Mold and mycotoxin illness affects at least 10 million people…many who have NO idea they are living in a moldy environment or have mold illness themselves. Dr. Jill Crista knows this all too well. In her early work as a clinician, she began to see more and more patients with mold illness…and soon realized she had it herself. In this episode, we give you all you need to know about testing to see if you have mold yourself, and what to do about it.

Bio

Dr. Jill Crista is a naturopathic doctor, best-selling author, and nationally recognized health educator on mold-related illness.

She helps people recover their health after exposure to toxic mold.

Her book, Break The Mold, provides tools for anyone wanting actionable steps to conquer health challenges related to mold exposure.

She also has an online training course for medical practitioners to build their mold literacy.

https://drcrista.com

Book

https://drcrista.com/break-the-mold

TRANSCRIPT

Intro

Welcome to Break the Rules with Dr. Lauryn – a podcast dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. Dr. Lauryn is a leading nutritionist therapist and functional medicine practitioner on a mission to help others thrive in their own lives, mind, body, and soul. And now your host, Dr. Lauryn.

Episode

Dr. Lauryn: [00:00:27] Well, hello, hello, hello! Welcome to another edition of the Break The Rules podcast, where we talk about quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. And today I’m super pumped to be talking about one of my favorite topics with someone that I really admire and respect in this field as well.

Talking about mold toxicity and mold illness is just something that’s very near and dear to my own heart and a journey that I did not foresee going down over the past couple years and something that really just opened my eyes to the fact that there’s over 10 million people that are wrestling with mold illness, or have been impacted and may not even actually know it. And today we’re going to be talking to Dr. Jill Crista, who is a naturopathic doctor, and best selling author, as well as nationally recognized health educator on mold related illness. And she helps people recover their health after exposure to toxic mold, in part to her own inspiration as well. Experience is always the best teacher. And Jill, thanks so much for coming on. And if you could just introduce yourself and talk a little bit about what got you doing the work you’re doing in the world today.

Dr. Jill Crista: [00:01:41] Thank you for inviting me onto your podcast. It’s really an honor to be sharing with you.

How I got into this world was I am in southern Wisconsin, and that is Lyme endemic region. We have a lot of cases of Lyme in Wisconsin, because of course, if you think of Wisconsin, you’re thinking of woods and deer. And I was working with these Lyme patients as the naturopathic doctor, which just like functional medicine practitioners, you work to find the cause and then treat the cause. And typically when we do that, people get better. If you have a motivated patient, it’s really them helping themselves get better. But I had this subset of Lyme patients that were just stuck. That’s sort of my Cardinal thing of Lyme disease is, if I did reasonable recommendations, they did the work, you know, even 80% of the work. And we’re doing all the reasonable things and people just weren’t responding in the way that my other patients were responding. That’s when I start to think, hmm. I wonder if this is Lyme disease? And now when that happens,

Lifestyle and nutrition are all you need to guard against illness and strengthen your immune system. Even though we all know “eating vegetables is good for us,” autoimmune disease victor, clinician, and best-selling author Dr. Terry Wahls shares practical, sustainable lifestyle and nutrition advice for building up your immune system at home using The Wahl’s Protocol.

https://terrywahls.com

https://wahls.lab.uiowa.edu/join-study

Book: https://amzn.to/2VL1hxL

Intro

Welcome to Break The Rules with Dr. Lauryn Lax – a podcast dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. Dr. Lauryn is a leading nutritionist, therapist, and functional medicine practitioner on a mission to help others thrive in their own lives, mind, body, and soul. And now your host, Dr. Lauryn Lax.

Interview

Dr. Lauryn: [00:00:27] Well, hello, hello, hello! I’m so excited to have Dr. Terry Wahls in the house today. And Dr. Wahls is someone that I admire and respect so much as a leading physician in the immune-boosting movement. She’s really geared at helping empower patients and people to take their health back into their own hands through nutrition and lifestyle.

