Lissa Leader is a nutritional therapist, and has her own company – Nutrileader – and also works for Optibac, so is well placed to speak about the microbiome and healthy ageing.
 
 Lissa explains how the gut microbiome keeps changing from birth all the way through childhood and adulthood, and how this can affect a broad range of conditions, including: allergies, digestive health, bone and muscle strength, “inflammaging” and neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. We also discuss the very different microbial balance in the urogenital tract, and their potential role in urinary tract infections, thrush and localised tissue health, particularly during menopause.
 
 Lissa then goes on to describe how best to support all of this is a clinical setting, including the pros and cons of a number of dietary factors, and how to choose the right probiotic supplement.
 
 “If we look at, say, the Lactobacillus rhamnosus strains, Lactobacillus rhamnosus have multiple strains, one of which is the GR-1 strain, and the GR-1 strain will
 adhere to cells in the urogenital tract, whereas the GG strain will actually adhere to cells in the gastrointestinal tract. So we can see that strains can exert completely different effects on the body because that’s where they naturally like to gravitate to and and adhere to.”

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This week microbiologist Kiran Krishnan, Ph.D tells us why he’s so microbiome obsessed, particularly when it comes to brain and cognitive health. We talk about neurotransmitters and inflammation, anxiety and depression, cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer’s. And then how to take what we know so far about the microbiome and how we can support it practically and holistically.

“Part of building resilience is building a healthy diversified microbiome because it's your microbiome that provides your resilience. It's your microbiome that codes for the vast majority of capabilities in your body, which includes things like detoxification and metabolisation of chemistries, and the function of your liver, to get rid of things that you put in your body that shouldn't be in your body. All of those things, right, the resilience we all wish to have comes from a healthy microbiome.”

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OMED Health was established to help the 40% of the population that suffers from gut problems take control through the power of breath analysis. Developed by world leaders in breath research, we provide accurate and reliable breath tests, enabling those with gut health issues to monitor their gut anywhere, anytime. 

https://omedhealth.com

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Katie Sheen is a mindfulness teacher and speaker, a nutritional therapist, and has a Masters degree in education. 

She shares her experiences using mindfulness with nutrition clients – how mindfulness can help with making nutritional changes, and how nutritional support can help with being more settled and mindful. “It’s a fascinating two-way street we can offer people”

Katie also shares how mindfulness and self-compassion helped her deal with her own cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery.

“And what was amazing was that in that moment I thought: My poor body… my poor body… I can see how much it’s suffering. And again, what a gift to be able to switch immediately into compassion, rather than fear – and there definitely was fear, I’m not going to pretend there wasn’t fear, there was fear as well, but the fear wasn’t of my own body. And that was one of those doorways for me into really taking care of myself.”

Themes include deep listening, compassionate speech, how to become more self-aware and use that to showing kindness and care to ourselves.

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CPD events combining nutrition and mindfulness offered by Katie as part of the Pharma Nord UK Education Team are summarised here.

Katie’s pre-recorded ‘Mindfulness for Anxiety’ course has reached almost 4,000 people in 116 countries. You can discover more about this and the live, Zoom based ‘Mindfulness for Health’ 8 weeks (2 hours a week) course for practitioners and the public here. 

Other resources we discussed: 

Dr.Kristin Neff 

Dr.Chris Germer 

Prof.Paul Gilbert - the Compassionate Mind Foundation 

The Center for Mindful Eating

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Sally Duffin is a registered nutritionist and nutritional therapy practitioner and writer, and author of “Natural Nutrition for Perimenopause: What to eat to feel good and stay sane”.

In this episode we focus on post menopausal health risks such as cardiovascular health, dementia and bone strength, and Sally shares how we can mitigate some of those risks with lifestyle and nutrition. This brings up topics of gender inequality in healthcare, the role of HRT, and the amount of research that still needs to be done.

“It also comes back to this shift that needs to happen about how women see themselves, how the medical system is treating women, how society is treating women, and it’s all connected to reframing it all, actually, and making sure that we get the healthcare that we deserve, that funding is given, training is given to medical professionals about menopause and perimenopausal care, post menopausal care”

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Patricia Daly is a nutritional therapist and ketogenic diet expert, specialising in cancer. Most of us have come across at least the basics of the ketogenic diet, but Patricia is able to provide updates and insights that add new layers to its application. Her own experience in both following and supporting people with the ketogenic diet is invaluable, alongside her collaborations with like-minded health professionals.

Patricia explains about ketones and metabolic flexibility, the potential benefits of a ketogenic diet, when you would avoid a ketogenic diet and useful tests to help you figure this out, and some practicalities along the way.
Patricia first came to the diet when she had cancer herself, and refers to this when describing the “privilege of witnessing the transformation of people who come to me”:

“I started my journey in the boot of the car. I didn’t even know, I didn’t want to know what they were going to do to me. Then I moved to sort of the child seat and then to passenger, until I had enough and started to drive. So that’s basically what I love to see in my clients as well, that’s people leaving from the boot to the driving seat.”


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Join us at the IHCAN Summit 2023 live in London on Saturday 24 June.

June’s Summit will open eyes to the true power of nutritional medicine. We don’t treat cancer, but we can offer the finest personalised nutrition support for people WITH cancer thanks to Mary Beth Gonzalez and Prof Sarper Diler from The Nicholas Gonzalez Foundation.

It’s infuriating that commercial medicine fails to acknowledge published evidence that integrative health approaches pioneered by Dr Josef Issels, Dr Max Gerson, Dr William Kelley and Dr Nicholas Gonzalez, among others, are effective at curing people with cancer. The late Dr Gonzalez developed a protocol that succeeds, to this day, in bringing cancer patients – even those with pancreatic cancer – into long-term remission, and we’re lucky to have two advocates from the sharp end of nutrition-based treatment to inspire us with case histories and protocols showing just how powerful “our” methods can be.

