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Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson shares decades of experience as a hormone and nutrition specialist to help you live a healthier, happier life. Disclaimer: The entire contents of these podcasts are based upon the opinions of Dr. DL Berkson, unless otherwise noted. Individual discussions are based upon the opinions of the respective individuals, based on their research, experience and communities. The information on this podcast or any related websites are not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice from practitioners that know your personal medical situation. All material is educational and is intended only as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Berkson and her community. Dr. Berkson encourages you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional. If you are pregnant, nursing, taking medication, or have a medical condition, you must consult with your health care professional before using protocols or products based on any of this content.
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Feb 6, 2021

Sanity is a precious thing. There are so many divergent yet “loud” commentaries and opinions on vaccines, this divergence is threatening much of our sanity as well as humanity. (Boy…  that rhymed)!

Dale Harrison is a senior biotech executive with more than 20 years of experience in research physics and the biotech industry. Mr. Harrison is currently working with companies developing new clinical diagnostic platforms such as developing a CRISPR-based Covid over-the-counter test.

Thus, Mr. Harrison has been writing, researching, and assessing what is going on with Covid, and Covid vaccines.

In this show you will learn:

What is an mRNA vaccine?

The difference between a “sterilizing vaccine” (measles vaccine) vs. a “non-sterilizing vaccine” (COVID vaccines).

How vaccines offer “disease immunity” and what this means for your risk of dying from Covid.

The statistical risk of dying from Covid (in 2021) in those 15 -year old's and older.

The risks in people with serious autoimmune diseases of getting COVID vs. getting the vaccine.

Why there is so much inaccurate vaccine information out in “cyber space” even by top physicians and Nobel Laureate winners.

Dale’s take on what happened to the elderly that died in Norway post-vaccine.

Why you need to wait 90 days after having COVID before you can safely get the vaccine.

Which vaccine does he think we should avoid?

Once you get the vaccine… then what?

 

Will we still need “mitigating behaviors” after getting the vaccine?

How will these behaviors be different from mitigating behaviors pre-vaccine?

Dale and Dr. B agree to disagree on Lysosomotropic agents.

How to safely go back to dense activity sports, like the gym or dancing, once you have been vaccinated. Or not.

Molecular mimicry beyond the respiratory tract, a nuance of Covid.

If we drop all mitigation efforts, even with full vaccine compliance, Dale discusses how the virus will go fully endemic and almost everyone will catch Covid-19 once or twice a year. There will possibly be many more deaths, unless we as a country are guided in nutrients, easy to use at home anti-virals, and more education on keeping our personal immune systems healthy.

Recent Publications by Dale Harrison


Covid Updates Newsletter
https://dalewharrison.substack.com/


Results from the AstraZeneca/Oxford Vaccine Trials
https://dalewharrison.substack.com/p/results-from-the-astrazenecaoxford

Covid Vaccines Confer No Sterilizing Immunity
https://dalewharrison.substack.com/p/covid-vaccines-confer-no-sterilzing

New UK Coronavirus Variant
https://dalewharrison.substack.com/p/new-uk-coronavirus-variant

Covid – YEAR 1
https://dalewharrison.substack.com/p/covid-year-1

Covid Testing & Autoimmune Disease
https://dalewharrison.substack.com/p/covid-testing-and-autoimmune-disease

Jan 27, 2021

In this show:

  • We take a deep dive into Vitamin D = discipline
  • Facing fears by being armed with knowledge that you can personalize
  • Censorship in medicine and what to personally do about it
  • Obsession with speed is an “anti-path” to contentment
  • How mitochondria have their own genome.
  • Exercise turns on mitochondria hormones (MTOS-c) and genes to boost better mitochondrial-whole body “cross-talk”
  • Better to sleep ‘deeper’ than’ longer’ to clear your brain of waste.
  • And more.

 

References:

MOTS-c is an exercise-induced mitochondrial-encoded regulator of age-dependent physical decline and muscle homeostasis. Nature Communications, 2021; 12 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20790-0

 

A deep sleep stage in Drosophila with a functional role in waste clearance. Science Advances, 2021; 7 (4): eabc2999

Jan 19, 2021

Dr. David Brownstein is a Board-Certified, family physician and the Medical Director of the Center for Holistic Medicine in West Bloomfield, Michigan.

 

In this show, Dr. Brownstein shares his experience with patients and viral infections. Dr. Brownstein was told by the FTC to take down his blogs in which he shared this approach. In response, Dr. Brownstein went on to publish his clinic’s data successfully treating 107 patients in a medical journal, and to write his latest book: Holistic Approaches to Viruses.

