Balanced Wellness Solutions with Dr. Kourtney Chichilitti

The guest on our episode today is Mr. Shawn Needham, RPH. Together with his wife named Janet, they own Moses Lake Professional Pharmacy, which is a specialized compounding pharmacy creating customized solutions to health problems that drug companies cannot solve. The pharmacy educates and empowers patients to take charge of their own health and has done so for over 20 years. To help do this, the pharmacy does not bill any insurance so they can offer better pricing and service to the individual client. Shawn is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor for University of Washington School of Pharmacy, and teaches the Advanced Compounding Course. He has spoken on topics across the nation from hormone replacement, innovative pain therapies, and marketing a pharmacy. Shawn has a passion for helping patients achieve optimum health via hormone balancing and nutrition. He loves to spend time with family, snowboarding, hiking and mountain biking. Shawn is also an Amazon best selling author with “Sickened How the Government Ruined Healthcare and How to Fix it.” Join us today to learn about our discussion of the very important topics of hormones and dosing.

“ I could talk for hours about hormones, I have a passion for it. And I know that there are so many drugs, you see me use look at the top 10 drugs and how we can fix people's problems by getting their hormones balanced. Another one is pain medications. You know, there's an opioid epidemic, right, we call an opiate epidemic, well, there's a lot of people that are having pains that are hormone related.  ”

Shawn and Janet host an ever growing podcast, “Health Solutions with Shawn and Janet Needham” where Team Needham discusses everything about healthcare. 

Check out Health Solutions with Shawn and Janet Needham:

https://youtube.com/c/MosesLakeProfessionalPharmacy

To purchase Shawn’s Book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0832F348W/ref=tsm_1_tp_tc

For today’s episode, we have Dr. Judy, who is a certified functional medicine specialist, a Board Certified geriatric pharmacist, lifestyle coach, and diabetes care and education specialist. She is the CEO and founder of holistic options and personal empowerment also known as hope, offering a multifaceted program to provide relief from burnout, stress, fatigue, and chronic disease. Hope uses a transformative approach to target the restoration of health and well being in both body and mind. As a functional medicine practitioner, Dr. Judy understands there is no magic pill to treat symptoms or disease. What works for some may cause harm to others. She is passionate about helping other people identify the root causes of their symptoms, unravel their origins, and then use them to optimize their health and quality of life. Her focus is on individualized targeted therapies based on each person's unique needs. Rather than the overuse one size fits all standardized approach of care many people are becoming unsatisfied with. Get to know her more!

“The job turned from awesomeness and firmness into corporate regulatory management, Judy, sitting at our desk running reports, quality management, all that kind of stuff. So I was burnt out probably about 10 years into the hospital management job. It was intense. So the burnout started, at least then that I can remember and I had to leave that job. ”

Dr. Judy Magalhaes is a Certified Functional Medicine Specialists, Board-Certified Geriatric Pharmacist, Lifestyle Coach, and Diabetes Care & Education Specialist. She is the CEO & Founder of Holistic Options & Personal Empowerment, LLC (a.k.a. HOPE, LLC) offering a multi-faceted program to provide relief from burnout, stress, fatigue and chronic disease. HOPE uses a transformative approach to target the restoration of health and wellbeing in both body and mind.

For more than 30 years, Judy has worked in multiple healthcare settings ranging from hospitals, community, long-term and primary care to collaborate with providers and patients to optimize medication regimens, reduce adverse reactions, and manage chronic diseases. In addition to her many achievements in quality and safety initiatives, provider-patient satisfaction and improving medication adherence, Judy was also recognized as “Preceptor of the Year” by Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) pharmacy interns, for her mentorship in the acute care setting.

Even as she thrived in this award-winning career, Judy felt the toll of her high-stress and demanding job as a clinical pharmacist manager and began to see it as the probable “root cause” of her own declining health and chronic symptoms (stress, headaches, weight gain, fatigue, anxiety, and pain). She sought new ways to improve her health without prescription medications or surgical interventions. It was during this time of research and reflection that Judy discovered Functional Medicine and subsequently used it to transform her health through lifestyle changes and nutrition.

As she closely examined her decades spent working in the healthcare system, Judy developed an awareness and realization that even with modern medical interventions and medications, people stayed sick and their battles with chronic diseases waged on, often attributed to age or bad genes. More medications were doled out to control symptoms and a “prescribing cascade” ensued, elevating risks of adverse effects, drug interactions, toxicities, and nutrient deficiencies. Judy watched people take excess medications and yet they remained ill. She knew there was a better way.

