Beyond The Basics Health Academy Podcast

Dr. Meaghan and Dr. Mark from One Agora Integrative Health sit down and talk about how the immune system works and discuss a few important lifestyle changes that help promote optimal health and wellness.

There are many things that we can do to promote optimal wellness. The number one factor for longevity and quality of life depends on the body's terrain. Dr. Mark goes through what we should be monitoring and action steps we can take today to take control of our health.

Watch the full video interview with Dr. Mark here!

In today's episode of Beyond the Basics Health Academy, Dr. Meaghan sits down with Lauren Ohayon. Lauren is the owner of Restore Your Core and is an internationally recognized Yoga and Pilates teacher that works with women around the world to restore proper function of the core and pelvic floor.

Lauren discusses how the pelvic floor, core muscles, low back, and diaphragm are not only linked together as the foundation of posture and movement but how they are connected to our organs and the rest of the body as well.

This is a great episode for anyone wanting to learn more about how to restore proper function to the core, pelvic floor, low back, and breath.

In this episode we discuss:

• How the pelvic floor, diaphragm, and low back are connected
• How Restore Your Core takes a comprehensive approach to reconnecting various aspects of health
• How everything in the body is connected
• The importance of realizing that structure and function go together
• How to strengthen your body effectively so that sneezing, running, and coughing do not lead to urinary leakage
• How tight muscles reflect dysfunction
• How to put everything together in a movement puzzle so that full function and structure is restored

Want to know more about Lauren and the Restore Your Core program?

Visit restoreyourcore.com or follow Lauren on Instagram (@thelaurenohayon), Youtube, and Facebook.

Thanks everyone for listening and remember to take care of yourselves and be kind to others.

Beyond the Basics Health Academy welcomes Cass McLaughlin to the show. Cass works at Hennepin Healthcare as a program coordinator for Integrative Health Lifestyle-Based Group Medical Visits and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in both the Department of Internal Medicine as well as Family and Community Health at Whittier Clinic. Cass has also co-authored the book, The Whittier Way Lifestyle-Based Group Visits with Kara Parker, MD.

Cass McLaughlin has been practicing meditation for 30 years and has been helping others through a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program since 2004. She has also participated in two meditation research studies and trained in Trauma Sensitive Medicine.

Cass comes on the show to talk about the power of mindfulness and even leads us through a meditation. She discusses the importance of using meditation to help to reconnect the body and the vital aspect of breath work.

We hope you enjoy this relaxing episode of BTBHA!

In this special episode regarding COVID-19, Dr. Stephani Martinsen and Dr. Meaghan Kirschling sit down to discuss various aspects and updates on the current state of affairs when it comes to our country.

This candid conversation opens up the opportunity to critically think about some of the confusing aspects of this condition. Additionally, we have included a few links regarding some of the issues that were referenced in this episode for further reading.

• How ventilators might not be the answer and why some patients are not doing well on ventilators
• Chloroquine as a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread
• How Hydroxychloroquine works with coronavirus
• Natural immunity vs. vaccine-based immunity
• World Health Organization does have a goal to "protect" everyone through immunization by 2030. What this means is that they are striving to have every person in the world vaccinated by 2030
• World Health Organization and funding. Much of the funding is through the private sector. The United States was the largest contributor followed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• An overview of Bill Gates' vaccination agenda as well as past vaccination programs and side-effects
• How being outdoors more often affects upper respiratory infections
• How vaccine companies are legally protected against individuals who suffer from adverse side-effects
• Utilizing Vitamin-C for coronavirus (worldhealth.net)
• Utilizing Vitamin-C for coronavirus (NCBI)

On today's episode of BTBHA podcast, Dr. Meaghan sits down with Reed Davis, Founder of the Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN) Certification Course to discuss food sensitivities. The discussion addresses not only food sensitivities but how they need to be assessed and addressed in a functional medicine model.

