Canceled Clients (4762)
Children categories
Train Your Body (438)
The show for fitness buffs or beginners. Expert guest from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) discuss all areas of fitness, nutrition, athletics and sports medicine.
View items...
Staying Well (382)
RadioMD’s “talking” Health A-Z hosted by senior health correspondent, Melanie Cole, MS. Melanie interviews experts in the world of health, wellness, fitness and medicine.
View items...
Healthy Talk w/ Dr. Michael Smith (698)
Integrative physician, Michael A. Smith, MD is committed to providing listeners with the most current health information available.
View items...
Naturally Savvy (899)
Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Andrea Donsky and health expert Lisa Davis discuss their passion for living a natural, healthy lifestyle.
View items...
Eat Right Radio (48)
EatRight Radio, with experts from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, discusses food and nutrition topics, healthy weight, allergies and health conditions, healthy aging, food safety and so much more. Give us 10-minutes and we'll give you the important information and expert advice from registered dietitian nutritionists to help you eat right, feel better, and live a healthier life. Hosted by Melanie Cole, MS.
View items...
Sharecare Radio (235)
Sharecare Radio, hosted by Sharecare’s own Dr. Darria Long Gillespie, SVP of Clinical Strategy at Sharecare, will appear live every Tuesday from 12 to 1 p.m. EST on RadioMD. Dr. Darria will break down the top health news of the week, pull in experts from around the country on a wide array of health topics and answer listeners’ live questions on all things health.
View items...
Wellness for Life (455)
On Wellness For Life Radio you will learn practical, easy-to implement tips to improve your life and start feeling better — the natural way.
View items...
The Wizard of Eyes (163)
Dr. Robert Abel Jr. talks about many of the important and unrecognized parts of our visual system which we so often take for granted. The show covers the usual common ocular disorders with an East/West approach to both prevention and therapy. The eye-brain connection is presented with information about memory retention, Alzheimer's, the myopia epidemic, and many more subjects. Dr. Abel discusses how the eye and vision are connected with remote parts of the body including your gut flora, musculoskeletal system, blood pressure, drugs and lifestyle. practical and simple health tips.
View items...
Code Delicious with Dr. Mike (135)
Code Delicious with Dr. Mike breaks all the rules. Unabashedly confronting the questions, concerns and conundrums that continually confuse both public and experts alike; Dr. Mike takes us on a tasty trip of inquiry.
View items...
CLEAN Food Network (98)
This show is a call to action for all the clean eating revolutionaries that care about their health and how and what they eat. Non-GMO, natural, organic . . . food the way nature intended. The clean food movement is huge and is growing exponentially. This companion program talks to experts in food preparation, healthcare, celebrities, and even those companies that care enough to provide the best, wholesome, organic foods and groceries.
View items...
Talk Healthy Today (213)
Looking to create your best self? Whether it’s good-for-you lifestyle hacks, smarter ways to supplement, or tasty tips to fuel optimal health, Talk Healthy Today brings you the latest research, tools, and common sense tips you need to get and stay healthy... starting today!
View items...
Be a Doer (17)
Be A Doer features master coach and TV personality John Abdo as he shares health and fitness tips aimed at getting you in shape – and keeping you there!
View items...The Power of Probiotics (3)
Probiotics is a major global industry. But like any industry, it had to have a beginning. Natasha Trenev is the daughter of an Eastern European family where the manufacturing of yogurt was a generational business. When Natasha emigrated to the US in the 1960’s, she brought with her 750 years of family experience with probiotics – and introduced the science (and the term itself) to her new country. Today, Natasha’s California-based Natren, Inc. is the recognized pioneer in probiotics and company founder Natasha Trenev has earned recognition as the Mother of Probiotics. Her more than 50 years of work in natural health is at the core of the unparalleled success of her company – and you will benefit from her depth of expertise in each and every episode of THE POWER OF PROBIOTICS.
