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RadioMD Presents: Healthy Talk | Original Air Date: April 27, 2015
Host: Mike Smith, MD
RadioMD. It's time to ask Dr. Mike. Do you have a question about your health? Dr. Mike can answer your questions. Just email AskDrMikeSmith@RadioMD.com or call now: 877-711-5211. The lines are open.
DR MIKE: So, this first one, this first question for this segment of Ask Dr. Mike—again, send me your questions. AskDrMikeSmith@RadioMD.com . All that was written here was this: I'm going to read it.
"Cancer Weekly wrote an article on artificial light and cancer risk."
Hey, that's all. That's all my listener wanted to write. That's fine. So, I'll go with it. So, I went to Cancer Weekly and I found the article. Technology's so awesome, right? This is from, again, Cancer Weekly, March 26, 2015:
Is Too Much Artificial Light at Night Making Us Sick?
That was the headline. This is the beginning paragraph:
Modern life, with its preponderance of inadequate exposure to natural light during the day and overexposure to artificial light at night is not conducive to the body's natural sleep/wake cycle.
So, right there. If research is showing that not enough natural light during the day and too much artificial light at night is disrupting healthy restorative sleep/wake cycles, you better believe that's making us sick. When you're ready to catch some Z's—it's time to go to bed—cortisol drops, melatonin goes up. As a matter of fact, cortisol and melatonin are opposite ends of the spectrum and they counter each other. So, when cortisol drops, melatonin naturally comes up, you go to sleep and you go through these sleep cycles. Very important. There's these different phases of sleep. It's the deep, the REM cycle, where another hormone is release called "growth hormone" and that's where we do a lot of cell repair and regeneration. As a matter of fact, when you're a child and you're actually growing, getting taller, gaining muscle and fat, growth hormone really is helping you grow. But, when you're an adult, it's not really about growth. It's more about repair and regeneration.
So, as adults, I like to call it the "repair and regeneration" hormone. Not growth hormone anymore. Because it's a little misleading. But, the point I want to make is, the healthy sleep/wake cycle is so important to how your body manages cortisol, melatonin and growth hormone and if you're doing anything, whatever it is, if you're doing anything—drinking a bunch of caffeine before you go to bed--Anything that disrupts those normal sleep phases, the normal sleep/wake cycle—if you do anything that disrupts that, that's going to cause some major problems in your body. You're not going to be able to repair and regenerate healthy tissues. That's not good.
So, right there, just based on this first paragraph right there from Cancer Weekly. I love it. But now, in this case, they're linking it more specifically to cancer. So, you know, one of their doctors from the University of Connecticut Health and Cancer Research Center, Dr. Richard Stephens says, "Light is affecting our physiology. We're learning that better lighting can reduce these physiological effects. By that, we mean dimmer and longer wavelengths in the evening and avoiding the bright blue of e-readers, tablets and smartphones."
Thank you, Dr. Stephens. Come on. I've been saying this for a while now. If you're a listener to Healthy Talk, you already know I am a big supporter of turning off all electronics, at least ones that you're holding within a foot or so of your face, 2 hours before you go to bed. The type of light that's coming off electronics is known as blue light and blue light is high energy light. It hits your retina. It stimulates. It causes eye issues, by the way.
But, beyond that, it's just a very stimulating type of light. If you're having insomnia problems or, even if you feel like you're going to sleep okay, but you're not waking up refreshed, you've got to get rid of the electronics. Thank you, Dr. Stephens. I like it when people agree with me.
He goes on to say:
Those devices emit enough blue light when used in the evening to suppress the sleep inducing hormone, melatonin.
Ah! There you go.
And disrupt the body's Circadian rhythm, the biological mechanism that enables restful sleep. I'm telling you, it doesn't matter what you do, whether it's an actual stimulant, light stimulant, like the blue light from an e-reader or a smart phone or whatever. If you do anything to disrupt the balance between cortisol, melatonin and growth hormone, you're not going to regenerate healthy tissue. That's pretty much why we sleep. It's the time when your body is able to repair things, okay? It knocks you out. It does the repairs that it needs to do. If you can't do that, you're going to have some damage to cells and tissues and within that damage is really the hallmark of, often, cancer development. That's kind of the connection they make here.
So, what do you do? Well, you put the smart phone down. I mean, honestly, I'm not a parent, but if I were, I think one of my rules in the house would be 2 hours before bed, the smart phones are off, the tablets are off, get off the computer. Now, if you're going to watch TV, that's probably okay because you don't sit right in front of the TV. If you do, back up! I mean, there are some simple things to do. Give your body the chance to begin to relax, calm down.
Oh! By the way, it's not just the blue light from the computer or the tablet or whatever you're looking at, sometimes it's the information itself that you're reading is stimulating. I remember a study not that long ago that showed that reading e-mails right before you went to bed caused some disruption in that cortisol, melatonin, growth hormone cascade stuff. Yes. Emails. Then, add that to the blue light you're looking at. Yes, we can't sleep in this country and if we can't sleep, we're not repairing cells and tissues. If we don't repair cells and tissues, that could increase the risk for abnormal cell growth, the dreaded scary "C" word. Cancer.
Interesting. Do I have time for another one? I think so. Real quick here.
This is from Deborah Benson:
"I've been on a very low carb, no sugar diet to try to lose 15 pounds. This hasn't worked as I feel my metabolism is at a standstill. I'm only 5 feet tall and weigh 125 pounds. I'm 64 years old and I've never weighted this much before. There are some other things there, but just for time sake, the basic issue that I'm pulling out of Deborah's question is, she needs help with metabolism. Remember, your weight on any given moment is determined by very simple equation. Weight = calories in – calories out.
Some of us have a calorie in issue—we eat too much. We have cravings and appetite control issues and there are supplements that work with that. But, some of us, we actually are dieting. I believe you, Deborah. So, the issue isn't really the calorie in part, it's the calorie out part. We're not burning enough. So, obviously, the exercise—she does say she does try to walk every day. Maybe try to pick that up a little bit. But, she may need a little boost there. A little metabolic boost. Burn some more calories at rest. So, I would start with, Deborah, seven keto-DHEA. It has some great research behind it. It's a true thermogenic nutrient. It causes your fat cells to burn the fat within them. Seven keto-DHEA. About 100mg a day will boost your metabolism. Start there. Things that you can add to that as you go along would be hot pepper extracts, capsaicin or cayenne also have shown to boost the thermogenic process which is really related to metabolism.
So, try to get some more exercise. Start with the seven keto-DHEA and, if need be, add some, let's say capsaicin extract. That would be my suggestion for boosting metabolism. Thanks for your question, Deborah.
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Healthy Talk | Original Air Date: April 27, 2015
Host: Michael Smith, MD
You're listening to Radio MD. It's time to ask Doctor Mike on Healthy talk. Call or e-mail to ask your questions now. E-mail AskDoctorMikeSmith@RadioMD.com or call 877 711 5211. The lines are open.
DR. MIKE: So, this is not a listener question, this is my question.
It is really okay to eat a food past its "sell by" date?
There are a couple of reasons that I'm bringing this up. So, there's a report on Foxnews.com. Let's see... The headline, "Government Says It's Okay to Eat Some Food 12 or 18 Months After It's "Sell By" Date". Plus, I get a lot of questions, not related to food, but to supplements. You know, "Is it okay to take my fish oil? Or, my curcumin?" or you know, whatever? "Past that date usually stamped on the bottom of the bottle." In terms of supplements, it pretty simple. It's not that it isn't safe, it just may not be as potent.
That's the thing with supplements, you know, that they sell by date insures the dose, the potency of that active ingredient and as you get further and further, beyond that sell by date, we just can't guarantee dose anymore. You know, everything breaks down and in this life. Everything breaks down, so the dose is not going to be what's stated on the label a month, two months, three months, four months down the line after they sell by date. So, with supplements is not as safety issue, you just don't get the best bang for your buck. What about food, though?
I found this really interesting, so, it says here "According to the US DA the average American tosses out 36 pounds of food a month". That's over 20% of available food that goes and eaten in this country. That's a lot. 36 Pounds. And it's becoming more and more of an issue, we all have to just admit this and deal with the reality of the fact that there are billions of people on this planet. What was it? Like by 2059, a billion people or something like this, some crazy number. Listen, food and water. They're going to start becoming like gold. And so, I think that I like this. I like that we're addressing this topic now and I like that government is getting on board here because we definitely do waste a lot of food. So, let's talk about what is sell by date actually is. You know again, in terms of supplements, it's really about potency and terms of food it's really more about freshness. And just because you go past the sell by date, it doesn't mean like some crazy, sinister reaction happens and now the food becomes poisonous or something.
