With the start of the New Year, it’s time that people try to start new habits. Today’s podcast is about how we get habits and what types of awareness we need to create new habits.

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New Year’s is a time that people make resolutions and try and do things to feel better, look better, be better. But the question is, is what makes resolutions work or not work? Today on Ask Dr. Gil, I want to talk about the power of habits and how they are created and how to create new ones. So stay tuned. Hello and welcome to Ask Dr. Gil. I’m Dr. Gil Winkleman, your host. And today on the of things and talk about more of the mental, emotional aspect of things. And specifically, I want to talk about New Year’s resolutions slash habits, because I think this is something that we do not think about. And that, hence, is why it becomes a habit. So what is a habit? A habit is something that basically we do unconsciously. And it can be anything from how you brush your teeth to what your routine is in the morning and so forth. And generally, when we do something, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. It’s just something that we do on autopilot. And sometimes, and I think habits are created as a result of trying to create efficiencies in our lives and make things more streamlined. Unfortunately, sometimes these habits can be detrimental to us. For example, if you eat when you’re stressed, and instead of sitting with your feelings, you eat your feelings, as a simple example. But I want you to do an exercise right now as you’re listening to this. And I want you to imagine your morning routine and think about the following things. What’s the first thing you do when you get out of bed? What’s the way that you might wash your face in the morning? How do you do that? Do you put soap in your left hand or your right hand? Do you use soap? Which hand do you brush your teeth with? When you shower in the morning or evening, which hand do you use to grab the soap? And how do you lather yourself up? Now, I bring these to mind because most of you listening to this will really have to think about, which hand do I brush my teeth with? Most people brush it with their dominant hand. And tomorrow morning, I want you to do an exercise, which is to brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand, or whichever hand you normally don’t brush your teeth with. Some people will brush it with both hands and switch it based on what side they’re on. And if that’s the case, think about another exercise like grabbing the soap with a different hand, as an example. And it’s going to feel weird. And it is something that you will need to think about before you are able to make a change with it. Now, I use these as simple examples. And changing your hand may or may not have an impact on your life, although there is some research to suggest that if you brush your teeth with your non-dominant hand, you’re actually using the other side of your brain to do an activity, which is good for neuroplasticity and for brain development. And that can be a very important aspect for many people. But as far as sort of, is it great for your life? Actually, it may be worse for your teeth because you may not do as good of a job. On the other hand, you might do a better job. But in any case, the point is, how do you bring awareness to what it is that you’re doing? Now, I bring this up as an example that is simple. And it’s the simple things and the simple awarenesses that go into making habits form or forming new habits. You don’t create a new habit without awareness. You have to be conscious about it. And you have to break through something and some form of resistance. Now, the resistance for how you brush your teeth may be a very low threshold in terms of breaking it, but it still takes awareness. And it’s interesting because I’ve actually started trying this as an experiment, mostly to work on another side of my brain. Quick aside as a story, I had an anatomy professor in college named Marion Diamond, who was a neuro anatomist and dissected Einstein’s brain. Crazy story that I won’t go into on the show. But she used to write on the chalkboard with both hands. And it was as a student trying to keep up with her. It was kind of amazing.

And she was said, you need to use both your hands so that you can work both sides of your brain. And she actually played tennis with both arms. She would play a game with one arm and then play another game with the other arm. Kind of amazing and lived a long time. Great, great woman, an amazing teacher and great researcher as well. But may she rest in peace. But I started doing that with brushing my teeth, just to work on my other side of my brain. And it takes a lot of effort to remember that. I instinctively will pick up my toothbrush with my right hand and start brushing with my right side. It’s an electric toothbrush, by the way. So it’s not even like I’m doing anything. I’m just holding it and moving it around. But there’s something about doing it with my left hand that is very, very unusual for me. And there’s a discomfort related to that, which is really interesting. And it was interesting because I was reading an article about this. And they talked about, well, how do you lather your soap in the shower? And I thought, I have no idea. I just do it. And this is the piece about habits that’s really interesting, because usually we just do them. And sometimes people point them out to us, and we say, I don’t do that. But if you stop and think about it and look at it, you’re like, yeah, I guess I do that. So making a concerted effort is important. And there are other aspects to breaking habits that I think are really, really important. And the biggest one, I think, is desire. So that is a piece that I’m going to talk about on the second half of the show.