Probiotics are live microrganisms that are commonly referred to as ‘friendly,’ ‘good’ or ‘healthy’ bacteria that function to help maintain the natural balance of organisms in the intestine. Throughout Natasha’s extensive work in the field of probiotics, she has always been amazed by how nature provides the very ‘good’ bacteria that can help overpower ‘bad’ bacteria to keep our digestive tracts functioning at peak performance. Properly cultivating friendly bacteria and ensuring their potency is at the core of the Natren Process. Natren is cited – by retailers, by the medical community and by consumers – as the best probiotic supplement available. Only Natren carefully chooses its probiotic cultures, formulates and manufactures its industry standard probiotics in its own plant and utilizes a specially-formulated oil matrix to protect probiotics bacteria to survive until they reach their destination in the upper small intestine. This is why only Natren is the most trusted probiotic supplement on the market. Truly, where other probiotic supplements promise – Natren Delivers.
To learn more about how probiotics can benefit your health, we are proud to introduce you to THE POWER OF PROBIOTICS with The Mother of Probiotics, Natasha Trenev.
Your Brain Health (24)
Noted Los Angeles-based neuroscientist and media personality Dr. Kristen Willeumier launches Your Brain Health with Dr. Kristen Willeumier, a podcast series that explores the latest news and information in the burgeoning science of brain health.
View items...
Listen to an interview with Robert Watcher from the Sharecare HealthMakers collection.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File sharecare/1516sc2d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Robert Wachter, MD
- Book Title The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age; Understanding Patient Safety; Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America’s Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes
-
Guest Bio
Robert M. Wachter, MD, is Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where he holds the Lynne and Marc Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine. He is also Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine, and Chief of the Medical Service at UCSF Medical Center. He has published 250 articles and six books in the fields of quality, safety, and health policy. He coined the term “hospitalist” in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article and is past-president of the Society of Hospital Medicine. He is generally considered the academic leader of the hospitalist movement, the fastest growing specialty in the history of modern medicine.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA
For this month’s Men’s Health segment, Dr. David Wright is on the show to talk about the current hot button issue of sports’ related concussions.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File sharecare/1516sc2c.mp3
- Featured Speaker David W. Wright, MD, FACEP
-
Guest Bio
David Wright, MD, is a tenured associate professor
of emergency medicine and director, Emergency
Neurosciences, Department of Emergency
Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Wright is actively involved in both the
preclinical and clinical assessment of traumatic
brain injury (TBI) and stroke. He is Principal
Investigator (PI) of the NIH funded multicenter
Phase III clinical trial, ProTECTTM (Progesterone for
TBI, experimental clinical treatment) and serves as PI of the Emory hub for the NIH Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network and Co-PI of the Emory hub for the new NIH Stroke Network.
Another one of Dr. Wright’s goals is to transform healthcare through the development of advanced technologies, especially for neurological diseases. He is an adjunct faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and works closely with an elite team of engineers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute where he participates in numerous concussion research and technology development endeavors. He is currently one of the top 3 NIH funded emergency medicine researchers in the United States. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA
It may not be easy, but there are ways to make a clean break on good terms.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File train_your_body/1516tb2a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Neal Pire & Grace DeSimone
- Organization ACSM
-
Guest Bio
Neal Pire is a nationally noted expert on fitness and personal training. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and has served on the Executive Council of ACSM's credentialing arm, the Committee on Certification and Registry Boards. Neal served as vice president of a leading national health management company and now serves as an Exercise Physiologist at HNH Fitness, a medical fitness center in Oradell, NJ. He is widely sought after as a consultant for athlete training programs, performance enhancement centers and fitness industry management. As a 35-year veteran with deep understanding of the subject matter, he is often asked for background, commentary or analysis by media covering wellness, fitness, and personal training.
