Connect My Brain Dr. Laura Hanson

Working on your nutrition is definitely a job. It’s hard, and it can be incredibly overwhelming. I’m hoping that our time together will make nutrition easier to understand. Today we are focusing on the mechanical aspects of nutrition, or how the brain and body get wired up together to produce energy from the foods you eat. I look at the Energy Pathway and the Citric Acid Cycle in order to understand how your body produces energy from the foods we eat. I talk about the connection our nutrition has on diagnoses, diseases, and conditions in children and adults. Finally we discuss personalizing supplements and lab work to help us make better nutrition choices in order to get healthy down to the cellular level.
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Food is probably the biggest struggle for people, especially parents with children that have struggles, and nutrition can become incredibly complicated and overwhelming. Here in my practice I have a 3-tiered approach of Mechanical, Chemical, Brain. So when we talk about nutrition, it’s going to be about the chemical piece - the part that runs you and I as human beings. In today’s Nutrition 101 episode, we explore three questions on nutrition: Why should I focus on Nutrition? Why is it so difficult? And why does it demand such an aggressive approach in order to make a change? I discuss where your food comes from, oral health, gut health, and how to start your journey to a healthier lifestyle through your nutrition.
SHOW NOTES: https://connectmybrain.com/episode64
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James Roguski uses his research of the World Health Organization (WHO) to educate the public on what really happens behind WHOs closed doors. He shares with us the dangers of The Zero Treaty, and of the proposed amendments to existing International Health Regulations (IHR). We discuss the concerning effects these changes can have on our governments, personal freedoms, and our own personal health decisions. We uncover the global decisions that affect our personal health care and talk about how to take action to make your voice heard.
SHOW NOTES: https://connectmybrain.com/episode63
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In this episode I had the pleasure of speaking with (soon to be Dr.) Nate Deitz. Nate has joined me over at Connect My Brain and I’m so glad he was able to share with us today. When Nate was a kid, he was climbing and fell 6 feet, landing on his head. This resulted in a major concussion and from there his health started to snowball out of control. In the midst of dealing with that, he also watched his mom’s health drastically decline as she battled misdiagnosed health conditions for almost 20 years. Eventually she saw a naturopath who put her on an intense detox and sent to her to a chiropractor. When she did this, her health completely turned around in just two weeks. Watching his mom’s health journey unfold is really what shifted Nate’s perspective on health. He is now a firm believer in getting to the root cause of health issues.
As we talked, Nate shared a great analogy of pain being like the check engine light in a car. Getting rid of pain but not addressing the cause of the pain is like seeing the check engine light come on in your car and just covering it up with a piece of tape. Pain is your body’s way of telling you there is a problem that needs to be addressed. If you’re not getting to the root cause of that pain, you will never reach full health and you will likely see your health worsen. Nate is relatively new to the field of chiropractics but that doesn’t mean he isn’t really good at what he does. I loved talking with Nate and hearing his perspective and I think you’ll enjoy this conversation, too!
SHOW NOTES: https://connectmybrain.com/episode62
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Today I have a special guest with me, a friend and colleague of mine, Dr. Jerome D. Lubbe from Thrive Human Care. Dr. Jerome has an incredible story and I was honoured to hear him share it. At age eight, he was run over by a car, and then in his late teen years, was hit by a drunk driver on two separate occasions. In addition to that, he’s had three other head injuries. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Jerome has averaged 80 to 100 full blown migraines per calendar year as a result of his brain injuries. After seeing dozens of specialiasts and spending over $100k on treatments, he was finally given a diagnosis but didn’t have a doctor who knew how to support a complex case in a holistic, comprehensive, and solution oriented way. This is what actually led Dr. Jerome into the field of chiropractors and his main focus is complex and unresolved cases.
SHOW NOTES: https://connectmybrain.com/episode61
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Today’s episode will be the final episode in our reflex series. There are so many more reflexes I could talk about, but I hope the past several episodes have deepened your understanding of what reflexes are and why they are such an important part of development. As you listen to this episode, it’s important to remember that reflexes are not just isolated events that go on. They all work together and have an enormous impact on development. If one reflex isn’t integrated properly, it can trip up development and influence a person for the rest of their life. At the end of the episode, you’ll hear me talk about some of the signs of retained reflexes and what you should do if you suspect you or your child has retained reflexes.
Before I finish this series, I wanted to introduce you to one last reflex called the Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex, or the TLR. The TLR is closely linked to the vestibular system and a person’s awareness of where they are in space. If the TLR doesn’t mature properly, it can have an effect on vision, hearing, gut health, the immune system, and more. Children that get carsick easily, avoid activities like playing sports or riding a bike, walk on their toes, or have trouble properly perceiving letters and numbers properly could partially be the result of an unintegrated TLR. If you think your child needs help, get your child seen by someone like me who specializes in this kind of work and get put a plan together that will actually look at your child and their specific needs. Here at Connect My Brain, we really focus on the whole child and I believe that in order to see the best results, we need to look at each of the pieces together.
SHOW NOTES: https://connectmybrain.com/episode60
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