Obviously, come on, it's just common sense, right? There are some foods? No. I mean, things had have a lot of fat, dairy and that kind of stuff, obviously, come on. That stuff, once that's done, you probably need to throw it out and get something new, but most other foods, packaged foods although, we want to be eating even less of that, but we don't in this country, unfortunately. Packaged food, frozen food, and stuff like that, it's really more about freshness issue than it is dangerous issue. And so, often the sell by date it's a way the manufacturer of that food can say "If you eat this, on this day or before, hey! I'll guarantee you that freshness! It's going to be awesome. The color's going to be right. It's going to taste good. After that, eh. Can't guarantee all that stuff." So, it's not a dangerous thing to eat the food. Using common sense. It's not dangerous thing to eat a food past the sell by date.
But, there's an app now. Did you know that? There's an app now that can help you to, I guess, decide whether or not you should throw the food out or not. It's an app called Food Keeper.
It's lunched earlier this month and it's part of joint effort between the USDA and the US Environmental Protection Agency to reduce food waste. The project US Food waste challenge focuses on education, recycling, connecting potential food donors to those in need as well as encouraging suppliers to properly label perishable food products like meat, poultry and egg products to cut down on unnecessary waste.
Apparently, the app has storage advice for foods, for more than 400 food and beverage products, baby food, included and all that, and you can also get cooking tips. Ultimately, what it's helping you to decide is when the certain type of food, when do you want to throw it out or when you can keep it and use it in different types of recipes.
So, it's giving you ideas of how to use maybe some food that's lost its freshness but you can use it in these types of recipes to bring back the flavoring and all that kind of stuff. This just came to me. I watched this on... If you're one of my listeners, you know that I can't cook. I've said that many times. I can eat, enjoy food. I'm half Greek, my mom's side is completely Greek. Everything is done around food. We'd spent hours at the dinner table, so I enjoy that.
So, I watched a Food Channel or any type of food show, I'm mesmerized by this. And so, I remember watching this. I think it was on the Food Channel--there was the show where the chefs compete in certain amount of time who can produce the best food from some starting ingredient, whatever it was, and one of them, one of the show's themes was leftovers. It was awesome! How to basically take something that you've might be prone to throw out but how to bring back the flavoring using spices and cooking techniques and I think that's a lot what this Foodkeeper app does.
It's going to help us to maybe utilize some of that food that we may have been throwing out to quickly. So, the sell by date is a freshness thing. It doesn't mean just because the food is passed that, minus the thing that have fat, like dairy fats and stuff like that. So, that's the exception but other types of food, packaged foods, the sell by date is just a freshness thing and you can actually use it, according to the government for 12 to 18 months after the sell by date. Okay?
And there's different---On this app, again, it's Foodkeeper app, they'll teach you how to use some of that food and bring back the freshness. So, I just thought I would kind of explain. I like this. I think this is awesome. We waste a lot of food in this country and it's going to become a bigger and bigger issue. And we know that we're throwing away the food, so how about figure out using the Foodkeeper app and bring back the freshness and take it to a homeless shelters or something? Maybe that's a great way... Or eat it yourself? Whatever. We don't need to be throwing out the food so quickly and far as the supplements go, you can still take the supplements past the sell by date but we just can't confirm that the dose will be the same. You're going to lose some of that potency.
Okay. Let's go on to another question. I got a couple minutes left. This came from a listener:
"Are there any new treatments for vertigo?"
So, what is vertigo? Vertigo is when you get kind a like dizzy spell, not passing out, that's different. That's called syncope. Vertigo is a kind of inner-ear thing and you just get off balance. You can have waves of like getting off balance and stuff, a little dizzy, hard to see something because it's moving, and that kind of stuff. And that's all vertigo. And, there are different degrees of it. Some people have vertigo really, really bad, and then there are other people that just kind deal with it off and on. It's normal to get a little attack of vertigo on occasion but usually when people ask me this kind of question, this is somebody who's dealing with this a lot.
So, I think the first thing you're going to do when you do have vertigo, is you're going to make sure it's not something more serious. Right? You have to rule out things like orthostatic hypotension which is where you stand up and you're not able to maintain the fluid and you get kind of dizzy.
You've got to make sure you're not actually passing out because of the heart issue or something like that. So, your doctor has to rule those things out. And if there's ringing in the ear, that's Meniere's disease, that's a form of vertigo. What's really good for that is aldosterone and glutathione. So, if you have Meniere's Disease consider taking aldosterone, which is a hormone, and glutathione. Now, if you just have old-fashioned regular vertigo, it's definitely causing some issues, making hard to function: B6, ginkgo, CoQ 10 and ginger. Those four together had been shown to reduce the symptoms of vertigo. B6, gingko, CoQ 10 and ginger.
This is Healthy talk on Radio MD. I'm Dr. Mike. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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What are some of the benefits from tracking the food you eat?
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- Audio File healthy_talk/1518ht1c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Joanna Strober, CEO & Co-Founder of Kurbo Health
- Guest Website Kurbo
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Guest Bio
A married mother of three, Joanna Strober founded Kurbo in 2013 after encountering firsthand the issues associated with her son's struggle to lose weight. It was Joanna's frustration in finding safe, effective, convenient and affordable solutions to her family's situation that led her to create Kurbo, which is based on the program from Stanford's renowned pediatric obesity center.
Prior to starting Kurbo, Joanna was the coauthor of a best-selling book, Getting to 50/50, which is about balancing motherhood and career. This led to many speaking engagements and media appearances to talk about changing roles and strategies for balancing family and career. Earlier in her career, Joanna served as a managing director at an investment management firm where she ran a private equity fund. She also served as a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where she made consumer internet investments and acted as a strategic advisor to such successful companies as BabyCenter, Blue Nile, eToys and Gloss.com, among others. -
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RadioMD Presents: Healthy Talk | Original Air Date: April 27, 2015
Host: Michael Smith, MD
Healthy Talk with Doctor Michael Smith MD and now, here's the country doctor with a city education, Doctor Mike.
DR MIKE: Is there a benefit tracking our weight loss effort? I'm pretty sure, my guest Joanna Strober, the CEO and co-founder of Kurbo Health and the creator of the Kurbo app would say definitely so. I think she's even had some success with it in own personal life and I'm sure based on some feedback she's getting with this app. You can check out and learn more about at Kurbo.com
Joanna, welcome to Healthy Talk.
JOANNA: Thank you. It's nice to be here.
DR MIKE: Before we get into some of the benefits and some of the success that you've had with this app, I have a couple of questions. The first one , I want to back up for sec. You mentioned the traffic light diet. Was that what it was?
JOANNA: Yes.
DR MIKE: You've said it was developed in 1970's. Because this is what the app is based on, right? So, can you explain that maybe in just a little more detail? What that really is?
JOANNA: Yes. So, the idea is to look at food and divide it into categories. And we have fruits and vegetables which are green; we have meat and cheese and whole wheat bread which are yellow, and then you have the reds. And the reds are, essentially, foods with added sugar, white bread and carbs and deep fried foods such as french fries. And our goal, and the goal of the traffic light diet, is to get people to pay more attention to what's in their food, which category their food falls into and to get them to reduce their red light foods and then increase their green light foods. And if you do that, you become healthier and you end up losing weight.
DR MIKE: Right. I think it's an important point to make again, Joanna, that your focus isn't on counting calories with teenagers, because we know there can be some issues. Instead, it's really about eating healthy which by, doing this, hopefully, it will take, you know, this habits, right? That they've learned...
JOANNA: That's right. It's all about forming new habits. But part of it is education. The reality is that people don't know how much sugar there is in, for example, juice. Right? So, they're teaching them that juice is a red. And the juice has a same number of calories as Coke. Once they understand that, then they can figure out "Oh, that's easy one for me to eliminate."
DR MIKE: Right. Let me ask you this. Let's talk about...Okay. So, when it comes to tracking this kind of information, technology is awesome, right? It's allowing you, for the first time ever, we're really able to look at our lifestyle and what's going on. Do you think, even just for adults, do you think that thinks like Go Fit and the Kurbo app, do you really believe that this is gonna bring us to a new era of health, by using these types of apps and technologies?
