Hi, I'm Tam, a certified Insulin IQ Coach and Health Educator, dedicated to empowering busy moms and women of all ages to heal insulin resistance, reclaim vibrant energy, and spark generational wellness. 

I know the chaos of juggling family life while battling health struggles. I've walked that path  with all its twists and turns for far too long. 

My journey started at 20 years old with an autoimmune diagnosis, escalating at 27 after a 20-week miscarriage and Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Weight gain, gut issues, mood swings, and chronic fatigue became my daily reality. If someone had guided me to focus on insulin as the root cause, I could have avoided so much pain—physical and emotional, including a total of five miscarriages, four in the second trimester. It's a miracle I have the 5 living children I do. 

This mission of mine has only become more heartbreakingly personal: my oldest sister, only three years older, lost her battle at 47 years old, from colorectal cancer, a preventable disease tied to unchecked insulin resistance and lifestyle factors. Coming from a family line riddled with these issues, I've seen how poor metabolic health collapses worlds, stealing time, resources, and joy from connecting with those we love in healthy ways.

But here's the hope: I turned my pain into purpose and want to help you do the same. Through 14 years of health education, turning over all the "rocks" to find the root causes, I discovered insulin-centric strategies—simple ways to relearn eating, sleeping, fasting, and nervous system regulation—blended with nature-backed tools for physical support. These changes healed me from the inside out, restoring my energy, confidence, and ability to show up fully for my family. I practice what I preach and have lost over 20lbs in under 3 months using all these tools. 

You can know all the things, but if you don't DO them and hold yourself accountable through the ups and downs, you stay stuck in a place that doesn't serve your higher potential.

Now, as a Metabolic Mentor, I help women break free from the cycle of hopelessness, confusion, and shame that traditional health methods perpetuate.
 

Imagine feeling hopeful again, mastering your metabolism without overwhelming diets or guesswork. Through my programs and working closely with me, you'll learn doable routines that fit your packed schedule—kid-friendly meal hacks, quick stress resets, and personalized insulin-resistant plans—that build progress and discipline. 

No perfection required; just brave, consistent steps that let you reclaim control, release past pain, and embrace your divine brilliance. 

The ripple effect? Healthier kids who learn from your actions, breaking generational patterns and opening doors to abundant opportunities.

Women and mothers are society's change-makers—when you heal, your family thrives, and the world gets a little brighter. If you're tired of fatigue, fluctuating moods, or feeling like self-care isn't worth the effort, let's connect. 

Tell me your struggles and let me help you rebuild your belief in your body, and step into a future of confidence and vitality. 

Book a free discovery call today—together, we'll make small, simple habits that create big, lasting change.

(Let's heal the world, one woman at a time.)

I’m Tisha (no R), a Human Fuel Expert, Metabolic Health Practitioner (MHP), Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner (FDN-P), National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), and Certified Nutrition Network Practitioner (NNP). 

But more important than the letters behind my name, I know what it’s like to do “all the right things” and still feel like your body is working against you.

If you’ve been told your weight gain, migraines, fatigue, perimenopause symptoms, or chronic conditions are “just part of getting older” — I’m here to tell you they’re not.

I learned that the hard way. At 8 years old, a PE coach told me to run more and eat less. That sent me into decades of chasing health the wrong way — starving, binging, endless workouts, diet shakes, and appetite suppressants — while the diagnoses stacked up: anemia, PCOS, migraines, adult acne, and more.

By 36, I was living in a cycle of symptoms, meds, and frustration — until a friend asked me, “Who’s going to care for your daughter when you’re gone?” 

That was the turning point.

I stopped chasing a number on the scale and started learning what really makes the body thrive — and what makes it break down. The truth? The food I’d been eating my whole life was never the right fuel for my body.

Now I help high-achieving adults with chronic conditions — like high blood pressure, diabetes, PCOS, perimenopause symptoms, and more — uncover which foods are failing their body so they can restore function, stop collecting diagnoses, and age without becoming a burden.

If you’ve been told your symptoms are normal, your family history is your fate, or that managing symptoms means you’re healthy — you’ve been lied to. My free guide, The 3 Lies Cutting Your Life Short, exposes these myths and shows you what’s really possible for your future health.
Get it here: https://tishacastillo.com/3lies

Andrya Martin is a Certified Functional Nutrition Counselor, Integrative Transformation Life & Metabolic Health Coach, Beat Cancer and Sears Wellness Institute Coach, and founder of Living Well. She is a wife, married mom of five, and proud grandmother of five, as well as a woman of strong Christian faith who is deeply passionate about helping others walk in true health and wholeness.

With over a decade of experience in health and wellness, Andrya specializes in addressing the root cause of health challenges rather than simply managing symptoms. Through her signature framework, the 7 Pillars of Health—Faith, Food, Focus, Fitness, Frequencies, Fellowship, and Fun—she teaches a comprehensive, whole-body approach to restoring energy, balancing hormones, and improving metabolic health.

