AnthroHealth

Thomas Cox of MealFit and the new Table & Thyme joins me on this episode to discuss his journey from coaching college football to running multiple companies centered around providing high-quality food experiences to the Birmingham area. We also touch on what health means to Thomas, imposter syndrome in the nutrition field, best practices for growth and much more!

When not practicing at Winchester Spine and Sport, Dr. Brett Winchester teaches around the globe. In 2018, Dr. Brett Winchester lectured in six countries conducting 30 seminars for doctors, students and therapists.

Dr. Brett Winchester served as team chiropractor for the St. Louis Cardinals for 3 seasons and teaches for: Logan University and its College of Chiropractic, the Motion Palpation Institute, Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization, and The Chiropractic Rehabilitation Diplomate, to name a few. Dr. Brett Winchester’s studies and lectures have taken him to England, Prague, Chile, Sweden, Norway, Canada and across the United States to teach the latest manual therapy research and techniques.

In his free time, Dr. Brett Winchester enjoys spending time with his family, including wife Cheri Thornhill Winchester, a lifelong resident of Lincoln County, and his children Grace and Wade. His hobbies include cycling, snow and water skiing, soccer, tennis and reading.

Dr. Brett Winchester received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Logan College of Chiropractic (www.logan.edu).

In this episode we discuss the evolving field of chiropractic, pushing the limits of conservative care, gaps in functional care, how to get the most out of yourself and those around you and much more!

Alyssa found her way to herbalism by way of organic farming, realizing that she was as interested in what the “weeds” were up to as the crops she was supposed to be cultivating! While teaching hands-on garden education at Jones Valley Teaching Farm, she fed her profound love of science, plants and cooking by connecting Birmingham City School students to food, farming, and the culinary arts through standards-based lessons and after-school programs. If plants were her second love, languages were her first. At Virginia Commonwealth University, Alyssa studied legal and medical interpretation and graduated at the top of her class with a certification in Spanish-English Translation and Interpretation and a minor in Arabic. She completed her clinical training at the Eclectic School of Herbal Medicine, where she earned the distinction of Functional Herbalist (FH). She also studied briefly at the Appalachian Center for Natural Health in Arab, AL.

Alyssa integrates the rich tradition of Western Herbalism with movement and exercise therapies, clinical nutrition and functional medicine. She endeavors to blend the best of these fields while working to deconstruct the aspects of herbalism and its history that are colonialist, patriarchal and otherwise problematic. She is deeply invested in working with clients to build a preventative, compassionate model of care that addresses the root causes of illness and discomfort in an effective and comprehensive way. Alyssa has a bottomless and enduring love for movement and an affinity for wild things, which she feeds by practicing mixed martial arts, hiking, scuba diving, swimming, and searching the woods for reptiles with her partner, Ben.

In this episode, we discuss numerous aspects of health, alternative medicine, herbalism, the dichotomy between Eastern and Western medicine, treating the whole human, and much more!

Sloan and I sit down to tackle some listener questions as we take in the beauty and relaxing sounds of the Cartecay River in northern Georgia. 

Topics covered include: is seeing 2000 patient visits a month really care? social media supremacy or idiocy, how we see patients, how we incorporate nutrition and functional medicine into our practice and much more!

Kelly Starrett is a coach, physical therapist, author, speaker, and creator of this blog, which has revolutionized how athletes think about human movement and athletic performance.

His 2013 release, Becoming a Supple Leopard has become a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. This blog was voted #4 in Outside Magazine’s Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2011, Breaking Muscle’s Top 10 Fitness Blogs of 2011, and Health Line’s Top 100 Health Blogs of 2011. Kelly and his work have been featured in Tim Ferris’ Four Hour Body, Competitor Magazine, Inside Triathlon, Outside Magazine, Details Magazine, Power Magazine, and the Crossfit Journal.

Kelly’s clients have included Olympic gold-medalists, Tour de France cyclists, world and national record holding Olympic Lifting and Power athletes, Crossfit Games medalists, ballet dancers, military personnel, and competitive age-division athletes.

Kelly’s background as an athlete and coach includes paddling whitewater slalom canoe on the US Canoe and Kayak Teams, and leading the Men’s Whitewater Rafting Team to two national titles and competition in two World Championships. In his free time Kelly enjoys spending time with his wife Juliet and two daughters, Georgia and Caroline, surfing, paddling, Olympic lifting, hot-tubbing, and so-you-think-you-can-dancing.

In this episode we dive into many topics including the changing face of healthcare, human-ness, first principles, intellectual real estate and much more!

Dr. Conley is the owner and operator of Total Health Solutions in Colorado.  She also is the founder of Gait Happens.  Her personal journey of becoming a foot and gait expert began years ago when she attended chiropractic school in Chicago, Illinois.  She was fortunate enough to study under the top experts in her field.  This began a long journey of working in several orthotic labs, wearing orthotics herself for years, and realizing that something was a miss as she was in constant pain chasing symptoms. 

She was a triathlete suffering from chronic foot, knee, and low back pain.  After years of altering orthotics, and changing footwear, she realized that simply bracing the foot was not the answer. Always struggling with the concept:   Why are we telling our patients with foot pain to brace the foot with an orthotic for years at a time when we would never tell our patients with low back pain to wear a back brace for years at a time. 

As a result, Dr. Conley went down the slow, and often frustrating journey of eliminating her orthotics and transitioning into the 'barefoot' world.  She began assessing and treating her foot, like she did every where else in her body, with the goal of moving better and functioning more efficiently.  And she succeeded.  

