Let's Talk Wellness Now

Thriving in the 21 Century is simple and basic. From eating healthy to detoxification, to vetting supplements and companies Dr. Jaffe share’s it all. Dr. Jaffe has studied health and wellness since the late 70″s and is an expert in health and wellness. Don’t miss out on how to live to a 120 dancing all the way! 

Do not miss these highlights:

06:00  Thriving in the 21st century is about what you eat, drink, think and do.

12:40  What is typical today is harmful and not healthy.

13:21 How do you thrive and enjoy living today? Spend 5% of your time (72 minutes) on self-care.

16:58 Diabetes is a lifestyle choice. You can eat yourself sick, or eat yourself well.

18:07 Embracing physiology before pharmacology.

19:40 If you go with the conventions of today, all the convenience, fast food and processed food, you’ll suffer and die young. 

20:45 The role of hydration in detoxification

24:41 Top go-to nutrients – Nature’s Ascorbic. 

27:01 How do you determine a good supplement from a bad supplement?

32:09 What is the role of the immune system today in chronic health?

33:28  The signs of chronic scurvy. 

37:00 Reliving the trauma versus witnessing it. 

42:24 Be guided by nature, nurture and wholeness.

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

About our Guest:

Dr. Russell Jaffe received his B.S., MD and Ph.D. from the Boston University School of Medicine, completed residency training in clinical chemistry at the National Institutes of Health and remained on the permanent senior staff before pursuing other interests, including starting the Health Studies Collegium think tank. He is the Founder and Chairman of PERQUE Integrative Health, LLC a company that offers the world scientifically proven, integrative health solutions that speed the transition from sick care to healthful caring. Dr. Jaffe is board certified in Clinical Pathology and in Chemical Pathology and the recipient of the Merck, Sharp & Dohm Excellence in Research Award, the J.D. Lane Award, and the U.S.P.H.S. Meritorious Service Award. Dr. Jaffe was honored as an International Scientist of 2003 by the IBC, Oxford, England, UK for his lifetime contributions to clinical medicine, biochemistry, immunology, methodology, and integrative health policy.

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Episode Summary

What is panic, anxiety, loss of happiness in what you do, looking at the world from a dark lens? Could you be having a soul or existential crisis? Dr. Jeanne Marie Retief shares her journey from being a humanitarian rights attorney to creating her own cosmetic company. How it changed her idea of work-life balance and brought her the peace she was looking for.

Do not miss these highlights:

04:50 How Panic Disorder affects Dr. Jeanne life. 

08:00 Anxiety and trauma stays with you, and it becomes part of you. 

11:49 Creating a space where women can come, and tell their stories without the feeling of being judged.

12:34 Unbalanced work-life results created a very sick population of people – people who don’t know how to have fun, people who are not happy.

16:00 We need a place where we feel supported,  where we can share, where we can express and we can move that journey along.

18:57 Dr. Jeanne’s journey from Human Rights to a product maker.

22:09 If your skin doesn’t feel good, you don’t feel good too.

22:44 The beautiful benefits of the Rooibos plant.

24:08 Getting to know more about Dr. Jeanne’s product line. 

28:14 Difference between ‘all-natural Products’  versus ‘naturally derived products’.

32:42 Dr. Jeanne’s definition of balance.

34:58 Don’t run away!

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

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About our Guest:

When Jeanne turned 35, she experienced great change, contemplation, confusion, frustration, and joy. She invested so much of her energy in becoming an expert in her field, but realized that the career she had built with a single-minded focus no longer fulfilled or inspired her. It was a confusing and frightening realization. Facing a health and soul crisis she decided to make a big change. She integrated her human rights background into FIGGI which allowed her to seek serenity and still experience the adrenaline rush of creating something new. This is what FIGGI is to her! It is her Best Life – It is her FIGGI Life.

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What are your 2023 new years resolutions? Are you living the life you want? How are you going to get the vitality, body, and love back into your life for 2023? You can see the world from a blank wall or you can see the beauty in the world. You can let Dis-ease rule you or you can take back the Dis-ease in your body. What life are you going to create in 2023? 

Do not miss these highlights:

00:30 We have the power to make a difference in this world. 

01:44  The story of the friendship of two patients and the window.

05:05 Life is a battle game. We fight for it every day. Disease turns a person’s life upside down.

05:30 Life is a gift of many blessings. We have the opportunity to touch people’s lives.

06:50 Your health is at the center of your life. 

08:44 The client that Dr. Deb will never forget in her life. 

12:00 Without good health, you have nothing. Let’s all embrace that healthy living.

15:00 Invest in yourself – be an amazing person on the inside.

17:36 Let’s start 2023 with embracing the good in people and the good in yourself.

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care  by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

Suffering from PTSD? Medication not helping with depression, anxiety and PTSD? Dr. Rabin shares a non-medical approach with 87% success rate for treating the symptoms. The latest studied technology makes a difference in the lives of many! 

Do not miss these highlights:

08:10 The two main categories of stress in simple form: Eustress and Distress.

09:07 The certain things about stress we can avoid – transforming from Distress into Eustress.

11:54 The reasons why mental health issues are skyrocketing in the last 2 to 3 years.

14:04 We have to set limits and unplug. So much information at one time will be a burden to the brain, resulting in restlessness, irritability and anxiousness. 

16:44 Why most of the modalities we have in medicine today to help people with depression and anxiety, don’t seem like they’re working.

19:15 Source of Healing comes from within us.

21:21 If you just rely on the medicine alone, taking it as a shortcut, you won’t get better.

22:16 Understanding wearable technologies: Gen1 Wearables versus Gen2 Wearable versus Gen3 Wearables. 

31:33 How Psychedelic Medicine works – Bringing people out of their chronic depression and anxiety in a different fashion than what we’re used to seeing in mental health today.

38:07 With how far technology has come and how far we’ve come with an understanding of how to safely use psychedelic medicines to heal people,  we now have the ability to get very significant response rates.

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care  by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

About our Guest:

Dr. Dave Rabin MD, PhD is a board-certified psychiatrist, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and inventor who has studied resilience and the impact of chronic stress on our lives for over 15 years. Dr. Rabin and his team collaborate with clients at the Apollo Clinic, empowering clients to take control of their mental and physical health by tapping into our abilities to adapt and heal ourselves. In addition to focusing on integration therapy, plant and natural medicines, couples therapy, and medicine-assisted psychotherapy, Dr. Rabin specializes in treatment-resistant mental illnesses including depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), psychosomatic disorders, personality disorders, chronic pain disorders, insomnia, and substance use disorders using minimal and non-invasive treatment strategies.

David Rabin MD, PhD (drdave.io)

Are you struggling with sleep and wondering if it is because of your devices? Wait is it affecting the level of melatonin made in the body? Why is my vision blurred when I am in the office compared to working outside? All of these are legitimate questions. Blue light causes all these issues and more.

Did you know macular eye damage can occur from too much blue light?

But what about red light? Is that good for me or not? Daniel Ebbet from Block Blue Light will sort this out for you. He even provides tips for knowing if you have glasses that are actually blocking blue light or not.

Shop www.blockbluelight.com and use discount code Deb for 15% off your purchase. 

Do not miss these highlights:

09:46 How blue light affects your sleep and your body.

14:23 Blue light isn’t actually bad. Blue light is bad in the wrong amount at the wrong time of the day or night. 

16:03 During the day, the shorter the wavelength, the higher the energy, and the higher the energy, the more damage and oxidative stress it can cause to the cells.

17:37 Bluelight during daytime raises your cortisol levels too high, and leaves them chronically elevated.

18:10 What can a full spectrum LED light bulb do? 

21:54 Getting natural light through the windows can help counteract some of the artificial light we’re getting from the environment indoors, but it’s not a direct replacement for going outside.

