Love & Guts

#146 Dr. Sean Stringer, uses a  concierge functional and energy medicine approach in his coaching/consulting and educational programs. Fixing health problems boils down to finding and fixing the root cause of health dysfunction in order to allow the body to heal itself. By treating the cause which resulted in symptoms, Dr. Stringer educates, inspires, and empowers his members to live their best life, thus adding more years to their life and MORE LIFE to their years.

Services to his private member clients are provided through his coaching programs. He holds a Doctorate in Chiropractic, a Doctor of Monastic Medicine, a Doctor of Indigenous Medicine, and holds a Masters in Naturopathic Oncology.

He currently consults for the USDA Certified Organic Hemp CBD company, Aspen Green. He also works with Space Energy Inc (SpaceE), a company dedicated to making subtle quantum advances in food and plant based medicine for better on and off world living. 

In this episode we cover

• What breast implant illness is
• Symptoms of breast implant illness
• Why does it occur
• We discuss if breast implants need to rupture to have symptoms?
• The toxins found in breast implants
• Breast enhancement procedures that are not harmful
• We discuss explanation
• Detox and recovery protocols for those who have had explants.

#145 Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition and exercise. Drawing from the current scientific literature and the wisdom of traditional cultures, her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and sensible. Her bestselling book, Real Food for Gestational Diabetes (and online course of the same name), presents a revolutionary nutrient-dense, lower carb diet for managing gestational diabetes.

Her unique approach has not only helped tens of thousands of women manage their gestational diabetes (most without the need for blood sugar-lowering medication), but has also influenced nutrition policies internationally.

Lily’s second book, Real Food for Pregnancy, is an evidence-based look at the gap between conventional prenatal nutrition guidelines and what's optimal for mother and baby. With over 930 citations, this is the most comprehensive text on prenatal nutrition to date.

 Lily is also creator of the popular blog, LilyNicholsRDN.com, which explores a variety of topics related to real food, mindful eating, and pregnancy nutrition.

• Why our nutrient needs are higher postpartum
• What specifically promotes healing and milk production
• What some traditional cultures do to help support mamma during the fourth trimester
• Why rest, recovery and receiving support is crucial during the fourth trimester
• Lily’s suggestions for women who want to lose weight straight away after giving birth
• And so much more

#144 In 1984, Belinda Wurn learned she had cancer of the cervix. She survived after months of radiation therapy, but the treatments left her lower abdomen, pelvis, and lower back adhered and scarred. All of her pelvic organs had become adhered to surrounding tissues and structures, limiting her mobility and causing significant pain. With her husband, Larry Wurn, they searched for relief by studying with physicians and physical therapists around the US and abroad who did different types of hands-on techniques.  After taking many courses in manual physical therapy, they found their first glimmer of hope – the manual techniques improved the pain. Together, they developed a protocol of over 200 manual therapy techniques called the Wurn Technique® and opened their own clinics, first Professional Touch Physical Therapy, and then Clear Passage Physical Therapies. By 1990, they discovered that the therapy could open blocked fallopian tubes when a chronic pain patient became pregnant (despite being infertile for 7 years). They continued to treat women diagnosed infertile and found that despite high FSH, advanced age, or complications from PCOS or endometriosis, they had excellent results in achieving pregnancy. After several case studies and scientific publications, they have the data to support these incredible claims. Larry and Belinda never have a child of their own – but through their physical therapy clinic they treated thousands of women by clearing the internal adhesions causing their fertility struggles. Lo and behold, these women successfully conceived after their natural, holistic, hands-on therapy. You could say that Belinda and Larry “created” over 1,000 miracle babies.

In this episode we cover

• How the Wurn technique / Clear Passage therapy  was discovered
• What adhesions are
• The medical conditions caused by adhesions
• How we assess for adhesions 
• Why adhesions don't show up on diagnostic testing
• The common causes of adhesions
• How the Wurn technique / Clear passage method works
• Belinda and Larry share some of the scientific research around the clear passage method
• Why someone might experience toe-curling or first-time-ever orgasms; or even dramatic increases of desire or lubrication when undergoing such therapy
• How small bowel obstruction is different to constipation
• And so much more

#143 Patrick Mckeown is the President of Buteyko Professionals International. He is also a member of the Management Board and the Advisory Faculty of the International Academy of Breathing & Health.

