Alive & Well Into Your 100's

Addiction is the obsessive-compulsive desire to consume a substance to reach a state of enhanced pleasure regardless of health consequences. Addiction is a behavior dictated by conscious and unconscious mental emotional components. Consciously the addicted person feels that he is unable to cope with stressful circumstances in his life and wants to avoid them. The addict may be a pleasure seeker and may not have developed skills to move through difficulties. He may have learnt during his childhood to cope with stress with substance abuse modeling his friends or family. The substance abuser cannot cope with feelings of failure and/or does not have the resources or the hardiness to fight. He is usually unaware of his belief system. In this episode, Ian & Dr. Baylac discuss various aspects of the behavioral, biochemical & health consequences of addiction.

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The most successful treatment approaches to depression address a wide range of potential contributing factors such as nutritional deficiencies or excess, use of prescription or illicit drugs, hypoglycemia, allergies, hormonal balances, environmental factors and psycho-emotional factors. In this follow up episode, Dr. & Ian talk about the natural approach to treating the underlying causes of this condition.

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Depression has become a major problem in our modern times and in the United States approximately 17 million Americans suffer true chemical depression each year and over 28 million Americans take antidepressant drugs or anxiolytics (anti-anxiety medication). It can affect people of all races, ages and groups. In this episode, Dr. & Ian talk about the problem in general, & how western medicine has tried to adapt its version of managing the symptoms.

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In the previous episode, Dr. & Ian discussed the issue of obesity in our current society and its impact on chronic and degenerative disease. In this follow up episode, they're talking about what it really takes to create real change. This is more than a cosmetic issue, a lot of the reasons for weight gain are mental or emotional and that gets missed most of the time when assessing weight gain.

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Obesity was recently measured as one of the top five leading causes of death in the world. Being overweight or obese adds extra stress on the body and increases risk for type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, non alcoholic fatty liver disease, osteoarthritis, stroke, sleep apnea, and/or cancer-especially breast, colon, endometrial and kidney. In this episode, Dr. and Ian discuss the issue of obesity and what is causing this serious health problem in our world today.

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Type 2 diabetes or adult-onset diabetes accounts for 90% or more of the diagnoses of diabetes in adults. This is a very well-known disorder which is now also affecting our youth. In the previous episode, we discussed the problem of this rapidly growing condition in our world and how the western style maintenance treatments are being conducted which typically doesn't present an actual remedy or cure for the issue. In this follow up episode, we are going to discuss how Dr. Baylac has been treating the condition using naturopathic techniques and the successes she has seen.

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Type 2 diabetes or adult-onset diabetes accounts for 90% or more of the diagnoses of diabetes in adults. This is a very well-known disorder which is now also affecting our youth. In this first episode on this subject, Dr. Baylac and Ian discuss the problem and how western medicine has traditionally treated it. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in the United States is growing with over 347 million people having the disease plus a growing number of people dying from high blood sugar related illnesses. Type 2 diabetes is not inevitable! There are solutions for improving blood sugar metabolism, even if you are already diagnosed and being treated. Listen to this episode where we address the problem. Also, stay tuned for next week's part 2 episode to hear about natural solutions to reverse the effects of this widespread condition.

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In this episode, Dr. Baylac & Ian discuss the subject of Wellness. This is a very broad topic that is broken down & narrowed. To be 'well' extends beyond feeling well. This is a general state of homeostasis. As a society somehow, we have lost this balance of wellbeing. Dr. & Ian discuss this relative disorder in society & give their feedback on not only the problem but the cause & reactive nature of the body or organism's response to the way our world impacts our wellbeing.

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Here we are following up our conversation from last week on Longevity with the number one reason people are not living out their natural lives. Chronic Illness has evolved over the centuries, with each point in time finding the cause and treating it such as hygiene & the plague for example. Now we are faced with the 21t century version of this in various forms, such as cancer and heart disease. The cause is what needs to be treated but has been generally overlooked in order to treat the symptoms in a more reactionary approach instead of taking a defensive or preventative approach. Ian & Dr. Baylac discuss this problem & the challenges the more 'traditional' western treatments have been facing.

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In this episode, we're discussing the topic of longevity and the impacts of chronic illness. For most people, the goal of living a long and healthy life is what everyone strives for, but these days people are getting sick which impedes the aging process and hinders our natural abilities to age properly. Centenarians are a rapidly growing part of our population, and there have been several studies done to see what their secrets are. Aging is a natural biochemical process in our bodies and society has come to think that chronic illness is part of aging, which is not true. We should be living long, healthy, disease free lives. Ian & Dr. Baylac discuss these issues and how society somehow has come to accept something that we should consider taking another look at….living a long, disease-free life.

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