Peeling the Onion: Discovering the Layers of Health

Dr. Zendi Moldenhauer, PhD, NPP, PNP, RN-BC, IFMCP has been working in pediatrics and mental health for over 20 years. She combines her conventional medical background in pediatrics and psychiatry with more holistic and functional healing modalities to help people attain the highest level of health and wellness. She is particularly interested in nutrition and the gut-brain relationship in conditions like anxiety, depression, ADHD, stress-related conditions, and gut disorders like IBS. Dr. Zendi has a PhD in Nursing from the University of Rochester, NY, and is board certified as both a Nurse Practitioner in Psychiatry and a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. She has completed advanced training in the following areas: Holistic Nutrition and Health Coaching through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, Integrative Psychiatry through multiple Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Conferences, and is board certified in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine. Dr. Zendi co-founded Arbor Health in Rochester, NY, a Functional Medicine and Psychiatry Clinic, and is launching the International Institute for Pediatric Functional Psychiatry. She loves teaching and presenting on topics related to Functional Medicine and Psychiatry.

Resources:

• https://www.arbor-health.com/

For over a century the medical industry has worked to separate people from their innate healing wisdom, and now the global population is suffering from increasing rates of chronic disease and potentially endless prescriptions for suppression of symptoms instead of healing. We must make different choices for the health of the future generations. Dr.Jen works carefully with her patients to get them back into the driver’s seat of their health journey. She believes educating about health, encouraging people in the return to Nature's wisdom for healing, empowering people in their ability to make truly informed choices -this is how we can restore balance in the health of the people and the planet.

Resources:

• www.drjenclemons.com
• @drjenclemons

What's up with the word healthy? It is everywhere we turn, but is healthy really?

Resources:

• Hip Chicks Guide to Macrobiotics by Jessica Porter 
• Just Be Well by Thomas A Sult, MD 
• Kushi Institute 

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James Barry’s 16 + years in the culinary field started as a private chef cooking for celebrities such as Tom Cruise, George Clooney, Gerard Butler, Barbra Streisand, and John Cusack. Most recently, James launched his first functional food product, Pluck, an organ-based seasoning. It's the first of its kind and an amazingly easy and delicious way for people to get organ meats into their diet.

Eatpluck.com

@eatpluck 

@chefjamesbarry

The first 1000 days of gut health set the tone for one's health (and 1000 days starts in utero); 2. Infant reflux, spitting up, early need for meds, early food reactions, and other digestive issues in infancy can be worked on beyond conventional approaches; 3. What mom eats and how she digests it matters greatly to the health of the baby, in utero and at birth, and also if she breastfeeds baby.

• That our environment/nature has the power to heal
• That we were made to move (and that it boosts mood among other things)
• That understanding our divine spark can change the way we relate to ourselves and others
• In sum, our energy is enhanced when we realize who we are, a part of creation, instead of living apart from creation.

Hilda Labrada Gore (a/k/a Holistic Hilda) is the host and producer of the popular Wise Traditions podcast (10 million downloads to date) and Tradiciones Sabias (the ancestral wisdom Spanish podcast), on behalf of the Weston A. Price Foundation. A certified health coach and ancestral health advocate, she has traveled the world exploring traditional practices for optimal well-being. Hilda shares the best of experts, experiences, and epic adventures on the podcasts, her Holistic Hilda YouTube channel, and on ancestral health tours and conferences. Hilda is also a podcast coach and the author of “Podcasting Made Simple.” Hilda has energy to spare thanks to her love for sunshine and liverwurst.

No matter what illness or discomfort the body experiences there is always a solution. Most lifestyles and diets are appropriate if they bottom line is finding balance and that may look different for each person. Stress leads to disease!

Michelle Berzack is a long time holistic chef formerly trained in the Macrobiotic lifestyle brought to America from Japan by Michio Kushi. Along with being a chef Michelle is a biologist and expert vegetable gardener. For over 20 years Michelle has experienced and tried out many ways of healing, landing on the most effective method which is listening to what her body and mind do through conscious practices. Instead of following the guidelines of one method or one practice Michelle takes something from every country, diet, practitioner, and person she has come across. After seeking Tibetan doctors in India, exploring foods of Japan, Thailand and North Africa, living according to strict Macrobiotic guidelines, eating only raw foods, then vegan foods, vegetarianism, Paleo (vegetarian), Ayurvedic, even consulting specialized doctors in America, Michelle has come to the conclusion that working to achieve a state of equilibrium is what leads to healing the body and preventing disease.

