The Health Detective

Dr. Lauryn
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The Health Detective podcast is dedicated to Uncovering Health Truths for Your Body, Mind, and Soul. The show is hosted by Dr. Lauryn, a former TV news journalist and ex-chronic illness patient, gone health detective and functional medicine expert, bringing you over 25 years of clinical and personal experience so you can take your health into your own hands. On this show, we’re all about disrupting diet culture and conventional wisdom, and in our episodes, you’ll eavesdrop on “real talk” topics and conversations with both myself and a variety of interesting guests who are all “health detectives” in their own unique way. Ultimately, get ready to quiet the noise in the health, food and wellness world and reach your optimal potential.

  1. 12/05/2022

    Fertility Beyond 35 with Dr. Aumatma Simmons

    Dr. Aumatma is a double board-certified Naturopathic Doctor & Endocrinologist, in practice for close to 15 years. She specializes in fertility and is the best-selling author of two books: "Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making” and “(In)Fertility: Struggles, Secrets, & Successes.” In this episode, Dr. Aumatma and Dr. Lauryn talk about age, fertility, and helping patients live healthy lifestyles. Stay tuned! - Highlights 0:28 - Dr. Aumatma talks about what got her started down her career path in fertility 2:58 - The myths around fertility 4:00 - Thoughts on “high risk” pregnancies 9:14 - Dr. Aumatma shares what it’s like working with her older patients 16:13 - The relationship between mindset and fertility 21:36 - Optimization tips for helping with wellness and fertility 27:48 - How dieting can affect your fertility 31:52 - Dr. Aumatma talks about optimizing unique plans for each of her patients 33:59 - Seed Cycling 40:58 - A lightbulb moment Dr. Aumatma has had in her own health journey 42:51 - A wellness hack! 44:59 - How to learn more about Dr. Aumatma - About Dr. Aumatma Dr. Aumatma is a double board-certified Naturopathic Doctor & Endocrinologist, in practice for close to 15 years. She specializes in fertility and is the best-selling author of two books: "Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making” and “(In)Fertility: Struggles, Secrets, & Successes” Dr. Aumatma was awarded the “Best Naturopathic Medicine Doctor″ award locally in 2015 & 2020 and recognized as a top “Women In Medicine” Doctor in 2020 & 2021.  In addition to supporting couples through individualized care in person and long-distance, Dr. Aumatma also trains practitioners who want to specialize in fertility. She has been featured as the holistic fertility expert on ABC, FOX, CBS, KTLA, MindBodyGreen, The Bump, etc., along with being interviewed for countless podcasts on topics of fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum health. - Connect with Dr. Aumatma Facebook | Dr. Aumatma, ND: Holistic Fertility Specialist Website | holisticfertilityinstitute.com - Connect with Dr. Lauryn Facebook | Dr. Lauryn Lax Twitter | @drlaurynlax Instagram | @drlaurynlax Website | drlauryn.com  - Transcript (Episode website contains full transcript) Dr. Lauryn (00:02): Well, Dr. Aumatma, I'm so happy to have you in the house, and I, you are absolutely one of my favorite people to talk to about the topics of hormones, but, and also really fertility, which is your specialty. And would love before we tackle the, the problem, so to speak, of age being a factor or maybe not being the only factor in fertility give us a little bit of overview of what got you into doing this work you're doing in the world. Dr. Aumatma (00:28): Yeah. that's a great question. I was in my very, very early thirties kind of married, woke up married to this man, realized that he was starting to talk about kids, and he was like, ready to get into it. And I, I, like everything in my body would just go, like, be screaming no. Every time he said that. And I was like, I married this person, I should really wanna have kids with him. And I tried and tried and I could not get myself to get on board with that. And simultaneously my hormones had gotten out of whack, which I think was like a direct reflection of my body, just screaming, no. Mm-Hmm. like, you're not doing this with this person. But it took, it took me about nine months of research and kind of like diving into the deep end of hormones and fertility to come out with a very clear sense that a lot of the myths that we're often, that we often hear and are taught even in medical school, even in naturopathic medical school around like the fertility cliff at 35, they just weren't true. (01:43): And there's a lot of data around that, but we ignore the data for, for some of these myths that got created in the 1800s, not even through science. So I can, I'm happy to share more about that, but I just feel like that is one of the major things that had me, like, take a step back and say, whoa, if everything that I have been taught is founded on this myth that fertility drops off of a cliff, what else is possible? If that's not true, what else is not true? And then how can I approach this differently? And that's really where I started and why I got so passionate about fertility. Dr. Lauryn (02:27): Yeah. So personal experience, that experience is always the best teacher there, . And I just love the onion layers of of health and functional health too. And just really exploring like, you know, the world is not flat. Huh. And that's something that we've been told. And so yeah. You talk about the myth of fertility dropping off a cliff. Like where, why is that? Or like what are some of the reasonings of that, perhaps conventional thought puts behind that? Dr. Aumatma (02:58): Yeah, so the, the myth actually traced all the way back to the 1800s in France where the Catholic church noted that women over 35 did not come to baptize their children. So their assumption was that because women over 35 were not baptizing their children, their fertility wasn't intact anymore. So then that myth got created and got adopted by science. There's actually no research to back this up. So that, that has been perpetuated for over 200 years and we still are like touting this thing that got created in the 1800s. Dr. Lauryn (03:40): Wow. I love history lessons and that's amazing. And how interesting how something like that can spread like wildfire. What about like the reality in quotes, or perhaps what we're told is high risk pregnancies happen for women that are, if it's 40, 35, whatever that age is, right? Dr. Aumatma (04:00): Yeah, yeah. So let's talk about the what's actually true. So some of the more recent studies, there are some countries that have picked up this myth and they're like, well, that's definitely a myth. So what can we do about it? And what are we doing to test it? And what they found is there's a 3% decline from age, comparing age groups 25 to 29, and 35 to 39, a 3% decline, which is really okay. Mm-Hmm. , yes, there is, there's some changes that are happening as we age, but it's so small compared to the overwhelming majority of everything else that's going on. So that's partly true. Then we have the idea that the longer the eggs have been, and not even eggs but follicles like primordial follicles are in our ovaries at birth, the longer that those follicles have been exposed to toxins, our stress, our lifestyle, our lack of good nutrition, all of the things, the longer those follicles are exposed to it, the lower the quality of those follicles. (05:13): Right. But that's not to say that's irreversible damage, that's just to say that yes, there is, if you're just walking off the street and get pregnant at 43, then sure there is a likelihood that that pregnancy may not last or that there are potential complications or there's a higher risk of genetic abnormalities, epigenetic abnormalities with the child because of the exposure to all the, the stress and lifestyle of present reality. However, most of those things are reversible. So when we look at what's actually true, like is it always the case that a 35 year old is considered geriatric in western medicine? So is it always that I'm a geriatric pregnancy if I'm over 35, I'm high risk if I'm over 35 or 40 and super high risk over 45. That's kind of what is accepted in, in our common world. But I think it really discredits and discounts women that are proactive about their health that are like, I don't drink, I don't smoke. (06:33): I try to manage my stress, I do yoga, I meditate. We know these women, right? Like we are some of those women. And I remember when I was pregnant at 38 and my OB-GYN was like, oh, you're a super high risk pregnancy, but you're healthier than my average 20 year old pregnancy. Right? And, and I was like, do you really tell people that they're geriatric high risk? And she's like, oh yeah, we're required to tell them we are required by, by insurance companies, by legal standards to inform the woman that she's geriatric because she's over 35 and she's high risk at certain points. So I think that it really, it doesn't account for individuality, it doesn't account for what's possible if you actually dedicate time and energy to reversing a lot of the damage that could have been caused by lifestyle. And, and that's not a, a blame or a finger pointing. It's more like, let's just be proactive. Let's plan for our babies as long as, at least for the amount of time that we planned for a wedding. So if you dedicated nine months, a year, a year and a half to planning your wedding, dedicate that amount of time to planning your pregnancy, Dr. Lauryn (07:58): I love that. That's such a great rule of thumb and so true. Like a big life event. That same thing, if that's kind of the runway that folks could be proactive, it makes me think of actually one of my clients who recently, she was actually trying for probably over a year with her husband to get pregnant and she's, she is in her early thirties. But like they were really, really struggling and just they were just consistent, they were about to go into IVF actually. But just dedication to her health meditation. Like she was stopped doing really intense workouts and doing more yoga, eating really well, feeling her body like it happened. And I think just like the release of stress for her, like kind of just really is what moved that needle forward is what she's told me. And it's just like so true how much our lifestyle and the daily things can really make a difference even if we don't really, and see the elephant in the room, like stress mm-hmm. mm-hmm. , so to speak. But I would love to know like what are some of the like geriatric patients that you worked with or like the oldest pregnancies that you've seen and perhaps like some hope there. And then we can talk

