hol+ with Dr. Taz MD | The Future of Medicine is Holistic

Pregnancy and resulting motherhood are supposed to be all unicorns and rainbows, right?Pregnancy and resulting motherhood are supposed to be all unicorns and rainbows, right? Most of us know that's a complete and utter myth. Postpartum depression has long been recognized as a real medical issue new moms face. Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. - sponsor There are other considerations that women encounter prior to pregnancy, during pregnancy, and long after -- some aren't as severe as postpartum, but they all deserve the closest attention. Dr. Catherine Birndorf, co-author of the book How Come No One Told Me? The Emotional Guide to Pregnancy and The First Year of Motherhood, joins Dr. Taz in this interview to provide some insight as to what women are going through, as well as some of the myths surrounding becoming a mom -- whether for the first time or after previous births. One big misunderstanding is that of "mother's intuition." Of course you'll figure out what to do once the baby comes... won't you? Not in the least. There's often a difficult and unexpected adjustment women experience. Dr. Birndorf herself didn't know what to do with her newborn and went back to work sooner than she should have, simply as an attempt to restore normalcy. Awareness is a large piece of the puzzle, and talking about all the emotions that accompany motherhood makes it part of the common experience. The more aware you and those in your inner circle are about the potential for uncomfortability, the better equipped you are to address it. That's not saying the emotions won't come -- that part will be what it will be. But at least you'll hopefully be able to navigate them as they fluctuate. Dr. Birndorf also stresses that women need to try to get over the idea of "failing" at motherhood. No one woman's experience is going to be the same. Bliss is not typical, much less guaranteed. If you're looking for some answers but don't know where to start, www.postpartum.net is a great resource for syncing you up with someone who can advise next steps. Sponsor: Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order.

Robyn Youkilis has helped thousands of women break free from the craziness of dieting.As the leading certified expert in holistic digestive health and weight loss, Robyn Youkilis has helped thousands of women break free from the craziness of dieting, heal their frustrating digestive issues, and learn to make intuitive food choices from a place of self trust. Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. - sponsor Her newest book, THIN FROM WITHIN: The Go with Your Gut Way to Lose Weight, with a foreword by Robin Berzin, MD, focuses on healing the body from the inside out, resulting in weight loss that's both sustainable and delicious. Whether you want to address digestive issues or lose weight, or both, this plan helps in a way that nourishes, not deprives. After struggling with her weight in the past, Robyn understands that the desire to lose weight is not just about a number on the scale; it's a sign that we want something to be different in our bodies, but even more so, in our lives. Part coaching guide and part cookbook, the book explains how to optimize your digestion and shed physical (and emotional) weight for good. Listen as Robyn joins Dr. Taz to share insights from the book. Sponsor: Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order.

When your body is inflamed, it impacts your muscle tissue, which impacts your overall ability to maintain or lose weight.When your body is inflamed, it impacts your muscle tissue, which impacts your overall ability to maintain or lose weight. Vitamin C can be largely effective at reducing damaging inflammation. Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. - sponsor In her practice, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon advises a tissue saturation protocol, which helps individual patients determine the optimal amount of vitamin C for them. She also treats certain patients with high-dose vitamin C via an IV.  Dr. Lyon joins Dr. Taz to explain the importance of vitamin C for losing weight, reducing inflammation, and improving health overall. She also discusses other supplements she believes benefit individuals in their quest for health.  Sponsor: Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order.

When you're constantly under stress, it becomes too much for your body (and mind) to handle it and negative consequences result.Stress can be good for your physical anatomy... your body is designed to encounter stress and deal with it. Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. - sponsor However, when you're constantly under stress, it becomes too much for your body (and mind) to handle it and negative consequences result. The younger you are, the more resilient you are. As you mature (both physically and mentally), stress becomes more of a problem. Your "ignorance is bliss" factor diminishes.  Now you can save money on your life insurance just for being healthy. HealthIQ helps physically active people save up to 33% on their life insurance. Go to HealthIQ.com/taz to get a free quote. - sponsor How do you know if you're overly stressed?  Look at your sleep patterns... are you tossing and turning? Do you experience blood pressure spikes throughout the day? Are you short of breath? Increasingly nervous or anxious? At any time you start to experience these symptoms, you can utilize this breathing technique: put the tip of your tongue behind your upper teeth, close your eyes, and take a deep breath through your nose on the count of four. Hold for count of four, then exhale through the mouth to the count of eight. Repeat four or five times, all while holding your tongue behind your teeth. As far as daily treatment options, bio-identical hormones have a time and place. But, Dr. Svetlana Kogan prefers to incorporate holistic approaches such as proper nutrition, exercise, meditation, breathing, and auto-hypnosis. The idea is to empower women to understand the inner tools that can restore natural balance.  Listen in as Dr. Kogan joins Dr. Taz to explain why stress is such a problematic force in women's (and men's) lives, as well as ways you can mitigate your reaction to the stressors surrounding you. Sponsor: Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. Sponsor: Now you can save money on your life insurance just for being healthy. HealthIQ helps physically active people save up to 33% on their life insurance. Go to HealthIQ.com/taz to get a free quote.

