Stop Chasing Pain

In this episode, we chat with Amber Kivett, educator and ambassador for LifePro.  Lifepro is a vibrant community where people striving to achieve their fitness goals can find all the equipment they need. 

Amber Kivett, ATC, LAT, CSCS, FMS, FMT is a #1 Amazon Bestseller co-author to “Dear Her”, an Award-Winning National presenter recognized by Forbes Magazine, Pop Sugar, Prevention Magazine and Natural Awakenings Magazine. She is also a professional Ambassador for B3 BFR Sciences and Endless Rope by Axios. She has received endorsements from celebrities, world-class coaches, elite athletes, and the general population globally for her work with KIPRS (Kivett Instant Pain Relief Systems) and Kivett Kinetic Solutions, INC. 

Amber graduated from Purdue University with a Bachelor’s degree, majoring in athletic training concentration and exercise science in 2002. She is certified in over 20 specialties including orthopedic technology, eastern medicine modalities, speed/agility/strength coaching, BFR training, mechanical vibration technology, IASTM, fitness, group training, and has created her own certification courses in massage gun application techniques and KIPRS (Kivett Instant Pain Relief Systems). 

Amber suffered from 8 spinal injuries, a head injury, fibromyalgia, and several other injuries as a result of a motor vehicle accident in 2005. After winning a 2-year battle of learning to walk again and rehabilitating herself back to a functional lifestyle, she began the journey of living each new day with the Devine purpose of transforming lives, delivering greatness, mentoring others, and changing the world one person at a time! She is referred to by many as the “Gatekeeper of Dreams”, “Magic Hands”, and the “Magic Lady”. When Amber is not delivering “MAGIC” to others, she LOVES spending time on the Kivett Family Farm in Monrovia, IN with her 10-year old daughter, Zoey, her husband, Adam, her dog, Jewel, and her closest family and friends.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Physical Trauma 
• Emotional Trauma
• Movement and healing 
• Manual therapy 
• Whole-body vibration therapy
• Lymphatic dynamics
• Pelvic floor health
• Holistic healing 
• Mental health 
• Fascia
• Autoimmune 
• Neuroreceptors 
• Vibration plates
• Vibration massage tools 
• Stress
• Hydration  
• Vagus nerve stimulation
• Lifepro models
• And So Much More!

To purchase your own Lifepro vibration therapy tool, please visit Lifeprofitness.com.

To learn more about Amber, find her on social media: Instagram - @kksmagik and LifePro: Instagram - @lifeprousa

In this episode, we chat with Lauren Mones, owner and creator of Fermenting Fairy.  A line of unique wild fermented foods.  Healing foods. 

Lauren was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease in 2014. At the time, she was what some people considered “Uber healthy”.  She was racing triathlons. A normal workout day consisted of running, swimming and biking for up to 6 hours per day. She ate a mostly clean diet and had a great career as a nationally certified Occupational Therapist.  Her personal relationships with family and friends were solid. But she began to show signs of terrible gut health.  She was sick. Very sick.

When the post drug drowsiness wore-off, the physician whispered in her ear "this is a life-long disease with no cure. You will need to be heavily medicated for the rest of your life." She was then told to go home, take medication and eat anything she wanted, that food had nothing to do with the activity of the disease.  Her physician encouraged her that she would be able to “live an average life with Crohns”.

But Lauren was not content with that.   She didn’t know anything about Crohn’s at the time, but what she did know, was that food, in particular plants, had always had a healing effect on her.  Never having been one to live an average life, that fueled her fire! She changed everything, eliminated inflammatory foods and added more foods that were closest to nature. She managed stress levels better with personal growth practices.

She began making sauerkraut, kefir, kimchi, kombucha.  She started studying the microbiome in depth.  Not only was her body healing with these foods but she developed absolute awe for the microbial world. A world that is teeming with life. A world of balance, symbiosis and chaos. 

