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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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Now displaying: October, 2020
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

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