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Jay Cardiello discusses everything fitness and health for Dads.
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Jay Cardiello is one of the most sought after and recognized fitness and wellness professionals in the world. Cardiello is an Exercise is Medicine Professional and strength coach to celebrities, radio talk show host at RadioMD/iHeart Radio, a regular contributor to leading media outlets, a published author, and an advisor to global brands.
Jay has worked with Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Seacrest, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Sofia Vergara, Julianne Hough, Kevin Love, Minka Kelly and teams in the MLB and NFL, among countless others. He is the former Fitness Editor for Shape, a regular contributor to Men’s Fitness, the Resident Celebrity Fitness Editor for both Star and OK! magazines, and a member of the Advisory Board for Muscle & Fitness. Jay has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Bloomberg TV, The Real Housewives of New York, MTV, CBS, as well as in Self Magazine, New York Times, Us Weekly, InStyle, TIME and Elle. - Length (mins) 10
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Each week, host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares with her listeners Nature's Secrets to a healthier body.
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Feeling overly tired? Get some tips on a better night's sleep.
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- Featured Speaker Kyrin Dunston, MD
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Dr. Kyrin Dunston is a Board Certified physician specializing in Functional Medicine. She formerly practiced Obstetrics & Gynecology and healed her body with Functional Medicine and now is passionate about utilizing this cutting edge care to help others heal their bodies at the causative level. Originally from New York City, she attended Bryn Mawr College and Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania and completed her residency training in OB/GYN at the Medical Center of Delaware in 1996. While practicing OB/GYN for 14 years in Savannah, GA, she was the Medical Director of Womancare Clinical Studies Group and the Primary Investigator on over 20 pharmaceutical trials, the medical director for Womancare OB/GYN, a large single specialty group and on the Merck Speakers Bureau.
Dr. Dunston became very unhealthy, ultimately weighing 243 pounds, and suffered with chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, hair loss and myriad other life interfering symptoms. Traditional medicine offered no answers or solutions. Ultimately, a patient gave her one of Suzanne Somers' books and she learned about Functional Medicine. Optimum health returned as she used the specialized testing and natural treatments of this progressive and effective type of medical care to regain her health and her life.
Dr. Dunston completed the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine fellowship in Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine in 2012. She retired from OB/GYN in 2011 and founded DrKyrin.com; a practice dedicated solely to assisting people achieve health and optimal wellness with Functional Medicine, and authored a book, Cracking the Bikini Code, that details her journey and explains the six key ingredients in any successful weight loss program. A certified Life Mastery Coach with Life SOULutions and creator of an innovative program that focuses on the spiritual aspects of weight loss, Dr. Dunston believes that spiritual tools are essential to obtaining and maintaining optimum health. She enjoys teaching and has spoken for the Age Management Medicine Group. -
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: June 5, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Kyrin Dunston
You’re listening to RadioMD. She’s a chiropractic, holistic physician, best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur and talk show host. She’s Dr. Susanne Bennett. It’s time now for Wellness For Life radio. Here’s Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: Are you tired of being tired? Not feeling your fabulous self? My next guest is an author and board certified physician specializing in functional medicine and she’s here to share tips on ending your fatigue. Let’s go get awake here, everyone for a new healthier you. Please welcome, Dr. Kyrin Dunston. Doc, the number one complaint I hear from my patients is they are tired all the time and the majority of them have some degree of adrenal fatigue. Do you find this to be true with your patients?
DR. KYRIN: Absolutely. It is the number one complaint. Everybody is tired and typically there are adrenal or cortisol issues so I whole heartedly agree with you.
DR. SUSANNE: Now, when you say cortisol, let’s talk about what is it about it that actually makes us tired?
DR. KYRIN: Cortisol is one of your master hormones. It is produced in the adrenal glands which is in your back on top of your kidneys. You cannot live without cortisol. It’s very important for regulating lots of things such as your sleep-wake cycle. It has a lot to do with your weight, your immune system function. It has a lot to do with your sex drive, too. So, in terms of your sleep-wake cycle cortisol is very important for getting you up in the morning – kind of like starting your car requires a lot of gas. You’ve got to have a lot of cortisol to get going in the morning. And then, your cortisol needs to level out throughout the day at a nice pace where it keeps you energized. Then it has to go down for you to be able to go to sleep. I find that most people have disruptions in the diurnal variation of their cortisol and that is one of the key components of fatigue.
DR. SUSANNE: There is no doubt with cortisol that a lot of people end up having either way not enough in the morning and too much at night. It is completely flip-flopped. And those individuals cannot sleep. When you cannot sleep, obviously, you are going to be tired in the morning. What do you find with your patients and what do you suggest on how to help with that sleeping schedule?
DR. KYRIN: Yes. You are absolutely right, Susanne. The adrenal will cause dysfunction in the cortisol in a varied pattern where you are high at night and low during the day and then you have a disruptive pattern. Some of the things I tell people to do are have a set bed time. Have no lights in the room. Keep it cool. In terms of really helping to balance out the cortisol if it’s become disruptive it’s usually because of too much stress – and we could have a whole conversation about what the adrenal considers stress – I actually recommend that they take some herbal products called adaptogens. Those are things like rhodiola and ashwagandha that help the adrenals if they are high, come down low and if they are low come up. So, t really helps people balance out and get better sleep and have more energy during the day.
DR. SUSANNE: That’s a great, great tip there. Adaptogens. You talk about cortisol and how we need to be sure we sleep better and optimize our sleep-wake cycle. What other factors do you find is the root cause of fatigue?
DR. KYRIN: One of the other huge factors, Susanne, is low thyroid. I have to say, that there is an epidemic of low thyroid. Oftentimes, just like when I first started on this journey andd I had been told my thyroid was functioning normally by my regular physician and then I discovered functional medicine and found out that my thyroid was actually functioning low, I find the same thing with my patients. They come to me they are tired and they may have other symptoms of low thyroid function. They may have hair loss, brittle nails, dry skin, constipation. These are some of the signs and symptoms. We do their thyroid labs. In functional medicine, we actually check eight different parameters in blood versus mainstream physicians will check one or two. Then, when we get the labs back we compare those values to optimally functioning people, we don’t compare them to the general population, like mainstream medicine. I would say about 80% of the people who come to me with fatigue that have been told that they don’t have a thyroid issue, I actually diagnose them with a thyroid issue. Low thyroid is key.
DR. SUSANNE: Can you heal the thyroid naturally?
DR. KYRIN: You can do lots of things to heal the thyroid. In functional medicine we are like toddlers, we are always asking - why. The thyroid is low, why is it low? And some of the common reasons are a deficiency of iodine, for instance. The majority of people have that. Or a deficiency of selenium, for instance. That is an important nutrient for the thyroid. Or toxicity and overabundance in things like fluoride from toothpaste, and chloride from water and bromide from base products. That will displace iodine on the thyroid molecule. We are always asking why, and then we go uncover the why. If you are iodine deficient, the next question is why are you iodine deficient? Typically, that could be poor intake or it could be a gut issue that they are not absorbing the iodine. So, we are always asking why. Yes, you can heal it.
DR. SUSANNE: That’s good to hear because a lot of people I find, when they come into my practice their numbers are all normal, just like you were saying. But then they have these – they are called subclinical hypothyroid where you just can’t tell just from their symptoms. Their clinic symptoms that they are just not right yet. Not enough and that optimal level is so important. In my practice I actually use a great deal of natural formulas just like you suggested. But also, you mentioned about the fluoride. In my book, The 7-Day Allergy Makeover Makeover, I talk all about in day 2 all about how water is so important. We drink too much tap water in this country. The majority of our cities across the U.S. actually fluoridate the water. I know in your book, The Bikini Code, you actually talk about detoxing and eliminating these toxins, right?
DR. KYRIN: Yes, detoxification is key to getting your energy back as well as weight loss. The book is about weight loss. However, what you will find is that really these six imbalances are key for all health issues. They just out picture differently in different people. Some people may have the same underlying causes but be tired. Some people may have the same underlying causes but have overweight, so it varies. But, yes, toxicity and detoxification is key. Filtering your water and removing things – these are called halides – bromine, chlorine and fluoride, removing heavy metals and things like that. Also eating organically. Removing the pesticides and the hormones from your foods. Using natural cleaning products, cosmetics. You want to decrease the consumption of toxins and then you also need to do something to increase your removal of the toxins in your detoxification pathways from the body. So, it’s key to take some of the supplements that I recommend to help you clear your liver and get those pathways open.