As a Functional Medicine practitioner, Dr. Judy understands there is no magic pill to treat symptoms or diseases. What works for some, may cause harm to others. She is passionate about helping people identify the root causes of their symptoms, unravel their origins, and then use them to optimize their health and quality of life. Her focus is on individualized, targeted therapies based on each person’s unique needs, rather than the overused one-size-fits-all standardized approach of care many are becoming unsatisfied with. Dr. Judy is thrilled to bring her experience and passion in this new realm. Through expertise and her own personal journey, she is excited to deploy her knowledge and wisdom to help patients restore good health through holistic options and functional medicine practices.

EDUCATION:

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), University of RI

CERTIFICATIONS & CREDENTIALS:

AHA Basic Life Support Certified

Board Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP)

Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (CDCES)

ADCES Certified DPP Lifestyle Prevent T2 Coach

ADCES Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Certificate

ADCES Insulin Delivery & Devices Certificate

Anticoagulant Therapy Management Certificate, University of Southern Indiana

APhA Medication Therapy Management Certificate

APhA Pharmacy-Based Cardiovascular Disease Risk Management

APhA Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery Certificate

APhA Pharmacist & Patient-Centered Diabetes Care National Certificate Training Program

RI Certified Diabetes Outpatient Educator (CDOE)

RI Certified Cardiovascular Diabetes Outpatient Educator (CVDOE)

For today’s episode, we have Jennifer Wheeler, a functional medicine nurse practitioner, who specializes in elevating and aligning energy, mood nutrition, sleep, gut health and low toxin environment. With 20 plus years in the healthcare landscape, Jennifer chose to disrupt the traditional model and provide true solutions for optimal wellness. Wheeler is known for  revolutionizing the health of high performers to live a life of restored and refined wellness with optimum health at the epicenter. She is a passionate educator and after much request is now offering her business consulting services and done for you offerings to other medical health and wellness professionals who desire to align their passion values and goals with a vibrantly successful health consulting practice. And with that, she will tell you share her life changing experience! 

“This is not what detoxes. But when we talk about what it actually means, we define it really as the process of reducing the body's total toxic load. Your total toxic load is really just an equation of all the inputs of things that could potentially be toxic to your body and your mind too.”

BIO: 

Functional medicine nurse practitioner, Jennifer Wheeler is revolutionizing the health of high performers, to live a life of restored and refined wellness with optimal health at the epicenter. Jennifer specializes in elevating & aligning energy, mood, nutrition, sleep, gut health and a low-toxin environment.

With 20+ years in the healthcare landscape, Jennifer chose to disrupt the traditional model and provide true solutions for optimal wellness.

As founder and CEO of virtual functional medicine practive, MNDSHFT Health, Jennifer is committed to lighting a spark in others to claim strength and freedom in the knowledge of understanding their unique body and how to create vitality & longevity through intentional living.

She is a passionate educator and after much request is now offering her business consulting services and done-for-you offerings, to other medical, health and wellness professionals with the desire to align their passion, values and goals with a vibrantly successful health consulting practice!

LINKS: 

https://mndshfthealth.com

FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/themndshftsocial

https://www.instagram.com/mndshfthealth/

Detox Class Link: https://mndshfthealth.mykajabi.com/offers/UddF292w

For today’s episode, we have Wendy, she is coming on to talk about her experience with CBD. She has been working with me since September. And she was reaching out looking for an alternative for her chronic pain from lupus and fibromyalgia. She was on different medications, different NSAIDs, things that were not so good for the gut kind of weren't really working for her. And with that, Wendy will tell you her whole amazing story!

“I knew that that was a route that I needed to take, I needed to get away from the western medicine and, and go a more holistic route.”

What is CBD

How Wendy started with CBD

Looking for an alternative 

For today’s episode, we have a guest, Sarah Moore. She is the owner and operator of Sarah more skincare and Chalfont, Pennsylvania. Sara has been a licensed aesthetician for over a year. She graduated from the esthetics program at the beauty Institute in Ambler in 2020. She is also certified in classic eyelash extensions and Dermaplaning. And she specializes in facials, skincare and body care. She is passionate about teaching skincare to all of her clients and giving advice on the best daily regimens for their individual skin type. She is very results driven and once all of her clients have the healthiest skin. She uses an all-natural skincare line called lemongrass spa. It's vegan, cruelty free and very gentle on all skin types. 

“It was always meant to be that I was to do that so I don't regret it.”