Your Longevity Blueprint Dr. Stephanie Gray

Local guest, Arsalan Monawar, joins me today to share his story with anxiety, explain how anxiety can be your superpower, and dive into the healthy coping strategies that have been effective for him. He also shares some business tips for creative entrepreneurs.
Five natural and healthy coping strategies for anxiety:

Mindful meditation

Journaling

Cold exposure therapy

Exercise

Intermittent fasting

About Arsalan Monawar:
Arsalan Monawar is the founder of Monawar Studios in Iowa, a creative agency that tells stories through video production. 
He is also a mental health advocate. 
Arsalan is dedicated to breaking the stigma of mental health around the world. He has amassed 5+ million video views through his personal brand dedicated to Anxiety & Mental Health education. 
I’ve been privileged to have had Arsalan take some of my pictures and create my book launch video over five years ago.
In this episode:

Why there is a stigma around mental health issues in the Pakistani and Indian cultures. (4:13)

What could happen to you if you hold your anxiety in. (5:48)

Why it’s best to get a physical examination if you have anxiety symptoms. (10:27)

Helpful strategies for overcoming anxiety naturally. (23:02)

Why journaling is effective for overcoming anxiety. (26:55)

Why it’s essential to stay hydrated. (28:24)

How cold water helps to overcome symptoms of anxiety. (28:17)

How exercise works as a natural antidepressant. (30:40)

How intermittent fasting works to overcome anxiety symptoms. (32:19)

Some tips for creating a personal brand. (38:25)

Why should you only surround yourself with those who support you when starting a new venture? (44:54)


Links and resources:

Relative Links for This Show:
Crab mentality video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUQ2WGA8mJQ
Guest Social Media Links::
Instagram (@ArsalanMonawar) 
YouTube.com/ArsalanMonawar: https://www.youtube.com/@MonawarStudiosOfficial

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Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic
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Dr. Betty Murray joins me today to share lots of new information! We discuss how changes in estrogen- both too much during perimenopause and not enough after menopause, lead to metabolic changes in the cells that slow your metabolism. We get into how the genetics that control estrogen detoxification may lead to weight gain and risk for diabetes, obesity, and cancer, how menopause interferes with the key cellular fat switch, and the foods that turn that fat switch on. Betty also shares her three diet rules that may need to be broken to lose weight and keep it off for life.
Three diet rules for losing weight:

Avoid fake sweeteners

Stay hydrated 

Avoid purine-rich foods and flavor enhancements


Dr. Betty Murray’s Bio:
Betty Murray is a nutrition expert, Ph.D. researcher, certified functional medicine practitioner, and speaker.
Betty helps women over 40 harness their hormones to lose weight, optimize sleep, restore energy, and thrive in life. 
During her research for her Ph.D., Betty made 4 key discoveries that lead to hormone and metabolic imbalances that plague women over 40. 
Restoring balance to these key metabolic and hormone pathways is the basis of her Hormone Reset Program. This program has helped her and hundreds of her clients lose weight easily, reduce hot flashes, restore sleep, and turn up their energy without living on a diet of deprivation. 
She is also the host of the Menopause Mastery Podcast and the founder and CEO of Living Well Dallas Functional Medicine Center. 
She is a frequently featured nutrition expert on Fox News Broadcasting, CW33, NBC, and CBS.
In this episode:

Not talked-about things Betty discovered about weight gain. (5:06)

Some statistics about weight gain. (5:07)

How insulin resistance leads to metabolic inflexibility. (6:23)

How adrenal stress can cause metabolic derangement. (8:07)

How to know when your fat switch is on and how uric acid drives that mechanism. (14:13)

Why it’s hard to get rid of body fat during menopause. (16:49)

How genetics can lead to weight gain. (18:45)

What can you do to support estrogen metabolism? (25:08)

Foods that can drive high uric acid levels. (28:03)

What happens when you are dehydrated? (29:43)

How to eat to balance your hormones and lose weight. (37:20)


Links and Resources:

Dr. Murray’s Social Media Links::
https://www.instagram.com/bettymurray_phd/
Betty’s website: www.bettymurray.com 
Betty’s clinic: www.livingwelldallas.com 
Menopause Mastery Podcast: https://www.bettymurray.com/menopause-mastery-podcast-list/ 
Relative Links for This Show::
https://quiz.metabolicblueprint.com/sf/cd62b0ef

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Most thyroid conditions are autoimmune in nature. Dr. Eric Osansky joins me today to discuss ways to optimize thyroid and immune health, overcome thyroid autoimmunity through diet and lifestyle factors, and the relationship between diet, chronic stress, environmental toxins, and thyroid health. Today, we focus more on high thyroid conditions like Grave’s Disease.
Four categories of triggers for developing autoimmune conditions:

