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Too Curious MDs episodes
- What in the World Is Narrative Medicine? Listening as a Healing Art with Julia Schneider
In this episode of Too Curious MDs, I sit down with Julia Schneider, a narrative-medicine teacher, poet, and pain-care therapist I first met in our original narrative-medicine cohort at Columbia. Julia describes narrative medicine not as a fixed thing but as a mode of attention, a listening practice built on curiosity, humility, and the willingness to think with a person rather than against them. We talk about why story belongs at the forefront of a clinical visit even when time is short, what the research says about how quickly patients get interrupted, and how open-ended questions and simple silence can surface the details that a pain scale never will.
From her years in manual and movement therapy, Julia reframes persistent pain as a biopsychosocial experience, one shaped by the nervous system, past trauma, and the stories we tell ourselves, and she offers practical ways to help people feel safer in their own bodies. We also get personal about burnout, the grief so many of us carry from our training, and why reconnecting to the reason we entered this work can be its own kind of medicine. It is a warm, wide-ranging conversation for any clinician or caregiver who senses that healing depends on more than the science alone.
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Julia Schneider is the founder of NarrativeRx, an international learning community helping clinicians, patients, and educators deepen their listening through literature, philosophy, and the arts. She earned Columbia University's Certificate of Professional Achievement in Narrative Medicine (in its original online cohort) and holds a master's in literature from the University of Texas at Austin, leaving a PhD program to open her wellness center.
Julia is also a Licensed Massage Therapist and a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), with nearly two decades of hands-on work in persistent-pain care and as the founder of RISE Wellness Center in Austin.
A writer and poet at heart, she facilitates narrative-medicine workshops for palliative-care teams, chaplains, physicians, and students, using close reading and reflective writing to help healers listen more deeply to their patients and themselves.
Website: https://NarrativeRx.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/narrative.rx
Facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/narrativemed
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-schneider-3a6282126
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Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds
Website: https://shamynds.com/
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP
Website: https://palamedicine.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs
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52 min - How Does Physical Therapy Meet Breathwork and Spiritual/Emotional Healing? Cole Thorton from Atman PT
I have been curious about Cole Thornton for a while, so it was a joy to finally sit down with him. He's a doctor of physical therapy and the founder of Atman, a movement, breathwork, and meditation studio right down the street from us, and he has a gift for making an idea feel true in your body while he's still explaining it.
We start with the body. Cole says we're still living in "caveman bodies" in an artificial world, movement generalists who were built to crawl, climb, lift, and play. When we stop, he sees what he sees in any animal kept from its nature: stiffness, chronic pain, low mood, a quiet anxiety. Then we move to breath, which he calls the bridge, the one practice that is at once physical and inner, from slow, humming, nervous-system-soothing breathing to the bigger, faster work that can open a door to something deeper. And underneath all of it is a larger reframe: that we are healers, not mechanics, and our job is to guide a person toward their own healing rather than "fix" them like a car. This is Too Curious medicine at its most curious, science and spirit in the same breath. I loved every minute.
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About the Guest:
Cole Thornton is a doctor of physical therapy and the founder of Atman, a healing and wellness studio in Sacramento where he teaches functional movement, breathwork, and meditation alongside one-on-one physical therapy. A lifelong martial artist (Aikido and Tai Chi) turned EMT turned physical therapist, he stepped away from the mainstream medical model after years of hospital and neuro-rehab work to build a cash-pay practice centered on the whole person: body, breath, and mind.
His approach draws on natural human movement, both calming and more intensive styles of breathwork, and contemplative traditions, and he sees the practitioner's role as guiding a person toward their own healing. "Atman," he explains, is an old word for the self in its totality, physical, mental, and spiritual.