She is the creator of the 30 Day Living Well Reset, a transformative program designed to help clients realign their health through personalized support, digital body scanning, and root-cause insight. This advanced approach identifies emotional and energetic imbalances while incorporating sound and color therapy to support the body’s natural ability to restore and heal.

In addition, Andrya leads her signature 12 Week Whole Woman Program, a deeply integrative experience focused on renewing the mind, restoring the body, and strengthening the spirit through faith-based and science-backed principles.

Andrya offers both individual counseling and group programs, creating supportive environments where men and women can experience deep, lasting transformation. Her work uniquely integrates science-backed strategies with faith-based principles, empowering women to renew their minds, restore their bodies, and live fully aligned in mind, body, and spirit.

Welcome, I am looking forward to working with you. I am ready to help you succeed with your health goals whether it’s reversing insulin resistance or improving your overall metabolic health. Together we will have regular check ins to discuss how this new lifestyle is going for you and how to stay on track with insulin-smart eating habits in order to nurture the most optimal metabolic health possible for you! I was certified as a FDN Practitioner all the way back in 2018 after spending 5 years bed ridden due to chronic lyme, toxic mold exposure and Hashimoto’s. Becoming a health coach is what empowered me to figure out my next steps, when doctors were unable to help me get better. I was trained on how to order my own blood, stool and saliva labs so that I could better direct and work as a team with my health care providers. Then a few years ago I began to have symptoms of insulin resistance and that encouraged me to become a certified insulin IQ coach. Today I am happy to report that I have my insulin resistance under control. Throughout my journey I have learned to empower my clients in a similar manner. I love helping clients tap into their intuition about what's going on in their body, and overall health, so that they are able to better advocate and make decisions for themselves. My number one goal is to help you to stay on track with insulin-smart eating and lifestyle habits allowing you to look better but even more importantly feel better. If you’re ready to get started book a free consultation with me. I am looking forward to working with you.

I’m a walking testament to how the Standard American Diet—what I call the "SAD"—can quietly wreak havoc on your health, and how Insulin IQ can turn it all around. For most of my life, I thought I was doing fine, relatively healthy. But over time, things started to slip. High blood pressure, sleep apnea, and crushing fatigue became my new normal. Then came the big blows: surgery to remove my gallbladder, kidney stones, a heart attack, and, to top it all off, a type 2 diabetes diagnosis.

I was drowning in a sea of eight medications, including insulin, just to keep my head above water. But I wasn’t getting better—far from it. The treatments were masking symptoms, not addressing the root cause. That’s when I found Insulin IQ. Their approach, grounded in tackling insulin resistance head-on, was a game-changer. By ditching the carb-heavy SAD and embracing nutrient-dense, low-carb eating, along with targeted lifestyle shifts, I started to heal. My blood sugar stabilized, my energy surged, and my health began to rebound in ways I hadn’t thought possible.

Today, I’m off all eight medications. I feel healthier and more vibrant than I have in years. Insulin IQ didn’t just treat my conditions—it gave me the knowledge and tools to take back my life.

Your metabolism is giving you signals every day — most people just don’t know how to read them. I help clients use CGM data to turn the invisible into visible, so they can understand their body’s real-time responses and make better decisions around food, energy, movement, and long-term health.

I’m Gavin George, an Insulin IQ accredited coach, Nutrition Network Practitioner, and co-founder of Ūpgrade Health in South Africa. I’m also an instrumentation engineer turned metabolic health coach — and that combination shapes the way I work.

My journey into metabolic health was personal before it became professional. I know what it feels like to be metabolically unwell, insulin resistant, and pre-diabetic. I also know how frustrating it is when the usual advice does not explain why your body feels out of balance, why energy is unstable, or why weight, hunger, and health markers become harder to control.

What changed for me was learning to look deeper than glucose alone and understand the role of insulin resistance in metabolic health. CGM data gave me something I immediately recognised from my engineering background: a live signal. Suddenly, hidden patterns became visible. Food, stress, sleep, movement, timing, and recovery were no longer abstract ideas — they were measurable inputs affecting a real biological system.

My coaching is calm, practical, and data driven. I do not believe in guessing, generic meal plans, or chasing perfect glucose lines. I help clients connect the dots between what they eat, how they live, what their CGM shows, and how they feel — then turn that insight into realistic, sustainable action.

For many people, improved weight regulation may be one of the benefits of better metabolic health. But weight loss is not the starting point or the only goal. The deeper goal is to improve metabolic function, energy stability, appetite control, resilience, and confidence in the choices you make every day.

The goal is not to control every number. The goal is to understand what your body has been trying to show you — then use that clarity to build better energy, better choices, and a stronger metabolic foundation.

We live in an Unhealthy Default Reality where disease, dysfunction and delusion have become normalized, celeberated and expected.  It falls on the belief that disease is inevitable and out of our control, therefore, we carry out the conscious and unconscious behaviors and habits that upholds that belief.  Optimizing your health, healing and transformation requires you to look at beliefs that hold you back and change your behaviors and habits.  