Food

Stress

Toxins

Infection


About Dr. Eric Osansky:
Dr. Eric Osansky is a chiropractor, clinical nutritionist, and certified functional medicine practitioner who helps people recover from thyroid and autoimmune thyroid conditions. 
He is the author of the books "Natural Treatment Solutions for Hyperthyroidism and Graves' Disease" and "Hashimoto's Triggers" and is the host of the Save My Thyroid podcast. 
Dr. Osansky was personally diagnosed in 2008 with Graves’ disease, and after taking a natural treatment approach, has been in remission since 2009. After seeing how well natural treatment methods helped with his condition, he began using these natural thyroid treatment protocols to help others with different types of thyroid and autoimmune thyroid conditions, including hyperthyroidism and Graves’ Disease, hypothyroidism, and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.
In this episode:

The difference between hyperthyroidism (Graves’ Disease) and hypothyroidism (Hashimoto’s). (5:48)

Common symptoms of low thyroid hormone levels. (7:28)

Classic symptoms of high thyroid hormone levels. (8:38)

Do elevated antibodies suggest autoimmune thyroid disease? (14:56)

Why people develop autoimmune conditions. (17:35)

The four main categories of triggers for developing autoimmunity. (20:10)

The diets and dietary guidelines Dr. Osansky generally recommends for patients with Graves’ or Hashimoto’s. (22:55)

Is iodine beneficial or harmful to those with thyroid conditions? (28:25)

Conventional treatments that are commonly prescribed for hyperthyroidism and how they work. (39:10)

Some natural treatment options for hyperthyroidism. (46:07)

What Dr. Osansky does to maintain his health and reduce the risk of Graves’ Disease returning. (50:20)


Links and resources:
Dr. Eric Osansky Social Media Links:
https://www.facebook.com/ericosansky

Relative Links for This Show:
www.naturalendocrinesolutions.com  
www.thyroidchecklist.com 
https://savemythyroid.com/podcast-2/ 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx3ao4-LNv1vogMJiAk0ANA

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Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic
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You get to hear from me today! I get asked many different questions in my daily patient appointments, so I thought it a good idea to answer some of those in today’s show. I talk about the importance of eating organic, using clean personal care products, and if hormones cause cancer. I also discuss the relationship between toxins, weight gain, and hormone imbalances and how we should eat daily.
Three things to avoid for losing weight and optimizing hormones:

Plastic

Fragrances

Dairy


About Dr. Gray:
Stephanie Gray, DNP, MS, ARNP, AGNP-C, ABAAHP, FAARFM, is a functional medicine provider who helps men and women build sustainable and optimal health and longevity so that they can focus on what matters most to them! She helps women in mid-life who feel like their bodies have betrayed them step back into their bodies by restoring optimal hormone levels so they can regain their sleep, figure, and mood, and feel amazing once again. She is known for keeping hormone replacement therapy sexy, safe, and effective. She has been working as a nurse practitioner since 2009. She completed her doctorate focusing on estrogen metabolism from the University of Iowa in 2011. Additionally, she has a Master's in Metabolic Nutritional Medicine from the University of South Florida’s Medical School. Her expertise lies in integrative, anti-aging, and functional medicine.
In this episode:

How toxins relate to weight loss and hormone imbalance. (0:57)

Why should we care if the ingredients are green? (2:15)

Why must you avoid plastic? (2:37)

Why aluminum is not safe. (2:53)

Why must you avoid dairy? (3:59)

Do vitamins do anything? (6:18)

Why do we need to supplement? (8:03)

The relationship between stress, cortisol, and longevity. (9:23)

Do women need progesterone, and what are its benefits and downsides? (10:10)(11:00)

Do hormones cause cancer? (12:17)

What I would do differently for a patient with a strong family history of breast cancer. (14:45)

What you can do to promote better sleep. (15:48)

How important are mold and parasite testing when you have hormone imbalances and autoimmune issues? (17:23)

What is the biggest problem with PCOS patients? (21:00)

Which supplements are worth buying for kids? (21:49)

How to deal with constipation in kids. (24:07)

3 things I would want each patient to invest in. (25:46)

What are some better ways to eat? (27:42)

What you can do for a healthy breakfast. (29:54)

What to avoid and what is acceptable with alcohol. (34:22)


Links:
Relative Links for This Show:
Adrenal Calm: https://yourlongevityblueprint.com/product/adrenal-calm/
Mitochondrial Complex: https://yourlongevityblueprint.com/product/mitochondrial-complex-120-ct/
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Links to previous episodes:
Episode 117: How Not to Get Sick with Thomas Pennel 
Episode 97: Get Your Kiddos in the Kitchen with Katie Kimball 
Episode 76: How to Create Immune Resilience in your Kids with Dr. Elisa Song 

Kylene Terhune joins me once again for this episode. This time, she talks about sexual betrayal trauma. She shares the importance of processing emotions in trauma and explains how trauma impacts the nervous system and leads to symptoms and disease. She also gets into what the healing process for sex addiction and betrayal for couples looks like and the pitfalls to be avoided.
The compilation of things that happen with pornography, technology, and addiction:

The prevalence of pornography is increasing tremendously.

