The Natural Evolution

In part 1 of my talk with with Christopher Blakeslee, we'll go through his history and journey. Christopher lived with autoimmune diseases for thirty-five years. For fifteen of those years, the symptoms and excruciating neuropathic pain from them disabled him. Now he's completely healthy and on a mission to help others with chronic health problems to achieve their best health!

Christopher is an ADAPT-Certified Functional Health Coach who helps people with chronic illnesses and chronic pain. He's currently writing a book with former Mayo Clinic doctor Jim Lemons about how lifestyle changes, mindset work, pain neuroscience, and Functional Medicine form the best approach for dealing with chronic health problems.

Connect with Christopher:

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Christopher-Blakeslee-105443384451256

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/BalanceHC

On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/balancehealthcoach/

Online: https://balancehealthcoach.com

To learn more about Dr. Lemons, visit his website: http://www.lemonscenter.com

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My guest Kathleen had signs of autoimmune problems for many years, but a traumatic injury and surgery left her paralyzed with no evidence of nerve damage. She was able to slowly regain mobility, thanks to nutrition and focus on gut health.

Kathleen DiChiara is a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner, BioIndividual Nutrition Practitioner, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, health advocate, and professionally trained chef. For the past decade she has been committed to dismantling the chronic disease epidemic by empowering and educating her audience to reconnect to their nutritional wisdom so they can harness the power of their microbiome to regenerate health at home. 

Her experience and interest in functional nutrition and gut health sits at the intersection of mindset, daily habits, and the microbiome -- which she describes in her most recent awardwinning book, End Chronic Disease: The Healing Power of Beliefs, Behaviors, and Bacteria (Hay House | Penguin Random House 2020). Kathleen is also the President and Founder of Rhode to Health, Inc. and Nutritional Intelligence Academy.™ 

She serves as a Nutrition Advisor for the Bionutrient Food Association and as an Advisor for Social Enterprise Greenhouse and their Health and Wellness Initiative. She is also a Board member on the Rhode Island Department of Health’s Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Kathleen is a well-respected national speaker and has been featured on a wide range of media outlets and international broadcasts. She was also the main feature in a multiple award-winning documentary film called Secret Ingredients.

Learn: www.kathleendichiara.com 

Follow: @kathleendichiara

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Today I’ll visit more with my business partner Joe and we’ll touch on his experience with “brain zaps” as he calls them, finding what to do with life, and finding success after decades of self-sabotage.  

Joe Rignola is an entrepreneur, filmmaker, and best-selling author. He began his own health journey about 15 years ago while dealing with depression, severe digestive issues, weight gain, and blood sugar dysregulation. After researching alternatives to the medications he was on, Joe was able to take control of his health and lose over 45 pounds by changing his diet and lifestyle. Filled with gratitude for his newfound health and energy, Joe went back to school to study health and nutrition so he could help others along their journey. In 2009 he founded Wellness Punks and began coaching clients 1-on-1, and in 2011 he launched his first online event called The Primal Cooking Workshop. This innovative event was part health summit, part cooking show, and featured some of the most well-known names in the paleo and primal space.  

After reaching tens of thousands of people with that single event, Joe dove headfirst into online events. Since then he’s launched, founded, and co-founded some of the most successful brands and events in wellness over the past decade. 

To connect more with Joe, check out his website ​​https://wellconnected.tv/ and watch his interviews.

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Eddie knows all too well how the body responds to chronic stress.  At age 33 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, which ended up coming back 3 times.  He didn’t have a real healing breakthrough until he started dealing with the stress he was avoiding.  

Eddie is a highly experienced naturopath, cancer and chronic disease coach, practitioner mentor, as well as a meditation, mindfulness and breathwork teacher, and founder of CSRT (Cold- Stress Resilience Training). To say Eddie has developed strength and resilience in his life is an understatement. Eddie is a three time cancer survivor, he's also had his battles with anxiety and depression, he's been through a marriage break up as well as financial demise, BUT, he got through it all, bounced back and recreated a successful business, a loving relationship with his kids, partner and him-self and has a successful career full of meaning and purpose.

"My personal mission is to raise public awareness of the role of chronic, persistent stress on ALL levels of health. I have experienced first hand how stress can seriously impact your health and happiness. I'm passionate about providing support, skills and resources to help others to better manage stress, improve their health and increase their quality of life." 

To connect with Eddie and learn more about his work, visit:

https://eddieenever.com/

https://www.facebook.com/ChronicDiseaseCoach

https://www.instagram.com/eddie_enever/

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In this episode I’ll chat with Dr. Kat Toups.  Dr. Toups had worked with many clinical trials treatments for Alzheimer’s and after some struggles with autoimmune issues and allergies, she ended up catching her own memory loss when administering memory tests for patients.  After she discovered Functional Medicine, she was able to turn things around and reverse degenerative brain disease for herself and for patients.

Kat Toups, MD is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (the highest honor bestowed by the APA), Board-Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and previously boarded in Geriatric Psychiatry. She is also a Certified Practitioner with the Institute for Functional Medicine.