Fermenting Fairy was born from this place of trusting her own inner compass and a deep desire to share these living, fermented, medicinal foods with you. 

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Crohns
• Autoimmune disease
• Gut health
• Fermented foods
• Real (good) fermented vs the not so great stuff
• Feeding the good (gut) bacteria
• Cravings
• Hierarchy of fermented foods
• Kombucha, Kraut, and Sourdough
• Keifer vs yogurt
• Food labels
• Additives 
• Types of fermentation 
• Fermenting vs pickling 
• And So Much More!

Use code SCP10 at checkout - FermentingFairy.com

To learn more, visit Lauren on social media: Instagram - @fermenting.fairy 

In this episode we chat with Jim Girard (Research and Development) and Jim Law (CEO and co-founder) of Advanced Biotechnologies, LLC,.  In this exciting episode, they introduce us to the BioCharger NG.  

The BioCharger NG is a hybrid subtle energy revitalization platform. The transmitted energy stimulates and invigorates the entire body to optimize and improve potential health, wellness, and athletic performance.  The BioCharger NG is completely non-invasive, and has proven to restore strength, stamina, coordination and mental clarity.

The BioCharger NG utilizes four different energy types – Light, Voltage, Frequencies & Harmonics, and Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Fields (PEMFs).  As individual energies, each has its fair share of supported research, however the BioCharger NG is the first energy platform of its kind to incorporate all four of these beneficial energies into one platform

Jim Girard brings more than 25 years of subtle energy research and development experience to the team, which led to the introduction of the original BioCharger concept in 1993. In 1988, Jim was privileged to have studied under Dr. Orville Fitz, a protégé of Nikola Tesla which led to Jim’s experimentation with Tesla coil and multiple wave oscillation (MWO) technologies. 

Jim Law has served as a managing member of Advanced Biotechnologies, LLC since co-founding the firm in 2013. With a focus on strategy and business development, Jim’s entrepreneurial track record includes founding/co-founding two prior start-ups that implemented innovative and disruptive technology based solutions that changed the way their respective industries did business.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Energy
• Healing
• Nature
• Electric fields
• Frequencies and harmonics
• What is a BioCharger
• Rife Energy
• Cognitive awareness
• Hydration
• And So Much More!

Use code PERRY500 or this link to save $500 off the purchase of your own BioCharger. https://biocharger.com/perry-nickelston/

To learn more, visit BioCharger.com and find more on social media: Instagram -@biochargerng.

Dr. Beau Lotto joins us again.  A neuroscientist and world-renowned expert in perception; his research explores the ways in which we experience the world through our own versions of reality. As Beau puts it, "the brain never sees the world as it actually is, only the world that is useful to see." By illuminating these principles of perception he has helped individuals and companies transform their approach to creativity and innovation.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Perception 
• Rules vs Principles
• Context
• Adaptability
• Perceptional intelligence
• Over praising
• Risk
• Uncertainty
• Change
• Love
• Feeling
• Relationships
• Assumptions
• And So Much More!

To participate in the "The Map of Pain Experiment" visit here. 

To connect with Beau on social media visit: Instagram - @beaulotto or at BeauLotto.com. 

Previous episode with Dr. Beau Lotto. 

In this episode, join us as we talk with Patrick McKeown, international practitioner and author of “The Oxygen Advantage.

World-renowned author and breathing practitioner Patrick McKeown was educated at Trinity College in Dublin, before completing his clinical training in the Buteyko Breathing Method at the Buteyko Clinic, Moscow, Russia. This training was accredited by Professor Konstantin Buteyko.

From a young age, Patrick suffered from asthma and relied on an array of medicines and inhalers until he discovered the Buteyko Method at the age of 26, experiencing immediate relief from his symptoms. By applying the principles of the Buteyko Method, Patrick remains asthma-free since then, a feat that over 20 years of medication had failed to accomplish.

In a career spanning 15 years, Patrick has since also become a bestselling author and expert on the topic of optimal breathing for improved health, well-being and fitness.