Grace DeSimone has been in the fitness industry for over 30 years and brings a variety of experiences in commercial, corporate and community settings. She is the editor of ACSMs Resources for Group Exercise Instructors (LWW, 2011) and is an ACSM certified personal trainer and group exercise instructor. Grace is the National Director of Group Fitness for Plus One Health Management, an Optum Company. -
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Train Your Body | Original Air Date: April 14, 2015
Host: Melanie Cole, MS
Guests: Neal Pire & Grace DeSimone
Train your body. Here's exercise physiologist, Melanie Cole, MS.
MELANIE: On our He Said/She Said segment this week, we are talking about when do you know that it's time to break up with your trainer and how hard is it to either switch classes and stop going to a particular class or switch to another trainer in the same gym. Yikes! Are they going to speak badly of you? Are they going to tell the other trainer stuff about you?
My guests are Grace DeSimone. She's the National Director of Group Fitness for Plus One Health Management, an Optum Company, and Neal Pire. He's an exercise physiologist at HNH Fitness, a medical fitness center in Oradell, New Jersey.
So, guys. Neal, I want to start with you because the trainer thing, absolutely. I have been there so many times. I've been on both ends. I've had someone leave me and then I've had people come to me and go, “Oh, my god. I had to get away from that other trainer.” What is your best advice when you can feel it, right? You can feel when the time is right. You're snipping at each other. You don't like the stories. There's silence when you're working out. Tell us about breaking up with your trainer. How do you do it?
NEAL: It's like any relationship. One of the things I tell trainers all the time that I work with on their professional development is that, you know, there is a personal side to this whole personal training thing and it's very easy to open up the vault, if you will, and you know, share parts of your personal life and personal things and it's very easy to become “chummy-chummy” with a client and for a client to become “chummy” with you because you're actually working with them on a very personal basis. You're touching, working, training their body. You know? How much more personal do you want to get? And, it's very easy for them to lose the spark, if you will, that you always feel when you're starting something new like any relationship. Then, you know, after a while, it becomes a little repetitive, a little ho hum and you don't feel that spark any more.
M: So, what do you do? So then, what do you do about it? Do you actually tell the person? Because this is what everybody always asks, Neal. Do you tell the trainer, “I need to stop seeing you now and I need to go find...” or do you just silently go to the front desk and say, “I'd like to make an appointment with that guy over there because he looks really great,” and then you just don't make another appointment with your trainer or, if they're an in-home, how do you do it? We don't have a lot of time here.
N: Disclosure is key. You have to be honest as you go and as you're feeling things. You have to be honest with the trainer and tell them, you know, what you're feeling at the moment. You know, “I don't feel as excited or as enthusiastic as I did when we first started. You know? Do I need to do something or...” and that's a signal for the trainer to have to do something.
M: Okay. So, you be honest. You tell them. And the trainer says “Let me see if I can fix it. Let me see if,” and you say “You know what? I don't want to hear about your kids anymore. I just can't really...” I mean, the silence. For me, Neal, I've had too many uncomfortable sessions before I've stopped working with somebody and it goes both ways.
Now, before we continue that, Grace. What about the same thing with classes? Is it different than a one-on-one with a trainer. If you just don't want to go to this person's class anymore, but you go to the class after them, but you feel like you want to hide from that first instructor. You never want to see the in the gym because they're going to be like, “How come I haven't seen you in class in 3 weeks?” What do you say to them when they say that to you?
GRACE: Well, it is a relationship and it really depends on how deep your relationship is with that instructor. I mean, some people, you're friends outside, you go out for drinks, you get your families together. So, sometimes it can be really uncomfortable, but I'll give you two strategies. One, thank them. “Thank you so much, Melanie. I love your class. You've taught me so well, but you know what? I need a little change and I'm going to try something different,” because most of us tell the class, please include variety. So, it's something that I preach all the time. So, first all of all, “Thank you. I love you. I'm going to try something different like you tell me I always can. I'm going to be brave and I'm going to make the change. You know what? I'm hoping that I'm going to come back, too, but I want to do something a little bit different.” That's easy. If you really can't stomach that, and then you say, you tell a little white lie. “I've had a change in my schedule.”