Muscle is the site of fat oxidation, and it's responsible for your resting metabolic rate.Muscle is the organ of longevity. Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. - sponsor The healthier your muscle is, the more glucose that you burn, the more carbohydrates that you burn, the more fat that you burn. Muscle is the site of fat oxidation, and it's responsible for your resting metabolic rate. Now you can save money on your life insurance just for being healthy. HealthIQ helps physically active people save up to 33% on their life insurance. Go to HealthIQ.com/taz to get a free quote. - sponsor You really need to change the ratio of muscle to body fat. Being under-muscled is because we're sedentary. We're not moving the way that we used to, we live in a very domesticated way. 10,000 years ago, we were hunters and gatherers. We were moving 10 to 14 miles a day. We’re not doing that anymore. Listen as Dr. Gabrielle Lyon joins Dr. Taz to explain the concept of muscle-centric medicine, why you need more muscle in your body, and how protein plays into that. Sponsor: Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. Sponsor: Now you can save money on your life insurance just for being healthy. HealthIQ helps physically active people save up to 33% on their life insurance. Go to HealthIQ.com/taz to get a free quote.

In her book, Smart Mom's Guide to Essential Oils, Dr. Mariza Snyder includes over 50 of the most useful essential oil recipes for tackling every woman's daily needs, from stress relief to adrenal support.Your family’s wellness starts with you. That’s why it's so important to reduce stress, increase energy and sustain your own personal vitality. Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. - sponsor In her book, Smart Mom's Guide to Essential Oils: Natural Solutions for a Healthy Family, Toxin-Free Home and Happier You, Dr. Mariza Snyder includes over 50 of the most useful essential oil recipes for tackling every woman's daily needs, from stress relief to adrenal support. Now you can save money on your life insurance just for being healthy. HealthIQ helps physically active people save up to 33% on their life insurance. Go to HealthIQ.com/taz to get a free quote. - sponsor Listen in as Dr. Snyder joins Dr. Taz to share which oils are helpful for which conditions, as well as why every woman should be using essential oils daily. Dr. Snyder's Top Essential Oils: Peppermint Lavender Frankincense Wild Orange Dr. Snyder is offering all listeners a special free gift: Dr. Mariza's Vitality Bundle "The Vitality Bundle is the ultimate guide to creating a life of boundless energy and vitality! It'll help you take the first step toward your wellness goals, whether you want to add green smoothies to your routine, get more lasting energy or just gain more happiness in your life. Your three guides are filled with the best tips and recipes to get your energy and nutrition back on track, increase vitality, and help you heal your body from the inside out." To access the gift, simply click HERE. Sponsor: Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. Sponsor: Now you can save money on your life insurance just for being healthy. HealthIQ helps physically active people save up to 33% on their life insurance. Go to HealthIQ.com/taz to get a free quote.

Alisa Keeton fell in love with fitness at age 14. She stuck with it and eventually founded Revelation Wellness.Alisa Keeton fell in love with fitness at age 14. She stuck with it and eventually founded Revelation Wellness, a nonprofit ministry dedicated to educating and inspiring people to live healthy and whole lives in Christ. Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. - sponsor Alisa is also the author of The Wellness Revelation: Lose What Weighs You Down So You Can Love God, Yourself, and Others, in which she challenges you to get fit with God so that He can free you to complete your purpose. The book explains that when we get fit physically as well as spiritually, we will be better equipped to love and serve others. Alisa believes The Wellness Revelation will change the way you perceive yourself and the way that you live your life. Now you can save money on your life insurance just for being healthy. HealthIQ helps physically active people save up to 33% on their life insurance. Go to HealthIQ.com/taz to get a free quote. - sponsor Alisa joins Dr. Taz to share more from the book, as well as discuss the tools you can implement in your daily life to spread the gospel with courage, confidence, kindness, and freedom. Sponsor: Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. Sponsor: Now you can save money on your life insurance just for being healthy. HealthIQ helps physically active people save up to 33% on their life insurance. Go to HealthIQ.com/taz to get a free quote.