 

In this show you will learn about:

  • How heavy metals suppress immunity and hormones.
  • Provocation vs. blood testing for heavy metals
  • Potential heavy metal issues with Bone Broth
  • The main nutraceuticals that support immune response to infection
  • Holistic IV’s
  • Censorship vs. freedom in health care
  • LongCovid details
  • And more.

 

Guest Links

Website – Dr. Brownstein

Books – Dr. Brownstein Shop

Jan 11, 2021

In this episode you will learn:

  • Levels of bias/censorship in today’s medicine especially surrounding COVID and hormones
  • Testimony of Pierre Kory, MD to Homeland Security Committee Meeting: Focus on Early Treatment of COVID-19 December 8, 2020 - transcript is at https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Testimony-Kory-2020-12-08.pdf
  • You can go to https://covid19criticalcare.com/math-hospital-treatment/ to learn about protocols for prophylaxis (protection) and treatment - not standard of care at this time
  • The meta-analysis of 28 studies on the “drug that cannot be named” can be viewed at ivmmeta.com
  • Kahlil Gibran wrote Our Children, this is discussed per parent/child interactions of world-life viewpoints vs. censorship and cultural viewpoints
  • Estrogen and Progesterone’s role in regulation of fear
  • Progesterone as an anti-anxiety hormone
  • Estrogen’s role in ease of achieving healthy “portion sizes”
  • The role of sex hormones in protection against the 2nd most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide in women: colorectal cancer (CRC).
  • Risk of CRC is increased 30% for women undergoing hysterectomy with both ovaries removed; increased risk of 24% if no ovaries are removed (as often hormones do not work optimally after hysterectomy even if ovaries are left in)
  • The risk of CRC after oophorectomy gradually increases with age at surgery. Risk is increased( 66% ) within first 4 years after surgery. This suggests that women with susceptibility genes for ovarian cancer or metrocarcinoma are candidates for oophorectomy or hysterectomy, but women “not” at high risk for these cancers, should be careful about oophorectomies or hysterectomies, and especially life style choices within the first 5 years after surgery should they get it.
  • Health benefits of the “forgotten estrogen” – estriol, especially for autoimmune illnesses such as Multiple Sclerosis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, etc.
  • The unappreciated role of “natural estriol” in protecting the “central nervous system” by binding to estrogen receptors in the immune system, brain, and the spinal cord.
  • A 2017 review found that estriol protects against “many inflammatory autoimmune” disease markers.

 

 

Jan 7, 2021

Everyone is struggling to cope during these unprecedented times. In this show we discuss “wherever you go - there you are” and “wherever you don’t go - there you are, too.”

In this show you will learn:

  • Our new pandemic vocabulary
  • Overcoming emotional inflammation
  • Making friends with your triggers
  • How self-compassion starts the process
  • Why President Abraham Lincoln, in his inaugural speech, addressed “The Decency of Angels”
  • How to morph “pandemic paralysis” into “hope” and “renewal”
  • Helpful concept of “isness” and milking it for nourishment
  • Practice, notice, breathe... all necessary tools for “soul sculpting” toward “peace”.
  • Nothing is as it seems, which gives us elbow room to “re-frame”.
  • Life will break you unless you know how to invite it in for tea.

If you have followed me for long you know how important and valuable Dr. Alan Crandall was to me as a physician in my own personal health journey as well as his role as a colleague. His passing has been heavy on my heart this year. Click here to view the Celebration of Life for Dr. Alan S. Crandall. He was greatly loved and will be greatly missed.  

Dec 14, 2020

In this show you hear the visionary Dr. David’s Brownstein’s explanation and deep dive into:

  • Why medicine is so slow to embrace natural answers that works.
  • Not all hormones are equal - learn about progestins vs. progesterone.
  • How hormones protect you against heart disease.
  • How statins threaten testosterone and other hormone levels, learn how and how this indirectly ups your risk of heart disease.
  • You can be “allergic” to hormones, and how to “de-sensitize hormones”.
  • On HRT but having reactions? What to consider.
  • What to do if you gain weight taking hormone therapies?
  • What if your breast tissue enlarges on hormone therapies?
  • Criticisms of some hormonal peer-review trials.
  • The link between birth control pills and the increased incidence of breast cancer in the US.
  • Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) - what is it and how it’s partly a pharmaceutical scam.
  • And more!

 

 

Dr. David Brownstein is a Board-Certified family physician and is one of the foremost practitioners of holistic medicine.

 

He is the Medical Director of the Center for Holistic Medicine in West Bloomfield; MI. Dr. Brownstein has lectured internationally to physicians and others about his success in using natural hormones and nutritional therapies in his practice. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Brownstein is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College for the Advancement in Medicine. He is the father of two beautiful girls, Hailey and Jessica, and has been happily married to his wife, Allison, for over 25 years.

