Chronic & Thriving - Unfiltered, with Avani Health Hub

health, fitness, alternative · EN-GB

Welcome to Chronic & Thriving - Unfiltered, a podcast about living with chronic illness, asking better questions and exploring health beyond a single approach. I’m Elaine, founder of Avani Health Hub, and this podcast follows my own health journey - from discovering I carry two copies of APOE4 and questioning what that might mean for my future Alzheimer’s risk, through Graves’ disease, functional medicine, gut health, mould and CIRS, and eventually rheumatoid arthritis. It hasn’t been a neat journey, and I don’t intend to tell it as though it was. I’ve experienced conventional healthcare at its very best, and times when I’ve left frustrated or still searching for answers. I’ve explored functional and integrative medicine, nutrition, lifestyle change and complementary approaches. I’ve tried things that helped, things that didn’t, and things I’m still not sure about. I’ve questioned medication, resisted it and, at times,