Could the power of meditation be the key to achieving long-lasting weight loss?Could the power of meditation be the key to achieving long-lasting weight loss?  Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. - sponsor According to Sarah Anne Stewart, the very best way to lose weight does NOT involve a diet plan. It does not require a pill or anything unhealthy, frustrating, or painful. If any of the following questions resonate with you, Sarah Anne believes a shift in mindset about dieting and losing weight can be the answer. Have you ever felt disappointed because you couldn’t lose weight, no matter what you tried? Have you ever felt secretly angry that you had to work hard to stay in shape when others made it look so easy? Have you ever felt frustrated because you did everything you were told… but you didn’t see results? Do you ever feel anxious or crazy around food? Does it make you angry that the only way to lose weight seems to be extreme restriction? Do you ever feel sluggish, lethargic, puffy, irritated, or overall, just ‘bleh’? Have you ever felt like permanent weight loss was hopeless? Sarah Anne joins Dr. Taz to explain more about how mindfulness can be a powerful tool in long-lasting weight loss. She also aims to help you understand that building a positive relationship with your body is not about revenge against it with diets, starvation, pills, extreme exercising, or surgery.  Instead, it is about true self-love for your body, mind, and soul. Sponsor: Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order.

Food journalist Kate Kordsmeier chats with Dr. Taz about her personal journey with PCOS, thyroid issues, and other health concerns, as well as tips for incorporating more healthy foods into your daily regimen.Food journalist Kate Kordsmeier had experienced lingering symptoms for much of her young adult life, including constipation and other stomach issues. Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. - sponsor Eventually, the symptoms got to a point where she couldn't ignore them. Debilitating nausea led to a colonoscopy at 27 years old. Many doctors chalked her condition up to IBS and prescribed expensive and extreme medications that provided terrible side effects.  Fortunately, after searching for a alternative/natural health expert, Kate connected with Dr. Taz, who was the first doctor to look deeper into the core factors of nutrition and lifestyle. Even small changes to her diet allowed for immediate results, especially increasing her vegetable intake.  Kate chats with Dr. Taz about her personal journey with PCOS, thyroid issues, and other health concerns, as well as tips for incorporating more healthy foods into your daily regimen.Sponsor: Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order.

Why are we so addicted to stress?Stress has become a buzz word. We tend to blame everything on stress, viewing it as something outside of ourselves that does something TO us. This mindset puts you in a victim role. You're carrying around the weight of something you can't really even define. And, if you can't define it, you'll never be able to manage it. Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order. - sponsor Dr. Heidi Hanna would rather you look at stress as demand vs. capacity. There's nothing inherently good or bad about it; in fact, you need some stress to be able to function on a daily basis. But, you have to believe you possess the capacity to deal with it. Of course, capacity is different for everyone and it impacts individuals in unique ways.  Stress Addiction Stress provides a reward reaction in the brain, similar to the reaction to drugs, alcohol, sugar, etc. The brain wants you to remember stressful situations so you don't encounter similar danger in the future. But, your brain starts to get used to being in a stressful state.  That state provides the following five sensations: stimulation, information, connection, validation, distraction. Validation comes from our stressed culture. The twisted societal view of the busier you are and the more stress you have, the more important you are. Time on your hands is interpreted as being "lazy." In actuality, you need downtime for your body and mind to recharge. When you view rest as bad, you may find yourself drawn back into the rush.  Technology Spurs Stress Technology has exacerbated the problem. When change happens really fast, and you don't know what to expect, you feel out of control. Technology has a function of unlimited information, allowing for more knowledge than you could ever accumulate in your lifetime. Kids are being impacted by the technological beast as well. Parents taking away an iPad may encounter the same kind of reaction as a toddler who has lost his pacifier. We've created a culture of people who aren't comfortable with being still. Unlimited access via the Internet is like hooking up to an IV of a sugar solution. Your system cannot maintain the levels to regulate it, and you're creating an addiction that will be that much harder to unwire in the future. Stress Detox How can you detox and re-acclimate?  Transform yourself to be more adaptable with these three approaches: recharge, rethink (start to develop a new mindset, stress as challenges instead of threats), redesign your "operating system."  Also, recognize that wear and tear on the female brain is more common than in men. One of the hardest things for women to do is prioritize self-care. Eat a healthy diet, stay active, and get restful sleep. Self-care strategies are not selfish. Finally, understand the role it's playing. Does stress interfere with you daily life? Is it hard to stop or control? Look at how connected it is to so many other problems in your life, mentally, emotionally and physically. Sponsor: Get farm to table ingredients and recipes delivered right to your door every week with Sun Basket. Go to SunBasket.com/wholehealth to save $35 off of your first order.