Love & Guts

#206 Dr. Blodgett is a native Oregonian who attended grade school through high school in Southwest Portland. He earned his Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Oregon and completed his pre-doctoral sciences at Portland State University. Dr. Blodgett attended the OHSU School of Dentistry and graduated in June of 1999 where he earned the "Going the Extra Mile" award from his own classmates. Throughout his career, he's become a recognized leader in minimally-invasive dentistry, dental lasers, computerized dental technology, and holistic care. He has been featured in numerous dental journals, on television, and in magazines for the innovative care he provides. He is truly a modern pioneer in progressive dental care.

• All things root canal and what an unexpected fascinating topic it is
• What is root canal and root canal toxicity
• How do you diagnose root canal problems
• What's an alternative to root canals
• Toothpaste - to fluoride or not to fluoride
• Mercury fillings - to remove or not remove
• Daily strategies to enhance / protect oral health / oral microbiome (and thus overall health)
• And so much more

#205 Alessio Fasano is the W. Allan Walker Chair of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Massachusetts General Hospital, Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also Founder and Director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at MGH. He is coauthor (with Susie Flaherty) of Gluten Freedom.

Award-winning writer and editor Susie Flaherty is Director of Communications at the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment. She is coauthor (with Alessio Fasano) of Gluten Freedom.

• How the book Gut Feelings came about
• The epigenetic role of the microbiome
• The link between the gut microbiome and autoimmunity
• The five elements or "pillars" that lead to chronic inflammation
• The human gut Mycobiome
• Alternatives to the Hygiene hypothesis
• Strategies to manipulate the microbiome to maintain health
• Artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and the microbiome
• And so much more

#204 Before starting Unstoppable Girls, Tracey had a successful career in Marketing and Advertising. Tracey was inspired to create Unstoppable girls as she reflected on her own childhood and teen years. After suffering trauma as a young girl and realising the impact this made on her throughout her teen and adult life, Tracey knew the importance of having a strong sense of self and self-worth, as well as positive role models. Tracey passionately believes that if we can develop our girls' mental armour (courage, self-belief, confidence and compassion) to own who they are, understand their strengths, their uniqueness, and their worth, then they have a much greater chance of a positive experience during their teen years. As a teen, and young woman, Tracey set up her own retail business which she ran successfully for 4 years until at the age of 23 yrs she decided to study Business with marketing at Univeristy where she went on to win a National competition that saw her land a graduate training place at a top advertising agency in London. She climbed the Corporate ladder and went on to become a Managing Director of a leading Marketing agency working on world class brands like Qantas, Virgin, Vodafone, Volkswagen, amongst others. After 20 years in the Corporate world Tracey retrained and studied Psychology of coaching and qualified as an Executive and life coach. After working through her own childhood trauma and now being a mother of two girls, Tracey knew that for her girls and all girls to truly thrive, they needed to develop a rock solid inner foundation as well as having strong, positive adult mentors in their life.

• Why Tracey was driven to start unstoppable girls
• What challenges do girls struggle with
• What challenges do parents face in raising teen girls
• What support is there for parents
• What does it mean to be an unstoppable girl/what is an unstoppable mindset
• What can parents do to support their girls through the often turbulent teen years
• What is the difference between self esteem /self worth and confidence
• And so much more

#203 Alex is an Institute For Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner with a MSc in Personalised Nutrition and a BSc in Nutritional Therapy.

He is also:

• Co-founder of Healthpath, an at-home functional gut testing company
• Co-founder of The Applied Functional Medicine Mentoring Program.
• Chief Wellness Officer at Exhale Coffee - a healthy coffee hand picked for its chlorogenic acid content (the good stuff!)

Currently Alex is finalising his studies in Transformational Life Coaching.

After a powerful experience combining breathwork and psychedelics towards the end of 2019, Alex is also currently training to become a Transformational Breathwork Practitioner and has recently started a 12 month psychedelic practitioner program with The Synthesis Institute.

