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Dr. Berkson's Best Health Radio Podcast

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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Jun 19, 2021

This is a dynamic conversation about the reality of the health of the gut and diverse diseases from autism to severe upper respiratory tract infections.

Dr. Sabine Hazan-Steinberg

Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist Dr. Sabine Hazan-Steinberg is past Chief of Medicine at Community Memorial Hospital and has spent the last several decades doing deep dives into fecal transplant research, biomes and the link with overall health as well as specific diseases.

Dr. Hazan has been the principal investigator on over 22 peer review published medical trials. She has published studies on Covid and our biome. Her latest paper coming out is on the specific role of one bacteria in our gut that makes us more vulnerable to Covid infections as well as enhanced severity.

Dr. Hazen is one of the world’s experts on the genetics of the gut biome and now you get to hear it straight from the experts.

In this show you will learn:

  • What the biome has to do with our health and the top issues and foods that make a biome unhealthy.
  • What “biome diversity” means and if you want it, or not.
  • How fecal transplant eliminated disease in some patients and increased it in others.
  • How pathogenic gut infections, even C. diff, is more an issue of loss of “balance” of a healthy biome rather than the virulence of that particular microbe.
  • The role of gut biome health and Covid.
  • Risk vs. benefit of scientific medical research.
  • Early intervention Covid protocols, and more.

You will also learn some of the best and easiest “probiotic foods” to consume such as umeboshi plum paste, and where to get it.

May 4, 2021

Dr. Hooman Noorchashm

Physician-scientist Dr. Hooman Noorchashm is an advocate for patient safety, ethics and women’s health. He specializes in cardiothoracic surgery and has taught and practiced medicine for nearly two decades. When his wife, also a doctor, Dr. Amy Reed, tragically (and needlessly) passed away from complications of an FDA approved gynecologist procedure that is still in essence performed today, Dr. Noorchashm began his new incarnation of patient advocacy of do no harm.

Dr. Noorchashm now brings this perspective to why some people may have adverse effects from the vaccine. And how this might translate into who should or should not get the vaccine. As well as how we might test this ourselves.

Faculty appointments for Dr. Noorchashm's include positions at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Philadelphia VA Hospital.

In addition to peer-reviewed publications, he has authored medical book chapters and has lectured at several annual medical meetings and conferences.

In 2017, Dr. Noorchashm founded the American Patient Defense Union, Inc. which he describes as “a union of, by and for patients — capable of providing adequately powered liability signals to the corporate healthcare establishment so that it can improve and evolve.”

In this show you will learn:

  • Dr. Noorchashm’s theory of why vaccine complications might be happening.
  • How you can test yourself.
  • Dr. Noorchashm’s points and discussion of how everyone should be screened before getting the vaccine.
  • About early intervention.
  • and Why biopsying fibroids before removal makes sense.

Faculty appointments for Dr. Noorchashm's include positions at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and the Philadelphia VA Hospital.

In addition to peer-reviewed publications, he has authored medical book chapters and has lectured at several annual medical meetings and conferences.

In 2017, Dr. Noorchashm founded the American Patient Defense Union, Inc. which he describes as “a union of, by and for patients — capable of providing adequately powered liability signals to the corporate healthcare establishment so that it can improve and evolve.”

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American Patient Defense Union

Jul 6, 2020

This is a show of reality. You will hear a dialogue of what is going on deep inside humanity’s psyche. In this profoundly healing and inspirational show, Mr. Andrew Harvey shares what the human race is collectively facing during this time of global pandemic and uncertainty.

In 2012, Mr. Harvey was nominated for the Templeton Prize, eventually awarded to the Dalai Lama, a spiritual colleague and life-long friend of Mr. Harvey’s.

Both Mr. Harvey and the Dalai Lama feel humanity is at a cross-roads: extinction or transformation. In this show you learn what these two paths look like and the how’s and why’s needed for humanity to save itself.

Much of humanity has been continually run by greed, money and narcissism. Priorities of profit and power have shadowed humanity’s future or social injustices.  The planet, air and water upon which humanity survives, continues to be polluted for power, greed and self-service.

Now is the time for change… or suffer.

Now is the time to make “hope come true”.

Mr. Harvey had been honored as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2012. Andrew has authored over 40 books including The Hope, A Guide to Sacred Activism, The Direct Path.

Andrew Harvey is Founder and Director of The Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability.

Sacred Activism, started by Mr. Harvey,  is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, and love, together with wise radical action in the world.

You will not want to miss this show.

https://www.andrewharvey.net/

Mar 4, 2020

Be master of your mind rather than having your mind be master of you! As our culture and world gets more stimuli, more screen time, more job demands, our mindfulness and peace can suffer. 

In this show you learn:

  • What is mindfulness.
  • How mindfulness is like “falling in love” with the details that make up your life, rather than be overwhelmed by them.
  • Exact steps to practice it within minutes. 
  • How mindfulness can help you deal successfully with physical pain and negative emotions.
  • How negative emotions “lube” a groove into your survival brain while shutting down your higher executive brain. 
  • What breathing has to do with it.
  • Generation stress.
  • Recipe for peace: pay attention, say thank you, breathe.
  • And more.