 

Links

 

Take a look at Dr. Brownstein’s privately formulated supplements.

https://www.drbrownstein.com/purezen-health-supplements/

 

Dr. Brownstein’s website and books:

https://www.drbrownstein.com/

 

 

 

 

Dec 7, 2020

In this show you will learn:

  • Why COVID is less harmful during pregnancy but more harmful once the baby is born, for the mom that is.
  • The protective role of sex steroid hormones, how they are anti-inflammatory, reshape competency of immune cells, stimulate antibody production, promote respiratory epithelial cell repair, and even inhibit COVID from binding to the ACE2 receptor, the door of access for the novel coronavirus.
  • You will learn why pregnant women are 15 times less likely to die from COVID vs women who are not pregnant.
  • The new information about face masks that could help stop the pandemic in its tracks if 70% of us acted on it.
  • The poetic thoughts of an ER doc on “Ignoring the Sins of our Patients.
  • How being bombed into bits and pieces might have some positive redeeming curricular aspects.
  • As always, so much more.

If you like this blend of smart + heart, go to www.drlindseyberkson.com/membership and get more of deep satisfying dives together.

Be well.

Dr. “BE”!

Nov 30, 2020

Today’s world is stressful for everyone that owns a brain. This show describes a FREE, EASY and FAST way to retrain your brain to de-stress. This method is called “Binaural Beat”. (Sometimes referred to as Binaural Beat Therapy.)

With a few 20-minute sessions, you can get your brain to relax - as if you were a seasoned meditator.  You can use your smart headphones or simply buy some inexpensive headphones, to be used along with a free app on your phone.

In this show you will learn:

  • What are “Binaural Beats”
  • What Binaural Beats do inside your brain
  • How Binaural Beats can calm your brain or intensify your orgasms (referred to in this way as “mindgasms”)
  • The safety of Binaural Beats and who should NOT use it.
  • How your brain “beats” and “sounds” when you are in deep sleep, in state of calm, in a state of agitation and in a tantric state.
  • How the concept of Binaural Beats has been used in war and in peace marches.
  • Mike and Dr. Lindsey waxing on about the “dog beach” they visited yesterday and what it means to be in “sync” with someone.
  • What is brain “entrainment” and how it affects you, your relationships and your brain. And, in addition,
  • Why and how melatonin protects you against “getting” Covid and “reduces complications from COVID” even in the ICU.

Any headphone works. The ones that have cushioning on the sides minimize bone conduction to brain sound, so it gives the most optimal effect. But you don’t have to use cushioned headphones, this is just an explanation of why they are the top of the line for these purposes.

Links:

FREE App (get from the App store on your phone):

Binaural Beats Generator+
Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/binaural-beats-generator/id1206442552

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tmsoft.whitenoise.generator.beats&hl=en_US&gl=US

References:

https://kn-studio.com/what-are-binaural-beats-and-is-it-possible-to-achieve-orgasm-by-just-listening-to-it/What are binaural beats and is it possible to achieve orgasm by just listening to it? Posted on May 3, 2019by Jerald Doll

Efficacy of binaural auditory beats in cognition, anxiety, and pain perception: a meta-analysis. Psychol Res. 2019 Mar;83(2):357-372. doi: 10.1007/s00426-018-1066-8. Epub 2018 Aug 2. PMID: 30073406.

Nov 23, 2020

Dr. Robert Nagourney

Dr. Robert Nagourney is a leading authority in how to keep cancer patients living longer. He is an agile thinker who is recognized for the introduction of Cisplatin/Gemcitabine doublets in treatment of advanced ovarian and breast cancers. Few physicians are triple board certified which he is in Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology and Hematology.

Dr. Nagourney is a recognized pioneer in cancer research and personalized cancer treatment for the past several decades so this show is an eye opener from someone who knows what they are talking about. And may hold some critical answers for you, your loved ones or patients.

In this show you will learn:

  • The difference between genetic and biological interventions in cancer.
  • What is “functional profiling”?
  • How does functional profiling help keep cancer patients alive.
  • What are “lurking” cancer stem cells.
  • How you can find out which medications are specifically targeted for your tumor cells, not based on your genes but on the “personality” and “mass” of some of your tumor cells.
  • Standard of care vs. functional profiling
  • And more.

With more than 20 years of experience in human tumor primary culture analyses, Dr. Nagourney has authored more than 100 manuscripts, book chapters and abstracts including publications in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute and British Journal of Cancer.