JOANNA: So, it just a tool. I'm not gonna... The app on its own is a tool, right? But, you can do a lot, not just with the tracking part, but with the reminders and the suggestions. Once you see that what it is that you're doing it's much easier to make changes. And so, once you know what you're eating and you know how often you're exercising, you can look at that and go "Okay, well, what changes can I make?" and if you don't track it, it's hard to change it. And so, that's why the tracking can be so powerful and, historically, people have tracked on a piece of paper which is just difficult to do and it is just far easier to track using your cell phone.
DR MIKE: What about doctors? At the first segment, we talked about your experience with the pediatrician and "your kid is fine". You felt your kid was over-weight. I mean, do you find doctors open to this type of app? Are they buying into it? Are they suggesting it to other patients?
JOANNA: You know, we actually have pediatricians all over the country who are recommending it to the kids who come meet with them. The pediatricians love having a solution, right? Now your child goes in and the child has a high BMI, the pediatrician doesn't have to tell you to go home and try to figure it out. They can say "Oh, wow, why don't you try Kurbo? It might be a program that could work for you?" So, we're getting great feedback from pediatricians.
DR MIKE: What about your own child? If you don't mind, can we use... Is it a boy?
JOANNA: Yes.
DR MIKE: Can we use him as an example? So, what kind of success did you see when he started tracking this stuff? What kind of success did you see, did he become like more empowered, more knowledgeable. I mean tell us that experience there.
JOANNA: So, we at home didn't have Coke and we didn't go to McDonald's, so I thought that we are pretty healthy. What we saw when you start tracking, was that he was doing a lot of smoothies which are, you know... When you break down the fiber and you drink a lot of fruit, it becomes a lot of juice which is a lot of sugar. We found that we he came home after school, because you see, on the app what time you come home and what time you're eating, so we could see that after school he was having a lot of carbs; he was having snacks that were full of carbs, which were also something that was causing problems. And when you see, what we were able to see was what he was eating, we were able to make deals on what changes we could make and I could see, simply what I needed to change.
And I needed to change and he needed to change, right? We needed to come up with different after school snacks; we had to come up with different breakfasts; we came up with different things but based on how many red foods he was eating. And it was pretty great. I mean, as he reduced his red lights, and he changed from white bread to wheat bread and made other changes like that, he ended up, his BMI went form 96 percentile to the 82 percentile. And he lost about 8 pounds.
DR MIKE: Wow, awesome. Congratulations!
JOANNA: And we have a lot kids on our program who are doing that. Over 85% of the kids they're losing weight and it's a healthy weight loss and it's not a crash diet. Right? They lose between a half of pound and a pound a week and the great thing is that we've doing this for just a about a year and we're seeing that they're maintain that weight loss.
DR MIKE: So, Joanna, as a physician, here's kind my take on all this. I fall into that category where, of course, I tell patients and customers I work with at Life Extension that eat less, exercise. I mean, that's still good information .
JOANNA: Yes.
DR MIKE: Watch the sugar, all that kind of stuff. All of that is good. The education is good, but what this app is really doing and this seems to be the ultimate benefit with this kind of tracking information, it reinforces all of that.
JOANNA: That's right.
DR MIKE: But it brings it into reality. It's not some surreal thing. You actually start to see, right? All the sugar you're eating in all this different products.
JOANNA: The kids see all those facts. They reduce their reds; they lose weight. It's a very direct correlation. And when you see that on the app, when you see your little chart and you see your weight go down as your red lights go down, it's very empowering. It's also very empowering, I was going to say, it's not your mom telling you what to eat.
DR MIKE: Do you see...Which is probably very important for a teenager, right?
JOANNA: Yes.
DR MIKE: Do you see this having application outside of just weight? What about diabetes, for instance?
JOANNA: Yes, we're absolutely working with a number of pre-diabetic kids. And, we work with a number of kids who have ADHD, who need some help learning better habits as well. It really is a behavior modification program that can help for a lot of different things, we're just starting with weight.
DR MIKE: Now, if my listeners go at Kurbo.com, right?
JOANNA: They can go to Kurbo.com, that's correct, or they can also go to the app store and just download the app directly and test it before they decide whether they want to try coaching and it goes on the Android and iPhone.
DR MIKE: And at the website Kurbo.com, is there more information about it; some of the success stories? Can they read about some of the real experiences that people had?
JOANNA: Yes, we have some amazing kids who are on that site. The kids love sending in their before and after pictures and showing us how proud they are on themselves. It's adorable, they really feel good about themselves after it's worked and they like showing it off.
DR MIKE: That's great. How much does it cost, the app?
JOANNA: The app is free and then the coaching is $180 for 3 months.
DR MIKE: Not so bad. So the app is free, coaching... But you don't have to... I mean, that coaching part is optional, but you obviously feel like the coach, maybe the kid is more prone to follow the coach than the parent. Right?
JOANNA: That's exactly. For a child who just wants to learn to eat healthier, the app works free. If you really want loss weight and you have a weight problem...
DR MIKE: We're going to have to leave it there. We're going to have to leave it there and the website is Kur4bo.com and the Kurbo app. Thanks for coming on.
This is Healthy talk on Radio MD. I'm Dr. Mike.
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- Host Mike Smith, MD
Instead of counting calories, this app encourages children to make lifelong healthy eating and exercise habits.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File healthy_talk/1518ht1b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Joanna Strober, CEO & Co-Founder of Kurbo Health
- Guest Website Kurbo
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Guest Bio
A married mother of three, Joanna Strober founded Kurbo in 2013 after encountering firsthand the issues associated with her son's struggle to lose weight. It was Joanna's frustration in finding safe, effective, convenient and affordable solutions to her family's situation that led her to create Kurbo, which is based on the program from Stanford's renowned pediatric obesity center.
Prior to starting Kurbo, Joanna was the coauthor of a best-selling book, Getting to 50/50, which is about balancing motherhood and career. This led to many speaking engagements and media appearances to talk about changing roles and strategies for balancing family and career. Earlier in her career, Joanna served as a managing director at an investment management firm where she ran a private equity fund. She also served as a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, where she made consumer internet investments and acted as a strategic advisor to such successful companies as BabyCenter, Blue Nile, eToys and Gloss.com, among others. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Mike Smith, MD
A review of omegas nine, seven, six, and three.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File healthy_talk/1518ht1a.mp3
- Organization Life Extension
- Guest Website Healthy Talk MD
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Healthy Talk | Original Air Date: April 27, 2015
Host: Michael Smith, MD
Healthy talk with Doctor Michael Smith MD and now, here's the country doctor with a city education, Dr. Mike.
DR MIKE: So, I was in Brooklyn, New York, recently and I was visiting some of the wholesalers that work with the Life Extension foundation and I have the privilege to traveling through the country and doing lectures and training sessions, you know, talking about the latest science and up and coming products. It's really a lot of fun and in this time of the year Brooklyn, it's New York. Everybody start to get out. The weather is getting...Well, they say it's getting warmer. For me, coming from south Florida it was cold, but for them it warmer. Things was starting to bloom and anyway so I was in one of the stores, and I was talking to store owner, really nice guy, and we just happened to be in the aisle where has all of his oil base products. So, like the Omega 3, flax seed, coconut oil, all that. And I noticed one of the products on the shelf. It's a popular product and it contains the 3 major Omega fats: Omega 9, Omega 6 and Omega 3.
And I asked him "How popular is that product?"
and he said it's one of his bestsellers which I found interesting, because, personally, and I'm going to explain why, but I don't think you need all that.
And I asked him, "Why do you sell that? I mean, what do you talk about with costumers when it comes to this product? What is it that you say?" And he said something interesting. He said that he positions this product as kind of like the most comprehensive, you know Omega product out there, because you get all three--9, 6 and Omega 3. You know, all in one.
And, you know, at that point I let it go, but I just thought that it would be a nice topic for us to discuss here on Healthy Talk about what exactly do you need when it comes to polyunsaturated fats? We know, these types of fats are incredibly important –the Omega fats. They are involved in a very complex, you know, metabolic processes that manage everything from inflammation, immune response, cell-repair, cell-regeneration. I mean, it's incredibly important.
But the question becomes, what do you really need when it comes to supplementation? Do you really need that what he called comprehensive product, the 9, 6 and 3? And it's my opinion that you don't. Let me explain why.
