Dr. Sally Moorcroft joins Dr. Ruth Allan on Episode 070 of her show ‘Brain Health: Unchaining Your Pain.'

Dr. Sally Moorcroft is an award-winning integrative and functional medicine doctor. She has special interests in women's health, psychology, and the gut microbiome, particularly menopause, perimenopause, PCOS, and endometriosis.

She writes for national publications and lectures and teaches nationally on integrative and functional medicine. She is co-founder of the Northern Centre of Integrative and Functional Medicine (NCIFM), Lincolnshire; Chapel Yard Organics in Holt, Norfolk and Dr. Sally's Botanicals Herbal Teas and Tonics.

In this episode, we discuss female health and the brain, how to master menopause and address the symptoms you may be experiencing. We discuss the importance of choosing a practitioner with a comprehensive toolbox to tailor their approach to you rather than just using a hammer to help you when a chisel is best.

Dr. Sally discusses the critical signs that you are going into perimenopause and menopause and what factors we can influence to minimize the hormonal rollercoaster, including your stress levels, weight, diet, and gut health, which can lead to emotional symptoms and worsening brain health. She talks about the symptoms experienced as our hormonal levels rise and fall and what you can do to reduce the symptoms you are experiencing.

We discuss the impact on the adrenal glands and Hypothalamic-Pituatary-Adrenal (HPA) axis when your stress levels are consistently too high, which can lead to a reduction in the hormones DHEA and oestrogen, resulting in a reduction in brain function when oestrogen is low. She dives into polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), often called the diabetes of the ovaries due to insulin sensitivity, what causes the symptoms you can experience, and what you can do about it, including supplements you can use.

I absolutely loved this episode as we had so much to share about helping women manage their female hormonal fluctuations with simple, actionable steps you can take today to manage better any hormonal rollercoaster you are on.

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Ken Rusk joins Dr Ruth Allan on Episode 069 of her show ‘Brain Health: Unchaining Your Pain.' Ken Rusk is a Blue Collar construction entrepreneur and best-selling author of the book ‘Blue Collar Cash.'

Ken spent his younger years digging ditches and working in construction. He never went to college. Instead, he made goals, planned, and worked hard for thirty years. Ken is now a very successful entrepreneur with multiple businesses and revenue streams.

Over the last 30 years, he's created and built construction businesses, showing no degree required for comfort, peace, and freedom. His mission now is to help inspiring entrepreneurs see their way to success.

I loved this interview as it reminded me how much you can learn from the grit and determination needed in the construction business to achieve success.

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Jon-Paul deLange joins Dr Ruth Allan LIVE on her show 'Brain Health: Unchaining Your Pain' to share his journey to healing his military-connected Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

A career Army officer and devoted husband, father, and Opa, Jon-Paul spent 45 years serving his country in elite units like the Army’s Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, NC, the 25th Infantry Division (Light) in Hawaii, and the Joint IED Defeat Organization

With more than two dozen deployments to places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Kosovo, the Philippines, and Haiti, he witnessed the effects of extreme human suffering around the world firsthand

He discovered he had service-connected PTSD on his own 11 years after he retired. When he was diagnosed, he was in denial, wondering “How could this happen to me?”

In this episode Jon-Paul discusses his own healing journey and how he's combined his experience to develop his own coaching practice for Veterans and their families. We talk about the importance of recognising psychological trauma as a wound - much like a physical wound, rather than considering it as a 'disorder'

We discuss how to address the military stigma associated with trauma, in particular post traumatic stress, to make the appropriate treatment available to those that need it to heal their wounds

His goal is to raise awareness of the presence of traumatic stress across our society and dissolve the stigmas around PTSD so that more people are less afraid to get the help they need

If you need professional support to address a past trauma or unhelpful experience, you can book trauma recovery coaching now, contact us directly to discuss your needs, or speak to your healthcare professional. Remember - you are not stuck with the brain you have, you have the power to make it better

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Leo Treadwell joins Dr Ruth Allan on Episode 067 of her show 'Brain Health: Unchaining Your Pain.' Leo Treadwell has been called the Darwin of Human Development because of his creation, Autobiographical Feedback, a new peak performance linguistic technology that leverages recent breakthroughs in brain plasticity, epigenetics and cellular regeneration with ancient human development technologies from the past.