Because if you don’t have the desire to break a habit, you won’t break the habit, because there’s no force behind it. And this is sort of an interesting piece in medicine, because many people want to break a habit. They say they do. But really, when they dig deeper, there isn’t any impetus to really break the habit. So we’re going to take a quick break. And then on the second half of the show, I’m going to talk about desires related to habits and how to break them. So stay tuned. Habits and how to create new habits and break old ones. Before I continue, I just wanted to let you know, if you have any questions, feel free to send an email to info, I-N-F-O, at askdrgill.com. And I try and answer all of them. And if you have a topic you want me to cover or you have a question, or even if you have a guest that you think I might be interested in having on the show, please send me the information and I’ll be happy to take a look at it. Okay, we’re talking about habits today. And what is really interesting is that most habits are harmless. We go through life without any sort of awareness that we’re doing things in a particular way. And if you’ve ever driven home from work and been like, wow, how did I get here? How did I get home? And that’s habit, right? That’s the unconscious mind sort of an autopilot that’s doing it. And so to pull out of the habit, you need to be conscious. You need to be aware of what is it that I am doing? How am I behaving and responding in these situations? And the big piece about this is desire. Because without desire, you’re not going to break the habit, most likely. And when I say desire, I mean, a burning desire. I don’t mean just any sort of desire. I mean, someone leaves their clothes on the floor and the other partner is upset about it. And you know, the upsetness of the other partner is usually not enough to make a change in the behavior. Sometimes it is. Sometimes people are so conscientious of their partner that they’re willing to make a sacrifice in their behavior to help make the person happier. But usually, there isn’t that happening. And we see this a lot with drug and alcohol addiction, obviously, where patients with the addiction, even in the face of the other person leaving them, cannot get away from the habit. Now, addiction is a little different. Obviously, there’s a physiologic component. And I don’t want to go into that detail. But I do see this in relationships where there’s a non-addictive component and the person isn’t willing to make a change, even in the face of the partner threatening to leave the situation. So it can be very difficult. And sometimes it’s just a lack of awareness. And sometimes it’s just, I’m not changing. And that’s just how it is. That’s how I am. And too bad for you. So there is that aspect of it as well. But so let’s talk about the desire aspect of this, though, because I do think that this is an important factor. And generally, you know, when I talk, and I’m going to talk about health issues for a minute, because I have patients who, for example, are diabetic, and they have a really hard time stopping eating carbs. And I actually had a patient recently say, I just really like cookies and breads.