DR. SUSANNE: All of that you’re sharing, great information. What it will do is up level your energy level which then, of course, increases your metabolism and helps you get into that bikini code.
DR. KYRIN: Absolutely.
DR. SUSANNE: One last tip I’d like you to share with our listeners, just a couple of seconds. What is your favorite thing to do every day to boost your energy?
DR. KYRIN: Meditate. I love to meditate. I think it is so key for staying focused and centered. I find that my energy and my focus are tremendous when I regularly meditate.
DR. SUSANNE: I love that. Thanks so much. Great talking to you. You gave awesome information and your book, Cracking The Bikini Code. I am excited to read that myself and learn more about your story. I really appreciate you being here, Dr. Dunston. Thank you so much.
If you want to learn more about Dr. Dunston’s program, please visit TrueBalanceMD.com or you can go to my Wellness For Life radio show page on RadioMD and find all of the links there.
This is Dr. Susanne Bennett sharing my natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD. Until next time. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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Find out how one doctor cracked the "bikini code" and lost over 100 pounds.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1523wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Kyrin Dunston, MD
- Guest Website Dr. Kyrin
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Guest Bio
Dr. Kyrin Dunston is a Board Certified physician specializing in Functional Medicine. She formerly practiced Obstetrics & Gynecology and healed her body with Functional Medicine and now is passionate about utilizing this cutting edge care to help others heal their bodies at the causative level. Originally from New York City, she attended Bryn Mawr College and Jefferson Medical College in Pennsylvania and completed her residency training in OB/GYN at the Medical Center of Delaware in 1996. While practicing OB/GYN for 14 years in Savannah, GA, she was the Medical Director of Womancare Clinical Studies Group and the Primary Investigator on over 20 pharmaceutical trials, the medical director for Womancare OB/GYN, a large single specialty group and on the Merck Speakers Bureau.
Dr. Dunston became very unhealthy, ultimately weighing 243 pounds, and suffered with chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, hair loss and myriad other life interfering symptoms. Traditional medicine offered no answers or solutions. Ultimately, a patient gave her one of Suzanne Somers' books and she learned about Functional Medicine. Optimum health returned as she used the specialized testing and natural treatments of this progressive and effective type of medical care to regain her health and her life.
Dr. Dunston completed the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine fellowship in Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine in 2012. She retired from OB/GYN in 2011 and founded DrKyrin.com; a practice dedicated solely to assisting people achieve health and optimal wellness with Functional Medicine, and authored a book, Cracking the Bikini Code, that details her journey and explains the six key ingredients in any successful weight loss program. A certified Life Mastery Coach with Life SOULutions and creator of an innovative program that focuses on the spiritual aspects of weight loss, Dr. Dunston believes that spiritual tools are essential to obtaining and maintaining optimum health. She enjoys teaching and has spoken for the Age Management Medicine Group.
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: June 5, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Kyrin Dunston
It’s time to feel better with help from Dr. Susanne Bennett. Allergies, nutrition, ultimate wellness all discussed right here, right now. It’s Wellness For Life radio on RadioMD. Here’s your host, Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: My next guest is a board certified physician and is here to share with you her personal story. How she lost 100 pounds of weight and how she healed her body with functional medicine and that she actually cracked the bikini code. Welcome to the show, Dr. Kyrin Dunston.
DR. KYRIN: Thank you, Susanne. I’m so happy to be here.
DR. SUSANNE: Absolutely. So, can you share with us your personal story? I mean, 100 pounds and overcoming some of these amazing health issues that you had. Please tell us.
DR. KYRIN: Sure. I was an OB/GYN. I was very successful. I had a huge practice and from the outside probably looked like I had everything. I was in a gated community, had the house, the two cars and kids and was married. The only problem was I weighed 243 pounds. Despite all my success and despite that fact that I was board certified, everything that I did to try to figure out what the problem was and fix it did not work. I suffered with chronic fatigue, slept a lot; I had fibromyalgia pain all over my body. I had depression. My hair was falling out. It wasn’t just the weight, but it was all of these other symptoms, including fatigue. I really could not get anywhere, nor could my doctor. She would run tests and they would all come back normal. This went on for quite a long time and I had just resigned myself to the fact that I was going to be overweight and tired and in pain for the rest of my life. And then one of my patients, I call her my angel, gave me a book. The book was by Suzanne Somers. She said, “You need to read this book, Dr. Dunston. It’s going to help you. It has really helped me.” I said thank you and I took it home and I told my husband, “I’m not reading that book. It’s by Suzanne Somers, Chrissie on Three’s Company. What am I going to learn from her?” I didn’t read it for the longest time. Finally one day, I was going to be in bed on a Saturday all day anyway so I said let me pick it up and read it. So I did. Susanne, it was so well written and it wasn’t her opinion, it was her interviewing prominent scientists and doctors in this field I had never heard of called functional medicine. When I read it, I knew it was the truth. We all have a truth meter, right? We know when our friend brings that guy home, we know the first time we meet him he’s bad news. We know truth when we see it, or hear it, or feel it. As I read I realized that a lot of what I knew as a board certified physician was wrong and that there was this whole other field of medicine that used special tests that regular doctors didn’t use to get at imbalances in the body that were the underlying causes of the symptoms I was having. By the time I finished that book – and I read it all in that one day – I started reading it like it was the DaVinci Code, just turning the pages, I had something I hadn’t had in a long time. And that was hope. I had the hope that I could change and actually heal myself and be better. So, I made a decision that day to learn as much as I could about functional medicine and to use it on myself to see if it really worked. I always have to be the guinea pig. That is just what I did. So, I started doing the courses and learning the tests. Doing the tests on myself, I uncovered hormonal imbalances I had that I had no idea about. Toxicities, nutritional deficiencies, all kinds of things. Little by little – it took about two years – I lost 100 pounds and got my energy back, I looked probably 10 or 20 years younger. People would pass me in the mall and would walk right by me. They didn’t even know it was me. So, I really got my life back.
DR. SUSANNE: You know what I love about what you did and your experience – you were your own test case of the medicine that you chose to learn about and I’m sure you use that with your patients now. More importantly, you did it in a manner where you did it slowly. You didn’t do any crash diets. That means if you lost 100 pounds in two years, that’s just about a pound a week which is phenomenal. You did it at a rate that was consistent and constantly doing it little by little and you didn’t get discouraged. You used that hope, and I think that’s why you wrote this book, Cracking The Bikini Code: Secrets to Permanent Weight Loss Success. Right?
DR. KYRIN: Yes, after I learned -- and it probably took me two years because I was learning as I was doing. So, if I had had all the tools up front it wouldn’t have taken me that long. What I did was, I distilled down all the things that I learned into a program for my patients. Because, of course, they saw me go through this huge transformation and they wanted it, too. They started asking, “What are you doing? We want that. We want hormone testing. We want toxicity evaluation.” So, I started doing it with them and I developed a program that incorporated all the tools that I had learned about. People can do the weight loss and regain their energy in a much shorter period of time and that is what I kind of memorialized in the book.
DR. SUSANNE: What I see is that in your book you literally, the bikini code is a cute name, I love it because it is all about you getting into that bikini that you love. But bikini code actually stands for – it’s an acronym, right? Bikini code.
DR. KYRIN: Yes, it is. Each letter in bikini has to do with one of the six keys. For instance, the B is be honest. Getting healthy starts with being honest. What I find so often with people, especially when I practiced mainstream medicine is, they are so used to physicians not really addressing their core concerns and issues. Such as, “I’m tired. I can’t sleep.” They are used to being told, “Oh, it’s just because you are older. You are at that age. Your sex drive is going to go away.” I find that people really start not even being honest with their doctor, let alone themselves. They just rationalize and say, “Oh, this is normal.” Part of getting healthy is starting with being honest. I give a checklist in the book where people check all their symptoms that they’re having and it tells them what category those symptoms may fall under, indicating a problem. For instance, thyroid or gut issues. You can’t heal unless you get real. I like them to become honest. Because it’s only if I really know all of the myriad issues that you are having and in all their detail that I really can figure out and drill down into what is going on with you personally. Trust me, though, getting tired in the afternoon, difficulty sleeping, decreased sex drive, these are not normal, folks. These are not normal things of aging. There is no reason that at 50 or 60 or even 70 you can’t have the same energy, vitality, sex drive, sleep that you had when you were 20.
