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It’s not enough that covid causes acute illness but it also causes Piron disease, vaccine-acquired immune deficiency and more… Dr. Deb shares what you can do in order to protect yourself and decrease inflammation.

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02:49 There was a promising Australian candidate for the Coronavirus vaccine that has been abandoned after trial when participants returned a false positive HIV result

06:09 Another article talked about the Australian Government abandoning the COVID vaccine, cancelling roughly $750 million because of several dozen positive HIV participants in the trial study

07:50 Dr. Luke Montenegro, a French neurologist, who discovered HIV claimed all along that the Coronavirus originated in a lab and that it was a manmade virus

11:00 A rare case of false-positive immunodeficiency viruses of HIV in COVID-19 patients

13:34 We can expect to see an increase risk of VAIDS (vaccine acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) which were also calling immune erosion much more widely in the future

16:46 Vaccinated individuals have been shown to have much higher viral loads, and have the potential to spread that infection to other people unknowingly

17:18 The New England Journal of Medicine researchers found that autoimmune response to the Coronavirus spike protein may last indefinitely

19:34 A video from Dr. Zelenko talking about vaccine-induced AIDS

24:17 Dr. Zelenko talks about what’s happening to our children and what’s happening in our school systems – Giving them a safe environment prevented them from getting a poisoned shot

29:28 An audio recording from Dr. Fleming, a cardiologist who is talking about the HIV structure

36:10 Sars-CoV-2 virus and vaccine shut down the P53 which helps our bodies recognize cancer cells and protects against cancer

39:04 Different bacterias, viruses and parasites can actually get into the blood-brain barrier

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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Dr. Deb and Dr. Chalmers talk about the benefits for women to use testosterone to build muscle, increase metabolism and enjoy amazing sex! Is it all estrogen or all testosterone for women? Listen to the experts. 

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07:10 Why women need testosterone hormones

08:28 There’s been studies to prove that women who have deficient testosterone have a significantly increased risk of breast cancer

10:45 Testosterone gives your heart a protection 

12:31 Having no sex drive or no sexual function is not okay

17:50 Testosterone substantially increases your metabolism

18:52 What happens to women’s metabolism as they age and how testosterone reestablishes that metabolic rate for women in 50’s

22:53 How stress could affect testosterone level even in late 20’s or 30’s 

30:47 Testosterone helps a lot with energy and sex drive but we’ve also got to consider the physiology needs

32:43 Women are the linchpin of the family, the glue that holds everyone together, If they fall down and fall apart, the whole family falls apart

39:30 If we want to live that quality of life the way we want it to be… We have to take wellness and health seriously

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. Matt Chalmers is a health and wellness expert, author and speaker who specializes in the areas of long-term wellness, nutrition, women’s health, weight loss, athlete wellness and holistic healing. With a client list that includes professional athletes, business executives, politicians and celebrities, Dr. Chalmers takes a holistic-based approach with patients to identify and treat the source of their issues. Medical doctors regularly refer patients to Dr. Chalmers when traditional medications and treatments are not working with their patients. Dr. Chalmers works with patients to identify, treat and manage a wide variety of issues, including weight loss/gain, digestive problems, chronic fatigue, pain, injuries, celiac disease, chiropractic problems, fibromyalgia, carpal tunnel syndrome and plantar fasciitis. He also provides patients with hormone therapy guidance and treatment. Dr. Chalmers is the author of the bestselling book “Pillars of Wellness,” which helps readers cut through the information overload about wellness, exercise and diet to figure out the actions they can take that will have the greatest impact. The book details how to fuel the body physically, mentally and spiritually. Dr. Chalmers received his degree of Doctor of Chiropractic from Parker Chiropractic College in Dallas. He has a Bachelor of Science in Health and Wellness, is a Certified Clinical Chiropractic Neurologist, a Certified Chiropractic Sports Practitioner and has additional certifications in spinal decompression and quantum reflex analysis. He currently lives in Dallas with his wife. More information is available at www.ChalmersWellness.com.

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Transcript for Episode #161:

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 to Let’s Talk Wellness Now.

I’m your host, Dr. Deb and I have with you with me today, Dr. Chalmers and he and I are going to talk all about hormones, sex, testosterone, and how it not only affects your ability for a great sex life, but also how it affects your cognitive ability, and the ability for you to stay in the game longer in your work life in your home life. And we even talk about why moms need to take care of themselves, and use testosterone so that they can benefit from all of the amazing things that hormones do for us. I am super excited to have Dr. Chalmers with me today. Because all of you know that I love talking about hormones, it’s one of my favorite topics to talk about. And there are so many aspects that hormones can benefit us if we know how to do them. And we know how to do them. Right. So let’s get started here, right after a message from one of our sponsors.

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Welcome back to Let’s Talk Wellness Now. I’m your host, Dr. Deb. And I have an exciting guest with me today. And we are going to talk about one of my favorite topics that you guys know I love to talk about. So welcome to the show.

Dr. Matt Chalmers 2:56Thank you very much. How are you guys?

We’re fantastic here. Where are you from?

Frisco, Texas. So basically Dallas.

Debra Muth 3:03All right, so you’re in the heat of the area. I’m in the north. So we’re Wisconsin. It’s cold here right now. But actually, we’re having a heatwave. It’s like 39 degrees today. So we’re loving it.

Dr. Matt Chalmers 3:16You can have all of that.

Debra Muth 3:18Well, I say the same thing in the summertime, you can have the heat of Texas.

Dr. Matt Chalmers 3:22I’ll take it. I’ll take it. It’s a fair trade.

Debra Muth 3:25Alright. Well tell us a little bit about yourself.