Among the eight books Patrick has written, two have consistently remained in the top ten best sellers on Amazon.com: ‘Close Your Mouth’ and ‘Asthma Free Naturally’.

His latest book ‘The Oxygen Advantage^®’ is based on 4 years of scientific research and tailors breathing exercises for anyone seeking to improve their fitness and sports performance. Already in its 3^rd print run in the UK since September 2015, ‘The Oxygen Advantage^®’ is set to revolutionize how we train, by addressing dysfunctional breathing patterns and simulating high altitude training through specific breath-holding exercises as devised by Patrick.

Patrick’s message is simple: how you breathe at rest and during exercise will affect your overall performance. Learn to breathe correctly and see immediate results in your training.

Patrick’s passion for his subject enables him to continue developing and refining his techniques to improve the fitness, performance, and focus of professional and non-professional athletes alike worldwide.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Functional Breathing
• Body, Mind and Breath
• Sleep
• Women's breathing
• Breathing and circulation
• Light, slow and deep
• Nasal nitric oxide 
• Nose breathing
• Mouth taping
• Dentistry and breathing
• Sleep disorders
• Vagus nerve health 
• Flow state
• Functional movement 
• Bolt score
• And So Much More!

To connect with Patrick on social media visit:  @oxygenadvantage , Facebook or on Twitter.

In this episode, join us as we talk with Dr. Jaban Moore.

Dr. Moore’s passion for restoring health through a multi-therapeutic approach came from a young age when his mother was diagnosed with Diabetes after a 3-year struggle trying to figure out what was causing her health to decline. She was diagnosed only because she was in a car accident and in the ER she was told that she was diabetic. Her doctors noted that it was possibly missed for years. By this point she had gained 100 lbs, her cholesterol was out of control, she had ulcers in her stomach, depression, high blood pressure, and chronic fatigue. Growing up Dr. Moore watched his mother’s condition progress adding new medications and symptoms by the year never curing or making her feel better for long just stabilizing one symptom until the next started. This eventually lead to thyroid cancer and 2 surgeries to remove the cancer. Through this experience, Dr. Moore found his mission to discover the root cause of a condition so that the progression can be stopped so the next person doesn’t have to go through a story like hers.

During chiropractic school when his own health journey began he started to decline physically rapidly with no known cause at the age of 25. Over the next year, he searched for answers with many different doctors. He was experiencing, fatigue, joint pain, and low testosterone. After not finding many answers from several doctors he was at a conference of functional medicine doctors. It was there he met one who suggested the possibility of Lyme disease. After some testing and further investigation, Dr. Moore was found to be positive for Lyme. This began his journey of learning how to treat it. After consulting several doctors and trying many treatments Dr.Moore found relief and has been symptom-free for over 5 years now.

Dr. Moore’s professional and postdoctoral training includes True Cellular Healing, Chiropractic Plus Kinesiology, Applied Kinesiology, Clinical Kinesiology, Acupuncture, Bio-Resonance Therapy, Sacro-Occipital Technique (SOT), Nutrition, Rehabilitation, Functional Medicine and Blood Laboratory Analysis.

He has taken courses on Mastering Functional Blood Chemistry, Mastering Thyroid, Mastering Brain Chemistry, and has trained with several Lyme disease and parasitology experts.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Root cause
• Mold
• Water systems
• Toxic burden
• Things to consider
• Trauma
• Parasites
• Stress
• Lyme
• Autism
• PANS
• PANDAS
• POTS 
• Acts of kindness
• Power of words
• And So Much More!

To learn more about Dr. Jaban Moore, visit his website:  drjabanmoore.com or on Instagram at @drjabanmoore. Parasite summit. 

In this episode, join us as we talk with Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett. She is among the top one percent most-cited scientists in the world for her revolutionary research in psychology and neuroscience. She is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. She also holds appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where she is Chief Science Officer for the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior.

