Essential Food Nutrients, Vitamins and Supplements
Dr. Serena Satcher, Integrative and Functional Nutrition physician ends our Functional Nutrition segment by exploring with moderator Paulette Brower, proven essential phytonutrients in food and drink known to provide health benefits. How the VHA Whole Health model supports “food and drink” as a resource to stay healthy and fight disease is also addressed.

Learn more from the following websites here:
The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center: https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/WARRELATEDILLNESS/index.asp
Post Deployment Health Services: https://www.publichealth.va.gov/

The Role and Importance of Mitochondria
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Serena Satcher once again to have a discussion on the role and importance of mitochondria with Paulette Brower. Hear Dr. Satcher examine how functional nutrition plans impact and support optimal mitochondrial function.

More resources are available here:
The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center (WRIISC Resources): https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/WARRELATEDILLNESS/index.asp

The Detoxification
Dr. Serena Satcher discusses how required nutrients and others optimize the body’s natural detoxification process in the liver, kidney and skin. This podcast is moderated by Paulette Brower.

Learn more about detoxification here:
The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center (WRIISC Resources): https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/WARRELATEDILLNESS/index.asp

The Elimination Nutritional Food Plan
Dr. Serena Satcher sits down for a conversation with Steven Greer, Veteran and Exercise Physiologist with the NJ WRIISC, and Paulette Brower. In it, she Introduces the Elimination Diet and its usefulness as a functional nutrition tool in supporting post deployment Veterans with weakened immune systems which may manifest in CMI (Chronic Multi-symptom Illness).
Resources:
The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center (WRIISC Resources): https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/WARRELATEDILLNESS/index.asp

Nutritional Rebalancing-Beyond Diets
For this episode, Dr. Serena Satcher, Integrative and Functional Medicine physician in conversation with Paulette Brower, examines functional nutrition plans, their ability to improve overall health and a vast array of Veteran’s symptoms, and how Intermittent fasting is used with them to achieve detoxification and apoptosis [cell death].
Clinicians interested in learning more, you can see the textbook Nutritional Medicine by Dr. Alan Gaby.

Additional information can be accessed here:
The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center (WRIISC Resources): https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/WARRELATEDILLNESS/index.asp

Gut Function and Health
We welcome back Dr. Omowunmi Osinubi, Dr. Serena Satcher, and Paulette Brower, as they explore how increased intestinal permeability also known as leaky gut syndrome negatively affects Veterans’ health by promoting chronic inflammation, compromising immunity, and resulting in other medical issues. They explore how utilizing what is referred to as the 4 R’s may be helpful in decreasing intestinal permeability and its associated problems.
To learn more about gut function and health, access:
The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center (WRIISC): https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/WARRELATEDILLNESS/index.asp

VA Whole Health and Functional Medicine Approaches for Managing Chronic Inflammation
Dr. Serena Satcher, Integrative and Functional Medicine physician with the NJ WRIISC, examines how Chronic Inflammation - a consequence of military exposures and lifestyle factors - may manifest as disease and impact overall health. This discussion is moderated by Paulette Brower.
To learn more about Whole Health, visit: https://www.va.gov/wholehealth/
To learn more about Functional Medicine, you can visit: ifm.org
You can view the Functional Medicine matrix here: https://www.ifm.org/news-insights/toolkit-functional-medicine-matrix/

The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center (WRIISC Resources): https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/WARRELATEDILLNESS/index.asp

Environmental Exposures & Gastrointestinal Health of Veterans
Dr. Omowunmi Osinubi, Clinical Director of the NJ WRIISC sits down with our moderator Paulette Brower, at the WRIISC, to highlight common types of health conditions experienced by Veterans of the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and its environmental exposures impacts upon gastrointestinal health.
Learn more on post deployment health from the following websites here:
The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center (WRIISC): https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/WARRELATEDILLNESS/index.asp
Post Deployment Health Services: https://www.publichealth.va.gov/

What’s Wrong with me? Creating a Shared Understanding to Improve Communication
Dr. Susan Santos and Dr. Lisa McAndrew discuss how to improve communication by develop a shared understanding and treatment plan with Patients when there is no easy answer for their complex medical or exposure concerns.
For more information on developing a shared understanding you visit: The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center (WRIISC): https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/WARRELATEDILLNESS/index.asp

Improving Communication Between Patients and Providers around Difficult or Sensitive Topics
The inaugural episode of Veteran Health Matters, WRIISC’s Dr. Susan Santos, Director of Education & Risk Communication, and Dr. Lisa McAndrew, Director of Research address known difficulties in Communicating with Patients when there is no easy answer for their complex medical or exposure concerns.
RESOURCES
The War Related Illness & Injury Study Center (WRIISC): https://www.warrelatedillness.va.gov/WARRELATEDILLNESS/index.asp