And, you know, she has a serious problem with her A1C. It’s very high. And she’s using, you know, various forms of of diabetic medications. And she just can’t stop herself. And we can debate and I’m going to put this aside for a minute, we can debate the physiological, addictive qualities of some of these foods, which I do think is a real thing. And I’ve talked about that in other podcasts. But particular patient, my telling her and her other doctors telling her that her blood sugars are going to harm her body wasn’t enough to get her desire level up high enough to overcome her habit. And so for her, what we’re working on is finding what it is within her that would make her want to do this. Now, this is not something that can be imposed upon you from the external, right? In other words, as a doctor, even though we have some power in terms of suggestion to patients, it’s really up to the patient to make the decision for themselves that they’re going to make this change. And that’s true with anybody. It doesn’t matter if it’s a patient, it’s your child, it’s your spouse, it’s a partner. If you’re a teacher, if it’s a student, it’s about finding what it is that’s internal to them, or you, that is going to make the change happen. And here’s sort of an exercise you can do if you’re doing this for yourself, is let’s say you have a goal this year to lose weight, and I bring that up because that’s a goal that so many people in America have a goal to do at the beginning of the year. And my question is, why do you want to lose weight? And you keep asking, well, why do I want to do that? So for example, why do you want to lose weight? Well, I want to look better. Well, why do you want to look better? Well, I want to meet somebody. Well, why do you want to meet somebody? You keep getting down to the core of what it is that makes you want to do what you want to do. And once you get to that place, that’s the motivation, not the necessarily the initial thing. And so that’s the piece I think that is very important for people to do. Now, for a small thing, say flossing your teeth more, that’s, you know, you don’t necessarily need to drill that deeply with this. But for bigger things, I think it is important to do that, because that’s where the desire is. And everything else is sort of external to something else. So for the simple things, what can you do? Well, you create the conditions where the habit can be performed, if you will. And so that becomes the place where it becomes easier. And as a simple example, if you want to floss your teeth more, say once a day, well, you start doing it before bed, before you brush your teeth. And you keep just doing that every evening. And eventually, you get to this place where you know you’ve flossed your teeth, and you don’t have to think about it. And it’s something that you want to keep doing as part of a routine. You need to be aware and focused on it at the beginning before it becomes automatic. Think about if you drive a car, if you know how to drive a car, this will sound familiar. When you first started learning to drive, you would think about everything that you were doing before you did it. And you were very careful. You looked both ways before you changed lanes. You looked in your mirrors, all that stuff. And as you became more comfortable doing what you’re doing, you stopped doing a lot of the things that actually are safe to do. But there’s an automaticness to it, and you stop thinking. And I think that in some cases, that is not a bad thing, because it can be very exhausting thinking about everything that you do in your day to get through the day. But other things, such as driving, it’s a good thing to do. So that’s kind of the piece to that. All right, that’s what I got for you today. I hope you enjoyed this. I hope you have a wonderful new year. And I would encourage you to try incorporating one new habit in your life that you might want to do, even if it’s a small one, just to try out some of the things that I talked about. And send me an email and let me know what you did. That would be great. My email is info, i-n-f-o, at askdrgill.com. And if you have any comments, questions, as I said, you can send it to that email. And if you like the podcast, if you can like it down below, or go to YouTube or Apple Podcasts and hit something on there, that would be great. Thanks so much, and I hope to see you next time. 

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I wrote an article about the supplements for TBI Recovery. But What supplements are useful if you have a TBI. Well I definitely recommend getting neurofeedback. 

But what can you do if you can’t get neurofeedback? It turns out there’s a lot you can do. Listen now to learn.

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No one likes to have symptoms. When we do, we tend to pop a pill of some sort to keep them from bothering us. But what if healing crisis detox symptoms are a good thing? Today on Ask Dr Gil, I discuss the benefits of detox symptoms and why they are so useful for healing. Whether it is removing senescent cells, or cancer cells, healing crisis detox symptoms are telling us something about the body. We need to (within the best of our ability), allow the crisis to abate on its own as the body’s wisdom knows it needs to remove something.

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Mitochondria Health Supplements are something very important to our health. But why? In this podcast, Dr Gil discusses the role of mitochondria, what they do in the body and what supplements are useful for helping one improve the health of mitochondria.

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Good Energy is a new book out exploring the connection between health and diet. Why is it so amazing to believe there’s a connection? What we put into our bodies affects our overall health.  In this podcast, I’ll discuss what Dr. Casey Means has to say about diet as it relates to blood sugar and how that can affect one’s mental health. The interesting things are the connections between cortisol levels (which affects blood glucose) and other factors unrelated to diet (which also affects blood sugar levels.) I’ll discuss my own experience wearing a continuous blood sugar monitor.