And she lives and breathes and eats what she teaches just by being a byproduct herself of her own protocols that she’s developed over the years and overcoming, or sending her multiple sclerosis into remission, through nutrition and lifestyle. So, Dr. Terry, I’m so happy that you came on, and I know you have a new updated edition of your book.

Dr. Wahls: [00:01:19] Yeah, my baby.

Dr. Lauryn: [00:01:21] How long has the book been around now?

Dr. Wahls: [00:01:24] Well it came out March 17th. The original edition came out in March 2014. So it’s six years ago. And so it’s really time to get it updated with the new science and how my thinking has evolved during that time period.

Dr. Lauryn: [00:01:44] I’m really interested to dive in and let’s get a little bit of background too. I know some of our viewers don’t necessarily know your full story.

Dr. Wahls: [00:01:53] So I’m a Professor of Medicine here at the University of Iowa. And for years I was very conventional and deeply skeptical of integrated functional medicine. But God has an interesting way of helping us get insight.

In 2000, I developed weakness in my left leg. I got a big evaluation and was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Now I knew I wanted to treat my disease very aggressively because MS is a progressive disorder. And so I did some research, found the best MS center I could find in the country, saw their best people, took the newest drugs, and went relentlessly downhill.

Now, within two years, my Cleveland Clinic physicians mentioned the work of Loren Cordain. I read his books, his papers, and after a lot of prayer and meditation, I decided to go back to eating meat. I gave up all grain, all legumes, all dairy. I continued to go downhill. The next year I needed a wheelchair. I took more aggressive drugs and moved on to even the new biologic drugs and, relentlessly went downhill. It was very clear that the best science, the best drugs, best technology was probably not going to stop or march towards a bedroom, possibly demented, possibly intractable pain life. Because I have trigeminal neuralgia and had already had that for 20 years...

More than 95% of probiotics on shelves do not contain the probiotics they claim. In this episode with Tina Anderson of Just Thrive Probiotics we talk about why, plus the benefits of probiotics, and practical shopping tips you need to know about picking and choosing the right probiotics for you.

Tina Anderson’s journey into the world of health had a unique start and some unusual turns. She began her career as a trial lawyer who specialized in settling cases by bringing both sides together, a personal passion of hers. Once her second child arrived, Tina left that high-stress job behind so she could focus on her family. Luckily, she was still able to use her considerable legal skills to point her career in a new direction as the in-house counsel for a family pharmaceutical company. But what Tina saw there made her change direction again. Frustrated by the many abuses in the pharmaceutical industry, Tina turned toward the field of natural health, and found her life’s work. She channeled her energy into learning all she could about disease prevention and good health maintenance. That led her to discover the importance of gut health and how connected and crucial it is for overall health and wellness. To share her discovery with the world, Tina along with her husband created a unique supplement that contains the superior probiotic strains of renowned researcher Dr. Simon Cutting. By promoting gut health and probiotics, Tina shares her passion for wellness, helping others live their best physical and emotional lives.

Link

https://justthrivehealth.com

 

Intro:

[00:00:00] Welcome to Break The Rules with Dr. Lauryn Lax – a podcast dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. Dr. Lauryn is a leading nutritionist, therapist, and functional medicine practitioner on a mission to help others thrive in their own lives, mind, body, and soul. And now your host, Dr. Lauryn Lax.

Interview

Dr. Lauryn: [00:00:27] Well, hello, hello, hello! Welcome to another edition of the Break The Rules podcast where we talk about quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. And today we’re talking all about probiotics. One of my favorite topics as of late, that I’ve been nerding out a ton as I’ve been writing my book, Total Gut Reset, and just really finding that 90 to 95% of probiotics out there actually do not contain the probiotics they claim.

And we’re going to be talking with Tina Anderson, who is the brainchild of a probiotic out there called Just Thrive Probiotics. But this has been something she’s been living and breathing for quite some time, and Tina’s background is as a trial lawyer who specialized in settling cases by bringing both sides together, which is a big personal passion of hers.