The first of all, the Omega 9 fat is sometimes known as the "parent Omega fat". It's considered "the parent" because it converts into, inside your body, naturally, into the Omega 6 and Omega 3. Omega 9, in and of itself, it does have some very important rolls in the body, but you don't really need to eat it or supplement it because your body can make it. As a matter of fact, it's not essential. Remember, that word "essential" means that my body can't, so it's essential that i get it from my diet. Well, Omega 9 is not essential. Your body can produce Omega 9 from saturated fats. And it does that pretty well. And then, from there the Omega 9 by itself, although it has some important roles in the body, it doesn't last very long because it quickly is converted into the, in my opinion, more important Omega 6 and Omega 3. And so, when it comes to supplementing with it, here's the problem. So, based on what I just said, you might think, "Well, okay, that might sound a really important, maybe I do need a supplement." Well, what we've learned is that when it comes to a supplementing with Omega 9, just because you're increasing the amount in your body doesn't necessarily mean that you make those conversions better. As a matter of fact, what we have found when you supplement with a lot of Omega 9, some of it will turn into the Omega 6 and 3, which is good, but a lot of it doesn't and it ends up, actually, turning, in some cases, into saturated fat. So, it may not be a great tradeoff for you and it's just probably not necessary.
Now, let's move on to Omega 6. That was the next Omega to in this product. The label actually says 9, 6, 3. So, the Omega 6, what are these? Well, Omega 6 is very important in the inflammatory process. As a matter of fact, the Omega 6 fat acids which are essential, you don't get them; you don't make them in your body.
You get them from your diet, the main one is linoleic acid, and it converts into all this types of immune proteins called cytokines and leukotrienes and these are important compounds that allow immune cells to coordinate an inflammatory and immune response, obviously very important.
But, they are linked to that inflammatory cascade, so if you are taking in a lot of Omega 6, which by the way, are found in lot of animal products, lots of the animal meat that we eat, especially, if you're eating, for instance, beef, that's grain-feed, which is what most beef is today, unfortunately. That's a lot of Omega 6, and you really are driving that pro-inflammatory cascade, which is important to a point, right? To a point.
Based on the way we eat in this country, the standard American diet, we're getting plenty of Omega 6, we really don't need to be supplementing with it, we don't need to be adding it to the supplements. I think we're overdoing it.
Which than brings us to Omega 3, which is also an essential fatty acid. The primary Omega 3 is called alpha linoleic acid. From this medium-sized alpha linoleic acid you will produce the important longer chain of Omega 3's, EPA AND DHA. This is the one you need to supplement because this is the one, the Omega 3's, that we're not getting enough from our diet. Mainly found in [inaudible 6:33] but ultimately in cold water fish, for instance. We don't, you know, the standard American diet is heavier to the land animals, not the ocean animals.
So, I, personally, again, there's nothing wrong with that what he called "a very comprehensive Omega product 9, 6 and 3", I just think it's not necessary, I think what we need to focus is on Omega 3 and there is one little aside to this and I do want to share with you.
There should be a balance between the essential fatty acids, the 6 and 3. Anytime that you are required to go out into the nature, through a food or supplementation and bring in something, what we call "essential nutrients", you always have to be conscientious of how you're doing that, and the amount that you're bringing in, because you want to keep the body in balance and we know that if you eat the standard American diet, which is about 80% meat/20% plant based, which, that should be completely reversed by the way, you're bringing tons of Omega 6 and very little Omega 3.
The average American eats about a ratio 6:3 of about 20:1. That's too much. A 6:3 ratio of 20:1 is very pro inflammatory and we already know, if you've listened to my show, chronic inflammation? It's the common denominator of all age-related disorders. So, if you're eating the standard American diet, you're bringing a way too many Omega 6, you probably have a high 6:3 ratio and you're just promoting inflammation which is important to an extent, but we're just bringing in to many of this pre-curses to this inflammatory cascade, which is really why I think in this country specifically, I think we really just need to focus on the Omega 3.
I don't think you need the 9, I don't think you need the 6. What we really need to bring more through diet, definitely, and also through supplementation are the Omega 3. Probably for most people at least a gram a day of Omega 3 through supplementation, maybe two? Depending on how much vegetables you eat and fish you eat, maybe even up to four grams a day? So, yeah, and that's going to improve that ratio, it's gonna bring that ratio of 6:3 down which we want, and ideal ratio of Omega 6 and Omega 3 is at least 4:1 or less, probably in a perfect balance it should be 1:1.
When I saw that product, I know it's a popular product, but i just don't think it's all that necessary to get the 9's and 6's. So my take home message is to supplement with Omega fats the polyunsaturated, very important, but focus on the Omega 3's, EPA and DHA. At least a gram a day.
This is Healthy talk on Radio MD. I'm Dr. Mike. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Mike Smith, MD
In a country overloaded with food, did you know that 49 million individuals in America face hunger every day?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File eat_right/1518nd1a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Lauri Wright, PhD, RDN, LD
- Organization Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Guest Bio
Lauri Wright is an assistant professor in Public Health at the University of South Florida. She teaches nutrition courses on Community Nutrition, Food and Culture and Lifespan Nutrition. Through her research, she works with food insecure individuals, obesity-prevention in children and the nutritional needs of people with AIDS. Wright has consulted with seniors in the Meals on Wheels program, providing nutrition education and counseling. She formerly worked as a clinical dietitian for the Veterans Administration, providing medical nutrition therapy for vets with chronic disease. Wright was the President of the Florida Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2013 and currently serves on the board of the Accreditation Council for Dietetics Education. Wright earned an undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University, a master's degree from Case Western Reserve University and a doctorate from University of South Florida.
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Melanie Cole (Host): Forty nine million individuals in America face hunger. That translates to one out of seven adults and one out of five children that don’t have enough food on a regular basis. My guest is Dr. Lauri Wright. She’s an assistant professor in public health at the University of South Florida. Welcome to the show, Dr. Wright. Tell us a little bit about what’s going on in this country that so such a wealth of food. Our grocery stores are packed. Our corner groceries and 7-Elevens are packed with food. Why is there hunger in this country?
Dr. Lauri Wright (Guest): Melanie, this is really an underrated problem that exists in our community. We traditionally think of hunger as the starving children in another country. Hunger is here in our backdoor. On average, about one in five children go to school every day experiencing some form of food insecurity or hunger. The word in and out, that there is a new face to food insecurity.
Melanie: If we think of those kids, as you say in Africa, what’s going on with our children? With all these food around, it’s shameful that we should have anyone go hungry in this country.
Dr. Wright: It is a shame, and it is a problem that can be fixed. It isn’t a lack of food. It’s just a distribution of food that is unequal. There are many individuals, and especially since the economic downturn in 2007, we just haven’t recovered from that ability to provide healthy and adequate food to everyone in our country.
Melanie: What about the school systems and the school lunches and the breakfasts? Are these waning off? Are they still going strong? Are these children able to go to school and have breakfast and lunch and then who knows what happens once they get home?
Dr. Wright: That’s exactly the problem. If the school programs are going strong, they’re a source of healthy, hot nutrition, but unfortunately, it often is the only meal or two meals that they will receive all day. When they go home, they and their family don’t have enough to eat or even anything to eat for a meal. Then you can imagine on the weekend and then the summer what happens to these young children with them having enough food to eat.
Melanie: What can we do about this problem, Dr. Wright? We hear about the food pantries in our local communities and we never quite know if they’re really distributing food to those who need it or schools that collect canned food, kids that use that as projects. What happens to the food that we donate?
Dr. Wright: Well, I think the first thing we need to recognize is there are food assistance programs through, for example, SNAP. But as many people are starting to find out, doing the SNAP challenge, like Gwyneth Paltrow, she only made it four days. SNAP’s food assistance programs aren’t enough. The burden has fallen on to many of these charitable and non-profit organizations to fill that gap. Feeding America is one example of an organization that’s working very hard to fill the gap. When individuals donate, have a food drive at a school or a service organization, what often happens is that goes to a central location to store that food, and then different food pantries like at your local church or at a clinic, like a health clinic, will come to Feeding America and get that stored food and provide it to individuals coming to the school or to the church. What I like to recommend to individuals though is think about what you’re donating. Don’t make it a pantry dump—dump everything out that you don’t want to eat. Think about the health for the individuals receiving that. Unfortunately, we see a great deal of health concerns in the food insecure. About half of all the individuals that come to food pantries have high blood pressure, and about a third of all the recipients that come to the food pantries have diabetes. What we donate really has an impact on their health and we see higher rates of obesity. What I’m really encouraging individuals is be aware of this new phase of food insecurity and donate healthy food for their health. Instead of just pulling out a can of cream of mushroom soup, think about a healthy soup that you can provide, a low-sodium, maybe a chicken noodle soup that has some protein in it. Think about some tuna packed in water or fruit that’s packed in its own juices. Think about what you would want to feed your family. And many grocery stores offer buy one, get one free. What I like people to think of is buy one, give one for help.
