Episode 253: Jon Engelson and Yuda Holtzberg
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Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Jon Engelson is a holistic health coach and the founder of “You Are What You Eat, Inc.” He is currently the Chief Strategic Officer at Joburg Air Dried Grass Fed Steak Snacks. Yuda Holtzberg is the founder of Joburg and a pioneer in the world of grass-fed, pasture-raised kosher beef snacks. In this episode, Dr. Brian, Jon, and Yuda talk about… (00:00) Intro (10:15) Why salt is demonized while sugar gets a pass (11:36) Additives in processed snack foods and why food companies are disincentivized to keep their products...
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Episode 252: Tamar Blue
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Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Tamar Blue is the Founder and CEO of MentalHappy—a health platform that offers people of all backgrounds a safe, secure space to address their emotional health and daily challenges. In this episode, Dr. Brian and Tamar talk about… (00:00) Intro (04:28) Why Tamar founded the digital health platform, Mental Happy (12:44) The Mental Happy App (20:00) Studies measuring how much more successful people are when they have a supportive community (23:00) The factors of stress, hydration, and sleep and their impact on metabolic...
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Episode 251: Zachary Tyler
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Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Zachary Tyler is an Integrative Medical Massage Therapist who has thousands of hours of training and clinical experience as a Licenced Medical Massage Therapist. His work specializes in treating chronic pain, stress and injury/surgery rehabilitation with a restorative, relaxing and holistic approach. Modalities include Neuromuscular, Myofascial, Deep Tissue, Sports, Lymphatic Drainage , Reflexology and Cranio-Sacral Therapy. He is passionate about helping people overcome chronic pain and stress by restoring the body's...
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Episode 250: Dr. Emily Roth
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Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Dr. Emily Roth is an integrative veterinarian and the founder of Healing Trails Holistic Vet in Prescott, AZ. Highly diversified and skilled in a number of non-conventional approaches, she is, in addition to holding a veterinary degree from The Ohio State University, certified in mixed animal acupuncture through Chi University and mixed animal chiropractic with Options for Animals. In this episode, Drs. Brian and Emily talk about… (00:00) Intro (07:56) Animal acupuncture and the combination of Eastern and Western healing...
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Episode 249: Anu Simh
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Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Anu Simh is a Board Certified Functional Health Coach and the founder of 9 Arms of Wellness. She is also the author of Feed Your Microbiome to Flourish, and a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Through the Nine Arms of Wellness program, she teach the value of using food as medicine, practical lifestyle management techniques, and an interactive, integrative approach drawn from over 100 dietary theories, including Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, gluten-free, Paleo, raw, vegan, and macrobiotics. In this episode,...
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Episode 248: Dr. Erin Bellamy
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Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Dr Erin Louise Bellamy founded Integrative Ketogenic Research and Therapies which uses principles of Metabolic Psychiatry to provide remote, highly personalized 1:1 Metabolic Therapy for both psychiatric conditions and overall metabolic health. Dr. Erin Bellamy has a PhD in Psychology, specializing in Ketogenic Diets & Depression from the University of East London. She also has an MSc in Psychiatric Research from the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London. She is a , an Associate Fellow of the British...
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Episode 247: Cheryl Erpelding from Bethany’s Gait Ranch
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Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Cheryl Erpelding is the Horsemanship Director at Bethany’s Gait Ranch—a non profit ranch that pairs rescue horses with active duty, veterans, first responders, and their families to help both heal and grow. Cheryl has years of experience in horsemanship, riding, training, teaching, and showing. Before leaving California in 2023, she was a wrangler and volunteer at the Saddles in Service non-profit that helped veterans, first responders, and others with PTSD. She helped them learn how to work with horses and taught them...
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Episode 246: Who Do You Say That I AM?
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Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. This is a special Easter episode! Do you know who Judas Iscariot is? He is one of the most tragic characters in all of Scripture and literature generally. How could a person who walked with Jesus and saw his miracles turn against him and betray him in the end for a few silver coins? What can we learn from his story? For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Arizona Metabolic Health: Low Carb MD Podcast: HLTH Code: HLTH Code Promo Code: METHEALTH • •...
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Episode 245: Dr. Laura Buchanan
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Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Dr. Laura Buchanan is a double board-certified physician in family and obesity medicine with a passion for using lifestyle modification as the first-line standard of care. She is a certified metabolic health practitioner (MHP), and a Board and founding member of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners. She is also a certified Menopause Society Certified Practitioner (MSCP). Given the improvement she has seen in patient’s mental health with low-carb diets, she also completed Dr. Georgia Ede’s “Ketogenic Diets for...
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Episode 244: P.D. Mangan
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Thank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. P.D. Mangan is is a 68-year-old scientist with expertise in microbiology, biochemistry, and pharmacology. Passionate about the impact of diet and exercise on anti-aging and longevity, he champions metabolic health, the value of real foods, and the importance of resistance training. In this episode, Dr. Brian and P.D. talk about… (00:00) Intro (05:13) Chronic fatigue, sleep, and how to crush fatigue for good (16:11) Exercise, fatigue, and health (21:28) How to work work effectively and efficiently (26:58) Acute versus...
info_outlineThank you for tuning in for another episode of Life’s Best Medicine. Dr. Joan Ifland is a food addiction specialist—she literally wrote the textbook on Processed Food Addiction—and is widely considered to be the leading expert on the subject worldwide. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Political Science from Oberlin College, an MBA in International Finance from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a PhD in Addictive Nutrition from Union Institute and University. Since 1996, Dr. Ifland has helped people recover from diet-related disease by focusing on addiction to processed foods. As both an academic and a front-line guide, Joan has taught thousands of compulsive eaters how to find peace with food and recover from diabetes, heart disease, cancer, depression, fatigue, isolation, and obesity.
In this episode, Joan shares her own personal experience with food addiction and the struggles she has faced with the disorder since she was a small child. She goes into the details of how her brain became addicted and how her behaviors reflected this reality. One day in 1996, at the prompting of someone she knew, she tried cutting out sugar and flour from her diet. What she experienced from eliminating these substances was miraculous!
Drs. Brian and Joan discuss the relationship between diet and mood, the staggering 140 medical conditions associated with addiction to processed food, the equally staggering hundreds of thousands of studies on the reality of this kind of addiction, the power of immersion recovery for healing your brain from a lifetime of food addiction, the importance of an understanding community that supports you in order to have a successful recovery, the neuroscientific reasons behind why community support is essential, practical steps you can take to reset your addicted brain by simply drilling index word-association cards, how to set achievable goals, and the Addiction Reset Community.
Life’s Best Medicine According to Joan: “Community.”
Thank you for listening. Have a blessed day and stay healthy!
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