Links

 Nagourney Cancer Institute

Book

 Outliving Cancer: The Better Smarter Way to Treat Your Cancer

 

Nov 16, 2020

In this show you will learn:

  • How vitamin A helps you lose weight and why you shouldn’t leave home without it.
  • How hypothyroidism, even hidden—known as “subclinical hypothyroidism”—can contribute to ADHD in kids. So, if pregnant or planning on getting pregnant, why you should get tested.
  • The newest most effective breast imaging without ionizing radiation and how to ask your doctor about it.
  • A great action-step to keep your cancer from recurring.
  • What sugary sodas and diet sodas have in common.
  • Why dentists might be getting afraid to put their fingers in your mouth.
  • How to get the best cancer protection from radiation while protecting all your other tissues.
  • Why you want to add beets to your diet in regard to your hormones.
  • And more.

Additional Links

Hypothyroidism in Pregnant Mothers Linked to ADHD in their Children

 

Nov 9, 2020

The world is in chaos.
The world is hurting.
We all are living a new normal.
How can we move through this time and come out better?
How may disaster foster awakening?

In this show we will discuss morphing “isness” into choice.
Taking clay and making art of its messiness.

Being alive, it turns out, is a very solo proposition.
You have to carry your pack alone.
But there are ways to soften the load and squeeze as much life out of this “moment” as possible.

In this show you get inspired to do just that.

Join me,
Dr. B.

Nov 2, 2020

Women and doctors fear that estrogen therapies will cause clots. Especially if women have the genes to be more prone to clotting.

What are the facts, based on peer review science and clinical acumen?

In this show you will learn:

  • What forms clots?
  • What is coagulation?
  • What is factor V Leiden?
  • What are routes of delivery of hormone therapies?
  • How does oral therapy compare to topical?
  • Peer review studies of route of delivery and clot risk.
  • What healthfully “thins” our blood?
  • What specific nutrients keep the blood from clotting and how to assess dosage.
  • What organs makes more “procoagulatory clotting factors” and how to assist this natural activity.
  • How to assess platelet activity.
  • How to use calcium in the blood labs to assess “growth” activity.
  • The role of thicker blood during malignancies.
  • And more..

 

Guest – Dr. Rosensweet

Dr. Rosensweet was Dr. Berkson’s physician when she had breast cancer 26 years ago. They have continued their connection as friends, colleagues and now collaborators in fighting to keep our hormone rights with the newly formed “cBHRT Coalition” (which Dr. Rosensweet spear heads).

Dr. Rosensweet graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. He has been in private medical practice since 1971 and has had offices in New Mexico, California, and Colorado. Dr. Rosensweet currently is in practice via telemedicine from North Carolina.

From this gorgeous new home that he shares with his son, Jonathan, also a colleague, and his daughter-in-law and grandkids, Dr. Rosensweet teaches health professionals and women around the world, about hormonal treatments for women in menopause with bio-identical hormones.

Guest Resources

Dr. Rosensweet has created the Menopause Method: www.menopausemethod.com

Find out how you can help to maintain our hormone choices.

 

Oct 26, 2020

What’s In Your Food? (#195)

American food, even much of what we buy at “healthy” food stores, can be fumigated, rinsed with chemicals to prolong their shelf life, and not what we thought we were paying for.

And, then there’s the processed foods, especially oils and coloring dyes. These can contain heavy metals that are especially damaging to the fetal brain and the brains of your growing children and beloved family.

Dr. Dufault, PhD. studied environmental science at UC Davis, graduating in 1990. She was commissioned by the Navy to work as an officer in the toxicology field before transferring to the U.S. Public Health Service and Food and Drug Administration.

Dr. Dufault saw a lot, so she’s been writing about what she knows to be true about foods, and how to help you stay well. She founded the non-profit “Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute” to continue her research to continue to help you.

In this show you will learn:

  • There is mercury in corn syrup.
  • Which dyes are the most dangerous for your child’s brain
  • Which oils are the most dangerous
  • Why are veggies at places like Whole Foods different than from your local farmer’s markets.
  • Why you should eat 2 to 5 Brazil nuts a day but never binge on them.
  • And much more.

Guest Links

Dr. Dufault’s book, Unsafe at Any Meal: What the FDA Does Not Want You to Know About the Foods You Eat, comes with an online tutorial that guides you through healthy food purchasing and much more.

Reach Dr. Dufault here: rdufault@foodingredient.info

Important tools for learning more about Dr. Dufault’s work and healthy diet.

Smithsonian Institute. Patterns of Health: The Medicine of Food

Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute. Healthy Diet Tutorial (free). Used successfully in three clinical trials to help individuals adopt a healthier diet.

Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute. Publications.

Dr. Deuault’s Google Scholar Link.

Oct 19, 2020

In this show you will learn:

  • What the Mayo Clinic has to say about efficacy of fish oil.
  • How to optimize taking fish oil supplements.
  • How not to get discouraged by working out.
  • How not to have to use hours of de-stressing to get calm.
  • How “less is more”.
  • Testosterone as a possible alternative to weight loss, even bariatric surgery, and who are the best candidates.
  • What kind of caffeine protects the gut wall from inflammation and cancer.
  • How much caffeine protects the gut wall from inflammation and cancer.

