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Hot flashes, night sweats, irritability, oh my! Menopause answers from Lifestyle Medicine, OB/GYN Dr. Elisabeth Fontaine MD. 

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 Elisabeth Fontaine MD, is double board certified in OB/GYN and Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Fontaine is available for consultations at https://PlantBasedTelehealth.com

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What foods heal and prevent and which ones should be avoided. Key, important strategies to preventing & healing from cancer. 

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In 2003, diagnosed with Stage 3, colon cancer, Chris Wark opted out of Chemo & used nutrition and natural therapies to heal after his surgery. Chris is also creator of the Square One Cancer Coaching Program, which has been shared with over 1 million people globally since 2017.

Chris Beat Cancer 

Beat Cancer Daily: 365 Days of Inspiration 

Beat Cancer Kitchen

Chris read these books after his diagnosis:

God's Way to Ultimate Health 

Radical Remission

Chris uses this Water Filter System 

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In 2013, within eight months, after adopting a whole food, plant based lifestyle, Dr. Lawenda, lost 75 pounds. Learn how he lost the weight and kept it off. Hear medical Q + A about this lifestyle. See Dr. Lawenda's bio in show notes below. FREE Offer⬇⬇⬇⬇

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Links to products Dr. Lawenda mentioned:

Hot Sauce 

Sweet Chili Sauce 

Dr. Lawenda, M.D., transformed his own health and subsequently his practice with plant based nutrition. Dr. Steven Lawenda, MD is a board-certified Family Medicine physician in Southern California Kaiser Permanente. In 2013, Dr. Lawenda learned about plant-based nutrition & transformed his own health & subsequently his practice. Along with a nurse practitioner colleague, he co-created and led Lifestyle Medicine programs centered around plant-based nutrition that have helped transform the lives of patients, as well as the way in which health care is delivered at his medical center. In 2020, he continued to pursue his passion even further and became board certified in Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Lawenda launched a new Lifestyle Medicine consultation service with two other colleagues from his medical center .

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At age 58, Jim was diagnosed with perforated diverticulitis, major depression, diabetes and more. Today he's over 100 pounds lighter.

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Fit & vigorous, Jim takes no prescription medications! Jim talks about: Overcoming SHAME - "Should Have Already Mastered Everything" How he found a healthy lifestyle and stuck with it for so long. What he eats and doesn't eat to stay slim. How he overcame food addiction and can now eat all he wants till comfortably full without weighing, measuring, potions or pills.

Jim recommended this book Dr. Jensen's Guide to Better Bowel Care 

Jim wrote these books:

Recovery: Passing Along Some Experience, Strength, and Hope: A Collection of Recovery Articles!

The Beginners Guide to Growing Sprouts!

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Why what you tried did not work...and what you haven't tried...yet. 

You can bite your tongue and say nothing, you can tell them all the reasons why they need to try the lifestyle and what the need to do. How's that working for you? Or, you can utilize the steps which Howie describes in this podcast.

Howie Jacobson, PhD, hosts the Plant Yourself Podcast. He is the co-author of many plant based lifestyle books - see links below.

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Howie Jacobson, PhD, is a health coach, and an executive coach to clients ranging from startup founders to established and rising Fortune 100 leaders. He is head coach at the Healthy Minds Initiative, and lead instructor at the WellStart Health Coaching Academy.

Howie is the author of Ad Words For Dummies 

Coauthor of: You Can Change Other People: The Four Steps to Help Your Colleagues, Employees―Even Family―Up Their Game 

Sick to Fit Use the Weight to Lose the Weight, with Josh LaJaunie 

Contributing author to Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition and

The Low Carb Fraud, both by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. 

Proteinaholic by Garth Davis, M.D. 

Howie’s writings have also appeared in Fast Company and Harvard Business Review. He hosts the Plant Yourself Podcast, where he interviews remarkable people engaged in healing at the individual, institutional, and planetary level. Howie earned his M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Health Studies from Temple University and his B.A. from Princeton University. He lives in rural North Carolina with his wife, where he writes, gardens, plays Ultimate Frisbee, runs, fiddles, and loads the dishwasher correctly. His mission includes helping kind and generous people grow their capability and scale their influence, sharing the joys of a healthy life, and reintroducing people to their most authentic, best selves. He can be reached at plantyourself.com.!

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Bloated? Blocked? You strain but nothing? You’re constipated. Constipation is common, but it doesn't have to be. 

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Kim Scheuer, M.D. struggled with weight issues until the age of 47. She loves de-prescribing medications, helping her patients become "younger", more fit and healthier by adopting positive lifestyle choices.

Dr. Scheuer is available for https://PlantBasedTeleHealth.com appointments.

Psyllium husk supplement

Poop Chart Coffee Mug 

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We have a powerful tool within us that has the ability to contribute to illness. When we use it appropriately, it has the ability to transform our health right down to the cellular level.

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Dr. Miller addresses questions about stress and how it negatively impacts our physical being, including: inflammation, chronic elevation of inflammatory markers which is seen in autoimmune diseases, high blood pressure, and more.

Learn:

Why is gut health so important to the immune system and how does it contribute to autoimmune disease?

Why is a plant-based diet beneficial for autoimmune diseases?

What is the difference between a plant-based diet and an anti-inflammatory healing plant based diet? What is the difference between green juices and green smoothies?

Reasons a plant-based diet may not be working for someone; how to troubleshoot.

What it takes to heal.

Muse Headband syncs with smartphone meditation and sleep feedback 

Dr. Miller is now proud to be part of the Plantbasedtelehealth.com team, offering plant-based telemedicine services to patients across the country.