In addition to the books Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain and How Emotions are Made, Dr. Barrett has published over 240 peer-reviewed, scientific papers appearing in Science, Nature Neuroscience, and other top journals in psychology and cognitive neuroscience, as well as six academic volumes published by Guilford Press. She has also given a popular TED talk with over 6 million views.

Dr. Barrett received a National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award for her revolutionary research on emotion in the brain. 

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Control over your own experiences
• Uncertainty
• Body Budgeting 
• Body Tax - vulnerability to illness
• Emotional and mental health and effects on physical health
• Sickness behavior 
• Metabolic efficiency  
• Chronic pain 
• Stress
• Sex hormones
• Inviting pain (emotional and physical)
• Acts of kindness
• Power of words
• Rationality 
• And So Much More!

To learn more about Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett, visit her website:  lisafeldmanbarrett.com

In this episode, join us as we talk with Ben Greenfield.  Ben Greenfield is a biohacker, nutritionist, physiologist, fitness coach, competitive athlete and New York Times bestselling author of 13 books, including the wildly popular titles Beyond Training and Boundless. In the Boundless Cookbook he takes over 20 years of experience in the health industry We have a great time chatting about things you can do right now to start feeling better, decrease stress, and increase energy. Been following Ben’s work for a long time and really excited to have him on the show. I know you will enjoy this one. Highlights of this podcast include:

• Infrared Sauna
• Sunlight and Detox
• Play
• What we are missing in health
• Energy Medicine 
• And So Much More!

To learn more about Ben his website: BEN GREENFIELD

In this episode, join us as we talk with Dr. Stephen Porges, author of, The Polyvagal Theory. 

Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland.  He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise physiology, gerontology, neurology, neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, psychometrics, space medicine, and substance abuse.

In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders.

He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe, (Norton, 2017) and co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018). 

He is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol ™ , which currently is used by more than 1400 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, to improve language processing and state regulation. 

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Trauma
• Vagus Nerve
• Voice Tone
• Polyvagal Theory
• Eye gaze patterns
• The effect of face masks in terms of engagement
• Pain and defense 
• Acoustic intervention
• Co-regulating
• Autonomic nervous system
• Organs
• Social Interaction
• Healing
• Neuro exercise
• Play
• Freeze response
• Neuroception
• And So Much More!

To learn more about Dr. Porges, visit stephenporges.com or on Instagram at @polyvagalinstitute .

In this episode, join us as we talk with Robby Besner, owner, and CEO of Therasage. 

Robby and his wife began Therasage from their personal journey to help their daughter manage, and eventually overcome her symptoms from Chronic Lyme Disease.  With all of the challenges of our current health care system, it is their vision that each of us takes our health needs into our own hands through the use of a positive, natural, healthful regimen. Using Infrared in applications of everyday use, each of us can make a positive statement toward better health.

Their vision was the dream of bringing unique healthy infrared healing energy to the public in easy-to-use and affordable, high-quality products.  It is through these simple, household devices that we hoped to begin the process of bringing basic applications of Infrared energy into the home. We address the benefits of nature, through the Infrared spectrum, and negative ions, with our signature interface of natural earth elements. The use of natural gemstones like jade and tourmaline enhances the even distribution of deep penetrating infrared as well as generating an abundance of negative ions into the environment, thus bringing the positive forces of infrared heat, negative ions, and natural health to one’s body.

Since its founding, Therasage has  become the gold standard for energy healing naturally healing infrared, negative ions, and eliminating EMFs (the harmful frequencies that electronic products generate.)  

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Infrared Sauna
• Lyme Disease
• Sunlight and Detox
• Energy Medicine and Primal Healing
• Standard Sauna vs Infrared Sauna
• Blood Flow 
• Glyphosate 
• Toxins
• Healing
• Ozone
• Skin, Breathing and Oxygen
• Hydration
• Lymphatic and Infrared Sauna
• UV and Infrared Frequencies
• Sunrise vs Sunset
• Heavy Metals
• And So Much More!