We wish you all to be the best that you can be, even if obese or with stage 3 or 4 colorectal cancer. If you listen to the show you learn more options.

Oct 12, 2020

Vertigo

Chronic dizziness, along with nausea and even tinnitus, can be a stunningly awful game changer. Some people have to change their careers. Other isolate in misery. Others doctor hop or read doom and gloom on the Internet.

The buck stops here.

Listen to understand vertigo as healable. Often, rapidly.

 In this show you will learn:

  • Why your vestibular system was the first system in the womb to develop.
  • The various types of vertigo.
  • How vertigo and even tinnitus may be “talking” to you, and how to hear what each is saying.
  • Joey’s 12-week online course that has changed the vertigo path for thousands - including a dear friend and patient of Dr. Berkson’s.
  • How Joey’s multi-layered background, especially in yoga ,was a perfect mix.
  • What is “holding space” and why this is critical for both the patient and the doctor.
  • How tinnitus can be seen as the body responding oddly to new cues. New cues make your physiology change and this new physiology gives off sound and language. That adds up to sounds in your inner ears. Wow.
  • How doctors can optimally work with this information.
  • Most all cases of vertigo and tinnitus are healable and often within months.
  • When Joey’s new book Rock Steady is launching.

 

Guest Joey Remenyi

Joey is a special woman. She weaves scientific language and data along with healing words of a “priestess” creating a tapestry of wisdom.

It’s not often a great healer has the capacity to also be a great healing storyteller.

This show “holds this space” for listening to our illness and then learning the skills that reveal what your vertigo and noise are trying to help your vestibular system understand.

Joey is the founder and director of “Seeking Balance International”. With her background in psychology, neuroscience, Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a Masters in Clinical Vestibular Audiology, along with over 20 years of experience in yoga and the art of experiential neuroplasticity she is uniquely positioned to support and understand folks suffering with vertigo and tinnitus.

Joey’s new book ROCK STEADY will be released mid-November. Look for it and her online course at SeekingBalance.com.au

Oct 5, 2020

Dr. Sahar Swidan, PHARM.D., ABAAHP, FAARFM, FACA is one of the world’s leading experts on pain, it’s link to the gut, and medical answers that address “root cause”.

 

Dr Swidan is CEO of Pharmacy Solutions in Ann Arbor, MI, Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Research and Leadership at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy at Wayne State University.

 

Dr. Swidan received her “Doctor of Pharmacy” and completed a 3-year research Fellowship in “Bio-Pharmaceutics and Gastroenterology” at the University of Michigan.

 

Dr. Swidan  co-authored “Metabolic Therapies in Orthopedics, Second Edition”.

 

Dr. Swidan is currently Co-Editing and Authoring a book with many thought leaders from around the globe in advanced therapeutics in pain managements, launching in December 2020.

 

In this show with you will learn:

  • Various” root causes” of pain.
  • Causes and treatments of migraines.
  • What is centralized sensitization syndrome?
  • How to diagnose and treat fibromyalgia?
  • What does LDN offer for pain?
  • What NSAID’s do to progesterone and how they help or worsen pain.
  • How to approach Barrett’s esophagus?
  • The gut-pain link.
  • Complications with Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI’s).
  • The role of proton pumps and mitochondria.
  • Melatonin to boost mitochondrial PPIs.
  • The role of “leaky” in the gut wall and blood brain barrier, to pain.
  • And more!

 

This show is fast, friendly and filled with clinical and scientific pearls for pain management for both the professional and smart patient.

 

Links:   Pharmacy Solutions

Sep 29, 2020

In this show:

  • The winning 7-minute motivational speech that contributed to Mike being named best speaker of the year in 2020
  • How to build a fire in your belly about being fully alive
  • The 80/20 rule that helps Mike raise his 8 kids and be a success in his 31-yr. marriage
  • And the joy to hear a handsome man write… “I’m good with anything”.
  • And, more.

Links

Semi-final winning speech - ‘A Girl Who Was Blue” 

Final winning speech: The Librarian and Mrs. Montgomery

 

 

Sep 15, 2020

Dr. Berkson offers a wide-ranging discussion on steroids, aging, belly fat and immune function, and nutrition and pregnancy. Plus, Dr. Berkson offers perspective about how science is an evolving discipline, which makes it difficult to understand phenomena—like COVID-19—in black and white. 

In this show you will hear about:

  • We need to be guided by science, but science doesn't have black-and-white answers.
  • A call for common sense and reason.
  • A need to not be nonchalant about steroids.
  • Steroids and bones
  • Steroids and clots
  • Steroids and your immune system
  • Steroids and glaucoma
  • Comparing Mask Material by the Univ. of Arizona
  • Food, probiotics and depression
  • Aging plasticity, chronic low-grade inflammation, belly fat and eosinophils.
  • Sugar consumption when pregnant: what starts in the womb….