Dr. Matt Chalmers 3:29So, you know, it’s kind of funny, because the way that I got into the wellness game, I had a patient come in for a disk issue. And he just sold his business for $27 million. The guy’s a yummy, 60 years old. And I start talking about like, what are you going to do? That sounds amazing. I know what I would do. I said, there’s this really cool path where you land in Normandy and you go down, you follow this world war two trail unit in Italy. And it’s it’s great. And he has stopped his My knees hurt so bad. When I get to the top of the stairs, I gotta sit down arrest because I can’t walk my dogs around the block without getting tired. He’s like, so I’m not going to Italy. He said there’s some restaurants I want to try. And there’s some TV shows I want to catch up on. He’s like, so that’s my plan. I’m like, okay, cool. So I walk out the room, and I just kind of lost it. I was like, This guy has worked his whole life. He’s got all the money in the world. He’s still young, but he’s traded his health and so much that he cannot do any of the things that you’d want to do when you retire. I said, that’s I can’t be me. How do I not be that person. So that’s led me on this long journey of figuring out the best way to look forward and be proactive and fix things before they happen. And so that’s basically what wellness is for me. And so that’s kind of where this all started and how I kind of got into it. So that’s more or less what’s going on in a nutshell.

Debra Muth 4:43I love that Dr. Chalmer. So I see that same thing. There’s so many people who have worked their entire life to get to a place where now they have the time, money and no energy and no physical capacity to do what they love. And this leads us into the company procession of women, right? Because women do this all the time, we burn the candle at both ends, we’re working hard. We’re given our love and our affection to the kids and to everyone else, until it comes time to give that same love and affection to our partners. And then we can’t do that anymore, because we’ve given it all away someplace else. Correct. So tell us how you got interested in working with the female population.

Dr. Matt Chalmers 5:25So it’s kind of strange. I didn’t really I wasn’t really ever geared towards women, I do kind of more or less the same amount of work with women than I do with men. The problem is that nobody does any work with women. So it just kind of looks like I do a tremendous amount of things for women. And I’m just like, No, I just, they’re just people. And so you know, I work on them, like I work on them. But like I said, No one works on women. I mean, I try so hard to push back against the stereotype that women get the shaft in every aspect of life. Because I don’t think that’s true, but it is 100% true in medicine. We still have women who their doctors won’t prescribe them testosterone. We have women who their doctors, you know, are not looking at them properly. They’re not looking at the psychological function. They’re not looking at, you know, the stresses that go into these women. So it’s, it’s very, very, I just feel like there...

Dr. Mitchel Yass shares with Dr. Deb how to identify the real source of pain. Surgery isn’t the answer! Because it isn’t the joint that typically causes the pain. There are things you can do that can fix the pain. 

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09:09 In more than 98% of cases of pain, the cause is muscular, literally associated with muscle weakness or imbalance

12:02 What junk science correlative theory is

13:48 Structural variations are like wrinkles on the face – Every structural variation are defamation of the original structure

17:23 In more than 98% of those cases with a structural variation diagnosis and scheduled for surgery, the actual issue creating the symptom was muscle

21:17 Muscles are the tissue responsible for function

27:11 Getting revisions is now more plentiful than the original surgeries

29:22 When did this concept of medicating the pain or this concept of masking symptoms medication start

32:25 If you keep treating the structural variations, but the muscle tissue continues to be in distress, it continues to elicit your pain – Therefore, you have chronic pain

34:58 People now equate Chronic pain with chronic illness, but chronic pain and chronic illnesses are completely separate issues

36:37 The reason you’re having chronic pain is probably because you received the wrong initial diagnosis 

37:26 What is the primary thing to do to understand disease

42:31 Strengthen the muscle until its force output is greater than the force requirement

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. Mitchell Yass is the creator of the Yass method which has been utilized to resolve the pain of thousands, including those who had surgery to resolve their pain with no improvement afterwards. He has been treating patients for almost 3 decades using his unique approach of interpreting the body’s presentation of symptoms to identify the tissue eliciting the symptoms versus the false premise that the cause of pain can be identified by diagnostic tests like the MRI. Dr. Yass has authored three books; The Yass Method For Pain-Free Movement, The Pain Cure Rx and Overpower Pain. He performed a nationally televised PBS special which ran from 2015- 2017 called The Pain Prescription. Yass has been recognized for his work on many nationally syndicated radio interviews and in many publications including Bottomline Health and was given a cover story in August, 2016, March 2017, January, 2018 and May 2019 in What Doctors Don’t Tell You (this magazine is sold in 20 countries and translated into 14 languages). His method is now being utilized virtually and has helped people in multiple countries reclaim their lives. His goal is to see his method become the standard of care in diagnosing and treating chronic pain so people worldwide can see their pain resolved and a return to normal functional capacity achieved. http://www.livewithoutpains.com

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Dr. Deb shares information on how microvessel clotting occurs and what testing and treatment is available based on information we have today.

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04:53  The S1 spike protein induces something called fibrinogen resistance that leads to microvessel clots

06:03 It is also seen that antibodies and autoantibodies are produced, which contribute to clotting and other long haul symptoms

06:38 Amyloid clotting is a special kind of clotting, it’s not regular clotting

08:12 If you believe that you have been injured from the infection either you have COVID Long Haul or  been injured by the vaccine, talk to your health care practitioner right away

09:36 We’re probably going to see a lot of people die from this microvessel clotting due to it not being detected early enough

10:41 Long COVID not only damages the lungs, but it causes disease in the vascular system

11:46 Platelets role in blood clotting 

14:34 What we see happening due to COVID patients or COVID vaccine patients is the spike protein in the blood instigates clotting

17:46 If the platelet itself becomes activated and even damaged, it will cause more clotting

20:21 Amyloid clots cannot be replaced with a healthy cell causing them to be very dangerous. Over time, it will cause so much clotting and there will be a threat of Thrombocytopenia or a bleeding state

23:05 By the time we see an abnormal D-dimer, it’s actually too late – The situation should be identified early before a number of clots and vascular damage appears

Resources MentionedWhether 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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The choice is living with pain or being able to do more with pain? Pain is an individualized expression that no two people are alike. Dr. Alan shows us how to get to the root cause of pain and how to manage the pain to expand your life.