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Are you a nutritional therapist or nutrition professional - you'll love the new IHCAN magazine Podcast.

Presented by the wonderful nutritional therapist Kirsten Chick, we bring you IHCAN content you know and love in easily digestible 45 minute episodes, perfect to listen to on a commute, a dog walk, while cooking or in-between clients 🎧.

In this episode we speak to Debbie Cotton.

Debbie is an impressive combination of naturopath and integrative psychotherapist, and so is well placed to talk with us this week about menopause and perimenopause.

She talks us through the hormones involved, inflammation, stress and useful tests to consider. The microbiome becomes a running frequent theme as we discuss physical and mental health, and Debbie describes a fibre-rich approach as well as the “plant-based paradox” that is easy to get caught up in. We discuss blood sugar, and how to reduce alcohol and sugar if you’re not a natural abstainer. Debbie is generous in providing practical tips, both nutritional and psychological, throughout.

“Give yourself the permission to reach out to other […] share your experience together and actually also share kind of what works for you and what doesn't. Because I think community is one of the most important things in going through any big transition.”

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The IHCAN magazine Podcast is provided for professional education and debate and is not intended to be used by non-medically qualified individuals as a substitute for, or basis of, medical treatment.

Are you a nutritional therapist or nutrition professional - you'll love the new IHCAN magazine Podcast.

Presented by the wonderful nutritional therapist Kirsten Chick, we'll bring you IHCAN content you know and love in easily digestible 45 minute episodes, perfect to listen to on a commute, a dog walk, while cooking or in-between clients 🎧.

Dr. Tom O’Bryan has been educating us about the potential dangers of wheat and gluten for many years, and how eating wheat could potentially develop into autoimmune conditions.
 
In this episode we focus on wheat and brain health, including Alzheimer’s disease, brain fog and depression. Dr. Tom talks us through the immune response to wheat, via toll-like receptor IV and zonulin in the gut, through to the blood brain barrier and glial cell activity in the brain. He explains why it’s not just the gluten in wheat that’s the problem, what to test for, and why declining brain health is the “canary in the coal mine”.
 
 “There has been, between 2013 and 2017, in a four year period - these are the most  recent statistics that I can find - there was a 407% increase in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in 30 to 44 year olds. Wow. In four years, a 407% increase in 30 to 44 year olds. This is like… can you let that sink in for a minute? What do you think has happened in the last six years now? Since that statistic cameout? Anything changed for the better in terms of air pollution?”


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Alex Manos is a Functional Medicine Practitioner, tutor and mentor, and in this episode we focus on circadian rhythms and health, with a big focus on gut health.

We start off talking about SIBO, dental health, methane, the Cell Danger Response, and how our bodies are “just so much smarter than we are”. Then we get to light and circadian rhythms, and how important that timing is for digestion. Alex talks about red light therapy, the influence of the shifting spectrum of natural light during each day, as well as circannual rhythms and their impact on microbiome diversity. And along the way we discuss how to use information from testing and research to meaningfully help our clients.

So another fascinating and information-packed episode you'll want to bookmark and share.

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The IHCAN magazine Podcast is provided for professional education and debate and is not intended to be used by non-medically qualified individuals as a substitute for, or basis of, medical treatment.

Are you a nutritional therapist or nutrition professional - you'll love the new IHCAN magazine Podcast.

Presented by the wonderful nutritional therapist Kirsten Chick, we'll bring you IHCAN content you know and love in easily digestible 45 minute episodes, perfect to listen to on a commute, a dog walk, while cooking or in-between clients 🎧.

In this episode we speak to Jo Gamble.

Jo Gamble was the first Functional Medicine Practitioner in the UK, and she specialises in working with people with cancer. 

We explore different types of breast cancer, including oestrogen and progesterone receptor positive, Her2 positive, and triple negative. Along the way Jo talks genetics and plastics, Tamoxifen and Metformin, mushrooms and melatonin and a whole lot more. Most importantly, how to change the terrain:

"So just like soil grows beautiful flowers, it also grows weeds. And in our
body, if our terrain is not optimal, that weed-growing is the pathogenesis of cancer. [...] If you don't change that soil, you're just gonna grow more weeds."


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Are you a nutritional therapist or nutrition professional - you'll love the new IHCAN magazine Podcast.

Presented by the wonderful nutritional therapist Kirsten Chick, we'll bring you IHCAN content you know and love in easily digestible 45 minute episodes, perfect to listen to on a commute, a dog walk, while cooking or in-between clients.

In this episode we speak to Dr Cheryl Burdette.

Dr Cheryl Burdette is a naturopathic doctor and educator, and co-founder of the Precision Point Diagnostics laboratory. We take a deep dive into the immune system in the gut, which Cheryl describes beautifully, fluidly spanning microbes, neurotransmitters, secretory IgA and zonulin, alongside tribal immunity, long covid, autoimmune conditions and eating too much turkey. Followed by some detailed insights into new tests to figure out food allergies and intolerances, in particular around how to interpret IgG4, and then how to work on improving the situation.

When asked what she loves most about what she does, Cheryl replies:
“I love that we give people more hope... when we get to talk to people about things like dietary change that they can do themselves, it puts the power back in their own hands to seek more wellness. I don’t think that we’re all out there trying to eat a perfect diet to win the trophy. To say I ate more greens than anyone else. I think we do this because it allows us to live our passion.”

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