23:45 You can’t remove blue light completely,  what you really need during the daytime is how you can bring down the levels to what would be considered more natural.27:01 Some key tips on how you can find a good set of glasses to provide protection.

30:00 How we can use red light to maximize our sleep and recover from health.

31:33 Even a small amount of blue light exposure at night will lower your natural melatonin by 80%.

32:06 LED light versus Incandescent light bulb and Halogen light bulbs. 

33:33 The move for energy efficiency and sustainability for the Earth completely disregarded its impact on human health and biology.

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

About our Guest:

Daniel is the founder and CEO of premier global brand for blue and artificial light-blocking products. He promotes and educates the science behind modern phenomena such as digital eye strain and poor sleep, and the connection these have with screen overuse. Through his innovative product range, he champions eye health, sleep quality, and well-being. 

He originally created his business, BlockBlueLight, as a result of a need to fix his own health issues, suffering from chronic insomnia, as well as eye strain and migraines, Daniel’s overall health and well-being were declining. He had no idea why. There were many frustrating and failed attempts to try and fix his health issues. 

Deciding to do his own research, he stumbled across how light (specifically, blue light) impacts circadian rhythms by suppressing melatonin secretion, which in turn can cause sleep issues. He also discovered how chronic exposure to artificial light during the day could also cause eye strain, migraines, and even lead to permanent eye damage. 

Daniel’s company has now become recognized as one of the most trusted international brands and leaders in blocking blue light technology. BlockBlueLight is passionate about what they do and delight in helping people live healthier lives. Their aim is to make mitigating blue light a mainstream concern and give people tools and knowledge to be able to be their best selves in today’s digital age. 

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Where engineering merges with medicine devices can be created to assist in pelvic floor strengthening, vaginal dryness, painful intercourse, erectile dysfunction, prostate health and urinary incontinences. Mysteryvibe is a company that is dedicated to created products to improve sexually health. 

Do not miss these highlights:

04:24 Getting to know Dr. Soumyadi – how he got started in the world of sexual function.

06:17 How Bio-Medical Engineering works, and how it connects in the healthcare world.

08:55 The science and medical evidence of using devices like vibrators in helping with pain or stretching the vaginal tissue.10:37 The importance of blood flow in the pelvic region and for prostate health.

13:08 Are Doctors recommending vibrators for sexual health issues?

15:34 How does a device become FDA-approved, and why would you want to look for a device that’s FDA-approved.

20:16 One of the biggest challenges in medical devices.

23:04 Why there are so few companies in sexual health that make hardware or devices.

24:36 MysteryVibe devices that are available and how they can help with the pelvic floor, vulvar pain and painful sex.

27:57  Add life to years, not just years to life. So make your years count, make it lively, and make it full of love.

29:56 Dr. Soumyadip’s mission is to write a lot of educational content. 

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care  by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

About our Guest:

Dr. Soum Rakshit is the Co-Founder & CEO of award-winning sexual health company, MysteryVibe. Their mission is to make sexual health accessible to all – across all ages, genders & orientations. In his role as CEO of MysteryVibe, he focuses on pushing the boundaries on R&D, customer experience and supporting their long-term goal of making sexual health an integral part of our overall health. Soumyadip passionately believes that by empowering people with actionable knowledge & purposeful innovation is the way to make this happen. Soumyadip built and sold his first startup in defense electronics by age 26, and has won 20+ International design awards for his product designs. His reach is over 20K, and he would be happy to let his network know to listen in!

https://mysteryvibe.com/

John Latta talks about embracing the feminine energy in business and life. Learning to use both feminine and masculine energy can create successful businesses, improve relationships, solve problems quickly and bring peace and balance to your life. 

Do not miss these highlights:

00:37 How John got into spiritual transformation.

06:42  Sometimes you don’t know what you don’t know, but who knows what tomorrow will bring, there’s a Divine timing.

08:32 The dreams that are trying to show John what a black-and-white view of life is really like.

10:15 what happened over the last 20 years is a complete embrace of my feminine side

10:32 Balancing your masculine and feminine side –  understanding the value in the masculine and the value in the feminine.

12:26 Is being more masculine or feminine is something that we’re born navigating to or something that we’ve learned as a defence mechanism?

14:22 Navigating and balancing the feminine and masculine in your business success.

16:51 Not every person can wear all the hats in an organization – know your strengths, your weaknesses and surround yourself with people that keep that balanced throughout.

17:35 How John’s transition has changed or transformed his world for better or worse. 

23:30 What was it like to go from being this masculine, highly structured CEO to a more feminine approach in life.

28:15 Listen, somebody needs to be heard. 

30:04 Overcoming the fear of death.

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care  by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

About our Guest:

John David Latta is a mystic, author, teacher, and former founder and CEO of a multimillion-dollar consumer products company. He shares intimate and personal stories and teaches workshops on leadership, healing, transformation, awakening, love, synchronicity, and wisdom that unite and expand human experience. He lives with his wife, Wendy, in Redmond, Washington 

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Cancer is as unique to a person as a fingerprint. Why not receive cancer care that is unique and individualized to you? You’ve heard about IV-C, turmeric, CBD and Medical MMJ to treat cancer but how do you put it all together.

Now you can Brio-Medical is not only treating rare, aggressive and late stage cancers it is leading the way in creating science based individual cancer care. 

Do not miss these highlights:

01:22 What is Holistic Natural Integrative Cancer approach?

03:57 The number one cause of death in adults in high-income countries is now cancer.

04:46  The problem with conventional medicine and cancer – We really have not made a ton of progress in treating cancer. 

07:00 It’s not just about prevention, it’s also about treatment.

10:10 Vitamin C as a treatment for advanced stage cancer – the flagship of therapy of Integrative Medicine. 

12:37 Integrating low-dose metronomic form of chemo together with Vitamin C. 

15:18 The importance of being precise and accurate in the approach to the delivery of therapies. 

17:28 The effective therapies from the alternative world to Colorectal Cancer.

19:46 Let science lead the way.

22:11 The story of how Dr. Nathan helped a patient with breast cancer and bone metastasis from wheelchair to walking with no pain, from a treatment mode to healing mode.

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care  by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

About our Guest:

Dr. Nathan Goodyear, MD, MDH

Docēre rāphè: Docēre is Latin for doctor which is translated, teacher. Rāphè is Hebrew for physician which is translated, as healer. The word root of the word disease is from the two words, dis, meaning lack of or without, and -aise, meaning wellness. Disease, or better dis-aise, is simply the lack of wellness.

Dr. Goodyear’s passion for Wellness began with his own 100-pound post-college football career weight loss. Dr. Goodyear is currently the medical director of a holistic, integrative cancer healing center in Arizona where he uses the principles and science of holistic, natural, and integrative therapies to treat and heal people with cancer. It is not enough to target and eliminate cancer, one must heal. In addition, Dr. Goodyear is dedicated to dis-aise prevention, dis-aise resolution, and to the wellness lifestyle through a solution-based, Holistic, Integrative approach founded in science.