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  2. 11/28/2022

    How Gut and Oral Health are Related with Trina Felber

    Trina Felber is the Founder and Creator of Primal Life Organics, the original “Paleo Skincare” company. In this episode, Trina and Dr. Lauryn discuss the close relationship between oral and gut health. Trina shares the oral health products we should avoid and even recommends a few we should implement into our routine! Stay tuned! - Highlights 5:45 - Trina talks about her background and what got her into the work she does 13:28 - Trina and Dr. Lauryn talk about ulterior motives that could influence the American Dental Association 15:29 - The relationship between our mouth and our gut health. They also discuss what bad breath really means… 19:05 - Trina shares her thoughts on “conventional” dental health products 29:49 - Dental health products that Trina recommends. 31:26 - How to learn more about Trina 31:44 - How to get a whiter smile 33:29 - A wellness hack Trina is excited about - About Trina Felber Founder and Creator of Primal Life Organics.  Life roles include: wife, mother of three, dental health and natural skincare expert, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Yogi, Paleo advocate, and educator.  By nature, Trina loves creating products that heal, soothe, mend and repair the body and soul. Trina is your Natural Health and Beauty Nurse, and she is improving the way you feed your skin.  She is a 34+ year nurse with a Masters in Nursing Anesthesia.  Trina is the international best-selling author of Beauty’s Dirty Secret, skincare and health related speaker/writer and her food-based skincare products have been featured on TV stations all over the country including ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox. She is dedicated to helping others realize the dangers in everyday cosmetics and skincare, and spreading awareness for the importance of using plant-base, nutritional skincare products. - Connect with Trina Website | primallifeorganics.com Instagram | primallifeorg YouTube | Trina Felber Facebook | Primal Life Organics, LLC - Connect with Dr. Lauryn Facebook | Dr. Lauryn Lax Twitter | @drlaurynlax Instagram | @drlaurynlax Website | drlauryn.com  - Transcript (Episode website contains full transcript) Dr. Lauryn (00:04): Well, hello, Health Detectives. Just another day here at the office, busy quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world and flipping both conventional health and holistic wisdom upside down. I'm your host, Dr. Lauryn, former TV news journalist gone health detective and functional medicine expert by way of my own 26-year-old long battle with different chronic illnesses spent seeing over 50 different doctors and trying countless diets, and Dr. Google searches under the sun that could not help until I figured out how to solve the underlying health mysteries from the inside out with an approach I now help hundreds of clients worldwide use today in my virtual functional medicine practice. Something I've been doing even before the pandemic made Zoom calls and yoga pants wearing a thing. And today, I also love helping you solve your greatest health mysteries and challenges on the show. Talking problems like dental health issues, so things like cavities or if you're like me in my former life, a lot of tartar and build up on your teeth or perhaps even bad breath. (01:11): So much of our own health is based in our mouth, and this is an insight I didn't really fully, quite grasp until my own dental issues improved. And that's when I improved a lot of my own lifestyle issues as well. So for years, as long as I can remember, I had a lot of tartar and buildup on my teeth. Every time I'd go to the dentist, it would just be like caked on there. And for whatever reason, I didn't eat a lot of sugar at all, especially during my adult life and my dieting days. And I thought I lived a pretty healthy lifestyle. Well, come to find out, a lot of our mouth health or oral health is a byproduct of our gut health and vice versa. A lot of our gut health is derived from our oral health. So suffice it to say, I had gut issues for most of my life, and I actually had a lot of recurrent SIBO, candida, and just overgrowth, bacterial overgrowth, and dysbiosis in my twenties adult life. (02:13): And I never really correlated that with my oral health until I began to address my gut help. As my gut improved, I cleared up SIBO, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. I even discovered I was living in mold at a time and got out of the mold and just cured some of the systemic fungal issues in my body. My oral health dramatically improved, and today I have very little tartar on my teeth and very rarely feel like, you know, I need to go to the dentist. Meaning like I used to feel like I needed a cleaning like three or four times a year just because it was so bad. And all that to say is like health is really an inside job. Your total body health is very much connected to your oral health, and your oral health is a big window to what's going on in your gut health. (03:03): Today I'm so excited to have Trina Felber in the house, who is a registered nurse by background, gone primal life organics skincare founder, and now she does body care as well. So all things care, including dental care products and the beginnings of her company, really began in her pregnancy when she discovered that her high-end skincare products were loaded with tons of toxic ingredients that could hurt her and her growing baby. Why didn't these products carry warning labels, she wondered? And worse off, why hadn't she ever read these labels before? All that led her to found the company Private Life Organics, which is the first paleo skincare branded company on the market for over 10 years. And since that time, she's also dove into the world of dental health, and on today's episode, we are nerding out on all things the mouth and giving you a mouth makeover, so to speak. (04:06): So I really think today's episode will bless you a ton if you have been using conventional products in your mouth for quite some time. So think about Colgate or whatever the other, I forget all the names of the products now because I really do use all-natural ingredients, but this episode will rock your world if you are looking to uplevel your health in an even mightier way. So without further ado, we'll get to the show. If you're liking the show, please don't hesitate to leave a review and click the five stars button in the iTunes app. I absolutely love and appreciate hearing from you, and it helps us cultivate more health detectives just like you in the world. And, of course, if you need any help in your own health journey, don't hesitate to reach out. I equally love hearing from you on my website, drlauryn.com, and helping you create your own healing in your life and helping you heal your root, too, and our amazing functional medicine-based programs over there, helping people worldwide change how they look, move, feel, and think. Okay, that's all. Let's get to the show. Dr. Lauryn (05:20): Well, Trina, so excited to have you in the house talking all about primal life dental health, really oral health, which is a topic I don't think is talked about enough and a health mystery out there as far as there's just a wild west. But before we dive in, I would love it if you could just give us a little bit of background about who you are and what got you doing this work that you are doing in the world. Trina (05:45): Oh, thanks, Lauryn. It's great to be here mouthing off with you. I love to say that. Dr. Lauryn (05:49): . Trina (05:52): I'm a registered nurse. I've been a nurse, oh gosh, since I think 1992. And then, I graduated in 2007 with a master's in anesthesia. So I really have a good grasp of internal health, and I've never been someone who's really loved western medicine and following like one pill treats a, you know, a symptom, and I've never been down that road. So to make a long story short, I've always been a very natural, very healthy person. And I started primal life organics mainly because I couldn't find healthy products. I couldn't find products that weren't loaded with toxins. I discovered that skincare, which I didn't realize, skin and dental care products are just loaded with cancer-causing ingredients. They cause allergies, they're neurological damage, they, they cause so many different kinds of problems. And when you talk about root causes, we have all these mystery things happening, mystery illnesses, and symptoms that we can't explain. (06:58): We feel like we should be healthy, but something's just not right. And sometimes it goes down to the products and the things that you're using on your body. And when you stop and realize that most products contain 10 to 20 toxins, you can really become toxic overload very, very easily. And even if those products themselves aren't directly causing injury, they're definitely causing an immune response, which then causes a cascade of other issues. Some of the problems with dental is the nitric oxide production. If you're using the wrong products, you're not gonna be producing nitric oxide because the nitric oxide has to be your balance inside your mouth of your microbiome has to be good as well as your gut in order for nitric oxide to be produced. However, to get to my dental story, my two-year-old daughter had a molar come in, and I had been making skincare products for probably two to three years at this point. (07:54): Hadn't dabbled in dental, just was working on skin care. And my daughter, at the age of two, had a molar popup. The molar, we were brushing it one night, and my husband's like, what is that? And I take a look at it, and it looked like it had a cavity. So we took her to the dentist. The dentist took one look at the tooth, and we said, yes, that's a natural cavity. It happened in utero during development. Most likely, I had a bacterial wash, I had a viral flood or some fever, or some stressor happened in my body the exact moment that tooth was being developed. And so a natural cavity happened. So he sa

