Podcast 013: Julie Roberts talks about Lyme Disease
Dr. Meaghan welcomes Julie Roberts to the program. She has extensive knowledge with Lyme Disease as well as having the disease herself. She discusses the importance of selecting a good path and following the recommendations of people who have beat or controlled this debilitating disease.
CHRONIC LYME TOOLS
NOTE: THE FOLLOWING PROTOCOL IS RECOMMENDED BY MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE AND IS NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE MEDICAL ADVICE. I HAVE HAD GOOD RESULTS WITH THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM.
Priority of Care
1) RIFE technology (frequency therapy)
2) Water
3) Diet
4) Genetic Saliva Testing 23&me
5) NutrEval Comprehensive Test
6) Supplements to Avoid
7) Supplements to Take
8) PEMF
9) Lymph Drainage
10) Spiritual / Emotional Care
Wendy and Dr. Meaghan welcome Kati Loder to the program. She has 13+ years of functional medicine education and works with different medical providers educating about supplementation. She discusses the importance of a good supplement and what to look for when it comes to supplements. Also, touches on detoxification. Why do we need to detoxify our body and what should we do to support our bodies through the detoxification process. And finally she recommends her five main fundamental supplements that most everyone can benefit from taking.
They are:
Some great resources that Katie shared with us:
www.ewg.org (Environmental Working Group) is a great resource.
Also, there are great local resources for locally grown vegetables.
This podcast is full of great information that you can start to incorporate into you life today!
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Remember be kind to others, take care of yourself and make good choices!
About Kati Loder:
Kati is an extremely organized, high functioning professional with a passion for health. As a lifestyle medicine consultant, she works with healthcare professionals to help them prioritize patient goals based on objective data, and design personalized programs to maximize health potential. She believes that what we eat, how we move, and most every choice we make can influence our health outcome. Her goal is to help people align their habits with their goals to achieve a full and healthy life.
Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss some fun facts that they learned this week. Tune in to learn about natural bug repellent and sunscreen options. Also, we talk about five habits to make your day more effective and the benefits of coconut oil. This is our weekly hodge podge of great and useful information.
Podcast 011: Weekly Hodge Podge
McDonald’s is in the process of closing 700 stores. This is one of the first major decreases in the last couple of decades. It is interesting too see how we are trending towards the consumers wanting healthier decisions.
It is important to get Vitamin D, especially during the summer when you can. You can produce this naturally during the summer with sun exposure. However, it is also important to make sure that you are not causing long-term skin damage. Therefore, natural sunscreens can be a good option. There is a blogger (Wellness Mama at www.wellnessmama.com) that shares great information and includes natural SPF options. She shares the following homemade sunscreen recipe:
You can also find natural sunscreens without toxins and hormone disrupters at your local natural food store.
Natural insect repellants include:
Sad News this week. Our dog Weston passed away. We will miss him very much, we are filled with sad emotions, but know he is in a much better place. We love you Weston. Love Mom & Dad.
Thanks for listening and if you have any questions, email us at info@btbha.com or visit us at www.beyondthebasicshealthacademy.com.
“Be kind to others. Take care of yourself and make good choices.”
Dr. Meaghan explains how the stomach works and what happens when someone is experiencing reflux symptoms. Listen while Wendy answers one question after another correctly about the stomach and how it works. We explain in an easy to understand way how you can help to control reflux symptoms.
Podcast: 010 Stomach problems and GERD
Reflux concerns affect 7 million Americans.
The stomach is the “mixing sack” in the body that is responsible for really getting digestion going. It mixes many different gastric juices with food including HCl (Hydrochloric Acid).
HCl is produced by the parietal cells in the stomach and is responsible for two main functions:
1. Breakdown food, especially proteins. Proteins need to be denatured so they are harder to breakdown and the HCl is responsible for this function.
2. Kill off bacteria and other microbes that we might be exposed to from food sources. Not many biological organisms can survive in a pH of 2.0.
Many times reflux and digestive problems will occur because there is a problem with stomach acid production. Supporting digestion and stomach acid will help to relieve and correct the deficiency.
Gallbladder and bile flow can be linked to problems with HCl production because the bile salts from the bile donate chloride to the hydrochloric acid. Therefore, especially if you have problems with fatty foods, supporting proper bile flow and the gallbladder can help with digestion.
