“Most people silently fear being replaceable – and in serving that fear, they create the outcome they dread.”

Burnout isn’t emotional. It’s biochemical. Before your life falls apart, your labs already show the pattern – cortisol chaos, glucose instability, inflammatory drift, and the physiology of living out of alignment. Performance is killing trust. In work, relationships, and even health, people are performing instead of connecting – and it’s making them replaceable. In my new interview, I talk about why authenticity is cognitively magnetic, why your brain relaxes around congruence, and what actually makes someone irreplaceable.

I also break down my method – where medicine, performance, and strategy meet – and why health becomes leverage, not damage control. And yes: why longevity hype without clinical training is malpractice.

If you want the unfiltered version, read the full conversation here.

There is a growing and deeply concerning trend: medical doctors stepping outside the field they were rigorously trained in—medicine—and entering domains like nutrition, often based on personal interest, frustration with the healthcare system, or anecdotal experiences.

Let’s be clear: nutrition is a scientific field in its own right.
And most MDs have received minimal or no formal training in it during medical school.

When MDs use their medical title to disseminate opinions or personal beliefs in nutrition, they unintentionally mislead the public—because their words carry weight, but not always accuracy.

This isn’t a call for rigidity. It’s a call for excellence.

We need medical doctors to raise the bar within their own field.

Promising research shows that PFAS may not need to be “forever” in your body and may be treatable with the common medication cholestyramine.

Read the full study here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412024000837?via%3Dihub

“Sometimes you just need to decide that you are worth it, instead of waiting for others to decide what you are worthy of. Who cares what everybody else thinks – most people are not living lives you’d want to live anyway, so do not be scared of being judged by others, who get off on judging others, who do more than they will ever aspire to do. People who are truly confident and “alpha” do not feel threatened by others, but rather inspired.

One person’s success just shows that something can be done – and you can too. I’ve always loved “The American Dream” for promoting exactly this mindset: encouraging each individual to reach their unique excellence in life – whatever that might be.

Dreaming big and feeling inspired has helped me feel confident in life. A bit of grandiosity never hurt anyone – it is certainly better than playing it small. And that is how we fake confidence until we make it.”

I am interviewed for Bold Journey - an LA magazine for local entrepreneurs - on how to master the art of self-confidence as an entrepreneur. Read full interview here: https://boldjourney.com/news/meet-christina-santini/ and feel free to share it.

I am featured in an article in CanvasRebel on my thoughts on how our upbringing affects our ability to navigate in life.

When it comes to moving the needle to become healthier and happier beings, I believe one of the most important things we need to remember today is to avoid the trap of the victim mindset. Whatever has happened in our life, nothing good comes from ongoing victimization. There may be many reasons as to why we feel victimized - and indeed sometimes we simply are the victim. However, no empowerment comes if we choose to keep being a victim long-term. We all go through trauma - the key is to not to get stuck in poor-me or bitterness - but rather to develop character, compassion and resilience as we face obstacles in life.

Obviously this is much easier said than done, and there are certainly many cases where I cannot fathom how any human has endured such struggles we sometimes read about in the news or elsewhere. Yet the fact is that only misery and resentment comes from allowing ourselves to stay stuck in a victim mindset.

And for many of us, we have a choice to create the life we want rather than complain about the life we have and yet we take no action to change it.

Read the article here.

I am talking to start-up magazine Voyage LA about life and work as a business owner. Click to read full article: http://voyagela.com/interview/inspiring-conversations-with-christina-santini-of-the-nutrition-clinic/ and feel free to share.

Right now we have access to a host of testing that is able to give us insight into why we suffer from various chronic diseases. And that is of course really amazing. I am talking about testing stuff related to toxic load i.e. pesticides, chemicals, heavy metals, mycotoxins, bacteria imbalances, microbiome, genes and so forth. However, the question is always WHAT are we not testing for today (and thus largely going undetected, undiagnosed and untreated). Following are the parameters I foresee will play a big impact in the near future once wee begin to figure out ways to measure how a person is impacted by them. This is especially true when it comes to figuring out causes of adrenal/chronic fatigue, stress, insomnia and stubborn issues still left unresolved by today’s methods.

This month I am featured in ELLE magazine (Danish march month edition) on how I got into biological medicine and advanced lab testing. Some of you might know I started out working for doctors in Copenhagen and thereafter moved to New York to buy lots of painfully ridiculous stilettos (because that’s what you do in NY) and work for celebrity-doctor Dr. Braverman. Thereafter, I moved on to California, where I opened my first clinic. Education-wise I started out with a basic degree in Human Nutrition in Copenhagen and later on got certified in Switzerland in Biological Medicine, in Bioresonance in Germany, in Medical Thermography along with Clinical lab diagnostics and Ayurveda in California, along with well, the California-mandatory yoga teacher certificate. Because it’s like, if you go to LA, everyone and their grandma is a mix of life coach/yoga teacher/actor/barista/instagram model/waitress/surfer, so you might as well go with the flow.

These days I have a gorgeous clinic location in Copenhagen along with a pop-up office in Venice, LA. All labs and scans are evaluated by my American doctor team, which guarantees you a cross-disciplinary team approach when you walk through the doors.

Anyway, you can find a collection of prints and articles I have been featured in right here. I will be in Los Angeles throughout April - reply to this email to make your appointment in advance.

A new study confirms what many of us already know: that our emotional health overrides whatever we put in our mouth. Stress activates a cascade of toxic biochemical processes in our body, some leading to heart disease, others diabetes and often resulting in weight gain especially around the stomach. Yup, that's right. A telltale sign of stress and not handling it too well is, if we gain weight around our midsection. 

Did you know that almost every single synthetic medicine is inspired by a plant? And that the reason we don't utilize the intelligence that already exists in nature is a matter of profit: we cannot patent plants and this means the profit margin is lower, if we choose to turn towards natural medicine - medicine that our body can actually understand and recognize at a cell-level. This in stark contrast to all the nasty side-effects of synthetic medication. The science of how different plants work against different diseases has been shown time and time again to be next-to-none in the laboratory. Plants outperform any man-made drug. So why are we trying to reinvent what already exists and is perfect? Last week I was featured in VoyageLA on my thoughts on food, nutrition and why we get sick.

Check it out here.

Breathing bypasses our conscious mind and belief systems, why it is crucial to master, if we really want to master life, health and happiness in this skin we are in. Breathing can change our biochemistry within in 3 short minutes. For every emotion, there is a corresponding breath rhythm, so if we can master our breath, we can master our emotional wellbeing and physical to a large degree.

Developing a mindful eating practice... bite by bite, that not only feeds our body, but nurtures our soul, is the very first step to gain a healthy relationship with food. Yet the most overlooked part, and the one we struggle the most with. Simply because it goes against that black-white thinking most of us are so used to from dieting - and the way we live our life in general.

How many times have we indirectly added to isolation through promoting an image of perfection via social media - disconnected from human touch, yet always posing, pretending.... covering all bridges between us, letting no one in to see who we truly are.