Sparking Wholeness

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. Ifland is a graduate of Stanford University and 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 and she’s been interviewed by The Oprah Winfrey Network, Fox News, KTLA, in Shape, Fortune, Prevention, Martha Stewart Weddings, U.S. News, and many others.

Key Topics:

- The hidden addictive substances in food

- The connection between chronic disease and processed food

- The mental health impact of processed food

- How to treat the addiction to processed food

- Gaslighting in modern healthcare

- Understanding the primary need driving our addiction

- The problem with diet foods - and how they’re not much better

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Dr. Aaron Hartman is the founder of Richmond Integrative and Functional Medicine in Richmond, Virginia. He helps his patients identify leverage points in key areas of their lifestyle & health that harness their body's remarkable power to heal and begin living the vibrant life they deserve. He has participated in over 60 clinical studies and has become the ‘go to’ doctor for difficult and hard cases in central Virginia - positively impacting his own daughter's MS with his unique, integrative approach to health.

In this episode, we tackle the topic of long Covid and ways to support the immune system.

Key Topics:

- what is long Covid and who is affected

- Mental health impact of viral infections

- How to improve gut health and why your gut needs love

- Fasting vs grazing

- Importance of community for health

- 7 keys to health and immune resilience

- The new science of psychoneuroimmunoendocrinology

To learn more about Dr. Hartman, go to Richmondfunctionalmedicine.com or follow him on social media at the same name.

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HEATHER CREEKMORE writes and speaks hope to thousands of women each week inspiring them to stop comparing and start living. Heather's “Compared to Who?”podcast is aimed specifically at helping Christian women overcome body image and comparison issues. Her first book--also titled-- “Compared to Who?” encourages women to uncover the spiritual root of body image issues and find freedom. Her latest release, “The Burden of Better,” offers women a journey into the depths of God's grace to find a way off the treadmill of constant comparison. Heather has been featured on Fox News, Huff Post, Morning Dose, Church Leaders, For Every Mom, along with dozens of other shows and podcasts.

In this episode, we have a conversation about the most popular diets out there today, and how dieting for the sole purpose of a smaller jeans size doesn’t get to the root of the issue.

Key Topics:

- Heather’s yo-yo dieting past and how at her thinnest, she was very unhealthy

- Is it wrong to diet?

- How one size doesn’t fit all

- The popular diets right now and the pitfalls

- The impact of exercise and restriction

- How does intuitive eating play a role?

Find Heather’s books, Compared to Who and The Burden of Better, wherever you get books! Follow her on social media at @comparedtowho and visit her website comparedtowho.me.

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Dr. Nayan Patel is an internationally recognized expert, consultant, lecturer on glutathione, and has been a respected pharmacist for twenty-five years. Dr. Patel received his PharmD degree from the USC School of Pharmacy, where he now serves as an adjunct faculty member. He has traveled the world educating practitioners and pharmacists on advanced biochemistry and anti-aging science.

His book, “The Glutathione Revolution” is available now.

Key Topics

- What is glutathione and what does it do?

- How glutathione declines as we age

- What is oxidative stress?

- Glutathione and anti-aging properties

- Glutathione vs Vitamin C - what do we need more of?

- Disease conditions affected by glutathione

- How certain food and toxins deplete glutathione and how glutathione manages the toxic load

- Foods for producing glutathione

- The products at Auro Wellness and how topical glutathione makes a difference.

Learn more about glutathione at aurowellness.com

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Ellen Vora, MD received her B.A. from Yale University and attended Columbia University medical school. She’s a board-certified psychiatrist, medical acupuncturist, and yoga teacher. Dr. Vora takes a functional medicine approach to mental health—considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root, rather than reflexively prescribing medication. Dr. Vora’s book, The Anatomy of Anxiety, comes out in March 2022.

Key Topics:

- What a functional medicine approach to psychiatry looks like

- The root causes of bipolar disorder

- The impact of gluten on mental health

- The impact of birth control pills on mental health

- When psychiatric drugs are necessary

- Why anxious people are sensitive

- The definition of false anxiety

- The impact of blood sugar on mental health

- Circadian rhythm support for mental health

Follow Dr. Vora on Instagram at @ellenvoramd and her website ellenvora.com.