That gut overlapping your belt. Your belly fat, not under your skin but deeper inside your abdomen, adversely effects immune function. And drives you to age faster than you would have if you had less belly fat. 

This is a great show to keep you up to date and as healthy as you can be.

Like to take a deeper dive?

Go to drlindseyberkson.com/membership to get daily posts, live meetings, questions answered and more.

 

Sep 7, 2020

In this show you will learn:

  • Why are we so complicated? Even Jesus would get frustrated.
  • Peace, why it’s so hard to get over ourselves.
  • Laughing, smiling and your brain.
  • Happiness is not dependent on being partnered.
  • Ionophores and what you should know
  • Zinc a an ionophore and its role with hydroxychloroquine
  • Air is the new food: pollution and brain health
  • Gut microbes and viral infections
  • Body weight has alarming impact on brain function
  • Censorship in today’s pandemic medical space and Dr. Brownstein
  • And more.

This show combines science and entertainment with probing questions and perspectives.

You won’t want to miss this!

Sep 1, 2020

Progesterone is needed in order for a woman to conceive a child, maintain pregnancy, and is produced at exceedingly high levels (around 400mg a day) in the third trimester. In this episode, Dr. Berkson discusses the many benefits of progesterone, how progesterone interacts with other hormones, and how it affects your health. She talks about bio-identical vs. synthetic progesterone and what we can expect to see from Pharma companies in the near future.  (For full show notes go to www.drlindseyberkson.com/podcast)

Aug 17, 2020

America is an aging country. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is now the third leading cause of death in the United States in the aging population. The development of effective treatments and prevention is a major healthcare goal.

In this show you will hear about the visionary physician and his program that is successfully reversing AD. Along with the peer review data to prove it!

Dr. Dale E. Bredesen

Dale E. Bredesen is a professor of neurology at the Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Dr. Bredesen has successfully trained 1500 medical doctors in his cognitive decline reversal protocols. These doctors are reporting that they are successfully replicating his success for cognitive decline.

In his 40 years in medicine, Dr. Bredesen has over 212 articles published in PubMed with his name on them.

Dr. Bredesen has published several studies from 10 to 100 patients demonstrating statistical efficacy in reversal of Alzheimer’s Disease within three to six months in mild and severe cases.

In this show you will learn:

  • Key factors for improving cognition.
  • What is a “cognosocopic exam” and where can you get it for free.
  • How and why to go ketogenic.
  • How and why to go ketogenic if you have kidney disease.
  • The safe uses of citicholine.
  • Why hormones protect your brain.
  • What mycotoxins from mold do to your brain.
  • ApoE4 genetic glitches, cognition and testosterone.
  • And more.

Guest Links

Website

Apollo Health

Books 

The End of Alzheimer's Program: The First Protocol to Enhance Cognition and Reverse Decline at Any Age 

The End of Alzheimer's

Recent Study 

https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/reversal-of-cognitive-decline-100-patients-2161-0460-1000450.pdf

Social Media 

https://www.facebook.com/drdalebredesen/

https://twitter.com/DrDaleBredesen

Aug 17, 2020

Your Brain

Your relationship with your brain rules every aspect of life. Yet, in today’s world, rife with emotional and pollutional toxicity, it’s way too easy to be ruled by your brain, rather than you being in charge.

“Brain hygiene” plays a prominent role in everyday world-life interactions and perceptions. This includes work, relationships and even cultural perceptions such as politics and inter-racial justice. 

In this show you will learn:

  • What part of your brain responds with fear.
  • How to better control your “reactive” fearful brain.
  • Who are the brain heroes.
  • How toxins play a role in brain health.
  • How hormones play a role in brain health.
  • How the brain and inter-racial perceptions interact.
  • And more.

Shonte’ Jovan Taylor

Shonte’ has a BA and Masters in Neuroscience, is in the middle of her PhD program, and took a break to start her OptiMind Neuroscience Coaching & Training Institute.

Shonte’ holds yearly neuroscience symposiums and had asked Dr. Berkson to co-lecture at one, a few years past. They have been interactive and mutually respective colleagues ever since.

In Shonte’s OptiMind Neuroscience Institute she instructs that if you learn how to “rule your brain” you can “rule your world”.

To be a successful yet peaceful person, to contribute to world peace and evolution, it is critical to learn how to master your brain so it doesn’t enslave yourself and your actions, even unconsciously. Especially unconsciously.

This show is about awakening and opening and utilizing your highest potential.

