Managing Long Term Illness and Chronic Conditions with Dr. Jill Carnahan
The Woman's Doctor
What if your most challenging moments were valuable teachers? Today on The Woman’s Doctor, we redefine resilience with our guest Dr. Jill Carahan: a former workaholic who reevaluated her priorities after an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis. Her constant stress and self-doubt severely crippled her immune system and made her susceptible to severe health issues. Dr. Carahan describes how she used work as a coping mechanism and what her life-threatening diagnosis taught her about living life to the fullest. These moments of turmoil can make or break you. Dr. Carnahan recalls the...
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Adrenal Reset for Thyroid Thrive: Adrenal Transformation Protocol with Izabella Wentz
The Woman's Doctor
Today on The Woman’s Doctor, we discuss a better way to overcome the hormonal imbalance. Dr. Isabella Wentz joins us to review her new book, “Adrenal Transformational Protocol” where she outlines a 4-week process to rebalance hormones, get better sleep, and regain your energy. Women are naturally in tune with their environment. Subconsciously you’re assessing threats, opportunities, and safety which dictate your body's survival strategy. When you are under chronic stress, your body retreats into survival mode. Dr. Wentz teaches you to recognize the danger signals in your life and shows...
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Getting to the Root Cause for Hormonal Health with Dr. Darin Ingels
The Woman's Doctor
Today on The Woman’s Doctor we discuss how an unhealthy gut leads to chronic illness and what you can do to heal your microbiome. Dr. Darin Ingels is the author of The Lyme Solution and has treated thousands of patients with practical and cost effective therapies that you can implement today. Whether you are facing lyme disease, autoimmune symptoms or even brain fog, all can be healed by healing the gut first. The microbiome thrives on leafy vegetables and fermented foods, just some of the first things you can add to your diet to improve the diversity in your gut. If you want...
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How To Restore Your Hormonal Intelligence with Dr. Aviva Romm
The Woman's Doctor
Every day, the average American is exposed to 80,000 chemicals in their food and water. It is impossible to reduce your toxin burden to zero but today on The Woman’s Doctor, best selling author of Hormone Intelligence, Dr. Aviva Romm joins us to share simple ways that you can lessen your exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in your home. Dr. Romm is a midwife, a Yale trained MD and a board certified family physician that is helping patients balance their hormones and establish healthy habits to reduce the risk of developing diseases. It can be overwhelming as you begin your...
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The Role and Challenges Women Face In our Society with Kimberly Seals Allers
The Woman's Doctor
Today on The Woman’s Doctor, Kimberly Seals Allers joins us to discuss the unfortunate state of maternal care in America. Kimberly is an award winning journalist and advocate for breastfeeding and infant health. Giving birth opened her eyes to the harsh reality that women face in modern hospitals, even in a developed nation. Most medical institutions are informed by and dominated by men, which has left a detrimental gap in the education available to most women, especially women of color. The average woman does not have a grasp of the female anatomy or the importance of hormonal...
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Busting Myths Around Women’s Health, Aging and Menopause with Dr. Susanne Bennett
The Woman's Doctor
Today on The Woman's Doctor, we dispel common myths around women’s health with Dr.Susanne Bennett. She is an authority on hormonal and gut health with over 30 years of experience as a natural medicine doctor. Dr. Bennett holds specialties in clinical nutrition, environmental medicine, allergies, aging and gut health. She brings a fresh perspective on women's health that inspires hope for a healthy and happy life even into your menopausal years. Society convinces women that life stops at menopause, treating it like a disease to be avoided and ashamed of. The reality is that menopause...
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Dry January
The Woman's Doctor
Today on the Woman’s Doctor, I wanted to share just how impactful, sobriety has been on my physical and mental well being. Dry January is a great exercise to test out an alcohol free lifestyle so that you can check in and understand exactly what role alcohol is playing in your life. Even light social drinking can have dramatic effects on your daily life that you may not be conscious of. In this episode, I will first be reviewing some of the negative side effects that are commonly associated with any alcohol consumption. Everyone knows the awful feeling of a hangover but we never talk...
