The Autoimmune Hour

In this engrossing (pun intended) interview, we discover why and how digestion problems including gas, bloating and leaky gut are all too common for those with autoimmune conditions with our guest Health and Wellness expert Dr. Julie Gatza. We uncover suggestions on how we can ensure that not only our taste buds have a wonderful time, but that our gastrointestinal system doesn't suffer any painful stomach aches, gas, bloating, belching, and constipation. Some of the questions she answers are:

• What are some of the common mistakes that cause bloating and gas and what we should do instead
• Understanding the role of 5 key digestive enzymes and why we need them
• How to improve nutrient absorption from our food
• Even how many times we should chew... and much more.

Our guest health educator Dr. Julie Gatza, Co-founder of the Florida Wellness Institute, is one of the nation's top chiropractic physicians with more than 26 years of clinical practice during which she assisted thousands of patients to resolve a wide variety of physical ailments. Dr. Gatza's mission with each patient is to enhance their body's potential to heal itself.

Dr. Gatza regularly lectures and educates audiences on how to maintain optimum health with a focus on the role that digestion plays in supporting a healthy immune system. She currently serves as spokesman for Natures Sources Dietary Supplements. Listen to the episode Friday, April 12th at 7 PM ET at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Gas and later in podcast and video.

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In this captivating chat, we explore how self-acceptance can integrate all the parts of you. Our guest Liberty Forrest, international-known Psychic and Medium shares how she turned her constant “self-sent-hate-mail” into “fan mail” by thanking her body, mind, and spirit for all the things they do so well. In response, misfortune, sadness, and ill-health started to transform into a calm place of self-acceptance that changed everything. Liberty also shares:

• How to give your body an apology that can work wonders
• Ways to listen to your little inner voice and higher self
• Why it’s so important to take the time getting to know yourself
• Discover how to give compassion for yourself
Plus much more….

About our guest: International Psychic and Medium Liberty Forrest is an award-winning author, a columnist, and a Huffington Post contributor. Her abilities became evident in childhood and naturally evolved over the years until eventually, she began reading professionally. For five years, she appeared approximately monthly on BBC Radio doing “psychic phone-ins.” Liberty combines her professional experience with her natural abilities as a psychic and medium to assist her clients in “getting unstuck” and moving forward in life. Learn more about Liberty at www.YourStoryOfHope.com and listen to our chat Friday, April 5th at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and video at www.LifeInterruptedRadio.com/Acceptance

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In this fascinating interview, we explore the emotional and spiritual components to healing on all levels including the physical. Our guest Dr. Dorothy A. Martin-Neville a licensed psychotherapist and longtime developer of creating a cultural shift to include the heart and soul in wellness, and patient-and-practitioner-focused health-care culture invites us to enter this multidimensional view of healing for patients. Dr. Dorothy shares

• What the emotional element of healing needs,
• How to get your whole 'being' body-mind-soul to work together,
• Ways to forgive your body and your self for the current state,
• How to talk to your various parts to create lasting healing,
Plus much more...

Our guest Dorothy A. Martin-Neville, PhD supports Women Executives through Leadership Coaching in getting out of their own way while recognizing and living their purpose as well as creating a culture of Purpose within their organizations and it the author of multiple books, in this interview we share from her book, "When Your Soul Sings, Your Body Dances."

In the world of medicine, Dorothy, certified in 9 modalities of integrative health care, founded The Institute of Healing Arts and Sciences, establishing a pioneer 4-year program in energy medicine and personal transformation supporting medical and non-medical personnel in understanding the psycho/spiritual correlates of physical disease and disorders.

As a Clinical Instructor at the University of Connecticut Medical School, Co-Chair of the Advisory Board of a multi-million-dollar Frontier Medicine Grant, and recipient of NIH grant funding for a quantitative and qualitative pilot study on the Psycho/Spiritual Correlates of Fibromyalgia, she has spent years immersed in the work of merging allopathic and integrative health.

