How Humans Heal
In this episode, I'm going to be talking about what to do if and when you receive abnormal pap smear results. That's because so many women contact me saying, "I just got back my pap smear results, and it's showing abnormal. It's showing HPV detected, and now I'm in such a state of fear, confusion, anxiety, and stress about this. What do I do?" Oftentimes, your doctor may not explain to you what the results mean or what your options are. So, I'm hoping you're finding this video, and that it will help you to take a deep breath and start to make a plan of action for addressing the abnormal...
info_outline #206 Metabolic Inflexibility and Weight Loss: Risks of New Drugs vs. Holistic Solutions with Märcelle PickHow Humans Heal
In this episode, I'm really looking forward to introducing you to Märcelle Pick, a functional medicine practitioner and nurse practitioner who has specialized in women's health since 1983. She's written books related to women's health, adrenal health, as well as weight and nutrition. She's here to talk with us about the risks of using GLP-1 agonist medications for weight loss. Märcelle has a lot of concerns about these medications because they are so new and not well understood, and they're not addressing the underlying cause of weight gain, which is metabolic inflexibility. I feel this is...
info_outline #205 LEEP vs Escharotic Treatment for CIN2 and CIN3 Cervical DysplasiaHow Humans Heal
In this episode, I discuss cervical dysplasia, which is when there are abnormal cells on the cervix before it turns into cancer, specifically CIN 2 and 3. Many women in this situation face the decision of whether to have a LEEP procedure or to take a natural approach called escharotic treatments. If you're dealing with this decision, I think this video will be very helpful for you. It will also be useful for any women dealing with high-risk HPV and abnormal pap smears, in case you find yourself facing CIN 2 or 3 at some point. For the most comprehensive support, even with the most...
info_outline #204 Solving Chronic Fatigue: A Naturopathic Approach to Restoring Energy with Dr. Jenny TufenkianHow Humans Heal
In this episode, I'm excited to introduce you to Dr. Jenny Tufenkian. She is a naturopathic physician from the Pacific Northwest but she's helping people around the world with fatigue and particularly with long COVID type fatigue symptoms. It's always so wonderful to get to connect with another naturopathic doctor and to share more about naturopathic medicine and how we think about health issues. I find that fatigue is one of the most common symptoms for people to have. The thing about it is there's a lot of possible underlying causes. The important thing to know is that healing is...
info_outline #203 The 6 Connections Between HPV and Menstrual Health IssuesHow Humans Heal
In this episode, I'm going to be talking about menstrual related health issues and how they're connected to testing positive for high-risk HPV virus strains. This is a really important conversation because a lot of times when it comes to testing positive for the HPV virus, women are left with not enough information and their doctors are not providing that information. The doctors are doing what they're trained to do, which is important, to address abnormal cells. What's happening, unfortunately, is women are left in a state of fear and not knowing what they can do to prevent...
info_outline #202 How to Improve Your Relationship with Dr. Sarah SalzmanHow Humans Heal
In this episode I'm going to introduce you to Dr. Sarah Salzman, a leading couples psychologist and the founder and CEO of the Couples Communication Institute. That means she specializes in helping humans to communicate with each other, especially in a relationship with each other. When a couple can really communicate and build the kind of relationship where they both feel esteemed, heard, understood and supported, then they both can bring their own missions to their families, communities and careers in the world. LINKS FROM THE EPISODE: Take The Couples Communication Quiz: ...
info_outline #201 The 5 Ways HPV and Leaky Gut are RelatedHow Humans Heal
In this episode I talk about the five ways that HPV and leaky gut are connected. It's not a well known connection, but it is essential to address leaky gut in order to clear HPV and protect yourself from high risk strains of HPV. I want to make sure you understand what leaky gut is and exactly the ways that it's making you susceptible to HPV and how we can then address it. It’s important to address gut health to decrease HPV risk and prevent it from returning. I recommend getting an accurate food sensitivity panel to identify leaky gut severity and foods to avoid to help heal it. We...
info_outline #200 The Future of Mental Health with Dr. Srini PillayHow Humans Heal
In today’s episode I'm really excited to introduce you to Dr. Srini Pillay. He is the Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of Reulay, a digital therapeutics company. As a Harvard trained psychiatrist and author of “Tinker Dabble Doodle Try”, he is known for pushing boundaries and looking at mental healthcare differently. I have a longstanding interest in researching and writing about the effects of stress on humans, and how we can help people recover from those effects. The conventional medical system often focuses on pharmaceuticals, but more people want other ways to help themselves...