As a Heroic Performance Life Coach the greatest experience is helping, guiding and supporting you to break free from the imprisionment of this Unhealthy Default Realty built on the choices made in the past.  With amplified awarenesss and the power of choice you can empower your liberation from the belief that disease is inevitable and out of your control and enter into the Hero's Journey of health, healing and transformation in body, mind and spirit.  

Health is the Foundation to Life.

If one accepts that almost 9 out of 10 individuals find themselves with some degree of active metabolic injury, illness and/or disease, you may find it reasonble to consider this requires Metabolic Rehabilitation to restore optimal cellular metabolic function.  

The challenge I have seen as a pattern with clients is that the one making the choices and decisions also needs rehabilitation. That is to make better decisions that will support your health and wellness goals with understanding everything is connected: Health is of the Body, Healing is of the Mind and Transformation is the Love you have for your Future Self which is created in the next choice you make.  

As a 6 Time Cancer Survivor I know the road to restoring, regenerating and rebuilding trust and faith in the process of opitimizing my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing.  And the process required one thing:

Self Love.

And Self Love was the very starting point for my journey.  To love, honor and fully accept where I was in the beginning while also learning to love, honor and respect my furture Self.  

Understanding and accepting the Universal framework of Nutrition and Movement as the two engines that can radically transform your pain and problems into potential and possibilities. 

When you are truly nourished in your body, mind and spirit then you move in such a way that it becomes Nourishing.   This is the path and process of renewal and regeneration.

Cancer, any other chronic illness or health challenges doesn’t need to stop your life. Because it’s not over - in fact, your life has just begun. I say bring it on!  Be a Warrior for Your Wellness.  

Part of my evolution and purpose is helping others move forward to optimize their health and wellbeing. That’s why I became a holistic heroic performance life coach focused on HOPE - Helping Other People Evolve into their true authentic selves.

Your body does not fail you - you fail your body. - Dan Hegerich

Meet Sim – Chewing The Fat. Helping you to stop eating sh*t (most of the time!)

Sim is a qualified health practitioner with over 25 years of experience in holistic health, bodywork, and metabolic coaching. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Health Sciences: Therapeutic Bodywork and began her career with hands-on therapies including massage, reflexology, and structural bodywork. Her early work focused on helping clients relieve pain, reduce stress, and reconnect with their bodies.

After being diagnosed with fibromyalgia and experiencing her own burnout, Sim took a deep dive into nutritional science and metabolic health. She transformed her health through a low-carb, real food approach, which sparked a new direction in her professional work.

In 2017, Sim became a Health Coach for the NHS National Diabetes Prevention Programme, training with Xpert Health (Dr. Trudi Deakin). She has since qualified as a Nutrition Network Advisor (Professor Tim Noakes) and an InsulinIQ Certified Coach (Dr Ben Bikman & Co), specialising in blood sugar regulation, insulin resistance, and long-term metabolic health.

Her integrated approach combines:

• Clinical bodywork and anatomical expertise

• Deep understanding of stress, sleep, and hormone balance

• Nutritional strategies rooted in science

• Practical tools to support behaviour change

• Nutrigenomics to activate your body's natural healing powers

Sim now helps individuals reclaim their energy, reduce inflammation, improve sleep, and prevent lifestyle-driven conditions such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, and chronic fatigue using a no-nonsense, science-backed approach that fits real life.

She’s lived both burnout and recovery. That’s what makes her work grounded in passion, relatability, and deep empathy.

WHERE I HAVE BEEN

HOW I HAVE CHANGED

WHERE I AM GOING

From adolescence until now I always had weight issues. I had an uncontrollable eating problem in the form of binge eating that haunted me all my life. I also had something called Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) which nobody knew anything about when I was a teenager. To sum it all up I have cycled through restrictive eating and binge cycles, gaining weight and losing weight. Throughout these cycles feeling bloated, huge, ashamed, and worthless were the feelings that followed me all around. I had an extremely low body image which affected what I wore and where I went even who I met and who I did not meet because of the way I felt, very fat! I was unhappy most of the time. The feelings of low self-esteem affected all areas of my life. I felt helpless and alone. I was confused as to how to reclaim my life. I was missing out on so much. After all now the problem was not just how I looked but also how my health was falling apart. 

I was able to change all these by studying nutrition, sports nutrition, functional medicine, nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics but more importantly behavior change methods, coaching approach, mindfulness, mindful eating and self compassion. 

Knowledge is powerful but often not enough to take action(s).

I was able to support myself in bridging the gap between knowledge and action.

I know that many people are also struggling with these problems.

I would not want any other person to go through the embarrassment, loneliness, helplessness, and sadness that I have been through.

I was able to change my story with a low-carb ketogenic nutrition approach.

This made me have a natural relationship with food.

Food is no longer my enemy but my friend. I feel fit, energetic and very well.

I am very excited to coach other people to regain their metabolic health, become fit, and feel well and energetic.