DR. SUSANNE: We all want to age gracefully and feel just as good as we did in our 20’s and our 30’s. As an OB/GYN, I’m assuming that you’ve changed your practice, right?
DR. KYRIN: Yes, actually I retired from OB/GYN in 2011. The results that I got with this with my patients, when I started doing it with them. I started my journey in 2008 and as I transformed, I started working with patients in my OB/GYN practice. The results were tremendous. I have delivered thousands of babies. I have done lots of surgeries. I have probably helped a lot of women. However, nothing has been more gratifying to me than to help a woman, or even men, who have lost their way in terms of their health, who have lost their lives. Because people know this -- that their health impacts the quality of their life. By helping bring a person back to life who really had lost themselves was my passion so I retired from that and I have done functional medicine full time since 2011.
DR. SUSANNE: It’s such a great inspirational story. But also, you are now helping thousands of people help themselves through this bikini code program. Alright. Gosh, thanks so much for sharing your personal story, Dr. Dunston. Everyone, go ahead Crack The Bikini Code: Six Secrets to Permanent Health, Permanent Weight Loss Success.
Alright. We’ll see you next time. This is Dr. Susanne, sharing natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD. Remember you can go to my Wellness For Life radio page on RadioMD for more information and you can go to TrueBalanceMD.com for her website. Until next time. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
If you're eating the right foods and exercising, yet still not losing weight, what are you missing?
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1523wl5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Caroline Cederquist, MD
- Guest Website BistroMD
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Guest Bio
Dr. Caroline Cederquist has taken a road few physicians have traveled. Caroline read her first statistics about obesity at a very young age. Growing up, the majority of Caroline's family was overweight. Through her knowledge of weight management, she is proof that you can manage your genetic predispositions through healthy lifestyle changes. She wanted a career where she could help people understand this too.
Beginning in 1991, she started her career in family practice. As it often happens with conventional medicine, she found herself prescribing round after round of medication, while knowing that if her patients could lose around 20-30 pounds that they wouldn’t need any medication at all. With the desire to stop treating patients in a way that didn’t address the root of her patients’ problems, she came to a personal conclusion that conventional medicine did not provide all of the tools she needed to help her patients achieve optimum health.
Intent on discovering the underlying causes of her patients most common issues, like high
cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, and weight gain, she began to envision Cederquist Medical Wellness Center. She decided to move to Naples, FL, with her family, and committed to taking an entirely different approach to impact her patients’ health. She wanted an approach that could reduce medications, decrease a variety of risk factors, and improve health and quality of life long-term, by using food as medicine, and working with patients on an individual basis.
Dr. Cederquist founded Cederquist Medical Wellness Center in 1997, with the primary aim of treating patients by treating the causes of their health issues. By providing the right dietary and lifestyle treatment program, she has helped patients normalize cholesterol levels without any medication. Patients who have tried everything to lose weight finally find the answers they need, and they begin to lose weight after years of failure. Patients who have diabetes are able to reduce or eliminate their medications. Most importantly, patients have been able to improve their health and well-being in life-transforming ways.
With a customized treatment program created specifically for each patient, Dr. Cederquist has helped thousands of people lose weight and achieve better health. It’s through her extensive work with patients that Caroline developed the nutritional foundation for bistroMD, focusing on the right balance of macronutrients in the diet: the protein, the right carbohydrates, healthy fats and fiber. -
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: June 5, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Caroline Cederquist, MD
You’re listening to RadioMD. She’s a chiropractic, holistic physician, best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur and talk show host. She’s Dr. Susanne Bennett. It’s time now for Wellness For Life radio. Here’s Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: If you are one of those people who eat all the right foods and exercise regularly but find that you are just unable to lose that excess fat and weight and are maybe even getting bigger despite all your efforts, my next guest is going to help you figure out what is really going on. She is a board certified weight loss physician and author of the MD Factor. Please welcome to the show Dr. Caroline Cedarquist.
Thanks for being here Dr. Caroline. What are some of these warning signs? Warning signs that we should look out for that indicates that you have a slow metabolism?
DR. CAROLINE: The main thing is when you are finding that you are developing weight in the abdominal area because many women will say, “Oh, I’ve always had some weight in my hips and thighs, but I’ve never had weight in the belly.” The fact that we wear clothing with a waist can be really helpful. Where it’s like, “Wait a minute, are these getting tight? Did I just wash them?” But really being able to watch that because it is the abdominal weight that seems to be the biggest trigger.
DR. SUSANNE: Gotcha. There is no doubt that a lot of us actually walk around, what I call, a skinny fat person. Their legs and arms are really nice and tone, because they do exercise. But their waist is getting bigger and they are literally gaining more fat replacing the muscle on their body. When you see that, that’s, I believe, a warning sign as well, isn’t it? Isn’t that an indicator --
DR. CAROLINE: Absolutely. No question. Where you carry your weight. What is interesting is when men gain weight, they gain it in the abdomen. Women tend to gain weight in the hips and thighs until menopause or perimenopause and then they start developing the abdominal weight. That is absolutely one of the things that we need to look out for-- “This might not be the same type of weight I always had”--and we, indeed, find it is sometimes harder to lose it.
DR. SUSANNE: Right. You’ve got a program on BistroMD.com where you actually service people all around because it is an on-line site where you actually sell pre-packaged foods for weight loss management.
DR. CAROLINE: Yes. What it is – over the years when I was working with patients, they would say, “This meal plan you put me on” – the adequate protein, because we want protein at breakfast, lunch and dinner. The breakfast, to be honest, is really challenging for many people. And we want protein at snacks. So, my patients would say, “This is a great program. I am finally losing weight. For the past five years, I haven’t been able to lose an ounce. But I am so busy and I don’t have time.” So, with BistroMD, we very much have a platform because we want the balanced meals that will correct this metabolic issue with adequate proteins, controlled carbohydrates, but a low fat diet and without chemicals. One of the things about frozen meals and convenience meals is typically they have more chemicals in it than food. I eat these meals. I need to feel that anyone eating this we can feel good about it. That it’s clean. There is minimal processing and it really helps when we have a busy lifestyle.
DR. SUSANNE: Oh, it sure does. America – we are all working, sometimes even two jobs and can’t get enough meals on our table. So, I totally get why it’s so important and the fact that you’ve been doing this for a while now. It’s lower in the chemicals and obviously healthy foods. That is fantastic. Now, how about cleanses? I want to talk a little bit about that because as a weight management physician, I have heard of a lot of those. I have actually been to them, not for myself but for my patients, checking out some of these services or centers where it is really low calorie and shakes and cleansing. Do you recommend that?
DR. CAROLINE: I don’t and I’m often asked about it. Typically, with a cleanse we are dealing with some sort of just juicing – and either juicing of vegetables or juicing with fruit – and I find that those are so low in protein. What ends up happening, even if you take healthy things like kale and things like that, you have to add some fruit to it to make it a little bit palatable. People can end up having a fairly significant carbohydrate or sugar load from that. There is no fiber with it, so it’s kind of in your blood stream right away. It can spike your sugar. I find that most of my patients have an issue with this blood sugar regulation or this metabolism dysfunction issue. I prefer, if somebody really wants to detox, that they have organic chicken or wild caught fish, good quality eggs and the vegetables. But get out the processed foods, get out the sugars, get out all the caffeine and alcohol. Because most of the time that we feel that we need to detox – we need to detox from that. We don’t need to detox from giving our bodies adequate protein. There is some evidence that even with 24 hours of being on a “fast” or juice fast – you are actually going to be in negative nitrogen balance meaning you are going to be breaking down muscle tissue and not having the building materials to bring it back up.
DR. SUSANNE: That is great information; particularly that you are saying that you don’t need to literally starve yourself to lose weight. That’s what I believe as well is we want to maintain the amount of food so that your metabolism doesn’t slow down. Right? Because if you reduce the calorie count, your body is going to naturally sync with it, reset and slow down your metabolism.
DR CAROLINE: Right.
DR SUSANNE: When you talk about the protein carbohydrate portions, and, of course, we want fat, but more importantly with carbohydrates, how many grams do you think people should have per day to be on that increased metabolic and rev it up?
