In this episode, Dr. Sam Shay will answer the following questions. Q1. Why did he choose medicine? Q2. What is functional medicine's role in healing patients? Q3. He will tell us about “The Ten Pillars of Health” Q4. What does health mean to him? How his background in comedy can help him communicate better with his clients and patients. Q5. Where can you find learn more about his work? Dr. Sam Shay, DC, IFMCP helps entrepreneurs and mom-preneurs “framework” their expertise so they can scale their message and impact in the world and achieve personal financial freedom.

Dr. Shay also coaches Biohackers, entrepreneurs, and mom-preneurs using advanced functional testing and genetic testing to increase energy, resilience, and creativity.

Dr. Shay also does stand-up comedy as a hobby and also a fun educational vehicle.

In this episode, Dr. Manon Bolliger will answer to the following questions. 

Q1. What is the motivation behind her profession and business?

Q2. What’s naturopathic medicine?

Q3. How important it is to integrate other branches of medicine such as naturopathic medicine, functional medicine into conventional medicine?

Q4. She will tell us about Bowen College.

Q5. What is her “Simple Stress Solutions” method and how can it help you overcome stress?

Q6. Where can you find more about her work?

Dr. Manon, is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor and CEO of Bowen College where she has trained over 2500 healthcare practitioners in her methodology. Dr. M (Manon Bolliger), helps people take ownership of their choices in health. The best-selling author of “What Patients Don’t Say if Doctors Don’t Ask”, she helps people release chronic physical and emotional pain by helping them focus on their “health-nosis” and not their diagnosis.

She has spoken on international stages like JTFoxx’s Money, Health, and Business, TEDx in Las Vegas, she is the host of The Healer’s Cafe podcast and has appeared on ABC, CTV and NBC. 

While overcoming stage 4 CA without pharmaceutical or a hysterectomy, she discovered that we are accustomed to thinking that conflict resolution is mediated externally. But when it comes to health, it is an internal process. She has pioneered the ‘A Healer in Every Household’ Movement embracing the body’s capacity to heal and the choice to govern our lives. Her new book “A Healer in Every Household: Simple Solutions for Stress” has just been launched in October 2020.

In this episode, Dr. Hoh will be answering the following questions.

1. Why does she focus on palliative care? 

2. She will tell us the difference between hospice and palliative care

3. Who is appropriate for palliative care?

4. How does palliative care benefit the individual?

5. What are some of the resources for patients who would need palliative care?

Dr. Fran Hoh has been a Registered Nurse for 4 decades on a mission to help people recover from illness.  She is passionate about lifelong learning and completed a diploma, Bachelors, and Master’s degree in Nursing and a PHD in Health Administration. She is equally as passionate about teaching and has been known as the “tell it like it is” presenter.  She is known for excellence by her peers as demonstrated by being awarded the Nurse Excellence Award from Overlook Medical Center in 2006 for developing a 3 Day Pain Resource course and trained hundreds of nurses to be resources for better pain management.  She has done full day programs across the country on topics of pain management and end of life care and is board certified as an Advanced Practice Nurse in Hospice and Palliative Care.

 Her book Pain Medications and You was published as a guide for patients to better understand how to manage pain.  She was awarded the Clinical Practice Award in 2010 and the Geriatric Nurse Exemplar Award in 2015 by the American Society of Pain Management Nursing.

In 2009 Dr. Hoh combined her knowledge, vision, Can Do attitude, and skills to launch her own practice called Always Think Comfort, which provided pain and palliative care consults at over 30 long term care facilities in NJ. Her goal was to provide support to families who are living in the last season of a family member’s life.

In 2020 she again received the Nurse Excellence Award in Inter-professional Collaboration for her work during the Covid pandemic. During the Covid pandemic she fiercely advocated for IPADS, family visits, and aggressive symptom management for those who were dying of the Corona virus. Last year she established Palliative Rx which provides online courses for patients and families suffering with chronic illness.

In this episode, Dr. Hirsch will answer the following questions: 1. How does someone know they have fatigue? 2. What are the causes of fatigue? 3. Why is it so hard to treat fatigue? 4. What is the 4-step Fix Your Fatigue System ? 5. What is post-covid syndrome? 6. When can he NOT help someone with fatigue? Evan H. Hirsch, MD, is a World Renowned Fatigue Expert and is the Founder & CEO of the International Center for Energy & Fatigue & of The Virtual MD Initiative. He suffered with fatigue for 5 years before he achieved resolution using the Fix Your Fatigue Program that he pioneered in his medical practice.

Through his best-selling book, podcast and online programs, he has helped thousands of people around the world optimize their energy naturally, and he is on a mission to help 1 million more.

He also helps licensed, functional medicine providers transition to a successful virtual practice so that they can have more impact, more success and a greater quality of life.

He is board certified in family medicine and integrative medicine and when he’s not at the office, you can find him singing musicals, dancing and playing basketball with his family.