Business Website: http://www.BrioMedical.com

LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drnathangoodyear/

YouTube Channel: Brio News

Transcript of Episode 195

Debra Muth 0:03Welcome back to Let’s Talk wellness. I’m your host and I have Dr. Nathan Goodyear with me. I would always say Goodwin but it’s Goodyear. And we are going to talk about integrative therapies for cancer. So, Dr. Nathan, welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Dr. Nathan Goodyear 0:19Well, I’m the Medical Director out here at Brio medical in Scottsdale, Arizona. We are a natural, holistic and Integrative Cancer Healing Center. And all of those words are very important. But really to understand where I am, it’s where I came from I, I graduated from residency in 2004, I very quickly understood that I needed to change my lifestyle, because I played college football, I played center and I was played at about 285 290 pounds, I was a big, I was a big guy. And two of the the gentlemen that I played with passed away within five years because of massive vascular events. So I knew I knew that I had to change my lifestyle, plus I had a budding family and I wanted to be around for them. So I really got into the integrative movement in 2006. Then with the, with my own diagnosis of a pheochromocytoma, in 2000, late 2015, that was really the beginning of my final change into what is this holistic, natural Integrative Cancer approach. So natural means we want to be as natural as possible. Holistic means we want to recognize that the whole body healing wellness, that’s what we’re after. And we don’t want to get bogged down in different compartments. But we want to we want to heal the body, targeting the tumor are targeting cancer and destroying the body in the process. That’s a no go. And then integrative. We want to integrate the different therapies. And that’s not just, you know, therapies IVs. It could be counseling, it could be psychological, it could be emotional, all of these come to bear to allow something like cancer to start, grow and survive. And then we want to be effective. So the evidence comes in, to bring all of this to bear natural, holistic and integrative to really have a truly targeted and healing approach that occurs together.

Debra Muth 2:23I love that concept. And I think that there’s such a missing concept when it comes to cancer, right? In the conventional medicine world, as most people understand it, it’s just about killing the cancer, just kill the cancer, nothing else really matters. You can eat whatever you want. You can do whatever you want, as long as you feel comfortable. Live your life like you want. But do you think that it’s that model that’s failing cancer patients is just looking at it from one perspective of things?

Dr. Nathan Goodyear 2:56You know that that’s very insightful, Deb, because it’s a failed model. It’s a fair, it’s a failed paradigm. We desperately need a change of thought I actually say it’s kind of intellectual when breeding, because you can’t think outside the box. Yeah. Chemotherapy, and much of what we see in conventional approach to cancer treatment, and I’m conventionally trained, so I’m also an MD homeopath. It was born out of war. I mean, chemotherapy was literally born out of World War One and World War Two. And then it’s interesting that that same vernacular, that same phraseology, if you will go to war on cancer, Nixon declared war on cancer 1971 with the National Cancer Act. So it’s really interesting how all of that has progressed to the last 100 years or so, born out of a war, declare war, you know, what other what other disease states that we declared war on? Yeah, there was a 2019 study to published twice in different formats in The Lancet journal in 2019. That showed that the number one cause of death in adults in high income countries is now cancer. So all of that war, what has it brought? Now it’s brought profits, but has brought healing. Now, I wouldn’t know you the data says no, it has not.

Debra Muth 4:15I agree and, and we haven’t even how do I want to say this? We haven’t even touched the iceberg on it. I mean, we have more cancer now. And the statistics are crazy. You probably know that way better than I do. But it’s like 100% people are going to have cancer by 2050, I think. But there’s so much more cancer, and yet we’re not any better off at treating it today than we were I would argue 10 or 15 years ago. Yes. We’re a little bit better than we were in the 70s but 10 or 15 years, we really have not made a ton of progress in treating cancer.

Dr. Nathan Goodyear 4:49No, we have not and I think the approach and the perspective is really the the issue is where our medical director we have two naturopaths and we have another medical doctor in The nurse practitioner, and I love the challenge that that that group brings to bare. Because we bring different perspective, when you look at it from a conventional standpoint, we are trained to look at things from a disease standpoint. How do you heal? How do you focus on healing when your only approach is what disease and how to treat the disease. And I jokingly say, it’s like going to your doctor with you, you have a headache, and the doctor hits you upside the head with a two by four. And then the doc says, How’s your headache, you go? Well, my headaches gone. But I’m not sure what we’re going to do about my brains all over the floor. It always elicits a chuckle, but I think they understand what the references, you know, conventional medicine comes in with a heavy stick. And you know what, you break a hip surgically? Yeah, you need to repair that hip surgically. You don’t say take more vitamin D. But everything has a place, everything has a time. And I think what we’re missing, it’s the integration and synergy that can be used here to really help patients target a tuber and heal the body at the same time.

Debra Muth 6:09Yeah, I agree. I think we have to, and, and sometimes, too, we have to look at where did this cancer come out of, right? I mean, we know if we’re living a lifestyle that’s decreasing our immune system, or we have a lot of stress, or sometimes it comes from an emotional thing. And we don’t want to believe that in the conventional world, we just believe like the cancer tumors just didn’t get broken up. But in in our world, we can say, yeah, we can look at lifestyle. We can look at traumas, we can look at stressors and say, This was inevitable when we look at how you’ve lived your life for the last 25 years. But now how do we fix this so that it doesn’t stay with you for the next 25 years? Or doesn’t take your life? And the next five, right?

Dr. Nathan Goodyear 6:48Yeah, I mean, you’re exactly right. It’s like the way most people look at cancer. It’s, it’s like some bad Sigourney Weaver movie, we’re an alien planet. And you know, I had no choice. Actually, cancer is simply a disease of lifestyle that that in many ways, and that’s what tha...

Dr. Deb and Isabel talk about how insomnia leads to depression and anxiety. How sleep deprivation can lead to suicide. Learn how to reverse anxiety and depression without medication. Life can be good and you can be free from these symptoms once and for all with a little work and the right coach at your side. 

Do not miss these highlights:

03:23 How Dr. Isabel got into functional medicine.

12:23  Bredesen Program – There is hope for Alzheimer’s, you can take control of it. 

17:16 These past traumas are affecting us – it’s affecting our Limbic System. Trauma stored in ourselves comes up and shows up in different ways

20:19 Women have a bad rap in medicine in their 40s, 50s or 60s, 

22:23 How Progesterone was very helpful with sleep, and how Estrogen helps with anxiety.

23:44 How to get back on track when you’re feeling low.

25:49 Where to start or what to look at to get health back.

27:55 You don’t have to live your life in a place where you’re not happy – Paint the life you want and go chase it down.

30:06 You are the doctor, you’ve got an inner doctor.

32:34 Hold on to hope – the happy anticipation that something good is going to happen.

35:46 The younger we can start, the better it is – have a nice foundation and good terrain.

39:02  The importance of showing people a visual of what happens when their blood sugars go up.

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

About our Guest:

I’m a Cuban/American born, in 1959, in Washington DC. I have been a medical doctor since 1991. The only reason I went into the medical field was that I wanted to help people. I wanted to get to the root of the dis-ease, not just throw a covering on it. My patients weren’t getting any better, they were just existing. My goal is to see people healed. The decision to become a doctor was planted in my mind when I was five years old. My uncle Dr. Julio Perez, an anaesthesiologist, has this amazing way about him. When he walked into the room his smile, and his positive attitude would light up the room. He would just make you feel happy, and you would start smiling. At five years of age, I decided, and said to my mom, “I want to be a doctor just like Tio Julito” (Uncle Julio in Spanish). In 2000, my husband, and our two young daughters moved to New Zealand to see what it’s like to experience a different culture of the world. Yes, we had never been there, or even knew where it was. What a crazy, and life-changing decision for our family! I have been studying Functional Medicine, which focuses on the root cause of disease and its treatments. As a result of my training, I can offer a blend of conventional and functional medicine for your best outcome. My husband, Certified Culinary Nutrition Expert, Chef Michael, and I created the brand of Doctoronamission, where we prevent and reverse disease and give hope. Our expertise is in preventing and reversing early Alzheimers, Dementia, Cognitive Decline, Anxiety, and Depression. We have been doing Tele-Medicine since 2015 with our online business of Doctoronamission.com which offers online courses, group coaching, and 1×1 coaching. Let’s start walking together, and I’ll share with you what worked for me and can also work for you. I want to give you hope. 