Do not miss these highlights:

11:28 You don’t treat the disease, you treat the person, the injury is in their life

12:21 Appreciating the person’s life and what they really need is a big part of the treatment

16:06 We have an existential immune system, an infinite potential – There is no such thing as being helpless or being without options

16:48 Every human experience is translated into thoughts and feelings – Feelings are much more important than thoughts in terms of being able to survive

19:33 It’s about mastering chronic pain, not managing

22:30 It’s hard to be a doctor dealing with chronic conditions because they are trained to cure

25:13 Patients are partners in treatment

34:00 How people with chronic illness who are being left hopeless could survive emotionally and physically

37:07 Thriving is living in possibility, Surviving is living in helplessness, But there are always possibilities

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. Alan Weisser, JD, PhD, and his group at New Options, Inc., a pain management practice, has an extensive background in working with the psychological problems people face when they are living with complex and chronic pain problems. Working at New Options, Inc., he has participated in multi-disciplinary teams that has forged successful collaborations between patients, claim managers, medical practices and agencies including The University of Washington Rehabilitation Department, Puget Sound Sports and Spine Physicians, Labor and Industries, other physicians, rehabilitation specialists and community resources. He has presented on New Options approach to care to physicians at the University of Washington, Labor and Industries, the National Society of Spine Surgeons, the Trial Lawyers Association, and numerous medical and rehabilitation practices. By focusing on collaborative and realistic goals, and practices, within a coherent clinical model, his practice has provided support that empowered chronic pain patients to transition from dysfunction and disability to empowerment and recovery. He looks forward to sharing concepts and techniques for working with people suffering from chronic pain and medical conditions.

Dr. Weisser is uniquely qualified to lead others in experiences of self-discovery. When he was 12 years old, he broke his neck in a diving accident at a local swimming pool. Though he nearly died, he developed an unshakable belief that he could and would recover. During this two-year recovery, he came to understand that it was not just physical pain that affected him. The injury had caused a high level of emotional suffering and self-confidence was severely shaken. His former approach to life, based on taking risk and challenging himself, seemed entirely out of reach. In reaction to this, he engaged in many growth-related activities including becoming a trial lawyer and taking up martial arts, which eventually led to an emerging need for a more profound change in his life. 

Back in New York City with his life reimagined, he began his pursuit of a degree in clinical psychology. His studies led to working with the chronically mentally ill in a state mental hospital for many years. This work deepened his understanding that treating any kind of human pain required understanding and treating a person’s whole life. To do that you need to learn what is meaningful and inspiring to them. 

A move to Seattle in the late 1990’s led Dr. Weisser to applying his evolved awareness, skills and knowledge in dealing with chronic mental, emotional, and physical suffering. In 2002 he founded New Options in Seattle where he has become a highly respected clinician working with patients who suffer with chronic physical and emotional pain. He has developed a systematic way to help them discover their potential and their abilities, and master chronic conditions. 

Website: newoptionsinc.com 

Book: “New Possibilities: Unraveling the Mystery and Mastering Chronic Pain”: https://tinyurl.com/2v6eskzy 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-weisser-434541122 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/newoptionsinc 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/newoptionsinc/

Transcript of Episode #158:

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.

Hello, hello, you are listening to Let’s Talk Wellness Now Podcast. Welcome if this is your first time finding us, welcome back if you’ve been with us before, today we’re talking about chronic pain. More than 50 million adults in the US suffer from chronic pain, costing the nation roughly $635 billion annually to treat chronic pain. Chronic Pain is a crazy thing for people to live with. And everyone’s threshold in dealing with pain is very different. For some people, a little bit of pain, puts them out, leads them to looking for medication, or alcohol or marijuana, all kinds of different things to help alleviate that pain. And for other people, we can see them suffer with such severe pain, and never take an Advil for it. So the question is, why do some people need medication? Why can some people get away without medicating? And how do we deal with this extreme chronic pain syndrome that we’re dealing with in our country today? Because it is one of the biggest reasons why we have addiction. Because people are looking for a way to medicate themselves. So they can continue their daily activities. And this has been a major problem in our country, both from an addiction standpoint and a financial standpoint. And from a standpoint of people just losing their livelihood, losing their ability to do the things that they love, and the things that are so important to them. Their families miss out their children miss out there’s just so many complications that are resulting from chronic pain. So my guest today, Alan Weiser is a pain specialist, a chronic pain specialist, where he works in Seattle to help people overcome and master the pain management situation, master the psychology around it, master the pain itself. And he’s going to share a story with us about him being 12 years old and diving off a swimming pool. You can imagine what comes next after this if if he went down the road of dealing with chronic pain. So Dr. Alan Weisser is joining us today from new options Inc, a pain management practice. He has an extensive background in working with the psychology psychological problems people face when they’re living with complex and chronic pain problems. So we’re gonna bring on Dr. Weisser in just a second. First we’re going to go to our sponsor, and hear a quick note from them.

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 hollers 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 Serenityhealthcarecenter.com.

Well, welcome back to the show. I have Dr. Alan Weisser with me. Did I say that? Right?

Alan Weisser 4:38You got it.

Debra Muth 4:39Perfect. So Dr. Allen, tell us your story. How did you get involved in treating chronic pain?

Alan Weisser 4:45Okay, really quickly. I’m a clinical psychologist, and I’ve specialized in chronic pain for the last 20 years. And before that spent almost that amount of time working with a chronically ill And Leo 10 of those in the state mental hospital in New York. But the story actually begins in my own childhood. So what the work that I do is is not just clinically it’s also it’s also personal to me. And anybody who’s suffered with any persistent or chronic condition can probably relate to this story. So I’m 12 and a half. And as a child, I was what would have been called headstrong. I kind of wanted to figure things out for myself, but I was pretty good at risk taking. So I had this idea that I wanted to learn how to do trick diving on the board, and the swimming pool. Did you know when you do a backflip on a board, you’re supposed to dive out? Not straight up? Oh, I must have missed that lesson. Mm hmm. So I did it incorrectly. I hit the board. I broke my neck. Right. Now, here’s where that story r...

What is an eating disorder? Can too much exercise become an addiction? Where does chronic pain and dietary control come into play? Dr. Kessler shares her story of chronic pain and how she used distinct methods to pull herself out of the physical pain but also the emotional pain she suffered during her eating disorder journey.