To learn more on Therasage, visit Therasage.com or follow them on Instagram at @therasageinfrared.  Enter code STOPCHASINGPAIN at checkout and receive a 15% off discount on your purchase. 

In this episode, join us as we talk with Unique Hammond, author of Your Tastebuds Are A**holes: How I Trained Mine and Healed Crohn's 

Unique Hammond is a Crohn's survivor, nutrition student, author, health coach, wife, and mother who has helped countless individuals discover natural wellness and live healthier lifestyles.

In a world that is intent on making health complex, Unique wanted to create a program that’s simple. When she was on her healing journey, everything was so complex and she was put on a million supplements. The focus here is on simple nutrition to get your health back. The Bean Protocol was created from her very personal experience healing from Crohn’s disease. 

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Food is medicine - eating for health
• Whole food eating
• Beans
• Crohns
• Cell regeneration - gut health
• Anxiety 
• Menstrual Cycle
• Sympathetic/parasympathetic system
• Eating for calm 
• Eliminating foods
• Fiber
• High adrenaline makers - genetic testing
• And so much more!

For more on her work or her book, follow Unique Hammond on Instagram @uniquehammond  and on her website at youregreat.com.

In this episode, join us as we talk with Tara Youngblood, author of Reprogram Your Sleep: The Sleep Recipe That Works.

Tara Youngblood is the founder and CEO of Chili’s Sleep, a company that creates award-winning technologies and apps that are changing the way the world sleeps. Their Chili Cool Mesh signature product has been used by Presidents, celebrities, and CEOs.

A leading sleep authority, Tara has given a TEDx talk on the recipe for effective sleep. In addition, she has spoken for National Sleep Foundation, Charlotte Science Museum, Wellness conferences, and Health Optimization Summit.

Tara is the sleep coach for the Cincinnati Reds and has consulted with the military and veteran groups.

Tara’s own exploration with sleep started when she lost a child and began her ten-year healing journey. Already a trained scientist with a BS in Science and Physics, Tara studied traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurvedic practices, neuroscience, and psychology.

Among other things, she concluded that the link between sleep and mental health was essential. These insights form the basis of her work consulting with companies, keynote presentations, and technical innovations.

Tara founded and heads the Benjamin Youngblood foundation in honor of her son. The non-profit donates to various charities such as the YMCA in her community of Mooresville, North Carolina.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Sleep and pain
• Sleep recipe
• Sleep deprivation
• Mental illness and sleep
• Athletic performance and sleep 
• Circadian Rythm 
• Genetics and sleep
• Naps
• Sleep tracking
• Stress and dreaming
• Tips for better sleep
• And so much more!

For more on her work or her book, follow Tara Youngblood on Instagram @the_sleep_geek and @chillisleep and on her website at chilisleep.com

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In this episode, join us as we talk with the brilliant, Dr. Steven Lin.

Dr. Steven Lin is a world-leading functional dentist, TEDx speaker, and author of the International #1 Amazon Best Selling Book, The Dental Diet. As a passionate preventative, whole health advocate, Dr. Lin focuses on the understanding of dental disease through nutritional principles. His work has highlighted that crooked teeth and the orthodontia epidemic are diet-based problems and the need for public health policy to prevent braces in the next generation of children.

Dr. Lin’s functional dentistry educational programs and training courses are paving the way for the dental profession to solve the cause of dental disease. Dr. Lin’s Dental Nutrition course is PACE accredited (AGD Council) for continuing professional education. He has trained thousands of healthcare professionals in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. He also teaches and lectures general health practitioners about the mouth-body connection.

Through a lens of dental nutrition, breathing, airways, functional orthodontics and sleep health the oral-systemic link to functional medicine is now stronger than ever.