Dr. Isabel MD Qualifications: 

> University of Colorado, Boulder, USA (pre-med) MCDB – September 1982 – May – 1986

> University of Colorado Medical School, Denver,USA – September 1987 – May 1991 

> Southern Colorado Family Practice Residency, Pueblo, September 1992 – May 1995 

> Fellow of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practice – 2005- Current 

> Dr. Dale Bredesen Certified 2.0 Recode Protocol Practitioner – January 2018 – present

> Member of the Institute of Functional Medicine, USA – March 2018 – present 

https://doctoronamission.com/

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https://www.instagram.com/doctoronamission/

Transcript of Episode 194

Debra Muth 0:02
Welcome to Let’s Talk Wellness Now I’m your host, Dr. Deb. This is where we talk about everything wellness, and learn to defy aging, and live our lives on our own terms. Welcome back to Let’s Talk wellness. Now I’m your host, Dr. Deb and I have with me today Dr. Isabel Hunsinger. And she and I were just chatting for about an hour on her show and you guys are going to absolutely love her. She is specializing in brain health and is a life coach and has Doctor on a mission. And she is going to talk about her journey into the functional medicine world. And we’re going to talk about brain health and all the things that can cause us to lose our function and our capability of focus and concentration or even memory dementia, all of that. And more importantly, we’re going to talk about how you can partner with somebody to get your focus and concentration in your memory back. And I just absolutely love this conversation we are going to have with Dr. Isabella Hunsinger. So hold tight right after this message. We are going to bring her on and we’re going to have the most amazing conversation. Have you seen 20 Plus medical doctors only to be told your symptoms are in your head or you need an antidepressant? We understand your frustrations? Are you tired of feeling sick and tired? Tired of not getting the answers you need to regain your health. Tired of not feeling listened to by your doctor at Serenity Health Care Center, we understand and we will help you find the cause of your symptoms. Together we will create a path to health. We specialize in combining the best of conventional and natural medicine to get you back to doing what you love. We have worked with the most complex chronic diseases such as chronic Lyme COVID, long haulers, autoimmune disease, mold toxicity, and hormonal imbalances. But if you’re not sick, that’s fantastic. We will work with you to maintain your health so that you can prevent illness. give our office a call to see how we can help you regain your health and vitality at 262-522-8640. Or check us out at our website at Serenity health care. center.com So welcome back. I am so excited to be here with Dr. Isabel Han singer, and we are gonna have a great conversation. You people are just gonna love her. She’s so easy to talk to and she’s got a great story to share. So without any further ado, Dr. Isabel, welcome to the show.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 3:02
Hello, Dr. Deb, are we going to call each other Dr. Deb. Dr. Isabel, are we just gonna go dive in and go y’all go?

Debra Muth 3:10
Let’s do the latter out. I like that.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 3:13
All right. Hi, Deb. Thank you so much. I am so happy to be here on your podcast.

Debra Muth 3:20
Yes! It’s a pleasure to be here with you too. I can’t wait to dive into your story and hear about how you got where you did and what have you learned from it? And what do you want people to walk away with? How did you get into functional medicine and get on this journey?

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 3:39
Great question. Um, well, I I’ve always wanted to be a doctor. Even since I was five years old. I used to play that game operation. Yes. You remember that game too?

Debra Muth 3:51
I bought it for my grandkids. You have grandchildren? I have four grandchildren? Yes.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 3:57
No way. Wow, you don’t look like your grandmother. So keep it up whatever you do. And so then I became a doctor, you know, from five years of age to boom, you’re a doctor, right? I wish and then in nine so I graduated from medical school in Colorado and became and went into family practice residency to help heal the world. And in 19 No, in 2000 I just came to the realization that we did not have a health care system. We have disease management. Yeah, I was just so tired of these every three month visits, people coming in and not getting any better. I was just giving them more drugs, you know, and okay, here’s a replacement of your drugs. See in three months, you know, revolving door and one. wintry night in Colorado, my husband, February 1990. When I said to my husband, babe, let’s go prep. Let me let let let’s move my Google practice medicine somewhere else in the world. Let’s go. And he goes, Well, where do you want to go? And I go, I don’t know. So we spun the globe. And we ended up coming to New Zealand, which is where we are right now. Oh my gosh. So at the age of 40, I had two kids, and my husband and I, we just moved to New Zealand. And I thought, that’s where it’s gonna be, we’re gonna go to a place where they have healthcare. And at the time, it was pretty free, and somebody had health care at the time. You can see a doctor and go to the hospital and not be charged. And in 2000, and but here’s the key. When I moved to New Zealand, that’s where I got introduced to functional medicine. So I had to come all the way to become all the way to New Zealand to learn about functional medicine because the practice I went into one of the doctors was into it, he was and I was like, What’s this? What’s this functional medicine? So I got excited, because like it got to the root to the reason of why we’re unwell. So I started dabbling in it in 2000, in New Zealand, and then in 2013. Again, I hit the wall, I became a frustrated doctor. I was like, man, people are not getting any better. This is we don’t have a health care system here in New Zealand. We’ve got disease management. Yeah. So my husband and I and Mark, Dr. Mark Hyman came into our lives right about that time. And I saw what he was doing on social media, I was like, Yeah, I’m not going to reach all the people and teach all the people and empower all the people with hope that they can prevent and reverse disease in one room. Let’s go out. So my husband and I decided in 2013, to start Dr. On a mission. So we started that. And at the time, I was 53. And a year later, Deb, I became so anxious. You know, I was listening to that inner critic, and my voice in my head going is about what do you think you’re doing? You don’t know what you’re doing? You can’t do this. You’re not going to help heal the world. Know, back into your little room and to see one on one patients. Yeah. And when I get anxious, um, I don’t sleep. And I didn’t realize I was in menopause. I know. That’s how dis jointed disconnected. I was with my own personal story. And after. For 17 straight nights, I only slept two hours every night. Oh, my gosh, night. Yeah. And by the end of that you can imagine, you know, how I felt. By the end of that I was just I was suicidal. And I tried to take my life twice in three days. Huh? Yeah. And by the grace of God, that plan was stopped. And my husband took me to the doctor. And the doctor said, Isabel, you got to see the psychiatrist. And my heart dropped when he said, when she said that to me, because I was like, Oh my gosh, I’m gonna lose my license, I’ll never be able to practice medicine. I’ve got to see a psychiatrist. Oh, my God. But I went to the psychotic that didn’t happen that never even the the medical board in this country was so supportive of me to get help, which I am so grateful. Because that, you know, for a doctor to have to go see a psychiatrist. Will Will it Yeah, bad. Yeah, it’s not good. And so the I saw the psychiatrist, and the psychiatrist said is about, here’s an antidepressant, and here’s a sleeping pill. And this antidepressant you’re going to be on for the rest of your life. And looked up deep down inside. I knew that wasn’t wrong, but I just was going to do whatever I needed to do to get to sleep because I wanted, I wanted to be better. Like, totally surrendered, and did what he told me to do. But deep down inside because of functional medicine, I knew that I knew that I knew that there was more to this. And so I said, Hmm, we’ll see about that. I didn’t verbalize it myself. So we’ll see about that to see if I’m going to be on this on for the rest of my life. I can laugh and smile about this now because I’m way over on the other end. But yeah, it was ugly and messy and very painful. But my husband and I went on this journey together which a lot of marriages dissolve when there’s when there’s health issues like this. And but we actually got glued, even closer together, and we learned all the different things that are causing anxiety and depression. And now I’m off the antidepressant safely. And I know what I need to do to stay away from that. But I also learned all the contributors to anxiety and depression. And I also had a real realization of what it’s like for a client to be in the healthcare system with anxiety and depression and how awful and how terrible. One feels. Yes. And in that journey, I learned that we don’t, we it’s not. Now this, again, is going to cause people’s brains to tell it. But this is the bottom line. The bottom line is it’s not a mental illness issue. It’s a brain health issue. And when you learn how to take care of all the precise contributors that are affecting your brain health, then when you’ve got good brain health, then you can have excellent mental well being and you can learn to deal with whatever life throws and kicks and punches you in the gut with. Yeah, that is very true. And that’s what I learned on my journey. And that’s what I help people with, you know, to become free from anxiety and depression.