She is now seeking to support those in the business of medicine in creating a cultural shift to a heart, soul, and patient and practitioner-focused health-care culture. Learn more about Dr. Dorothy at https://www.askdrdorothy.com and listen to the show first on Friday, March 29, at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and video at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Dorothy

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In this engaging episode, we uncover the 'secret life' of our cells with Sondra Barrett, Ph.D., medical scientist, and health educator. She shares the inner workings of our bodies at the cellular level and why healing at that 'invisible-level' has enormous impacts. I never thought about healing from the cellular level... until Dr. Barrett radically changed my view. She merges the mystical with the meaning of our molecules including:

• How to bring the body, mind, and spirit into alignment at the cellular level,
• How our cells are like perfect string instruments, finely tuned for vibration and how to up-level to healing energy,
• What happens when specific cells lose their sense self and how to regain wholeness, plus much more.

About Sondra Barrett, Ph.D. Dr. Barrett is a medical scientist and former faculty at the University of California Medical School and California Institute of Integral Studies. She is the author of three books: Wine’s Hidden Beauty, Secrets of Your Cells: Discovering Your Body's Inner Intelligence and co-authored with Elson Haas MD Ultimate Immunity. She is also an award-winning photographer using the microscope to photograph and share the inner beauty and intelligence of our cells and molecules.

Dr. Sondra teaches online and in-person presentations such as Awakening to your Cellular Intelligence and coaches people with chronic health issues and those wanting to make lifestyle changes. Learn more at www.SondraBarrett.com

Join host Sharon Sayler and Sondra Barrett, a Ph.D. when we share easy to implement cell-health strategies and Dr. Barrett's inspiring view of wellness on March 22, at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and video. Share this link with family and friends: www.understandingAutoimmune.com/Cells

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Lee McCormick, a co-author of the Heart Reconnection Guidebook, shares the collective wisdom he and a group of conscious-connected friends created for heart-based healing. Lee also shares why he has chosen to live out loud and ways we can too, plus…

• How to move beyond the limitations of our beliefs
• How to get out of automatic and get clear on our spiritual consciousness
• Ways to increase our awareness, authenticity, and joy
• How to reconnect and reclaim the tangled parts of our self
And much more….

Our guest, Lee McCormick, is the founder of The Integrative Life Center in Nashville, The Ranch Recovery Center in Tennessee, and The Canyon Treatment Center in Malibu, California and has been a creative force in the Mental Health and Recovery scene for over 20 years. He also founded Spirit Recovery Inc. to produce Healing and Recovery conferences and Spiritual Journeys around the world. Lee is also a co-founder of Front Porch Partners a Consulting, Management, and Research Development Company working in the medical and behavioral Health disciplines.

To find out more about Lee and the Heart Reconnection Guidebook: visit http://SpiritRecovery.com/ and listen to the show first on Friday, March 15th at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and video at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Lee

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Consciously focusing on your breathing has been a tool to feel better since ancient times. And, I was fascinated to learn that the Latin words for breath and spirit are the same. Breathwork utilizes conscious controlling of breathing patterns to achieve specific desired results. In this intriguing interview, we explore Biodynamic Breathwork with expert Jennifer Prema McKeever. Prema is a body-oriented therapist and educator who combines more than 20 years of experience in Eastern medicine, meditation, emotional release work, and body-mind therapies. She will share with us how breathwork can:

• Help the body by releasing chronic tension and stressors
• Discover ways to discharge sorrow and grief
• Use touch, sound, conscious emotional expression and meditation to support trauma release
• Create change on the somatic level plus much more...

Our guest Jennifer Prema McKeever while treating thousands of patients as a doctor of Chinese medicine saw how vital our emotional health is for our physical health. She is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and an expert facilitator in BioDynamic Breath and Trauma Release System (BBTRS), a unique approach to release trauma from our nervous system and restoring health and vitality. Her private practice and groups bring together a unique blend of Eastern and Western approaches to releasing the traumas held in our minds and body so we can live a healthier, more authentic and passionate life.

To find out more about working with Prema and her groups visit: www.SacredInquiry.com and listen to the show on Friday, March 8th at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and video at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Prema

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Back by popular demand, Sharon Sayler and Karen Hoyt talk about what happens when one minute you are enjoying a sunny day bike ride, the next you are fighting for your life with end-stage liver disease… That's what happened to our guest, Karen Hoyt.