Do not miss these highlights:

03:44 Dr. Kessler’s journey on eating disorder and how it affected her life

09:35 What is an eating disorder

11:29 The behaviors are the consequence of what is going on in our heads

13:00 The certain things that Dr. Kessler found to be really helpful in her journey

15:34 One of the biggest problems is – Eating disorder is so secretive

20:01 How your mind plays a huge role when it comes to pain

20:32 How Dr. Kessler treated her back pain and managed it both physically and mentally

23:15 The power of the nervous system on your own healing abilities

25:44 For many people who suffer from chronic pain, there are a lot of trust issues in their own body as well as externally

28:26 How does medication play a role in blocking Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System from being effective

30:55 The connection between eating disorders and chronic pain

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. Kelly Kessler is a licensed physical therapist, wellness coach, and the founder of Optimal You Health and Wellness, LLC. Kelly teaches women who have a history of an eating disorder how to regulate their nervous system to achieve relief from chronic pain. Inspired by her own journey of recovering from an eating disorder and chronic back pain, Kelly has helped many women harness their profound ability to shift from survival mode to thriving. Kelly uses an integrative approach to healing including a personalized audit, education, community support, and actionable steps to create long-lasting results

www.optimalyouhealthandwellness.com 

IG: drkellykessler 

FB: www.facebook.com/optimalyouhealthwellness 

Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC9sSX4En_HhFC6FAraXfiww 

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Transcription for episode: #157:

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. You’re listening to Let’s Talk wellness. Now I’m your host, Dr. Deb, today is February 4 2022. And my guest is Dr. Kelly Kessler, licensed physical therapist, wellness coach and founder of optimal you health and wellness, Kelly and I are going to have a conversation about eating disorders and chronic pain and we’re gonna talk about how the two are similar and how they can be linked together. And not only that, she’s going to give us some tips on how to live our lives in a chronic pain state.

0:49I’ve talked about this before on this show, and I have suffered for many years from an eating disorder myself. I was diagnosed at age 16, with bulimia and really struggled a lot throughout my life with an eating disorder kind of coming and going. And most of the time, it was surrounded by stressful events in my life. And finally, the last time that I actively had a eating disorder episode, I would say was about age 38. And from there, I’ve been pretty good at not reverting back to my old patterns. Although during really stressful times, I see those patterns coming forward again, and reaching for the chocolate or reaching for the things that make you feel good in a really stressful time of your life. And that can be a really big challenge for people. So I’m glad we’re having this conversation today with Kelly, I’m excited to hear some of her tips and tricks that she uses to help people navigate this world of eating conditions because they are very prevalent many times we don’t recognize them as eating disorders and it is a bigger problem than we all want to admit too many times. So we’ll give you a word from our sponsor, and then we’re going to talk with Kelly and dive right into this juicy topic.

2:15Have you seen 20+ 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 help 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 serenityhealthcarecenter.com.

3:34Welcome back. I’m with Dr. Kessler today. And we are talking all about chronic pain and eating disorders. So Dr. Kessler, welcome to the show.

3:42Thank you very much.

3:44So tell us a little bit about who you are and how you got started on this journey.

3:49Sure. So it actually started in very much as a personal journey. So I struggled with an eating disorder for probably about six years of my life. It started basically my late teens and went through my early 20s, where it kind of progressively got worse. So I would, you know, just per summary on what calories I was taking in. And then basically it was just using exercise to combat any calories. So gradually, I would you know, exercise more and more and more to the point where, you know, I was exercising three, four times a day, you know, for at least like two hours at about, you know, each bout, and then it just again continued to escalate to a point where I couldn’t manage my calories with exercise alone. And so I started purging in other ways and part of that was vomiting. So that that was kind of more towards the later years of that eating disorder. So it really got to a point where you know, it just was kind of spiraling out of control. It was consuming my entire life. It was everything I thought about everything centered around my eating order. So I was withdrawing from people I was missing out on a lot of stuff. opportunities, and I’m just in a very dark place in my life. And basically, I can remember a time where, you know, it really got very much out of control. And I kind of, you know, say that’s more of like my turning point where I, you know, was in a really bad place, I had vomited twice, I was shaking, you know, I just was, I was just sitting on the floor, just crying. And I think at that point, I’m like, I can’t live like this anymore. And kind of from that point on, it took me obviously was not a linear journey, but took me many years to kind of get out of that spot, and to a place where I was in a little bit better spot mentally. But unfortunately, after that, I started experiencing chronic back pain. And that then became my next battle that I had to tackle. So again, it was it was kind of like that, you know, led into the chronic back pain. And then again, I had that for many years. And it took me many routes, a lot of dead ends. And again, same thing, not a linear journey, but finally found something that gave me relief and things that gave me relief. And I am now you know, years later, and much better place, mentally, physically, emotionally, and really have feel like I’ve come out of it and can live a great life again. And so that’s really what has inspired me to help other people who may be in the same shoes that I was in at that time.

6:29That I’m so glad that you’re sharing this story, because I think there’s a lot of different levels of eating disorder, right. And just before you and I were talking, I was doing our intro, I had shared the same type of thing. I had an eating disorder at age 16. My story is very similar to yours. It started with just obsessive about what I put in my mouth, and then Exercise Exercise, exercise four or five hours a day, and then purging and it just kind of spiraled. And still today, I’m 50 I won’t tell you exactly how many years I have 50 plus. And I still track my calories every day, I’m still tracking my exercise every day. And I’m not obsessive, like I was about it back in the day. But there are those moments where when you feel like you’re losing control in your life, you pull back to those habits, because that is something you have control over. So it can be a real significant challenge for a lot of us.

7:26Absolutely, yeah. 100%. Yeah, just like you just- speak on it, it’s like becomes that coping mechanism of like a place of comfort, you know, where you know, this, this is something that’s within your control. And, yeah, it is one of the things that you keep resorting back to that’s why it’s so hard to kind of be free from that entirely.

7:44Right. And it’s so easy, you know, exercise is healthy, right? So it’...

Dr. Deb talks about what can be done for Long haulers care. What viruses are being reactivated and how the body is being supported. 

