The Autoimmune Hour

This week we explore Lyme Disease and how often it is misdiagnosed as an autoimmune condition. As our guest, Dr. Julia Greenspan knows all too well, having recovered from Lyme herself. One surprise she shares is, 'you don't have to see a tick on you or the circular, outwardly expanding rash common with infection to have contracted Lyme.' She also shares her expert insights on:

• How many symptoms are misunderstood in determining is it a microbe or autoimmune.
• How to get beyond the label of 'trend disease' and get help.
• The relationship between Lyme disease, other tick-borne infections to autoimmune disease.
• Ways one can decrease inflammation in the body to avoid the autoimmune response.
Plus much more...

Dr. Julia Greenspan is a naturopathic doctor and author of the book "Rising Above Lyme Disease." Dr. Greenspan is a Lyme Literate Doctor with a majority of her patients having some form of the tick-borne disease. Her focus in this area of medicine stems from living in New England, one of the most infected and infested areas in the country for Lyme disease and her struggles to recover from Lyme.

She has been listed in the Top Doctor's Reader's Poll with New Hampshire Magazine several times and interviewed as an expert on tick-borne illnesses on TV, radio, podcasts and in print media. Dr. Greenspan's website is www.greenhousemedicine.com. Listen to this compelling interview first on Friday, February 1st and later in a podcast. Get your transcript at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Lyme

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According to return guest Gina Bria, the majority of the water we drink has lost its electrical charge, yes electoral charge, and as such is not hydrating!

Gina Bria is a cultural anthropologist that has researched ritual, ritual foods, and food strategies for over 25 years and the coauthor of 'Quench: Beat Fatigue, Drop Weight, and Heal Your Body Through the New Science of Optimum Hydration.' In this episode, Gina shares we are 99% water molecules, and even with that, most of us walk around at minimal levels of proper hydration. She also shares:

• How water communicates with your cells
• How guzzling eight glasses of water a day can harm your health
• How micro-movements keep your body hydrated.
• What is fascia and why it is critical to your well-being?
And so much more... 

Gina Bria is the Founder and Executive Director of the Hydration Foundation and weds ethnographic strategies to the new science on hydration to serve the elderly, school children, athletes and hydrating while traveling. Learn more at www.HydrationFoundation.org Share this link and get more info and transcripts at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Bria

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In this episode, we explore ways to unblock and unlock success when we can’t seem to overcome negative habits and beliefs. Our guest, Karen Seltz has a Master’s degree in Counseling, is a certified Life Coach, and a Brain Gym Consultant and she serves purpose-driven women by helping them become more confident, courageous, vibrant, and free.  As a transformation catalyst, Karen will show us ways to release limiting beliefs and reconnect to our true power, authenticity, and worthiness we were born to embody including: 

• Ways to move past the voice of fear 
• The value of observation and removing judgment.
• How to pretend your way out of negative habits.
• Brain Gym practices to reduce stress and feel grounded.  
• Tips and techniques to stop triggers, over-reactions, and anxiety in its tracks
plus so much more. 

Karen Seltz has triumphed over depression, addiction, lack of self-worth, and low self-confidence by doing the work that she now teaches.  Karen has a loving, fun, no BS approach to fully supporting her clients in living the lives of their dreams.  For more information, please visit HappinessGuru.net AND get your no-cost 30-Minute Breakthrough Session with Karen at https://calendly.com/karenseltz/30min.

Listen to this no B.S. transformational chat Friday, January 18th at 7 PM ET. at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Seltz

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Back by popular demand, Dr. Dana Cohen and Gina Bria! They changed my way of thinking about hydration completely.

I had no idea that when you think you are dehydrated — you are already very dehydrated! And with just a 2% loss of hydration, there are profound physical responses including loss of concentration and focus! Dr. Dana Cohen and Gina Bria!, the authors of the ground-breaking book 'Quench' share with us so much more including:

• What are electrolytes and do we need them
• What is gel water and why its’ better for health and real hydration
• Why, in scientific terms, drinking eight glasses of water/day is not optimal for hydration.
• Fascia – what it is, how we can use it to enhance our bodies’ hydration and the simple micro-movement that help drastically improve your hydration, plus so much more….

Dr. Dana Cohen served on the Board of Directors of the American College for the Advancement of Medicine—the leading voice of Integrative Medicine, and is currently an advisor to their Board of Directors, on the education committee and served as program director for their conferences, which has trained 1,500+ master-level, health-care providers. She received her MD from St. George’s University School of Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency at Albany Medical Center. Learn more at www.DrDanaCohen.com

Gina Bria is a cultural anthropologist researching ritual, ritual foods, and food strategies. She is Founder and Executive Director of the Hydration Foundation. Named a Real World Scholar, trained at Columbia University, and a Berlin Fellow with the Social Science Research Council. An innovator and inspiring speaker, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Grand Central Station, Harvard University and the Wissenschaftskollege, Berlin. Listen to her TEDx talk–How to Grow Water; It’s Not Only Blue https://youtu.be/kAiCeRZLCoE, join in at www.hydrationfoundation.org

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This week’s guest Donna Blevins, Ph.D. is an expert at showing us how to talk with our subconscious mind for success. To quote from her book MindShift On Demand: Quick Life-Changing Tools, “The brain is the most powerful tool you own, yet most people fail to understand it.”

Well, what if you could quickly and easily set your subconscious mind for greater success, including optimizing our health? Dr. Donna will share how to combine positive self-messaging, visioning, physical anchoring and intention for change, plus:

• Quick ways to stop the panic and the downward slide into self-doubt, self-judgment, self-recrimination, and negative-thinking.  

• How to permanently shift away from fear and fear-based decision-making.

• How to ‘put your shields up’ to engage your energetic ‘radar.’