Reed is an expert in functional lab testing, data-guided health building protocols and holistic lifestyle approaches. Reed is widely known as one of the most successful and experienced functional lab educators in the world today, having provided functional assessments to over 10,000 clients as a clinical nutrition therapist and teaching over 3,000 health coaches and allied health professionals about hormone, immune, digestion, detoxification and nervous system issues. He uses five tests on all of his patients and one of them is food sensitivity testing. In this podcast, we discuss:

• What is a food sensitivity? How does it differ from food allergies and celiac disease?
• How to test for food sensitivities?
• If you are sensitivity to a food, do you have to avoid it for life?
• Why it is important to address food sensitivities on every patient?
• How digestive health is linked to overall health and wellness

Thanks so much Reed for coming on the show and sharing your expertise and knowledge. Make sure to follow One Agora Health on Facebook and Instagram (@oneagorahealth) to stay updated and don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts from!

During this special edition of Beyond the Basics Health Academy, Dr. Meaghan video chats with Dr. Stephani Martinson to discuss aspects of the immune system and immune response that are important to understand with the recent outbreak of COVID-19.

Dr. Stephani and Dr. Meaghan have worked together for years and Dr. Stephani is the owner of the compounding pharmacy, Evexia. In this podcast, they discuss:

• How the Immune System works
• Why we are seeing some of the trends that we are seeing with COVID-19
• What we each need to know about our immune system and how we can best support immune function
• Why are some populations having mild cases and what is leading vulnerable populations to have severe reactions and going into cytokine storms
• What is a cytokine storm
• Hydroxychloroquine- How it works (specifically with COVID-19 and the immune response of cytokine storms)
• What we can do to try to stay safe and sane during these times

Dr. Meaghan Kirschling welcomes Andrea Beaudot to Beyond the Basics Health Academy to talk about acupuncture. Acupuncture has the ability to help many people with various health concerns. Andrea is an acupuncturist at One Agora Health in Bloomington, MN. She works with clients of all ages with a variety of concerns by utilizing acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. Andrea first became interested in Chinese Medicine when she was trying to find some answers regarding her own health concerns in her early 20s. During this podcast, we discuss:

• How acupuncture can help decrease depression and anxiety
• How emotions can get stuck in the body and how Chinese Medicine views the connection between health and emotions
• Patterns that we see in Chinese Medicine when it comes to symptoms and disease
• What conditions can benefit from acupuncture
• Why Andrea is so passionate about acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

You can watch Andrea's interview at: https://youtu.be/R44Gyekzs50

You can learn more about Andrea by following her on instagram at @andrea.bdot

Beyond the Basics Health Academy is excited to welcome to the show the owner of YogaBody - Lucas Rockwood. Lucas talks about his story on how hitting rock bottom in the early 2000s sent him on this journey to help others with health and wellness.

He is currently the owner of YogaBody - a company that teaches trapeze yoga to individuals throughout the world. In this episode, he discusses with us the connection between the mind and body and how movement can help to connect us to our mental state. In this day and age, we are bombarded with emotions and Lucas discusses how we can control our emotions through initiating movement in our life.

Thanks so much, Lucas, for coming on the show and sharing your experience and expertise with us and our listeners.

In this episode of Beyond the Basics Health Academy Podcast, Dr. Mark LaScotte and Dr. Meaghan Kirschling from One Agora Integrative Health sit down and talk about what it means to eat clean. This podcast is full of what you need to know to make better food choices and how to do it while staying sane.

Highlights of this episode:

• What it means to be organic
• Which foods you should eat organic
• Ketogenic diet and if it is the right fit for you
• Benefit of digestive enzymes and HCl
• Intermittent fasting
• Wine! How to not get a glass full of glyphosates
• What you need to know about gluten
• Foods to avoid and foods to eat

Thanks everyone for listening! If you have any questions, feel free to email us at [email protected].

Dr. Meaghan and Dr. Mark from One Agora Integrative Health sit down to discuss the importance of Omega-3 balance in the body. It is not only important to take out the bad fats in the diet, but also to balance with supplementing the right amount of Omega-3.

In this episode, we will talk about:

• How much fish oil we need in the United States
• How to cook right with oils and fats
• Not all fats are created equal
• What lifestyle changes we can make to decrease inflammation
• What is Omega-3 Index and how this blood level can be preventative against dementia
• What type of testing we do at One Agora Integrative Health to assess overall Omega-3 status

Thanks everyone for listening. This is a podcast jam packed with information. And remember to:

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