During attacks and active times of reflux discomfort, stay away from acidic and fatty foods.Citrus foods and tomatoes can tend to cause a lot of discomfort for reflux.
Digestive enzymes and Betaine HCl can help with stomach support.
If you are having a lot of issues than see a provider that can help you. Functional medicine practitioners are usually great at being able to help to manage reflux disorders.
GERD medications have a few side effects to remember when taken for long-term. These include bone and teeth concerns and increased risk for gut infections.
If you have any questions or concerns, please send them to us by going to the “Ask Us” section at www.btbha.com.
Thanks for listening. Remember be kind to others, take care of yourself and make good choices!
Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the age-old debate on weight loss and calorie in vs calorie out. Join us as we get feisty and discuss what we have noticed both professionally and personally.
There is a lot of debate about what is more important: exercise or diet. We talk about both our personal or professional opinions on this subject and how to balance your life.
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Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the different food additives that the US allows in their food. We discuss the health impacts of these different food additives that are added to the food in order to ease processing, packaging, and storage. We will talk about some changes that have occurred recently in the food industry and praise Chipotle for the changes they are making!
Podcast 008: Food additives
General Mills has announced this week that they will remove all food colorings and additives from their popular cereal Trix. These kind of manufacture based changes come from consumer driven demand.
There has been a switch where consumers have started to demand healthier options. This is a great trend to see!
www.foodmatters.tv is a great website with lots of information about health and wellness. It is based on a documentary called Food Matters. This is a great documentary about how our food choices have changed and how it is affecting us.
The US has been using different food additives over the last 50-60 years. We now have about 9000 different additives. Most other countries , like Norway, France, and Germany, have banned most of these additives.
Blue #1 and Blue #2, Yellow #6, and Red dye #3 are some of the biggest culprits and have been linked to certain health concerns such as chromosomal damage.
“Be kind to others, take care of yourself, and make good choices”
Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the impact that diet, nutrition, and our food choices have on our overall health. What we eat each day can significantly affect us in both positive or negative ways but it can prove to be very difficult to make permanent diet changes sometimes. In this episode, Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss some things to think about when changing your diet and why it is so important to make these changes.
Wendy and Dr. Meaghan discuss the importance of detoxification and the different detoxification programs that are out there. They discuss what you can put in your body to help to promote detoxification and what things you don’t want to allow in your body that lead to detoxification.
Dr. Meaghan and Wendy tackle the subject of hormones. Wendy talks about some of the issues that she has noticed when it comes to hormones throughout her life, testing and treatment, and what can be done do to improve overall health and wellness.
Hormones are important to women throughout their lifetime. Concerns with hormones can occur at any age and show up in a variety of symptoms. Men, too, can have many hormone problems from infertility to weight gain.
Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss what trans fats are and why they are being taken out of our diet by 2018. We will touch on FDA regulation of supplements and the differences between different supplement brands as well as some simple steps that can be taken to improve overall health and wellness.
Trans Fats are artificial fats that are found in foods to help make fats more sustainable and to preserve them longer. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) did research in the 1990s to find what levels of trans fats are safe in a human diet.
What organ system do we now consider "The Second Brain" because of its role in overall health and wellness? What system has 70% of the immune system connected to it? What system plays a major role in regulating neurotransmitters, especially serotonin - the feel good hormone? The answer to all of these questions is the digestive system.
In this episode, Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the importance of maintaining good gut health throughout life and how this will help increase your overall well being. They will also touch on specific digestive concerns and how you can help to alleviate problems that you are having in your digestive system.
Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the role of sugar in our diet and how it has changed throughout the years. In this episode, we will learn the simple truths about why we are eating more sugar and the effects that this has on our health. We will discuss the average levels of sugar in the average American diet and discuss how much sugar we are truly consuming everyday. The truth about SUGAR and why we are so FAT.
We live in a time of convenience and we are always on the go. One of the major driving forces of food choices is money and accessibility. Therefore, we are eating more processed, easy to prepare food and eating out at restaurants.
In this podcast, Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss the truth about eating out and what is added to food when prepared by restaurants. We talk about general food changes that we have seen in the past few decades and we explore what we can do to make better food choices.