Dr. Lin is committed to helping the next generation of children avoid braces and dental malocclusion.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• How the movement of functional dentistry began
• Oral microbiome
• Food for oral health, dental health, and overall body health
• Gut, autoimmune and oral health
• Answers in the mouth
• Trigeminal nerve and the teeth
• Lymph in teeth
• Tongue position
• And so much more!

For more on his work or his book, follow Dr. Steven Lin on Instagram @drstevenlin and at drstevenlin.com

In this episode, join us as we talk with the inspiring Amberly Lago.

At age 38, Amberly's life was turned upside down. Hit by an SUV and recovering from 34 surgeries to save her leg from amputation. Diagnosed with an incurable disease dubbed the suicide disease. As result, she lost her business and had zero self-confidence.

She had spiraled down into a depression because she had tried everything for her chronic pain and nothing worked.

Have you ever felt so hopeless and stuck you wanted to give up? Well, that was Amberly. Then one night she was lying in her hospital bed and her life flashed before her eyes. 

Amberly’s unwavering commitment to regain her active lifestyle of training clients transformed her tragedy into victory and she motivates her audiences to find resilience in their own difficulties. She is a fierce advocate for others who suffer from CRPS and proves that any challenge can be overcome by the support of others as well as a determination and belief in oneself.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Amberly's story
• True Grit And Grace
• Hope
• Tragedy into triumph
• Empowering yourself in the face of medication
• And so much more

Follow Amberly on Instagram @amberlylagomotivation and at amberlylago.com

In this episode, join us as we talk with Matt Roeske of Cultivate Elevate. 

Cultivate Elevate was born out of the need for returning balance to the body and earth. We are living in toxic environments that are unhealthy for us and the earth. In order to maintain quality, they work with USDA organic farms that grow in small batches. All of their mushrooms and minerals are lab tested for pesticides such as glyphosate, and heavy metals. Contamination is a widespread problem in the supplement industry. Supplements can contain large amounts of heavy metals, which can cause more harm than good. This is why they are adamant about vigorously testing their products. They support the ancient organic ways of producing. From nature to the consumer.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• The story of Cultivate Elevate
• GMOs and toxins
• Supplements
• Mushrooms
• Shilajit
• Balance in nutrition 
• Permanent changes
• Meshima mushroom
• And so much more

Follow Cultivate Elevate on Instagram @cultivateelevate_. Learn more about their work at cultivateelevate.com.  Use code SCP15 at checkout for 15% off and free shipping within the USA.

In this episode, join us as we talk with Boyd Varty, author of "The Lion Tracker's Guide To Life".  A wildlife and literacy activist Boyd Varty, had an unconventional upbringing. Born to a family of conservationists, Boyd grew up on Londolozi Game Reserve in the South African wilderness, a place where man and nature strive for balance, where perils exist alongside wonders. 

Since childhood, Boyd shared his home with lions, leopards, snakes, and elephants and has spent his life in apprenticeship to the wisdom of nature. Boyd survived a harrowing black mamba encounter, a debilitating bout with malaria, even a vicious crocodile attack, but his biggest challenge was a personal crisis of purpose. As a university student, he studied psychology and ecology, supplementing his education by learning martial arts in Thailand, hiking through the jungles of the Amazon, and apprenticing to a renowned tracker from the Shangaan tribe deepening his intimate knowledge of the natural world. Boyd grew up speaking the local language and learning the true meaning of coexistence between people and with nature.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Awareness begins transformation
• Tracking
• Authentic self vs social self
• Healing
• Solitude in nature
• The story we tell ourselves 
• And so much more

Follow Boyd on Instagram @boyd_varty. Learn more about his books and his work at boydvarty.com.

In this episode, join us as we talk with Dr. Uma Naidoo, author of "This Is Your Brain On Food".  A Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef graduating with her culinary schools’ most coveted award, and a trained Nutrition Specialist. Her nexus of interests have found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry.

Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the United States. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at MGH Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.