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Hello, and welcome to Ask Dr. Gil. I’m your host, Dr. Gil Winkleman. And today, I want to talk about one aspect of Dr. Means book, Good Energy, I actually think it was a really good read. And interestingly enough, I have a MD physician here that I see mostly to order blood work and that sort of thing. And he said, “yeah, that’s a good book. I ordered it. I I wanna take a look at it. I never learned anything about nutrition and medical school. “

And it’s kind of amazing when you think about it. I mean, I would argue that people know more about what gasoline to use in their car and what motor oil to use in their car as a rule in the United States than they do about what they should put in their body. And I want to talk about one aspect of the book because the book covers more stuff than I have topics and time to cover in in one podcast. And because she goes through a lot of different things. And I’ll I’ll give you a quick overview. So she talks about over nutrition, nutrient deficiency, microbiome issues.

In other words, how do you how does your gut flora work in the body? She talks about stress, exercise, the effects of medication and drugs on the mitochondria in particular, but on the body in general, sleep issues, light issues in terms of disrupting your circadian rhythms, not getting varying temperatures, which if you think about this for a minute, it’s about the ice baths and not necessarily to that extreme hot and cold therapy and environmental toxins as well. Now all of this is stuff that I talk about in my practice, not necessarily I haven’t covered everything in the podcast, but but I do want to talk about the metabolic syndrome aspects because I think that’s such a big part of American society in terms of the problems. And I’ll talk in the second half of the show about my experience wearing a glucose monitor, a continuous glucose monitor, which I tried as a result of reading this book. It was just an interesting exercise for me to kind of learn how my blood sugar goes up and down with certain things that I eat and drink and Some of the stuff wasn’t surprising and some of it was very surprising.

So we’ll get to that in a minute. But in terms of biomarkers, she talks about in the book. She talks about triglycerides and HDL and that and that they should be low, lower than one hundred, but almost equal. And this is something that you can easily get tested by your physician because it’s they’re both part of what’s called a lipid panel where they do total cholesterol. Now total cholesterol by itself is probably not very useful.

And, you know, obviously, if it’s super high or super low, that’s important to know. But generally, most physicians just look at, well, what’s your total cholesterol? Oh, it’s two hundred or two fifty. That’s high in their view, because now anything above one hundred and fifty is high. And really, you want to look at the HDL, which is the good cholesterol, and you want to make sure that that number is pretty high.

You know, approaching a hundred, although not necessarily that high, but around eighty or ninety and that your triglycerides are below that number. And so that gives us a good indication of how your body is handling fat in a sense. So and then the other numbers are the fasting glucose. You can also have fasting insulin, which is an important one, Generally, that is not ordered as standard blood work. But having that number can be helpful in terms of prediabetes.

Fasting glucose is important, though by itself, it doesn’t tell us as much as one number high fasting isn’t necessarily going to tell us as much as a hemoglobin A1C Then the other the other factors to keep in mind is making sure that your blood pressure is below one hundred and twenty over eighty, and that will stretch with age, just so you know. But you and when you take it you want to make sure that you’ve kind of rested for a minute, relaxed that your arm’s in the right position depending on if you’re using a wrist cuff or a shoulder or an upper arm cuff. And then the last one is your way of circumference. So she talks about these in terms of understanding aspects of blood sugar regulation. And It’s interesting because now the piece that I’m gonna talk about right now is still I don’t wanna say controversial, but there’s definitely evidence to support this, but it hasn’t become part of sort of mainstream scientific dogma, which is that Alzheimer and dementia may be what they’re calling now type three diabetes.

Meaning that the that the brain isn’t getting enough blood sugar and sugar into it because it’s been overloaded with sugar over a certain amount of time. And as a result of that, that’s what’s causing the destruction of the neural connections. And this is an interesting aspect of things because We, you know, some of these people that have Alzheimer’s or dementia had no issues in terms of looking at their blood sugar levels. They weren’t diabetic or so forth. And Obviously, diabetes type two and type one type one generally you’re born with.

