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Dr. Joan Ifland, PhD, MBA, FACN, is a Nutrition Researcher & Processed Food Addiction Counselor. Dr. Ifland is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and she holds her PhD in Addictive Nutrition. She has 20 years' experience in the field of food addiction and recovery. The Founder of Food Addiction Reset, Dr. Ifland is a leading expert in the field, author of the textbook on the topic.

Processed food marketed to children has a powerful impact on their brain function with long-term consequences. This is a tough conversation, but it is important to be aware of the way our kids' nutrition impacts mood, concentration, focus, and overall health.

Key Topics:

- The effect of processed food on developing brains

- How food marketing impacts kids’ brains and cognitive function

- The four step process companies use to create addiction in children

- What parents can do to protect their kids from addictive substances

- How the need to belong factors in and creates addictive behaviors

- The long-term impact of processed food on the brain

Go to processedfoodaddiction.com or foodaddictionreset.com to start your healing journey.

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Brittany Braswell is a Registered Dietitian who runs a private recovery coaching practice helping Christian women ditch food rules and negative body image so they finally get off the dieting hamster wheel and experience true and lasting freedom in Christ.

She has been featured as a guest expert on podcasts, at virtual summits, in blogs, and at universities. She is the creator of two exclusive courses -- one on improving body image, and another on recovering from disordered eating on her website www.brittanybraswellrd.com/bodyimage both of which serve women using a Christ-centered approach.

In this episode, we tackle the tough topic of how our disordered relationship with food can often reflect a disordered view of ourselves and our purpose.

Key Topics:

- How to know if you have a disordered relationship with food

- Eating issues are a symptom of a deeper issue of tuning in with your body’s needs

- Limiting beliefs and themes that show up in people who struggle with disordered eating habits

- Issues with worthiness and comparison

- Issues with capabilities, confidence and mindset roadblocks

- Control issues and procrastination

- Fear of failure and what limits us

Follow Brittany on Instagram at brittanybraswellrd.

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Dr. Julia Britz specializes in supporting people who are struggling with mental health issues such as OCD, disorders eating and psychiatric medication tapering. Her passion for working with individuals suffering from these lonely conditions is that she too was a “hopeless case”, but got better.

Dismissed by doctors, she was told over and over there was nothing else she could try beyond pharmacotherapy, and so was inspired to create myocddiary.com, a site dedicated to documenting the daily life of OCD and related disorders. Through this project and holistic therapies, she found new levels of wellness, and in 2014 did a TED talk called “MyOCDdiary: an imperfect story.”  

She utilizes natural and integrative modalities including targeted amino acid therapy, peptide therapy, micronutrient therapy, bioresonance, botanical medicine and epigenetic analysis, many of which are discussed in this episode.

Key topics:

- When meds are needed, when they aren’t

- Why psych meds don’t seem to work long term

- Long-term data on medication

- Side effects of commonly used medication

- How medication plays a role in dissociation

- When it is helpful to name a diagnosis

- What is akathisia

- How to develop a healing mindset toward mental health

- Foundations of mental healing

- Lab testing and genetic aspects of mental illness

- The immune-brain connection

Learn more about Dr. Britz's work at www.drjuliabritz.com.

Amber is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and the Founder of Feel Good Nourishment, where she specializes in helping people who suffer from gut health issues and autoimmune diseases.

She was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 2008, followed by rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and cancer in the subsequent years. It wasn’t until she found functional medicine that she says her life & health changed forever.

After her own journey, Amber became passionate about helping others do the same in their own bodies. Amber is now sharing her personal healing story in her new book, “Thriving with Autoimmune Diseases”, coming out later this year.

Key Topics:

- Amber’s journey overcoming multiple autoimmune diseases and cancer

- How autoimmune disease starts

- The impact of stress on the body

- Bringing balance to the nervous system

- Chronic illness and how toxic beliefs and mindset play a role

- Triggers for illness and getting to the root cause

- Amber’s work with those struggling with chronic disease

Amber’s website is feelgoodnourishment.com.

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Chris Burres is the owner of SES Research, the first company to deliver carbon nano materials, and MyVitalC, the world's first nano antioxidant.

Chris has an extensive background in a diverse range of areas including Mechanical Engineering, Comedy

Improv Artist, Oil and Gas Explosives, and Competitive Soccer to name a few. He's also the co-host of the most popular internet marketing podcast on iTunes since 2009.