She was considered Harvard’s Mood-Food expert and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Eating to up our mental health
• The gut-brain romance
• Impact of food on emotional health
• Mediterranean eating pattern
• Metabolic health
• Small changes you can apply today
• PTSD
• Sleep and food
• Proteins, oils, dairy, gluten, nuts, etc.,
• And much more

Follow Dr. Naidoo on Instagram @drumanaidoo. Learn more about his book and his work at umanaidoomd.com.

In this episode, we talk with Human Performance Specialist, Brian Mackenzie, founder & CEO of UnScared Inc/SH/FT, and co-founder & president of Health and Human Performance Foundation. 

Brian Mackenzie is an innovator in human performance on stress adaptation and a pioneer in the development and application of custom protocols to optimize human health and performance. His work harnesses and integrates respiratory, movement, strength, conditioning and endurance-based training approaches to elicit unprecedented positive results. His protocols have been used to accelerate and raise both mental and physical performance in world-class Olympic and professional athletes, top executives, and elite military operators, as well as to improve the health for people suffering from various chronic and pathological issues.

Brian’s work is voluntarily and repeatedly subjected to rigorous 3rd party scientific testing, re-testing and improvement, at top institutions. He has been contracted and his work involved in research projects at Stanford University School of Medicine, California State University Fullerton, and San Francisco State University.

Brian has also co-authored the book Power Speed Endurance, The New York Times Best Seller UnBreakable Runner, and UnPlugged, which assesses the integration of emergent technology and human performance.

Highlights of this podcast include:

• Pain
• Behavior change and misaligned energy
• Breathing and Autism
• Aerobic efficiency
• Evolution of medicine and technology
• Breathing vs oxygen consumption
• Over breathing and sympathetic dominance
• Aerobic and Anaerobic breathing and metabolic disorders
• And much more...  

Follow Brian on Instagram @_brianmackenzie. Learn more about his book and his work at brianmackenzie.com.

In this episode, we chat with Ilene Smith.  Author, trauma healer, and speaker. We discuss Ilene’s first book, Moving Beyond Trauma: The Roadmap to Healing from Your Past and Living with Ease and Vitality.  The intention is to help the reader develop a new relationship with their history and understand the importance of bringing the body into the healing process when trying to resolve issues related to trauma

Ilene is on a mission to create a world with less trauma. While it’s inevitable that we all will be touched by trauma on some level, everyone has the capacity to heal and create a life of ease and vitality.

Ilene is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and completed a 3-year training with the Somatic Experiencing Institute founded by Peter Levine. She is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) through the GROW Training Institute, Inc. and holds a Master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling and a Masters degree in Exercise Physiology. Ilene has passed the National Clinical Mental Health Counseling Examination (NCMHCE) qualifying her for licensure in Arizona. 

• Trauma – what does it mean
• Somatic Experiencing 
• It’s not your fault 
• Moving beyond the why
• Body – Mind connection
• The importance of the VAGUS nerve
• Healing Lifestyle
• And much more…  

Follow her on Instagram @ilenesmithhealing. Learn more about her book and her work at movingbeyondtrauma.co and ilenesmith.com.

In this episode, Dr. Terry Wahls, an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa; tells us her story and how she has beat progressive MS.  In addition to conducting clinical trials at the University of Iowa, Dr. Wahls also holds secondary appointments in the departments of neurology and epidemiology. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care, and patient advocacy. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles (paperback), and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions.

She also teaches the public and medical community about the healing power of the Paleo diet and therapeutic lifestyle changes that restore health and vitality to our citizens. Dr. Wahls also trains physicians, nutrition professionals, movement professionals, and health coaches on how to implement these concepts into their clinical practices.   

Some stuff we cover:

• Trigeminal Neuralgia – Dr. Wahls tells us her story and how she is pain-free now
• Dietary and lifestyle changes
• Genetics and bacteria
• Chronic pain patients in veterans affairs medical center
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