Do not miss these highlights:

00:31 What is COVID Long Haulers

01:37 What a Long Hauler symptoms look like

03:12 What do we do about COVID Long Hauler condition

04:31 Some of the things that we do  at Serenity Health Care for COVID Long Hauler

05:14 The symptoms of COVID Long Haulers that might be a symptom of other chronic infections 

06:03 Couple of things to do if you’re somebody that’s struggling with COVID Long Haulers

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 

Transcription of Episode #156:

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.

0:15
Hi, welcome back to Let’s Talk Wellness Now, I’m your podcast host, Dr. Deb. Today I want to talk to you about COVID long haul syndrome or COVID-19, long haulers, long haulers, whatever we’re wanting to label it right now. So what is COVID Long haulers anyway? What does that term actually mean to us? Well, first and foremost, it means somebody had been sick with COVID and most of the time, they were sicker than just a two day illness. They were sick for 7, 10, 14 days, had a fairly good case of COVID. You know, fever, chills, cough, shortness of breath, nasal congestion, cold and flu-like symptoms, basically. And one of the telltale signs about COVID is the extreme fatigue that people get from it. What we know today is that anyone who’s sick with COVID, beyond seven days is starting to enter into that long haulers realm. At that seven-day mark, if they are not recovering from their symptoms, the spike protein continues to circulate and create inflammation in the body. And potentially you will be one of those people with COVID long haulers. Not always but a good majority of people will suffer from that.

1:37
So what a long haul or symptoms actually look like? Well, for many people, it’s still that ongoing chronic fatigue, it can be crushing in nature, it can be every day, or it could just be randomly like maybe one or two days a month you just have such severe fatigue, you can’t get out of bed, can’t get off the couch. That is usually one of the biggest signs for us. Headaches are another really big problem for people with long haulers muscle pain, joint pain. Third is brain fog. A lot of people complaining of problems with focus, concentration, short term memory, word-finding things like that are really a problem for people with long haulers. And then we can have a whole smattering of other symptoms such as shortness of breath, chest tightness, we call it air hunger, oftentimes, we’re seeing a lot of gastrointestinal problems, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, diarrhea, bloating, pain. We’re also seeing people being triggered with weird skin rashes, or lesions. And then they’re also developing a problem with sensitivity to smell. Maybe chemicals are bothering them, they’re sensitive to smelling things that nobody else smells. For many of these people, they may have not gotten their taste or smell back yet. And for others, they just smell really bizarre things that kind of come and go. These are all signs that you could have a COVID long hauler condition.

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Now, what do we do about COVID, long hauler condition? Well, first and foremost, we want to evaluate the body and see where the inflammation is coming from. And then we need to start calming the inflammation down. So we need to start implementing treatment beyond just vitamin D, vitamin C, and zinc. Those things are great but in a long hauler situation, they’re just not enough to get the infection under control. So we can use multiple herbs, we can use supplements, we can use medication, there are different tests that we can do, we can look at GI function, look at food sensitivities, chemical sensitivities, body overload pretty much is what we’re looking for. If you think of your body as a big rain barrel, over time, the more things you’re exposed to that rain barrel just gets fuller and fuller and fuller. And as it does that, the last thing that comes in just kind of pushes the rain barrel over the edge and the water spills out. Well, our bodies are a lot like that. The more exposures we have over time, the fuller our barrel gets, and then it’s like the last straw. So for a lot of people COVID is just the last straw you’ve been exposed to so many things, haven’t had them under control or didn’t know you had them and now it’s causing a multitude of problems for you. So at Serenity Health Care, some of the things that we do are IV therapy for ozone, we do IV nutrition, we do have some way of testing to visibly see the inflammation in the body. It’s called a thermography. We can do blood testing to evaluate cytokines. Oftentimes COVID is triggering something called mast cell activation syndrome, which in general is this high histamine response that occurs in the body And so we need to use medications like Utadavan or antihistamines and Pepcid, to reduce the histamine overload in the body, we’re also seeing post COVID trigger something called POTS, postural hypotension. So people will get a lot of lightheadedness or dizziness, or when they stand up too quickly, they’re gonna they feel like they’re going to blackout. These are all symptoms of COVID long haulers but they’re also symptoms of other chronic infections that could have been laying dormant in your body for a long time.

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We see different herpes viruses being triggered cold sores, shingles, herpes outbreaks, Epstein Barr is being triggered. cytomegalovirus is are being triggered, so multiple other viruses are being turned on by COVID as well. And so looking at a variety of different supplements that people can use to lower that inflammation, lower that viral load, build the immune system without overstimulating is really important when you’re suffering from COVID long haulers. So I would encourage you, if you’re somebody that’s struggling with COVID, long haulers to do a couple of things. First, be patient with yourself. Give yourself grace, let yourself rest when it needs it. Stop pushing forward, stop pushing so hard. Don’t go do that 40-minute workout when you really don’t feel like it. Just rest, rejuvenate, eat a healthy diet. But in that same token, as you’re trying to eat the healthy diet, try to do a low histamine diet. Foods that have lower histamines in them will not kick up the histamine in your body. So it helps to reduce that inflammatory load. Stay away from foods that are inflammatory so a lot of people have problems with the nightshade family, potatoes, tomatoes, onions, things like that. And they will create more inflammation and more pain in the body. Stay away from white refined sugars, alcohol, white, refined carbohydrates, things like that. Try to get most of your food if you can, from whole food unprocessed things. This will really be helpful for you as you’re trying to move along quicker from some from long haulers illness, and then get with a doctor that’s really educated about long haulers understands a protocol knows how to manipulate the protocol can do testing and offer you a variety of medical management services to get you back to where you want to be quicker and more effectively so you can feel the best you can feel as quickly as possible. So if you’re having problems with COVID, long haulers, please reach out to my clinic, Serenity Health Care Center, talk to my team. We’re happy to help you. We could work with you and your other practitioners to help navigate this situation and get you healthy, stronger, faster.

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Your feeling body (what most people call the emotional body) is the truth of who you are at a feeling level. This layer of you contains the imprints of the emotional aspect of your memories that can become mental or physical symptoms. Controlling these emotional bodies and healing at a subconscious level is an important part of healing chronic illness and Lyme disease. Learn how to heal without having to relive the trauma or event that lead to your illness. 