Now with the desire to share this with her patients, Dr. Conley dove deeply into educating herself on barefoot function and learning from experts such as Steven Sashen, the CEO of XERO shoes, and Sebastian Bar, the owner of Joe Nimble; the creators of 2 functional footwear companies.  She studied more on the mechanics of the foot and its relationship to the entire kinetic chain. 

Today, Dr. Conley is on the forefront of educating the public on the benefits of foot health.   It is her passion and desire to see people eliminate foot pain and begin moving better, eliminating unnecessary procedures and chronic pain.  She is enjoying consulting with clients all over the world as well as teaching her lower extremity course, TOP DOWN, BOTTOM UP, with her best friend and partner, Dr. Joseph LaVacca.  

You can find where Dr. Conley is teaching both for Rocktape as well as Top Down Bottom Up on the courses tab.

As you can imagine we discuss all things pertaining to gait, movement, running, footwear and so much more!

Michael has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Memphis and a master’s degree in public relations from the University of Alabama. He has more than a decade of experience in business management, strategic marketing communications, and nonprofit organizations. Previously, he was director of public relations for The Modern Brand Company where he managed communications for the Jefferson County Health Action Partnership’s Champions for Health campaign — which included the highly successful SmokeFree Alabama initiative which led to the City of Birmingham’s adoption of its smoke-free ordinance. Before joining The Modern Brand, Michael served as public relations and marketing coordinator at Birmingham Botanical Gardens.

Michael has years of experience and extensive training in the areas of public health and environmental protection. He is a member of the board of directors for the Southeast Climate & Energy Network. Michael worked tirelessly for years to pass Birmingham’s Non-Discrimination Ordinance, which passed in 2017 and led to the creation of the Birmingham Human Rights Commission in 2019. He is an active member of the community, working passionately as an advocate for health equity, food access, civil rights, and social justice.

GASP is a non-profit based out of Birmingham that helps to reduce air pollution, to educate the public on the health risks associated with poor air quality and to encourage community leaders to serve as role models for clean air and clean energy development.

Michael joins me on the show to discuss the past and present of Birmingham's air quality, the struggles that we face locally and globally in terms of air pollution, the easiest ways to reduce our impact, and much more!

Dr. Kathy Dooley is a world-renowned rehabilitative chiropractor and co-founder of Catalyst S.P.O.R.T. Dr. Dooley is also an adjunct anatomy professor at two New York City medical schools, Einstein College of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College. She is an adjunct professor at New York University College of Dentistry and Sophie Davis School of Biological Sciences and is a visiting professor at Saint George’s University Medical School in Grenada, West Indies. Dr. Dooley is also Lead Instructor on two different seminar series: NeuroKinetic Therapy (NKT), and Immaculate Dissection, an anatomy and palpation seminar which she co-founded. Dr. Dooley is certified as an SFG kettlebell instructor and RKC kettlebell instructor.

In this episode, we unpack why anatomy matters, the biopsychosocial approach, how to address empowering education within the therapeutic partnership, what is really happening with some of the techniques used today, thoughts on ankle dorsiflexion, applied kinesiology, the death of 'idiopathic' scoliosis, finding confidence in your clinical stories, not everything is the piriformis, and much more.

Brian is a human performance coach with more than two decades of experience of innovating new protocols for research, and for training Coaches, Olympians, Professional Athletes, Entrepreneurs, High Performers and everyday people in numerous realms on the use of physiological, mechanical, breathing and many intrinsic tools to achieve maximum output in training, competition and recovery. He is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, Unbreakable Runner, and Founder of The Art of Breath, a division of Power, Speed Endurance. His clients have included: Ari Emanuel, Kelly Starrett, Tim Ferriss, US Military Units (Navy, Army, Marines), Jon “Bones” Jones, Tia Clair Toomey (2X CrossFit Games Champion), Rich Froning Jr. (4X CrossFit Games Champion) and many others. 

He resides in San Rafael, CA with his wife Erin Cafaro MacKenzie (2X Olympic Gold Medalist / Rowing W8+)

• Founder & Creative Director of Power Speed Endurance

• Co-Founder & President of the Health and Human Performance Foundation

• New York Times Best Selling Author

Topics discussed: human performance, unconventional thinking, endurance sports, the burden of health, breathing, the ultimate player-coach, commandos of health, freedom, truth, utilizing social media properly, sport is an illusion, the circles of leadership, civil rights, and more!

Nelson Brooke, a Birmingham native, graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with an anthropology degree. Nelson is an Eagle Scout and outdoor enthusiast who has enjoyed fishing and hunting along the banks of the Black Warrior River since he was seven years old. Nelson has been Black Warrior Riverkeeper’s staff Riverkeeper since January of 2004. He also served as Executive Director from August 2007 through December 2009. Nelson was named “2010 Alabama River Hero” by the Alabama Rivers Alliance.

As Riverkeeper, Nelson patrols and photographs the Black Warrior River and its tributaries from the land, water, and air, looks for pollution problems, responds to citizen complaints, researches and analyzes polluters’ permits, collects pollution samples for laboratory analysis, educates the public about the beauty of the river and threats to it, works to empower stakeholders throughout the watershed, advocates compliance with environmental laws, works on finding solutions to pollution problems, and is a spokesman for the Black Warrior River watershed. Nelson runs our Riverkeeper Patrol Program and coordinates with our Legal Program when appropriate. Nelson is available to give educational presentations to your school, civic organization, or club.

Topics discussed: environmental responsibility, legacy, Eagle Scouts, water filtration, healthy living, water wars, how to educate the public, why bottled water isn't regulated or healthy, EBSCO and more.