Melanie: That’s a great way to put it in is kind of an obesity paradox, Dr. Wright, that these people that are food insecure because whatever it is we’re donating is not healthy or that that cheapest food happens to be junk, or that this is what they’re getting so obesity is on the rise among those hungriest of us. What a paradox that is. When we’re donating, that’s great advice to look in our pantries and decide what we would feed our families, not just a pantry dump, as you say. What else would you like us to do? Is raising money better than donating food? Working at a food pantry? What would you like us to do to help?
Dr. Wright: There are so many ways to get involved and really spread the word and champion this cause. I really like people to go and spend half a day at Feeding America or at a food pantry, where you see the eyes of food insecurity. I will guarantee you the first time you volunteer, you’ll want to do it again and again. I really think getting involved at the pantries distributing food, helping them sort the food, is a great first step. And please, include children, because this is having a bigger impact on their generation. So we want to get them involved and really see how we can end this fight against hunger. Another great way is to have a food drive. And there is a great site, Healthy Food Hub, where you can go and look at food to donate in a food drive. I really encourage using those resources that are available. Have a food drive and include the list of foods that we want to encourage. Again, the vegetables that are low sodium, even fresh fruits and vegetables as much as possible.
Melanie: I was just going to ask you about that because we think of the pantry and the canned food and the boxed food, which we all know in this day of health and nutrition, we’re trying to steer clear of the boxed food with so many processed ingredients. Can we donate or grow or distribute fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh lean meats and fish? Are any of those donatable?
Dr. Wright: That has been a real paradigm shift for the food network because many of the food pantries, a small food pantry might not have the refrigeration to accept large donations. But more and more we’re working with a network of farmers and food assistance programs to get refrigeration and get that network out so that when -- I here live in Florida and when we have the extra strawberries that we just recently experienced, we can send the word out that we have all these extra strawberries and they need to be utilized quickly. But really building that network. That’s where as an individual, you can, if you go to farmers’ market, encourage your farmers’ market to donate food, like some of the ugly produce that they might normally throw away. I encourage them to donate those food to a Feeding America. That’s where some of the money donations might be helpful is getting that fresh fruits and vegetable out to the food pantry.
Melanie: Thank you so much. It’s great information. You’re listening to Eat Right Radio with our good friends from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Thanks so much for listening. This is Melanie Cole. You can go to eatright.org for more information. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Each week, host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares with her listeners Nature's Secrets to a healthier body. This week: Non-Toxic Skin Protection
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1517wl5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
- Guest Website Dr. Susanne
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 24, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
It's time to feel better with 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: With spring finally here days are getting longer and the temperatures will continue to rise with warm sunshine and clear blue skies. So, before stepping outside we want to be mindful about natural sun protection particularly in the areas that are prone to sun exposure and damage such as your face, your shoulders, your neck and chest. With so many different brands of sunscreens and sunblocks out there and different types of chemicals, don’t you feel overwhelmed? I sure do. And confused. What formulas, which SPF to choose from? Well today, on Nature’s Secrets I’m going to make it easy for you and give you the details on which best sun care formulas to get and some tips and tricks on natural sun protection.
First, let me give you some sun facts.
Now the sun admits two types of ultraviolet light that affects our skin, UVA and UVB. Now UVB is much stronger than UVA and it has immediate impact on our skin like within 60 seconds. It’s most powerful during the summer and especially between the hours of 11 am and 4 pm. Now UVB is completely blocked by glass like your windows whereas UVA radiation penetrates through glass and windows and can cause damage to the skin even during cloudier days. Although UVA is lower in intensity and it’s not felt, it is the main cause of premature skin aging such as wrinkles, sagging, and aging spots and it can even possibly cause skin cancer. I have to tell you, a few weeks ago I was in Miami for a conference and I was out on the beach relaxing for just an hour and I actually got a second-degree burn on my skin. Oh, my gosh! Thank goodness I knew exactly what to do. I acted quickly and healed my burned skin that was blistering and in so much pain and we healed it in one hour. But because of this such crazy miracle that I actually totally got inspired and made a 4-part skin secrets mini-series that goes into detail on how to heal damaged skin from the sun, premature skin aging and how to achieve younger looking vibrant skin. You can go to drsusanne.com/miniseries to get my 4 part skin secrets info. Now, you can also find that on my radio page as well.
So let’s go into this. What does SPF mean? SPF it stands for sun protection factor. SPF numbers are designed to describe the length of time that you can stay in the sun before you start burning your skin. For example, if you normally start to burn after 30 minutes of direct sunlight, then an SPF 30 product should let you stay in the sun for almost approximately 30 times longer without burning. So, that’s what that number means. You know, I get this question quite a bit as well. What’s the difference between sunblocks and sunscreens? Now, both sunblock and sunscreen formulas protect our skin from sun damage but they work by different mechanisms. Sunblock actually sits on the skin and acts as a barrier to reflect away ultraviolet lights. Now sunblock takes care of both UVA and UVB radiation which can cause a sunburn and skin damage as well as skin cancer. So remember when it blocks the sun’s UV rays, it blocks a penetration into the cell. And those are the blocks like zinc oxide block sunblock or titanium dioxide sunblock--they block both UVA and UVB. Now, I believe that zinc oxide is less irritating and less allergic so that’s the choice that I take and sunblocks usually start at 15 or higher. Now all SPF ratings apply only to UVB protection, not UVA, everyone. Okay, in comparison sunscreens are made with chemicals that absorb and neutralize the UV radiation, neutralizes it. So, these chemicals typically protect against either UVA or UVB, very few protect against both radiations like sunblocks will do. So, as a result these sunscreens have mixtures of both kinds of chemicals in order to make them a broad spectrum to be fully protective. And, you know, what? Sometimes, you find these sunscreens to be as low as 2 SPF but also up even to higher than 100 SPF and I really have big concerns about these chemical sunscreens acting as endocrine disrupters. They can mimic these hormones in our body and it activates these hormone receptors, so I find that it’s really important to stay away from these chemicals that generate free radicals that can damage skin and possibly even again cause skin cancer. So, always go for the sunblocks rather than the sunscreens and look for formulas that have zinc oxide or titanium dioxide in it. Now, out of the two again zinc oxide is my favorite. And then there’s one thing, you want to make sure that when it comes to zinc oxides or titanium dioxides stay away from products that claim they are using nano-particles or micronized zinc particles because those that means basically it’s cut down so small that it can penetrate your skin into the blood stream, so we really want to stay away from those.
So, what do we need? We want to also make sure that you stay away from these synthetic estrogenic compounds. These are xenoestrogens that appear under the names such as oxybenzone or benzophenone or methylbenzylidine camphor. I mean, these are these derivatives that cause super free radical damage, you know? Other ones such as avobenzone, parsol 1789 is very common, parsol 1789. Or dioxybenzone. You’ve got to look at the back of and read these ingredients. If you read them you will see that these chemicals are very high in the majority of the formulas that you look at. Also don’t forget some of these sunscreens also have insect repellents such as DEET or permethrin. These are super toxic. They can cause damage to you and your children’s nervous system and cause all sorts of havoc within your body including liver and kidney issues, so avoid the insect repellents and avoid these sprays. I mean nowadays we have these sprays and powders that we use. What that will do is, it’s so vaporized that it can go into your nose and you’ll inhale it and damage your respiratory system. So, avoiding these sprays is important and make sure that you do get SPF of at least 15. 15 is plenty. You just need to apply it regularly and stay away from SPF 75 or 100 because those are all made out of chemicals, not the sunblocks. Oh, by the way, children. When it comes to kids under 6 months, do not use any sun cream, sunscreen or sunblocks. For little ones you want to make sure you put them with light clothing and this can happen. These are great safety sun tips. Wear loose clothing, long sleeves protect your skin, wear a hat, of course. Polarized sunglasses are really important for your eyes and cataracts. For water sports when you’re out there like I am, I wear a rash guard or full body rash guard that you can wear so that you don’t damage your skin. Always play in the sun especially when you’re exercising in the hot sun--you don’t want to do that and you want to stay away from the sun between 11 am to 4 pm and have play-dates indoors for your children. You could even, when I go out, I usually often use a parasol, which is like a little umbrella for my body, and it works perfectly in protecting my skin and my body from the intense heat. So, make sure again that you remove…You can use also these removable mesh window shields inside your car so that you don’t get the direct sunlight and often our left side of the face is more sun damaged than the right because that’s the side that we’re driving. There’s tons of organic foods that you can eat filled with the internal sunscreen that is in berries and pomegranates and dark green vegetables, gogi berries. These are all excellent formulas, foods that you can have that will help you heal your skin and prevent you from damaging your skin. Now remember don’t forget to join me on The Glowing Skin Summit, drsusanne.com/glowingskinsummit is where you can get that. Until then, this is Dr. Susanne.
Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to serve you. I’m dedicated to helping you feel and be your best today. This is Wellness for Life radio on RadioMD.
See you next time, stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Want skin that glows? Listen to the "Spa Dr." and learn how you can have healthy, glowing skin... no matter what your age.
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1517wl5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Trevor Cates, ND
- Guest Website Dr. Trevor Cates
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Guest Bio
Dr. Trevor Cates was the first woman licensed as a naturopathic doctor in the state of California and was appointed by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to California’s Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine Advisory Council. Also known as “The Spa Dr.,” Dr. Cates sees patients at world-renowned spas and in her Park City, Utah, private practice with a focus on anti-aging, hormone balance and glowing skin. She has a regular iTunes podcast called THE SPA DR: Secrets to Smart, Sexy and Strong and an upcoming Glowing Skin Summit (April 27 – May 4, 2015). www.DrTrevorCates.com
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 24, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Trevor Cates, ND
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.
SUSANNE: Today’s Wellness for Life expert guest is the first woman who was licensed as a naturopathic Doctor in the state of California. She’s also known as “The Spa Doctor”. She’s here to share with you how to keep your skin glowing while into your ageing years. Please welcome Dr. Trevor Cates. Doc, how ya doin’?
DR. CATES: Good Dr. Susanne! How are you? It’s great to be here.
SUSANNE: Very good. Aw thank you so much. Now why is our skin such a great indicator of our overall health and wellness?
DR. CATES: Well, whenever we have signs that our skin is anything less than glowing, so we have dry skin, oily skin, or we have problems like acne, rosacea, eczema, any of those kinds of things it’s a sign that something is going on in the body and it’s a great opportunity to take a look at that and figure out how you can restore balance from within so that you can have glowing skin and vibrant health.
SUSANNE: Well, you know, you’re so right in that we’ve got to look inside. I always talk about the gut we’ve got to first go there what’s going on in the gut and all that. And when you think about it, and a lot of these dermatologists which I think are so important in helping us with skin care, but they really don’t tell us the truth about the depths of why skin health is so important and you have to look at everything else. Isn’t that correct?
DR. CATES: Yes, you know, most dermatologists don’t look at what I was just talking about. Skin is a reflection of what is happening inside the body. They look at these symptoms as something that needs to be suppressed, so they’re going to recommend a cream or an antibiotic or a steroid to suppress the symptoms but the problem is we’re not addressing the underlying cause. So, if we just suppress those symptoms on the outside without addressing what the underlying cause is, I’ve seen that these problems can show up in even more serious ways. So, I’ve seen patients with acne and eczema, for example, who’ve put on different topical treatments and then later on develop problems like arthritis or asthma because there’s inflammation and imbalances like you were talking about the gut microbiome and if those aren’t being addressed then it’s just going to show up some other way.
SUSANNE: That’s right. I totally get that. Yes.
DR. CATES: And, you know what? These medications aren’t fixing the problem and, in fact, some of these medications, these prescription medications that people are typically given, can actually make the problem worse. So, in addition to the gut microbiome, we have skin microbiome. So, we have this delicate balance of microorganisms that live on our skin and protect our skin from imbalances and help keep us looking young and youthful looking, as we get older. But when we put these products, as well as our common personal care products, on our skin it disrupts that balance and creates more problems and then even some of these products some of these personal care products that we commonly use can actually disrupt our hormones and some are even carcinogenic.
SUSANNE: Oh, I totally agree with you on that. In my book, The 7-day Allergy Makeover, I talk a lot about chemicals that you’ve got to watch out that you apply onto your body and I know you are a strong believer in that as well. What are your top tips for glowing skin and vibrant health?
DR. CATES: Well, I would say the number one is a lot of what you and I were just talking about is reducing your toxin exposures and one of the ways we are exposed to toxins regularly is our personal care products. On average we use about 9 personal care products a day, so this exposes us to 126 unique ingredients and, unfortunately, the FDA does not regulate our skin care products very well. And so, while the United States has only rejected, the FDA has only rejected 11 ingredients as unsafe in our personal care products, Europe, for example, has banned hundreds, so we’re way behind other countries on these things. So, the first thing is look at your personal care products and look for things like parabens, thalates, artificial fragrances, oxybenzone-- it’s in almost all sunscreens. Because these ingredients can be, like I said, have hormone-disrupting effects. We don’t want to throw off our hormones, especially if we’re getting older and our hormones are already going out of whack and going crazy as we get older. When we’re exposed to more of these in personal care products, it just creates more problems, so that would be one thing. Another thing is to make sure you’re getting great nutrients in the foods that you’re eating and then also supplementing with certain nutrients if you need that. You know, key nutrients, I would say, two of the top ones are omega-3’s and antioxidants. So, making sure that you’re getting in those good high quality oils like fish, nuts and seeds as well as colorful fruits and vegetables. Then another thing is to enhance your digestion--because our digestion is so important for our skin. And I know you talked about this, so whether you need digestive support, you have to kind of look at that. You have constipation, diarrhea, bloating any of those kinds of symptoms then you want to look at digestive enzymes, probiotics, or fermented foods those kinds of things can help support your digestion.
SUSANNE: I totally agree on that. Yes what else?
DR. CATES: Yes, so, and then, related to that is detoxification so not only do we want to be careful what we’re exposed to in our environment: in our air, our water, our food, our personal care products, and we want to make sure we’re digesting well, we want to make sure we’re detoxifying anything that we’re exposed to. Because we’re exposed to these toxins on a regular basis, we want to make sure that our liver is working well; that our digestive system is working well, our kidneys, all that is helping us eliminate. So, some of the things we can do is one of the big things is eating cruciferous vegetables helps with daily detoxification, so it helps enhance detoxification pathways. So things like broccoli, cabbage, those kinds of vegetables are great. They also help if you really look at your digestion and that balance and detoxification that’s going to address the underlying inflammation that a lot of people have that leads to skin problems. So, those are a few things and I could keep going on. There are two more that I want to mention with your audience. The next one is really important and that’s sugar. Our exposure to sugar really makes an impact on our skin because when we have higher blood sugar, glucose binds to our skin’s collagen and elastin and damages it. So, it causes premature aging so we want to be careful about our sugar intake and sugar is hidden in so many places so we just really want to be careful. And then, the last one is looking at our hormones because this is particularly important as we get older because our hormones change and that can impact our skin. For example, when people have hypothyroidism, low thyroid function, it can cause dry skin and when women have something called PCOS. It can lead to acne. So, we want to make sure that we’re looking at our hormones. If we have any problems, we want to balance those.
SUSANNE: That’s excellent. You know everything that you just talked about, I know that it’s going to also be shared by 35 of the top wellness, nutrition, hormone and skin expert Docs on your Glowing Skin Summit. This is a once, first time ever, online free summit that starts April 27th to May 4th. Can you please tell us a bit about that before you go?
DR. CATES: Yes. It’s The Glowing Skin Summit. Glowingskinsummit.com is where people go. Glowingskinsummit.com to register and sign-up and, yes, April 27th-May 4th with amazing 35 leading experts in wellness, nutrition, hormones, and skin sharing their top tips. It’s all free and online next week. There’s also if people can’t join in at that time, there is an opportunity to download that as well. Download the entire summit so people can just check that out at glowingskinsummit.com.