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Social Handles:
Website: https://atmansacramento.com
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Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds
Website: https://shamynds.com/
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP
Website: https://palamedicine.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/
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1 hr 1 min - What Travel Really Does to Your Cells (and How to Recover Faster) with Dr. Monisha Bhanote
In this episode, we explore travel resilience with Dr. Monisha Bhanote, who spends roughly half of every month crossing continents and time zones. She reframes travel as a physiologic event, one your cells register long before you feel it, and maps the five pathways that shift in transit: digestion, immunity, focus, energy, and recovery. Along the way, she shares the research behind “gut jet lag,” why she times her meals to her destination, what actually protects your immune system in an airport, and how sunlight and a walk on arrival can help reset your rhythm.
She also opens up about the golf ball that changed her life, a freak accident that caused a traumatic brain injury and sent her on a years-long effort to rebuild her own body, cell by cell. It’s a conversation about curiosity, resilience, and her guiding idea that cell care is self-care.
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About the Guest:
Dr. Monisha Bhanote, MD, FCAP, ABOIM, ACCM, is the only quintuple board-certified physician in the United States, with certifications spanning anatomic and clinical pathology, cytopathology, integrative medicine, and culinary medicine. After decades diagnosing more than a million disease cases at the cellular level, she founded the WELLKULÅ Institute to bridge modern molecular science with time-tested wellness traditions. She is the best-selling author of The Anatomy of Wellbeing, a global keynote speaker, the creator of the trademarked #CellCare philosophy, and the formulator behind Travela Wellness, a physician-developed travel and longevity supplement now heading into a University of Florida trial.
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Social Handles:
Website: https://drbhanote.com & https://travelawellness.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrBhanote/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drbhanote
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@drbhanote
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drbhanote
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Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds
Website: https://shamynds.com/
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP
Website: https://palamedicine.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/
Too Curious MDs
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs
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58 min - We Are the Medicine: Why Psychedelics Alone Won’t Heal You
In this episode, I sit down with Lou Dorian and Josh from Psychedelist for one of the more honest conversations I have had about what psychedelic medicine can and cannot do. We talk about the difference between reaching for a substance as a ‘set it and forget it’ fix and doing the slower work of building skills: breathwork, somatic processing, integration, and the belief work that so often surfaces the childhood trauma underneath the presenting problem. Josh shares his path from thirteen VA medications to ketamine-assisted therapy and the practices that carried him through it. Lou offers his thesis that our mental health is shaped as much by the world around us as by anything inside us. As always, we hold the science and the story together, and we ask what real, ethical, root-cause care actually looks like. Stay curious.
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About the Guest:
Lou Dorian is the founder and CEO of Psychedelist, a platform he describes as an ecosystem, or a ‘cyber city,’ for the psychedelic space: a directory of treatment providers, facilitators, educators, legal resources, and lab testing, built around harm reduction and responsible use. A mathematician by training, Lou came to this work through his own long and difficult history with psychedelics, grief, and trauma, and through the breathwork and somatic practices he credits with saving his life. He founded Psychedelist in 2021 and now works with clients, many of them veterans, on skill-based mental, emotional, and spiritual healing.
Josh is the Executive Director of Psychedelist and a combat veteran. After leaving the military with a stack of thirteen medications and a life he describes as coming apart, he began working with Lou on belief systems, somatic healing, and later ketamine-assisted therapy through the VA. He speaks openly about childhood trauma, moral injury, and the practices that helped him come back to himself, and now helps build the platform so others can find that same support.
Website: http://psychedelist.com
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Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds
Website: https://shamynds.com/
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP
Website: https://palamedicine.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/
Too Curious MDs
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs
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45 min - Beyond the Diagnosis: A Neurologist on Functional Brain Health and the Power of the Story
In this conversation, I sit down with neurologist Ken Sharlin to ask what changes when you treat the person, not just the diagnosis. Ken spent years in conventional neurology before endurance sport, of all things, led him to functional medicine and a different way of practicing. He explains his Brain Tune Up approach: start with the foundations of sleep, movement, nutrition, stress, and connection, then layer in the more advanced tools only once that groundwork is laid.