But she’s going to tell us a little bit about her story, about how she got into this world of the microbiome. That whole can of worms really, and help us debunk some of the myths out there about probiotics. So, Tina, thanks so much for coming on today. And if you could just, can you introduce yourself to the audience and give us a little background on how you got into the microbiome world from law?

Tina: [00:01:44] Yeah. Sure. Well, thank you, Dr. Lauryn. I’m so excited to be here. I also love talking about probiotics and gut health. So this is going to be a very fun episode, I’m sure for both of us, at least. So I was like you said, I was in practice. I mean, I’m still an attorney but I started out my career as a trial lawyer and it was great. It was a fun career for a while. But then I started having children and noticing, “my God, I’m working these crazy hours and I’m not seeing them.” And so I kind of just decided to seek out a more – a career...

More than 95% of probiotics on shelves do not contain the probiotics they claim. In this episode with Tina Anderson of Just Thrive Probiotics we talk about why, plus the benefits of probiotics, and practical shopping tips you need to know about picking and choosing the right probiotics for you.

 

Tina Anderson’s journey into the world of health had a unique start and some unusual turns. She began her career as a trial lawyer who specialized in settling cases by bringing both sides together, a personal passion of hers. Once her second child arrived, Tina left that high-stress job behind so she could focus on her family. Luckily, she was still able to use her considerable legal skills to point her career in a new direction as the in-house counsel for a family pharmaceutical company. But what Tina saw there made her change direction again. Frustrated by the many abuses in the pharmaceutical industry, Tina turned toward the field of natural health, and found her life’s work. She channeled her energy into learning all she could about disease prevention and good health maintenance. That led her to discover the importance of gut health and how connected and crucial it is for overall health and wellness. To share her discovery with the world, Tina along with her husband created a unique supplement that contains the superior probiotic strains of renowned researcher Dr. Simon Cutting. By promoting gut health and probiotics, Tina shares her passion for wellness, helping others live their best physical and emotional lives.

 

https://justthrivehealth.com

 

Face it: There’s alot of fear, unsettling news, and confusing information floating around in the health world right now. But guess what? You have the power to take your health into your own hands! Dr. Lisa Koche, MD, founder of Spectra Wellness has over 8,000 patients who are rising strong through the valley of the virus, optimizing the essentials for total body wellness, and she is in the house to help you do the same.

Bio

Dr. Lisa Koche is triple boarded in Internal Medicine, Bariatrics, and Anti-Aging and Regenerative medicine.

Ever since her own exposure to the medical field due to childhood leukemia and heart failure from chemotherapy, she has been focused on finding the cause of health issues instead of just treating the symptoms. She attended Emory Medical School and completed her internal medicine residency at USF in Tampa. She started her practice focusing on preventing cardiovascular diseases and obesity. That experience led to further training in alternative medicine, hormones, and nutrition. She is the medical director and founder of Spectra Wellness Solutions, a comprehensive clinic focusing on all aspects needed for total body healing including the ketogenic diet, hormone replacement therapies, IV nutrition, and enhancing mitochondrial function. She believes deeply in the team approach to medicine and has a team of gifted healers that work together to create individualized treatment plans. She has several signature programs for optimal performance including the Ignite program featured in her best-selling book, “Get Lit: Simple Answers to Overcome Exhaustion, Escape Stress, Harness Limitless Energy, and Ignite Your Inner Athlete”.

Over the years she has continued to set herself apart by being one of the very few internal medicine physicians focused on disease prevention and mitochondrial health.

Dr. Koche has lectured nationally and has been featured on numerous television and radio segments. She was recently voted Tampa’s No. 1 doctor of Naturopathic Medicine by her peers in TAMPA Magazine’s 2019 Top Doctors survey.