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  3. 11/21/2022

    Deconstructing EBV (Epstein-Barr virus) with Dr. Kasia Kines

    ​​Dr. Kines is the CEO and Founder of Global Epstein-Barr Virus Institute. She is a leader in recovery therapy for chronic EBV, author, wellness expert, and a highly respected doctor of clinical nutrition, a graduate of the prestigious Bastyr University. In this episode, Dr. Kasia and Dr. Lauryn talk about all things EBV, what it is, what the symptoms are, how to live with it, and much much more! - Highlights 4:04 - Dr. Kasia talks about her background and what inspired her to pursue the world of the Epstein-Barr virus. 9:30 - What is EBV? 11:11 - How do you get EBV? 12:03 - Studies that are correlating COVID and EBV 14:29 - Symptoms of EBV 16:48 - How to distinguish symptoms as EBV symptoms 18:45 - How accurate are EBV tests? 20:12 - How Dr. Kasia interprets EBV tests 22:01 - What causes EBV to be reactivated 23:56 - What to do if you have EBV 28:47 - The role of binders and detoxification 30:34 - Common misunderstandings 34:58 - How to learn more about Dr. Kasia 35:55 - A health hack that Dr. Kasia has recently learned - About Dr. Kasia Kines ​​Dr. Kines is the CEO and Founder of Global Epstein-Barr Virus Institute. She is a leader in recovery therapy for chronic EBV, author, wellness expert, and a highly respected doctor of clinical nutrition, a graduate of the prestigious Bastyr University. Since 2005, Dr. Kines has built an international reputation as a functional nutritionist, from being sought after by Johns Hopkins University to her ground-breaking Amazon best-seller book The Epstein-Barr Virus Solution. Dr. Kines has developed an effective proprietary evidence-based methodology to EBV recovery and successful EBV Recovery Program for those suffering from EBV and also trains other practitioners in her methodology in Clinician EBV Training and Certification Program and EBV Practitioner Workshop. Dr. Kines is a passionate advocate for debunking common misinformation about EBV in medical community and lectures on this topic extensively.  She is on a mission to bring the truth about EBV and solution to the world globally, so no one needs to suffer needlessly from this misunderstood virus and its complications. She lives with her husband and their companion animals on San Juan Island, WA. - Connect with Dr. Kines Website | ebvhelp.com - Connect with Dr. Lauryn Facebook | Dr. Lauryn Lax Twitter | @drlaurynlax Instagram | @drlaurynlax Website | drlauryn.com  - Transcript (Episode website contains full transcript) Dr. Lauryn (00:05): Welcome to the Health Detective Podcast, a show dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. I'm your host, Dr. Lauryn, a former TV news journalist and chronic illness patient gone health detective with a master's in Functional Medicine, Nutrition, and my doctorate in occupational therapy, bringing you over 20 years of clinical and personal experience helping patients radically take their health back into their own hands. On this show, we have real conversations with a variety of interesting guests who are all a little bit of a health detective in their own way. Like today's guest, Dr. Kasia Kines, an EBV or Epstein-Barr virus expert and founder of the Global Epstein-Barr Virus Institute. She's the leader in recovery therapy for chronic EBV, an author, a wellness expert, and a highly respected doctor of clinical nutrition from the prestigious Bastyr University. Since 2005, Dr. Kines has built an international reputation as a functional nutritionist, from being sought after by Johns Hopkins University to her groundbreaking Amazon bestseller book, the Epstein-Barr Bar Virus Solution. Dr. Kines has developed an effective proprietary evidence-based methodology for EBV recovery, and this episode is power packed and full of juicy information on understanding all things EBV, which is something that at least 90% of the population has been exposed to at some time, believe it or not. So if you're ever familiar with the mono virus, maybe during college or high school, even the kissing disease is what it may be known as. You have been exposed to the Epstein-Barr virus. And while most many folks will recover from this virus and have antibodies for life, meaning like they have remnants of the virus in their body, but it's no longer an active infection, an unprecedented amount of people actually will have chronic EBV because the virus was never fully resolved, or it's been dormant, and it becomes reactivated when exposed to stressors, especially stressors in our environment. (02:16): Things like mold to our diet can definitely impact our flares, so to speak. And EBV, as we discussed today on the episode. So if you've ever wondered about what this EBV thing is about, or you may have even heard, uh, that some people have things like viruses, what is a virus? Um, how can it become reactivated, et cetera? How does it impact things like your energy to, your metabolism, to your brain function? Then you're not gonna wanna miss today's episode. Now, before we dive in if you're liking the show, please click the five stars button and leave a review in your podcast app. I absolutely love and appreciate hearing from you, and it helps us cultivate more health detectives just like you. And, of course, if you need help in your own health journey, don't hesitate to reach out. I equally love hearing from you on my website, drlauryn.com, and helping you heal your root in our amazing functional medicine-based programs over there, helping individuals worldwide change how they look, move, feel, and think. Okay, that's all, folks. Let's get to today's show. Dr. Lauryn (03:31): Dr. Kasia, I'm so excited to have you in the house to talk about a very wild west topic, EBV, that I think a lot of folks, you, you know, better than I, um, have touched before in their lives at some point and could be an underlying root cause of why all the things are not working, and I'm sure you get that a lot from your patients that you serve. But before we dive in, give us a little bit of background about what got you doing this work you are doing in the world that's near and dear to your heart. Dr. Kines (04:04): Oh, okay. Sure. Uh, and thank you for having me here. I'm really delighted to support your community. I think I'm just like you, you know, um, a result of a journey. And so as long as you are open and listening and watching, it just, it just takes you there. So, you know, I was a busy clinician and for many years, and there were some patients that I just couldn't help no matter what we did, not for the lack of trying. And then, you know, you hit the wall, and you're frustrated, and you really focused on the fact that there's just so the handful of people and that you can't help you forget about all those that you can help. And, so you ask the question to the universe, what is it? What is it? Why is it not working? And at the same time, I had a friend, um, who, out of the blue, was, um, landed in ER, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, and that happened six months before I immigrated to the states from Poland. (05:01): And so my years as an immigrant kind of paralleled with her years fighting that illness. And, um, after about 20 years, she lost her life. And, um, it was pretty devastating. And I was frustrated because I had tried to help her here and there, but I didn't really understand. I didn't know. And then, in my desperation, I remember talking to a medical intuitive and asking, you know, what was the cause? Why did she get so sick? And the virus was mentioned. And then I also had, I think, three different patients at the same time asking me my educated opinion on the book called Medical Medium. I'm sure you heard of it. Dr. Lauryn (05:43): Mm-hmm. . Dr. Kines (05:45): And so I was busy, and so all I could do is buy the book and take it on a plane, uh, to a conference, mm-hmm. . So I was sitting on the plane and reading the book, and I almost drop off my seat because what the claims made in that book were about the people that I was not able to help. It's like, wait a second. It was a very blanket statement saying that all these illnesses, all this and all that is caused by EBV. But I was thinking, even if half of it is true, what if? And so when I went back home, I literally started to, uh, dive into medical research, and I started from lab testing and, you know, how do you actually assess? And then, the testing was really messy, I learned later. And so, but I started to test properly, you know, ask to test properly. (06:36): And we started to find a lot of EBV in my population. And, and that was also the population that had thyroid problems, uh, thyroiditis, Hashimoto, thyroiditis, you know, it's just, just, you know, it's just a journey, and you just, you take one step at a time and just honor the process. And so, so when I realized how deep that virus is, how devastating it is, I started to see patterns in, uh, my population, and I started to learn what I could about medical literature existing. Then the magic started to happen, and people started to reverse engineer their lives. And I was lucky, cuz you know, when you ask the universe, the answer comes. So I was lucky. I actually had virology in my doctoral program. Uh, and it was the only time that person taught that program. And that's when I started on the protocol. (07:33): That's when I learned about viruses in general. Cause actually, you know, I was frustrated. I went to the best schools, and you never really studied virology, let alone EBV. Nowhere was there any training on it ever. And so I felt my job was to bridge whatever medical medicine was claiming. Cause it's a, you know, far extreme, you know, on, on one extreme and what medical community needs on the other extreme in the middle was all the medical research, all the science, and all my experience and all the protocols I created. So people in the middle could actually get help. And then we can move this towards the medical community so the doctors can trai

