The Habit Healers

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Type 2 Diabetes Podcast series episode #2. If you missed Jim Balla's story Podcast #88 I strongly encourage you to check it out! I am highlighting individuals who conquered their type 2 DM and stop the avalanche of chronic disease with a whole foods plant based. Now on to the amazing Marc Ramirez!

Marc is a former collegiate athlete that had the freedom to eat what every he wanted when he was younger. Sadly, Marc has witnessed his mother and sibling die from the ravages of type 2 diabetes. He has seen other siblings lose limbs and their sight from what he thought was a genetic disease. As the years progressed Marc soon found himself diagnosed with type 2 diabetes requiring oral medications and insulin. He was terrified of his future until he watched Forks Over Knives and the light bulb moment happened. Marc and his wife went on to read books and educate themselves and soon he was no longer a diabetic!

Marc and his wife, Kim, are committed to sharing the message of a whole foods plant based diet. There website is http://chickpeaandbean.com and they teach people all about the WFPB diet.

If you are looking for a streamline course on how to do this and learn at your own pace, check out my website http://howtohealth.org where you will find everything you need to know to get started.

Thanks for listening as always! Please share with your friends and family!

Welcome once again to Mindset Monday and the discussion revolves around choosing the easy path vs choosing the important and often more difficult path to improving your health. Does it make a difference? How do you know if you are choosing to be too simple and not challenging yourself enough to stick habit change for the long haul? These and many more questions are answered in this episode.

Thanks as always for listening. You will find Anthony at http://VeggiesForDinner.com and more on transitioning to a whole foods plant based diet for you, your kids and more at http://howtohealth.org.

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Conquering Type 2 Diabetes Series. I am dedicating this week to interviews with amazing people who reversed type 2 diabetes with a whole foods plant based diet. AND these results are typical! I had to start this series with a truly amazing story that had us both shedding tears in this interview. I am so honored to share Jim Balla's story with you and I hope it inspires many to take hold of their health.

Meet Jim Balla, a man you was near the brink of death with a life threatening infection and after 12 months in the hospital and rehab was able to return home only to continue suffering with Type 2 Diabetes and continued to gain weight. After being inspired by Dr. John McDougall and changing his diet to whole foods plant based he reversed his type 2 diabetes and hypertension, stopped a leg from debilitating swelling, lost half his body weight and much more.

Jim is such a humble soul that you cannot help but become captivated as he shares his incredible journey from wanting to die to wanting to thrive! Please share this with anyone you know with type 2 diabetes as it could change their lives.

Jim is also a part of the Michigan Plant Based Nutrition Support Group of 4500 members! Check them out at http://pbnsg.org.

Thanks as always for listening!

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Meet Dr. Steven Lawenda, family medicine physician and now a teacher to many how food is your medicine. Dr. Lawenda has an inspiring story of his own healing and how his own journey of finding health created a passion to help others. The crazy thing is that Dr. Lawenda found this by happen stance...his wife and an audio book had something to do with it.

Dr. Lawenda also shares some absolutely unbelievable stories of healing with us including a diabetic who saved his foot from amputation and how a woman who gained her life after no longer requiring renal dialysis. How did they do this? Listen and learn!

Dr. Lawenda is a native of Southern California—born in Santa Monica and raised in the San Fernando Valley. He attended college at UC Berkeley and medical school at UC Davis. Attended Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island for his internship and residency. He now lives in Southern California and has been with Kaiser Permanente since 2004.

This was such an incredible interview and I am thankful Dr. Lawenda would share his time with us. Thank you for listening as always and please share this with anyone you know who has diabetes or would benefit from hearing an inspiring story of hope. Because honestly that is really all we want is a little hope and Dr. Lawenda is delivering that.

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Meet Dr. Angie Sadeghi, a gastroenterologist who healed from years of debilitating eczema, chronic fatigue, and depressed mood with the whole food plant based diet. Her journey of healing would lead her to become a fitness competitor and uses her knowledge to help other recover form inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's Disease), irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, diarrhea and you will hear her opinion of the FODMAP diet. Learn about the microbiome and what you need to do to improve your bacteria in your gut! Listen to how she only exercises 25 minutes a day and appears to spend hours in the gym. Dr. Angie is an inspiration!

Dr. Sadeghi is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a diplomate of the American Board of Gastroenterology.

Dr. Angie offers a complete range of services including treatments for digestive, stomach, esophagus, liver, and colon-related illnesses. Combining evidence based medicine, her expertise in the digestive system and her passion for physical fitness and nutrition, Dr. Angie has developed a comprehensive approach to helping patients live a healthy life. Dr. Angie is passionate about disease prevention.

You can find Dr. Sadeghi at http://drangiehealth.com/ if you would like to see her as a patient. Or you can follow her Instagram account @angie.sadeghi where you can be educated and inspired!

Thank you for listening. Please share the podcast and rate us where you listen!

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Faith, spirituality, theology and their affect on health has long been a fascination of mine so when I found Dr. Harold Koenig I knew I needed to interview him.

