medical team

This week’s episode is from a recent summit, and we are talking to Dr. Donese Worden, a pioneer researcher taking personalized medicine to the nth degree taking very special care of her cancer patients. She started out in the pain management space, but kept seeing cancer everywhere. The minute they had a diagnosis, they were thrown into chemo, radiation, and surgery, all before they even knew the name of their condition. Donese started digging and found the metabolic theory of cancer and began working with those researchers.

You will hear:

• What is the metabolic theory of cancer
• How to work with conventional oncologists to meet the patient’s needs and wishes
• Finding ways to treat patients without also harming them
• The best way to personalize treatment (genetics + environment)
• The benefits of a ketogenic diet and hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• And more!

More about Dr. Worden: 
Dr. Donese Worden is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor, an expert diagnostician, a global health educator whose training in both conventional and alternative medicine affords her the privilege of providing each of her patients with a specific treatment plan that addresses not just the symptoms but the whole person to get to the root of the problem.

Connect with Dr. Worden:
Website: www.Dr Worden.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrDoneseWordenNMD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrDoneseWorden/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DrDoneseWorden

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working privately with RHMD, visit:
https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/time-to-talk

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Person's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://realhealthmd.kartra.com/page/SmartPersonsGuidetoBreastCancer

Join the Facebook group: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepingabreastwdrjenn

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
Website: https://www.realhealthmd.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

A breast cancer diagnosis can be both scary and very overwhelming! In the process it can lead you to just going along with what you're told you SHOULD do. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this episode, I share the top 5 things you can do when you receive a breast cancer diagnosis!

You'll hear more about:

• My own journey with breast cancer 
• The power of nutrition in any diagnosis 
• Reframing your diagnosis from a punishment to an opportunity
• My top five things you can do when you receive your diagnosis 
• And more!

To talk to a member of Dr. Jenn's team and learn more about working privately with RHMD, visit:
https://calendly.com/stephanie-1031/time-to-talk

To get your copy of Dr. Jenn's book, The Smart Person's Guide to Breast Cancer, visit: https://realhealthmd.kartra.com/page/SmartPersonsGuidetoBreastCancer

Join the Facebook group: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/keepingabreastwdrjenn

Connect with Dr. Jenn:
Website: https://www.realhealthmd.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrJennSimmons
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjennsimmons/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.jennsimmons

As a Hope College grad from the  Engineering Department, Ricky discovered he loved to help people with obstacles, such as the challenge of an amputated limb.  He then got his next degree from Eastern Michigan University in Orthotics and Prosthetics. Today, Ricky creates solutions so his patients can return to the activities they love.

This week’s show explores how you can maintain your independence as you age. We must challenge the notion that aging means declining health and dissatisfaction, and explore how to create a thriving life of vitality and connection. Discover why it is so important to take control and create a vision of your ideal future! 

We’ll take a look at what it means to be the CEO of your own healthcare by building a good medical team. We also assess the three aspects of stress: physical, emotional, and environmental, and how they influence our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. By creating the best possible health environment, we can reduce reliance on the medical care system, and by taking action now to make changes, we can lay the groundwork for lasting vitality. 

[00:01:46] How health impacts independence and happiness.

[00:05:06] Independence, retirement, avoiding reliance on doctors and pharmaceuticals

[00:06:31] Corporate interests obstruct health; prioritize education. 

[00:07:25] Disengage for meaningful change; support global community. 

[00:09:14] The real risk of losing your independence as you age.

[00:12:27] Create a healthy environment for better health.

[00:15:00] Focus on quality food, exercise, and movement.

[00:16:51] Don't resign yourself to fewer opportunities as you age

[00:20:29] The benefits of happiness and avoiding toxic positivity.

[00:23:49] Engage in community, find meaning, achieve goals.

[00:29:00] Limit stress, cultivate positive relationships, practice gratitude.

[00:32:33] Let your why inspire you.

[00:33:48] Be committed to creating a future you will love..

Other episodes mentioned in this show: 

• Top 5 Health Swaps for lasting Vitality
• Foundations of Health 
• Designing your Retirement with Eric Asbeck  
• The Power to Heal with Food with Cheryl Major
• The Power of Exercise, with Dr. Zynul Khan 
• Creating a Healthier Home with Dr. Aly Cohen
• Beat Burnout: Completing the Stress Cycle  with Amelia Nagoski
• The Power of Naturopathic Medicine, with Dr. Sam Larkin ND   

Leave a comment at happifiedlife.com, or join the conversation in the Live with Less Stress facebook group. 

Big brother, and Sofia's perfect match donor, Tevis, joins this episode of WITH. He offers an extremely unique perspective on donating bone marrow, insights into complications he faced following the procedure, and the importance of donating organs. 

BMF donor process:https://bethematch.org/transplant-basics/donation-process/donating-bone-marrow/

Today, Debbie brings her 43-year-old niece, Emily Moore, onto the podcast to talk about life and death and her recent grueling course of chemotherapy to eradicate breast cancer.

Emily teaches English at Stuyvesant, one of Manhattan's competitive-entry public high schools. She’s also a published poet (one of her poems was published in The New Yorker), and has a PhD in English. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and two young children.

Those of us beyond midlife are (supposedly) starting to wrap our minds around  the disability of old age and the hard stop of death. So Debbie asks Emily what it was like to, unexpectedly, be forced to stare death in the face in her early 40s. But Emily doesn’t really answer because it turns out it was the wrong question.

Instead she speaks eloquently about how much energy she’s put into fighting for life (she calls it putting on her "game face" despite how horrific the chemotherapy was) and how vulnerable she now feels and how that has changed her.

She also talks about how she'll never be "okay" again, meaning that things won't ever really return to the way they were before her cancer diagnosis. And she compares it to our collective wish to go back to the pre-pandemic "normal" of 2019 and how that probably won't happen.

Tune in to a powerful episode to hear Emily’s lilting voice and positive take on her experience.

Mentioned in this episode or useful:

• Braving Chemo: What to Expect, How to Prepare and How to Get Through It by Beverly A. Zavaleta MD (Sugar Plum Press 2019)
• CaringBridge: Personal Health Journals for Any Condition
• Emily's all-girl country music trio:  Ménage à Twang
• Emily’s poem in the New Yorker: Auld Lang Syne

AULD LANG SYNE

By Emily Moore

April 7, 2008

Here’s to the rock star with the crooked teeth,

the cellist, banker, mezzo bearing gifts,

the teacher with the flask inside her jeans—

those girls who made us sweat and lick our lips.

To the jeune fille who broke my heart in France,

the tramp who warmed your lap and licked your ear,

the one who bought me shots at 2 a.m.

that night I tied your pink tie at the bar.

Who smoked. Who locked you out. Who kissed my eyes

then pulled my hair and left me for a boy.

The girl who bit my upper, inner thigh.

My raspy laugh when I first heard your voice

toasting through broken kisses sloppy drunk:

To women! To abundance! To enough!

Published in the print edition of the April 14, 2008 New Yorker. Reprinted with permission.

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Pam Moore has dedicated 40 years working as a nurse and caring for those in need.
I was fortunate to have her by my side in the Intensive Care Unit of Saint Andrew's Broomfield Hospital in the UK.

I am also honored to have her as a guest on my podcast, sharing her experience of providing care for burn survivors.

It is a very special episode that gave me the opportunity to express my graditute to the medical team  for all the work, the care and love I received while I was their patient in the burns unit 20 years ago.

Pam is also sharing how injuries affect the lives of nurses, of police officers and fire fighters and that during all the years that she cared for her patients she bonded with them and what she really wanted was to see all her patients return home happy and healthy.

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