DR. CAROLINE: Okay, if we’re talking about weight loss - and that is primarily what people are usually asking me about – we try to keep the carbohydrate intake to about 100 grams per day. I know that is a far-end concept, people don’t eat grams of food. they don’t even eat carbohydrates, they eat food. But for example a piece of bread might have 20 grams of carbohydrates that would be something that is higher. Some of the lower carbohydrate foods, like a cup of strawberries would be a lot less, like 10. Most of the vegetables are pretty low in carbohydrates as long as we’re not doing potatoes and corn and things like that. But it does definitely take us out of these higher carbohydrate foods – bagels and rice and pasta, which, per serving, could have about 50 grams.
DR. SUSANNE: Right, half a cup can literally shoot up those numbers. I totally agree on that low glycemic load foods. Also I find that when you are saying that you want to have those proteins regularly. If you don’t, your adrenals--we work so hard and those adrenals end up crashing. Do you find that to be true with all your patients, too?
DR. CAROLINE: What I find is most of our patients will feel so much better once they get on a structure of having some protein at breakfast, lunch and dinner, and also some carbohydrate and fat at those meals. So many people get into a habit where they don’t really eat all day. They might graze. They might be having these primarily high carbohydrate foods – chips and that – never any good quality food. Maybe their evening meal might not even be all that bad, but they haven’t given themselves what they need. So, they are tired and they go for the caffeine and all that other stuff. That, I think, is what I really think stresses the adrenals, when you give your body a small amount. We’re talking about 25 grams of protein – that’s like four ounces of chicken. That’s not an entire side of beef. Four ounces of chicken is a chicken breast. That’s what we’re wanting at lunch but we’re also wanting that at dinner. But how many people don’t even have that at lunch?
DR. SUSANNE: That’s right. That’s right. I know for a fact that a lot of my patients come in and they actually skip meals. They skip their breakfast, they just get their cup of coffee and they are out of there. Already you are starting the day on a deficit. Right?
DR. CAROLINE: Yes. Exactly.
DR SUSANNE: Is there one thing that you can share in just the last 30 seconds – what can we do right now to boost our metabolism?
DR. CAROLINE: What we can do is we can get the sugars out of the diet, the simple sugars, and start adding protein to your breakfast.
DR. SUSANNE: Love that. Alright everyone. Thanks so much, Dr. Cedarquist. I really appreciate you sharing this information with my listeners. To learn more about the MD Factor Diet go to BistroMD.com or as always you can go to my Wellness For Life radio show page on RadioMD.
This is Dr. Susanne Bennett, sharing natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness here on RadioMD. Until next time. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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Weight management tips... just for the ladies.
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- Featured Speaker Caroline Cederquist, MD
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Guest Bio
Dr. Caroline Cederquist has taken a road few physicians have traveled. Caroline read her first statistics about obesity at a very young age. Growing up, the majority of Caroline's family was overweight. Through her knowledge of weight management, she is proof that you can manage your genetic predispositions through healthy lifestyle changes. She wanted a career where she could help people understand this too.
Beginning in 1991, she started her career in family practice. As it often happens with conventional medicine, she found herself prescribing round after round of medication, while knowing that if her patients could lose around 20-30 pounds that they wouldn’t need any medication at all. With the desire to stop treating patients in a way that didn’t address the root of her patients’ problems, she came to a personal conclusion that conventional medicine did not provide all of the tools she needed to help her patients achieve optimum health.
Intent on discovering the underlying causes of her patients most common issues, like high
cholesterol, diabetes, high blood pressure, and weight gain, she began to envision Cederquist Medical Wellness Center. She decided to move to Naples, FL, with her family, and committed to taking an entirely different approach to impact her patients’ health. She wanted an approach that could reduce medications, decrease a variety of risk factors, and improve health and quality of life long-term, by using food as medicine, and working with patients on an individual basis.
Dr. Cederquist founded Cederquist Medical Wellness Center in 1997, with the primary aim of treating patients by treating the causes of their health issues. By providing the right dietary and lifestyle treatment program, she has helped patients normalize cholesterol levels without any medication. Patients who have tried everything to lose weight finally find the answers they need, and they begin to lose weight after years of failure. Patients who have diabetes are able to reduce or eliminate their medications. Most importantly, patients have been able to improve their health and well-being in life-transforming ways.
With a customized treatment program created specifically for each patient, Dr. Cederquist has helped thousands of people lose weight and achieve better health. It’s through her extensive work with patients that Caroline developed the nutritional foundation for bistroMD, focusing on the right balance of macronutrients in the diet: the protein, the right carbohydrates, healthy fats and fiber. -
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: June 5, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Caroline Cederquist, MD
You’re listening to RadioMD. She’s a chiropractic, holistic physician, best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur and talk show host. She’s Dr. Susanne Bennett. It’s time now for Wellness for Life radio. Here’s Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: Why is it that it seems as each year passes on another pound is gained, especially around the belly and hips? It really doesn’t matter, I don’t think, whether it is a woman or a man. I think this has just been the norm here. It’s known as we all grow older our metabolism changes and it slows down. But don’t you really want to know why and how to fix it? My next guest certainly knows the answers. She has shared her weight management expertise on several popular television shows, including Dr. Phil. She is here today to share with you how to lose weight no matter what your age. Please welcome the author of The MD Factor, Dr. Caroline Cederquist. Thanks for being here. Now, why is it that it’s so difficult for men and women, but particularly women, to lose weight as we get older?
DR. CAROLINE: What happens is that people develop what I call metabolism dysfunction. That’s what the MD in MD Factor stands for. Metabolism dysfunction is a metabolic condition that increases in almost all of us as we get older, but for women, it really takes an increase in intensity around the time of hormone change. So, perimenopause or menopause which, for women is going to be in the later 40’s or early 50’s. When this metabolism dysfunction sets in, part of that is the deposition of belly fat which then changes your metabolism to make it easier to gain more fat.
DR. SUSANNE: Got it. What is exactly going on, though, as we get older to that perimenopausal age, even the late 30’s, early 40’s – what is specifically going on hormonally that’s causing the weight to center around our waist and hips?
DR. CAROLINE: Yes. What actually is changing is we are having a change in our receptors on our cells in terms of how we move glucose or sugar into our cells. Sugar is the primary fuel for our body and as we get older, the ability for sugar to move easily and normally into our cells declines. They’ve actually found that if you had a normal weight 30 year old and a normal weight 60 year old and they eat the same meal, the 60 year old is going to have a higher glucose level and a higher insulin level to respond to that meal. So, it’s not necessarily that testosterone levels are plummeting or estrogen or one particular hormone is decreasing, but our body is changing in terms of our metabolism of carbohydrates. If we are aware of that, we can adjust our diet and activity and prevent the kind of ten pounds per decade that almost everyone experiences.
DR. SUSANNE: Ten pounds per decade that is so true –
DR. CAROLINE: A pound a year.
DR. SUSANNE: It’s amazing. That is a lot of weight when you think about it and, particularly, it’s actually fat weight, not muscle weight, everyone. It’s fat weight, right? In my practice I talk a lot about sarcopenia, Dr. Cederquist. Sarcopenia is age related muscle loss. When that happens, you have a lower ability to get that glucose into the cell. Isn’t that correct?
DR. CAROLINE: That is absolutely correct. What we used to think--When I was preparing for this book, we actually discussed sarcopenia because it was thought you have sarcopenia and then you develop this metabolism issue because you have more fat. In fact, the changes at the receptor level of the cells are because of this metabolism dysfunction an make it less easy for your body to make muscle and more likely to break it down. So, even if somebody is not overweight but they are just getting a little older, most people will find that their pants are getting tighter, the waist line is increasing. We want to keep in check our carbohydrate intake relative to our protein intake so that we can avoid that happening. That way, we can maintain our lean tissue and not put on more fat.
DR. SUSANNE: That totally makes sense. When I talk about sarcopenia with my patients, I also talk about the biggest factor with sarcopenia is that we lose muscle mass, particularly our mitochondrial muscle mass, which is the actual energy powerhouse that burns fat and produces energy.
DR. CAROLINE: Yes.
DR. SUSANNE: That is metabolic rate right there, isn’t it?