We get into the science he finds most exciting right now, from neuroplasticity and the BDNF pathway that links exercise and psychedelics to senolytics, digital tracking, and AI that helps personalize care. But the throughline is human: Ken believes the patient's story is where healing begins, and that medicine is, in his words, human behavior informed by science. We also talk honestly about physician burnout and why curiosity is what keeps the work alive. This is offered for education and curiosity, not medical advice. Stay curious.
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About the Guest:
Ken Sharlin, MD, MPH, IFMCP, is a board-certified neurologist and functional medicine practitioner and the founder of Sharlin Health & Neurology in Ozark, Missouri, where he directs his Brain Tune Up! Program. Trained at Emory, the University of Virginia, and Vanderbilt, he blends conventional neurology with lifestyle, functional, and regenerative medicine. He is the best-selling author of The Healthy Brain Toolbox and teaches widely on personalized, root-cause approaches to brain health.
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Social Handles:
Website: https://functionalmedicine.doctor
Instagram: https://instagram.com/kensharlin.md
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Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds
Website: https://shamynds.com/
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP
Website: https://palamedicine.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/
Too Curious MDs
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs
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https://drtalks.com/podcast-service/51 min - Are Normal Thyroid Labs Missing the Real Problem? with Dr. Daryl Turner
Welcome to Too Curious MDs — where medicine is more than science — it’s story, art, connection, and integration.
What happens when your thyroid labs look normal, but your body keeps telling you something is wrong?
In this episode, Dr. Alya Ahmad sits down with Dr. Daryl Turner, founder of NiTek Medical, to explore why fatigue, cold hands and feet, brain fog, constipation, weight changes, hair loss, mood shifts, and hormonal symptoms may deserve a closer look—even when standard testing does not provide a clear answer.
Dr. Turner shares how seeing symptomatic patients dismissed because their bloodwork appeared normal led him to revisit an older method of thyroid assessment: measuring reflex speed. He explains how that work inspired the development of the Thyroflex, a device designed to assess reflex response and resting metabolic rate.
Together, Dr. Alya and Dr. Turner examine the limits of relying on a single thyroid marker, the importance of listening to patient symptoms, and the connection between thyroid function, energy production, metabolism, digestion, mood, menstrual cycles, fertility, and pregnancy.
They also discuss iodine, Hashimoto’s, Graves’ disease, thyroid antibodies, reverse T3, sleep, stress, nutrition, adrenal health, and the potential role of DNA testing in the future of thyroid and autoimmune care.
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About Dr. Daryl Turner
Dr. Daryl Turner is the founder of NiTek Medical and an international lecturer focused on thyroid, adrenal, iodine, autoimmune, and hormone health. Born and raised in New Zealand and now living in the United States, his work grew from a desire to help patients who experienced symptoms of thyroid dysfunction despite having laboratory results that appeared normal.
Drawing from the historical use of reflex speed in thyroid assessment, Dr. Turner developed the Thyroflex, a device designed to evaluate reflex response, neurotransmitter speed, and resting metabolic rate. He now teaches clinicians internationally about symptom-based thyroid assessment, iodine, Hashimoto’s, Graves’ disease, hormone balance, DNA testing, and approaches intended to help patients improve their quality of life.
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Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds
Website: https://shamynds.com/
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP
Website: https://palamedicine.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/
Too Curious MDs
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toocuriousmds?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs
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42 min - Is Psychedelic Therapy a Malpractice Risk? with Bill Green Malpractice Insurance Expert
Welcome to Too Curious MDs — where medicine is more than science — it’s story, art, connection, and integration.
In this episode, Dr. Alya Ahmad sits down with Bill Green for a timely conversation about medical malpractice, standard of care, informed consent, documentation, patient advocacy, and the evolving risks surrounding ketamine and psychedelic medicine.
