Episode #336: Balancing the Benefits with the Risks of Medications with Suzanne Robotti
Release Date: 07/30/2024
Episode #353: Surviving the Battlefield of Life with Brian Fleming
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Brian Fleming is a combat wounded veteran and Purple Heart Recipient, who was seriously injured by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan, resulting in 14 months of hospitalization enduring painful burn treatments, reconstructive surgery, and brain injury rehabilitation. He is also the author of 4 books, an international speaker, resilience trainer, and Founder of UseYourStory, where he helps other trauma survivors how to heal by sharing their stories with the world. Brian shares his incredible story of surviving a suicide bombing as well as his subsequent recovery. He tells his story with...
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Episode #352: The Three Pillars of Health and Happiness with Sylvain Mancuso
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Sylvain Mancuso is an entrepreneur, osteopath, Doctor of Physical Medicine, founder, and owner of Mancuso Clinic, which offers a variety of disciplines dedicated to improving both mental and physical health by encouraging positive lifestyle changes. The Mancuso Clinic redefines health by integrating physical, emotional, nutritional, and lifestyle elements into a singular holistic wellness model. Their approach to health and wellness transcends traditional short-term solutions, providing lasting tools for continued health and happiness. Sylvain describes how he decided to continue to...
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Episode #351: Functional Medicine and the Power to Heal with Leigh Brandon
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Leigh Brandon is a Functional Medicine and CHEK Practitioner who has been working in the Health and Fitness industry since 1996. As a CHEK practitioner, he became proficient in integrated movement science, nutrition, and holistic lifestyle coaching. Thanks to his training and expertise, Leigh has himself overcome severe cystic acne, gut problems, lumbar disc herniations, ACL sprains, and shoulder impingement syndromes. He is also the author of 4 books on health and fitness and the host of the Radical Health Rebel podcast which educates listeners and empowers them to lead a more...
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Episode #350: Getting Stuff Done with Iron-Mom Dr. Cindy Starke
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Dr. Cindy Starke is a physician certified in trauma release, mentor, award-winning author, speaker, and Subconscious Mind Expert who helps women in healthcare heal from burnout using subconscious re-patterning and optimization. Her award-winning book is titled “From Fear and Failure to the Finish Line-Unleash Your Potential and Discover the Champion Within” which chronicles her journey to the finish line of an Ironman Triathlon—140.6 miles of ocean swimming, biking, and running. Dr. Cindy is both an MD and a PhD in molecular genetics and a board-certified internal...
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Episode #349: Your Prescription to a Vibrant, Healthy Life with Dr. Tamar Lawful
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Dr. Tamar Lawful is a Doctor of Pharmacy, Nutrigenomics Specialist, Health and Wellness business consultant, CEO and Founder of LYFE Balance, Inc. and coach who guides healthcare practitioners to enhance patient care, reduce medication reliance, and improve life quality through nutrigenomics. She is also the host of the Pivoting Pharmacy with Nutrigenomics. Tamar describes her desire to help people and pursue a career in health care when she lost her grandmother to lung cancer, and being devastated that there was nothing she could do to help her. She earned her PharmD and began...
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Episode #348: Self-Introspection, Personal Growth, and Taking Charge of Your Life with Zachary Parker Harris
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Zachary Parker Harris creates Masterminds for entrepreneurs who started his first business at the age of 17, Parker became a board member for multiple non-profits and was recruited by the President of the United States to speak at Leadership Conferences across the country. At the age of 20, Parker almost died in a near-fatal car accident, which prompted him to make a choice to walk the people out of his life who were taking advantage of him and start fresh. At 23 he landed his dream job working for a Fortune 100 technology company doing operations and strategy. He eventually started...
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Episode #347: There's A Fire Inside Her with Diane Schroeder
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Diane Schroeder is a TEDx and Keynote Speaker, Leader, Writer, podcast host, former first responder as a 3rd generation fire fighter, CEO and Founder of The Fire Inside Her LLC, a community which helps adventurous middle-aged humans on their journey of personal growth and self-discovery to achieve a more authentic, joyful, and empowered life through self-care, community, and leadership. Diane shares her own personal journey to live an authentic and purpose filled life as well as forging her way to follow her dream of becoming a firefighter at a very young age and working as a woman in a...