Links:

Instagram: 

@dr.lisakoche

@spectrawellnesssolutions

Facebook pages:

Dr. Lisa Koche: https://www.facebook.com/Dr-Lisa-Koche-102147467888432/

Spectra Wellness Solutions: https://www.facebook.com/SpectraWellness/

Youtube:

Dr. Lisa Koche: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFIHhrAQ11-BcxIUpKArAQQ

 

TRANSCRIPT

Welcome to Break the Rules with Dr. Lauryn, a podcast dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food and fitness world. Dr. Lauryn is a leading nutritionist therapist and functional medicine practitioner on a mission to help others thrive in their own lives, mind, body, and soul. And now your host, Dr. Lauryn.

[00:00:27] Dr. Lauryn: [00:00:27] Well, hello hello hello. Welcome to another edition of the Break the Rules podcast, where we talk about quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. And today, super stoked to have Dr. Lisa Koche on the show. She is triple board certified in internal medicine beriatrics and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. Saythat four times fast… And, Dr. Lisa has really been right now sharing a really big message about,

Lifestyle and nutrition are all you need to guard against illness and strengthen your immune system. Even though we all know “eating vegetables is good for us,” autoimmune disease victor, clinician, and best-selling author Dr. Terry Wahls shares practical, sustainable lifestyle and nutrition advice for building up your immune system at home using The Wahl’s Protocol.

 

https://terrywahls.com

https://wahls.lab.uiowa.edu/join-study

Book: https://amzn.to/2VL1hxL

 

COVID-19 Antibody tests are readily available…but are they really accurate? And given the fact that we currently do not have a “cure” for the virus, is there anything we can do to help prevent getting sick? Dr. Tom Moorcroft, D.O., a specialist in treating chronic illness, is in the house to share the facts on COVID-19 testing, along with several empowering insights to help you take your health back into your hands in light of the current situation.

Free Gifts – https://www.originsofhealth.com/bigthankyou/

About: Relax and Reboot – Simple Exercises to Balance Your Nervous System and Boost Immune Function, plus two other bonus gifts to help you support optimal health.

Link: https://www.originsofhealth.com

Bio

For over a decade, Dr. Tom has been treating some of the sickest, most sensitive patients suffering from chronic Lyme disease, tick-borne co-infections, chronic viruses, mold illness as well as children with infection-induced autoimmune encephalitis (PANS/PANDAS). He focuses on optimizing the body’s self-healing systems in order to achieve optimal health with simple, natural interventions; utilizing more conventional approaches when needed. Each individual is a unique unity of body, mind and spirit. Successful treatment strategies are patient-centered and address all three levels. The true source of radiant health is within each of us. Dr. Tom’s goal is to empower each of his patients to get in touch with their inner source of health so they can experience optimal health.

 

Intro

[00:00:00] Welcome to Break The Rules with Dr. Lauryn, a podcast dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. Dr. Lauryn is a leading nutritionist, therapist, and functional medicine practitioner on a mission to help others thrive in their own lives, mind, body, and soul. And now your host, Dr. Lauryn

[00:00:27] Interview

[00:00:27] Dr. Lauryn: [00:00:27] Well, hello, hello, hello! Welcome to another edition of the Break The Rules podcast, where we talk about quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. And today we have Dr. Tom Moorcroft on the show, and we are talking all about COVID-19 and antibody testing for one, as well as the preventative measures you can continue to be taking at home on a daily basis that are going to help you beyond maybe what social media and or news outlets are saying of maybe a second wave happening.

[00:01:01] And so Dr. Tom is here to help quiet the noise in the COVID-19 world. He has a background in treating some of the sickest of sick, most sensitive patients suffering from chronic Lyme disease, tick borne co-infections, chronic viruses, mold illness. As well as children with infection induced autoimmune encephalitis. And Dr. Tom, I’m just so stoked to have you on the show. And I know you have such a wealth of information and knowledge to offer our audience today, but if you could, before we get into that, give us a little bit of background about who you are and what got you doing the work that you’re doing in the world. 

