The Health Courage Collective

The Health Courage Collective

The Health Courage Collective Podcast is for women who are too busy to slog through hours of generalized, inapplicable and often contradictory health information, but too smart to ignore that a few minutes of focused attention now can prevent years of suffering in the future. Hosted by Christina Hackett - a pharmacist who doesn’t want you to live on prescriptions, a certified coach specifically trained to maximize your potential, and a compulsive learner obsessed with preventative, cutting edge, holistic and integrative medicine. Take a few minutes a week to increase your physical and mental resilience so you can fearlessly look forward to your next 40 plus years, age like a pro, and have fun doing it! Episodes are brief and publish every Wednesday.

Episodes

June 18, 2025 26 mins
Even though I generally love supplements, there are really only 2 or 3 that I would say are mandatory if you want to be healthy.  If you want to lower your chances of developing high blood pressure, atherosclerosis, heart attack, arrhythmias, malignant tumors, kidney stones, cholesterol problems, depression, attention problems or other psychiatric disorders, fatigue, and poor athletic performance, you need enough magnesium.  80% of...
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 We spend a lot of time wondering whether we’re normal, whether the things that we’re experiencing are normal, or if our test results are normal.  I think you should aspire not to be normal.  Today we’ll talk about several ways I think being abnormal will put more years lived in good health into your future.  Let’s not be normal together. 

As Jiddu Krishnamurti once said “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profound...
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 There is a cheap and easy lab test that can give you a lot of information about your risk for scary things like  heart attack, stroke, dementia, brain shrinkage, osteoporosis and more. It could save your life.  But most doctors won’t order it unless you ask them to because they don’t know what to do with the results.  But you’re about to.  Let’s talk about homocysteine.

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May 28, 2025 12 mins
 If you’d love to consistently make perfect health choices that ensure that you don’t end up with all of the chronic diseases of aging that will make you slowly stop living before you die, you need a special ingredient in your thought processes about your health goals, actions, habits and choices.  It’s imperfection.  And if you really expect to achieve something remarkable, it’s not optional.

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What if there were a sweetener that tasted like a treat and was not only not bad for you, but actually good for you?  One that naturally boosted your GLP-1, helped you feel fuller longer and didn’t mess up the friendly bacteria in your microbiome?  If you enjoy the occasional sweet tasting treat, your health will get better if you know about allulose!

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Episode 169: Calorie Casino

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You can make your healthy choices, the choices you wish you’d just make automatically….automatic if you know the language of the future!  It’s not Jawaese or Clingon.  It’s the language of algorithms, and it can make your life amazing!  Algorithms are just a process or set of rules to be followed in a series of steps that can be used to make calculations, resolve problems, and reach decisions.  Whether you know it or not, your life...
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Waking up during the middle of the night is so annoying and frustrating.  There are a few different angles you can use to come up with solutions for your middle of the night awakenings.  Here they are.

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If you don’t want to slowly stop living before you die and you want to be capable of joyfully living and giving more as you age, you know you’ll have to do some things differently than most people right now.  But if you don’t have a masterful thought process, you’ll always feel like you’re on a hamster wheel of trying really hard but still never doing enough.  So let’s fix that and make life way more fun.

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What was your last really good day?  What made it a good day?  What if that were your new normal?  We all have set points for what makes for average days, health, emotions, connections, productivity, etc.  What if we made our prior best our new baseline?  When you at your best becomes your new average, your potential rises, but it doesn’t feel like an endless treadmill of max effort.  It’s just your new normal.  Want to change your...
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What diseases or conditions are you most worried about getting as you age?  I can tell you what you should be most worried about, based on statistics (which is metabolic dysfunction, such as prediabetes and cardiovascular disease, such as high blood pressure and damaged blood vessel linings), but if you’re like most women I’ve talked to, you’d probably say you’re most scared of getting cancer, Alzheimer’s and living in chronic pain...
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Most of the women I talk with about getting 100% consistent doing the things they wish they would consistently do because they know they’ll put more years lived in good health in their future are on kind of a roller coaster ride of feeling successful and smart and committed and feeling discouraged, ashamed and defeated.  If you’re ready to exit that carnival and build the physiologic future you want from a more grounded and steady ...
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April 2, 2025 21 mins
There are so many people with opinions about what you should put in your mouth.  They can all make logical-sounding cases for their opposite food ideologies of choice, which can feel confusing and overwhelming.  Not knowing what you should eat makes a basic daily necessity unnecessarily difficult, complicated and time-consuming.  It’s time to ignore everyone else and get some peace of mind back about what you choose to eat.

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There’s an easy way to get more power to create the future you want from your subconscious (and your conscious) mind.  Without realizing this, you’ll have less natural creative problem solving abilities and more difficulty creating high level results you’re proud of.  It’ll be like driving with one foot on the break.  So let’s give your mind more power to be extraordinary!

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 Did you know that Alzheimer’s is mostly preventable and sometimes reversible?  Today we’ll talk about what we used to think Alzheimer’s is, what it really is, what you can do to lower your chances of getting it, and when you need to start. You have more control over your future health outcomes than you’re led to believe.  Even having 2 copies of the APoE4 gene isn’t a match for how you choose to live your life now.

Book: The End of...
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March 12, 2025 29 mins
Goals are always good, right?  Being a goal-oriented go-getter makes your life better?  Maybe.  But how you set and work toward your goals matters, and if you’re not careful, your goals can work against you, rather than for you.  Let’s talk about some ways to prevent your goals from going wild and making your life worse.

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Supplements can be a good part of your health and longevity plan, but there can be a few problems that can get in the way of the great results you hope for with taking supplements.  Today we’ll talk through 6 potential problems with supplements so that you can avoid them and get the most out of your personal supplement regime. 

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Did you know there’s an really basic military strategy that might be the difference between you adding more years lived in great health to your future or ending up confused, disappointed, disoriented and dismayed 30 years from now?  I hadn’t thought about it this way before, but it’s a really useful (and kind of fun) tactic you can use to not leave your future up to chance.

Book: Thinking In Bets by Annie Duke

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February 19, 2025 23 mins
The real fountain of youth exists.  It’s something you have access to for free right now, and very few people know how vitally important it is to decreasing your risk of developing all of the common diseases of aging that make you live less as you get older.  Focus on this one thing and you’ll benefit all of the other aspects of your health that tend to decline with age.  All of them.  It’s not easy, but it is fun and the rewards a...
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How do you accept all the important evidence that excess body fat is probably causing you to slowly stop living before you die and making your current experience less pleasant than it otherwise could be by driving all the scary diseases of aging, AND still categorically refuse to beat yourself up for having a not-ideal looking body that might never look as healthy as the fit women you look up to?  There’s a way.  Let’s work on tryi...
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We all know that more life in our future means more problems in our future, right?  We can't change the fact that we will continue to have problems.  But we can ensure that those future problems will be smaller.  Let’s give our future selves that gift, shall we?

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