#290 Burnout and HPV: The Hidden Connection Your Doctor Isn't Telling You About
How Humans Heal
What does burnout have to do with testing positive for high risk HPV? What does cortisol have to do with getting an abnormal pap smear result? If you're wondering whether stress, burnout, and cortisol have anything to do with why you have an abnormal pap smear and potentially abnormal cells, you're in the right place because that's exactly what I'm going to talk about here. I'm Dr. Doni Wilson, a naturopathic doctor, certified professional midwife, and clinical nutritionist. I've been helping women for over 25 years to resolve abnormal pap smears and high risk HPV so they can get HPV to...
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#289 The Teen Health Revolution: Taking Back Control of Our Bodies and Minds with The Holistic Kids
How Humans Heal
Hi and welcome to How Humans Heal. I'm Dr. Doni Wilson, and today I'm really excited to introduce you to the Holistic Kids. Abdullah, Zain, and Emaad are not only the hosts of the Holistic Kids podcast, but they are also the best-selling authors of the new book called The Teen Health Revolution. I think this is amazing because they are actual teens who are helping other teens to improve their health. They’ve already been winning awards and doing speaking engagements everywhere, talking about this important topic. I'm so grateful for them joining me here on How Humans Heal. We’re here to...
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#288 Breaking Free from the HPV Nightmare: The Real Way to Clear High-Risk HPV
How Humans Heal
Here's the message I'll never stop sharing: if you're testing positive for high-risk HPV virus and experiencing vaginal infections like bacterial vaginosis or yeast infections, or maybe bladder infections, you need to pay attention. If you're waking up feeling tired and dragging through the rest of the day, reaching for caffeine every chance you get, your body is trying to tell you something. If you're having anxious thoughts racing through your mind, constantly thinking about this virus and what it could do and how it could ruin your life, you're not alone. If you're feeling constipated or...
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#287 The Perimenopause Revolution: Reclaiming Your Health and Power with Dr. Mariza Snyder
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In this episode of How Humans Heal I'm excited to introduce you to Dr. Mariza Snyder. She's here to share with us about her newest best-selling book called "The Perimenopause Revolution." When I heard that she was writing this book about perimenopause, it made me so happy because who better to be teaching women about how to not only survive perimenopause but how to thrive through perimenopause and menopause. That's exactly what this conversation is all about. When we have the knowledge and we feel confident navigating the menopause transition, we are future proofing our health. We’re here to...
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#286 The 5 Tests You Need to Do To Feel Better Without Being Told All is Normal
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Too often when women are dealing with health issues—whether menstrual-related problems, perimenopause, menopause, vaginal infections, recurrent yeast, BV, high-risk HPV, or abnormal pap smears—we're left without enough information. Women are experiencing fatigue, weight they can't seem to lose, autoimmunity, gut health issues, skin rashes, anxiety, depression, and migraines. I've been there. I've experienced these symptoms too. I know how difficult it is to get answers and to get real help. The standard medical approach, particularly for women's health issues, relies on very few test...
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#285 Eat More, Weigh Less - The Metabolism Secret Midlife Women Need to Know with Nagina Abdullah
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Hi and welcome to How Humans Heal. I'm Dr. Doni Wilson, and in today's episode, I'm looking forward to introducing you to Nagina Abdullah. She's a weight loss coach for women in midlife and founder of the website MasalaBody.com. She helps women improve and boost their metabolism naturally. This is important because so many women have questions around metabolism and body weight, especially in midlife. I first met Nagina in a hot tub at a conference. It was like friends at first sight. We discovered that we both have backgrounds in science. I studied science for my bachelor's degree as well, so...
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#284 Why Menopause Is Making You Susceptible to Infections (And What to Do About It)
How Humans Heal
Are you in perimenopause or post-menopause and dealing with recurrent infections, wondering why now? Why am I having bladder infections or vaginal infections when maybe I haven't had them any other time in my life, or not since many decades ago? I'm Dr. Doni Wilson. I'm a women's health expert, a naturopathic doctor and midwife, and I've been helping women with their health, including their vaginal and urinary health, for over 25 years. This is what I think about and help patients with every day, and I'm so glad that you're here listening in for this information. Maybe you've been searching...
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#283 From Exhausted to Energized: Exercise That Actually Works in Menopause with Debra Atkinson
How Humans Heal
Welcome to How Humans Heal! I'm Dr. Doni Wilson, and today I'm excited to introduce you to my friend, a pioneer in menopause fitness and the founder of Flipping Fifty, Debra Atkinson. She's been helping women exercise based on their age and menopause status for a long time, and now it's becoming way more popular. It's at the forefront right now, with everybody talking about menopause, their estrogen levels, and hormone replacement therapy. With Debra's expertise, we can talk about how we should be exercising when we're over fifty because exercise is different at that stage of life. ...
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#282 Rewiring Your Nervous System: Your Body's Hidden Map to Healing Trauma with Dr. Aimie Apigian
How Humans Heal
In this episode of How Humans Heal, I have the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Aimie Apigian, the author of "The Biology of Trauma". This is such an important topic for everyone, and it's of great interest to me because I’ve been researching how trauma affects us as humans and how we can recover it for over 25 years. Sometimes in our attempt to heal, we end up just re-traumatizing ourselves. We find that there's been a reason why our body and our mind have wanted to keep everything stuffed down and to keep everything packed tightly away. There's a fear in the healing process of not even knowing...
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#281 How to Prevent HPV from Coming Back: Long-Term Solutions
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In this episode, I'm going to be talking about how to prevent HPV from coming back again and how to keep it gone for good. I'm Dr. Doni Wilson, and welcome to this episode of How Humans Heal. Many women who have successfully cleared high-risk HPV worry about what will happen when they become intimate again—either with the same partner or a different sexual partner. The haunting question remains: Is HPV just going to come back again? Often women have been dealing with high-risk HPV for a year, five years, or in some cases even more than 20 years. They've endured numerous procedures at the...
info_outlineThe vagus nerve is the longest nerve in our bodies, connecting our brain to our digestion and vice versa. It manages signaling for bodily functions, so we don’t have to think about them! It handles digesting food, breathing, heart rate, and more.
Here’s the key, the vagus nerve does all of this as part of (75%) our parasympathetic nervous system. That is our “anti-stress” system.
The opposite of the parasympathetic response is the sympathetic response, which is what we think of as the fight or flight system.
When we are stressed, or exposed to stress, the sympathetic system engages to help us respond. And at the same time, it turns off (or decreases) certain functions that are not so necessary while we are responding to stress.
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The issue occurs when we are under constant stress. The way I think about it is…the vagus nerve gets stuck in a stress response mode. This can look and feel like:
-Digestive issues like heartburn, nausea, bloating, and pain
-Shortness of breath, dizziness, and feeling faint
-Racing heart and palpitations
-Anxiety and overwhelm
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So how do we help our vagus nerve to recover from stress? I think of it as “taming” the vagus nerve.
There are many ways, which I discuss in this episode AND in my new book, Master Your Stress Reset Your Health.
One of my favorites is to take a deep breath. When you take a breath, you are signaling to your vagus nerve to turn on the parasympathetic nervous system and turn off stress.
And the amazing thing is that we can choose to take a deep breath and give this signal to our bodies at any moment, even when stressed.
Please listen in, let me know what made you say “oh wow!” and subscribe if you haven’t already!
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