In this episode we discuss all things psychedelics, in particular:

• Alex shares his powerful psychedelic and breathwork experience
• What psychedelics have the most research, particularly for mental health
• The impact of psychedelics on the gut-brain axis
• How Alex see's health practitioners, or himself safely integrate them
• Are there any concerns for their use (risks or side effects)
• Who should be avoiding them
• Where is regulation at with psychedelics
• We were so in the moment that we forgot to discuss micro and macro dosing
• And so much more

#202 Lara Briden first worked as a researcher and evolutionary biologist at the University of Calgary. She then went on to graduate as a naturopathic doctor from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM).

In her twenty plus years of practice Lara has learned that period problems respond incredibly well to nutrition and other natural treatments. Period problems can be fixed without the band-aid solution of hormonal birth control. Her mission is to bring that message to women everywhere. To empower women to have easy, symptomless periods and join the worldwide "period revolution."

Lara's books Period Repair Manual and Hormone Repair Manual provide practical solutions for period and hormone problems. Lara has also published the peer-reviewed paper The central role of ovulatory disturbances in the etiology of androgenic polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)—Evidence for treatment with cyclic progesterone.

In this episode we cover

• Why Lara wrote the book The Hormone Repair Manual
• What perimenopause is and why Lara calls it our second puberty
• Why perimenopause is a critical window for health
• Why our brain reorganises during this time
• How ovulation impacts perimenopause and menopause
• What happens to our hormones and physiology during perimenopause
• Hormone therapy
• How metabolic flexibility helps
• And so much more

#201 Dr. Karin is a board-certified Naturopathic physician, graduating from Bastyr University. She received her undergraduate degree in biomedical science from Grand Valley State University, where she excelled as a student-athlete. After her collegiate experience and witnessing the traumatic unfolding of 9/11, Karin was called to serve in the military as a Naval aviator and deployed to Afghanistan in support of OEF in 2010.

Dr. Karin's practice is focused in integrative neurology, and embraces a philosophy centered around forming and maintaining resilience in health. She believes that any path to wellness is the correct one, and by using the tools we instinctively possess combined with the art and science of medicine, we can uncover the deeper root of disease and work on an individual basis to improve the state of health.

As a peer-reviewed published author, Dr. Karin focuses personal research on the neuroimmunology of resilience and enjoys serving as a liaison between her education and clinical practice. Dr. Karin's personal experience caring for her father has grown into a professional passion to provide individualized care for caregivers, feeling strongly that they are the core tenant of health in their communities and homes, and often speaks with support groups in her local area.

• What Parkinson's disease is
• Causes, including some lesser known
• How is the gut involved? Did you know that constipation precedes the motor symptoms common in Parkinsons by about 20 years
• The hallmark symptoms of PD
• Patterns seen in the gut that either precede the onset of parkinsons or are there while present? What measures can we take to prevent the onset of disease
• If symptoms can be reversed
• What health providers should know
• The role that care partners play in the overall health and wellness of PwP
• and so much more

#200 Dr Marc is a medical doctor, university professor, author, poet, entrepreneur, wellness trailblazer and perpetual student of life, trying to coax the world towards worldwide wellness. He has spent more than 30 years practicing and researching holistic health and published more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific papers and many books and technical texts on wellness and natural medicine along with the illustrated books "The Beautiful Mare", "Bing & Bang Begin" and "Love & Everything". He is Founder of Beautiful.Water.co and the Extreme Wellness Institute, Co-Founder of Extremely Alive Wellness Tonics and the Bathe the World Foundation and co-owner of Maruia Hot Springs in New Zealand. You can find him at www.drmarc.co and on linktree.

In this episode we cover:

• Sauna bathing and all things hydrotherapy. A big passion of mine
• How sauna bathing can benefit those experiencing CFS, pain and depression
• The use of heat therapy for Covid - 19
• The passion that drives his desire to communicate complex ideas, through children's books and poetry
• Why 5 rhythms dancing is the bees knees
• The importance of connection
• Why Marc wants to turn the world into a health retreat
• And so much more

#199 Apple Bodemer is an Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After finishing her residency, she completed a fellowship in IntegrativeMedicine through the University of Arizona. She was the first Dermatologist to be Board Certified in Integrative Medicine and currently serves on the American Board of Integrative Medicine. She is also Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine.