Do not miss these highlights:

04:31 Catherine’s healing journey of the chronic Lyme Disease

11:42 The six essential pillars to heal from Lyme Disease

15:39 What Emotional Alchemy is

18:10 One of the most difficult decisions that Catherine had to make in order to regain her health, was to quit her nurse practitioner job

21:23 The Energy Equation =  How we generate energy + How we invest energy, divided by the energy leaks

22:35 What is Energy Leaks

26:32 How does one recognize they have these energy leaks

29:17 How a practitioner like Catherine, could help someone having energy leaks

32:44 Reprogramming the subconscious mind – Reprogramming fear and negative thoughts

35:12 All of the memories that we have been imprinted into the subconscious mind

37:51 Working with the body and mind together, bring a whole new level of wholeness and healing

40:16 The most crucial step for somebody to take, is to go from victimhood to captain of their ship

Resources MentionedWhether 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:

Catherine is a Mind-Body Healing Practitioner and Master NLP Transformational Health Coach who works with people who are tired of being tired and worried.She can hear, see and feel the emotional and physical “energy leaks” in people and help them “plug” these leaks. As a result, her clients regain sustained physical/emotional energy, recover faster from illnesses, attain mental clarity, self-confidence, feel more at peace with themselves and happier in their relationships.Catherine is a hang glider pilot certified as an Applied neurosciences Practitioner and holds a Nurse Practitioner diploma. She’s currently pursuing a doctorate in Natural Medicine and studying the Ancient Wisdom of Siddha Veda that stems from Ayurvedic medicine. As a chronic Lyme disease survivor who healed in record time, she also developed a unique expertise tohelp Lyme disease sufferers regain their health and life without losing their time or money.

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Transcription of Episode# 155:

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 we’re discussing Lyme disease. Lyme disease is a very problematic condition everywhere in the country, not just in the Midwest, but I’m happy to be talking to a master NLP transformational health coach, body, mind and healing practitioner Katherine who works with people who are tired of being tired and worried. She can hear see and feel the emotional and physical energy leaks in people and help them plug these leaks. As a result her clients regain sustained physical emotional energy, recover faster from illness and attain mental clarity, self confidence, feel more at peace with themselves and happier in their relationships. Catherine is a hand gliding pilot certified as an applied Neuroscience practitioner and holds a nurse practitioner diploma. She’s currently pursuing a doctorate in natural medicine and studying the ancient wisdom of Siddha beta that stems from the RU Vedic medicine. As a chronic Lyme disease survivor who healed in record time she has developed a unique expertise to help Lyme disease sufferers regain their health and life without losing their time or money. This is going to be a great conversation for us to have because so many people that suffer with Lyme disease end up financially broke because a people don’t recognize what their problem is in the beginning. And so they end up seeing, you know, 50,60,100 Doctors at a time, they spend a lot of money out of pocket. They do a lot of therapies that people promise will make them better, and unfortunately, sometimes it doesn’t work. So talking to Catherine today, I’m excited to hear about her five bodies of health roadmap model that she’s created to help people heal from Lyme disease. 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 Hollers 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 serenityhealthcarecenter.com Welcome back to Let’s Talk Wellness Now I have Catherine Gagnon with us. Did I say that right? Yeah. I knew I was gonna not do that. Well. Catherine is with us today. And we’re going to talk about Lyme and energy and the energetics and epigenetics how they all play a role. So our last couple of episodes that we’ve been doing, have been talking about epigenetics and exercise and individuality. So now we’re going to spread this along some chronic illness and how to heal and so I’m super excited to bring Catherine to you guys today. Welcome to the show.

Catherine Gagnon 4:19Thank you so much, Dr. Deb for having me on the show today. I’m very excited to to be here with you.

Debra Muth 4:26Well, welcome. So tell us your journey around Lyme disease.

Catherine Gagnon 4:31Yes. So it’s, I’m going to try to make it succinct because as you know with chronic illnesses, it can be a long journey. So it was in 2016 that I started to feel very sick, you know tired, probably, you know digestive issues. Deep chills in the middle of summer and heart palpitations pains everywhere. I mean, it goes on and on and on. And I was working as a nurse practitioner back then. And I was, I mean, working in the medical field trying to find some answers, and my colleagues were trying to help me out and things were just not evolving. So I kind of took matters into my own hands and started to study functional medicine. And anytime I’d learned something, I would order some test and some supplements, but we I really didn’t know what I was dealing with. And, and it was really bad after dead like, I felt like there was something eating up in my body. And remember when my doctor said, Well, we did a couple of tests and we can’t find anything. You know, your hemoglobin might be a little bit low sigh But you’re a woman. It’s just stress. Katherine, I said, No. in 36 years of living in this body, it’s never felt like something is eating it up from the inside. So I kind of rolled up my sleeves, and I understood I was buying on my own on this journey. And I thought, wow, okay. I didn’t come this far to, to die, basically, because that’s how it felt. And I research research research did a lot of studying despite my declining health, and it took me eight months to find the diagnosis that it was actually Lyme disease. And then just through my research, I was able to kind of track back to when I acquired it, which was 16 years prior to this flare up, which was when I was 20 years old, traveling in Australia, backpacking, I was not even yet a nurse yet. And, and I remember having this little bug here that wouldn’t leave when I’m, you know, swishing it away. And I was like, Oh, my gosh, the legs are like, I panicked, and I took it out. And I had all the signs and symptoms of the primary infections of Lyme disease. And you know, the flu like symptoms, fatigue, and even some weird anxiety, panic stuff. And then, incidentally, or serendipitously, a couple of weeks after I got, or months, after I got bitten, I traveled to Thailand. And the prophylactic medication for malaria was doxycycline, at the time, once a day, but the treatment for acute Lyme in the conventional medicine is Doxycycline, twice a day. So it’s like, I got half treated for a month. And I remember bo...

Dr. Stickler explains exactly what 23 & Me genetic testing tells us and how we can use this and other genetic companies to create individualized life plans to heal our bodies and stay healthy into our advanced years.