Guest Links

You can reach out to find out more about Shonte’ here:

OptiMindInstitute.com

ShonteJTaylor.com

 

Aug 10, 2020

The world is experiencing a pandemic from COVID-19. So research is looking at every which way various physiologic states might be protective or increase vulnerability.

Across the world males seem more susceptible, compared to women (especially premenopausal women) to getting COVID. Once they get it, they are more susceptible to severe outcomes as well as fatalities, once again compared to younger women.

It has been suggested that estrogen may be protective against COVID-19 in females and/or that androgens (like testosterone) worsen COVID-19 in men.

As of this date, there are three studies being done giving males and menopausal females "estrogen" and/or "progesterone" replacement as it "may" be protective against COVID-19.

In This Show You will Hear About Estrogen

  • Is estrogen protective against COVID?
  • Estrogen signals are critical in both innate and adaptive immune responses as well as in tissue repairing processes during respiratory virus infection.
  • Estrogens can regulate the expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), a key component for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) cell entry. So estrogen may play a role as a protective COVID “gate-keeper”.
  • The paper that discusses this is: Estrogen regulates the expression of SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in differentiated airway epithelial cells. Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2020;318(6):L1280-L1281. doi:10.1152/ajplung.00153.2020
  • In animal experiments, estrogen treatment silences the inflammatory reactions and decreases virus titers leading to improved survival rate.
  • One article even said stated in it abstract, “Premarin (commercial patented estrogen from horse’s urine) is capable of stopping the COVID-19 pandemic.” (Prevention and therapy of COVID-19 via exogenous estrogen treatment for both male and female patients. J Pharm Pharm Sci. 2020;23(1):75-85. doi:10.18433/jpps31069)
  • Estrogen (and progesterone) may be helpful as "anti-COVID-19 agents" for people with a high risk of cell stress like the elderly, cancer patients, and front-line medical staff.
  • Doctors at the Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University in New York are conducting a randomized trial to determine if the use of a “transdermal estrogen patch” for 7 days in patients with COVID-19 might reduce the need for intubation in men and older women infected with COVID-19.

What About Progesterone?

  • Many of the sickest patients with COVID-19 have high levels of immune system proteins called cytokines in their blood. “Cytokine storm” is an overactive immune response to a viral infection and is one of the most devastating complications of COVID-19 infections. Cytokine storms are known to happen in autoimmune diseases. One study of patients who died of H1N1 influenza, for example, found that 81% had features of a cytokine storm.
  • Researchers have looked at the anti-inflammatory properties of progesterone. Pregnant women, who usually have high levels of progesterone, tend to have milder courses of COVID-19.
  • A new study will assess the use of a short course of progesterone therapy in hospitalized men diagnosed with the novel coronavirus.

What About Androgens?

  • In January, one of the first publications on those sickened by the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China, reported that three out of every four hospitalized patients were male. But many men in China smoke while women don’t, so it wasn’t completely known if androgens (male hormones) were the issue, or smoking.
  • But data from around the world have since confirmed that men face a greater risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19 than women.
  • Androgens—male hormones such as testosterone—appear to boost the virus’ ability to get inside cells.
  • Preliminary observations from Spain suggest that a disproportionate number of men with male pattern baldness—which is linked to a powerful androgen—end up in hospitals with COVID-19.
  • Epidemiological data from around the world have confirmed the early reports of male vulnerability. In Lombardy in Italy, for example, men comprised 82% of 1591 patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) from 20 February to 18 March, according to a JAMA paper. And male mortality exceeded that of women in every adult age group in another JAMA study of 5700 New York City patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
  • Several studies link baldness to higher risk of COVID and more severe cases. Baldness is associated with higher levels of the most aggressive metabolites of testosterone (DHT).
  • Two small studies have reported that men with male pattern baldness are overrepresented among hospitalized COVID-19 patients.

 

A paper by Markus Hoffmann of the Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and colleagues in CELL, sent a lightning bolt through scientific community.

This work showed Covid can gain entry into the body more easily by the action of an enzyme called TMPRSS2, a membrane-bound enzyme. The enzyme cleaves the “spike” protein on the coronavirus’ surface, allowing the virus to fuse with the host cell’s membrane and get inside the cell. Male hormones turn this enzyme on.

In the prostate, TMPRSS2 is produced when male hormones bind to the androgen receptor.

Researchers haven’t established if androgens control TMPRSS2 in the lungs as they have in the prostate. But Andrea Alimonti, head of molecular oncology at Università della Svizzera italiana, looked at data on more than 42,000 men with prostate cancer in Italy. He and colleagues found that patients on androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT)—drugs that slash levels of testosterone—were only one-quarter as likely to contract COVID-19 as men with prostate cancer not on ADT. Men on ADT were also less likely to be hospitalized and to die.

In one Italian study, men with prostate cancer who received drugs that suppress androgens were much less likely to be infected with COVID.