With 40 years of experience in medical liability, brings a practical and deeply human perspective to one of the most important issues facing patients and clinicians today. Together, they explore what happens when new treatment options enter the medical system before there is a long history of legal precedent, and why that matters for providers using ketamine, psychedelic-assisted therapies, and other emerging approaches.
This conversation also looks beyond legal risk. Dr. Alya and Bill discuss trust, communication, shared decision-making, patient advocacy, bedside manner, burnout, documentation burdens, and the emotional weight patients often carry when they arrive at care. Bill also shares part of his own personal story, reflecting on trauma, mental health support, suicidal ideation, and the healing power of a strong therapeutic relationship.
This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered:
Why medical malpractice is about standard of care, not a guaranteed cure
How informed consent should be more than a signed form
Why documentation matters so much in medical liability
How ketamine and psychedelic medicine may create new risk questions
Why patients should feel safe asking questions
How trust and communication can protect both patients and providers
Why the doctor-patient relationship still matters in a fast-moving healthcare system
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About Bill Green
William “Bill” Green brings 40 years of experience in medical liability, malpractice insurance, sales, marketing, and risk management education. His path began through the U.S. Olympic Committee after his career as an elite track athlete, setting three American records and placing fifth at the Los Angeles Games.
He has worked with Johnson & Higgins, the Southern California Physicians Insurance Exchange, The Doctors Company, and the Medical Insurance Exchange of California. In this conversation, he brings a grounded perspective on malpractice risk, informed consent, standard of care, and why trust remains vital to the relationship.
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Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds
Website: https://shamynds.com/
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP
Website: https://palamedicine.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/
Too Curious MDs
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toocuriousmds?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs
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52 min - Rewriting the Story: Migration, Medicine, Motherhood, and Slow Healing with Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman
Welcome to Too Curious MDs — where medicine is more than science — it’s story, art, connection, and integration.
In this episode, Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman steps into the chair as both interviewer and interviewee. She traces the chapters that shaped her life and work, from moving to the United Arab Emirates as a child, to attending medical school in Pakistan, to training in New York City, raising children in Kansas City, and eventually building a new chapter in Los Angeles.
Through each chapter, she explores how identity, culture, family, medicine, and story shaped the way she sees patients and herself. What began as a life of observation slowly became a deeper understanding of narrative medicine, trauma-informed care, listening, and the importance of slowing down in a medical system designed to move faster.
Together with her own reflections, she examines what it means to unlearn old scripts, make meaning from difficult transitions, and recognize that healing is not always about getting the right answer. Sometimes, it is about being witnessed, being heard, and finding the space to ask what a crisis may be calling us to change.
This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered:
Why your own story matters more than you think
How childhood migration can shape observation and identity
Why medicine often leaves out the human story
How burnout can become a turning point
Why slowing down may create space for deeper healing
How listening can change the way we care for others
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About the Host:
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman is a physician, medical educator, and co-host of Too Curious MDs. A graduate of Aga Khan University Medical College, she completed her pediatric residency at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and has more than two decades of clinical experience, including work as a pediatrician at Los Angeles General Hospital.
She earned her Master’s in Medical Education from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, where she also coaches medical students. Her work brings together narrative medicine, trauma-informed care, integrative psychiatry, and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy training, reflecting her deep interest in how stories, listening, and human connection shape healing.
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Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds
Website: https://shamynds.com/
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP
Website: https://palamedicine.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/
Too Curious MDs
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toocuriousmds?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs
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44 min - Detoxification: How Toxic Burden, Stress, and Environmental Exposure Shape the Body’s Response with Jeff Hoyt
Welcome to Too Curious MDs — where medicine is more than science — it’s story, art, connection, and integration.
In this episode, Dr. Alya Ahmad sits down with Jeff Hoyt, wellness innovator, founder of Zeolite Labs, and host of The Detox Experience podcast, for a nuanced conversation about detoxification, toxic burden, heavy metals, environmental exposures, and what the body may be trying to do when it stores what it cannot immediately process.