Patrick was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and later studied in the Moscow clinic of the founder of the Buteyko Breathing Method; the late Professor Konstantin Buteyko. He was honoured to be awarded a Diploma in the Buteyko Method by Professor Buteyko.

Patrick’s current professional affiliations include being a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK), a Member of the Physiological Society (UK), a Member of the Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences, a Fellow of Buteyko Professionals International, and a Fellow of the International Academy of Breathing & Health.

In this episode we cover

• The principles of buteyko breathing
• Why we want to avoid over breathing and losing too much carbon dioxide
• Some of the protective mechanisms that the body creates (in the form of disease) to limit the loss of CO2
• Why we snore and how breathing can impact this
• Why Patrick believes that no one that is mouth breathing is reaching their full potential
• How the Buteyko breathing method can benefit digestive health
• The signs that can indicate that babies and children are breathing poorly
• And so much more

#142 Reed Davis, Holistic Health Practitioner and Certified Nutritional Therapist, is an expert in functional lab testing and holistic lifestyle medicine. He is the Founder of Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® (FDN) and the FDN Certification Course.  Reed served as the Health Director and Case Manager at a Wellness Center in So. California for over 10 years and now teaches the FDN Course with over 2500 trainees or graduates in 50 countries.

Today, Reed is known as one of the most successful and experienced clinicians in the world, having provided functional lab assessments to over 10,000 clients.  Reed is also a Clinical Advisor for BioHealth Laboratories and lives in the US, teaching the FDN Certification Course and helping his graduates build robust private practices.

• Why the wording Adrenal Fatigue is not quite accurate and why HPA axis dysregulation is a much more appropriate term

• The problems with the adrenal fatigue concept

• The causes of HPA dysregulation

• How we assess and test for HPA dysregulation

• Treatment strategies for HPA dysregulation
• and so much more

#141 Dr. Kimball is a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist. She has over 10 years of experience in the treatment of complex illnesses including IBS, SIBO, intestinal fungal overgrowth, chronic constipation, mast cell activation syndrome & hormonal imbalances.

• The three different types of functional chronic constipation
• The red flags of chronic constipation that we don’t want to ignore
• What outlet dysfunction constipation is
• The causes of outlet dysfunction constipation
• How we identify if someone has functional chronic constipation dysfunction such as ODC. 
• The treatments available for outlet dysfunction constipation
• Dr Kimball’s thoughts on frequent colonics and laxative use and so much more

#140 Satish Rao completed his training in internal medicine at several academic centers in UK and a clinical research fellowship in gastroenterology at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, University of Sheffield, UK. Dr Rao is one of a rare breed of academics who has excelled as an outstanding researcher, distinguished educator and as a Master Clinician. Dr. Rao’s research interests focus on the pathophysiology and treatment of IBS, food intolerance, gas and bloating especially SIBO and SIFO, dyssynergic defecation and fecal incontinence. 

He has pioneered several new techniques and devices and has received several patents. He pioneered the technique of biofeedback therapy for dyssynergic defecation, and neuromodulation therapy for fecal incontinence. He is the only physician who has received all 3 meritorious honors from the American Gastroenterological Association, the AGA Distinguished Clinician Award, AGA Masters Award for Outstanding Clinical Research and the AGA Distinguished Educator Award. 

A very productive, federally (NIH) funded investigator who has recently been awarded an $18 million NIH grant, and sought-after speaker, Dr. Rao has edited 8 books, published over 400 articles with a H index of 63 and 10,500 citations. He has been selected as one of the “Best Doctors in America” and as America’s Top Doctors for over 20 years. He has mentored several Physicians from across the world, many of whom are leaders in their own countries. He is Past President of the American Neurogastroenterology Motility Society. He is a master clinician, and patients travel from all over the USA and abroad to seek his expertise in managing difficult motility problems.

• What SIFO is and how he discovered it
• The common signs and symptoms of SIFO
• What drives SIFO
• The correlation between SIBO and SIFO
• How SIFO is identified
• Treatment for SIFO
• And so much more