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Dr. Tom Ingegno is the CEO of Charm City Integrative Health. He is a medical school graduate enthusiastic about sharing his passions for integrative health practices, acupuncture, modern technology, and research. He is also the author of The Cupping Book, a book that serves as "If Our Grandma Would Teach Us How to Do Cupping." 

Contents of the episode:

• Daily schedule and managing Charm City Integrative Health 
• Why he chose integrative medicine and the limitations he faced
• What is Cryotherapy, and how it works
• Why do people come to Tom for help
• How we could potentially alleviate autoimmune disorders 
• Cryotherapy vs. ice plunge
• The struggle to raise awareness of integrative medicine 
• Doing a placebo with traditional practices 
• Tom's cupping book
• STUDENTS SHOULD MEDITATE

email: [email protected]
website: https://www.charmcityintegrative.com/

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Shari Bookstaff had fulfilled her lifelong childhood dreams and was a tenured marine biology professor near San Francisco. She was thriving in her career and her personal life when sporadic dizzy spells and nausea led to a diagnosis of a benign brain tumor. Even though this was a large tumor that had to be removed immediately, it would be an “easy, routine surgery.” Then, the unthinkable happened. A 9-day hospital stay turned into nine months of grueling rehabilitation. A stroke following the surgery took away Shari’s ability to breathe, eat, talk, hear, and move. After several weeks in the hospital, during which Shari was fed through a tube and breathed through machines, she was transferred to a rehabilitation center an hour away from her home. The only thing giving Shari the will to live was the love and devotion of her kids, then 12 and 8 years old. She has worked hard every day since to regain her dignity, her livelihood, and her spirit. Shari is living proof that determination, hard work, and positivity are the cornerstones of overcoming tragedy. Shari chronicles her medical journey in her book, “When Life Throws You Lemons…Make Cranberry Juice!”
 

The fundamental message in Shari’s book is to look for and accept positive entities into your heart, even amid raging lemons. These positive entities (“cranberries”) will enhance your ability to cope with lemons. Shari's cranberries include her love of whales, sports, and, of course, her children. Actions that make a difference have always been a cranberry for Shari. She took a leadership role in Expanding Your Horizons. This conference exposes young girls to STEM fields and established a local chapter of a national whale and dolphin conservation organization, the American Cetacean Society. Following the inconsistent level of compassion and empathy she received from medical professionals after brain surgery, she founded the nonprofit Lifetime of Impact! to inspire healthcare students by presenting her story and offering tangible tips to improve their connection with patients. Shari later founded Impact of Empathy, leading workshops for companies that covet enhanced customer service skills, greater employee retention, and a cooperative workplace atmosphere. Special workshops for healthcare professionals reveal the secret sauce of patient engagement.

Topics covered in this episode:

- Her love for Marine Biology

- Experience as a brain tumor survivor

- How to bring positivity to patients

- Advice for future medical professionals


Website: https://impactofempathy.net

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifetimeofimpact

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/impact-of-empathy/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/impact_of_empathy/

X: https://twitter.com/ImpactofEmpath

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Jeff Patterson is the CEO of the Yielding Warrior Academy. He has built a unique art to master the fundamentals of the meditative practice. His approach is known as "The Yielding Warrior Method." In this episode, you will understand the key to controlling your lifestyle and gaining mental stability through stressful academic times. Stick around to understand how Jeff built his academy from scratch and became successful. 

Topics covered: 

• What happens when you practice meditation? What should you look for
• How does meditation ACTUALLY helps you, bringing yourself back to the focused state
• How it helps with your health
• The yielding practices/learning to control emotions
• How students can benefit from this practice
• Regulating energy, breath, body, and spirit.
• The story behind building this academy to success. 

Check out Jeff's Website here: 
https://www.theyieldingwarrior.com/membership/

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Lea Ping is a rising sophomore studying Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University. She is an international student from China who is passionate about STEM and has gained significant research experience at Johns Hopkins. She has been engaged in research since High school, which she also talks about in this episode. 

Quick summary:

- Day in the life in JHU
- Lab experiences
- Extracurriculars in High school 
- What is in Chemical and Biomolecular engineering
- How to approach research as a student 

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Our guest for today's episode is Seungwon Lee. He is based in South Korea. His work involves being a rheumatologist and the CEO of a Venture Capital firm investing in small Biotech startups. Being in his position, he fully understands how to excel as an entrepreneur in the biotech field and be a great doctor/ scientist. 

Key points summary

• working as a Venture Capital CEO and a rheumatologist 
• distinguishing unsuccessful/ successful biotech startups 
• How do YOU make a successful startup
• be a great scientist 
• Be careful of how AI can impact Biotech and every other field 
• some advice on how to define success
• Could computational biology be the new HIT?
• NVIDIA is going into computational biology 

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Our guest today is Raul Bortonlin, a PhD researcher from Brazil who works in academia for Harvard Medical School. Raul specializes in RNA-based gene therapy work in the lab and iPSC-related stem cell technology. He started his research career at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Nort and moved to Harvard Medical School in 2022.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/raulbortolin/

Summary of the topics covered

• Honest point on the different working environments from his lab in Brazil to Harvard lab
• The challenges of his first PhD project   
• Details about his project on RNA-based therapy 
• What is iPSC? Explanation and how it is used in vitro stem cell therapy
• Translating the research in the lab to clinical applications 
•  Heartwarming advice for future researchers

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“Alzheimer’s and cutting brains are just a small part of what you can do in neuroscience."
“Just ask, can I join? Can I explore this? I’m curious.”

Isaac is a current neuroscience/ computer science/ pre-med student at Washington University in St. Louis who is deeply passionate about neuroscience research. He is also the founder of Blue Dendrite, an animation account presenting rare neuroscience knowledge.

website : https://www.blue-dendrite.com/
insta: https://www.instagram.com/blue.dendrite_neuro/
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@blue_brain

Quick summary of the episode:

- upcoming passion/admiration in neuroscience
- developing an animation project such as shorts on Instagram
- personal research on emotions and memory recall
- research experience with mice brains
- advice for students, "reach out"!

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"Keep being curious, and keep questioning."

Our guest today is Camila Zanella, a Harvard Ph.D. student from Brazil. Camila is an expert researcher working on experiments related to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. In this episode, Camila shared remarkable insights about her experience working in such a prestigious lab.

Summary of the topics covered

- The road to becoming a biology PhD 
- Research/ life harmony 
- The research environment at a laboratory in Harvard
- The research on fruitflies for neurodegenerative diseases
- The ups and downs of Collaboration in research 
- The field of biotech in the future 
- Advice for students 

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"We use the term Drug Discovery, and in no other industry do we use the word 'discovery' for a product, and in the future, it will change with the new AI technologies."

"Stand on the shoulder of giants. For you to see the future, you have to understand the people who are making the future right now."

My guest for this episode is Patrick Lee, an upcoming freshman studying Biotechnology at Carnegie Mellon University.  Patrick Lee has been a passionate student since high school and has demonstrated that through his passion for books and his internship at a CAR T-Cell research company. 

Summary of topics covered:

- Biology vs Christianity
- The potential of Artificial intelligence (AI)  in the realm of Biotechnology 
- using AI for Drug Discovery 
- Advise for future Biotech students
- Some insights from the Book "Singularity Is Near" by Ray Kurzweil

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