As detox becomes an increasingly popular conversation in wellness, Jeff brings a grounded and curious perspective on what detox actually means biologically, emotionally, and environmentally. Rather than treating detox as a quick fix, he explains why the body is always working to protect itself, why stress can slow natural detox processes, and why forcing detox too aggressively may create more symptoms for some people.
Together, they explore how modern exposures from food, water, air, heavy metals, mold, Wi-Fi, personal care products, agricultural chemicals, and emotional stress may all contribute to the body’s total load. They also discuss gut health, mental health, binders, zeolite, detox reactions, and why reducing exposure is only one part of the larger healing conversation.
This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered:
Why detox can feel confusing or overwhelming
How heavy metals and environmental exposures may affect the body
Why the body may store what it cannot process right away
How gut health, stress, and mental health may be connected
Why listening to the body matters more than forcing detox
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About Jeff Hoyt
Jeff Hoyt is a wellness innovator, founder of Zeolite Labs, and host of The Detox Experience podcast, a platform dedicated to exploring detoxification, root cause healing, heavy metal toxicity, and integrative wellness.
Through conversations with physicians, functional medicine practitioners, health educators, and individuals navigating chronic illness, Jeff has become known for challenging the status quo around detoxification. His work explores environmental toxins, nervous system regulation, gut health, real-world healing stories, and what it means to approach wellness from a root cause perspective.
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Social Handles:
Website: https://www.zeolitelabs.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-hoyt-51362438/
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Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds
Website: https://shamynds.com/
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP
Website: https://palamedicine.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/
Too Curious MDs
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toocuriousmds?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs
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57 min - How does Yoga, The Gut-Brain Axis, and Stress Intertwine? - with Emily Wolbers
Welcome to Too Curious MDs — where medicine is more than science — it’s story, art, connection, and integration.
In this episode, Dr. Alya Ahmad sits down with Dr. Emily Wolbers, naturopathic doctor, yoga teacher, and expert in gastrointestinal health and the gut-brain connection, for a deeply engaging conversation about the hidden relationship between stress, digestion, hormones, inflammation, and emotional resilience.
As modern medicine increasingly validates the importance of the gut-brain axis, Dr. Emily brings a unique perspective that bridges evidence-based science with ancient practices rooted in yoga, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation.
Together, they explore how chronic stress reshapes the body, why so many symptoms are dismissed as “just anxiety,” and what yoga traditions may have understood about the nervous system long before neuroscience caught up.
This episode is for anyone who has ever wondered:
Why stress shows up physically in the body
Why gut symptoms and anxiety are often deeply connected
How breathwork changes physiology
What the vagus nerve actually does
And what true resilience looks like—not just mentally, but biologically
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About Dr. Emily Wolbers
Dr. Emily Wolbers is a naturopathic doctor specializing in gastrointestinal health and the gut-brain connection at QC Natural Health. Recognized as a Top ND in the United States, she integrates evidence-based medicine with yoga, mindfulness, and nervous system regulation to help patients heal through a whole-person approach.
She has taught yoga and meditation since 2013 and presents internationally on mind-body medicine, blending science with compassionate care and practical tools for resilience.
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Social Handles:
Website: https://www.qcnaturalhealth.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qcnaturalhealth
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qcnaturalhealth
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-wolbers
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Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds
Website: https://shamynds.com/
Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP
Website: https://palamedicine.com/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/
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About Too Curious MDs
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Curiosity fuels discovery, and in medicine, it’s the key to transformation. Too Curious MDs explores the frontiers of healing through narrative medicine, integrative therapies, psychedelics, and patient-centered care.
Hosted by Dr. Alya Ahmad and Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, this podcast challenges the boundaries of traditional medicine, uncovering the untold stories, ethical dilemmas, and groundbreaking research shaping the future of healthcare.
Join the journey—because medicine is more than science; it’s a story.