Dr. Toups was formerly an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at U.C. Davis, where she was the Inpatient Residency Training Director and later the founder and Medical Director of the Bay Area Research Institute, a Clinical Trials Research Center in Lafayette, California, for 12 years. After serving as the Principal Investigator on over 100 clinical trials, including 20 failed trials for Alzheimer's medications, she realized that the elusive cure for brain and psychiatric illness was not going to be found in a pill.

In 2009, Dr. Toups attended a “Food as Medicine” conference that opened her eyes to the power of nutritional interventions and learned about Functional Medicine. She went on to complete all of the advanced training for certification at the Institute for Functional Medicine, and many other additional functional and environmental medicine trainings. Her practice is now devoted exclusively to functional medicine psychiatry and functional approaches for treating cognitive impairment and dementia.

Dr. Toups was a contributing author to the academic textbook Integrative Therapies for Depression: Redefining Models for Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention published in 2015 by CRC Press, and wrote a chapter, Decoding Dementia, in the book Life 201: A One-Stop Shop for Your Health, Wealth, and Happiness as part of a project for a PBS fund-raiser.  

She has been a featured speaker at national and international medical conferences on Dementia and Functional Medicine Psychiatry topics, as well as a frequent guest on podcasts and summits. 

She has recently completed collaborating with Dr. Dale Bredesen on a prospective clinical trial using a functional medicine method to reverse mild cognitive impairment and early dementia, and the study publication is expected in 2021. 

Dr. Toups is also the author of an upcoming book, Dementia Demystified: The Definitive Guide to Resurrecting Your Brain, Reversing Cognitive Decline, and Regaining Your Memory.

YouTube

• For lectures and podcast interviews, you can subscribe to Dr. Toups’s YouTube channel: 

https://www.youtube.com/KatToupsMD 

Facebook

• Share your thoughts and your experiences with her on her Facebook page: https://m.facebook.com/BayAreaWellness.net 
• Or search Kat Toups, MD – Functional Psychiatry and Dementia 
• She posts lots of useful information on the brain, dementia, and Functional and Nutritional Psychiatry. 

LinkedIn

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kattoupsmd

Twitter

• https://twitter.com/kattoupsmd

Instagram

• https://instagram.com/kattoupsmd 

You can find Dr. Toups’s latest news, info and programs at: 

• www.DementiaDemystified.com

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Today we get into a deep discussion about living with addiction, mental health and disorders, and suicide attempts.  I have a lot in common with Dr. Chris and it was healing for both of us to have this talk.

Dr. Christina Bjorndal, ND is considered an authority in the treatment of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders and eating disorders using a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual approach. Having overcome many mental health challenges, Dr. Chris is a gifted speaker and best selling author who has shared her wellness philosophy with platforms such as the Jenny McCarthy show, the International Bipolar Foundation, and many health summits and docuseries. She is recognized as a top ND to follow by two independent organizations. Her book “Beyond the Label” is a comprehensive guide to naturopathic mental health. 

Connect with Dr. Chris and learn more about her work:

https://www.drchristinabjorndal.com/

https://www.facebook.com/drchrisbjorndal 

https://www.twitter.com/drbjorndal

https://www.instagram.com/drchrisbjorndal

https://www.naturalterrain.com/

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I have taught with Dr. Chiu many times before and it’s great to have a chat with him today about his healing journey.  He enjoyed travelling, but when he was living in Japan he was hit by a car while riding his scooter and was seriously injured.  After that he tried everything conventional to ease his chronic pain.  A chiropractic adjustment from his brother set him on the path to functional healing and neurology.  What he didn’t realize until years later was that he had suffered a concussion in the accident.  He now works with patients going through the same brain trauma.

Dr. Titus Chiu is a #1 bestselling author, award-winning international speaker, and Functional Neurologist that helps high achievers go from surviving to thriving after concussion, through online brain training programs, masterclasses, and immersive brain wellness retreats.

He is the #1 bestselling author of BrainSAVE! Dr. Chiu sees patients and private clients from all around the world both online and in-person at his brain centers in California.

Connect with Dr. Chiu:

http://brainsave.com/

https://facebook.com/drtituschiu

https://instagram.com/drtituschiu

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Today we’re visiting with Dr. Al Danenberg.  Dr. Al suffered a stroke at the age of 59 and was doing okay for the next few years, but he was still on 7 medications. At the age of 66, he discovered the Paleo lifestyle and was able to lose 30 pounds and get off of all of his medications.  

Fast forward a few more years, and he started having some pains that he thought was a sprain or tear.  An MRI showed multiple fractures and a mass on his spine, and soon he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma. 

This brought him to research more kinds of unconventional cancer protocols, which had much better results than chemo would have.  He had a horrible accident with his brittle bones and went into hospice, intending to die.  After being evacuated to his home in the midst of Hurricane Dorian, his wife gave him some tough love and he rallied.  By the next month he was able to walk back into his oncologist’s office and start a new medication.  His next PET scan showed no active cancer cells through his entire body.  Today, he’s thriving, although he has many limitations and is not cured.