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  4. 11/14/2022

    Replenishing the Nutrients your Medication Depletes with Sarah Morgan

    Sarah Morgan is an author, inventor with several patents, and founder and CEO of Even. In this episode, Sarah helps us better understand SSRIs, medical foods, and how nutrition can help support our mental health. Stay tuned! - Highlights 3:20 - Sarah talks about her background and what inspired her to help people. She also talks about the “pesky” side effects of medicine. 6:51 - How many women are on birth control? 7:33 - The usage of SSRIs in light of COVID. 9:30 - What exactly do SSRIs do to our bodies, and what is their efficacy? 15:51 - Sarah helps us understand serotonin 20:25 - How nutrients and SSRIs interact 24:25 - The ways Sarah goes about educating her clients 27:39 - What to look out for when sourcing your vitamins and nutrients 30:14 - How to learn more about Sarah and her company 31:16 - An “aha” moment in Sarah’s health journey - About Sarah Morgan Sarah Morgan is passionate about infusing nutrition into every aspect of human health. She has a Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition, training in nutrigenomics and worked in clinical practice for 15 years. She is an author, inventor with several patents and founder and CEO of Even. - Connect with Sarah Website | feeleven.com Instagram | evenhealth Facebook | @evenhealth - Connect with Dr. Lauryn Facebook | Dr. Lauryn Lax Twitter | @drlaurynlax Instagram | @drlaurynlax Website | drlauryn.com  - Transcript (Episode website contains full transcript) Dr. Lauryn (00:03): Well, Hello, Health Detectives, just another day here at the office talking about flipping health and wellness upside down. I'm your host, Dr. Lauryn, former TV news journalist and chronic illness patient gone health detective and functional medicine expert, helping others take their health back into their own hands. Can we just have a moment? It's been a year or more, like two years, and we all definitely need a reminder sometimes to just breathe. Today I had so much pep in my step, and I think a big part of that goes back to my own social media and news habits. The less I check those things at all, the more happy and encouraged overall I feel. So what about you? Today was one of those days I was definitely not in the weeds of, say, emails or social feeds, or news headlines, and it really does make all the difference. (00:53): Today on the show, we're specifically talking about anxiety and depression and SSRIs or antidepressants, the good, the bad, the ugly. These drugs saw about a 40 to 60% increase in use over the past two years alone as the rates of anxiety and depression also jumped. And today, we have guest Sarah Morgan in the house who wanted to do something about that. She's the founder of a company called Even, helping people feel even when they feel anything, but specifically through medical foods. And today's conversation is eye-opening to helping you dial in the key nutrients to enhance your own mental health and emotional health, and well-being. I've had Sarah on the show before to talk about her other product for birth control or overcoming post-birth control syndrome, which is a whole nother topic. And I absolutely love the message she shares throughout her company and her mission. (01:45): It's not about demonizing the drug industry or an us versus them mentality, like holistic versus conventional health is really about bridging the gap and ultimately helping people heal their root no matter what direction they come from. I think today's episode will really bless you, and if you know anyone that has struggled with anxiety or depression or is taking SSRIs, thinking about them antidepressants, this is a show you definitely don't wanna miss. If you're liking the show too, please don't hesitate to leave a review. It really helps us cultivate more health detectives out there like yourself. And if you need help in your own health journey, don't hesitate to reach out for support. I love hearing from you on my website, drlauryn.com. That's Dr. Lauryn l a u r y n.com. And take advantage of our amazing functional medicine-based programs to help you change how you look, move, feel, and think. Okay, that's all, folks. Let's get to the show. Dr. Lauryn (02:44): Well, Sarah, so excited to have you back in the house. I just absolutely love talking to you, and I love what your company is about, just really feeling even and getting even basically for our health again after maybe years of imbalance for a lot of folks that maybe stumble upon you and your company and your products. But before we kinda get into today's topic, we're talking about SSRIs and just mental health, the wild west of mental health as a whole, and medications in that field, give us a little bit of background, just what got you doing this work for helping people feel even. Sarah (03:20): Yeah, well, thank you so much for having me back on. And really, the genesis of Even started because I had my own side effects from my medication when I was, let's see, about, I don't know, I was in my early twenties. I went on birth control, and I just quickly felt moody, off, I was fatigued, I had headaches, I had low libido, , and I stopped, and I was like, What in the world is going on and am I the only one experiencing this or is this a common thing? ? So I went to my most trusted advisor at the time, who are my girlfriends, and they were also taking the pill. And I started asking, Do you experience any issues while you're on your birth control? And they all looked at me, and kind of started laughing. They're like, Oh, Sarah, welcome a club of mood swings, weight gain, digestive issues, headaches, breakouts, low libido. (04:19): The list goes on and on. And in the moment, I laughed it off, but I knew deep inside there had to be a better way to get the benefits of for me birth control without the backlash. And my vision expanded as I learned why this was happening. So, first of all, I started digging cuz I'm a why person, I'm a problem solver. And I was like, okay, it's not just me. There are other women experiencing this as well. So I started digging into the scientific literature, and I realized that medications cause nutrient depletions. And this is something called MIND, medication-induced nutrient depletions. It's a pharmaceutical truth. As long as pharmaceutical medications have existed, they're awesome. They benefit us in many ways. I'm not knocking them in any way. But what's happened is we have now continued to advance our understanding that while you're on a medication and the way it works in your body, it can actually use up more nutrients. (05:19): It can start to deplete nutrients through absorption issues, transport issues. There's a lot of different mechanisms of how it happens. And this is actually the reason why a lot of people don't feel great while they're on their meds. And then we have these clustering of what we call side effects. Now I'm not talking about adverse effects. Those are the really serious allergic reactions to meds, very serious things that put you in the hospital. These are more like the pesky things that I just listed with birth control. Or, as we dive into antidepressants, there's a whole list of those, and they're very solvable. And I saw a gap that really was a major problem that needed a solution in the way that we do medication use. Cuz right now, it's like, here's your med have fun suffering with the side effects, and it doesn't have to be that way. So I created Even because I want to unite medications and nutrition solving for mine, these nutrient depletions of medication so people can feel well, they don't have to suffer unnecessarily, and they can have a better quality of life while they use the medications they need. Dr. Lauryn (06:30): Yeah, I mean, I love where there's a problem presented in our own lives. That's where the solution digging comes and the inspiration there. And I think a lot of folks could probably relate to what you just said just about the variety of A, birth control pills. How many women are on birth control pills, or what's the statistics that Sarah (06:50): Yeah, we go off and on them as women . But on average, in the United States, about 25 to 30 million women are on different hormonal forms of birth control. So that pill, that patch, it's IUD, it's implanted like Nexplanon in your arm. There's a lot of different forms of hormonal birth control now, Dr. Lauryn (07:14): Just how common those are. And then also with the antidepressants and SSRIs, I mean we've seen such an uptick in mental health, anxiety, depression, even post covid during covid times. That industry, I'm sure, has boomed. What have you found there as far as usage of SSRIs? Sarah (07:34): Yeah, during the global pandemic, I guess we could say it's still going on, There were certain SSRIs, so those are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors to define that class of medication. And we tend to call them antidepressants, but they're also used to treat a lot of different medical conditions. Anxiety, O C D, post-traumatic stress disorder. There's a lot of things that SSRIs are used for. And several of them were on the FDA drug shortage list during the pandemic because so many people were using them and the supplies actually got so low. So on average, about 70 million Americans use antidepressants in what's called the reuptake inhibitor category. So that's SSRIs, SNRIs, SSNRIs, There's a lot of different forms of them that are out there now. And we saw a month-by-month increase, I believe, of about 40 to 60% during the global pandemic. So it's definitely higher. I think one of the reasons we use this class of medication is to get us through circumstantial hard stuff. Some people are on the long term, but I think the global pandemic is a really good example of sometimes in life, it gets really hard, and you need some help. And an SSRI can definitely be a tool to be used that way. Dr. Lauryn (08:59): Talk a little bit about how SSRIs are targeting the brain as we shifted into this co