M: That's what I was going to ask. Are you allowed to lie?
G: Yes, sure. You can. I think the easiest thing is just to face the person. Saying thank you, it will go, you know, such a long way and make you both feel better and very often, deep down inside, you are grateful, it's just that you really do need a change and all of those things that you were describing before, you start getting fussy and antsy and you don't like them and you don't like their music and all of that and you get agitated. It really is better for you to move on, make the change, maybe you'll say, “Wow. I really appreciate that. I'm going to go back.” Or, “You know what? I really needed the change.” So, having a little time to refresh and sort of think about what you're doing is great. So, rather than stomach—people feel like they're obligated to keep coming and usually make it worse. I say, we all understand that. And, you know what? Sometimes, we're sick of you, too.
M: Well, that's why I said it. Sometimes it goes both ways, doesn't it?
G: It does. Oh, yes.
M: And, as a trainer, I know that sometimes I've just dreaded going to a client. It's like, “Oh, my god. I've been with this person 10 years,” and it's just I dread the session and that shouldn't be a good situation for either of them.
So, Neal, back to you for some specifics if you are, say, an in-home trainer and do you just say, “I'm sorry. I need to go in another way?” Do you lie or tell that little white lie and say, “My schedule has changed and I'm not sure our times will gel anymore?” But, what about in the gym when they see you with another trainer.
N: Well, the best approach, I think, is truth. Telling the truth and keep in mind that most of the time, variety, motivation, inspiration is really your job as the fitness professional to keep moving the process forward to meet the participant's expectations while providing an experience that exceeds their expectations. So, if you work within those parameters, you usually keep things on the up and up. The big then is, whether you cut them off or they cut you off, never take it personally. And, that way, there are no regrets. That's why I like the truth up front. Being up front. “You know what, Mary? I think it's time for me to throw you out of the nest just for the time being. See how you feel. Work with what I've given you and see where it takes you.”
M: What if they say to you, what if they go with another trainer? Do they worry that their trainer's going to be, “Oh, yeah. She's so difficult, man. She's so difficult to work with.” I mean, because we all know that there are difficult clients.
N: Yes, there are.
M: So, you know, how do they actually make that break? Go to another trainer, start working with them and then look over at that other trainer working with somebody else. It's such an uncomfortable situation. Just in the last 30 seconds, Neal, give us some of your best advice for the comfort level of switching your trainer and seeing that person with another trainer.
N: Again being open and expressing your—not frustration, per se, but you know, “I need a little change. I want to try this on my own.” Maybe, “I saw this trainer doing this or that.” Tell them up front and I say, “You know what? Try it. Give it a try. Do something a little different and see where that takes you.”
M: Grace, last word to you now. You have about 1 minute, so tell us about classes, trainers, things you've seen at the best way to switch it up when you need to.
G: As a reminder to the listeners, it is all about you at the end of the day. I know sometimes, trainers impose their own personal stories and you feel guilty because they really need the money, but at the end of the day, do what's right for you. I agree with Neal, be as truthful as you can and use this tactic to say, “I'd really like to come back.” Because that will reduce the tension, you know? “I'd like to try something different, but I'd like to come back.” That way the door's always open. Maybe you'll go running back with open arms and say, “Wow. I didn't realize. I really like this better.” But, really, the consumer is in charge of the process and you should do the things that you feel are appropriate for you.
M: Absolutely. That's totally true. Leaving the door open. Even with people that I've had that said, “You know, we have to stop, but I might want to come back,” five years later, I still haven't heard from them. But, you know, I still want to wish them well, but at the end of the day, as Grace and Neal said, is about you, the client, it's about your workout. So, if you need to switch classes or trainers, you've just got to knuckle up and do it. It may not be as uncomfortable as you think.