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Episode #346: Resilience, Courage, and the Human Connection with Jonathan Tuteur
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Jonathan Tuteur is an Executive Coach, speaker, facilitator, and author of the book titled “Seizing Today,” who had lived a relatively normal life following a rare complication at birth as one of triplets, until he had his first seizure at the age of 30. Over the course of the next fourteen years, Jon had more than 500 seizures, spent over 40 days and nights in the hospital, and had over 200 medical tests. Now, after undergoing 3 brain surgeries, Jon shares his transformative journey through the complexity of epilepsy, and how his condition ignited a passion for resilience,...
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Episode #345: Life's Too Short to Be Boring with Laurel McHargue
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Laurel McHargue, also known as Leadville Laurel, is an author, podcaster, public speaker, graduate of West Point in the 4th class to graduate women, served as a Major in the US Army for 9 years in active duty and another 3 years in the Army Reserves. She is also a retired English teacher who now lives, loves, laughs, writes, and podcasts in the heart of the spectacular Rocky Mountains, where she gets much of her inspiration for her books and stories. Laurel raised Khaki Campbell ducks for both eggs and entertainment before writing about their adventures and also sharing them on YouTube as...
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Episode #344: Finding Peace in Everyday Life with Ann Swanson
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Ann Swanson is an award-winning and best-selling author, video producer, yoga therapist, speaker, and Wellness Consultant who teaches meditation to busy people with busy minds. Her first book is titled “Science of Yoga,” and her recently published book is titled “Meditation for the Real World: Finding Peace in Everyday Life.” Ann has herself overcame chronic pain and debilitating anxiety which led her to study yoga in India, tai chi in China, and earn her master’s degree in yoga therapy. She blends cutting edge research with ancient wisdom to help others use effective and...
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Suzanne Robotti is an FDA Consumer Representative, Drug Side Effects Expert, DES Daughter, and founder of MedShadow Foundation, a nonprofit organization which encourages people to think for themselves, not to believe everything you read online, do your own diligent research, and balance the benefits with the risks of medications.
She launched MedShadow Foundation in 2013 because she herself was harmed by a medication called DES that was given to her mother when she was pregnant with Su. At the young age of 13, Su learned that she would never be able to have children because of the harmful side effects of DES. Generations later, DES has been found to cause rare cancers, autoimmune diseases, and infertility.
In 2017 Su was appointed to the FDA Advisory Committee on Drug Safety and Risk Management as the lone consumer representative on a panel of doctors and pharmacists. She considers it a privilege to have a seat at the table when the FDA is deciding if a drug is safe and effective enough to use.
Su shares her own personal story of dealing with the harmful side effects of DES, as well as the many other side effects that other DES mothers, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren continue to deal with, only because “modern medicine” believed that medications were not able to cross from an expectant mother to her unborn child. This led to not only one generation being impacted by the harmful effects of the first synthetically manufactured estrogen which was given to pregnant women between 1940 to 1971 to prevent miscarriage and related complications of pregnancy.
Su explains how her own experience caused her to look deeper into medications which are prescribed, as well as potential side effects. Her research and due diligence went into high gear when her nephew who was living with her and her husband, was diagnosed with ADHD at the age of 12. He was subscribed large doses of approved ADHD medications, the doctors told Su and her family that he would keep trying various medications to “get that kid under control.” When Su asked what the potential side effects were, the doctor assured her that there weren’t any. When she asked to see the studies, he laughed and said there weren’t any, but again reassured her that they were perfectly safe.
Download this informative episode to hear Su’s story, and discover how she and her family were able to help their nephew deal with his ADHD without medication, the importance and impact of healthy living, how to become your own health advocate, how to get involved with your own medication regime by collaborating and communicating with both your doctor and pharmacist, why it’s important to consider your options, how to balance the benefits with the risks of medications.
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