Mindful Medicine

Posture is the interpretation of external sensory stimuli on the body’s musculature.

Your body can misinterpret stimuli and create faulty motor skills. This generates bad posture and can cause chronic pain. Excessive stress and compression affects your joints, organ function and general health.

Childhood Influence
Not all women have pelvic bones that are well-aligned. This leads to difficulty in the delivery room, which can cause misalignment in babies.

It’s best to let your child improve sensory input by allowing freedom of mobility. Avoid putting him in shoes (when possible) until the age of three.

Recognizing Poor Posture
If you’ve seen more than one professional for back, joint or neck pain, your posture needs improvement. Head tilting is another compensation for bad posture. Your shoes or pants may not wear out evenly, indicating you may have a postural disequilibrium.

Fixing Your Posture
Repetitive motion like walking is built on movement patterns. Your body is used to moving this way, and your brain needs to be retrained. Constant stimulation over a period of time can change faulty motor patterns. Exercises to create new motor habits can be done in just minutes a day.

Listen as posture expert Annette Verpillot joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how your posture (and overall health) can be improved.

Mary Jo Rapini shares tips for couples on how to keep stress out of the bedroom.With 24-hour connectivity to phones and work, people are more stressed than ever before. And, stress oftentimes shuts down your ability to have healthy relationships. It creates conflict with your partner and can make individuals crave isolation. When stressed, everything in your body tightens, your blood pressure raises, and you feel overwhelmed and drained, which makes intimacy a challenge. Psychotherapist Mary Jo Rapini reminds couples that they have control over stress and their sex life. She offers tips on how to remove stress from the bedroom, re-establish intimacy and improve communication inside and outside the bedroom. Listen as Mary Jo joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to keep stress from work out of your relationship and the bedroom.

With 24-hour connectivity to phones and work, people are more stressed than ever before.

And, stress oftentimes shuts down your ability to have healthy relationships. It creates conflict with your partner and can make individuals crave isolation. When stressed, everything in your body tightens, your blood pressure raises, and you feel overwhelmed and drained, which makes intimacy a challenge. 

Psychotherapist Mary Jo Rapini reminds couples that they have control over stress and their sex life. She offers tips on how to remove stress from the bedroom, re-establish intimacy and improve communication inside and outside the bedroom. 

Listen as Mary Jo joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to keep stress from work out of your relationship and the bedroom.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 91 percent of women are unhappy with their bodies and resort to dieting to achieve their ideal body shape. More than 70 percent of women over the age of 20 are considered overweight or obese.

While most fad diets focus on what to eat—or avoid eating—Carly Pollack challenges women to look inside themselves to understand why they’re ignoring common sense and choosing to eat foods they know are bad for them.

She reminds us that our plate is a reflection of our inner state. We need to change our thoughts and beliefs that drive our behavior, instead of getting caught in the diet chaos.

Listen as Carly joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to redefine the word diet and find lasting solutions to eating healthy.

The average person encounters environmental toxins in every day life. It’s impossible to completely avoid them.

Our bodies are enzyme machines. We need vitamins and minerals for the enzymes to work properly. The nutritional quality of our food supply has decreased in the past 50 years due to modern agricultural procedures. Toxins poison the body’s enzymes so they don’t function properly.

There is a correlation between chronic illnesses and toxin exposure. The majority of the population has been exposed to enough toxins to double the chance for disease.

Seventy percent of our toxic load comes from food. Some toxins come from the food production process. Other toxins come from the packaging process.

Consider how toxins can accumulate in your body over time. Try to reduce your toxic exposure. Stick with organic foods and grow as much food as you can. Look for foods packaged in glass. Avoid fragrances in health and beauty aids.

Listen as Dr. Joe Pizzorno joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss environmental toxins.

Learn how to help your child through the grieving process.​When it comes to the loss of a loved one, the grieving process can be all-consuming and long-lasting. That process becomes more complicated when your child is experiencing grief with you.  Drawing from decades of experience as a therapist, Edy Nathan has compiled a list of the top “do’s and don’ts” for parents trying to understand their child’s grieving process. She explains how children grieve differently than adults and shares signs to be watchful for in a grieving child.  Edy explains that during the grieving process, parents need to focus on THEM: Truth: Be honest with your child and avoid euphemisms.  Honor: Respect the time your child needs to heal. Emotion: Allow your child to feel full range of emotions. Memory: Work to keep your loved one’s memory alive. Listen as Edy joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to help kids cope with grief.

?When it comes to the loss of a loved one, the grieving process can be all-consuming and long-lasting. That process becomes more complicated when your child is experiencing grief with you. 

Drawing from decades of experience as a therapist, Edy Nathan has compiled a list of the top “do’s and don’ts” for parents trying to understand their child’s grieving process. She explains how children grieve differently than adults and shares signs to be watchful for in a grieving child. 

Edy explains that during the grieving process, parents need to focus on THEM:

Listen as Edy joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how to help kids cope with grief.

It’s not uncommon to develop negative habits as a way to cope with daily stress and disappointments.

Some women drown their sorrows in food or alcohol. Others numb themselves in front of the television or complain endlessly to friends without making any effort to change their situation. 

Willpower alone is not enough to change deeply entrenched habits. We must learn how to change habits by stopping to breathe, taking care of our bodies, remaining present, and celebrating little successes. 

Rosemary Lombardy shares her experience with marital abuse and tactics she used to break bad habits, find self-worth and replace every bad habit with a good one.

Listen as Rosemary joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss breaking bad habits with mindfulness.

Epigenetics is the study of how lifestyle and environment can influence the expression of genes.

The choices you make today can affect your own health and the health of future generations.

You can’t change your natural hair color, height and foot size. Epigenetics focuses on the things you CAN change, like being overweight, anxiety and chronic health conditions.

You may carry a genetic code that predisposes you to a condition. You have the power to prevent those conditions from expressing themselves.

Nutrigenomics is the science of the relationship between genetic expression, nutrition and health. It’s a personalized approach to your diet.

The Internet is a wonderful resource for more information on these topics, but make sure you examine resources that are evidence-based and research-based. Don’t just base your diet off a Facebook post your friend shared.

Listen as Melanie Bivens joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how epigenetics and nutrigenomics can help guide your individual health.

It’s important to empower cancer patients with ways to improve their own health. In fact, nutritional techniques can be applied to any chronic illness. Diet and lifestyle can impact resilience and recovery.

Your Terrain

Your body must have some damage that made it susceptible to cancer or chronic illness. Looking at the terrain of your life can help find areas to heal.

Ketogenic Diet

The ketogenic diet is high in fat and low in carbohydrates. Our bodies switch from burning glucose for fuel to producing and burning ketones. Cancer cells don’t have the same metabolic flexibility to run off ketones. Healthy fats like nuts, fish and avocados are staples of the ketogenic diet.

Cancer treatments like chemotherapy seem to be more successful when one follows the ketogenic diet.

Listen as Dr. Nasha Winters and Jess Kelly, MNT, join Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how you can improve your health to ward off and recover from cancer and other chronic illnesses.