Karen Hoyt is on a mission to help others Live Longer Stronger. She is a teacher, writer, blogger, yoga instructor, and healthy living coach. Her low sodium diet and recipes have helped her, and thousands of others, thrive with liver disease from fatty liver, hepatitis, alcoholic, primary biliary cholangitis, and liver cancer. 

Karen will share how she chose to Live Stronger Longer even while she faced a liver transplant…. We will also discover how
• her love of story and the “hero’s journey’ changed her health outcome,
• she learned to bounce back regardless of what life threw her way,
• journaling, mindfulness, and meditation tips that maintain her health,
• and why food is critical to your overall health, plus so much more...

Karen Hoyt, author of The Liver Loving Diet believes food is medicine. She loves learning and sharing how nutrition and lifestyle can help anyone. Her blog is filled with practical tips and down to earth humor as she guides her community with wellness tips, recipes, and menu plans as if she’s your best friend right there at your kitchen table.  https://www.ihelpc.com/book-shop/liver-loving-diet-book/

Join host Sharon Sayler and Karen Hoyt when they share thriving strategies and her inspiring story March 1, at 7PM ET Learn more at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/liver

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In this episode, Ani Anderson, the creator of the Find Your Soul’s Agenda process and co-creator of Sensation-Based Mindset coaching shows us how to discover your soul agenda to navigate life’s challenges with grace and gratitude rather than the toxic emotions that ultimately affect our health, vitality, and quality of life. We also learn how to:

• Discover that one word that describes your soul's agenda,
• Ways to reduce stress and heal from within by optimizing where we are,
• And breaking though conditioned patterns or responses so that life is enjoyed not endured!

Ani Anderson, MS, OT, LMT, CEMP, SBMC has had many outward successes in her life, from Broadway to business, however her most treasured success has been becoming a person, wife, and parent that she’s proud to be. She is the author of 'Find Your Soul's Agenda: The One Word That Will Make Your Whole Life a Success.' Learn more about Ani and your Soul Agenda at www.AniAnderson.com/ and listen to this delightful interview and share this link with friends www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Ani

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Millions around the world practice mindfulness, the act of paying attention in a non-judgmental way and the well-documented benefits include stress reduction, and feeling happier and calmer; but how do we work mindfulness and meditation into our busy daily life?

In this insightful interview, Daniel Gutierrez, author of five books, including his latest ‘Radical Mindfulness: Profound Inner Peace In As Little As 60-Seconds' shares that radical mindfulness is not only becoming aware in the present, it's about being so present that you can monitor your thoughts and redirect your actions in real time to create better outcomes. He also shares:

• How to increase your focus with his daily practice tips and techniques
• Simple ways to improve your physical and emotional well-being
• Easy to implement relaxation practices to help you feel calm and rejuvenated
And so much more...

Our guest, Daniel Gutierrez, is a beloved mentor, sought-after motivational speaker and author whose latest book 'Radical Mindfulness' takes us on his six-year adventure to uncover the secrets buried within each of us—from head to heart. Among his many accomplishments, he is one or eighteen world-renowned thought leaders in the area of transformation and leadership featured in the documentary 'Luminous World Views.' Learn more about Daniel and Radical Mindfulness at www.danielgutierrez.com/ then join Sharon when she chats with Daniel Gutierrez and share this link with your friends www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Daniel

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The Autoimmune Hour welcomes back Dr. Elson Haas, Founder and Director of the Preventive Medical Center of Marin, one of the leading Integrative Medical Centers in the country to talk about staying healthy during the Winter ‘cold’ season and preparing for Spring with a spring detox plus:

• Ways to tame Stimulation Sedation Syndrome
• Why detox and what is a cleanse
• How to break the emotional ties we have to ‘comfort’ food
• The 5 keys to staying healthy with changing seasons
and much more….

Dr. Haas is the author of eleven health books and has traveled the world assisting under-served communities. As a lifestyle and preventive medicine physician, Dr. Haas encourages patients to find their inner source of healing and to protect their health, honor their bodies, and discover that health is mostly a result of how we live, and is much more in our own hands than we realize.  Visit his website at www.ElsonHaasMD.com and join Sharon for this lively, productive interview to set up a great spring and summer!

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