Dr. Koenig completed his undergraduate education at Stanford University, nursing school at San Joaquin Delta College, medical school training at the University of California at San Francisco, and geriatric medicine, psychiatry, and biostatistics training at Duke University Medical Center. He is currently board certified in general psychiatry, and formerly boarded in family medicine, geriatric medicine, and geriatric psychiatry, and is on the faculty at Duke as Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Associate Professor of Medicine.

Dr. Koenig is Director of the Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Duke University Medical Center, and has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with over 500 scientific peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and nearly 50 books in print or preparation. His research on religion, health and ethical issues in medicine has been featured on dozens of national and international TV news programs (including ABC’s World News Tonight, Dr. Oz Show, and several times on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and NBC Nightly News), over a hundred national or international radio programs, and hundreds of newspapers and magazines (including Reader's Digest, Parade Magazine, Newsweek, Time, and Guidepost).

Dr. Koenig has given testimony before the U.S. Senate (1998) and U.S. House of Representatives (2008) concerning the benefits of religion and spirituality on public health, and travels widely to give seminars and workshops on this topic.

His latest book, You are My Beloved. Really?, examines the evidence for God's love from Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu perspectives based largely on the sacred scriptures from these traditions.

Needless to say I found this conversation absolutely fascinating and I hope you will too. Please share this podcast with anyone you feel would benefit and rate us where you listen! Thank you for listening and we love your comments.

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Meet the incredible Jessie Duke, a young and courageous woman who cured her Crohn's through eating a whole foods plant based diet. Jessie is full of life and energy now that wasn't always like that even a few years ago. Jessie shares her inspiring story with us and I hope you enjoy getting to know her as much as I did. She wants to help people find their health and avoid needless suffering like she did. You can check out her website at http://thegardenbasedgraduate.com.

Thanks as always for listening. Please share this podcast with anyone you know suffering from Crohn's disease or other autoimmune diseases as it could give them hope and possibly a new lease on life.

PS. Please do not get hung up on the word cure. Meant here as the definition describes (relieved of symptoms and restoration of health):

cure

kyo͝or/Submit

verb

1. relieve (a person or animal) of the symptoms of a disease or condition.

"he was cured of the disease"

synonyms: heal, restore to health, make well/better; archaiccleanse

"after a long course of treatment, he was cured"

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Restore. Reform. Revive. When you see these words being used to describe a physician's medical practice you know you have found something special.

Meet Dr. Wayne Dysinger who was born and raised in Loma Linda and Yucaipa. He completed medical school at Loma Linda University, followed by a Family Medicine Residency at Florida Hospital, and a Preventive Medicine Residency back at Loma Linda. He has worked in Guam, Atlanta and New Hampshire prior to returning to Loma Linda University as Chair of the Preventive Medicine Department in 2003. Dr. Dysinger has an international reputation as a leader in the field of Lifestyle Medicine, having served as President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and as an international consultant in the area. He is also the Medical Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Institute, and a Professor at Loma Linda University. He is passionate about treating what is really causing health problems, not just putting Band-Aids on superficial issues.

If you are not familiar with lifestyle medicine this will be the podcast you will want to listen to. I was honored to have Dr. Dysinger on the show and I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did.

Please share the podcast with anyone you feel could benefit from it! Thank you for listening and please rate us wherever you listen!

Restore. Reform. Revive. When you see these words being used to describe a physician's medical practice you know you have found something special.

Meet Dr. Wayne Dysinger who was born and raised in Loma Linda and Yucaipa. He completed medical school at Loma Linda University, followed by a Family Medicine Residency at Florida Hospital, and a Preventive Medicine Residency back at Loma Linda. He has worked in Guam, Atlanta and New Hampshire prior to returning to Loma Linda University as Chair of the Preventive Medicine Department in 2003. Dr. Dysinger has an international reputation as a leader in the field of Lifestyle Medicine, having served as President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and as an international consultant in the area. He is also the Medical Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Institute, and a Professor at Loma Linda University. He is passionate about treating what is really causing health problems, not just putting Band-Aids on superficial issues.

If you are not familiar with lifestyle medicine this will be the podcast you will want to listen to. I was honored to have Dr. Dysinger on the show and I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did.

Please share the podcast with anyone you feel could benefit from it! Thank you for listening and please rate us wherever you listen!

To work with Dr. Laurie Marbas, visit: https://www.drmarbas.com/

You do not want to miss this one. I learned a lot about the sports psychology of hitting a little white ball in a hole and after this interview it has be itching to swing a golf club!

What is sports psychology? It is the mental game, about learning to handle adversity by controlling your attitude, where you focus your attention, and the actions that you choose to take. Sports psychology will teach you how to invest your entire self into your performance in a way that sets aside any concern for the potential consequences, thus enhancing your odds for success.

And that is where Dr. Erik Gnagy enters...he earned a B.S. from the University of Kansas, and then went on to earn a M.S. studying Applied Sports Psychology at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Gnagy earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in behavior and sports performance.

Dr. Gnagy is one of a very exclusive group of PGA Professionals who concurrently hold a PhD, and is a leading expert in decision-making in golf. In addition to teaching courses in sports psychology, he consults with professional and amateur athletes on the psychology of optimal performance.

Thank you as always for listening! Please share the podcast with those who you think would benefit. Every athlete could learn something from listening to this amazing expert!