Tune into Wellness

In this podcast, Dr Frank Lipman's guest is Kara Landau aka "Travelling Dietitian", who is an Australian dietitian, author and founder of Uplift Food with a special expertise in prebiotic foods and gut health. They discuss the importance of using prebiotic fibers, resistant starches, and polyphenolic compounds in your diet to feed the "good" bacteria in your microbiome. These bacteria or probiotics then generate metabolites, including beneficial short-chain fatty acids, that can have an anti-inflammatory effect on your body. and serotonin, that can reduce depression and anxiety.

Kara now focuses her research on the mood supportive benefits of prebiotic foods and the all important gut-brain connection.

The microbiome has now come to be seen as the key foundations of health and wellness. Dr. Frank Lipman along with Dr. Bojana Jankovic Weatherly discuss with Zach Bush M.D. the importance of a healthy microbiome and the negative impact glyphosate has on it.

Dr. Bush is the founder, chief scientist and product developer at Restore4Life. He is one of the few triple board-certified physicians in the country - with expertise in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Hospice/Palliative care. His breakthrough science has delivered profound new insights into human health and longevity. In 2012 Zach discovered a family of carbon-based redox molecules made by bacteria. He has developed a revolutionary class of dietary supplements, called Restore, that act as an antidote to glyphosate and many other toxins that disrupt our bodies natural defenses.

In this podcast, we learn about prebiotics, probiotics and their effect on the microbiome, and how important postbiotics generated in our microbiome are to our wellbeing. Dr. Bush recently changed his views on probiotics and now believes they can hinder the restoration the health of your microbiome.

Dr. Frank Lipman talks with environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and author, Paul Hawken, about his latest book, Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming. Drawdown is that point in time when the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere begins to decline on a year-to-year basis.

Drawdown maps, measures, models, and describes the 100 most substantive solutions to global warming. Each solution is described, its history, the carbon impact it provides, the relative cost and savings, the path to adoption, and how it works. The goal of the research that informs Drawdown is to determine if we can reverse the buildup of atmospheric carbon within thirty years. As Paul says in the podcast, all solutions modeled are already in place, well understood, analyzed based on peer-reviewed science, and are expanding around the world.

Dr. Frank Lipman talks with fellow South African. Professor Tim Noakes, the author of numerous books and a sports scientist, who has published more than 750 scientific articles.

He initially advocated a high carb diet for athletes in his book "Lore of Running" (1986). But his beliefs evolved over the years when he realized he was wrong and now advocates for a low-carb, high fat diet in his more recent books "The Real Meal Revolution" (2014) and "Lore of Nutrition: Challenging Conventional Dietary Beliefs" (2017).

Professor Noakes, who single-handedly popularized the low carb diet in South Africa has created The Noakes Foundation to educate low income South Africans about modifying their diet to improve their health.

In the podcast, they discuss the importance of a healthy gut microbiome, the role of diet in managing diabetes and hypertension, and how medications are often not necessary if a healthy diet is adopted.

In this edition of the Tune into Wellness podcast we have Ken Cook, President and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group and Dr Bojana who has been working at the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York with Dr Lipman.

EWG is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment. it's groundbreaking research has changed the debate over environmental health. From households to Capitol Hill, EWG's team of scientists, policy experts, lawyers, communication experts and programmers have worked tirelessly to make sure someone is standing up for public health when government and industry won't.

it's website, EWG.org is an invaluable online resource for information regarding what chemicals are in the food and products we use. It has over 25 million visitors a year.

Dr. Frank Lipman talks with men's health expert and integrative physician Myles Spar, MD about his best scientifically-validated health tips. He recommends modifying five behaviors which will extend and improve your life. They are, quit smoking, don't drink excessively, exercise, maintain a healthy weight and have a social network. Also discussed is the importance of monitoring and maintaining hormone levels, primarily testosterone and estrogen. Positive results that can be achieved include improved mood, increased energy, ability to focus, increased libido and reduced risk for heart disease.

Dr. Frank Lipman sits down with Gregg Renfrew, the founder of Beautycounter, a company that creates safe and clean cosmetics. She talks with Dr. Lipman about the community she's building and how she's driving a national movement for improved transparency in the beauty industry. She explains the origin story of Beautycounter and encourages everyone who might be skeptical about natural skincare products to stop assuming they don't work and give them another try.

Renfrew launched Beautycounter in 2011 after becoming passionate about environmental health and making changes in her own life to reduce her exposure to chemicals and toxins. She set out to find safer alternatives to chemical-laden cosmetics, but came up short. So she started her own company because she thought the world needed a movement for better beauty, and she wanted to show that you can create high-performing products without chemicals of concern.

Renfrew discusses her "never list," which is a list of about 1,500 harmful ingredients (available for download!) that her company will never use in its products. She also addresses the common concern that cleaner products aren't as effective and provides tips on where to start if you're just beginning to detox your personal care routine.

In this episode of the Be Well podcast, we're joined by Robyn O'Brien, who's known as "food's Erin Brockovich" for her tireless work uncovering the truth about GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in our food industry. It all started when her child developed a food allergy — and she started to realize that the rise of food allergies was directly tied to the rise of GMOs.

Author of "The Unhealthy Truth," O'Brien has helped lead an awakening about the American food industry and the prevalence of GMOs. This change in our food supply is causing a host of health issues, and O'Brien says consumers deserve more information and labeling on their food.

In this episode, O'Brien also discusses the largest genetically engineered crops in the U.S., artificial growth hormones, and the strategies of food corporations.

Finally, O'Brien offers some tips on avoiding modified foods: shop the perimeter of the grocery store, eat more whole foods, choose organic whenever possible, and grow your own food in a garden.

In this episode of the Be Well podcast, investigative journalist and author Nina Teicholz talks with Dr. Frank Lipman about dietary fats — and why everything Americans think they know about them is wrong. She explains how misinformation about saturated fats, along with the erroneous idea that a low-fat diet is best, is causing numerous health problems.

Author of the best-selling "The Big Fat Surprise," Teicholz has spent more than a decade researching the history of how we came to believe that dietary fat is inherently bad for health. She makes the argument for why saturated fats are actually notbad for health, despite what researchers, the government, and conventional wisdom have told us. We've been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, eggs, and she assures us we can welcome these whole fats back into our lives.

In addition to the bias against saturated fat, Teicholz and Dr. Lipman discuss topics including the dangers of vegetable oils, misplaced concerns about cholesterol, the pros and cons of coconut oil, and the problems with observational data in nutrition science.

Tune in to find out why everything you've been told about fat is wrong.

In this episode, Dr. Frank Lipman sits down with Dr. Jason Fung, a leading expert on intermittent fasting for weight loss, diabetes reversal and overall wellness. The author of three best-selling health books, Fung has been a key leader in popularizing fasting and changing the negative perception of it over the last few years. Dr. Fung explains the physiological benefits of fasting — and the science behind why it works so well.

It's hormones, not calories, that people should be focusing on, Dr. Fung explains. So if you're trying to lose weight, instead of restricting calories, you should fast, because it's the most intensive way to lower insulin so your body burns fat instead of storing it. In addition to weight loss, other benefits of fasting that Dr. Lipman and Dr. Fung discuss include lowering risk of diabetes or reversing it, improving brain function, and possibly lowering risk of cancer.

Finally, the doctors touch on a few different types of fasting and which are the best options for specific wellness goals.