DR. CAROLINE: Absolutely. Yes, and what happens when this MD factor – metabolic dysfunction-- is present is, there is a higher load of free radicals that ends up damaging the mitochondria. So many times people will say, “Oh, I’m just getting older.” And we accept this because if we look at our society, almost all men and women, as they get older, just gain weight and they lose some height and their bellies become the largest part of their bodies. But people who remain active and people who watch their diet and particularly are willing to give up that, “I used to be able to eat certain things and I want to do that now” and realize that “I’m changing – my diet has to change”.
DR. SUSANNE: Right, as you’re saying in your book, you go into the metabolic issues and how to keep that metabolism going. Right?
DR. CAROLINE: Yes.
DR. SUSANNE: Keep it going with the foods that we eat. You also mentioned that our body slows down this ability in the receptors. In my book, we talk a lot about environmental toxins that end up blocking these receptors. Do you talk about that much in your book?
DR. CAROLINE: I didn’t actually go into that part of it in the book, but you are absolutely right. We are finding that more and more all the time, but to be honest, for many people it can be so overwhelming. BPA--it’s in everything and what I find is there is most certainly a role for that. We want to try to eat clean, less processed, drink out of glass, use stainless steel instead of plastic. Probably the biggest thing that can reverse this insulin resistance is losing fat, but maintaining your muscle mass by making sure that you get adequate lean protein all day long and by spreading it out throughout the day. Not a large amount at once and then none for the rest of the day.
DR. SUSANNE: I love what you are saying, spreading it out. So, when you are saying lean protein, I’m assuming you’re talking about all types of protein. With vegetarians, what should we advise them?
DR. CAROLINE: Yes, with the vegetarian diet you absolutely can get adequate protein. But it is something to keep in mind that a typical vegetarian meal, let’s say beans and rice, will have about four times the amount of carbohydrate as the protein because of how it’s found whereas something like a chicken breast will have almost no carbohydrates and all of the protein that you need. So, sometimes if a vegetarian is willing to do egg, and maybe some type of dairy, it helps. If we have vegetarians who absolutely can’t do that for theoretical reasons or any concerns, then we probably have to rely on some really good quality protein powders that are low carbohydrate and working with soy.
DR. SUSANNE: Got it. You talk about metabolism a lot. How much does it actually change from – let’s say you’re 25 years old to let’s say a 50 year old? I’m 53. So, how much does it change in the last half of my life?
DR. CAROLINE: The average woman will gain 15 to 30 pounds in the years of menopause and perimenopause. Sometimes it’s fast or it’s just slow going. But my patients who are 70 now will look back and say, “Oh, yeah. I’ve gained this 30 pounds starting in my 50’s.” It doesn’t have to happen all at once although sometimes it can and it can be frightening because a woman can gain 30 pounds over night almost it seems. Again, it doesn’t have to be. Unfortunately, for women as we go through hormone change, the rate at which our bodies burn calories with exercise actually declines. So if it’s “Well, look. I’m still running three days a week” we may need to increase that.
DR. SUSANNE: Got it. You gave such great information, Dr. Cedarquist. Everyone take a look at her book, The MD Factor, or go to BistroMD.com for more information and you can also to my Wellness For Life show page on RadioMD.
Thank you so much for joining us, Dr. Cedarquist. This is Dr. Susanne Bennett, sharing natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD. Until next time. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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Each week, host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares with her listeners Nature's Secrets to a healthier body. (Video Option)
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: May 29, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
It’s time to feel better with help from Dr. Susanne Bennett. Allergies, nutrition, ultimate wellness all discussed right here, right now. It’s wellness for life radio on RadioMD. Here is your host, Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: Our lives are so stressful these days. There is just not enough time for much self-nurturing behavior out there. Going to restorative yoga classes, sitting still, deep breathing for 30 minutes or chanting mantras may not be right for you. Maybe you need a little relaxation technique that is a bit more spontaneous. My workday is quite hectic but I still try to spend 20 minutes or so each day on some mind/body self-care. A quick reconnect with nature, the outdoors, can often do the trick for me. And it doesn’t cost a thing. A side benefit is getting just the right amount of my daily Vitamin D. Today on Nature Secrets, I’m going to share five simple but powerful strategies I have found that can really make a difference in relaxing your mind, body and spirit.
Number one – what is earthing? In my book, The 7 Day Allergy Make-Over in chapter seven, it’s all about cleaning up your stress and I talk about earthing. Something called Vitamin G. Vitamin G-- for grounding-- refers to the process of bringing the human body in direct contact with a negative electrical charge of the earth’s surface and its inherent energy. Our ancestors spend every moment of their lives barefoot and laying down and connecting to earth and nature. Our bodies adapted to receive electrical charge from the earth and it remains beneficial to our well-being and sense of belonging and place. Yes, many years ago we all walked around barefoot in soil, right? People were much more apt to physically connect to earth in the past. But nowadays, what do we do? We’re insulated from earth’s energy in cement buildings, paved streets, cars and definitely less open space in our neighborhoods. We walk around in plastic shoes, synthetic socks, fully clothed, wearing sunglasses and having sunscreen all over body. That can leave us disconnected and anxious. Why do we need this? Why does it matter? Researchers believe that connecting with natural energy and earth’s ground can actually help neutralize some of the free radicals in our body and also help us reduce our cortisol level, inflammation, stress and pain. That means we improve our sleep. So, how do we get more vitamin G? Spend 20-30 minutes walking barefoot on the ground, grass or beach. You will improve your stress level, relax your body and improve your overall health. You’re going to say to me, I know some of you will say, “I can’t get outside during my lunch hour. I can be indoors between 8am and 8pm.” There is no way that you are going to be able to go out. What do I do? Anytime I go to these big conferences I actually carry and take my river rocks. I actually put them on the ground in my hotel room and I walk on these river rocks. These are just natural stones with is obviously an earth element. It helps stimulate my acupuncture points under my feet. Also, it helps with these natural elements of earth. I would say just go to the garden store and you can get these river rocks and you can carry them when you travel.
Number two that will help you relax is essential oils. I love essential oils because these are high concentrated oils that you can put on your body and it will actually help relax your nervous system. When you breathe in these oils it goes in through the nose, up into the brain where there are receptors. Receptors in the limbic system that will calm your emotional pathways. There are also essential oils that can cause stimulating factors but today we are talking about relaxing. What is my favorite? It’s lavender scent. Lavender--it can help you distress your body and is really nice for sleeping, doing it before you got to sleep. What you want to do is make sure that if you do it directly with essential oils, you’re going to get organic. Often, some people are sensitive to the direct essential oils because they are super powerful. So, make sure that you can dilute it by using a carrier oil, such as almond or jojoba oil. Add just a few drops of that essential oil – you can rub it on your neck, or right on your temples. You can even use a diffuser and make your whole environment – What I do is, I actually have a little sachet next to my bed so I smell it before I go to sleep and it really helps me create a relaxing experience. You can also use it for massage. Take it to your massage therapist and add that extra little lavender to her oil. And again - remember you want to be sure that you use organic out there.
Number three way of naturally relaxing – well, forest bathing. Shinrin-yoku is the name given for the Japanese art of forest bathing. This is mindfulness walking through the woods that reconnect the individual with nature and can help you de-stress, elevate your mood and strengthen your immune system. This is one of my favorite things to do. What do you do? You go on a walk or you can sit within the forest and just really use your senses around. You can see the beautiful colors of the trees and the plants, smell and sounds that you consciously focus on elements within the forest setting. They have found in one study that the forest bathers had an increased number of natural killer cells. What are those? It’s really natural killer cells that can fight against viruses and even cancer cells. They thought that from the research that there is an actual chemical that comes out, an essential oil that is called phytoncide which is found in many forest trees. They think this is a natural way of fighting against bugs, but also can reduce cancer cells. It is also super relaxing so that you can reduce your cortisol level. Twenty minutes is all you need to rejuvenate your body and stimulate your immune system. But again, some people don’t have access to a forest. What do you do? What I say is go find a natural garden store. I have even gone to garden stores. You can find that or a garden museum. Here in Los Angeles, we have the Huntington Botanical Gardens – so beautiful. Another place you can go is just a basic park where you can take your child and sit on the grass and hang out under a tree. Hug that tree. That is a way of connecting to the earth’s energy and elements so that you can absorb some of that beauty and recognize that you are really just part of earth’s energy. You and the plants, and even the animals around can connect.