You're listening to Train Your Body right here on RadioMD. This is Melanie Cole. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Melanie Cole, MS
Donovan Green is back on the show to discuss his new book, No Excuses Fitness.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 2
- Audio File sharecare/1516sc2b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Donovan Green
-
Guest Bio
Donovan Green is the author of No Excuses Fitness, founder of www.projectslimdown.com and the personal trainer to Dr. Mehmet Oz. He has dedicated his life to getting the world healthy, one body at a time. He combines physical, mental, nutritional, and spiritual exercises designed to increase overall health. Donovan has appeared on numerous national broadcast programs, including The Dr. Oz Show. He is currently a featured video contributor on www.doctoroz.com and www.sharecare.com. Through his media appearances, Donovan has shown millions the way to a better life through fitness.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA
Each week, Dr. Darria goes over the health news you need to know to keep you and your loved ones well.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File sharecare/1516sc2a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Darria Long Gillespie, MD
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Darria Long Gillespie, MD, MBA
During the time of a recent study published in The Annals of Epidemiology, there was at least one veteran who committed suicide each day.
Each week, host Dr. Susanne Bennett shares with her listeners Nature's Secrets to a healthier body. This week: Nature's Treasures right in your kitchen spice rack.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 5
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1515wl5e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Susanne Bennett, DC
-
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 10, 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: I love to cook and I use a lot of spices, especially Asian spices and Korean spices. Not only do spices add unique and flavorful tastes to your dishes, but by using them, you'll likely use less salt and sugar, which is so much healthier for you and your family. Now, spices also contain powerful phytonutrients that can protect you from illnesses and diseases. I'm going to teach you five of my favorites.
Number one: ginger. This spicy herb has been used for thousands of years in India, Korean and Chinese medicine as an anti-inflammatory tonic fruit. It's now readily available, obviously, fresh, but it's also dried and powdered. You can even find it in juice and oil form. You may think that fresh ginger is like an ugly root, but it really, the appearance can be deceiving. It's so good for you. You just need a little bit. New studies are showing that the power of ginger as a super antioxidant and anti-diabetic remedy. It reduces blood markers called "hemoglobin A1C, insulin and glucose levels". It is an anti-inflammatory and also reduces inflammatory blood markers including c-reactive protein. Researchers also found that ginger accumulates in the GI tract and perhaps that's part of the reason why it helps us as a nausea remedy. So, it soothes nausea, vomiting and other GI distresses. Also, you can use it for pregnancy, motion sickness and even chemotherapy. Ginger is being study for a possible protective role in cancer, cardiovascular function and other diseases as well. Some people say that it helps them with congestion, phlegm build up and coughs. So, it's all different forms of symptoms and chronic illness including menstrual, arthritis pain and stomach pain. So, take a look at ginger. It's going to be one of the best for you to have daily.
Now, my number two spice is cinnamon. Cinnamon is a very common baking spice that has all sorts of significant health benefits as well. It really does taste and smell delicious. So, there's a good deal of research relating to cinnamon saying that it actually is a powerful anti-oxidant and anti-microbial agent. In addition, it helps lower blood sugar and cholesterol levels. They find that it can lower the cholesterol level, but also, at the same time, it satisfies your craving for sweets which is what we constantly deal with, since America is basically a sugar eating country.
It's been studied, also, to help possibly reducing the tangling of the protein called tau protein tangles. This is for Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's! So, it's really exciting to know that cinnamon can help with neurological input. Now, together ginger and cinnamon are the powerhouse couple of spices. I love them so much that I made an informative video on the two and how to use them to make an ancient drink called Soo Jung Gwa. You can watch that video and get the recipe at DrSusanne.com/spicedrink.