Debra Muth 11:26
I love that story. And I’m so glad you’re still here with us. But I think too, you know, people don’t realize that insomnia is used as a military torture tool for a reason. You know, when they talk about not sleeping, we forget that we deprive people of sleep for days or weeks in the military prisons, to break them, right. And when women go through that, they don’t realize how bad it is for their body. And unfortunately, as conventional practitioners, they don’t teach us to do anything different, either. sleeping pill, anti anxiety, antidepressant, here you go. It’s only on our functional medicine side that they teach us how to look at the brain and look at neurotransmitters and look at hormones and look at diet and lifestyle, and sleep habits and all of those kinds of things to help us sleep better and be healthier. Yes, yeah. Let’s talk a little bit about the Bredesen program. So you’ve learned about the Bredesen program. And for people who don’t understand that, can you tell our listeners a little bit about what that is?

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 12:35
You know that that statement when the student is ready, the teacher will appear? Yeah. Well, I, I didn’t know that this teacher even existed. But apparently he was placed in my path to teach me that I was heading towards Alzheimer’s. Oh, gosh, I was heading towards Alzheimer’s if I stayed on this antidepressant, and the sleeping pill for my anxiety and depression if I didn’t learn all the different things. So here’s what happened is Dr. Bredesen has written this book called The End of Alzheimer’s. And look, I am standing on the shoulders of this giant. Yeah, when I’m, when I’m saying this. I’m having Alzheimer’s as an option now. But the training starts in our 40s and 50s and early 60s. It’s not well known and conventional medicine. It’s starting to be known in the functional medicine world. But here’s what I learned from Dr. Bredesen and I continue to learn from Dr. Bredesen and all of my colleagues because this is a constant learning curve. There are six contributors that cause Alzheimer’s. Now, not everybody has all six contributors. But one of the contributors is hormones. And when we talk about hormones, is we’re talking about estrogen progesterone, testosterone, pregnenolone, DHEA, thyroid, cortisol, vitamin D. Those hormones are placed in a type two we call it the he calls it the a trophic, your hormones and your nutrients. And if those are low, then you’re deficient and that contributor which if it’s not, if it’s not, if it’s not fed will lead you to cognitive decline. So I had by my doctor had checked my hormones, and I was zero I was flat. My cortisol was even flat and that was scary because at first I thought it was cancer, but it wasn’t cancer. It was because I had been so stressed out so long, that my adrenals were like I can die. And I’m done. Bye bye. Yeah. So, so we learned that we needed to replace that. And slowly I was able to come off my antidepressant. Then I started getting clients that wanted me to help them with their cognitive decline, and most of them were women. And what I learned was, their hormones were really low. So, by my journey, what my mess became the message, like, we got to look at this, you know, and of course, you got to look at hormones. But then the other categories are in the inflammatory markers. The other is diabetes, what’s your sugar? What’s your fasting insulin levels? The next is toxins. And in the form of toxins, we’re talking about metals, mercury, lead, arsenic, then you’ve got the environmental toxins, like all the pollution, the glyphosate, and then you’ve got the bio toxins which you’re an expert in with the mold, the lime the herpes. Yeah. The EBV you know, so and then you’ve got your, your vascular, you know, are you what’s your sleep apnea? Like, do you have sleep apnea? What’s your oxygen levels, like at nighttime? What’s your blood pressure, like? And then the other one is trauma. Have you had any trauma? So I, Dr. Bredesen has just opened my eyes like, yeah, as a doctor, we’re taught, there’s no hope for, right. There’s no hope for Alzheimer’s. And there is hope there is hope. And I want people to know that you can take control of this. And but the training starts in our 40s 50s and early 60s.

Debra Muth 16:55
Yeah, we want to start that as early as we can. And and when you when you talk about trauma, are you talking about emotional trauma or head trauma or both?

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 17:05
Good point. Both. Both. Yeah. Both both. Um, one of the things in the trauma is your trauma, emotional trauma will affect your limbic system, as you’re aware of, and for a lot of my clients that I’m helping detoxify mold from their body and the chemicals, a lot of them just don’t budge. And it’s because they’re stuck their limbic system is stuck. So I always recommend for the for Olympic retraining for the retraining your brain type of protocol. And I love dogs. I love Annie hoppers. DNR DNR s DNRs.

Debra Muth 17:47
Yep. Yeah. Yeah, I love that one too.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 17:51
And also for anxiety. And for anything for brain health, it’s just a good thing to get your to retrain your brain. I did. It helped me it was, it was a process. I mean, it was a year long process, and there’s work to be done. Don’t think that it’s easy. But you can retrain your brain, from past traumas. And you know, so that you’re responding to life differently. Well, and

Debra Muth 18:17
I think so many times, we don’t think that these past traumas are affecting us. But we also don’t realize that that trauma is stored in ourselves, and it comes up and shows up in different ways. And we’re just not paying attention to it. And so it can come up in how we deal with a co worker, or how we deal with our kids, or how we manage the stress in the world around us. Or it doesn’t come up at all, and it just stays stagnant in those cells and creates more problems without us even realizing it. Because we’ve disconnected ourselves so much from the trauma that we try to pretend it never happened.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 18:53
I know. Yeah. It’s so true. In our brains, I mean, our bodies have a good memory. Oh, yes. And our limbic system, just It blows my mind, it actually just blows my mind. The more I learned, the more I realized the little I know, you know, that is so true. There’s so much to learn right now. It’s going so quickly,

Debra Muth 19:18
Like the the world of functional medicine has grown so much in the last 10 years. But I’d say even in the last three to five years, I can hardly keep up with all the new things that are coming out that we’re learning about the body and cellular memory and all of that, that we didn’t know five years ago, and it all makes a difference but gosh, it’s hard. It’s It’s It’s amazing and it’s exciting and fun, but it’s a lot that we’re learning about the body quickly.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 19:47
It is and I just stay in one lane the brain. It’s the top of the body body let’s yes this right and then the rest will go well. That is true. Yeah, that’s so that the eye Just stay in one lane. Yeah. And that lanes got like 14 different aspects.

Debra Muth 20:07
Yes, exactly. One lane but 14 Different on and off ramps, right.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 20:12
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I share this story, Deb, you know, because women women just have a bad rap in medicine in our 40s and 50s. In our 60s, and, and I, I know this because I was that kind of a doctor, you know, like, the pay the lab woman would come in, and I’m not this doctor anymore. Okay, I want everybody to know this that I’ve course corrected. You know, I’ve circled back and said, No, that was the old is about this is the new Isabel. I was the kind of doctor that patients, you know, women would come in anxious and not sleeping, and I didn’t know to check the hormones. So I just, they, they said, I gotta get to sleep. And I thought, Oh, you’re looking for sleeping tablets. Oh, you’re going to be addicted? Oh, I can’t, I can only give you two weeks worth of this medication. And I didn’t have anything else in my toolkit. And if there’s any doctor out there, or if there’s anybody out there going through insomnia, or having problems with anxiety and depression, take this podcast and have your doctor listened to it. Because that doctor can learn how to help you get better without giving you what we’re taught to give, you know, the antidepressant. We’re all taught as doctors, people need and SSRIs, SSRI either they’re low in serotonin. Okay, if that’s the if that’s a truth, which is not, then most of the world is on an SSRI? Yeah. And most of the world is still anxious and depressed.