What’s next? Number four is oxygenate. The best way to relax is you need to do the four-six breathing rule. That’s my way of oxygenation. The more you oxygenation the less you feel stress. When you breathe too fast , you lose your oxygen, too, and you end up having anxiety. You increase anxiety, right? So, breathe four to six seconds – what I mean by that is inhale four seconds through the nose, exhale six seconds out through the nose. Do that that for ten minutes. You will see – maybe within two minutes – you’ll break the cycle of anxiety and panic and you’ll start to relax your body.
After all of this, what is my last tip – to relax your mind, body and spirit – to appreciate. We want to appreciate the moments that we have in our lives. A brief remembrance of love, compassion, and gratitude into your thoughts. Connect and be thankful of what you’ve got at this moment. Just doing that for a few minutes each day, give yourself a little relaxation, you’ll start to feel great from the inside out. All of these five different forms of meditation or relaxation you can use every single day. It doesn’t take long and within 20 minutes – even 10 minutes - I find that it works beautifully.
Until then, this is Dr. Susanne. Thank you so much for this opportunity to serve you. I’m here to make you feel awesome and be your best you can be. Until then, this is Dr. Susanne on RadioMD. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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If you're feeling stressed or full of anxiety, discover how meditation can ease your tension and improve your health.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1522wl5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Heather Hayward, CHt
- Guest Website Heather Hayward
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Guest Bio
For over thirty years, Heather Hayward has dedicated her career to the field of personal well-being. As a Results-Focused Personal Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, author and speaker, Heather successfully works with a diverse client population in one-on-one and group settings connecting them to their heart, producing sustainable change through Comfort, Humor and Inspiration.
Specializing in creating custom written guided meditations for actors to business owners, writers to lawyers, youth to mature clients, and everything in between, these recordings support them to quickly self-correct, reduce negative self-talk and stay committed to their positive changes. -
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: May 29, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Heather Hayward, CHt
You’re listening to Radio MD. She’s a chiropractic, holistic physician, best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur, and talk show host. She’s Dr. Suzanne Bennett. It’s time now for Wellness for Life Radio. Here’s Dr. Suzanne.
DR. SUZANNE: If you find yourself worrying all the time, full of anxiety, or you just have too much on your plate at the moment, my next guest is going to provide some great information on how you can alleviate this through the simple steps of guided meditation. Please welcome personal coach and clinical hypnotherapist, Heather Hayward. Now Heather, let’s jump right into what are some of the benefits people can experience through meditation. Now, physical benefits.
HEATHER: Well, I think one of the most important ones is a calmer mind. When you have a calmer mind, you have the ability to concentrate and not be so distracted. And I think that we’re training a whole generation to be distracted. So, good concentration is one of the absolute benefits, and to be able to stay in a conversation with someone that perhaps is difficult, and it allows you to kind of grow your ability to be with discomfort because you have more soothing qualities that you have been practicing in your meditation so that you have kind of reset your touchstone – where you start the day from – rather than waking up and already looping with the 50 things on your list. You have more clarity of perception.
One of the things, on a spiritual note, is more compassion for those around you. You do have much more compassion and a feeling of being more connected to people. Not only that, but you’ve got all the physical benefits: regulating lower blood pressure, reducing stress and anxiety, and it also boosts your immune system, which is quite amazing.
DR. SUZANNE: Well, I know for a fact that when I go through my meditations, often I do my meditations in nature because that’s really what just zeroes in on my presence and my body and just connecting to earth energy. Now, I also know that through guided meditations that you do, there are different brain waves that you’re trying to activate and really pinpoint to. Can you explain those different forms of brain waves that meditation will help you with?
HEATHER: Sure. So, when we’re in beta, we’re in our very analytical mind. Beta is very useful right now to be able to articulate information, but too much beta is when people have anxiety, worry, and then you go all the way to panic. And that’s when you think your mind is thinking you. So, meditation takes us from beta into alpha. Alpha is where – just to go back to what you just said, you know when you’re walking in nature, or you’re walking along the beach and you’ve brought up a certain topic and within 12 - 15 minutes of moving and just looking around, you are in a more open, receptive, and, my word, “flexible” state, where you can actually think, “Hmm. they might be right.” They’re usually not though, Dr. Suzanne. But it’s the ability to be flexible and more open; that’s the alpha. It is a trait of openness and it’s also where true personal change can happen, where you have the ability to perceive things differently. And so in meditation, which can be a walking meditation. I sound so anti-sitting even though all of my audios are about being in a quiet room, having headphones, and you can lie down, but you can also do these things walking. The theta brainwaves, which are slower than alpha, is really the deepest state of meditation. Delta is a whole different thing, but theta is where you want to go, and that is when your eyes are closed. It’s kind of where your body is asleep but your mind is awake. It’s that twilight, like right when you’re waking up or you’re going off to sleep? It’s that state. And imagine being able to recreate that state in about less than 6 minutes, for people who are really, really trained. And it helps with neuroplasticity, which is the brain’s ability to change. So, you can actually change the structure of the brain and, as you would say, cool the basal ganglia, which means cooling that knee jerk reaction to worry and anxiety so quick. And in today’s world, when we not only have our phones to manage and all our texts and social media, then we have our kids sometimes. And then, where I am, I’m helping my parents learn! It’s just a huge banquet of stimulus, and so, to be able to enter – at will – alpha and theta is very healing and it’s calming. So, you can ask me another question.
DR. SUZANNE: So, through you’re guided meditations, that’s how quickly we can get into those brain wave states. Now what I do is – when we were talking about that alpha and you were saying that I do it when I go out in the nature, that’s when I have all my little “ah ha” moments. I mean, it’s incredible when I’m in the ocean snorkeling, where I have some amazing, powerful inner voice, creative side of me comes out which really I love. And right after I get those “ah ha” moments, I’m always writing it down so that I don’t lose that information. Then, when I do use your guided meditations, I go into that theta state – which actually is when I’m laying down and doing it – so much, so deep that actually at times it actually goes into delta where it’s so slow I fall asleep. Your meditations are so powerful that they really can help with my sleep, and that was one of the biggest reasons why I wanted to use your guided meditations was that the sleep was so important to me so that I can rest and rejuvenate and restore and reverse the aging process. You’ve got some different forms of meditations, right?
HEATHER: So, I have the My Meditation, which is just totally simple, no fluff, guided of 5 minutes, a 10, a 15 and a 20. So that when you want to create a disciplined, structured, step-by-step, how long to breathe, what to say when you’re breathing, and then periods of silence, and Jonathan J. Beaudette – who is my composer, who made this music which is just a complete hammock for your mind. It doesn’t take you out. We have alpha waves and theta waves put into our music.
Then I have guided meditations, which take you on a whole different experience, which are for the people who really want to hear “So, now close your eyes, relax your shoulders, and go deeper and deeper into yourself.” It’s a way that you can completely retreat from the world without having to leave your home or even your car – as some of my business people have told me; they drive around with their pillow and their little eye pillow too. We have guided and then just straight meditation on my site. Jonathan Beaudette and I have created these.
DR. SUZANNE: We just have one more minute. You mentioned a little bit about being meditative in an active state. What can we do right now that can help us meditate at this moment during an active state?
HEATHER: Right now, everyone, on the inhalation to yourself say “I,” on the exhalation say “am,” on the inhalation say “breathing,” on the exhalation say “now.” And even as I talk, you can actually use your choice point – which right now is just “I am breathing now,” one word, one breath – even in that it soothes the autonomic nervous system and it just calms you down because you’ve woken up the left lobe which is the fact: “I am breathing now.” That’s one that I give my parents.
DR. SUZANNE: “I am breathing now.” So, simple, but so powerful. Heather, you have been fabulous. Love you. Heather, thank you so much for joining me. Everyone can get to her information at heatherhayward.com. Thanks for listening.
This is Dr. Suzanne on RadioMD. Until next time, stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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If you've thought of meditation as a bit intimidating or time consuming, here's your introduction to meditation done easy.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1522wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Heather Hayward, CHt
- Guest Website Heather Hayward
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Guest Bio
For over thirty years, Heather Hayward has dedicated her career to the field of personal well-being. As a Results-Focused Personal Coach, Clinical Hypnotherapist, author and speaker, Heather successfully works with a diverse client population in one-on-one and group settings connecting them to their heart, producing sustainable change through Comfort, Humor and Inspiration.