Leo has had the honour and privilege of sharing the stage and working with individuals and organisations as diverse as Dr. Jane Goodall, Nelson Mandela, Dr. Deepak Chopra, the United State Navy’s Leadership Academy and First Nations tribes throughout the United States and Canada.

In this episode Leo shares his journey of transformation, from being diagnosed with a cancerous tumour in his back aged 25 to developing Autobiographical feedback to enhance performance of your mind and body.

We discuss the importance of connecting with your internal and external world, of understanding, listening to and managing your thoughts and emotions.

We both talk openly about past traumas and the approaches we've used to let go of those where our body has been keeping the score, and dive deep into the importance of ensuring you establish a process that permanently rewrites your past and future view of yourself that serves you rather than hurts you.

I loved this conversation as it tapped into all five pillars of brain health, in particular our connection to ourselves and our environment - our surroundings, that we can so easily forget, yet in essence we are inextricably linked to and dependent upon

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Liz McConaghy joins Dr Ruth Allan on Episode 066 of her show 'Brain Health: Unchaining Your Pain''

Liz, an Ex RAF Chinook Crewman, served 17 years and completed 2 deployments to Iraq and 10 to Afghanistan. She suffered from PTSD and in 2020 tried to end her life.

She recently released her book ‘Chinook Crew Chick: The Highs and Lows of Forces Life from the Longest Serving Female RAF Chinook Force Crew Member’ to try and help others with Mental Health struggles.

During her deployments, she survived not only a near fatal wire strike onboard her CH47, but numerous enemy fire contacts' defending her crew by returning fire from both the M134 Minigun' and M60 weapons entrusted to her to operate.

Her biggest honour of all her duties, however, was serving on the Medical Emergency Response Team, or MERT - more commonly known as the flying ambulance. This involved recovering wounded soldiers from the battlefield, often under fire, and witnessing them both die and indeed come back to life at her feet in the cabin of her Chinook.

In this episode Liz openly shares the highs and lows that she experienced during her service and what she learnt from trying to take her own life following lockdown, and how she is using her story to provide hope to others.

Liz discusses the impact of losing the network of people that was so essential to her, how lockdown isolation restricted her exercise routine, resulting in a change of behaviours and eating habits that quickly spiralled downwards. She shares the impact of the domino effect on her mental health and how her constant drive to not be a burden to others led to her seeking a terminal way out to end her pain.

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Dr. Cheng Ruan, MD is the Founder of Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine, one of the rare facilities to deliver functional and integrative medicine for the insured population

He was also the host of the 2022 Better Brain Health Summit, which Dr Ruth Allan attended as a guest and author of his new book 'The Doctor's Guide to Thriving in Integrative Medicine: Secrets to a Successful Business Without Burnout,'† released in the UK 31st January 2023

In this Episode Dr Cheng Ruan, MD shares his journey to becoming a successful founder of an integrative medical practise, and how physicians can do this too whilst avoiding burnout

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in this episode please connect with us so we can find the appropriate support for you.