Dr. Race started the Mindful Life Schools program which has helped over 50,000 children and many teachers learn mindfulness and create more happiness.

Kristen Race, Ph.D. is a parent of two young children, as well as an expert in child, family and school psychology. Dr. Race is the author of Mindful Parenting and founder of Mindful Life™. 

Dr. Race has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA TODAY, CNN, and Real Simple Magazine. She is a regular blogger for The Huffington Post and Psychology Today and a TEDx speaker.

The effect of mindfulness is extremely pronounced. Yale scientists demonstrated (see citation below) that even when participants were subjected to high heat on their forearm, their brain responded as if it was experiencing normal temperature if they were practicing simple mindfulness techniques.

It is connecting to the present moment peacefully, gratefully and with NON-JUDGMENT.

In this show you learn the easy and effective technique of PBR:

  • Pause, 
  • Breathe, and 
  • Respond with Intention. 
  • Very cool! 
  • Works fast when practiced regularly.

Our judgments can rule us... making us vulnerable to anxiety, negativity and unhappiness. 

The good news is... we can learn to rule our judgments. 

With tools of mindfulness. This leads to awareness and to control over our mind and health.

Awareness of what rules us is a huge part of feeling healthier and happier. It rules how you act and react. And what you attract. 

It makes you comfy inside your body, brain and relationships.

Understand and practice awareness. 

This show guides you how!

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Mar 14, 2019

Dr. Gokani and Dr. Berkson met at MindShare in San Diego and have become close colleagues and friends. You will learn fascinating information within the context of live dialogue and sisterhood.

Dr. Gokani believes that chronic pain, especially migraines, as well as debilitating fatigue, manifest from humans becoming out of touch with Mother Earth and normal physical body/mind rhythms.

Dr. Gokani heals “pain” and “fatigue” by identifying a patient’s unique “disconnect” between their mind, body and humanity from Mother Earth.

Dr. Gokani is the Founder of The Gokani Method: Master your Migraine Pain Program. In this program patients learn the “purpose” of their pain. Once you learn what your pain is trying to tell you, it is easier to let it go.

Patients discover how to heal themselves through a deeper appreciation of their mind-body-spirit connection. 

Dr. Gokani recommends specific foods, nutrients, herbs, imagery, meditation, and medications if needed, all explained during in-depth time with each person.

Dr. Gokani combines Western Medicine Neurology (science of the nerves) with Ayurveda

Medicine (Hindu system of medicine) together with transcendental meditation.

You can watch Dr. Gokani on Dr. Oz. Click HERE 

Zira Mind and Body Center, Founder
333 Waukegan Road, Suite E
Glenview, IL
www.truptigokanimd.com

Jul 10, 2018

Unless you're Bill Gates you're just one serious illness away from bankruptcy.

The paradox is that the US has the costliest health system in the world, yet it performs so poorly compared to many other countries.
In today’s episode, Jeff Kanter and Dr. Berkson delve into this growing health care crisis surrounding health insurance. Health insurance is supposed to protect against possible “future risks” —but today’s systems are not offering all Americans adequate protection.

Jeff Kanter is no stranger to politics and concern about regulatory health care and protection of the individual. Mr. Kanter was the campaign manager for Irwin Schiff’s 1996 Libertarian Presidential campaign.


Now, Mr. Kanter is tackling health insurance. In today’s world of medicine, insurance companies have more and more control over how patients get treated. Doctor’s work directly for insurance companies, not for you, their patient. To create a new paradigm, Mr. Kanter co-founded a new company. In Health Excellence Plus, the doctor and patient have direct control. This new paradigm eliminates the insurance company as the middleman, and is an insurance game-changer.

This new form of insurance, called “bottom-up patient-centric” health care, allows Americans to take back control of their health from third-party interference by insurance companies. Why does health care cost so much? Why are many Americans, even if they are insured, at risk of losing everything with a serious diagnosis? Why do health insurance policies presently—with high deductibles, co-pays, and excessive exclusions—offer little protection during a serious illness? Why are so few talking about this horrific problem for so many Americans?


New options are emerging, especially for younger and healthier Americans. This information does not YET address the growing issues in Medicare-aged Americans, which are being threatened by decreases in coverage and by privatization.

We need answers. And this show offers creative solutions for these serious health concerns. A serial entrepreneur, Mr. Kanter saw an opportunity to put libertarian ideas into action with the inception of the Affordable Care Act. You will be hearing more and more about insurance alternatives, and Mr. Kanter’s company is pioneering this direction.


On this show you will learn:
1. Why is the free market the only solution to our problem?
2. What does a self-pay patient look like?
3. Why do you need to have a strategy when it comes to your health?
4. What is the difference between insurance and medical cost sharing
5. What direction are doctors going?
6. Which direction is medicine in general going?


Check out HealthExcellencePlus.com for more information

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