Debra Muth 22:04
And still not sleeping.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 22:05
Yeah, so that theory doesn’t work. You’ve we’ve got to like get out of our heads and go and sit back and go and question this and look back and go, Wait a minute. This is not right. You know? So there’s more to it. And for me, progesterone was very helpful. Oh my gosh, progesterone helped me fall asleep. Estrogen helped me with my with my anxiety.

Debra Muth 22:35
They’re so beautiful. I always tell people progesterone is like, it’s the drug that just makes you go. cares.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 22:46
I called progesterone, I progesterone, the Prozac of functional. I love it. And also getting your vitamin D levels, right, my vitamin D levels, were getting my gut health, right? Mm hmm. Making sure I was laughing every day making sure I was having relationships that helps me making sure I was having productive thought management. I was listening to the inner cheerleader instead of listening to the inner critic. Yeah. What else by exercise, I was over exercising, that’s why my cortisol was flat. So get with a doctor that will work with you. Because you can get yourself right. And once you’ve gotten yourself, right, have hope that you’ll know how to keep yourself there. And when you go off track, you’ll know. Gotta get back on track.

Debra Muth 23:44
Absolutely. I think it’s so important that what you just said there is knowing how you’re when you’re not feeling right understanding where the body is going off once you know like, what’s a normal person supposed to feel like because they always people always feel I don’t know if what if this is what everybody feels. We don’t know what other people feel. But once you know what you’re supposed to feel like, then you will know when you’re sliding back and you won’t let yourself go far. Because you’ll get yourself back on track again pretty quickly and easily because you don’t want to feel that way again.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 24:18
Exactly. Like I want to ask you this question girl to girl. So you know when we fall off track with our eating and we eat junk, not junk food, but you know for us it’s Yeah, food, but and we do it. How many days does it take you to get back on board? For me? It takes up to three to four days to not feel foggy and inflamed. How about you?

Debra Muth 24:40
Yeah, I was gonna say the same thing about three to four days before I’m not like my joints are hurting. I’m getting up like an old lady. And then I’m like, Oh, was that really worth it? Because the older I get the less it’s worth it for me to feel bad for three days over one thing or two things you know,

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 24:59
Absolutely not one If it absolutely were, I used to be able to drink red wine like, no problem. Not anymore.

Debra Muth 25:08
Either. I get the flushing right away from it. And my husband laughs He’s like, you’re really going to drink that. Because you know, you’re going to be in bed in like an hour. And I’m like, I know what it’s so good. And so I just have a couple of sips, because he’s right, I’ll be ready for bed. I’ll be like, I just need to go to sleep somewhere.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 25:29
I know, I know. Cool, great. Some relate,

Debra Muth 25:35
I can relate. So it’s about if women are listening to us, and they can totally resonate with what we’re talking about. I’m sure there’s people that can understand this feeling. What kind of advice would you give them of where to start or what to look at, to get their health back?

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 25:55
First, get a piece of paper, and a pen. And I want you to consider that piece of paper and a pen, as your blank canvas of your life with the paintbrush, and you got the paintbrush in your hand and decide what you want. Who do you want to be? What do you want to look? What do you want your life your health to look like? Because Deb, you and I know how to get people there. Yeah, but people have to know, what do they want to be? Who do they want to be? How do they want to feel? You know, have that image and be honest with yourself as to where you are right now. You’re here right now? How does it feel? Do you want to stay here? Or do you want to make the choice of this is who I want to be. So that’s number one is be brutally honest of where you want to go. Because we our brains, we’ve got this thing in the back of our brain called the reticular activating system. Don’t worry, I won’t test you on that. But the thing is that the reticular activating system is like your GPS, it will get you to where you want to go. And if you don’t know where you want to go, then you’ll get there because you’ll be like a paper cup in the wind in a parking lot. And you’ll end up wherever. But if you know exactly where you want to go, then your GPS will get you there, it will bring in the this is what’s so beautiful. It will bring in the right doctors, it will bring in the right podcasts, it’ll bring in the right teachings, the right books, the right mentors to get you there. But you have to do the hard work and the honest work of figuring out what does your life what’s your life gonna be like? It’s your choice.

Debra Muth 27:55
It’s so powerful. And you’re so right. Like, we have to be able to know what we want our life to be like, I remember when I started out in this business, I was really young, and I was working with postmenopausal women. And I could see them all and they’d get to this certain age and they were just like, I’m done, and telling people what I think I don’t care anymore. I’m not holding back anything. And I’m not living the next 40 years of my life like this anymore. I’m changing it now. And I remember thinking, Gosh, that that’s what happens when you go through menopause like you just don’t care anymore. You’re just like, I’m done. I kept thinking, why I can’t wait to be able to get to that place where I could just tell people what I think. And then they would get scared about it. So I’m like, oh my god, am I gonna turn my whole life upside down when I get into menopause. But it taught me a lot early on. Like, you don’t have to live your life in a place that you’re not happy. And wait till you get to menopause to say, I’m done. I’m starting over again. We have that ability every day that we wake up to say, I don’t want my life to be like this. I want it to be like that and focus on what you do want it to be like instead of what it is or what you don’t want it to be. And it was such a big blessing for me and a learning experience to be able to see women go through that transitional time at a at a young age.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 29:17
Yeah. Wow, that is a blessing. I do have children.

Debra Muth 29:21
I have three. Yeah,

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 29:23
I’ve got two daughters, my husband and I it’s they’re not just mine. It’s my husband and I we all work together to get this. My daughter’s are our daughters are in their 20s and they’re once once frustrated, the other ones doing great and I’m like, remember you got I remember she took off when she was 18 years old to Costa Rica to help with the with the turtles. And I go honey, I’m so proud of you. You’ve got the blank canvas. I start teaching this early and you got the paintbrush and you’re painting the life you want. So I just keep on saying to people paint the life you want and Go chase it down. Number two that I would say is you are the doctor. You are, you’ve got an inner Dr. Albert Schweitzer taught me this. You have an inner Doctor inside of you that knows exactly what you’re supposed to do. When you go to another doctor, they are your second opinion, they help draw that out of you, that that inner wisdom, you know, I just, I just onboarded a client for the, for the Recode protocol to reverse cognitive decline. And she sent me an email, she goes some quotes, something is just not right. I love those. That’s her inner doctor, talking to me saying something’s not just right. And I said, Great. Let’s get on a discovery call and, and on the Discovery call, I saw her inner doctor telling me what’s going on. I’m like, great. My ears. I gotcha. I hear what you’re saying. And we did the same thing. Where do you want to be a year from now? Where do you want to be five years? Where do you want to be? 40 years from now? Okay. Then this is what we got it. This is the bridge. This is what we got to do. Are you ready? She said yes. And I go, let’s go. That’s awesome.

Debra Muth 31:36
Well, you know, sometimes just having somebody acknowledge that what you are feeling inside is normal for you, or abnormal for you that there’s something going on. I think it’s so powerful for people. Because so many times they’re discounted. But I love that story. Because I’m the same way. Like I listen to people’s stories, and I’m an auditory person. So I listen to the story. And I’m pulling things out as they’re telling me stuff and my brains working and putting all the connections together. And they’re like, I don’t know how this fits. And I’m like, Oh, that’s okay, girl. I gotcha. I know how this. Just keep bringing it. We’re putting it all together in the right places. And, and really, that’s all you need is you need somebody that can help put it all together for you. And then create the plan to help you get where you want to be.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 32:24
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. For sure. I love Yeah, you and I are so much alike. And then the third thing, and I love that you get this because not everybody gets us. But the third thing is hold on to hope. Yeah. Hope is the happy anticipation that something good is going to happen. And that something good is that picture that you and I are both heading, helping you get to, and your reticular activating system.