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  5. 11/07/2022

    Understanding Genetic Testing with Kashif Khan

    Kashif Khan is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of The DNA Company where personalized medicine is being pioneered through unique insights into the human genome. In this episode, Kashif shares his approach to genetic testing and how, with the proper information, we can learn more about our bodies and get ahead of illnesses! - Highlights 3:03 - Kashif talks about his background and what got him interested in Genetics 5:22 - Information that Kashif learned about his genes that changed his life 7:51 - How a common clinical protocol doesn’t work for everyone 9:22 - Supplementation as related to methylation 11:39 - Kashif’s response to those that are skeptical of how useful genetic testing is 15:45 - Taking responsibility for the root causes of illness 19:52 - The role hormones can play in illnesses 22:43 - The role estrogen plays in men 24:04 - The profile of their genetic testing 24:59 - The types of genes that are the most actionable 26:38 - Kashif shares a personal example of how genetics can predict people’s behavior 29:28 - The diets of our ancestors, and how strictly we should stick to them 32:32 - Genetic testing in relation to the gut microbiome 35:00 - Where to learn more about Kashif 36:28 - Kashif’s epiphany 38:12 - A chronic wellness hack that Kashif is excited about - About Kashif Khan Kashif Khan is Chief Executive Officer and Founder of The DNA Company where personalized medicine is being pioneered through unique insights into the human genome. With the largest study of its kind globally, The DNA Company has developed a functional approach to genomic interpretation overlaying environment, nutrition and lifestyle on the genetic blueprint to create personalized and deterministic health outcomes.  Prior to his tenure at the DNA Company, Kashif participated in a number of high growth start-ups where he took an active role as an angel investor and advisor.  He ran two successful marketing firms where his client list comprised Canada’s top earners and most affluent individuals.  From Canada’s largest company to small neighbourhood businesses, Kashif has advised on business strategy in industries ranging from luxury retail, technology, finance, fine arts, healthcare, tourism and real estate. He participated in over $300 million in revenue in his own retail business prior to launching consulting services to help others thrive.  Growing up in Vancouver, B.C., Kashif’s drive started from witnessing his immigrant parents’ struggles to establish themselves in their new country. Inspired by their iron-clad work ethic and resourcefulness, Kashif developed an industrious entrepreneurial spirit from a young age. While his high school peers were languishing in minimum wage jobs, Kashif was hard at work starting his first business.   As CEO of The DNA Company, Kashif later learned that his neural wiring was actually genetically designed to be entrepreneurial. He has since made it his mission to build The DNA Company into a business that has impact and who’s success is measured not in dollars earned, but in lives improved. - Connect with Kashif Website | https://www.thednacompany.com/ - Connect with Dr. Lauryn Facebook | Dr. Lauryn Lax Twitter | @drlaurynlax Instagram | @drlaurynlax Website | drlauryn.com  - Transcript (Episode website contains full transcript) Dr. Lauryn (00:02): Well, hello, welcome to the Health Detective Podcast, a show dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, speed, and fitness world. I'm your host, Dr. Lauryn, former TV news journalist and ex-chronic illness patient gone health detective, bringing you my 20 years of clinical and personal experience helping patients radically take their health back into their own hands. On this show, I love having real conversations with a variety of guests who are all a little bit of a health detective in their own way, trying to fight and solve the problems of health and wellness kind out there. Ultimately get ready to uncover truths and expose lies in both conventional health wisdom and diet culture as we know it so you can reach your optimal potential. Today we're talking all about the wild, wild west of genetic testing and DNA. Is genetic testing reliable? Is it necessary? (00:51): Is it effective? Only if we use it effectively. We have Kashif Khan in the house, who is the co-founder of the DNA Company, a company all about doing things a little bit differently in genetics using genetic testing strategically. This conversation changed my mind a lot about using genetic testing, and it's definitely something that I'm gonna be incorporating even more so with my patients in clinical practice and just really love how they are using only a select number of genes. There's so many genes that can show up on our genetic panel testing. So say, like a 23andme, consumer kind of testing, consumer-facing testing, but really the DNA Company is doing things a bit differently and just looking again at that handful of genes that are gonna make differences in protocol slash what supplements you take, what foods you're eating, et cetera. So I think this conversation was really fruitful and insightful for myself as a health detective, and hope it is the same for you. If you're liking the show, please don't hesitate to leave a review. Your reviews mean the world to me and helps others become their own best health detectives for themself. And of course, don't hesitate and be a stranger. Reach out at my website, Dr. Lauryn.com, D R L A U R Y N.com. Would love to share more about how I'm helping patients take back their health into their own hands as well as love hearing about interesting podcasts or topic ideas that you guys wanna hear about. So without further ado, let's get to the show. Dr. Lauryn (02:20): Well, Kashif, so excited to have you in the house today and to talk about the wild west of genetic testing. I know there's a lot of consumer-available genetic testing out there at 23andme, for example, that have become very popular, and sometimes maybe we're not using them as effectively as we could for really what are we gonna do with this information kind of testing. And I know your company has a really unique approach to genetics testing in general for really helping cure the problem of chronic illness or the way we manage and treat chronic illness, rather, not just manage but treat and address it. Well just would love to know a little bit of background before we dive into that, though, about what got you doing this kind of work that you are doing in genetics. Kashif (03:03): Personally, I come from left field. I have nothing to do with the industry. I actually used to sell luxury goods. We're in Canada, we're in Toronto, and our company had the record for the most valuable painting sold in Canada, but the most valuable vintage Patek Philippe watch for over a million dollars, that type of thing. So I was networking with the high net-worth people of Canada, and I realized what I was good at was the sort of PR and marketing of it didn't matter what the product was, I knew how to get in the media and talk about it and that type of thing. And so I actually shifted gears that that's what I'm good at, and that's what I enjoy. And I started doing that for other people. I was now running two businesses and I sort of worked myself into sickness. (03:47): My business partner would have to drive me home with debilitating migraines. I would literally just start vomiting from the migraines. It was so intense. I had eczema, psoriasis, like brain fog, you'd name all the typical things that point to a doctor can't figure this out. It seems like some kind of autoimmune issue, and that's why you end up going to a functional medicine clinician to figure out the root cause. So in that journey, our PR company was working with some healthcare companies to help them sort of grow. There's a lot of innovation here in Toronto, and I started to use that to learn about myself cause I literally couldn't work. I was so sick. I learned that decoding my instruction manual, my genetic manual, was a thing that separated me from here's all these symptoms I'm talking about eczema, psoriasis, brain fog and nausea, and migraines. There's one or two things, the hub that's pointing to all these folks (04:41): . And I was doing a couple things wrong and those couple of things being fixed kind of resolved everything. And that blew my mind that the change is so easy. I didn't need this cream and that pill and this, this whole basket of stuff I was doing, there was a cellular health problem that was leading to this. My body screaming you're in bad shape, better get back into it. And so I literally took the keys for the PR company that I had built, gave it to the staff, and I said, You guys, thank you for all the work. It's yours. I found what I need to work on. And I focused on the DNA Company. Dr. Lauryn (05:16): That's amazing. And what were those couple things that were big game changers for you with that information you discovered? Kashif (05:22): So this goes back to what you said, that in genetics, it's not about a list of genes. And then try and figure out what it means. The interpretation is key. Everybody can test. You can literally go buy a genetic testing machine and put it in your basement, and start tomorrow. But when it spits out a report, you have to understand what is, how to make that actionable, and what does it mean? And in order to do that, you have to be able to mirror the genes to the biochemistry. How does the body actually work? It's not this gene, this gene just the body's not 22,000 independent genes. It's systems, hormonal system, cardiovascular system. And you have to batch and mirror that. So what I learned in that is that my systems, my detox system, glutathionylation, which we talk about, the ability to bind on to a toxin, send it to the liver to metabolize, get rid of it. (06:10): I literally was missing some of those genes. Forget about what ve

