Dr. M's Women and Children First Podcast Dr. Chris Magryta, "Dr. M"

Stress and a Woman's Ability to Conceive - The Healthy Mind Is Key.



How was it meant to be?  Humans were designed to be excellent at handling acute stress while chronic stress on the other hand was never expected to be part of our day to day existence. We run from the tiger and survive the event or we die. That being said, chronic mental stress is the greatest disruptor of human balance and health. To truly know this fact and work towards alleviating it is the immediate route to a healthy life and a healthy pregnancy. Mental stress has profound negative effects on immune and hormonal function to the detriment of mom and her babe. Chronic mental stress is known to disrupt pregnancy conception and perinatal events. Perception of one’s stress is often more important than the event itself. Becoming aware of your perceptions and working toward a minimally stressed mind is a key to a healthy pregnancy. A woman should be honored and protected while pregnant to keep external stress levels low. In this chapter, you will learn why and how stress has the ability to hurt a pregnancy. The to do section gives tools to reverse the negative process......plus a graduation note.

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Dr. M

Demographic Deception



This week I sit down with Dustin Whitney to discuss population growth and its relevance to everyday life.



Dustin is an author, an entrepreneur and a man looking at the world through a different lens. He recently published book the Demographic Deception which outlines the reality that the global population is contracting as opposed to the rapidly expansion that has been espoused by many over the past 40 years. He gives us a politically agnostic but incredibly optimistic view of the demographic problem.







Dustin graduated from Boston College with a BA in marketing from Carrol School of Management in 1995. He subsequently entered the business world achieving business acumen while growing various companies. He is described as a modern-day business executive with balance in his life. Innovative thinking and good use of common sense have helped his businesses succeed. As a people person as well as a business person, Dustin has always been interested in what people do, and how they do it. Dustin is focused on building teams and fostering collaboration. The goal is to bring people and ideas together to facilitate progress and success.



Dustin brings his 25+ years of business executive experience paired with a passion and mission to uncover and analyze global trends to help us understand how those trends impact long-term business growth and human life. We dive into all things population based covering healthcare, history and an optimistic future. In a word, this conversation is expanding.



Please enjoy my conversation with Dustin Whitney,



Dr. M



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What are the main preventable etiologies for childhood death under the age of five years?



According to the data compile by UNICEF, we see the following for the world:

1) Prematurity 18%

2) Pneumonia 14%

3) Birth Asphyxia 12%

4) Malaria 9%

5) Diarrhea 9%

6) Congenital anomolies 8%

7) Injuries 5%

8) Blood infections/sepsis 3%

9) Tuberculosis 3%

10) all others



From a global perspective, we are on the right track as deaths have decreased significantly from 12 million in 1990 to less than 5 million annually in 2022. This is a massive improvement in global childhood health. More work to be done as pneumonia and diarrhea based death should be less than 1%. Access to clean water, clean medicines and adequate medical care could crush these issues....plus a literature review as well as an ode to mothers.



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Dr. M

 

Excess Weight Gain, Obesity and Immune Related Diseases in 2 cases



I want to share a few recent case experiences that shed light on the patient provider experience in the context of a collaborative clinic model based on prevention and the patient first mentality.



In the struggle against the US based disease onslaught that is excess weight gain, longevity with the patient remains the greatest winner for a quality outcome. What do I mean when I say this? Let me tell you a story. I care for a wonderful young man who is about to turn 17 years old. I have known him since birth and his struggle with weight has been profound for most of these 17 years...... Plus an article review about weight loss and a recipe of the week.



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Dr. M

This week I sit down with Dr. Blaine Leeds to discuss oral health, sleep apnea, bedwetting and more.



Dr. Leeds is a leader in the dental field. He speaks nationally on tele-dentistry, oral health and dental treatments for sleep disordered breathing and sleep apnea. He is a graduate of Arkansas Tech with a Bachelors degree in Chemistry before attending the University of Tennessee School of Dentistry where he graduated with honors. His skills in dentistry have also spurned many technological companies to help dentistry reach far locations. He is the author of, What happens when your child doesn't sleep? a book exploring the connection between oral motor function, anatomy and sleep. This is a very important topic as poor sleep will dominate a child's behavior in a negative way. He has been a guest on many major news networks sharing this wisdom.



Today we sit down to dissect the issues of oral health, sleep and a whole child approach. The exploration is exactly what we need, root cause analysis and treatments based on the reasons not the symptoms.



Please enjoy my conversation with Blaine Leeds,



Dr. M

“It is your reaction to an adversity not the adversity itself that determines how your life’s story develops.”



Dieter Uchtdorf



WHY?



What are the Underpinnings of Disease?



What have we really learned over the last one to two hundred years of medicine?



We left an era where infections killed the majority of children and adults, especially during childbirth and the first 5 years of life. Science gave us antimicrobial medicines and vaccines that altered this landscape and humans began to live decades longer.



Medicine had conquered disease. However, it was not so. Insidiously, these victories were met with new problems called diseases of aging - heart disease, asthma, autoimmunity, diabetes, cancer, obesity, dementia and others...... and a literature review.

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Dr. M