Dr. Evan is known as International Fatigue Expert, “The Fatigue Doc”, Post-COVID Fatigue Expert.

Dr Hokehe Effiong, Board-Certified Pediatrician, Certified Brain Health/ADHD Consultant helps parents of children diagnosed with ADHD, who are frustrated and worried about their child’s behavior and are ready to partner with their child to get to the root cause of the behaviors, to heal and flourish in mind and body using brain health strategies and functional medicine. She is the CEO of ADHD Practical Solutions, with a mission to help 1 million children with ADHD accomplish their big dreams, She is also the CEO of Kits of Hope, a 501 (3) organization dedicated to inspiring communities to share love, hope, and dignity with children in the foster care system.  

After being injured in two car accidents, labeled as average, and told it was impossible for her to fulfil her dream of becoming a pediatrician, she uses her experience with developing resilience and thriving in the face of obstacles to help children diagnosed with ADHD and Children in Foster Care see themselves as who they truly are: fiercely courageous and capable of fulfilling their dreams.

She has spoken to the United Nations Youth Program, Ghana on the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences, and has been on multiple podcasts and summits such as the Healthy Fit and Uplifted webinar as keynote speaker, Doctors unbound, the On-air Advocate, Motherhood, Melanin and motherhood. She has also hosted a summit for foster parents. She is on the Board of Directors for the American Academy of Pediatrics Oklahoma Chapter.

ln this episode, we will be discussing Stress and Disease - The Science and the Solutions with Dr. Deb.

Deborah Matthew MD, The Happy Hormones Doctor, is a best-selling author, international speaker, educator, wife and mother of four. After suffering for years with fatigue and irritability, her quest to resolve her personal health led her to change everything about her practice of medicine. Now she helps her patients get WELL, get OFF prescription drugs, and LOVE the way they feel! She has been featured on national podcasts, radio, and broadcast shows, including NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX. Her latest book, "Why Can't I Keep Up Anymore?" will be published November 2020. Life demands are often challenging and require intense physical and psychological efforts in order to be sustained. Especially during this pandemic, life-work balance is challenging. How we react to stress is crucial to know because it may potentially be health threatening by activating interconnected neuroendocrine circuits. Dr. Mathews will answer the following questions: 1.     What is the mechanism by which chronic stress causes disease?   

2.     How does it feel when cortisol is imbalanced?

3.     What other hormones that are affected by stress? 4.     How can we test to see the physiologic effects of stress?

5.     What can we do to help reduce stress?

In this episode, Dr. Anshul  Gupta will talk about role of Functional Medicine in Treatment of Thyroid. He will tell us about his own Hashimoto's and how he treated it. He will also answer the following questions: 1. How does he find the root cause of his patients' Hashimoto's?

  2. What is thyroid and its role in body? 

3. What's the conventional medicine way of managing thyroid?

4. Why are people with thyroid disorders not getting better ? 

5. What is functional medicine and how does it approach in treating thyroid disorders

Dr. Anshul Gupta is Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician, with advanced certification in Functional Medicine, Peptide therapy and also fellowship trained in Integrative Medicine. 

He has worked at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic Department of Functional Medicine as staff physician alongside Dr. Mark Hyman. 

He now specializes in treating Hashimoto’s disease and help people reverse their unresolved symptoms of thyroid dysfunction. Dr. Gupta makes personalized Functional Medicine plans for people with Hashimoto’s, to end fatigue, reduce brain fog, and lose weight sustainably.

In this episode, Dr. Irene Cop, MD, DC, CEO and Founder of Flameout Project talks about some of the ways out of Burnout.

In this episode, Dr. Irene Cop, MD, DC, and Founder and CEO of the Flameout Project will be discussing burnout in healthcare providers, and sharing her personal experience in this regard. She is known as "The Life Reset Doctor" and helps people heal themselves so that they can shift from being a victim of their life to living a life full of freedom and fun.

After her own flameout led to a catastrophic car accident, Dr. Irene is passionate about guiding other flamed-out individuals in transforming their lives and well-being. With over 25 years’ experience, she teaches her clients the powerful tools and practical skills they need in order to recuperate, rejuvenate, and reinvent their lives.

With a comprehensive background as a Medical Doctor, Doctor of Chiropractic, Dr. Irene also has extensive training in acupuncture, traumatic brain injury, neurology, elite performance psychology, and stress management.

Dr. Titus Chiu is a bestselling author and Functional Neurologist specializing in post-concussion syndrome. He has spoken at the 2017 Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM) annual conference, appeared on numerous documentaries such as Dr. Mark Hyman’s Broken Brain 1 and 2, and love teaching about the brain. Dr. Chiu has an online brain health consultancy. In this episode, Dr. Chiu will tell us about BrainSAVE. Will talk about Concussion.

What it takes to become a functional neurologist? How can we integrate functional medicine into conventional medicine and neurosurgery, especially for patients with post trauma history?