When Chris realized a Nobel Prize-Winning chemical tested by NASA had been proven to almost double the lifespan of mammals, he decided to make ESS60 into a household item. He's now on a mission to help people live longer, healthier and pain-free lives one dose at a time

Key Topics:

- The Nobel Prize winning background story for ESS60

- How Chris got started in the carbon nanomaterials industry

- The problem with 50% of supplements

- How aging is related to inflammation and oxidation

- What antioxidants do to support healing

- Migraine and menopause relief

- How ESS60 improves sleep without grogginess

- Who could benefit from MyVitalC

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Christina T. Veselak, MS, CN, LMFT, is the founder and director of the Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition which teaches practitioners around the world how to use diet, along with amino acid and nutrient therapy to help prevent cravings and recurrent use by restoring neurotransmitter function and keeping blood sugar in balance. She has been a licensed psychotherapist working in the SUD treatment field since 1985 and a certified nutritionist specializing in mental health and addiction recovery since 1993.

Key Topics:

- What the brain needs most to be fed optimally

- Why protein is the number one thing you need for mental health

- The minimum protein requirement for most people

- The neurotransmitter hack that only takes 20 minutes

- Amino acid therapy and medication - what can you do?

- Why antidepressants stop working long-term

- How stress causes nutrient depletion

- How low serotonin creates cravings for junk and sugar

- How to support female hormones and PMS

- How to know what amino acids you are deficient in

Learn more about how to support your neurotransmitters at aminoacidtherapy.com and eatingproteinsaveslives.org

Dr. Sanam Hafeez is a neuropsychologist in New York City. She is also faculty at Columbia University. Her website is www.comprehendthemind.com  

 

Dr. Hafeez has been a trusted and recurring expert across media channels for top outlets such as The Wallstreet Journal, The Washington Post, HuffPost, The New York Times, Bustle, Elite Daily, Refinery29, Prevention, Health, Healthline and on TV for such shows and news as Dr. Oz, The Doctors, CNN, CBS NY Weekend News, and FOX.

 

Key Topics:

- Why 40-50% of Americans are struggling with sleep, more so than ever before

- What is circadian rhythm and why it matters

- How sleep impacts mental health and replenishes the brain

- How anxiety starts at night

- The ritual to have to prepare for sleep

- Tips to try to support better sleep

- The best way to calm an anxious brain at bedtime

- How parents can use kids’ bedtime to take time to develop their own sleep hygiene

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Dr. Lynn F. Hellerstein, a developmental optometrist and pioneer in vision therapy, has authored 4 books including the Award-Winning book, See It. Say It. Do It! and #1 Amazon Best-Selling book, Expand Your Vision.

For more than 40 years, Dr. Lynn has utilized vision therapy with children and adults with learning related vision problems, vision perception deficits or brain injuries, as well as enhancing visual performance for athletes. She has inspired thousands of people to improve their vision and enhance their lives.

Key Topics:

- How a traditional optometrist ended up focusing on vision therapy

- How someone with 20/20 vision can still have vision problems

- How ADHD and anxiety impact vision and concentration

- The connection between vision and the brain and the gut

- How visualization helps people get their focus and concentration back

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Leigh Richardson is the owner and founder of The Brain Performance Center in Dallas, Texas as well as the host of the podcast, In Your Head with Leigh Richardson.

In this simulcast podcast episode, Leigh and Erin discuss how the conversation about wellness is changing in the 2020s. While wellness is being emphasized, it starts with a regulated brain.

Key Topics:

- The foundation of sleep for a healthy brain

- How to simplify nutrition for brain health and energy

- Transforming toxic thoughts and adopting mindfulness strategies

- New research on using the sauna to boost mental health

- Other practical tools to train the brain for wellness and positivity

To learn more about Leigh and her work, head to thebrainperformancecenter.com.

Andrew Hahn, Psy.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist at Life Centered Therapy. He received his A.B. Magna Cum Laude in Social Studies/Psychology from Harvard University and his Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Hahnemann University.

His new book, co-authored with Joan Beckett, is called The One-Hour Miracle: A 5-Step Process to Guide Your Self-Healing

This episode is a thought-provoking look at new trauma therapies that are being used.

Key Topics:

- What is life-centered therapy?

- Finding our identity in this world and how trauma impacts our identity

- How trauma gets stored in the body

- Chronic pain and the story it tells

- The purpose of his new book, The One Hour Miracle, and how it facilitates healing

- How muscle testing can be used for healing

Learn more about Dr. Hahn at lifecenteredtherapy.com