Do not miss these highlights:

09:04 There’s never a root cause in a system. There are all of these things that contribute to it

11:06 Medicine is transitioning so rapidly in the alternative world

11:50 What is “Epigenetics”?

18:04 One of the aspects of medicine that is causing a failure is the “overvaluing of expertise”

20:43 What is Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms and its function

24:25 Why is it there are people with a homozygous MTHFR who have a healthy child without a birth defect if it’s a true mutation?

26:35 Anything that you find in 23&Me has some benefits and some risks…It’s just different based on the environment you’re functioning in

27:29 How can people use this genetic technology to increase their quality of life and their longevity

28:55 The human system is a complex adaptive system

32:19 Some of the latest findings in the RNA and age reversal

Resources MentionedWhether 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. Daniel L. Stickler is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Apeiron ZOH Inc. He is a leader in complexity & performance medicine and has special focus on age rejuvenation strategies. A physician to high-performing executives, entrepreneurs and elite performers, a speaker, blogger and podcaster on all topics performance. Dr. Stickler is clinical faculty for the Age Management Medical Group. He is a Google consultant for wearable technology, epigenetics, and AI in healthcare, and a guest lecturer at Stanford University on Epigenetics in Clinical Practice. In addition, he sits on multiple advisor boards in the longevity and Human performance realm; including medical advisory board of TruDiagnostics and Medical director at the Neurohacker Collective.

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https://twitter.com/ApeironMe

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Transcription of Episode #154:

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.

Debra Muth 0:15Welcome back to this cold day here in Wisconsin. But I have a hot guest for you today. Dr. Daniel Stickler is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer at Aperion. He is a leader in complexity and performance medicine and has a special focus on age rejuvenation strategies. A physician to high performing executives, entrepreneurs and elite performers, a speaker blogger and podcaster himself on all topics performance. Dr. Stickler is clinical faculty for the age management Medical Group. He is a Google consultant for wearable technologies and epigenetics and AI healthcare maybe we can get some tips on what’s coming down the pike there from from him and a guest lecture at Stanford University on epigenetics and clinical practice. I am super excited to talk to him today about biohacking for aging, looking at the longevity and human performance, and truly getting into some of this deep hacking information that we can glean from epigenetics. So for those of you who aren’t yet familiar with what epi genetics is, basically what we’re looking at is your genetics. We’re seeing what you were born with, and can we create a path around it to help prevent or reduce the risk of disease. That is what we call biohacking. It helps us age more gracefully, stop age related diseases or slow them down and help you stay younger, healthier, longer and in the game. And all of you know like that is what I’m all about is getting you to stay younger, healthier and happy. Stay in the game as long as you can and just really enjoy your life.

Debra Muth 2:08Have you seen 20+ 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 hollers, 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 serenityhealthcarecenter.com

Debra Muth 3:27Welcome back. I have with me my guest today Dr. Stickler, and we are going to talk all about biohacking and aging. Welcome to the show.

Dr. Daniel Stickler 3:36Happy to be here,Debra.

Debra Muth 3:37Hi. So tell us a little bit about how you became immersed in the world of genetics and epigenetics and walked away from your traditional vascular surgeon roots.

Dr. Daniel Stickler 3:49Yeah, I mean, the the short story here is that I was somewhat disenchanted with medicine from from the day I got into medical school in the fact that I had a different perception of what it was. I was under the impression it was like make life better for people and and it does for some but it’s predominantly focused on disease model. So you know, when you’re healthy, there’s not really much of a role of medicine in in that category. So, you know, I went through the process surgery was my logical choice there because I liked working with my hands and and it was something where somebody came in, they have a diminished quality of life you intervene and usually at least get him back to baseline whereas rest of medicine was this stepwise postponement of death. And then, you know, over time and learning on my own outside of the medical school classrooms, I started learning more about different options that were available out there and I came across a company in Las Vegas called Cenegenics back in 2005, and I was really fascinated because they were actually working with healthy people with diets exercise and hormone replacement. So I was like all in on that. And I started doing that as a hobby, and realized that there was something that I really enjoyed doing. And so I opened a clinic in 2005. And and then in 2007, my clients sir, bring me genetics, and he was the new 23 and Me and it was, it blew my mind because I never learned genetics in this way. I didn’t even know what a single nucleotide polymorphism was, just wasn’t something we were taught in medical school in the early 90s. So I had to do a deep dive into that, because it was just so fascinating to me. And I did not like genetics in medical school. So it surprised me how much I enjoyed that and ended up developing genetic templates, doing all this research and finding all ways I could help clients by using genetic polymorphisms. And a couple years later, I was presenting on my, my experience at A4M in Las Vegas, and yeah, I had probably 40 People come up to me after the talk. And they said, you know, how do I learn this, I’d like to learn this. And so that kind of prompted us to start a training program. Because I realized there wasn’t anything out there. And that started our academy. In 2012, I got into epigenetics, because this was just fascinating, even more. So I mean, DNA is the most I mean, it’s most amazing molecule i but I’m in awe of what DNA is and how it works and the information it carries. And epigenetics was just another another aspect of that, that just was blowing my mind. And I understood then that, you know, all this stuff that we can do in life, every, you know, everything we put into our bodies, and every environment we interact with changes how our genes express and I was like, Okay, this is really cool stuff and when I dove into it, a lot of the stuff I was reading was more in the in a little bit of a woo type. kinetics, the concept was right, but the there wasn’t science behind it. And gradually, the science started coming in behind it. And, you know, even up until like 2019, people were asking me if epigenetics was a real thing. Yeah, there’s like 1000s of peer reviewed articles. You know, I was teaching a, I was a guest speaker at an epigenetics core course at Stanford for about six years, during that time, where I was teaching the clinical use of it to people attending this epigenetics course, and just blew my mind. And, you know, that led me down the road to understanding how the medical paradigm was so broken, because it was, it was focused on a mechanistic or materialistic paradigm. And the human system is a complex system. And you have to take a systems approach to analyze it. And this is why we’re so far off base right now, with medicine. I mean, we’ve been barely hanging on but the progress and the progress that we should have had is about 10%, of where it should it would be if we taken the systems based approach rather than this, this really reductionistic type of approach ...