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Erica Cuni, known as "The Burnout Professor," is a stress and burnout expert. She teaches high-achievers how to consciously thrive through an integrative approach.

Erica is the founder of "The C.U.N.I. Method" - which stands for Create Undeniable Natural Impact. She is a former Trauma Psychotherapist, Clinical Director, and Adjunct Lecturer and Clinical Professor at Central Connecticut State University. Her mission is to help make the mental health field more effective, accessible, decolonized, and non-stigmatizing.

Key Topics:

- Erica’s background as a crisis therapist

- Why our stress capacity varies

- Knowing how to rest and doing it actively

- The importance of physiological sighs

- Why almost every diagnosis in the DSM is a dysregulated nervous system

- How to learn to regulate over time

- Finding a circadian rhythm balance with your nervous system

- Pandemic trauma

- How we don’t have to hustle to thrive

Follow Erica on Instagram @theburnoutprofessor

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Dr. Josh Friedman earned his doctorate in Psychology from New York University and did post-doctoral training in Psychoanalysis from the Training and Research Institute for Self Psychology (TRISP) in New York City.

After working in the field for a few years, he realized that something was missing from traditional mental health treatment. Curiosity and a chance meeting led him to discover the world of Nutritional Psychology, which teaches that many psychological issues are caused or made worse by underlying biochemical/nutritional deficiencies.

Dr. Josh started Alternative Mental Health Solution to help people find and fix the ROOT cause of their mental health struggles.

Key Topics:

- How Dr. Friedman saw a need for more tools in his psychology practice

- The gut-brain connection and the chemical imbalance theory of depression

- How cellular methylation and the copper/zinc balance impact mental health

- What to do when medication stops working

- How to move past a disordered eating mentality

- How to find the best treatment plan individualized to your needs

- How modern food and nutrient deficiencies impact our mental health

Learn more about Dr. Friedman’s work at moodhealing.com

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Licensed Professional Counselor and Erin's husband Richard Kerry comes back on the show to talk about keeping the romance alive in relationships.

They share tips on how to be more intentional in relationships to create a stronger connection.

Key Topics:

- Are butterflies and fuzzy feelings really necessary for a successful relationship?

- How to know when you're disconnected

- How hormones and difficult seasons impact physical intimacy

- How sexual intimacy is the fullest expression of emotional intimacy

- How to bring balance in a relationship in spite of differences

- How to learn to be each other's number one cheerleader in a relationship

- Creating time for connection during difficult seasons

- Making space for affirmations for your partner

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Shawn Bean is the founder of Matrix Health and Wellness, and is considered by his colleagues to be one the most innovative clinicians in practice today. Shawn has the unique ability to uncover hidden patterns with complex client cases, unravelling the core findings of functional medicine test results and patient histories, and to employ unique, and bio-individualized therapeutic approaches to optimize well being and minimize adverse reactions.

Key Topics:

- How to use gene SNPs as a road map

- The popular gene SNP MTHFR - and how it doesn’t act alone

- How dairy and folic acid blocks folate receptors

- What’s behind neuroinflammation?

- Mold toxicity and EMF sensitivity

- The problem with supplementing with vitamin D on its own

- The mind-body interconnection and how the vagus nerve plays a role

Learn more about Shawn and work with him at http://matrixhealthwell.com/

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Dr. Michele Kambolis is a mind-body health specialist, registered therapist, meditation teacher, and an acclaimed author and speaker who has been practicing for more than 20 years. Her second book, When Women Rise, was published in Fall 2021.

In this episode, we discuss how Dr. Michele is an unshakable believer in our innate capacity to self-heal and thrive, while also being wholeheartedly committed to developing evidenced-based resources to help people create the consciously healthy life they were born to live. 

Key Topics:

- Modern women do so much but somehow don't make time for wellness

- Women today are 80% more focused on external, and 70% more anxious and depressed

- There are over 5000 published research studies on benefits of meditation

- What meditation looks like

- Why stress isn't bad and we need small doses

- Food for supporting the parasympathetic nervous system of "rest and digest"

- How to increase GABA for relaxation

- The power of sound for healing

- Re-thinking resolutions

- Ways to improve gut health to improve mental health

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