Specializing in creating custom written guided meditations for actors to business owners, writers to lawyers, youth to mature clients, and everything in between, these recordings support them to quickly self-correct, reduce negative self-talk and stay committed to their positive changes. -
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: May 29, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Heather Hayward, CHt
It’s time to feel better with help from Dr. Susanne Bennett. Allergies, nutrition, ultimate wellness all discussed right here, right now. It’s Wellness for Life Radio on RadioMD. Here’s your host Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: Have you been curious about meditation? You know, it’s that buzz word now and how it really works. Do you think you have to turn on the sounds of the ocean and sit on the floor while humming for 60 minutes and then you say to yourself with frustration, “Who has time for this? I have to go to work. I’ve got too much to do.” Now my next guest that I’m going to introduce to you has the power of meditation. She’s going to teach you the power of it and how you can get the benefits of it easier than you think. She is a personal coach, clinical hypnotherapist, author and speaker. Welcome to the show Heather Hayward.
HEATHER: Hi, Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: Hey, let’s get right to business. Now what’s the definition of meditation?
HEATHER: Bottom line it’s the ability to choose where you place your focus. It’s as simple as that.
DR. SUSANNE: That’s pretty easy but that’s not true because so many people will have like their brain is going a million miles an hour and it’s really difficult to focus on anything. So what you suggest?
HEATHER: So, you know, meditation is such the buzz word right and I prefer to think of a meditative state of mind so that you can be in a state of creation rather than reaction in your day to day ability to go about and be involved with your work, with your kids, with your husband, with your colleagues and one of the things is that you don’t have to close your eyes to actually create a meditative state of mind. When I say the ability to choose where you place your focus even as people are listening right now, they can notice how they’re listening. Are they listening through ear buds, are they holding a phone, are they listening on their radio, how’s their jaw, how are their shoulders, how’s their tummy, how are their hips and that creates presence and presence is what I want my clients and friends to be more of is, to have more presence in their day to day rather than as you and I know with all the information coming in it can just be a kaleidoscope where you don’t know actually what to take in, what to take out, what to copy, what to paste, what to print and that creates that anxiety. So, one of the things is to constantly just take a pause stop breathe and enter into just a presence of the moment. Yes, there are, I have a ton of you know audios and stuff to help guide you through the ear that, you know, you listen to a voice but it really is something that you can choose to place your attention right here on my voice coming through the air waves and just noticing where you are at in the moment and just getting a sense of where you’re at and then being able to delegate what you’re going to do with that information whether again to drop your shoulders, open your jaw and I’m basic. I’m that simple because I think if you start with the body, the mind will follow. Some meditation practices go mind, mind, mind and I’m one that came into mediation because of chronic anxiety and worry over 30 years ago and what I’ve found is the body is my sacred temple. The body is always still if I’m sitting. Do you know what I mean? Like right now, it’s still. My mind is racing like I want to tell Dr. Susanne everything I know but that’s not going to happen.
DR. SUSANNE: So, what it sounds to me which I really love your way of teaching meditation is that you don’t have to lay down, you don’t have to be in a place where you’re like in, you know, the beach by the ocean where there’s no one around. You actually can do a type of mediation that your present right there wherever you’re at. So, you don’t need anything, you just need yourself. So, this is what you teach and I know that I’ve used your tapes. I’ve used your audios. I have the holistic meditation audios that you’ve made for me which I cannot tell you how much all of my students--I have a lot of students with all my different programs like Flat Sexy Belly and Ultimate Wellness that is one of the favorite parts of the program is listening to your two morning and evening mediations. Now, you’ve got one that it doesn’t have to be 20 or even 10 minutes you can have a 5 minute meditation. Don’t you?
HEATHER: Yes and you know what? To create by just listening to my own clients and listening to “I don’t have the time” and “I don’t know how”. “I don’t have the time” and “I don’t know how” and it’s as simple as just following the breath in and out with your eyes open because so many of us are now in our cars or, I like to call it the “take five with me in the cubicle” because so many people are at the office and they can slip on their ear buds and act like they’re on a conference call or something. You know, it doesn’t have to be with incense and a candle and going ‘Om’, you know? R I prefer the ‘Ah’ mediation. Just that sense of ‘Ah’ and what you can…Yes? Go ahead.
DR. SUSANNE: Yes, what I want to ask you, though, as you’re talking about that I think about your pause you said that there are steps to go through to reset your body and reset your mind and you go through the pause an acronym for what?
HEATHER: Clients can have these epiphanies or, you know, you can have insight sort of at a workshop or something and then you get out into the world and you get triggered, you know, but someone not doing what you told them to do. So, we have PAUSE with my clients and “P” stands for perspective and you just ask yourself what happened? And you take the inventory from the left lobe, meaning you just state the facts. “My husband was late to dinner.” So, you just state the facts. “P”, perspective, what happened. Then “A” is to acknowledge how I felt. It made me feel frustrated. Acknowledge how you felt, acknowledge your body. My jaw is tight. My shoulders--I’m grabbing my shoulders. And then “U” is for unplug. So, unplugging can be that five minute meditation. If you have time, lay down and do it. If you don’t, walk and do it. You can even unplug for a certain amount of time. “You know what, honey? Let’s revisit this tomorrow morning.” So, unplugging is really unplugging and then after you’ve unplugged and you’ve reset where you feel calmer, “S” is for solution. So, what is this solution rather than keep defining the problem. So, what’s the solution? So, once you identify that, as you go to “E” which is engage and that is take an action even if the action is to delay? So, that’s my PAUSE and that just helps to reset your day as you have a meditative state or you have a good meditation or whatever and then something triggers, you just pause.
DR. SUSANNE: I love that. PAUSE is just for “Hey, let me just take a moment,” but it’s also to go through all of those different aspects so that we can say, “I’m ready to reset and be able to be more loving to myself and loving to whom I’m engaging with.” I absolutely love that. I wish we had more information. Let’s see, is it heatherhayward.com? Is that where we go?
HEATHER: Yes, it is.
DR. SUSANNE: Heatherhayward.com and you have this great mediation and it’s called My Meditation: A Daily Practice for Every Mood and you’ve got a five minute one, a 10 minute, 15 and 20 minute mediations there. It’s just everyone can really use all of this and anything else that you’d like to tell us in the last minute?
HEATHER: No, just thank you so much for having me and I adore you.
DR. SUSANNE: We have such a great time, Heather, and, I mean, I’ve sent you so many clients that really need your coaching skills as well as hypnotherapy and mediation. You’ve got an amazing practice here in the Pacific Palisades. I’m so happy for you. So, we’ve got to all go to heatherhayward.com, heatherhayward.com. Her mediation is called My Meditation: A Daily Practice for Every Mood.
Thank you so much, Heather, for being here and this is Dr. Susanne sharing Natural Strategies for Ultimate Health and Wellness right here on RadioMD. Until next time, stay well, everyone. - Length (mins) 10
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Your fury friends rely on you to keep them healthy. Would you know if they were sick?
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- Featured Speaker Al Plechner, DVM
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Guest Bio
AL Plechner, DVM, is a veterinarian with special interests in allergies, autoimmunity and cancer in animals and humans. He has shared his thoughts and research in books, medical journals, his website at drplechner.com, and with physicians that attended his lectures at the Broda Barnes MD Research Foundation.
Dr. Plechner created the first non-meat pet diets, which included developing the Nature's Recipe pet food line. The veterinary profession and pet food manufacturers followed his lead and began creating similar pet foods.
In 50 years of practice and clinical research, Dr. Plechner’s greatest achievement is his discovery of a hormonal imbalance, originating in the middle layer adrenal cortex, which initiates immune system irregularities that can cause a number of catastrophic diseases including; allergies, autoimmunity, cancer and AIDS, in both animals and humans. This hormonal imbalance is known as Atypical Cortisol Estrogen Imbalance Syndrome (ACEIS) or Plechner’s Syndrome, as the public calls it. He also developed the Plechner Protocol, a hormonal replacement therapy used to correct these deadly imbalances.
Dr. Plechner was vitally instrumental in ending the use of vacuum chambers for euthanasia. He also conceived and created Stonewood Meadows, a wildlife preserve in the Santa Monica Mountains, which offers governmental agencies an opportunity to heal and relocate captured and injured indigenous wildlife.