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  6. 10/31/2022

    Picky Eating Solutions with Jess Sherman

    Jess Sherman is an international speaker and author, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner and award winning Registered Holistic Nutritionist™, board certified in Practical Holistic Nutrition. In this episode, she talks about the roots of picky eating, her approach to helping patients, and much more! - Highlights 3:17 - Jess talks about her background and what got her into helping resilient kids 8:04 - Jess talks about the granular approach she takes to analyzing a picky eater’s diet 10:04 - The roots of picky eating 13:52 - Creating a culture of nourishment in your family 16:21 - Working with teenagers 20:48 - A good approach to teaching picky eaters about nourishment 24:11 - Jess goes into specifics on how she helps her patients 27:33 - The importance of making sure a child’s support system is on the same page when it comes to their nutrition 29:55 - The importance of community for parents that are on this journey 32:20 - Where to learn more about Jess 34:04 - Some epiphanies Jess has learned as a health detective - About Jess Sherman Jess Sherman is an international speaker and author, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner and award winning Registered Holistic Nutritionist™, board certified in Practical Holistic Nutrition. She is also a certified teacher and holds a masters degree in Education from The University of Toronto. As a family health educator she has guided parents in at least 44 countries towards safe, natural and effective tools to improve the lives of their children with learning differences, anxiety, ADHD, autism and mood disorders. Back when she was teaching high school, Jess became deeply concerned to learn that at least 60% of her students were on medication - either to help them learn, focus or stabilize their mood, or to help them sleep, poop or manage their allergies.  When she discovered the profound impact of nutrition and stress on resilience she set her mind to helping the busy, frustrated, worried parents of these kids find natural, simple ways to help them thrive.  She now reaches parents around the world through her book, Raising Resilience: Take the stress out of feeding your family and love your life, her virtual community, and her online coaching program. Jess has been featured as a nutrition and family health expert for online and offline audiences where she has spoken about the impact of nutrition and connection for audiences of parents, medical professionals, social workers and teachers. She is a regular contributor to blogs and print magazines, where she translates complex research into practical action steps for busy parents. In 2019 Jess received the award for Clinical Excellence from The CSNNAA for her work with families and was picked as a featured speaker in The Future Of Health series at the Mindshare Leadership Summit where she spoke about the challenges of raising resilient kids today. - Connect with Jess Website | jesssherman.com The Resilience Roadmap Biology of Behavior - Connect with Dr. Lauryn Facebook | Dr. Lauryn Lax Twitter | @drlaurynlax Instagram | @drlaurynlax Website | drlauryn.com  - Transcript (Episode website contains full transcript) Dr. Lauryn (00:02): Hello, welcome to the Health Detective Podcast, a show dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. I'm your host, Dr. Lauryn, former TV news journalist, an ex-chronic illness patient gone health detective with my master's in functional medicine, nutrition, and my doctorate in occupational therapy. Today, bringing you over 20 years of clinical and personal experience helping patients radically take their health back into their own hands. On this show, I love having real conversations with a variety of interesting guests who are all a little bit of health detectives in their own way, like our guest today, Jess Sherman. Today we're talking about the problem of picky eating and behavior problems in kids, which are often related to food. Family wellness specialist and nutritionist Jess Sherman is the founder of the Resilience Roadmap. She helps parents and families create systematic plans as well as nutrition solutions for ultimately helping build resilient kids in your own lives. (00:57): Picky eating and letting food be thy medicine are two of the frontal topics of today's conversation. And absolutely just loved this conversation because I have 20 years of my own experience of working with kids and families as well. I remember when I was 10 years old, starting my own babysitter's club. I was a solo babysitter at the time, but I just absolutely loved working with kids. And as I began to become more of a healthcare practitioner, realized a lot of the things that I was seeing kids for in my therapy clinic, such as ADHD, sensory processing, autism spectrum, just like chronic anxiety with kids, were really related not only to the food they were eating but also what was going on under the hood. So things like their gut microbiomes and their limbic system slash brain health and how they're processing stress. And so today's conversation is just really rich and meaningful in that way of health really is an inside job, both for us adults and for our kids. (01:56): And hope today is really empowering. If anything, I hope this conversation is empowering for you, and or if you have any parent friends in your life and or folks that you think could really resonate with this episode, don't hesitate to share it with them. If you're liking the show, also don't hesitate to leave a review. Your reviews mean the world to me and help others become their own health detectives, best health detectives for themselves, by getting the word out there. And if you have a podcast topic or idea, also love hearing from you. Don't hesitate to reach out to me on social media and or my website. My handle is at Dr. Lauryn d r l a u r y n, my website same dr Lauryn.com. D r l a u r y n.com. Without further ado, let's get to the show. (02:44): Jess. So excited to have you here. And just to talk about building resilient kids and using food as medicine for our kids and for our kids with maybe behavior issues on quotes or our kids that are struggling in school, , or kids that are super picky or is all the above. Oftentimes like Let food be thy medicine could be the missing link that is not always tapped into. And so, but before we get into that topic, really just give us a little bit of background about what got you doing the work you are doing to build resilient kids and families. Jess Sherman (03:17): Yeah, thanks so much for having me, Lauryn. Oh, we have so much to talk about with building resilient kids. I got into this, I started as a teacher. I started, I was really interested in working with kids. I started working with them actually in an outdoor environment, taking them on trips and teaching them skills in the woods and that sorts that of stuff. And that took me into the classroom. And I was teaching in the classroom, and I was noticing that kids were just really struggling, you know, it was getting worse and worse and worse. And I was getting really burnt out, and I was teaching with an exceptional team of teachers, I worked with fairly challenging kids who were already looking for something a little bit different from the normal educational system and came into our school because they didn't really fit elsewhere. (04:08): And so we were super creative, and we, it was an amazing team. We got the kids outside, we changed the classrooms around, we threw out the curriculum and focused on community building, and we were doing so much amazing work, and still, kids were really struggling. And I got really tired and really curious about what we were missing. And so I took a sabbatical, what I thought was gonna be a sabbatical ended up being a career change. And I started to dig into children and their bodies and what makes them tick. And it's really interesting to me now to look back and think that I didn't, or, and see that I didn't take a sabbatical to learn more about education or learn more about how children learn or, you know, learn anything about special education or, or things like that. I left to study holistic health and nutrition because somehow I had a gut instinct that was where I needed to focus. (05:10): Something was going on in their bodies that was making it hard for them to cope with the expectations that we're putting on them as teachers. And you know, so hence the anxiety and the ADHD and the aggressive outbursts and the, you know, the, what I call now re lack of resilience, which is our capacity to cope with stress. They couldn't cope with stress. Some of them could, but some of 'em couldn't. And I wanted to understand the difference. And so then my mind was just blown open when I started to learn about the connection between what we eat, what's going on inside our bodies, our biology, and our capacity to tolerate stress, which is our resilience. So that's what I do now. I started screaming that from the rooftops cuz I was like, ah, , everyone needs to know, Every teacher needs to know. That would be, I would've been, a totally different teacher. Well, I'd say that now, but who knows? It changes how I teach, it changes how I parent now as a mom of three. And yeah, it just, it changes everything when you see this different perspective. Dr. Lauryn (06:08): Yeah. Well, I'm so inspired by your story because I just absolutely love working with kids and families as well. And yet just with that epiphany and that awareness that you had, because I think I should, before we started recording, I worked as an OT occupational therapist for quite some time both in pediatric clinics as well as in the school system. And just like already was kind of woken to like using food as medicine in my own healing journey from chronic eating disorders as well as working outside of the scope with or outside of those environments with adults. But really like just seeing these kids come