Dr. Bodemer is passionate about teaching working with both Dermatology residents and Integrative Medicine Fellows both in Wisconsin and Arizona. Additionally, she is one of the founding faculty of the Integrative Dermatology Certificate Program – an intensive program for Bord Certified Dermatologists. She has authored several Chapters in the primary Integrative Medicine textbook and written curriculum for the University of Arizona Integrative Medicine Fellowship program as well as for the National Veterans Association Whole Health Initiative.

Outside of the medical field, she loves to spend time with her four children and two dogs. She likes to stay physically active and loves to cook – especially whole foods plant based!!!!!

• What types of hair loss exist and how common it is in both men and women
• The common causes of hair loss
• The clinical features of female pattern hair loss (FPHL)
• Why might we see more female pattern hair loss in those with PCOS and metabolic syndrome
• Apple shaved her head in 2018 as a social / professional experiment. She discusses her findings and what she experienced. Fascinating!
• How health practitioners should assess hair loss in women and men
• Treatment strategies, including supplementation that may be helpful in managing FPHL

#198 Dr Victoria Sampson obtained her Bachelor in Dental Surgery from Barts and the London, where she was also chosen to represent the UK in a four month training program at the renowned Karolinska Institute in Sweden. She then completed her Foundation Training in central London, ranking in the top 100 newly qualified dentist in the country. Victoria pays particular attention to the connection between the mouth and the rest of the body, and sees the mouth as a mirror of general health. She uses biomarkers and inflammatory markers in her work to diagnose and monitor patient throughout their treatment, often working with other specialties to treat patients as a whole.Victoria takes a preventative approach to dentistry, attempting to make treatment as minimally invasive as possible.

Victoria has been at the forefront of change in dentistry, by undertaking research projects in multiple fields of dentistry and taking a special interest in the relationship between the mouth and the body. She has published numerous papers both in the UK and internationally, with her most recent publication in the British Dental Journal being the most cited and viewed article ever published. In both 2019 and 2020, Victoria has been recognised for her achievements, as one of the finalists for the award for Best Young Dentist in England by the Private Dentistry Awards as well as winning best Young Dentist Award by the British Endodontic Society in 2019. She has also won the national prizes from the British Society of Dental Maxillofacial Radiology and the Association of British Academic Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons for her research. Victoria has successfully acquired the Diploma of Membership of the Joint Dental Faculties from the Royal College of Surgeons (England), and is currently completing her diploma in Facial Aesthetics as well as Restorative Dentistry.

• How the mouth is a mirror to the rest of the body
• How the oral microbiome is linked to various conditions such as diabetes, cvs disease, alzheimers, obesity, SLE, RA, ulcerative colitis/ chron's, fertility and erectile dysfunction
• What changes the environment of the mouth; thus the oral microbiome
• We discuss mercury fillings and the controversy that surrounds
• Victoria expands on her research between COVID19 and oral microbiome/ oral health
• We discuss practical strategies to maintain optimal oral health and to keep pathogens at bay
• And so much more

#197 Tabitha is the founder of awaken your health, and is a qualified and experienced Naturopath, Clinical Nutritionist, and educator, having run her own private clinical practice for over 10 years. As director and principal Naturopath at awaken your health, Tabitha takes great pride in providing her clients and their families with high quality naturopathic clinical care, in a supportive and nurturing environment.

After completing her Medical Science degree in 2001, Tabitha went on to pursue her passion for Natural Integrative Healthcare with post-graduate studies in Naturopathy, Western Herbal Medicine, Nutritional Medicine & Environmental Medicine. She now elegantly combines the above approaches to health: integrating Naturopathic healing principles with the latest scientific research, to educate and further the health & wellbeing of her clients.

Tabitha has offered the Love and Guts listener 30% off discount code: awaken30 is valid from now to end of April

• Tabitha's book One Bite at a Time: both flexi cover + hard cover

• Tabitha's eBook: Be your own Solution eBook