Type two, we know this is an issue. We know this is causing problems in the body. It’s affecting people’s energy. It’s affecting people’s weight. It makes it difficult to function in the world without treatment because your body gets overwhelmed.

And and so that is clearly an issue, but this other one may be an issue that we don’t even realize because we don’t have tests for it yet by itself. So I want to, in the second half of the show, talk more about what to do to make your body healthier in terms of eating and blood sugar and so forth. So stay tuned and we’ll talk about this in the second half. Hello, and welcome back to Ask Dr. Gil.

I’m Dr. Gil Winkleman. And just as a reminder, if you like this episode or any other episode, please give us a thumbs up or a like or whatever platform you’re looking you’re listening to this on if you would give us a like on it. If you have comments, there you can make comments on the YouTube channel or on my website, and I will get notified about that. And if you just have questions and you just want to email me, you can send an email to info infoask doctor Gil dot com, a s k d r g I l dot com.

I also have a form on my website if you want to find out about scheduling and and working with me because that makes it easier. It’s nice because I’d asked for your time zone which makes things easier for me. To figure out timing. So, alright. So, we’ve been talking about Dr.

Means book, Good Energy. I really have enjoyed it and I do recommend it So the blood sugar aspects are really interesting. In terms of And I mentioned at the beginning of the show that I wore a glucose monitor, I did it for two weeks. It’s a continuous glucose monitor Generally, you need a diagnosis of diabetes to even order them. There’s a couple of companies now that are offering it to people without diagnosis.

It’s around one hundred dollars for the month. And you don’t necessarily need to do it continuously. In fact, I did it for two weeks and gave the other monitor. It comes with two monitors that last about fourteen days. So I gave one to my daughter just so that she could check it out and try it.

She was interested. And and mostly because I I got the information that I wanted. And it was really interesting because when I did it, I was actually traveling. And so I was on vacation and not really trying to eat well necessarily. And what was surprising was that the food so it was eating out a lot more than I normally do, And so the things that I expected to spike my glucose often didn’t and the things that I didn’t expect did, so let me give you a couple of of examples and then I’ll kind of pair this with what Dr.

Means talks about in the book. So one of the things that was interesting is she talks about eating low glycemic foods first. And meaning, you have protein first than complex carbs, than simple carbs. And part of that is is that your body has something to absorb the sugar with in in in a sense. It’s not so much absorbing, but in terms of absorbing the spike of the sugar.

So give you an example. So I went for Mexican food at this it’s a high end Mexican place and ordered a what’s called the skinny margarita, so it’s a low sugar margarita, and had chips and guac. And was expecting my blood sugar to spike and actually it dropped. And my theory on this is that the the alcohol helped reduce my stress. Which then lowered by cortisol, which then allowed for less spiking of glucose.

And part of the reason that I say this is I noticed this happened whenever I had alcohol. Now, I do not necessarily say you should be drinking alcohol, but it may explain some of the research that suggests that one drink a day may be useful for overall health. And this research comes from research on blue zones. And I may do a podcast about that. At some point, the blue zones are the areas in the world where there are the highest number of people living over a hundred.

And there’s six there’s now six. Singapore interestingly just joined this as a blue zone. And they, as a government, decided to make a concerted effort to increase longevity, and we’re able to pull that off. That is a whole other topic, but was very interesting. And it wasn’t just longevity, it’s quality of life.

So with blue zone briefly alcohol is consumed by all but one of the areas in moderate amounts. So moderate is less than two glasses of wine or two drinks per day. It’s usually wine in all of these areas, not hard alcohol and not beer. So and and wine definitely has nutrients in it that are good for our bodies. It may be part of the connection between diet and mental health.

I mean, respiratory, or trauma, and so forth, And one could argue that you can get that from other sources and and that can help. And also you can have other ways of relaxing yourself to lower your cortisol. So that’s why the research on the alcohol may be a little mushy, but it was interesting because this is not like these areas. They’re not like super health focused per se. It’s not like they’re you know, only eating certain things and and so forth.