[00:01:38] Dr. Tom: [00:01:38] Yeah. Hey, thanks Dr. Lauryn. So happy to be here. I’m super happy to be talking to another person who uses the word stoked all the time. It should be in everyone’s vocabulary. Yeah, you know, I mean, I think that my background and how I got into this really was I was always a big outdoors person. Very athletic, just really loved my hockey, my cross country running my mountain, biking, hiking, and all that stuff.

It’s time to detox racism. But unlike a 3 day juice cleanse or liver detox protocol with food lists and rules, the exact steps to detox racism are not so easy. Transformational coach and Chinese Medicine trained clinician Brodie Welch is in the house for a real-talk conversation on what we can be pro-active in making big change and cleansing out toxic racism from our world.

links:

https://padlet.com/nicolethelibrarian/nbasekqoazt336co?fbclid=IwAR2RcVNGNQuiIqSs3riU0E3RxcwrKZUQm0A-a4ani5K7UkxLGYUkuEGacoI

https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234

https://brodiewelch.com/episode-190-podcastblackout/

Brodie Welch, L.Ac., M.S.O.M.  is a transformational coach, Licensed Acupuncturist, board-certified herbalist and holistic health educator at the confluence of the health and personal evolution.

She’s the founder of Life in Balance Acupuncture in Corvallis, Oregon, where she has been practicing since 2003. She’s the creator and host of A Healthy Curiosity: the podcast that explores what it takes to be well in a busy world.

A lifelong student of consciousness, Brodie has been practicing meditation, yoga, and qi gong for over twenty years and holds teaching certifications in each of these disciplines. Brodie synthesizes ancient biohacking techniques from Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and yoga with the latest research in neuroscience, functional medicine, and habit change.

Her transformational program Level Up Your Life turns ancient metaphysical teachings into practical self-care strategies to help self-aware, high-achieving women break out of the cycle of stress, overwhelm, and self-sabotage so they can enjoy their lives, live into their potential, and create unshakable confidence. Learn more at brodiewelch.com.

Transcript

Welcome to Break the Rules with Dr. Lauryn – a podcast dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. Dr. Lauryn is a leading nutritionist, therapist, and functional medicine practitioner on a mission to help others thrive in their own lives, mind, body, and soul. And now your host, Dr. Lauryn.

Dr. Lauryn: [00:00:27] Well, hello, hello, hello! Welcome to another edition of the Break the Rules podcast, where we talk about quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. And today I’ve got transformational coach Brodie Welch in the house, who is also a licensed acupuncturist and board-certified herbalist and holistic health educator. All about helping you with your personal health and personal evolution as a human.

And today we’re taking a different little topic approach and talking about something that...

Fasting and intermittent fasting is a hot topic button that sends out many sirens–especially if you’ve ever struggled with body image, food, or eating disorders. Chantel Ray, author of the book Waist Away, shares the pros and cons of fasting–when it can be beneficial and when it can be detrimental or not healthy for your mind and body.

 

Chantel has spent the past ten years interviewing over 1000 women to crack the code to lasting weight loss. This book is the result of these interviews, her countless hours spent studying the Bible on this topic, and her real-life journey. She believes she has discovered the secret sauce to weight loss and can’t wait to share it with you.

 

Chantel Ray is the President and Founder of Chantel Ray Real Estate, a Virginia based company with 6 locations. She is a mother of two and happily married to her husband Rhyan. She is extremely active in her church and community, hosting weekly Bible studies in her home, speaking at events to support and inspire other local business owners, and partnering with local charities to help those in need.

 

Book

Waist Away: https://amzn.to/3awcMPQ

Fasting to Freedom: https://amzn.to/2R0NH7O

TRANSCRIPT

Intro  00:03

Welcome to Break the Rules with Dr. Lauryn, a podcast dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. Dr. Lauryn is a leading nutritionist, therapist and functional medicine practitioner on a mission to help others thrive in their own lives, mind, body, and soul. And now, your host, Dr. Lauryn.