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Dr. Christina Miller, MD is double board-certified in emergency and integrative medicine. Dr. Miller focuses exclusively on nutrition and lifestyle changes to get to the root cause of disease and illness, while promoting wellness and longevity in each individual. Christina Miller, MD, FACEP, is double board-certified in emergency and integrative medicine. After spending ten years working in the emergency department, she radically changed her practice to health promotion, due to her own health concerns and being overwhelmed by the amount of chronic disease and illness seen in the ED. She studied nutritional science and plant-based nutrition, completed a fellowship in integrative medicine, and now focuses exclusively on nutrition and lifestyle changes to get to the root cause of disease and illness, while promoting wellness and longevity in each individual. Instead of treating emergencies in the ED, she is now helping to prevent and reverse chronic illnesses and empower people to live with vitality. Dr. Miller is now proud to be part of the Plantbasedtelehealth.com team, offering plant-based telemedicine services to patients across the country. Her goal is to continue to share the information and the resources necessary to help empower people to take back their health, prevent and even reverse chronic illness, and create long-lasting true health and vitality.

One of her favorite mantras is, “Our bodies heal."

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Dr. Stuart McGill is an expert on back injury & pain mechanisms. Difficult back cases are regularly referred to him for consultation.

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Why is a solution to back pain so elusive for so many? What are some low back pain exercises one can do at home? Is walking, even when painful, a good solution to helping with back pain? What can someone who sits much of the day do to help with back pain? What are the proper postures for sitting, standing, lifting etc.? What are some of the common misconceptions about and treatments for low back pain?

He authored 5 books and over 240 scientific journal papers on back pain. Heavy lifting, sneezing and tying shoes can trigger pain.

Learn how to alleviate and / or prevent these occurrences. Dr. McGills' books include:

Back Mechanic, written for the lay public with pain (also in 20 languages)  Low Back Disorders, third edition (2016), written for clinicians 

Ultimate Back Fitness and Performance, 2017, written for coaches and athletes 

Gift of Injury (2018), a manual for rehabilitating the back-injured strength athlete. 

Lumbar support pillow 

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Join Stuart McGill is Professor Emeritus (after 32 years at the University of Waterloo, Canada) who authored over 240 scientific journal papers, 5 books, and mentored over 40 graduate students during this scientific journey. Investigations in the laboratory, training centre and research clinic probed back injury and pain mechanisms, rehabilitation approaches, and performance training. As a consultant, he has provided expertise on low back injury to various government agencies, many corporations and legal firms and hundreds of professional/international athletes and teams worldwide. He is regularly referred special patient cases from the international medical community for opinion.

Learn about a device to monitor blood sugar levels. Advice on how to navigate getting off medications. How Type 1 Diabetics can titrate down insulin dosage. Can a whole food, plant based diet help with fibromyalgia? Is it ok if my WBC White Blood Count is low? What can I eat before a colonoscopy and stay plant based? What if my HDL cholesterol drops down too low? Which blood tests are recommended? Do I need to take supplements to prevent or treat osteoporosis? How to treat osteoporosis, even if it is severe. Is it safe to eat soy? Is it safe to be on thyroid medication? What to do about IBSD? Can I eat beans? Which beans easier to digest?

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Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA is a double board-certified family medicine & lifestyle medicine physician, who has been utilizing food as medicine since 2012. Dr Marbas, MD was the first Managing Editor for the International Journal of Disease Reversal & Prevention. She is co-founder of Plant Based TeleHealth, focused on the prevention and reversal of chronic disease utilizing lifestyle medicine. She currently holds medical licenses in all 50 states and DC. She is also co-founder of Healthy Human Revolution, whose mission is to provide resources that help individuals successfully adopt and sustain a whole food, plant-based diet. Laurie received her dual degrees from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine and TTU School of Business. She was awarded the TTU School of Medicine Gold Headed Cane Award, a symbol for excellence in the art of medicine and the care of patients. She wrote seven books while in medical school, six of which were in a series called “Visual Mnemonics.” These books used cartoons to help people memorize vast amounts of information—a system that helped her personally when she was a mom attending medical school. As a USAF veteran, she served in the Middle East and South America. She is also a wife, mom of three grown children, host of the Healthy Human Revolution podcast, author, speaker, and avid runner.

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Dr. Méndez talks about leaky gut, Crohn's disease, GERD, bloating, constipation, gas, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis & more!

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How to get your microbiome in balance.

Should you take probiotics after taking antibiotics?

Should you take probiotics if you have IBS?

Should you avoid foods for which you have a food intolerance? Are food intolerance tests reliable?

Should beans be avoided because of lectins?

What is the best way to add foods to the diet which may cause gas or bloating?

Can someone with Crohn's disease adopt a whole food, plant based diet?

Should / can people with diverticulosis / diverticulitis eat seeds?

How can a plant based diet heal someone with diverticulosis / diverticulitis?

What plant based foods can one eat when inflamed?

If one is plant based, should they get a colonoscopy screening?

Which spices promote good gut health?

Should you peel beets, ginger and turmeric?

How can you optimize your gut health?

Are fermented foods good for your gut?

Should someone with GERD avoid coffee, green tea, high citrus fruits and other plant based, whole foods?

How does Stevia affect insulin production in the pancreas and the gut microbiome?

What about bloating and/or diarrhea?

Do food additives and binders affect the gut microbiome?

What causes leaky gut and how can it be healed?

And so much more!!!

Vanessa Méndez, M.D. - double board certified gastroenterologist & internist. She specializes in digestive disorders, including liver disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and nutrition based-disorders, such as obesity & constipation.

Dr. Mendez's approach to patients and their diseases is holistic and comprehensive; her goal is not just to treat the symptoms, but to get to the root cause of an ailment and provide lasting relief. All her methods are evidence-based and she is a proponent of lifestyle changes first to promote wellness. Book a telemedicine consultation https://www.plantedforward.com

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