But that’s another topic we can talk about. So I would say though that what was interesting and and so the alcohol aspect on my trip was very consistent when I got back. I was I was exercising and I noticed my blood sugar spiked during that time. So which would also track with cortisol levels because as cortisol goes up, An exercise member we talked about fight flight in the Polyvago theory podcast. With fight or flight, you’re raising cortisol, so you can act.

So you want more blood blood sugar, to be higher. And so but you don’t want that happening when you’re eating necessarily or even after you’re eating because you wanna you wanna keep keep things steady. Part of the issue with the body is that it’s not that your blood sugar goes up after you eat. That isn’t necessarily the issue. The issue is is that it goes up either too quickly and or too high, and or it takes a long time for it to come down.

And the reason is is that as the blood sugar stays high for longer periods, the pancreas has to pump out more insulin which then creates stress on the pancreas over time, and it wears out, which is why people get type two diabetes. So that’s one of the aspects of it. And what I found was, is that my glucose would generally come back down pretty quickly. The the the two exceptions would be having too much dessert. So eating more than say three bites of ice cream, in my case, was interesting.

And and I think about doctor Dean Ornish’s DASH diet, and he talks about having one spoonful of hugging does. And this is a guy who his fash diet is developed for heart conditions. So it’s kind of interesting. And when you when I thought about that, I thought about that when I I had a a bite of ice cream and it was it was like yeah, I I understand why people want more because of that dopamine aspect in terms of the sugar. And I also saw, wow, if I only had one bite or two bites, my blood sugar actually didn’t go up that much.

But once I went beyond that, then that’s what I would see the spikes. The other the other aspect of things is the liquid sugar. And there was something I had that was an energy type drink, but I don’t remember what it was. And I noticed, oh, I remember now. I had a it was a different Mexican place, a Hamica.

It’s like a Hibiscus Lemonade type thing. And I saw my blood sugar go as that was the highest it went during the two weeks. And it was really interesting because it’s like, oh, this is where things get really off in in people’s bodies. And soda, if you think about soda, you think about sugar and energy drinks, any of those things can definitely create spikes up and downs in the body in terms of blood sugar, and that’s really putting a lot of stress on your pancreas. So if you get one thing from this episode, that is if you eat drink sugary drinks to stop and that would include straight kombucha even though it’s, you know, it’s only seventy calories per bottle, there still can be fourteen grams of sugar in there.

And if you’re if you’re drinking, if you like drinking kombucha, either switch to a brand with less sugar or dilute it greatly and don’t drink as much, you know, drink one bottle over the course of three or four days type thing. Because it’s way too much sugar for our systems. So now the other things that we’re interesting in terms of of eating and so forth is that she talks about and I think is helpful is tightening your eating window. In other words, having the bulk of your calories between, say, eleven AM and six PM. And it’s interesting because I was in New York and most people don’t eat dinner until, like, seven or eight there because they’re at work and doing stuff.

But it definitely helps to to have a narrower window. And the reason I say those hours, although those hours aren’t necessarily magical, is because the the Later you eat, you want three hours between the time you finish eating and the time you go to bed. To allow the body to settle down, to allow digestion to happen, and it just helps your sleep be better. So if you’re trying to change your, you know, get eight hours of sleep and follow the sun to a certain degree, that’s why you need to stop eating by six or or in some cases seven. You know, one of the things that’s interesting is is that in Hawaii, Generally, people do go to bed with sun down and get up, at sunrise, at least the people I know, and part of that is is they’re did not sun down, but a few hours after sun down.

It it has to do with the culture. Like, people are active, they use they use the day to do things, either exercise work, and so forth. And and it’s less of a nights place than say New York City. Where people are up at all hours of the night. And it really is the city that never sleeps.

