Beyond The Basics Health Academy Podcast

Podcast 042: Household Cleaners

Wendy and Dr. Meaghan discuss natural ways to clean your house.  We discuss the uses of baking soda, lemons, vinegar, liquid castile soap, salt, borax, and hydrogen peroxide.  Meaghan also discusses how much she loves the water steamer to clean floors.  Never underestimate the power of steam for cleaning.

Wendy discusses how she uses Pinterest to find a lot of her formulas.  She uses baking soda and vinegar a lot for cleaning.  Essential oils are great for additional support. 

Podcast 041: Physical Activity and Dr. Patrick Quigley

Dr. Patrick Quigley joins us again to talk about individualizing physical activity and exercise to the person.  He discusses amazing research talking about habits that surround incorporating physical activity into someone's daily regimen. 

Dr. Patrick is always full of great information and practical advice.  He focuses on what has been proven to have a positive effect on health and wellness when it comes to exercise.  He talks about the difference between cardiovascular and resistance training. 

This information is different than most other information you will hear about exercise. It is always fascinating to listen to Dr. Patrick because he incorporates great research into everyday information.  He has 20 years of clinical experience and that really shines through in his approaches to health and wellness.

Podcast 040: Wake Up Food Matters

Producer Scott and Wendy watched the documentary Food Matters.  This is an excellent documentary that you can watch at www.foodmatters.tv.  This is also a information dense website with great resources for health and wellness. 

A great way to cleanse your body is to do a detox.  There is a 28 day Detoxification Transformation on our site www.btbha.com.  It is a great and inexpensive way to find out more about detoxification pathways. 

Gershon Therapy is a therapy that focuses on whole raw organic foods and detoxification to help combat disease and increase health and wellness. 

Podcast 039: Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes- Chapter 9-13

The Laws of Adiposity

The First Law: Body fat is carefully regulated, if not exquisitely so.

The Second Law: Obesity can be caused by a regulatory defect so small that it would be undetectable by any technique yet invented.

The Third Law: Whatever makes us both fatter and heavier will also make us overeat. 

Podcast 038 :Health, Healing, and Habits

Mark Schneider is here from Movement Minneapolis.  He has 15+ years of unique clinical experience helping people with all different concerns and through all different age ranges.  He is trained in massage therapy, 5 element shiatsu, myoabdominal massage, and personal training.

We are so pleased that he has come on the show to discuss what he has noticed with holistic health.  He works with helping patients connect to their driving forces.  Wendy and Dr. Meaghan thoroughly enjoyed this thought provoking conversation.

Besides working with Movement Minneapolis, he is also creating a website, LivIt, that focuses on lifelong vitality.

If you would like to contact Mark, email him at [email protected].

He is a wealth of information and we are so happy he joined us at BTBHA.  This is a podcast you will probably want to listen to a few times.

Podcast 037:Food sensitivities and allergies

Today there are many different food concerns.  

True food allergies are a severe IgE reaction that leads to a Type 1 hypersensitivity.  The responses to this type of reaction usually occurs in a few minutes to possibly 4-6 hours after exposure (most responses occur a few minutes to an hour after exposure). It is a severe allergic response that usually grows in intensity with each exposure.  It leads to respiratory problems, rash or hives all over the skin, and histamine response.  Can cause anaphylactic shock.  The most common types of food allergens for this type are peanuts, gluten, soy, and corn.

Food sensitivities or intolerances are also an immune response but a very different immune response.  These are sometimes called food allergies too, but they are a response of IgG.  The response is delayed and can happen a few hours to 72 hours after the exposure.  They are chronic and lead to constant inflammation because usually the food is left in the diet because it is hard to decipher the specific foods.  Elimination diets can help to decipher the foods because you eliminate the major food intolerances (gluten, dairy, rice, corn, soy, citrus foods, sugar, artificial sweeteners) and then you put them back in after at least two weeks off of them.  It is important wait 72 hours to incorporate new foods because these are delayed responses.

Celiac is caused by having antibodies against the gluten protein. These people have to avoid gluten because gluten causes severe responses in their gastrointestinal tract.

Eosinophilic esophagitis and eosinophilic gastroenteritis are also two food reactions that are non-IgE responses but cause someone to have to avoid foods so they do not have severe immune responses.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/02/24/most-allergy-friendly-restaurants?cmpid=foodinc-fb

Podcast 036: Say What FDA?