If working out is good for you, then working out more can only be better for you, right? Not quite. If your body already suffers from inflammation then certain types of exercise or too much exercise can create more inflammation, which leads to weight gain and illness.

If we know your genetic make-up called epigenetics exercise, diet, and recovery can all be individualized specifically to you!

Recovering from pregnancy? No worries this episode has you covered as well.

Do not miss these highlights:

05:33 How will you know if you are getting enough or too much exercise

07:31 How to incorporate individualized results using your genetics to decide the best to train for you

08:31 How can people implement an exercise protocol during a period of inflammation

11:53 We don’t always know what symptoms we’re dealing with until the symptoms are brought in front of us

13:26 What does Dr. Jenny means when she says “We shouldn’t do a 15k Triathlon”

16:20 Over-exercising and overactivity are fueling inflammatory response

17:12 Are there some exercises that are better for people than others?

18:17 A better regimen for midlife women to be looking at than somebody who’s in their 30s

20:06 Some tips to get past that beginning part of exercise

23:15 Active recovery is an important part of our exercise regimen

24:47 Recovery tips after pregnancy

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. Quartano is a dual board-certified physical therapist in pediatrics and neurology with a passion for seeing children and families grow successfully and thrive together. She has vast experience working all the way from neonatal intensive care to the functional fitness environment and everything in between. After seeing the failures of the traditional medical model, she began her own practice in 2014, allowing a focus on the child and family together to maximize relationships and life quality. As a mother herself, she understands the challenges parenting can bring, and she seeks to bring the expertise in how we think, move, and act to influence how families learn, grow, and thrive. 

Through this experience and her own health journey, Dr. Quartano has found a passion for functional medicine and has undergone training with an Institute of Functional Medicine affiliated program to be able to offer this unique approach to health to others. She understands the stress and roles that personal and professional life take on health and seeks to help other women find their best self to be the best mom, wife, professional or athlete they desire to be.

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Transcription of Episode #153:

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 to Let’s Talk wellness. Now it is a bitterly cold but beautiful sunny day here in Wisconsin at the end of January, and we’re on episode 153. And our topic today is why you might be over exercising your way into poor health. I’m really excited to talk to Jennifer today about this because it’s a topic we so ignore. We think that the more exercise we do, the better off we’re going to feel, the less we eat, the better we’re going to feel. And a lot of times this can be the opposite of what we think. So I’m so glad that we’re going to be having this conversation today.

Debra Muth 0:56So Dr. Jennifer Quartano is a dual board certified physical therapist in pediatrics and neurology with a passion for seeing children and families grow successfully and thrive together. She has vast experience working all the way from neonatal intensive care to functional fitness, environment and everything in between. After seeing failures of traditional medical model, she began her own practice in 2014, allowing a focus on the child and family together to maximize relationships, and life quality. As a mother herself she understands the challenges parenting can bring. She seeks to bring the expertise in how we think, move, act, and how that influences our families in how they learn, grow and thrive. Through her own experience. In her health journey, Dr. Quartano has found a passion for Functional Medicine and has undergone training in the Institute of functional medicine, to be able to offer this unique approach to health to others. She understands the stress and roles that personal and professional life take on health and seeks to help other women find their best self to be the best mom, wife, professional or athlete that they desire. Oh, this is going to be such a great conversation. I can’t wait to talk to Dr. Quartano. today. So without further ado, I’m going to move this show along and we are going to bring you Dr. Jennifer.

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Debra Muth 3:49We are back to the show with Dr. Quartano. And we’re going to talk about over exercising. Is it good? Is it bad? What is the right amount for exercise that we’re going to have? Dr. Jenny, welcome to the show.

Dr. Jennifer Quartano 4:03Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.

Debra Muth 4:06So tell us your story. How did you get started in this idea of physical wellness and looking at exercise as being too much or too little?

Dr. Jennifer Quartano 4:17Yeah, so that’s a great question. I feel like it’s a combination of education and my own personal experience that has kind of led me to where I am. So my background is as a physical therapist, I graduated from Mayo, medical school and pt. And it really started off thinking I want to work in this area of sports and wellness and then found passion in helping people be well and fit in other areas. So I’m board certified in both neuro and pediatrics. And I love that population because I feel like there’s so much more that I can lend them right. My athletes already know how to work out they know how to do things, but coming full circle in my own health. I really found that I needed to hone my whole wellness and exercise being part of that to manage my own health. globally. So I had some health problems a few years ago, led me down the road of just investigating what does all of that look like together. And then I dove into the area of functional medicine. So now I love to be able to integrate that component, and my background as a PT to help people optimize their health, with exercise being a big part of that.

Debra Muth 5:19That’s fantastic. I love that story. And I’m so glad that you joined the functional medicine world because it’s so important to have people both who can treat kids and adults in the functional medicine world. So welcome to that functional medicine world. So tell us how does somebody know they have a problem with exercise, I’m assuming exercise can be an addiction, just like anything else. I am guilty of having that back in the day myself. I used to exercise about four hours a day, six days a week. And I loved it. It was great. But how do you know when that’s too much?

Dr. Jennifer Quartano 5:53Yeah, so I think too much is so individualized, right? If you’re in optimal health, you might be able to do that, at least for a period of time, and be okay. Oftentimes, what I find is people coming to me are trying to exercise away pounds, for example. And that’s just not ideal when your body’s already under stress, right. So we’ve got all these inflammatory issues going on, and they’re exercising in a way to manage their weight. And oftentimes, you know, exercise might come secondary, we still need to move to detox our body, but it’s thinking about it differently. In the same way, I think, you know, I see kids, and this is probably some of my perspective came from this and that I have kids with neurologic disabilities, for example, and just walking is taxing on their body and is too much for them. So exercise, I think is so individualized to the person and what is the goal of exercise? Is it to get healthier? Is it to reduce stress is it to help your body heal, and from there, we can then personalize what’s going to be the right plan for you. That’s awesome.

Debra Muth 6:55And I love the fact that it’s a...