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  7. 10/24/2022

    Parenting Do-Over with Dr. Marny Turvill - The Health Detective Podcast

    Dr. Marny is a former Pediatrician who invented the Parenting Do-Over by living it. In this episode, Dr. Marny talks about the experiences that led her to develop the Parenting Do-Over and shares what a Do-Over looks like in practicality. She even goes over the 7 Key areas of transformation that she covers with her clients, so be sure to stick around! - Highlights 0:37 - What inspired Marny to start parenting do-over 5:32 - What becoming a better parent looks like in practice 17:41 - Advice for parents that want to change the nutrition habits of their kids 26:25 - How to connect with Dr. Marny 27:15 - One of Marny’s epiphany’s on her own health journey - About Dr. Marny Turvill Dr. Marny is a former Pediatrician who invented the Parenting Do-Over by living it. When her children were very young, she suffered from Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, a debilitating illness that created many parenting moments that she wanted to "do over." For ten years she accumulated frustration, guilt, and sadness because the dreams she had for her life and her family seemed to be lost forever. Nothing she had learned in her medical training or in the best parenting resources was helping and her family was suffering tremendously. In 2011, Marny finally found the first piece of the complex jigsaw puzzle that led her to fully recover her health and discover how to "unmess up" herself and her kids. Dr. Marny has learned that all good parents unintentionally mess up their kids when they haven’t dealt with their own baggage across the seven key areas of life. Her mission is to eliminate this generational cycle of trauma so that parents and their kids thrive in all aspects of life, and kids enter adulthood healthy, capable, and ready to shine in their unique purpose. Through her Functional Medicine practice and her Parenting Do-Over coaching Dr. Marny helps her clients to identify the root causes of the baggage that can cause years, decades or even a lifetime of dysfunction and discontent and guides them to release their baggage and create a life they love. - Connect with Dr. Marny eGuide “7 Keys to a Successful Parenting Do-Over – How to un-mess up your kids and love your life!” at http://www.7keysgift.com - Connect with Dr. Lauryn Facebook | Dr. Lauryn Lax Twitter | @drlaurynlax Instagram | @drlaurynlax Website | drlauryn.com  - Transcript (Episode website contains full transcript) Dr. Lauryn (00:02): Well, Dr. Marny, I'm so excited to have you in the house today, and you're just a woman that I so admire and respect and just so accomplished I know in your career and your career path and such a heartfelt entrepreneur and healthcare provider. And so today, we're really excited to talk about Parenting Do-Over, like what that means and what that's all about. Cuz I think there is a lot of noise in the parenting world as it is just even in one's own head about parenting, and you totally get that. But before we dive into that, just give us a little bit of background about what got you inspired into even starting Parenting Do-Over. Dr. Marny (00:37): Well, I needed to fix my life , right? So I was a pediatrician for 16 years, and then I got really sick, and my illness drastically affected my parenting. It also drastically affected my marriage because when you're really sick, you are not your best self. And I wasn't able to do things with my kids. I was irritable with my kids and my husband and partly because I wasn't getting any help with the illness. Like I was going for help, but nobody knew what to do with me, right? I got that classic, Oh, it must all be in your head. Which it was not. As you know, you, you've heard the, you know the whole story, but it's an illness that's typically thought of as in your head. I had multiple chemical sensitivities, which is a version of chemical toxicity and post-traumatic stress all wrapped together in a very ugly package that you look fine on the outside, but you're totally not fine on the inside . (01:34): Mm-Hmm. . And I just got to the point about four years into that where I actually left one part of my two part hospital physician jobs because I needed to be a better parent. And I thought that getting out of that chemical environment would help, and it didn't. And I ended up starting a retail store that was chemical-free, and that didn't help. And my parenting situation got worse and worse because I was stressed, my husband was stressed, and the kids were stressed. And it really was about finding out how do I get healthy again. And then, as I was learning more and more about getting healthy, I was discovering that it's not just the medical side of getting healthy that has to happen for you to be your best self. So I had to address my thoughts. I had to address my emotions. I had to address the spiritual side of my life. (02:30): I had to address my self-image, all these things, and learn relationship skills that I hadn't learned in order to really get healthy. And each one of those additional pieces I learned and put into place in my life made my life better and made me a much better parent. Right? And so in just applying that and teaching some of those things to my kids different, you know, stress management things or emotional mental health things, you know, had my kids get better as well. And so that's where it came from. And, it's interesting cuz I started in pediatrics because I've always had a passion for kids and families, and I thought, well, if I go into pediatrics, then I'll start with healthy babies, and I'll be able to teach them how to be healthy as adults. And it, you know, when I got my own illness, suddenly out of the blue, I really realized that pediatrics didn't give me any tools to meet that goal that I had. The conventional medicine world doesn't teach us how to be healthy. Mm-Hmm. , it only teaches us how to manage illness, and it poo-poos all the things that make you healthy. And I didn't realize that at first. And now it's so exciting that I do have all these things to help people be healthy. And that's how I got into it. Dr. Lauryn (03:52): Well, that is so cool. It makes me smile, too, because it is really like no parent is given a manual on how to be a parent. I mean, maybe you go through, like, before preparing for your baby, like how to go into labor, but after that, there's not really a parenting class and Dr. Marny (04:06): That's, that's right. There's manuals for how to set up your nursery. And there's manuals for how to go through labor, but after that, it's all done. And I kind of look back and laugh cuz I thought about writing a parenting manual when I was a pediatrician. And I just look at it and go, Well, that would've been totally inadequate . Yeah. You know, now knowing what I know now. But, it is a really lacking thing. And the truth is, the more you do to better yourself to get rid of all the baggage you've accumulated in your life before you're a parent, the better a parent you're gonna be. But it's never too late to make yourself a better person and be a better parent and give your kids a better experience. Even if, even if your kids are already adults. Yeah. It's not too late to, you know, improve on that and give them a little better set of tools for life. Dr. Lauryn (04:55): Right. So it's kind of like, where does one even begin? And we were talking a little before the show started about like putting on your own oxygen mask and like kind of doing the work for yourself and perhaps releasing some of the pressure on just the parenting skills itself and like doing the work even that you did within your own health healing journey for sure. And that, that internal work, so to speak, and that sounds kind of abstract maybe to the listener. Can you give us some like specific concrete ideas and examples of like what some of this becoming a better parent slash, like flexing those muscles, really looks like in practice? Dr. Marny (05:32): Yeah, I think actually parenting skills are probably the least important part, which is maybe good news, maybe not good news. I don't know. It depends on where you are with that. But it's really about getting you into a place where you can be a good parent. So that means managing your health. So there's seven areas that I cover when I coach my clients on the Parenting Do-Over process. Right? And there's a, there's a distinct process that we go through where we look at, you know, what is the baggage they have, what are the things getting in in their way? We look at seven areas, which I'll come back to in a second. We look at what is the thing that is most bothersome to them right now in their family life. Where do they wanna go? And then we dissect it down into, well, which of the seven areas which things need to be managed to get from where you are now to where you wanna get. (06:26): And we're talking about a short-term goal, not the rosy grand ideal scenario that we, I mean, we should have that, but that we, we aren't gonna leap from here to there in one fell swoop. So we come up with a short-term, you know, single scenario thing that's going on and look at what are the components affecting that. And then, we look at the seven areas and then come up with a plan for activating slightly different habits or better-coping skills, better stress management, and better thoughts. So the seven areas are your own health, and sometimes it's just little tweaks you need to make. And sometimes you really do need to get some help from someone who knows how to restore health. Someone like you or me outside of the conventional healthcare system, which I don't like to bash. But the truth is that they're not good with chronic health issues. (07:18): The conventional healthcare system is really, really good with acute emergencies. And I want them there for me should I have an acute emergency. And with chronic health, they're only taught, and I was one of them for a long time, so I can easily say this, we are only taught how to m