And and there’s always something happening, but that isn’t necessarily good for your system. So Okay. So a couple of other things to think about in terms of eating. Adding fiber is really important because it slows digestion, vinegar, cinnamon, chromium, those can change glucose responses so that you don’t have as much spiking of of the glucose. And the other thing that’s really important is a light exercise after eating.

And Generally, it’s it’s a slow walk. So taking a walk after you eat and I and I was able to observe this for myself was that when I took a little walk And no more than thirty minutes, but ten to thirty minutes after a meal, that helped lower my blood sugar as well. And you don’t want to overdo it. Like, you want your body to be in the rest digest mode, And so it’s not a workout. It’s more of a stroll.

That’s kind of the approach that you want to take. So there’s a lot more in this topic that we could talk about, and I may add some other stuff because she talks about mitochondrial issues, she talks about sleep, stress management. The mitochondria is an interesting topic, and I may do a separate podcast about that. But I do have a course related to mitochondria and mental health. And it covers a lot of different aspects of mental health, including methylation, which vitamins to take diet and the role of testing.

And if you want more information about that, you can check out my website, w w w dot askdoctor Gil dot com. And I have a link to it at the top in the courses. Finally, if you enjoyed this, please feel free to make a comment or like it on YouTube or Apple’s podcast, or Spotify, wherever you’re listening to this. And I look forward to connecting in the next episode, so take care.

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In this episode, Dr. Gil explores what makes a good doctor patient relationship. We explore how the importance of trust, and how each person is an expert in the room. Finally, Dr. Gil discusses SEAMMS, a handy short-hand to understand your symptoms and your body.

The doctor patient relationship Transcript

On a previous addition of Ask Dr. Gil, I pose the question what makes a good doctor. I want to rephrase the question and ask it slightly differently, which is what makes a good doctor patient relationship  or doctor client relationship.

On today’s episode of Ask Dr. Gil, I want to explore some of the issues that help the relationship aspects of healing. So stay tuned.

Hello, and welcome to Ask Dr. Gil. I’m Dr. Gil Winkleman. And on today’s podcast, I want to explore some of the issues related to healing as it relates to relationship of the clinician and the patient. And I want to start by sort of discussing the whole doctor patient paradigm, because in some ways, there are power dynamics involved with this that may interfere with the ability for someone to get better. How do we approach this? Because there’s two experts in the room when we’re dealing with a doctor patient relationship in a sense.

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Mindbody Healing is such an important topic in holistic health. But how does one get there. In today’s podcast episode, we look at polyvagal theory as it relates to therapy.

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Last week, I did a podcast on Polyvigal Theory and I received some questions and comments about it related to therapy, today on Ask Dr

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In this simulcast, Dr. Gil explores the healing power of neurofeedback. He explains what neurofeedback is and how it works. Neurofeedback is a powerful system to heal the brain of various issues including, TBI, migraine, anxiety, OCD, insomnia, depression and others. Neurofeedback measures amplitudes and frequencies to determine the best way to retrain the brain. The procedure is painless and efficient

You can hear more about this and there is a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7WS4NryiB8

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In this simulcast, Dr. Gil explores post concussion symptoms and treatment. Whiplash and concussion symptoms are more common than most people realize. Delayed concussion symptoms are a real problem. And you don’t have to hit your head to have a TBI. Studies have shown contra coup injuries occur as a result of the brain slamming into the skull. This is a big part of why people do not receive appropriate treatment. As a result, people do not connect their symptoms with the injury. Post concussion symptoms include cognitive, emotional, and physical ailments including emotionaly lability, brain fog, attention issues, problems reading, migraines and headaches and other issues. Learn more about this and the treatment.

You can hear more about this and there is a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7WS4NryiB8

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In this first simulcast, Dr. Gil explores the basics of polyvagal theory. He discusses the different branches of the automomic nervous system and how to allow the energy to release from your body.

At the end of the podacst, Dr. Gil talks a bit about his new online courses that are available.

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