Beyond The Basics Health Academy Podcast

Podcast 112: Th1/Th2 Balance

BTBHA welcomes back Patrick Plum to discuss Th1/Th2 Balance.  Patrick shares with us his personal story about Th1 and Th2 dominance in order to show the importance of balancing the immune system when dealing with chronic diseases of the immune system such as Lyme Disease.

This is an aspect of health and infectious diseases that practitioners don't always explore.  Therefore, it is important for everyone to understand the way the both parts of the immune system (the cell-mediated Th1 and the humoral-mediated Th2) work. 

Supplements that don't affect either Th1 or Th2 include Vitamin D, colostrum and fish oil.  Here is how the two systems of Th1 and Th2 breakdown:

Thank you Patrick Plum for coming on the show again. If you would like to stay connected to Patrick.  Find him on facebook under his name or Instagram under Patrick Plum Lyme Warrior

Podcast 111: Book Club 1 The Second Brain by Michael D. Gersh

In the first part of this book club, Dr. Meaghan Kirschling and Dr. Ronnie Kirschling discuss Part 1 of the book.  Dr. Michael Gershon has spent his career studying the digestive system and its intricate role in overall health and wellness.

We are seeing so many more digestive system concerns and many functional medicine doctors focus on the digestive system as the route of all health.  This was the groundbreaking book that really connects the reasons for the importance of the digestive system for nervous system, immune system, and endocrine system wellbeing.

IN THIS PODCAST WE WILL DISCUSS

• What is the enteric nervous system
• How much of the nervous system is involved in the digestive system
• What is serotonin
• How the digestive system houses 95% of serotonin
• How autoimmunity and the gut are connected

We welcome back Michelle Langdon from the Embodied Life for the second part of our series with her about how our thoughts affect our actions and goals in life. 

WHAT WE DISCUSS IN THIS PODCAST

• The importance of gratitude and how it is the antidote to negativity
• Steps necessary to overcome self-doubt to achieve the life you were meant to live
• The importance of a gratitude list
• How different emotions can affect us in different ways
• The need to start small and build from there to change behaviors and thoughts
• The importance of organizing your day and how to attack your to-do list everyday
• How emotions affect our health and wellness
• The power of the question “What are you listening for?”
• How are if… then relationships with our thoughts affect our life
• The power of saying yes

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST

• Brain Tracy’s book Eat That Frog
• Podcast 108: Intuitive Eating with Michelle Langdon
• The Embodied Life Website
• Michelle Langdon's email
  •  [email protected]

In this last part of the book club on The WahlsProtocol by Dr. Terry Wahls we sum up Part 3 of the book. This part of the book was called Going Beyond Food.  Itaddresses the other components of optimal health and wellnessincluding exercise, supplementing, and alternative medicine. 

In this podcast, Dr Meaghan and Dr. Ron discuss a variety oftopics that Dr. Wahls brings up in this book. This book is a greatoverview of functional medicine and there is a lot of great talkingpoints.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS PODCAST

• What are the benefits of supplementing
• Why so many people are deficient in vitamins and minerals, suchas selenium
• What we have noticed with outcome in care and Vitamin d
• Differences in the Vitamin E: There is a difference betweentocopherols and tocotrienols
• Why we need more than the Recommended Daily Allowances in orderto thrive
• What happens in our body on the cellular level when we aredeficient in certain vitamins and minerals
• What is functional medicine and when you should utilizefunctional medicine for optimal health

Beyond the Basics Health Academy welcomes Michelle Langdon with

In this podcast, she shares her story about how she struggled

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS PODCAST

HOW TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MICHELLE LANGDON AND THE EMBODIED

Thanks for joining Dr. Meaghan and Wendy for another podcast

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST

Thank you so much, Lydia, for coming back on the BTBHA podcast

Podcast 106: The Wahls Protocol Book Club 2

Dr. Meaghan Kirschling and Dr. Ronnie Kirschling discuss the second part of The Wahls Protocol by Dr. Terry Wahls, MD.  In this part she goes into more detail about the effects that diet can have on health and wellness.  She talks about what dietary changes she made in order to get back her health and go from being in a wheelchair to improving her energy, muscle strength, and overall health.

Listen in as we discuss the research and clinical experience behind her diet.  

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS PODCAST

Podcast 105: Mold Toxicity

Today BTBHA welcomes Rochelle and Alyssa as they talk about their health journey after being exposed to mold in a work setting.  They both started to have chronic problems that were not going away after seeing many different specialists.  They soon found out that their school had mold.  They are kind enough to share their journey from diagnosis to recovery to help others.  If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to them at [email protected].

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS PODCAST

Thanks so much to Rochelle and Alyssa for coming.  And thanks everyone for listening.

As always be kind to others, take care of yourself and make good choices.

Podcast 104: Benefits of Ganoderma with Dr. Tanae Romportl

Beyond the Basics Health Academy welcomes Dr. Tanae Romportl from Natural Medicine Center of Houston, Texas.  Dr. Tanae is on a mission to help others balance their lives and live with physical, chemical, emotional, spiritual, financial, and relational health.  She is a wealth of knowledge and information, and we are so excited to have her stop by and share her expertise and research.

Dr. Tanae is here to talk about the benefits of Ganoderma Lucidum that is extracted from the Reishi mushroom.  There is a reason that Ganoderma is known as the “king of herbs.” The benefits include that it is high in antioxidants, adaptogenic, supports the immune system, increases blood flow and healing, and improves overall health and wellness. 

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS PODCAST

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST

Tanae Romportl email

Natural Medicine Center Phone Number

Connect with Dr. Tanae on facebook either through Dr. Tanae Romportl or the Natural Medicine Center page

How to order OrganoGold/Ganoderma coffee

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PODCAST 103: Book Club #1 for Wahl's Protocol

In this book club, we discuss the first three chapters in The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine by Dr. Terry Wahls, MD.  Dr. Ron Kirschling, MD joins Dr. Meaghan for this book club as we discuss functional medicine and its approach to both chronic disease and overall health and wellness.

In these chapters, Dr. Wahls explains how her health started to decline as she was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.  It talks about both her physical journey and also the mental frustrations of watching her health deteriorate.  She was forced to realize that in order to get her health back, she needed to change her diet and lifestyle.  

These first three chapters do a great job of taking about the biochemistry component of health and wellness.  In this book club, we will discuss:

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS PODCAST

Dr. Terry Wahls Ted Talk   

In the second part of the book club, we will explore Part 2: Eating for Your Cellular Health. 

Until then: Be Kind To Others, Take Care of Yourself and Make Good Choices

Thanks so much for listening.