Specializing in men’s pelvic and sexual health for over a decade, Dr. Susie Gronski is a Licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy, Certified Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner, AASECT Certified Sexuality Educator, sexuality counselor, an international teacher and author of Pelvic Pain the Ultimate Cock Block. Dr. Susie is the founder of an interdisciplinary pelvic and sexual health clinic exclusively for men. Learn more about Dr. Susie and her team here: https://drsusieg.com/.

Topics Covered:
How to identify a problem.

What is the pelvic floor for men? 
A misleading message on male sexual health.
Sexual and digestive health is physical, mental and emotional. 
How to locate and ‘work out’ your pelvic floor or kegels for men.
For improved sexual and urinary function.
For better bowel and gas control.
Yoga for male pelvic floor health. Poses, How and Why

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Rachel Lando is a teacher of yoga, movement, and anatomy. She is the founder of Patient Care Movement, co-founder of Mindful. Summit County, and hosts Anatomy and Physiology for Improved Fitness, CE workshops for yoga professionals, movement enthusiasts, and the chronic illness community.

Rachel felt called to yoga and mindfulness following her diagnosis in 2012 with scleroderma, a rare autoimmune condition. She has since eased into a personal movement and meditation practice, certified as an E-RYT200, and pursued advanced education in mat + reformer pilates, Yoga Tune Up®, Roll Model Method®, Breath and Bliss, biomechanics, trauma-sensitive yoga, and mindfulness.  She lives in Park City, UT, where she enjoys teaching weekly classes, being outdoors and spending time with her husband, her 7-year-old daughter, and her dog Jet.

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Jack Feldman is a distinguished professor of neurobiology at University of California Los Angeles and David Geffen School of Medicine Chair in Neuroscience. He is a pioneer in the field of respiration by discovering the areas of the brain where inhalations and exhalations are initiated. He is also a co-author of a paper published in March 2022, in the Annual Review of Neuroscience titled Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion.

According to Feldman, when we experience something, we see, hear and smell it simultaneously via different paths (eyes, ears, nose)  into the brain but we perceive it as one object, which is a process called binding. The rhythm of our breath, which we can control, is playing a role of binding, as well as in many other processes going on in our brains. By modulating our breath, we can modify these processes, changing our mood and behavior. 

“By disrupting the circuit, what happens is you feel calmer, you feel better,” Feldman says. “If you’re clinically depressed, changing your breathing pattern might help relieve your depression. If you’re clinically anxious, it might help relieve your anxiety. Not only acutely, but if you do it successfully over multiple days and weeks, it can actually begin to change that circuit for long term relief.”

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Jill is a pioneer in forging relevant links between the worlds of fitness, yoga, athletics, massage, and pain-management, having studied movement and the human body for more than 30 years.

She is the author of the best-selling books, BODY by BREATH, and THE ROLL MODEL, and creator of the fitness formats Tune Up Fitness® and The Roll Model® Method. Miller is also a contributing author to the medical text, FASCIA, FUNCTION and MEDICAL APPLICATIONS.

Known as the Teacher’s Teacher, Jill has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Shape, Men’s Journal, Good Housekeeping, Women’s Health, Yoga Journal, Self, and on the Today Show, Good Morning America and featured on the Oprah Winfrey Network. She has trained thousands of movement educators, clinicians, and manual therapists to incorporate her paradigm shifting self-care fitness programming into athletic and medical facility programs internationally.

Jill is a wife, mother of two children and a rescue dog, a dark chocolate lover and has recommitted to her first love, singing.

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Dr. Tom Walters is a board-certified orthopedic physical therapist that specializes in the treatment of pain and movement disorders. He is the founder of Rehab Science and dedicates his time to teaching people about human movement, pain, and how to most effectively recover from injury.
 
Tom's book (Rehab Science: How to Overcome Pain and Heal from Injury) will be released on May 30th, 2023. The book was written with the specific intention of teaching others how to treat pain and injuries on their own and contains comprehensive rehab programs for the 50 most common injuries and pain issues.

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Dr. Alhamza Al-Bayati is a neuroendovascular surgeon and vascular neurologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Stroke Institute and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. 

We discuss everything involved with stroke including how someone like my previous guest, Michael Johnson could suffer a stroke, despite being very healthy.

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Michael Johnson, a four-time Olympic track champion, suffered a stroke five years ago. Here, he talks about his biggest keys to stroke recovery success.

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Deepak Chopra, world-renowned spiritual teacher, public speaker and author, has dedicated his life to help others. At 76-years-old, Chopra continues to practice yoga, breathwork and meditation every day. His personal practice and modern interpretation of yoga philosophy is the basis for his new book “Living in the Light,” which will be released in January.

In his book, Chopra lays-out a 30-day program that unpacks the eight pillars of raja or royal yoga. Each principal is accompanied with exercises to put these theories into action. The book is co-authored by Chopra’s yoga teacher, Sarah Platt-Finger, who organizes a set of 50 yoga poses, their benefits and how to practice them.

Here, Chopra explains his purpose for writing this book and shares his personal thoughts and yoga routines.

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My guest on the podcast is Dr. Claudio Gil Araújo, dean of research and education at the Exercise Medicine Clinic, CLINIMEX, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Here, he unpacks a recent study which he is the principal investigator on, that shows having better balance is linked with a longer lifespan.  Specifically, that an inability to stand on one leg for 10 seconds in later life nearly doubles the risk of death from any cause within the next decade.

The findings were published in June by the British Journal of Sports Medicine. The researchers found that the proportion of deaths was nearly four times higher among those who couldn’t complete the balance test as compared to those who could.

During the study, researchers observed participants and their ability to complete a balance test for seven years. One in five participants failed to balance on one leg for 10 seconds at their initial screening. Over 50% of the patients between the ages of 71 and 75 were unable to complete the test compared to 5% from ages 51 to 55.

This association between being unable to balance and higher risk of death is consistent when other factors are considered, such as sex, age, BMI or health conditions including obesity, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol and coronary artery disease.

While the study did not examine cause and effect, it did expose a correlation between balance and lifespan.

Dr Arújo says, quote:  “People should test their balance like they check their blood pressure. In many situations in your daily life, you have to stand on one leg. To get into the car, to get up and down stairs. You’re balancing on one foot and then the other.”

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Congressman Ritchie Torres speaks out about his personal struggle with depression and how he has become an advocate for mental health.

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