Mindful Medicine

Do you have a chronic condition that doesn’t go away despite traditional treatment? If your physician can’t improve it with medications or treatments, there may be an emotional or behavioral component to your symptoms.

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We live in a quick fix society. Doctors conduct quick consultations. Patients are eager to dash out the door. Pharmacies are ready to dispense a rapid fix. It takes longer to discover the deep origin of long-term symptoms.

You have to express your bottled up emotions. Journal, sing or dance those emotions away. Paint to work through what’s inside of you.

The body uses pain to communicate. Listen to your body. What is happening inside that is manifesting itself outside? How does your body respond to the foods you’re eating?

Listen as Dr. Chris Gilbert joins Dr. Holly Lucille to share how emotion can provoke and stimulate symptoms.

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Much like we need to go to the gym and eat well to maintain healthy bodies, we need to work on keeping our minds healthy through mindful practices.

Because we’re living in a more fast-paced, secular society than ever before, we lack rituals that are focused on the mind and soul. But, by creating rituals that revolve around music, we can become more mindful and find clarity.

Mindful musician Murray Hidary has created Mind Travel, live music performances -- often out in nature -- that allow listeners to shift their perception of time and get lost in a slow, contemplative state. The music is meant to relax listeners and create a sense of community. When concert goers listen to music together, their brain waves operate on the same frequency, bringing audience members together for a shared experience. 

Listen as Murray joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss mindful music.

Functional medicine is a way of thinking. It asks doctors to look at the mind and body as a system, rather than a collection of parts.

While conventional doctors may look at a symptom and assign a treatment to cover up the symptom, functional medicine practitioners will look at a symptom and try to determine the root cause. 

Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum is the founder of the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, which trains medical professionals to become functional medicine coaches. These coaches work in collaboration with conventional doctors to help patients determine where to begin their treatment and how to achieve their desired results. 

Listen as Dr. Scheinbaum joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss functional medicine.

From an evolutionary perspective, we’re working against ourselves when it comes to getting a good night’s sleep.

We’ve been disrupting our circadian rhythm by striving towards achieving homeostasis with air conditioning, heating, and artificial lighting. The natural sleep triggers such as the gradual darkening and cooling of our environment are gone, and we’re not sleeping as well as we should.

To get the best night’s sleep our bodies need a cool environment. But with memory foam mattresses and heavy blankets, heat is trapped in our beds regardless of the room’s temperature.

Tara Youngblood, a fusion scientist and a visionary leader in the future of sleep-driven health, and her husband have created the ChiliPad™, a mattress cover that actively cools your bed. The pad has tubing that acts like a radiator, keep your body at the right temperature all night long. 

Listen as Tara joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss the science of a good night’s sleep.

There is a lot of misinformation and confusion about supplements. Vitamins are found in the nutrients in our food. If we don’t get enough of something for proper function, we need to replenish the deficiency.

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Vitamin B12 helps keep your nervous system and blood cells healthy. Low B12 causes symptoms right away. Tingling of fingers and toes, fatigue, anxiety and depression are common.

Your B12 level may check out on your lab tests. That doesn’t prove that your cells are absorbing the vitamin. It’s a good idea to take a B12 supplement. It’s water soluble so your body can easily eliminate any excess.

Your gut health may need to be improved in order to break down B12 in your digestive tract. A sublingual tablet absorbs directly into your body.

Six Facts About Vitamin B12 Deficiency

Listen as pharmacist Sherry Kelishadi joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss the importance of getting enough vitamin B12.

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These days, we spend a good portion of our day looking at screens, whether it’s the TV, our laptop or cell phone.

And, that has a big effect on our mental health.

The anonymity and distance created by the internet allows people to say hurtful things they might not say if face-to-face with someone. The curation of social media profiles creates a false image of perfection that becomes hard to attain in real life.

Many children are so connected to their screens that having an in-person conversation or maintaining eye contact can be a challenge. 

Lauren Cook identifies the signs that you or a loved one is spending too much time in front of screens and shares tips for limiting screen time.

She notes that the best way to overcome the anxiety and loneliness caused by technology is to become more mindful of your relationship with screens and focus on moderation.

Listen as Lauren joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how screen time affects mental health.

Much like alcoholism and drug use, food addiction is a very serious disease. It's an obsession with food and weight and occurs when someone loses control over how much and what they eat. It’s a lifetime chronic illness that only gets worse if left untreated.  

Many food addicts struggle with foods high in sugar and flour, with pizza, ice cream, and chocolate topping the list of addictive foods. 

When it comes to symptoms, most food addicts:  

For those struggling with food addiction, Jennifer Alembik, a Food Addiction Coach and recovering food addict, recommends staying away from foods that come in bags, boxes and cans. If you know which foods are the most triggering, she advises permanently cutting those foods out of your diet. Much like alcoholism, moderation does not exist with food addicts. 

She also recommends keeping a food journal, establishing and committing to morning and nighttime routines, and identifying triggers and finding new ways to cope when triggered. 

Listen as Jennifer joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss food addiction.

Frustrations with diagnosis, treatment and results from conventional Western medicine may prompt you to search for alternatives.

You want an alternative that is safe, effective and well-researched. One excellent resource where you can find research on the effectiveness of supplements is PubMed.

Low dose naltrexone (LDN) is a drug that acts like a nutritional supplement. Initially intended to treat addiction, it is now used to treat autoimmune diseases by arresting their progression.

Doses of 50mg to 100mg block opiod receptors in the brain, preventing patients from experiencing a high when they take drugs. Lower doses of 3mg can have a beneficial immune modulating effect.

It's important to educate yourself about low dose naltrexone before speaking with your doctor about it.

Listen as patient advocate Julia Schopick joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss the benefits of low dose naltrexone.

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More than 60 percent of Americans have one chronic disease and 40 percent have two or more chronic diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims that most of these diseases are preventable and reversible in the early stages by making simple lifestyle changes. 

To avoid chronic disease later in life, it’s essential to make healthy choices early on and continue to make them as you age. Some people believe that after 50 their health is going downhill, so they stop making healthy choices. 

Dr. Sally LaMont notes that we have more control over our health than most people imagine. She shares how to listen to your body and adjust choices rather than taking medicine to cover up the signs that your body is struggling. 

In her program, Healthy Aging Reset, which begins on September 24th, participants will learn how the following can affect the way you age:

Listen as Dr. Lamont joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss healthy aging.

Many parents make it through pregnancy and breastfeeding, carefully monitoring their own nutrition, but fail to understand the nutritional needs of their babies and toddlers once they begin eating solid foods.

Quite a bit of research has surfaced in the last few years aimed at educating parents about early childhood nutrition, and Dr. Nicole Avena shares some of these findings with listeners in this episode of Mindful Medicine. 

A research neuroscientist and nutrition expert, Dr. Avena explains why the foods a baby eats in the first 1,000 days of life are so important and how they affect heath outcomes later on. She discusses the specific dietary needs of breastfed versus formula-fed babies as well as the needs of babies born naturally versus those born of a C-section. 

Learn when to start your baby on solid foods, common nutrient deficiencies to look out for, and how to instill a healthy attitude towards food early on. 

Listen as Dr. Nicole Avena joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss what to feed your toddler or baby.