Access to pornography is becoming easier.

Technology has addictive qualities.

Pornography gives people a dopamine hit. 

Children get exposed to pornography before the pre-frontal cortex has developed fully, and trauma is typically involved.

For those who had trauma in their childhood, early exposure to pornography is more likely to cause an addiction.

About Kylene Terhune:
Kylene Terhune is the CEO & Founder of the Phoenix Transformation Project, where she works as a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner and NLP life coach supporting women who have experienced sexual betrayal trauma. 
She helps her clients with a unique, whole-body approach that involves the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of the individual. 
This work includes functional lab work, nutrition, lifestyle, emotional work, nervous system support, trauma processing work, and more to assist women in feeling more complete, grounded, safe, independent, and confident in their health and their bodies. 
As a successful functional health coach for 6 years, Kylene has received additional education in trauma and its impact on the body through the Trauma Healing Accelerated courses: Biology of trauma, Energy, Overwhelm and Freeze, Biology of Trauma Brain Health, and the Biology of Trauma Immune system. 
She also has certifications in NLP, NLP life coaching, QTT, and hypnosis. 
In this episode:

Why it’s essential to see a therapist if you have been sexually betrayed and choose to stay in your relationship. (7:38)

Some surprising statistics about sex addiction and betrayal trauma. (10:27)

How betrayal trauma impacts 75% of the women who go through it. (12:50)

How betrayal impacts our health and nervous system. (14:28)

Why establishing safety is important. (15:35)

What happens when you cannot get to safety? (15:55)

How safety can be established. (17:39)

Why setting boundaries is essential. (23:25)

What the recovery process for a man looks like. (27:51)

A breakdown of the EMDR and subconscious reprogramming trauma processing methods. (30:14) (32:15)

How recovery is possible. (41:16)


Links and resources:
Kylene Terhune Media Links::
Instagram (@KyleneTerhune)
TikTok (@KyleneTerhune) 
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/RecoverU 

Relative Links for This Show:
Free gift: https://mailchi.mp/2e8ade60994f/ebook
Episode links:
www.tarahopealliance.org 
CSAT or APSAT therapy: https://iitap.com/page/csat
www.puredesire.org  CONQUER program 
Book a call with Kylene: https://p.bttr.to/3ttk0Ql
What’s next course: https://mybalancedbiome.life/whats-next

Link to the Debi Silber’s episode
https://yourlongevityblueprint.com/dr-debi-silber-post-betrayal-syndrome-transformation/

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Today, Dr. Hannah Anderson and Dr. Calla Jayne Kleene join me for the second half of our two-part series. In this episode, we continue our discussion on how we can support women on birth control and the best non-hormone birth control options. We also share non-toxic feminine-care products and explain how to detect female hormone imbalances.
Some non-hormone birth control options:

Male condoms

The FemCap device (or other barrier methods)

Fertility trackers

Taking your temperature in the morning

Tracking your cycle and getting to know your ovulation cues

Copper IUD (Not ideal because it causes inflammation)


Guest Bio:
Dr. Hannah Anderson and Dr. Calla Jayne Kleene are chiropractors at Back In Line Family Chiropractic in Hiawatha IA. 
Dr. Anderson specializes in pediatric and maternal health, with trainings including a CACCP from the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, Neuro emotional technique, and Mercier Therapy. 
In addition to Dr. Kleene's many chiropractic and myofascial trainings, she has a Diplomat from the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. 
Both doctors passionately guide patients from a holistic perspective, whether it’s through pain or wellness planning.
In this episode:

Some non-hormone birth control options. (1:14)

How the copper IUD works. (7:28)

Do wearable devices help to empower us? (12:55)

Some non-hormone solutions for hormone imbalances, painful periods, or acne. (23:14)

Some factors that could lead to hormone imbalances. (25:38)

The foundations of functional medicine. (26:02)

What are non-toxic feminine-care products? (28:51)

Hannah and CJ share their favorite non-toxic feminine-care products. (29:56)

Some tips for women coming off birth control. (31:25)

Hannah and CJ share their favorite ways to test for female hormone imbalances (32:46)


Links and resources:

Dr. Kleene and Dr. Hannah’s Social Media Links:
My Back In Line Clinic website  
My Back In Line on Instagram (@mybackinline): 

Relative Links for This Show:
https://yourlongevityblueprint.com/dr-calla-jayne-kleene-beyond-snap-crackle-pop/
https://mylola.com/
https://tampontribe.com/
https://drbrighten.com/beyond-the-pill/
https://yourlongevityblueprint.com/product/methylb-complex/
https://yourlongevityblueprint.com/product/omega-3s-120-count/
https://yourlongevityblueprint.com/product/core-restore-liver-detox-vanilla/