SUSANNE: That’s really easy. Gosh, there’s so much to learn! Particularly in this summit, you’re going to learn about not only the aesthetic medicine but really getting to the root of what’s going on internally. And there’s 35 docs that are just going to share their best strategies on how to help you with glowing skin and vibrant health. Thanks so much Dr. Cates thank you so much for being here. Again glowingskinsummit.com is where you go to sign-up it’s a free online summit everyone!
Until then, okay this is Dr. Susanne Bennett sharing my natural strategies for ultimate health and wellness right here on RadioMD. Stay well everyone I’ll see you at The Glowing Skin Summit. - Length (mins) 10
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No matter what time of year it is, you should always be thinking of ways to protect yourself from the harmful rays of the sun.
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- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1517wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Paul M. Parker, MD
- Guest Website Parker Center
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Guest Bio
Dr. Paul M. Parker is the Medical Director of the Parker Center for Plastic Surgery in Paramus, NJ. He is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and holds a certificate of advanced education in cosmetic surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery, and the New Jersey Society of Plastic Surgeons.
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 24, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Paul M. Parker, MD
It's time to feel better with 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.
SUSANNE: May is Skin Cancer Awareness month, which is right around the corner with warm weather finally approaching and many additional hours spent in the sun. Now, we want to know some information about sun care. We have today nationally respected award-winning board certified plastic surgeon, who’s also the director of the Parker Center for Plastic Surgery in Paramus, NJ. And here today to discuss skin cancer and sun damage welcome Dr. Parker to Wellness for Life Radio. Thank you, Dr. Parker. So first, exactly how does sun cause skin cancer? You know, if you could share a little bit about what is the triggering mechanism and then number two is that the only root cause of skin cancer or is there some other factor?
DR. PARKER: Yes, well some sun is tough on the skin because it damages the cells underneath the skin. And acutely that can cause problems like a sunburn, redness of the skin. Longer term, though, it can go on to make the skin look dry, wrinkled, discolored, leathery, and promote skin cancers. So, it really is the key factor in terms of patients getting damaged skin and skin cancers. Other things such as genetic, environmental factor, smoking can be factors as well but the sun is really a big problem for us in terms of skin cancer.
SUSANNE: So, number one factor of skin but there’s also environmentals. How about things that you might be applying to your skin? You know nowadays with aesthetic medicine they apply all sorts of cosmetics. A lot of them are all mainly chemicals. Do you think that promotes skin cancer as well?
DR. PARKER: Well, I’m not aware of studies that show those things promote skin cancer. I think perhaps there’s so much controversy about many of these cosmeceuticals but I think it maybe gives a sense of false hope to patients that they’re doing some of these things which aren’t necessarily clinically studied and not doing things that are important in terms of staying out of the sun and protecting yourself from the sun.
SUSANNE: Now, what do you think about--we talk a lot about Vitamin D now, making sure we get enough sun so that we can make our own Vitamin D in our skin but, of course, we want to prevent the harmful rays that cause the cancer. Where can we… what’s the happy medium what can we do to get both?
DR. PARKER: Well, that’s a good question. It’s going to vary from patient to patient. You know, some people, their genetic background and the type of skin they have, fair skin, are more predisposed to skin cancer. They just have to be extremely diligent about staying out of the sun. Other people with darker skin types, different ethnicities and background, don’t have to be quite as conscience and can think of it a little bit more in terms of, let’s say, Vitamin D exposure. Measuring Vitamin D levels is one thing and certainly I think it’s important for patients, particularly if there’s any kind of history of skin cancer to pay close attention to follow up with a dermatologist for ongoing serial examinations. This way a dermatologist can keep an eye on things watch moles in your skin behave over time and if they change, those sorts of things. And that’s really a very important thing in terms of that balance.
SUSANNE: You know I’m of Asian descent, I’m Korean. My skin is darker naturally, although I love being in the sun, I found out just recently that my genetic pattern, actually I cannot make Vitamin D as well. So, when I had my blood test done for that Vitamin D testing it was actually on the low end although I’m out regularly outdoors. So, how common is skin cancer? Because you know Vitamin D is, of course, important but also if I’m going to be exposed to it all the time it can definitely trigger likelihood of skin cancer for me. So how common is it?
DR. PARKER: Yes. Unfortunately, 1 out of every 5 Americans will develop skin cancer in the course of their lifetime.
SUSANNE: Wow.
DR. PARKER: Yes. Each year in the United States nearly 5 million people are treated for skin cancer so, it’s something that we really, unfortunately, still see a lot of despite the education that’s ongoing.
SUSANNE: Well, that’s not good. I mean, obviously, part of it is because we’re always outdoors. Of course, also maybe we’re not putting on the right type of sunscreen. You know, I was curious if, when it comes to the skin cancer there’s several different kinds. We are always afraid of the really bad one called “melanoma” but what are the other cancers that are so common that a lot of us have to go to people like you, plastic surgeons and dermatologists, to get these things removed?
DR. PARKER: Yes. Well, the most common one you’re absolutely right. Melanoma is a bad [05:25 inaudible] Melanoma can kill. The most common one and, fortunately, not nearly as aggressive as melanoma, is basal cell carcinoma. That’s one that we see quite a bit. That’s the one that President Reagan had and, therefore, a lot of people are familiar with that. The other one that is a little more aggressive than basal cell but again not as aggressive as melanoma is squamous cell carcinoma. Those are the three more common ones.
SUSANNE: Well, if you could please describe to our listeners what to look out for basal cell or squamous and, of course, melanoma as well .What are the main, main signs for us to look for?
DR. PARKER: Well, just like a self-breast exam a self-skin exam is a good thing to. Ideally, if you look at a young baby you look at how good their skin looks. It’s healthy, it’s nice and smooth, there aren’t any moles or irregularities. As we get older and we get more sun damage, we can start to get some moles and we can start to see some red areas. Sometimes, it can be confusing for layman. Sometimes it can be confusing for dermatologists, even plastic surgeons, to differentiate a normal mole from something that’s suspicious and if we have those kind of suspicions, as medical personnel, we can do a biopsy and that’ll tell us. Because what happens is, the dermal pathologist looks at what we’ve biopsied under a microscope and they’ll come back and tell us with certainty, “Here’s what it is and we know for sure.” But rather than “biopsying” everything, if patients look at themselves in the mirror frequently and they look for things that are changing if they see a dermatologist on an on-going basis, again based on their personal history, their family history. Maybe it’s three times three or four times a year maybe it’s once a year, the dermatologist can keep a record of the different moles they have and if something is changing, that then leads to something like having a biopsy done.
SUSANNE: In your practice, your plastic surgery practice, what do you do to help individuals who’ve got sun damage--who’ve got irritations and wrinkles and sagging skin from sun damage? What do you provide in your practice?
DR. PARKER: Well, in terms of if someone doesn’t have a skin cancer and we’re concerned about damage and ageing of the skin, we’ll put the patient on some products to try to help improve the health of the skin. We do laser treatments that are very helpful in terms of improving not only the appearance of the skin but the health of the skin. There are some new exciting lasers that have just come down the pipe recently that we’re very enthusiastic about.
SUSANNE: So, you don’t have to have any kind of plastic surgery really, you can do non-invasive--I mean lasers really are non-invasive compared to plastic surgery. That’s excellent. Anything else that you can suggest besides that?
DR. PARKER: Well, I think the non-invasive things have a lot of appeal to patients and this laser that we’ve gotten very excited about in recent months is called a Halo Hybrid laser and what’s exciting about that is it doesn’t require any kind of anesthesia or recovery afterwards and it can make patient’s skin look so much better with no down time. So, they can get back to all their activities within a day after treatment and their skin will look the tone will be improved, the texture improved, discoloration is greatly improved, fine lines improved, pore size decreased, and the skin just has a much healthier flow to it. It, in fact, is healthier.
SUSANNE: I love that! I love that there are options for us. Thanks so much for being here and giving us all these tips on how to take a look at your skin, prevent sun damage and then, of course, you can always go to his website at ParkerCenter.net.
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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According to guest, Dr. Michell Gaynor, if you nurture nature, you can nurture your health. Learn exactly which foods fight disease.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1517wl5b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Mitchell Gaynor, MD
- Guest Website Gene Changer
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Guest Bio
Mitchell Gaynor, M.D., is Founder and President of Gaynor Integrative Oncology and Gaynor Wellness in New York City. A renowned pioneer in the field of integrative oncology for 30 years, Dr. Gaynor is author, physician, speaker and composer of original sound healing meditations. His latest book, The Gene Therapy Plan – Taking Control of your Genetic Destiny Through Diet and Lifestyle (due in April, 2015, from Viking Press with a Forward by Dr. Mehmet Oz), provides a revolutionary approach to reverse gene damage associated with aging, cancer, obesity, and diabetes and to prevent future gene deterioration with specific programs that are appropriate for anyone who wants to maximize longevity for themselves, their children and future generations.