Dr. Lauryn  00:27

Well, hello, hello, hello. Welcome to another edition of the Break The Rules podcast where we talk about quieting the noise and the health food and fitness world. Today we’re talking all about the hot topic of intermittent fasting and got Chantel Ray who is an expert in intermittent fasting on the show today. She’s the author of a book called waste away and has really made a name for herself in picking up about the pros and the cons of intermittent fasting and just what you need to know in order to do it healthily, the benefits of it, as well as perhaps the murky waters of it too for some folks, and today, we’re just gonna have a really great conversation again about the pros and the cons of intermittent fasting and just really hot topic button. Chantel, I’m so excited that you’re on the show!

Chantel  01:19

I’m so excited to be here. Thank you for having me.

Dr. Lauryn  01:22

Yeah. Thanks for coming on. And if you could just give our audience a little bit of background about your story and what kind of got you into this world of talking about intermittent fasting in the first place.

Chantel  01:34

So I have struggled with my weight for about 40 years. And so for most of my adult life, I struggled really since I was a teenager, I had struggled with my weight, and I was just constantly on different diets. And so I went from one diet to another diet. And then finally, I decided, you know, if I wanted to really learn how to find somebody who’s thin – they’re naturally thin. They’ve been thin their whole life. And they’ve never struggled with food. And then I decided to start interviewing them. So I interviewed over 1000 women. And I said, Okay, what do you eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner? How do you eat? What do you eat? Just ask them all these questions. And that’s how I wrote my book, Waist Away: The Chantel Ray Way. And it has intermittent fasting as one piece of...

You’ve heard about “flattening the curve” for virus and illness…but what about flattening the broken conventional healthcare system–based on “symptom care” instead of health resiliency? Functional medicine pioneer James Maskell brings a message and a movement he’s spearheading to help us all change that in this power-packed interview.

 

Links:

Check out https://FindFunctional.com. Use the code “DRLAURYN” for 50% off.

 

BIO

On a mission to flatten the curve of healthcare costs, James Maskell has spent the past decade innovating at the cross-section of functional medicine and community.  To that end, he created the Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference with record-setting participation online and growing physician communities around the world. His organization and best selling book of the same name, Evolution of Medicine, prepares health professionals for this new era of personalized, participatory medicine.

 

His new project, FindFunctional, makes functional medicine affordable and accessible for all. He is an in-demand speaker and impresario, being featured on TEDMED, HuffPostLive, and TEDx, as well as lecturing internationally. He lives in Sacramento, CA with his wife and daughter.

 

 

TRANSCRIPT:

Intro: [00:00:00] Welcome to Break The Rules with Dr. Lauryn – a podcast dedicated to quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. Dr. Lauryn is a leading nutritionist, therapist and functional medicine practitioner on a mission to help others thrive in their own lives, mind, body, and soul. And now your host, Dr. Lauryn.

Dr. Lauryn: [00:00:27] Well, Hello! Hello! Hello! Welcome to another edition of the Break The Rules podcast where we talk about quieting the noise in the health, food, and fitness world. And today, we’re super stoked to have Mr. James Maskell in the house. And James is a man on a mission to flatten the curve of healthcare costs. He’s spent over the past decade innovating at the cross-section of functional medicine and community. And I’m just so honored to have him.

We’re going to be talking about shaking things up, breaking some rules in the functional medicine slash healthcare world, especially at a time right now where that is really top of mind. James, thanks so much for coming on, and if you could just give us a little bit of background about who you are and what got you into doing the work that you’re doing in the world.

James Maskell: [00:01:12] Yeah, so my name is James Maskell. I’ve been 15 years involved in trying to really understand what causes health costs to continue going up and what it would take to actually bring them down. That journey has taken me through running a clinic. I’ve been working with doctors doing functional, naturopathic, integrative medicine.

About six or seven years ago, I started a show called the functional forum that became sort of the world’s largest functional medicine conference with communities all around the world, six continents, kind of getting together to watch a monthly show. And you know,