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Stress and Hormones
The Woman's Doctor
Today on the Woman's Doctor, I discuss the detrimental effect stress has on our hormones and equip you with simple tools to mitigate stress’ effect on your physical and emotional health. Stress cannot be eliminated, at times, stress is even necessary but constant unmanaged stress leads to dangerous cortisol imbalances that can affect your mood, cravings, sleep and mindset. While cortisol is dangerous in excess, it is a crucial hormone that your body needs, especially in the morning. Simply exercising in the morning sun can improve your cortisol levels allowing you to manage stress...
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Hormones and Mood: The Hidden Opportunity in Emotional Distress
The Woman's Doctor
Today, on the Woman’s Doctor Podcast, I am sharing my own experience balancing my hormones in hopes of inspiring you along your own journey. Hormonal imbalances tend to make women more emotional but those emotions are a window into deeper issues you may be avoiding. I believe there is an opportunity, in these moments, to break the cycle of escapism. After noticing my own avoidant habits, I decided to face my emotional distress with stillness and silence. Instead of reaching for a drink, a distraction or even going shopping when you’re feeling emotional discomfort, sitting with...
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New Year's Resolution: Set Yourself Up for Success with Kathy Smith
The Woman's Doctor
Today on the Women’s Doctor, Kathy Smith joins us to discuss how to boost vitality in your later years. Kathy has been a fitness icon since the 1980’s and continues to inspire women to strive for progress not perfection. In this episode, she brings you the best strategies to stay consistent in your new year's resolutions. She believes that consistency in the process will always supersede the results. Resolutions often fail because we are taught to rework our entire life around a singular goal. Incremental changes centered around fun, community and feeling great will not only be...
info_outlineToday’s guest and host of the Mystic Medecine Radio Show, Dr. Keesha Ewers shares her story of battling autoimmune disease by addressing her childhood trauma first. We often want to fix diseases through western medicine which looks at the disease before the patient but that can only take you so far on your healing journey. Dr. Ewers explains that no disease forms overnight; in fact, they often form for decades with the root cause often being a childhood trauma. Our Trauma responses are deeply connected to our immune systems so through compassion and a willingness to identify maladaptive patterns of behavior it is possible to heal both mentally and physically.
Takeaways:
[4:15] Bio-Identical hormones might not be addressing the root cause of your health issues
[7:20] Autoimmune diseases do not show up overnight. They usually develop over 10-30 years
[9:30] Ayurvedic Medicine: evaluating the person instead of the disease
[11:00] Auto-Immune implies that the core cause of the disease is within yourself from trauma
[14:20] For survival the female brain is wired to remember the places that cause pain
[16:30] Libido and past trauma are uniquely tied to our immune system
[19:20] There is no one path that fits every patient
[20:15] Finding the initial trigger is only helpful if you are willing to begin the journey to healing
[22:40] The first step is to feel compassion for yourself and for those who have experienced trauma
[24:40] Before you fully understand your trauma you need to identify maladaptive patterns of behavior
[25:28] You need to love your inner child and provide the compassion you lacked as a child
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Twitter:
“You need to fix the hole in the bottom of the boat where those hormones leaked out from in the first place before just constantly feeding them into the top.” [5:07]
“My theory is that our brains are uniquely wired to hold on to the places that we’ve been hurt, so we remember them, for the tribe.” [15:24]
“The first part of that adaptive memory processing, where you’re digesting your emotions, your feelings, your memories, your experiences in a healthy way, is first to ask yourself if you are willing. ”[20:25]
“We always say “Fight or Flight, Freeze or Faint” but actually as children we always freeze.” [23:28]
“You can’t make this about willpower or behavior change, a cognitive behavioral change doesn't work, what you need to do is go back and get securely attached to your own inner child.” [25:28]
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