Debra Muth 32:57
I love that. And you know, this is where the what do you call it that vision boards come in, right? If you want to go certain places, and you can’t keep it in your head, just create a vision board, cut out pictures, put it on the wall, you know, put things in your phone to remind you if you need those triggers to remind you like this is a good day, this is positive. This is what I’m working towards. Having a phone is so amazing for that these days, because it can remind you I have reminders that pop up all the time to tell me why I’m doing what it is I’m doing so I don’t ever forget or lose sight of why I’m on the mission that I am to help people. And so it just comes up every day and I go oh yeah. And I see it at the time that I need it. Where I’m like, why am I doing this? I’m exhausted. People are driving me nuts in my office and not my patients. It’s usually my office staff. And it’s like, okay, and then I get reactivated again. And then the positive part can come up and the negative part can go back down again.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 33:55
Right? Yeah, absolutely. I know you just kind of sit back and go okay. Yeah. Okay, let’s take a look at this. Because we’re always in the go. Mode rice always. But even a car has to park. Yeah, or, or be neutral for a moment. Just go okay. Yeah. All right, here’s, that’s where we’re going.

Debra Muth 34:17
And we got to fill it with gas. And so we’ve got to fill our cup up again. And everybody has a different way of doing that. But it’s good to stop and take a breath and fill ourselves back up again and then move on and then keep going in life.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 34:32
Right? And don’t ever stop now. Like I’ve I’ve got a vision board in my mind of what I want to look like at 100. Seriously, you know, like what do I want, but the training starts right now. You know, I’m not gonna get there if I started 98. Exactly. Exactly. And my mom is 97 years young living independently in her fifth floor apartment in Washington, DC and She’s living independently and she does her laundry. And she’s like, I’m like, Mom, oh my gosh, I kind of start working on this. Because if that’s my genetics, which which it is on her side, like, Okay, I’m gonna end I’m not going to end up like everybody else we’re seeing out there. What is the dead? What was the latest statistics about? That 94% of Americans are metabolically unwell. And it’s only like 6% that are metabolically flexible.

Debra Muth 35:38
Yeah, I would agree those numbers are probably pretty close.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 35:42
And that’s sad. We got a lot of work to do.

Debra Muth 35:46
We do and the younger we can start, the better it is because you won’t have to reverse a lot of disease if we can start young enough, because we’ll just have a nice foundation and a good terrain.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 35:57
Right. Yeah. And the the kids, kids are the kids that are on antidepressants at such an early age. I’m like, nobody’s looking at their the foods, they’re eating the gut health.

Debra Muth 36:14
And yeah, it’s the artificial dyes and sweeteners, and all of those things that if we just took those out of the diet, many of the kids wouldn’t need the medications they have. And what’s with the statins being prescribed at nine and 10 years old.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 36:29
I mean, I don’t we’re not doing that here. What’s Oh, because because the kids are starting to get a high cholesterol.

Debra Muth 36:35
Yeah. And heart disease early on already,

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 36:39
Right? Bypass Surgery in when they’re 18 or 19. I’m like, Oh, well, you know, look at what they’re eating.

Debra Muth 36:48
Yeah, exactly. It’s bad. I mean, I’ve sown bad, some fizzy. On McDonald’s three times a day, they go breakfast, lunch and dinner. And I’m just like, Oh my gosh. I’m not good. Not at all.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 37:06
Like, that’s normal, then people’s normals, which I’m like, Oh, my God. So yeah, it’s a choice.

Debra Muth 37:16
It is a choice. And we can either be healthy from the get go, or you can spend a lot of time money and energy being unhealthy on the backside and trying to reverse the damage that’s happened, instead of laying a good foundation from the beginning.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 37:32
Yeah, and I’m all for being healthy.

Debra Muth 37:36
Me too and it’s good that we have the tools to review reverse things, you know, but the sooner the better. You know, I tell people to at the beginning of the symptoms, don’t wait until it’s three years out to do something, do something when it’s three months out, because it’s way easier for us to reverse stuff when it’s only three to six months, or even a year or two versus it’s been 15 years like this. And now we’re trying to reverse it.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 38:00
So go got a lot. Don’t you think that’s got a lot to do with just denial that it’s just easier to push it down? Push it down? Oh, it’s not bothering. It’s not that bad. Yeah, it’s not bad. Or I don’t have time or Yeah, I don’t have diabetes yet. Like yet. Don’t even put it in. Don’t you dare put that on your picture board.

Debra Muth 38:22
Exactly. Exactly. We’re going to reverse that. So it never comes. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You know, we’ve done a disservice to a lot of people even speaking about diabeetus because the, you know, I have patients that are diabetic, and they’re just like, well, you know, the diabetic nurse educator just told me to take more insulin if I have that dessert. And it’s like,

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 38:44
Oh, they they, I know. Yeah,

Debra Muth 38:47
And yet here we go, you know, amputating parts and not having cognitive function and having a heart attack, because we’re adjusting that insulin, you know, to just lower the blood sugar because that’s all it is, is lowering the blood sugar, it’s not doing any other damage to us.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 39:02
Instead of instead of now get this instead of teaching people how to have their good macronutrients carbohydrate, protein and fat, good ones with their food may be putting on a continuous glucose monitor. Yeah, teaching them showing them doing a visual of what happens to your blood sugar. What happens to your blood sugar when you eat these foods, and then teach them when your blood sugars go up? insulin goes up. And once insulin has put the sugar into the cells and the cells go, I can’t take any more sugar than insulin will say I got to put it somewhere so it stores it as fat so that people can see okay, you’re storing these many grams or these many ounces of fat now might make people aware of what they’re putting in their mouth. There is As affecting their body, instead of this one pill magic stuff, or titrating, up the insulin, I came to that realization in 2012 with the increase of diabetes, and one of the doctors was like, hey, I need you to learn how to start increasing insulin in the clients. And I was like, No, I want to teach people how to decrease income off there. And they’re depressed. And they’re, they’re diabetic medication because they can, yes, they can back then they were like, No, once you’ve got diabetes, you can’t. And I was like, Have you read any books lately about diabetes and how you can reverse it? So now, people know that they can reverse diabetes, right? Yeah. But still, they have to make the choice, right?

Debra Muth 40:48
It’s Yes, it’s not easy. You’ve got to be committed. And you’ve got to be willing to do the hard work. And that means you have to learn how to cook at home and not eat junk food and not manipulate your your insulin, but manipulate your food and your lifestyle and those kinds of things. And if you’re willing to do that, it can happen.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 41:09
You know, it can happen. And that’s what I love about functional medicine. It can happen. Yeah, but you’re you’re the missing ingredient.

Debra Muth 41:17
You are. Oh my gosh, Isabel, this has been fantastic. We could talk all day. I love this. Yes. How can people find you? And if they want to work with you heard it? What does that look like?

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 41:33
It’ll be in the show notes. Right? Yes. So we do have a free Facebook group for women. Sorry, guys. But for women only called optimizing women’s brain health. Just search on Facebook for optimizing women’s brain health. And that’s where my husband, who’s the chef, and the nutritional coach here at Dr. On a mission and myself and we just coach and help people. And then also you can go to Dr on a mission.com. That’s D o c t o r on a mission.com. And there’s lots of freebies there. And let me see if if you are in America, or New Zealand or Australia, I work to help reverse and prevent cognitive decline through the pre Code Protocol and the Recode protocol. So you can just contact us there. I love that on our website.

Debra Muth 42:28
Yeah, thank you. So for those of you who are driving or working out, don’t worry about writing down but she said it will be in the show notes. You can check that out there. You can check that out on social. We will have it in all of those wonderful places for you to find. So yeah, thank you so much for being with us today.

Dr. Isabel Hunsinger 42:45
Thank you, Debbie. Have a super fantastic evening.