Officials of the Santa Monica Animal Shelter call him a "uniquely selfless individual, an animal lover in the truest sense," and he has received public praise from the U.S. Department of the Interior, the L.A. Department of Animal Control, the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal, the Committee for the Preservation of the Tule Elk, and the Society for the Conservation of the Big Horn Sheep. -
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: May 29, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Al Plechner, DVM
You’re listening to RadioMD. She’s a chiropractic, holistic physician, bestselling author, international speaker, entrepreneur and talk show host. She’s Dr. Susanne Bennett. It’s time now for Wellness for Life Radio. Here’s Dr. Susanne.
DR. SUSANNE: We all love our animal friends. How much they give us so much of that unconditional love and how easy it is to take care of them but sometimes we miss the early warning signs that they are sick and sometimes they even are tragically ill with major diseases. Joining me today is celebrity veterinarian, Dr. Alfred Plechner, who has spent over almost 50 years, I should say, researching disease in animals and he is here to share imperative information about how you can detect if your pet is sick and possibly help prevent future debilitating disease. Welcome, Dr. Plechner. Now, let’s start with my favorite topic, allergies. How can we tell that our pets have allergies?
DR. PLECHNER: Allergies can occur in different forms and different impact areas. I think the main thing to do is if you view your animal, you check your animal’s face, ears, eyes, skin, if there’s any rashes, if they’re any out breakings anything like this; if there’s excess itching and scratching--this is all a sign of an allergy. The interesting thing with food, Susanne, what happens is and you see this all the time, you’ll see a dog that has a food sensitivity lick its feet, chews on its paws, shakes his ears, has thickened ears, red inflamed ears and often the skin of the abdomen will be pink. The reason it shows up here, many years ago when I was up at UC Davis, I did a research project on animals and found that mast cells, as you know that contain histamines when they degranulate, they cause inflammation. Guess what they’re concentrated in the feet, the face, ears and the skin of the tummy and so this is where lesions will show up.
DR. SUSANNE: I remember. Yes. Yes, I remember, Al. Remember when my dog Lola, of course, you’ve been my veterinarian for a long time now. When Lola had a vaccine and it was actually the rabies vaccine, she ended up having a full blown just like what you said. She wouldn’t stop itching, her whole face got really red and her belly got really red and it was swollen and, my goodness, I was like, I was like, “Wow. What a huge and fast reaction.”
DR. PLECHNER: Oh yes. Fortunately, as you know I’m one, I’m not in favor of a whole bunch of vaccines and I’m also not in favor of giving a full vaccine to a 200 pound dog and the same amount to a 5 or 10 pound dog. Thankfully, we cut the amount down with her. Otherwise, her reaction would have, could have been more severe. Now, you can get a skin reaction which is kind of secondary or you can get a primary first line reaction which is vomiting and diarrhea. So, it can basically hit both of those areas. So, when you’re looking at your animals, you know you can look at the eyes. You can tell if they’re not feeling well. You can hear it excess bubbly sounds in their tummy. A lot of times they’ll have gas. A lot of times, they’ll look bloated. They just don’t feel well. They don’t want to eat and one of the indications, too, if there’s a problem with the food is believing our animals and knowing they’ve got a sixth sense and they know a lot more sometimes than we think they do or we think we know. They’ll go up to a food that doesn’t agree with them and they’re hungry and they’ll eat a little bit of it and then they’ll back away. Then, they’ll come back and they eat a little bit more and then they’ll back away and many times when you change the food to something that’s maybe more simple, with limited ingredients in it and all of the sudden they woof it down. You know it’s agreeing with them but this is something for people to think about, too. If the pet isn’t crazy about that food, maybe you ought to think about the food and also look, does your dog or cat get gas or does it vomit often? Does it vomit its food? Is it itching its ears, licking its feet? Because, you see, these chronic things that are the effects of being treated, the cause is not. Once you change the foods, all of the sudden you’ve gone to the cause of the allergy and that’s the end of it. Our profession believes anything that occurs literally over the back rear-end--is a flea allergy dermatitis even though often there are no fleas there. Something I found that was really, really interesting with an allergy like that particularly was, say a dog or cat is attractive to fleas, over the years I’ve found if they’re in a nutritional imbalance or they have elevated estrogen, adrenal estrogen, total estrogen, the fleas are attracted to them and I bumped into a neat paper about three months ago which is really interesting. It talked about rabbit fleas and it talked about rabbits when they go into heat and they have their high estrogen production from their ovaries. Guess what? These fleas congregate on the rabbit and procreate. They increase their population. So, there’s a reason why this happens. If you have one dog at home, one cat at home and you’ve got three, four others and one is inundated with fleas, it’s got to tell you that there’s probably a hormone antibody imbalance that can be corrected.
DR. SUSANNE: Wow. That’s very interesting because I know in adults in my practice I’ve found that, when women are higher in estrogen, if they’re taking birth control pills and during those times right before period when the cycle is really high and those estrogen and hormones, they are their weakest, that’s when they can get flu symptoms, they feel tired all the time. They have too much candida overgrowth. I mean, it’s exactly the same for animals. That’s phenomenal.
DR. PLECHNER: Well, you know what’s interesting, too, with things like idiopathic epilepsy, that comes from elevated estrogen and it causes inflammation of the endothelial cells that line the arteries in the body, particularly the cerebral arteries. Many times, with women that are estrogen dominant because of the adrenal estrogen, when they have their period and the ovarian estrogen kicks in, guess what? They have migraines and sometimes epileptic seizures and that’s in the literature but nobody really looks at it, you know?
DR. SUSANNE: Right. That’s the amazing connection that animals, you know, our little pets have very, very similar cycles. We are so much closer to them than we think. You know? There’s actually a condition that’s named after your name, the Plechner syndrome. It’s called ACEIS and can you just give a little brief description of what that is.
DR. PLECHNER: Yes. I had named that the Atypical Cortisol Estrogen Imbalance Syndrome and the public has called it the Plechner syndrome. I didn’t name it, trust me, after myself. What it realizes is that we’re seeing cortisol imbalances like you can’t believe. The fact that the cortisol is there, unless you compare to what it’s doing in the body, you don’t know if it’s active or not. So, what the syndrome measures is the cortisol; it measures total estrogen, which is ovarian or, in the animals, usually there’s no ovaries there anyway; and it measures then the thyroid because if the estrogen’s high, it’s going to bind the receptor sites for the thyroid. Also what it does is, it compares it to the immune system, you’re B cell production of antibodies, IGA, IGM and IGD. What’s not recognized in my field is that your hormones regulate your immune system and any part about doing this syndrome with the four hormones and the three immune cells is that you can find enough hormone in each patient individually to regulate their immune system so they’re normal and once their B cell is normal in its production, the T cell usually follows and when that happens then the candida goes away. I’ve done this with AIDS patients. That’s why it goes from HIV into AIDS. It’s the high estrogen that deregulates the T cell so your T lymphocyte is not protecting them against viruses. I mean, it’s all there it really is. It’s exciting and all they have to do is do a test that they seem to block it, just adding cortisol, total estrogen, CCE 34 and three immunoglobulins, why not add it?
DR. SUSANNE: Can you tell me that lab that’s in Texas that you use? You said that it was the only lab available to do this. What’s the lab called?
DR. PLECHNER: It’s called National Veterinary Diagnostic Services, NVDS and it can be really… and yes, he does a good. He’s actually done…You know, it’s funny he’s been involved with 29,000 of these tests.
DR. SUSANNE: Wow. So, he definitely has a lot of information.
DR. PLECHNER: Well Antek has bought out this A & E Laboratories and they have done 43,000 of my tests and Miles Laboratory, before that, which is human. So, I have been involved with pretty close to 90 to 100,000 of these blood tests.
DR. SUSANNE: Right. You’re definitely the expert in the endocrine issues of animals like that and I know that one of my pets in the past, little Elvis, had that too. Well, goodness, thanks so much for all of this enlightening information. You know everyone to learn more about how to keep your pets healthy go to drplechner.com, drplechner.com. There’s a world of information all about the estrogens, the phytoestrogens, how to take better care of your animals.
Until then this is Dr. Susanne sharing Natural Strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD. - Length (mins) 10
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