Listen in as Dr. Meaghan and Wendy discuss what drives the FDA rules and regulations.  It is confusing because there is some confusion by what their recent driving force actually might be.  They have recently okayed the use of Oxycodone, a major narcotic and opioid, for children between the age of 11-16.  Here is an article more about their decision:

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/08/17/fda-approves-oxycontin-for-children-11-and-older/

This is all happening while they are pushing for tighter regulations on essential oils, supplementations, and homeopathics.  More information is found in this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/20/health/homeopathic-medicine-fda/

Dr. Meaghan and Wendy talk about their point of views.  Listen in and decide where you lie in this interesting debate.

Podcast 035: Pineal Gland and Sleep.  

Dr. Meaghan and Wendy talk about the connection of pineal gland and sleep.  The pineal gland is a part of the brain that is known as "The Third Eye."  It is responsible for awareness, sleep, melatonin production, and hormonal changes.  

A problem with this gland is that we are starting to notice that it is calcifying during life because of certain reasons.  Therefore, sleep and life balance can be significantly affected by detoxifying the pineal gland.  Decreasing fluoride exposure can help to do this because the gland is sensitive to fluoride. 

It is also important to make sure that there is no heavy metal exposure, especially mercury and lead.  If you have mercury amalgams than make sure that you get them looked at from a dentist that knows what they are doing with amalgams.  

Oregano oil has been shown to decrease calcium and detoxify the pineal gland.  Therefore, adding in oregano oil can make a huge difference.  Because the pineal gland is responsible for awareness, yoga, mediation and other mind-body activities can greatly improve pineal gland health. 

Other things that benefit the pineal gland are neem extract, spiraling and other chorella rich superfoods, raw cacao, and apple cider vinegar.  The other nutrient that can help is iodine and seafood.  

Other essential oils that help are frankincense, sandalwood, and cedar wood.  These pineal gland stimulators will benefit the health of the pineal gland.  

General detoxification programs will also help the Pineal Gland.  Right now we have made our detoxification program for $19.   Check it out at www.btbha.com.

Podcast 034: Book Club 2: Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes, Chapter 5-8

Wendy and Dr. Meaghan discuss about Chapter 5-8.  These chapters talk about some of the other downfalls of the calorie-in vs calorie out fallacy that we have been lead to believe as a society. Our failure to pinpoint and come up with reasons for obesity is causing the obesity epidemic that we are seeing in this country.  35% of adults now are obese with a BMI greater than 30.  This is roughly 113 million people in the US.  We are even going backwards in our thinking.  The NIH said in 1998 that “obesity is a complex, multifactorial chronic disease that develops from an interaction of genotype and environment.”  Now the NIH looks at it as mainly a calorie in vs calorie out concern.

It seems like we want to believe that obesity is just about energy balance because it is easy solution.  We strive for 1 problem, 1 cause, and 1 fix, but we take out the many different layers of weight gain and management.  Not all calories are created the same and not all people are created equal either.  Obesity is not a 1 cause concern.

Check out www.btbha.com for more information, blogs, and podcasts.  We have also started a recipe section.  If you have a recipe that you would like to share, please send it to us at [email protected] and we will include it in our recipe section.  We would love to have a recipe collection for all of our community to use.

Be kind to others, take care of yourself, and make good choices.

Podcast 033: Epigenetics

Dr. Meaghan and Wendy welcome Kati Loder back to the studio to talk about epigenetics.  Epigenetics means “above genetics” and relates how environment and lifestyle play a role in how our genes are expressed.  We talk about nature vs nurture and how it all plays a role in living longer and healthier.  It all has to do with how our genes are translated through our life into different characteristics or phenotypes.

Genetics is a relatively new study stemming from 1953 and the race for the double helix with Dr. Watson and Crick.  The Human Genome Project only came to fruition in the early 2000s.  Therefore, we have only really explored genetics in the past few decades.

Harlow Monkey Study showed that different characteristics are expressed throughout life depending on the environment that monkeys are raised in.  This shows the importance of lifestyle choices that we make throughout life. 

Dr. Randy Jirtle did research on genomic imprinting with the Agouti mouse and the certain gene that certain mice carry that make them more susceptible to diabetes and obesity.  He found that exposing these mice to certain methyl donors (folic acid and B12) helped to make sure that these genes were not expressed.  Therefore, lifestyle choices turn genes on or off.

We have also come to realize that we are passing down information from one generation to the other.  And that your grandmother and grandfather’s decisions and lifestyle affects you and your genes today.

One way to check your genes is to utilize 23 and me.  You can have this done at www.23andme.com.

The main 5 GMO foods: Soybeans, Sugarbeets, BT Corn, Canola, Rustic Burdock Potatoes.

Be kind to others, take care of yourself, and make good choices.