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  8. 10/17/2022

    The Wild West of the Thyroid with Tiffany Flaten - The Health Detective Podcast

    Tiffany Flaten, M.Ed., MSN, CNS, and wellness coach and is a thyroid expert in nutrition. In this episode of the Health Detective Podcast, Tiffany and Dr. Lauryn explore the Wild West of the thyroid, discussing symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of this widespread epidemic. - Highlights 4:08 - Tiffany talks about how her own thyroid conditions led her to her to study nutrition and help others 8:47 - Some hallmarks symptoms of thyroid conditions. 11:45 - The importance of the thyroid 14:21 - The unfortunate lack of thoroughness when diagnosing thyroid conditions. 17:59 - Causes of thyroid conditions 20:44 - The connection between pregnancy and Hashimoto’s disease. 23:28 - Common causes of stress that Tiffany sees in the people she works with. 26:24 - The type of people that tend to suffer from thyroid conditions 28:38 - How to start healing your thyroid condition 31:33 - The nutrients linked to thyroid health 34:57 - Foods that tend to cause flair ups 36:29 - How to find out more about Tiffany and her work 37:25 - A cool health insight 38:44 - A chronic wellness hack - About Tiffany Flaten Tiffany Flaten, M.Ed., MSN, CNS and wellness coach and is a thyroid expert in nutrition. As founder of Rock Bottom Wellness and Tiffany Flaten Health, LLC, Tiffany helps thyroid patients improve their symptoms through proper nutrition education. She’s helped hundreds of women and men get to the root cause, find a way up from rock bottom, be their own best advocate, and shortcut the path to an amazing life. Rock Bottom Thyroid Treatment: An 8-Week Thyroid Diet for People with “Normal” Thyroid Test Results to Thrive, Not Just Survive is Tiffany’s first book. Meet others on the journey to better thyroid health at www.rockbottomwellness.com/group. Book a free Thyroid Breakthrough Session with Tiffany at www.rockbottomwellness.com/breakthrough to get a personalized plan for the next leg of your thyroid journey. Connect with Tiffany Website | rockbottomwellness.com Facebook | Rock Bottom Wellness Facebook Group | Nutrition for Thyroid Health Instagram | tiffanyflatenhealth - Connect with Dr. Lauryn Facebook | Dr. Lauryn Lax Twitter | @drlaurynlax Instagram | @drlaurynlax Website | drlauryn.com  - Transcript (Episode website contains full transcript) Dr. Lauryn (00:02): Well, hello. Hello. Welcome to the Health Detective Podcast, a show dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. I'm your host, Dr. Lauryn, former TV news journalist, and chronic illness patient, gone health detective, and functional medicine expert, helping patients worldwide radically take their health back into their own hands. On this show, we have real conversations with a variety of guests who are all about being a little bit of a health detective in their own way, from New York Times bestselling authors, professional athletes, research nerds like myself, serial entrepreneurs, business owners, underdog, overcomers, and expert clinicians. Ultimately get ready to uncover the truth and expose the lies in both conventional health wisdom and diet culture as we know it so you can reach your optimal potential. (00:47): Well, today we're talking all about the wild wild west of the thyroid, which is something I personally dealt with at thyroid condition, Hashimoto's, hypothyroidism, as well as I would say 60 to 70% of the patients that I see in clinical practice. (01:01): And a lot of my own thyroid issues stemmed from a history of chronic stress, chronic dieting, definitely in my eating disorder days. And on the back end, just recognizing and being diagnosed with all sorts of autoimmune conditions in relation to stress and both my gut microbiome, which we're gonna nerd out on some more. Today we have Tiffany Flaten in the house. She is a nutritionist, thyroid expert, and wellness coach. Also the founder of the company Rock Bottom Wellness. And she really helps thyroid patients improve their symptoms through proper nutrition education. That is her wheelhouse. She's written a book, "Rock Bottom Thyroid Treatment" and "Eight Week Thyroid Diet for people with normal thyroid test results to thrive, not to just survive". And you are gonna love hearing her story. You know, experience is always the best teacher, and Tiffany is no different. Her own health journey took her down the trajectory she's on today, now, empowering so many people, so many patients, and clients to really take their health back into their own hands as well. (02:00): So this show is for you if you wanna know all about Thyroid 101, how to know if you have thyroid conditions, what to look for, classic signs and symptoms. Yes. also looking at which lab test can help show you that, to treatment actually for it. And all the angles that you can come from supporting the thyroid beyond just taking a pill for the ill, which in some cases can be helpful for somewhat thyroid conditions. So we do talk about just the Wild West, not only of thyroid conditions itself and being diagnosed, but what to do about it. I learned some interesting hacks from her, and one hack that she shared with me off the air was how supplementation with which is an amino acid supplement, actually she has seen that significantly lower folk's antibodies basically from a Hashimotos perspective. (02:54): So if there is that flare happening from an autoimmunity of the thyroid, which goes misdiagnosed a lot, that hack with that amino acid supplementation can be really helpful, she shared. So really excited to get to this episode. And, of course, if you guys are liking the show, please don't hesitate to leave a review. Your reviews help others become their own health detective in their life. So that five stars is so appreciated. Of course, if you have questions or you have a topic idea, something you'd love to see us dig a little bit deeper and be detectives four on this show, please don't hesitate to reach out to me on my website, dr Lauryn dot com. That's Dr. Lauryn d r l a u r y n dot com. Can't wait to hear from you. All right, let's get to the show. (03:42): Well, Tiffany, I'm so excited to have you in the house today to just chat about the wild west of the thyroid, which I think we're gonna have a lot of ears peaked towards that because it is a widespread epidemic really amidst modern, especially womankind. But we can kind of get into that in a minute. But would love to know a little bit about really your story background and what got you doing this work that you're doing in the world. Tiffany (04:08): Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. Any opportunity to, you know, to explain to people, like you said, the wild wild west of the thyroid and how you can actually help yourself is so important. So thank you. My background and my history of why I'm doing what I do now, it comes from my own issues with my thyroid. I had What I truly believe was an undiagnosed thyroid condition. I'm just assuming hypothyroidism. I don't believe I had the autoimmune piece as in Hashimotos or Graves, but I believe I had undiagnosed thyroid conditions because my TSH was always in the, you know, normal range, and that's all that was tested. But I had all kinds of symptoms, depression, anxiety, were probably, you know, at my worst probably that was the worst symptom, but there was the debilitating fatigue was a part of it that would sort of ebb and flow throughout my life starting in high school actually. (05:02): And so it got worse and worse through college. And then after my first child, it got worse, you know, which you hear so often. And then eventually, you know, jumped a few years after that first child, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer just at a regular checkup for a yearly checkup, and she palpated in my, my throat, and she noticed a lump, and it was pretty big. And actually, after I knew it was there, I could just see it by looking in the mirror. So I don't know how I missed it for all those years. And they had said, you know, it's still growing, thankfully so, but it said that it had probably been in my system for about 10 years based on the size and that it had spread to the lymph nodes at that point. So, of course, that drives you into fear mode when you hear the C word. (05:49): It kind of just raises a whole nother level of stress and anxiety and worry, you know, just changes things. And I just went through the process, the typical process of surgery and treatment and then surgery again cuz it came back a year later and more treatments and then just watching it, the watch and weight method of scanning and that kind of stuff Yearly or actually I was going every four months for a while and checking things out with my blood work and my medications. And the biggest problem for me, yes, the cancer was a problem, but I had horrible symptoms, and I would say the majority of my symptoms or the most frustrating was the fatigue. It was unbearable. I can only describe it as pregnancy fatigue. So if any of your listeners have gone through that, that's the only way I can describe it and kind of relate it to people, which made it hard to do my job, of course, and to, you know, deal with little kids and, and just have any interest in going to anything social, going to a movie with friends or anything. (06:53): It was just not going to happen. And it was just super frustrating cuz I could not get back to what I tried to describe as normal, and I didn't even really know what that was. I just knew it was better than what I was feeling, and I wasn't getting any support and help, any guidance from my doctors. It was just, this is how it is, get used to it, you know, this is all we can do. Take your Synthroid and be done. That's it. And I just wasn't gonna take that , I wasn't gonna live like that cuz I, it was not living actually. So I went back to school to become a nutritionist, and where I'm located, you know, I went through the process of getting a master's in nutrition and doing the certified nutrition

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