info_outline #199 Healing HPV Before, During and After PregnancyHow Humans Heal
In this episode, I want to talk about HPV virus related to fertility, pregnancy, and breastfeeding. It is actually quite common for me, as a naturopathic doctor and midwife, to be helping women who are hoping for pregnancy soon, or might already be pregnant, and then test positive for HPV, and in some cases, abnormal cells. This is such an important time of women’s lives because it is right when they are needing their cervix and uterus to be healthy for a pregnancy. So it can be quite shocking to find out that HPV is present and potentially affecting their ability to get pregnant and...
info_outline #198 Hashimoto’s Disease and The Hashimoto’s Summit with Annie MaldonadoHow Humans Heal
In today’s episode I'm happy to introduce you to Annie Maldonado. She is the creator of the Hashimoto's summit where she's raising awareness for Hashimoto's and really helping people around the world to feel supported in their journey to reversing Hashimoto's. LINKS FROM THE EPISODE: Sign Up For The Summit: Set Up A Call: Master Your Stress: Read the full episode notes and find more information: MORE RESOURCES FROM DR. DONI: Quick links to social media, free guides and programs, and more: ...
info_outlineIn today’s podcast I talked with Kiran Krishnan, he is a research microbiologist and the co-founder of Microbiome Labs. He specializes in understanding our gut and our gut biome.
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I’ve known Kiran for a number of years (we often attend the same medical conferences) and I always enjoy getting his scientific perspective. Today I especially wanted to hear his perspective on stress and the gut-brain axis.
How are stress and our gut health connected?
Kiran explains that we've known for a long time that stress is not good for us but we haven't really understood molecularly how that is or why and how it affects us.
Stress induced dysbiosis and leakiness in the gut is the number one driver of mortality and morbidity worldwide and stress induced gut damage leads to things like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer's, obesity, autoimmune disease, etc.
There's so much we can do to help ourselves recover from stress, there's so much we can do to heal leaky gut and rebalance our gut bacteria but I don't see that information being widespread. It’s not only about flooding your gut with that vassilis and bacteria, that's not going to solve the issue.
We have 150 times more microbial DNA in our body than human DNA. We house about 2.5 million microbial genes in our system that give us all of this capability, that dictate the vast majority of functions that happen in our bodies. If we don't have the right microbes it alters that functionality and stress response is an example of that.
This microbiome is affecting our immune system like how we fend off infections. For example, if it's out of balance it can make us more susceptible to autoimmunity. It also affects our nervous system and our mood so if we can get them rebalanced in the right way we can influence and improve our mood and stress response.
Most chronic illnesses come about because of an imbalance of certain types of microbes within the system. So longevity and health is based on the health of ourselves and our microbiome.
The gut and the brain are intimately attached through neurological system called the vagus nerve.
The gut communicates with the brain and the brain communicates with the gut and stress response is one of those critical examples where the gut and brain aren't working together.
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Without stress we wouldn't exist as a species. Stress response induces something called the flight or fight response the reason for that is we're supposed to be in tune with potential dangers around us.
What's happening in the in the modern world is that process where cortisol gets dumped into the gut and cortisol makes your gut super leaky.
The more we understand it the more we can become aware and conscious about the choices we're making so that we can take back control of our bodies and our health.
When the whole system falls apart is when cortisol enters the gut making your gut leaky because you're missing certain microbes and bacteria.
If you experience stress and anxiety on most days or throughout every day and you have issues sleeping, you likely don't have enough of these microbes.
The beauty of all of this is you can easily take a specific probiotic and then completely change how your body responds to stress. ZenBiome, for example, is a new supplement Kiran developed that contains a specific strain of Bifidobacterium known to reset cortisol production. It is used for people who have elevated cortisol (such as Stress Magnets and Sluggish & Stressed types based on Dr. Doni’s Stress Types). https://doctordoni.com/product/zenbiome-cope-60-capsules/
Also, if you're not sleeping adequately, you are not getting the repair your body and gut needs, so you keep experiencing this overtime and the damage starts accumulating.
We all have some degree of leaky gut. It's more about whether it is mild, moderate, or severe. And if we don't pay attention to healing, we’re going to have a hard time surviving.
We have to adopt healthy habits like cleaning up our diet to help our microbiome, so even things like trying to move towards organic or cleaner foods minimizing exposure to pesticides and herbicides which of course all act as antibiotics in your gut and kill off good bacteria.
There are lots of microbes in your gut who are waiting for food and aren't getting the right types of food because we're eating the same half a dozen things every single day.
When you combine the diet, lifestyle, supplements, food and sleep then you start to see a profound difference, and everything gets back in balance again.
If these changes become a part of your normal routine, you can then maintain that resiliency.
I explain more of this subject in my book Master Your Stress Reset Your Health: https://doctordoni.com/master-your-stress/
Or you can reach out to me to set up a one-on-one appointment if you prefer.
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Find the supplements mentioned by Kiran in this interview, such as ZenBiome, in the shop at DoctorDoni.com.
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