Prostate cancer researcher Catherine Marshall of Johns Hopkins University is preparing a trial of bicalutamide, an older, inexpensive androgen receptor blocker, in 20 patients hospitalized within 3 days after they tested positive for COVID-19.

Women are being included in the trial, she adds, because they have androgens, too, although at lower levels than men.

What You will Learn Overall

  • Estrogens help heal acute lung injury.
  • Progesterone tamps down inflammatory cytokines.
  • Androgens might help the virus’s spike protein take grip inside the body. But does this mean high androgens compared to healthy normal levels? We don’t know yet.
  • Drugs ( finasteride and dutasteride) that block the conversion of testosterone to DHT, the most powerful form of testosterone, seem to reduce ACE2 levels in healthy human lung alveolar cells.
  • Androgen sensitivity would explain severe cases in female patients who present with metabolic syndrome or polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) or who are using birth control methods that include the use of hormones that bind to an androgen receptor (such as levonorgestrel and norethisterone).

There is a lot we don’t know, but in this show you will hear the latest about the link between hormones and COVID!

Aug 3, 2020

In this show you will learn:

  • What is post Covid syndrome.
  • How it is treated.
  • How to prevent it.
  • How to best prevent getting Covid.
  • The use and dosages of natural anti-inflammatories. 
  • And more.

Suzanne Steinbaum, D.O. is president of the SRSHeart, program for Women’s Cardiovascular Prevention, Health and Wellness and was recently the Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Prevention, Health and Wellness at Mt. Sinai Heart in New York City.

Dr. Eddie Maristany practices at the Naples’s Center for Functional Medicine in Naples, Florida.

Links:

Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum’s Heart Book: Every Woman’s Guide to a Heart Healthy Life, teaching all women how to lead the healthiest lives by “living from the heart”.

Naples Center for Functional Medicine: https://naplescfm.com/

Jul 27, 2020

Regular medicine is failing women.

 

For many health issues from irregular periods to acne to PCOS, doctors pass out oral contraception (oral contraceptives) like M&M’s. The “pill” is good at stopping symptoms. But they do not address the “root cause” of what initiated the symptoms. And they can have downstream adverse effects as they are made up of endocrine disrupting synthetic hormones.  

 

Birth control pills (oral contraception) contains synthetic hormones. These synthetic hormones can damage our own home-made hormones. The pill often contains synthetic estrogens (ethinyl estradiol) and synthetic progesterone’s (progestins).  All have been found to have endocrine disrupting actions.

 

For example, it’s clearly been shown that women on oral contraceptives have more tendency to experience anxiety, poor partner choices, more divorce, migraines, and even inflammatory bowel disease in women with genetic glitches. Much of this occurs from the endocrine disrupting action of these endocrine disruptors, or by their blockage of healthy hormone protection in various tissues, like your precious gut wall.

 

The driving answer becomes, what are safe alternatives?

 

This show discuses new ways for women to know their bodies and fertility. This knowledge can be used to enhance fertility and also to master drug-free, safe contraception.

 

Dr. Susan Caldwell is a rare bird of a physician. She is double-board certified in internal medicine (the thinkers of medicine) and pediatrics (the heart of medicine). She is smart plus heart.

 

Dr. Caldwell got inspired by the work of  Thomas W. Hilgers, MD. This works comes out of the Pope Paul VI Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction and the National Center for Women's Health in Omaha, Nebraska.

 

Dr. Caldwell, to add this work to her practice, became a Certified Naprotechnology Medical Consultant. This form of consulting helps get to the “root” of health issues, like progesterone insufficiency may be causing your irregular bleeding or leaky gut in PCOS patients.

 

Naprotechnology also give answers for safe and natural birth control.

 

This dynamic but heart-felt conversation will help many women on their journey to self-awareness, natural birth control, and to ways to decrease adverse side effects of the pill, should you need to stay on it.

 

 

Helpful links:

 

 

  • Natural womanhood blog - a great source of information for women to learn the benefits of charting and risks of birth control. This page explains some methods and has links to help women to start charting:

https://naturalwomanhood.org/learn/get-started/#choose-class

 

  • FEMM method - designed especially for college aged women:

https://femmhealth.org

 

  • For women but especially for healthcare providers who want to learn the science behind the methods:

https://www.factsaboutfertility.org

 

  • Naprotechnology (short for natural-procreative-technology)

For women who need a “PHD” method that leads to medical diagnosis and treatment:

www.naprotechnology.com

 

  • To find a Creighton instructor or Napro doctor:

https://fertilitycare.org

 

 

Susan Caldwell, MD, CFCMC

East Jefferson General Hospital - Lakeview

7030 Canal Blvd, 2nd floor

New Orleans, LA 70124

office (504)503-6760

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