• Grief is the same as burnout in your brain
• We need to normalize burnout and develop tools to help ourselves
• Everyone is creative.

Dr. Lara Salyer, DO, IFMCP was shocked to discover herself struggling with burnout 15 years into her career as a rural family medicine physician. To alleviate this heartbreak of feeling trapped in a lackluster career, she started painting, drawing and running. This regular dose of neurochemical flow state resulted in improved wellbeing and decreased stress.

Fascinated by this, she began studying the effects of stress/cortisol on physiology, culminating in her decision to certify with the Institute for Functional Medicine. She resigned from her employed position and opened a holistic membership practice where she leverages technology to build cohesive wellness in her local community through innovative group medical visits, online health education, as well as traditional individual services.

She continued studying with the Flow Research Collective to learn how to coach flow acquisition and high flow leadership. She infuses this training into her keynotes and growing Catalyst™ Mentorship program where she helps colleagues design their own creative, efficient, and organized work/life masterpiece.

Dr. Lara speaks across the globe on her mission to teach 1 million health professionals how to tap into creative flow daily so they can reclaim autonomy, improve happiness, and eradicate burnout.

She authored her own memoir, Right Brain Rescue: One physician's journey from burnout to bliss reveals the creative muse in all of us, available on Amazon, and lives in Monroe, Wisconsin with her husband, their three children, a manic dog, and infinite piles of laundry.

You can learn more about her at:

• www.DrLaraSalyer.com
• Instagram: @drlarasalyer
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drlarasalyer
• Linked-In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drlarasalyer/
• TikTok: Creativity.Doctor
• Podcast: The Catalyst

Melissa Rose is a committed investigative partner to individuals who have chronic or autoimmune conditions.

As a result of her own journey with Multiple Sclerosis, diagnosis and recovery, she provides empathetic, highly personalized care. Her goal is to support, educate and empower individuals to become well again. She has been working in the autoimmune community as a Practitioner, advocate, speaker and educator since 2017 and has extensive experience with rare autoimmune conditions.

As a AFMC Board Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, Melissa is a sought-after clinician. She is skilled in a variety of cutting-edge progressive testing. She uses symptoms, test results, and personal/family history to get to the root of the disease process for her clients. As a team, she and the client work synergistically to create a plan addressing imbalance in the body. She provides innovative care, coaching, education and encouragement, throughout their journey. Her goal for each client is sustainable wellness.

Her education includes the School of Applied Functional Medicine, Institute of Integrative Nutrition, Functional Nutrition Lab, with certifications from American Association of Drugless Practitioners, Human Research and Biomedical Research Investigators and Key Personnel from Weill Cornell Medical College.

Join us in part 2 of our Sexy Summer Series where we talk about how our oh, so sexy hormones get dysregulated. We talk about things like toxicity, external as well as internal factors, and what having dysregulated hormones really means. 

“There is an estimated 2000 additional new chemicals that are developed and put into commercial use every year. The TSCA, who's responsible for testing chemicals in United States, only tests about 20 chemicals at a time. And that testing takes a few years. So even if they find a problem, the companies using those chemicals get a five-year window to phase out the usage of that chemical.”

The three things we focus on in this episode are:

• Transitions in your home
• Transitions in your diet
• Transitions in  your supplemental healthcare

This episode goes really deep into all things toxic, what alternatives we can make, and how to make those transitions, including detoxification. But the goal is the more you know, the more informed you are, the more you make change, the more you improve, the more you gain vibrancy and wellness.

We need to make sure that we are doing our job to take out the things that are easy, low hanging fruit to start with. See if we see some changes. And if you don't see changes, keep digging deeper. And that's really the theme of peeling back the onion. It's sort of like, take that first layer off and see how you feel. Take off that next layer and see how you feel. Take off the next layer, and the next layer, and the next layer. Keep going until you feel balanced. 

Links:

Environmental Working Group 

https://www.ewg.org/

Lara Adler - Environmental Toxin Nerd 

https://www.laraadler.com/

Not So Pretty on HBO Max

https://www.hbomax.com/series/urn:hbo:series:GYjJrvg7QksLDwgEAAAAG

Think Dirty app

https://thinkdirtyapp.com/

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