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Dr Ruth Allan is host of the show 'Brain Health - Unchaining Your Pain' and Founder of the Wellbeing Warrior Academy. She's an Amen Clinics Certified Brain Health Professional and Trainer, High Performance Coach and Trauma Recovery Coach, specialising in complex trauma, as well as a serving Reservist

Industry leaders, family leaders and entrepreneurs hire her to generate more energy doing what they love by unchaining their pain from past traumas or unhelpful experiences and optimising their unique brain

In this Episode Dr Ruth shares her personal journey of unchaining her pain and building a better brain, taking you right back to her childhood, where it all started

She discusses what her passion is, what optimal brain health means for her personally, what's caused her the greatest pain in life, what constituted her pivotal moment in life and who inspired her

This episode discusses elements of trauma and grief that may be distressing for some

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Dr Hokehe Eko, MD joins Dr Ruth Allan on Episode 063 and the third episode of Season 4 of her show 'Brain Health: Unchaining Your Pain'

Dr Eko - a Mum, Paediatrician, TEDx Speaker and Non-Profit Founder is passionate about helping both children and adults boost their brain health so that they can thrive in every area of life

She loves to help children with ADHD go from fidgety to focused by addressing the root causes of their behaviour

In this episode Dr Eko talks about the impact of a child's environment, sleep and nutrition on their cognitive function, and we both share some of our own personal stories as parents

Dr Eko describes her journey to becoming a paediatrician following multiple concussions as a child, and what inspired her to focus on children's brain health

I loved this conversation as it was a wonderful dynamic between us. Dr Eko provided such great insights for parents who are struggling with a child that has ADHD. There were many moments where we laughed out loud about our own life experiences - by the end my cheeks were hurting

If you have been affected by any of the topics discussed in this episode please connect with me so I can find the appropriate support for you

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Have you ever met someone that is the cofounder of an Inc. 500 fastest growing business and one of the four best marketers under 40 according to American Marketing Association? You have now...

Chris Smith joins Dr Ruth Allan on Episode 062 and first LIVE episode of Season 4 of her show 'Brain Health: Unchaining Your Pain.' Chris Smith is the cofounder of Curaytor (an Inc. 500 fastest-growing business) and is one of the four best marketers under 40, according to the American Marketing Association

His book, The Conversion Code, is taught at colleges like Johns Hopkins University and he has been a guest lecturer at NYU Chris used the blueprint in his book to quickly grow his own company to eight figures in annual recurring revenue, without raising any venture capital

His work has been featured in Adweek, Forbes, Fortune, and many other publications Previously, Chris worked for two billionaires, a billion-dollar publicly traded company, and a startup that was acquired for nine figures

His first book, Peoplework, received endorsements from the CEO of Zappos and Gary Vaynerchuk, who wrote the foreword In this episode we will explore Chris's unique brain attributes that made him the success he is today

I loved reading Chris's book Conversion Code - the best marketing book I have read to date. It's got simple, actionable steps explained in a logical order which you can easily implement to enhance your marketing

I was privileged to be the first person to interview Chris to talk about his unique brain and cognitive performance challenges, being diagnosed with bipolar disorder

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Dr Wolfgang Seidl joins Dr Ruth Allan on the 61st Episode of 'Brain Health: Unchaining Your Pain' and 1st Episode in Series 4

Wolfgang leads Workplace Health Consulting at Mercer, which is the strategic arm of the Health business, creating data-driven well-being strategies for organisations across the globe

He is a medical doctor, holds a post-graduate degree in Psychiatry, Philosophy & Society, undertook his business studies focused on Return on Investment models of mental health in the workplace and is an accredited counsellor and psychotherapist

Wolfgang is a member of various research organisations and advisory boards and a prolific keynote speaker at conferences around the globe

In this episode Wolfgang shares the facts, the stats and the challenges of improving workforce wellbeing and discusses the new frontier in corporate performance

He discusses the topics that are top of the agenda for organisations right now and the importance of finding a way to break the stigma, the impact of the pandemic on mental health in the workplace, how to apply the learnings to a corporate setting, and the steps corporations need to take to improve workforce wellbeing and performance

We discuss the ever-increasing issue of data fatigue, and the need to create relevant pathways and integrated models to achieve optimal cognitive performance at an individual and corporate level

I loved this conversation - time seemed to fly by so quickly. If you're the CEO of a company, or leader in your business or organisation, this is one episode you don't want to miss! Make sure you have a notebook and pen to take notes!

"When you move, your mind moves with you."

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