Dr. Gaynor has a notable history in the treatment of chronic diseases, particularly cancer, with scientifically grounded therapies that augment traditional modalities. He has served as Director of Medical Oncology at The Strang Cancer Prevention Center in New York and was former Medical Director and Director of Medical Oncology at the Weill Cornell Medical Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine in New York. He has served on the Executive Review Panel at the Department of Defense – Alternative Medicine For Breast Cancer Sector and the Smithsonian Institute’s “New Frontiers in Breast Cancer and the Environment” Seminars. Board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology. He is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American College of Physicians, and the New York Academy of Sciences. He is a post-doctorate fellow in molecular biology at Rockefeller University in New York City.
Dr. Gaynor is a popular speaker and lecturer in hospitals, conferences, spiritual centers, and universities throughout America and abroad. His topics frequently focus on cancer and its causes, as well as his successful therapies that reverse cancer damage and promote vibrant health. He has spoken extensively in the field of integrative medicine and, most recently, about his Gene Changer Programs to promote healthy gene expression and reverse damage from chronic diseases.
Dr. Gaynor has been consecutively listed in “The Best Doctors in New York” since 1997 and has served on the Board of Advisors for Healthy Living magazine, the Sass Medical Foundation, as well as on the Editorial Board of Integrative Cancer Therapies. -
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RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 24, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Mitchell Gaynor, 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: I love this quote “Nurture nature in order to nurture health”. This is perfect for Wellness for Life Radio. This quote is from my next guest who is best-selling author of The Gene Therapy Plan. Let’s welcome, Dr. Mitchell Gaynor. He will show you how to take your health and future into your own hands no matter what disease or illnesses you are faced with. Thank you, Doc. Your book has become super popular among all the celebrity doctors such as Deepak Chopra, Dr. Mark Hyman and Christiane Northrup including our RadioMD favorite Dr. Mehmet Oz. Now, tell us a little bit about the gene therapy plan and why your plan is so different.
DR. GAYNOR: Well, it’s different because it’s the first book that is really focused on a field called “epigenetics” in a practical way. “Epi” means above so, it’s sort of above the genetic destiny we thought we had. So, the old thinking was that our genetic destiny was just like our eye color and our hair color--it was determined by the genes we were born with, so if we had a family history of people being overweight, well, we were going to be overweight. If we had a strong family history of cancer, well, we’ve just got to wait until it developed. If we had a family history of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s disease, premature aging, that was just our destiny. But nothing could be further from the truth because what we now know is that either environmental toxins like white sugar, white flour, heat damaged oils, all those, negatively affect gene expression and promote a number of the diseases like cancer that we’re faced with. We’re living in a country where 100 million Americans are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. That’s a third of the country. Eighteen percent of the children in the country have either a learning, emotional, or developmental disability. A lot of this has to do with our external environment, so while we might not be able to control the air that we breathe or the quality of the air we breathe, we can control our internal environment by what we’re putting in our body and how we’re preparing what we’re putting in our body.
DR. SUSANNE: That’s excellent, excellent. You know, in my practice I use a lot of genetic mapping and what I mean by that is we actually get the salivary testing done to see what kind of methylation issues, that’s one form of genetic coding that we look at to see, okay, how can we get your body to detox better? In your oncology practice and integrative practice do you use those testing as well?
DR. GAYNOR: Yes and its very important that people know in the back of The Gene Therapy Plan, I have a whole list of tests people should ask their doctors to do regularly but what a lot of people don’t understand about detoxification is you don’t have to just do it all at once. People think about juice fasts or cleanses and things like that but the best form of detoxification is lifelong detoxification. So, you want to be putting foods in your bodies that on a genetic level increase the body’s production of detox enzymes. So, cruciferous vegetables are loaded with sulforaphanes so broccoli, kale, brussel sprouts. Sulforaphane literally increases the body’s production of detoxifying enzymes on a genetic level and it’s not just theoretical. A study recently came out of John’s Hopkins that compared women with and without breast cancer. They found the women with breast cancer are women with the lowest levels of the most important detoxifying gene, had a four-fold increased risk of developing breast cancer. Then there are foods like beets. Beets are loaded with something called “betalains”. They markedly increase detoxifying enzymes and inhibit inflammation. Inflammation lowers your ability to make detoxification. And then, I love avocado. Avocado is loaded with the nutrient called “persin” which actually turns on tumor suppressor genes, helps cancer cells die, reduces appetite directly and it increases detoxifying genes so really you’re doing gene therapy on yourself every time you eat for good or for harm.
DR. SUSANNE: Well, you know, what I love about your book The Gene Therapy Plan is that not only are you giving about certain food--you have a whole list, which I love, of all the different types of phytonutrients in each food--but you also go into supplements, nutrients and supplements such as anti-oxidants and herbs that can really help up-regulate your ability to cleanse out these day to day toxins, as you’re saying. We need to detoxify every day and our cells more than just the liver. Every cell in our body naturally detoxes. So, can you give us some of those nutrients that are important for detoxification?
DR. GAYNOR: Absolutely and the thing about supplements is, is there are just certain things that you’re not going to easily find in a Western diet. So, let’s take turmeric, for instance. Some people have access to be able to make Indian food and, you know, cook with curry. I have a lot of very easy recipes in the book for doing it. I talk about even how to do smoothies using turmeric but for some people that are busy, that have to take children to football or soccer practice and music lessons, they don’t have time to cook. So, you can get turmeric supplements that are very bio-available. Turmeric turns on detoxifying enzymes. It markedly decreases inflammation. It helps protect brain cells. Then black raspberries are loaded with something called “ellagic” acid and resveratrol. They block the major inflammatory growth factors and some of the most important growth factors that promote the development of cancer. Black raspberries aren’t always in season, so you can get black raspberry powder, for instance, and mix it in yogurt, mix it in water, mix it in your favorite juice or smoothie. It’s just a good way of getting things that are going to increase detoxification and it’s been found to turn on about 200 different tumor suppressor genes. And then, something like black cumin seed oil, a lot of people will take that in a supplement because they can’t find black cumin seeds regularly. They come from Turkey. They’re loaded with a nutrient called thymoquinone that helps with detoxification and induces the death of cancer cells, so it helps keep cancer cells dormant. So, it’s key to have the balance.
DR. SUSANNE: You know, I’m a big believer in making sure that we all have whole foods, although some supplements as you were saying like resveratrol--you talked about ellagic acid, EGCG is one of my favorite green tea extracts--these are nutrients that we really can’t get in high levels unless you take it in actual capsule or powder form. What I do also love is that you recommend juicing. We only have a minute or two. Can you just give us juicing--what are the best juices for cancer care or prevention, should I say?
DR. GAYNOR: Well, two of the best or two of the easiest to make…My own mother died, unfortunately, of breast cancer when I was 9 years old. She developed it when I was 6 and she knew she wasn’t going to be around to take care of me, so she taught me a lot of very simple juicing recipes. She was a big follower after she developed the breast cancer of Adelle Davis and tiger’s milk and things like that back then but I’ll give you just two simple juicing recipes anybody can do that I have in the book. You can make your own organic grape juice or your own organic apple juice. All you need is a blender, a strainer, and a spatula. And you can get a cup of organic red grapes, blend it for about 30 seconds, pour it through a strainer, use a spatula to press everything through you’ve got organic grape juice with no high fructose corn syrup, no added sugar, no BPA chemicals from a plastic bottle and it’s loaded with resveratrol and ellagic acid that are two of the most powerful blockers of the growth factors for cancer. You can do two apples, especially Granny Smith apples. Put them in the blender, run them through the strainer, loaded with quercetin very powerful anti-cancer agent. So, it’s easy for people to do. If they want more information I have a lot of juicing recipes and a free newsletter on GeneChanger.com.
DR. SUSANNE: Everyone, thank you so much. Dr. Gaynor, I know all of our listeners will want to learn more about your book The Gene Therapy Plan. They can go to your website at GeneChanger.com or go to my Wellness for Life show page. - Length (mins) 10
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