine and everything. Our main thing is, we’re hoping to generate enough momentum where we can start doing virtual summits and then live summits all around the world.

That is amazing. Some of the people you have, I know Samantha Kua, who is really fabulous. If you can’t drag your spouse or the other half to come into counseling, go yourself and work through some of your problems, which I love because if you make yourself better, your marriage is either going to work or not.

For sure. We love Samantha to death. She was one of the first that we got for the show because she was a little bit like us. She’s quirky, and I hope that she doesn’t mind that we’re calling her quirky. She is out of the box because if you hear a lot of counselor relationships, counselors always say, “You need to be both there. You need to face whatever your challenges are.”

When we had an interview, “No, we only need one of you.” I was like, “Only one of you? How does that work?” What she’s teaching is mind-blowing. I was like, people need to understand this because it does start with one person. You have to do the work. From her, you start meeting some of our other friends and quite a few of our speakers. They are very different. They are all specialists in their space, but they have their own little twist, a little quirkiness in it. That’s why we love them so much.

I was going to say, Amanda does Theta Healing. Samantha has a counseling degree. She runs that way. There’s a lot of mental as well as physical in there. It’s funny, one of my clients just released a book that’s about communication and interpretation, Dr. Greg Stewart. It’s funny because yesterday I was super stressed out.

Something happened, and I had to approach him. The minute I did, I was like, “I did that completely wrong. He’s going to think I didn’t read his book.” It’s really more that habit. Like, I’m stressed. I have this go-to when I’m stressed, and learning how to manage and change that. That’s what I love about Samantha’s stuff, if you change yourself, your whole relationship will change. What are the future plans? How often are you releasing that newsletter that you do around the shows?

Future Goals For The Chronically Healthy Show And Magazine

We are releasing our newsletter, which is a complete magazine. We are releasing that monthly. Each month, we’ll have a theme. We’ll also have one of our coaches featured in the magazine too. They go a little deeper because our main concept around the magazine is, one, not everyone has something of value to share, and two, it’s not all about you, like not all about me. Now, here they are, when they’re reading the magazine, they’ve got all these other people they can connect with and relate to.

I think that works for all of us, including me. There are thirteen of us. We have thirteen different points of view on one topic. I’m sure one of them is going to resonate with you, your family, friends, or whoever. We’re doing that monthly. Like I said, it’s a full virtual magazine. I’m thinking about finding someone to print it so we have some print copies.

It feels like a magazine, but to me, it’s very life-changing to have something to look forward to every month. It’s like, I remember when we used to be kids, and everything’s virtual now. You’d read magazines, and I used to subscribe to Rome Track or Men’s Fitness or whatever. You’d get a magazine every month, and you’d have that excitement of, “What am I going to learn this month?” That’s the excitement that I’m hoping to generate with our monthly magazine.

The printing’s hard. I’ve looked into that with our magazine. Now, here’s something you can do, though. For a while, I didn’t feel like it was getting me the traction I wanted, but people don’t look for publishing as much as they look for health. I would take the magazine and have it converted to Kindle and put it up as a 99¢ download. That’s definitely something you can do as well. I thought that was effective too. It added some costs to it because you have to have it converted, but it’s free to put it up.

I love that idea. I’m going to poach another of your ideas. It’s like every time I talk to you, Juliet, you’re opening my mind. I love it.

You guys are probably wondering, like, “Andy doesn’t have a book. Why are you having him on the show?” I’m having him because he is taking the time to build the platform. He’s in the process of writing a book. We were laughing when we put this together, he’s like the poor man’s Tony Robbins. Why is that? Because if you’ve ever read Tony Robbins’ health book, it’s amazing, but I know just the few things I picked out were so outrageously expensive. There’s no way that I could do those or buy that many supplements on a regular basis. I think you and I talked about the joint, getting the stem cell joints. It’s like $6,000 a joint. How are you coming on the book? Tell us about that.

It’s funny that you mention that because, working with Christy, a good friend of ours, I did self-publish a mini book. I have not promoted it yet. I’ve just been so busy between speaking, traveling, and then having a family emergency last week. It is on Amazon. I’m planning to do a promotion on it, but one of the things I do want to start looking into, and I am going to dig into your brain about this, I’m sure a lot of your authors are probably going to be thinking about too, is I do want to dive into writing a fictional book. A series, only because a lot of things that I teach are quite controversial. Let’s just say I don’t want to get targeted for saying the wrong things as a nonfiction book.

We were talking about that before we got on because we have a mutual friend who writes fiction. I started out as a fiction writer. It was much easier back then because the market wasn’t so saturated. There is some stuff there to look at, but I just posted on LinkedIn, Chase Cunningham, back in 2021, one of our authors, wrote a book about drones taking down an airplane. You look around, once again, I said this is being done in December 2024, recorded. I just posted about his book because how much more relevant can you get than that?

It’s so true. It’s funny, you can’t believe everything you read on the internet, but I think a couple of weeks back, one airplane did come down. We don’t know if it was a bird that went into the motor. They claim it was one of the drones that went into the motor. The airplane had to land, it didn’t crash. That’s funny that you say that because, potentially, it can be, because if you hit something wrong, you’re going to come down.

It is. Andy, where can we find your show? For those who want to listen? It’s on Friday night, but you also record it live. People can go back in and watch as well, right?

Where To Watch The Chronically Healthy Show And Learn More

Correct. Our show is live every Friday night on E360tv.com. That is a virtual television network, but we also stream live on our Facebook channel, basically on Facebook. We stream live at the same time on our Facebook, LinkedIn, and our YouTube. YouTube is probably the easiest. It’s like YouTube.com/@ChronicallyHealthyLife, where you can see all the past episodes, or you can just watch it live right on YouTube every Friday, too.

Fantastic. Andy, thank you so much for being on and sharing this strategy. I can’t believe how well you put it together. We’ll talk soon.

Thank you so much, Juliet.

Important Links

• Andy Nam on LinkedIn
• Chronically Healthy Lifestyle
• Chronically Healthy Lifestyle on YouTube
• E360tv
• BAMagTraining

About Andy Nam

Andy Nam is a leading expert in reversing chronic health conditions and optimizing longevity. As a Life coach specializing Functional Nutrition and Longevity, Bio-hacker, bestselling author, and dynamic international speaker, Andy is dedicated to helping others take control of their health, thrive as they age, and unlock the secrets to living longer while looking and feeling younger. After surviving a life-altering accident in his teens that led to decades of chronic pain, Andy took his health into his own hands. Through biohacking, functional nutrition, and cutting-edge stem cell activation, he healed his body and unlocked the secrets to thriving as he aged.

As the co-founder of Chronically Healthy Life alongside his wife, Minna Wong, Andy has made it his mission to inspire others to reduce inflammation, repair their bodies, and live longer, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.

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