As a dentist, Dr. Al has been exposed to a lot of low-level radiation, which is known to turn lymphocytes cancerous, as well as using mercury amalgam fillings for many years.  Dentists in his age range have a much higher occurrence of cancer than other professions.

Mercury fillings are a health time bomb.  If you have mercury fillings, IAOMT.org to find a dentist in your area certified in removing mercury fillings safely.

To connect more with Dr. Al, visit his website and social media channels:

https://drdanenberg.com/

https://www.facebook.com/draldanenberg/

https://www.instagram.com/dr.danenberg/

Dr. Danenberg goes by “Dr. Al”. He is a periodontist and was in private practice for 44 years. He incorporated ancestral nutrition & lifestyle with his leading-edge laser protocol to treat periodontal disease.

Dr. Al consults with patients all over the world (virtually via Zoom or Skype) regarding animal-based nutrition, lifestyle, oral & overall health, and the importance of a healthy gut and immune system. He also includes his Unconventional Cancer Protocols since he was diagnosed with incurable bone marrow cancer in September 2018 and was given only 3-6 months to live. Dr. Al rejected all chemotherapy and is thriving today.

In June 2014, Dr. Al received the Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (CFMP) designation as well as the certification as a Certified Primal Health Coach. In 2015, he was appointed to the faculty of the College of Integrative Medicine and created the college’s integrative periodontal teaching module. Then, in April 2017, Dr. Al earned the designation of “ADAPT Trained Health Professional” from Kresser Institute.

In July 2017, Elektra Press released his book, “Crazy-Good Living”, which is based on ancestral nutrition and lifestyle.

On April 14, 2020, Dr. Al was appointed the Chair of the Periodontal Committee for the International Academy of Biological Dentistry and Medicine (IABDM). He also created the Certification Course offered by the IABDM, which will bestow the designation of Certified Biological Nutritional Dental Professional after successful completion of the program. This is the first certification of its kind.

In August 2020, he published two mini-eBooks on Amazon for download: “Better Belly Blueprint” and “Is Your Gut Killing You?”

In November 2020, NutriSense offered Dr. Danenberg a position on its Advisory Board, and in January 2021, Dr. Al became a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for Revitin Natural Toothpaste.

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As a physician, Dr. Cynthia Li wanted to help people feel better. What she didn't expect was a health crisis that defied explanation. It wasn't until she was able to connect to her body and energy that the healing could begin.

Cynthia Li, MD, is a physician and bestselling author of Brave New Medicine, a very personal memoir of her healing journey through a disabling autoimmune condition that took her from conventional medicine in public health to integrative, functional, and intuitive medicine. She also serves as faculty for Rachel Remen's Healer's Art program at UC San Francisco School of Medicine, where she shares her hard-won wisdom with medical residents in training. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Psychology Today. 

To connect more with Dr. Li, visit

http://www.cynthialimd.com/

https://www.facebook.com/dr.cynthia.li

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In this episode we’re visiting with Dr. Keesha Ewers, who struggled with rheumatoid arthritis as an embodiment of repressed sexual abuse. In her study of Ayurvedic medicine, she has found that most people with autoimmune disease have the 4 Ps present:

1. Holding on to poison from past pain
2. People pleasing
3. Perfectionism 
4. Pitta of the Ayurvedic dosha spectrum

What can happen with undigested trauma, even seemingly insignificant events get meanings and actions attached to them.  Those subconscious beliefs usually can’t be fixed by yourself.  The mind that created the belief can’t fix it.  As Dr. Keesha says, sometimes you need to borrow a brain that is trained to see patterns, such as a therapist, to resolve the issues.

Later, Dr. Keesha was diagnosed with breast cancer and she was immediately able to see that the tumor came from her self-hatred over something that had happened to her children.  She had done the work to help them heal and forgive, but hadn’t forgiven herself.  

Dr. Keesha Ewers is an integrative medicine expert, Doctor of Sexology, Family Practice ARNP, Psychotherapist, herbalist, is board certified in functional medicine and Ayurvedic medicine, and is the founder and medical director of the Academy for Integrative Medicine Health Coach Certification Program.

Dr. Keesha has been in the medical field for over 30 years. After conducting the HURT Study in 2013 (Healing Un-Resolved Trauma), she developed the HURT Model for understanding how past childhood trauma impacts adult health. This led to the creation of the You Unbroken online program for patients to heal their own trauma and the Mystic Medicine deep immersion healing retreats she leads at her home on San Juan Island, WA.

Dr. Keesha is a popular speaker, including at Harvard and from the TEDx stage, and the best-selling author of Solving the Autoimmune Puzzle: The Woman’s Guide to Reclaiming Emotional Freedom and Vibrant Health, The Quick and Easy Autoimmune Paleo Cookbook: Anti-Inflammatory Recipes with 7 Ingredients or Less for Busy People, and Your Libido Story: A workbook for women who want to find, fix, and free their sexual desire. You can listen to her Mystic Medicine Radio Show and find her programs at www.DrKeesha.com.

https://www.facebook.com/drkeeshaewers

https://twitter.com/DrKeesha 

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