• Discover ways to alert you to inner strife and conflict while deflecting outer negativity.

• Plus an instant way to stop beating yourself up and more….

Donna Blevins, Ph.D., is transparent and openly shares how you can shift your mindset in an instant! Dr. Donna is a high-profile, successful entrepreneur, who could have lost everything with a life-changing stroke. Instead, she found the keys to controlling her mind and body. Instantly, and throughout her recovery, she geared up and tested the limits of her mind-shifting exercises and she proved they worked. In this episode, she will teach you how to kickstart your mindset into an amazing mindshift... Learn more at www.mindshiftondemand.com And listen to the show, Friday, January 4th, at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and video at https://www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Blevins

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This week's guest is Pamela Jessen, founder and lead author of the blog ‘There Is Always Hope’ offering true stories and tips about thriving through chronic pain and invisible illnesses. In this episode, Pamela shares her story of thriving regardless of her diagnosis including:

• The importance of self-care and self-love
• Understanding the power of intention and how to harness hope
• The gifts of chronic pain and invisible illness
• Ways to fearlessly speak your truth and become a strong self-advocate, plus so much more...

In addition to blogging, Pamela is an active volunteer with the Patient Voices Network, an organization in British Columbia that gives ordinary people the ability to have a say in how healthcare is delivered in our province. One of four committees she sits on is the PVN Oversight & Advisory Committee, plus other volunteer patient advocacy programs.  Learn more about Pamela Jessen and her wonderful blog at https://www.PamelaJessen.com/

And listen to our raw and real chat Friday, December 28th at 7 PM ET at http://www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Jessen/ and later in video and podcast.

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Self-sabotage and negative self-talk can erode self-confidence, self-esteem, and health. In this week's episode, Roberta Mittman, founder of Park Avenue Center for Wellbeing in New York, will show us how to escape self-sabotaging behavior, behaviors to change our internal negative messages and tips for healthy eating during this season of indulgence. She also shares how to reduce stress, focus on what's important, and ways you can support your path to better health including:

• How to stop blaming, shaming and criticizing yourself and others.
• Ways to get rid thoughts of fairness and stop taking misguided comments to heart.
• Techniques to reduce feeling stressed and anxious at this time of year
• Nutrition tips for well-being and successful Holiday diet survival.
Plus so much more….

Roberta’s is on a “quiet” revolution to help women over 40 redefine what they think their age means and spreading the word that it’s never too late to attain the life (and body) you want. She’s a dedicated alternative healthcare practitioner, health and wellness coach, international speaker, author, and licensed acupuncturist. Learn more about Roberta at www.RobertaMittman.com then join your host, Sharon Sayler, for The Autoimmune Hour Friday, December 21st at 7 PM ET and later in podcast and video at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Mittman

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Diabetes is a worldwide epidemic affecting an estimated 422 million people. In the US alone, nearly a third of all Americans are either diabetic or prediabetic.  

And Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune condition…that’s why we’ve asked expert Dr. Mona Morstein, ND, DHANP, founder and executive director of The Low Carb Diabetes Association and author of Master Your Diabetes to share with us more about: 
• What is Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and pre-diabetes and is it autoimmune?
• How our 'gut' plays into diabetes and what to do to maintain a healthy gut.
• The eight steps to controlling diabetes so it doesn’t control you.
• What you can and can’t eat with a diabetes diagnosis and it’s not just sugar…. 
Plus so much more…. 

Discover simple ways to integrate those things that have been proven to work well including a low-carb whole foods diet, exercise, stress management, gut health, environmental detoxification… you can ward-off diabetes or keep it well managed! Learn more about Dr. Mona Morstein at www.DrMorstein.com  

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Leaf blowers, car horns, and fingernails on chalkboards can drive your body into instant 'fight-or-flight' and test your sanity. Harsh sounds elevate stress levels and create imbalances in the nervous system and physical body. Unpleasant sound can even lower immunity and raise our blood pressure.

In this episode, Sharon Carne, founder of Sound Wellness whose programs are at the forefront of education in how sound and music can be easily applied to your everyday life - to reduce stress, help you focus, energize you, and support your health will share with us:

• How sound stimulates the release of nitric oxide - a tiny molecule essential to your health and wellbeing
• Sound tools such as voice, tuning forks, and metal and crystal ‘singing’ bowls
• Ways to fine-tune our greatest vibrational healing ‘instrument’ - your body
• What is an energetic body and how can sounds clear blockages

Plus so much more….

Along with Sound Wellness, Sharon Carne is also an author, international speaker, trainer, director of training and development, publisher, musician and recording artist. Learn more about Sharon Carne at www.SoundWellness.com, then join your host, Sharon Sayler, for The Autoimmune Hour Friday, December 7th at 7 PM ET and later in podcast at www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Carne

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Does every twitch cause a fear response and anxiety? Does your mind start racing "Is it an autoimmune flare again?" In this lively, free-range conversation with 4-time thriver and nutrition expert Sharissa Bradley, we explore what it’s like to be a long-term thriver, looking at the trials and the successes plus

• The problem with perspective.
• How to learn the responses of your body and distinguish between them.
• Her journey through four autoimmune diseases, starting in her teens.
• How food affects our healing and much more….

About our guest: Sharissa Bradley is  a mother, a teacher and a 4-time autoimmune 'thriver.' Founder of Independence Through Nutrition, Sharissa helps people reverse autoimmune disease, using food as medicine. Sharissa is the author of 'Journey Back to Health: Six Steps to Confidently Getting Your Life Back,' due out from Kat Biggie Press in December 2018. She is passionate about helping change lives through nutrition. Learn more about Sharissa at https://sharissabradley.com/

Listen to this raw, real conversation, then find the transcript and videocast at http://www.UnderstandingAutoimmune.com/Fear

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