Debra Muth 42:48
Thank you. You too. Hey, it has been really great sharing this time with you guys on the let’s talk wellness now podcast. If this episode has helped you or you feel as though this episode would help someone else we’d love for you to leave us a review. Share this podcast. And if you don’t want to miss the most exciting episodes we have coming. We’d love for you to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes or Google Play. Until next time, live every day to the fullest

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Do you want your doctor to prescribe hormones? Why you don’t want your doctor to prescribe your hormones is a bigger question? You need a specialist to prescribe hormones. Someone who will optimize your hormones for you as an individual. Ricky Brandon from Hormone Balance Centers share his experience about hormones therapy and why it’s important to optimize them not minimize them. 

Do not miss these highlights:

05:15 Ricky’s experience with a midwife who had double the experience of the doctor.

12:14 How Ricky and his wife cope with her postpartum depression.

14:09 How Dr. Jones helped Ricky’s wife recover.

18:09 How having low testosterone affected Ricky’s life

19:37 Ricky’s mission of creating a clinic,  an environment where they attracted doctors who want to make a difference

21:22 Insurance is a business, it’s limiting people’s belief of what’s possible.

28:48 It is unfortunate how doctors get hung up on this protocol insurance – Our healthcare system is a business.

33:27 The Hippocratic Oath

37:37 Natural hormone versus synthetic or bioidentical hormone.

39:30 Hormones control other hormones in the body. Right hormone balance will extend your life and the quality of your life .

50:13 Calling them patients versus calling them a client.

51:33 Why women need testosterone.

Resources Mentioned

Whether you are recovering from an illness or just looking to maintain your current overall health, schedule a consult with us at Serenity Health Care  by calling  (262)522-8640 or visit https://www.serenityhealthcarecenter.com 

About our Guest:

Ricky Brandon is a health and wellness advocate. He and his wife Candy started Hormone Balance Centers because they could not find the high level of care they desired for their own family. After years of searching, thousands of hours in training, research, and trial, and error, he has finally landed on the process and system that mixes traditional medicine with alternative medicine and helps people feel great again and live younger and longer with natural hormone replacement therapy.

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Transcript of Episode 193

Debra Muth 0:02Welcome to Let’s Talk Wellness. Now, I’m your host, Dr. Deb. This is where we talk about everything wellness, and learn to defy aging, and live our lives on our own terms. Welcome back to Let’s Talk wellness. Now, I’m your host, Dr. Deb and I have with me today, Ricky Brandon. Ricky is a Health and Wellness Advocate. He and his wife, Cindy started hormone balance centers because they could not find the level of care they desired for their own family. And after years of searching 1000s of hours in training, research, trial and error, he has finally landed on a process and a system that mixes traditional medicine with alternative medicine, and helps people feel great again and live longer with natural hormone therapy. So I want to talk to Ricky today because you guys know that I am an advocate for bio identical hormones. And I have been for a very, very long time. I’ve been in this industry 25 years, I’ve used and prescribed bioidentical hormones for that entire time. My love started out in fertility work. And so understanding hormones has been such a gift for me. And helping women look and feel their best has made such a huge difference in my life and the lives of so many people that I work with. And I’m so blessed to have this background and this knowledge. So being able to talk to Ricky today about what they’ve found in the bio identical hormone world. And coming from an advocate perspective, I think is amazing. Because, you know, this is the biggest thing is we have to learn to advocate for ourselves for our own health and well being. And for all of the things that we want in our lives and all of the things that we want our life to be, whether it’s health, whether it’s work life balance, whether it’s finances, whatever that is, that’s where we want that to be. So I’m going to bring Ricky on we’re going to have this conversation without any further ado, let’s get started chatting with him. Have you seen 20 Plus medical doctors only to be told your symptoms are in your head, or you need an antidepressant? We understand your frustrations? Are you tired of feeling sick and tired? Tired of not getting the answers you need to regain your health, tired of not feeling listened to by your doctor at Serenity Health Care Center, we understand and we will help you find the cause of your symptoms. Together we will create a path to health. We specialize in combining the best of conventional and natural medicine to get you back to doing what you love. We have worked with the most complex chronic diseases such as chronic Lyme COVID, long haulers, autoimmune disease, mold, toxicity, and hormonal imbalances. But if you’re not sick, that’s fantastic. We will work with you to maintain your health so that you can prevent illness. give our office a call to see how we can help you regain your health and vitality at 262-522-8640. Or check us out at our website at Serenity health care. center.com. Welcome back to Let’s Talk wellness. Now I’m so glad to have my guest here with me today. And as you guys know, we talked briefly before we brought him on. We’re going to talk all things hormones, which is one of my favorite topics. So welcome to the show.

Ricky Brandon 3:57Awesome. I’m so excited to be here. And I can’t wait. I can’t wait to have this conversation with you because I love it.

Debra Muth 4:03I do too. I love it. And I love what you guys are doing and what your mission stands for and why you’re doing the things that you’re doing. So, Ricky, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got started and your journey.

Ricky Brandon 4:19Yeah, so by by trade actually long time ago, I’ll call it my past life, not a literal past life. But the other life I lived I was in the entertainment industry. And I worked for magicians in Las Vegas and it was exciting and all of that. And then I met my wife and we got married and we had our first kid. And while we were having our first kid his name’s Carter, he’s now 16 We we were on the fence of what to do right I kind of dabbled in hormone on not hormones but in natural medicine and herbs and I had lots of friends in the herbal and industry. And, and I had heard that midwives give great care, this is a little different story than the one you’ve read, I’m giving you a little more because I feel prompted to. So I’m gonna do that so. And so we’re about to have our first kid and my wife was worried because she had had back surgery in a snowboarding accident. And she was, she was told that when she had back surgery that she would never carry a child fault, or that she would be on bed rest and all of this stuff. She was also told that her back would have to be fused within five years. And it never was, she just, she just did everything she was supposed to do and took good care of herself. And she never had to have a fuse. Now it’s been 20 something years since then. And she’s still going strong. And we’ve had four kids. But this this first story, right? We’re going to the doctor, the regular doctor, and I’m not anti doctor, so please, nobody get that idea. As I tell these stories doctors save lives. And they’ve saved one of my child’s lives. And so, but we’re going to I heard you get great prenatal care from a midwife. So our plan was go to the midwife for prenatal care, and deliver in the hospital with a doctor, because my wife was scared to have her first baby because of her back. And as we’re going along, I am asking questions, right? Both of us are asking questions. And we go to the doctor, we ask a question. And he would say something like that. Don’t worry about it. That’s my job. And we go away with all this doubt and anxiety, right? Then we’d go to the midwife a couple days later, and I’d ask the same question. And she would take 40 minutes, and teach us. And all of a sudden, our anxiety and fear would go away. Yeah. And the longer we went on, I’m like, Man, the doctor just kind of dismisses us. And the midwife empowers us. And as we got closer, I said to my wife, you know, we asked the midwife Do you think? Do you think she could deliver her baby at home? Do you think we could do that? And she says, Well, yeah. And what about her back? She goes, No problem. And then then we asked how many babies she had delivered. And we asked the doctor, how many babies he had delivered. And the midwife had like, double, double the experience of the doctor. Wow. And then we’re talking to her and she goes, she says that it was awesome. She goes, Look, kids, and she has an older lady, she goes, Look, kids, I, if I lose a baby, I don’t work anymore. If the doctor loses a baby, he has a an insurance claim. And maybe some discomfort going to court or something like that. She goes, I care about you. I’m not anti Doctor, I’m going to be the first one to call a doctor, if we’re in trouble. She goes, but if everything’s going fine, your body was made to deliver babies. And she taught me all of this stuff about about why doctors induce and about how they, what the what the water sack does and why it’s there. And, and all of this stuff. So I found myself the reason the entertainment part is important. All these girls, the showgirls who I worked around, some of them were having their first babies. And within, I don’t know, I would come to work and I would talk about all this stuff that I was learning. And I would have ...