Now, number three is oregano. Oregano is one of my top spices. I love this spice. Now, it's an Italian herb and so flavorful, loaded with chemical compounds that decrease inflammation and promote good health. Mediterranean dishes actually, they are really well-known to be health and reverse the aging process. They, actually, in Mediterranean countries, they use 5-10 times more of this dried herb than what we use in North America. So, you know what? We've got to use more of this herb, oregano. Now, many of my patients grow oregano and rosemary at home right in their kitchen. So, you can do that, too yourself. Fresh and organic is the best. Oregano is high in vitamin K which promotes bone growth as well as increasing bone density. It's also an antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and you can consider this nature's antibiotic. It kills parasites, staph bacteria and even E-coli infections. It's the active ingredient in Listerine, that mouthwash that you remember many, many years ago. Now, oregano has been studied as a possible treatment therapy for diabetes and it's involved in the insulin signaling. So, it really can help reduce your blood sugar level. It's also excellent for GI antifungal and shown to reduce the bad cholesterol called "LDL". It increases the good cholesterol called "HDL" so it will help maintain a healthier overall cholesterol count in your blood stream. So, make sure that when you do get oregano, you can take it in the herb, but it's also found in liquid form and in gel caps. You an even use a few drops of oregano oil in a vaporizer or in a bowl of hot water and by inhaling it, it will soothe your nasal passages and fend off bacteria and reduce coughs.
So, what's next? Cilantro. It's one of my favorite herbs. I love to eat cilantro as a fresh herb--the leaves of the coriander plant. Now, cilantro looks a lot like parsley and often you find it at Mexican restaurants in like, let's say, guacamole or salsa. But, it's a very delicate leaf and tastes citrusy. I add it quite a bit to many of my dishes and, particularly, I love crockpot Paleo dishes and I've created one. You can find my cilantro chicken curry recipe on my website, DrSusanne.com. The reason why I love it so much, not only for the taste, but it's packed with super antioxidants. Super antioxidants will help prevent DNA damage and damage to your tissues. It's also packed with phytochemicals, so it's very, very nutrient dense. So, I also love cilantro because it's also a digestive aid and it also helps lower your blood sugar again. We keep on talking about lowering blood sugar, right? It is called the anti-diabetic plant in parts of Europe and it also lowers the saturated fats and helps control cholesterol and it's also, you know, one of the researchers, Dr. Yoshi An Aki Amoura. He discovered that when he gave his patients cilantro, it excreted toxic metals after consuming it in like a soup, like this Chinese soup type of thing that he recommended. Again, it's the leafy part of coriander, the green, leafy part. So, what he found, Dr. Amoura, was that you can detox and cleanse out toxic metals such as mercury, lead and aluminum out of the body and even the brain. The brain. So, for me, I use that quite a bit in my practice, giving cilantro tablets so that we can get the toxicity out of the brain and the less toxic metals in your brain, the cleaner and the brighter your brain will be for focusing, memory, mental clarity and remember, it's also a good digestive aid.
My last is rosemary. It's this wonderful piney scented plant in the mint family. It's excellent for skin topical issues but also for hair growth and muscle pain. This herb has a powerful antioxidant called carnosic acid and it's been evaluated to be a possible anti-cancer effect.
Now, plants can be healing and as times go by, I think you'll see more and more interest in using natural botanicals versus antibiotics and other drugs to gain health benefits without the side effects and the risk of potential pharmaceuticals. Remember, all of the top five that I spoke about will help you.
Number one, ginger, cinnamon, oregano, rosemary and cilantro. Excellent. Now, try growing your own spices right there in your own kitchen.
Okay, until then, this is Dr. Susanne. Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to serve you. I am dedicated to helping you feel the best you can today.
This is wellness for life radio and on RadioMD. See you next time.
Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Did you know that you can reduce your risk of disease by reducing the amount of sugar in your diet? Learn how to keep things sweet, yet healthy.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1515wl5d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Richard Jacoby, MD
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/sugarcrushbook
-
Guest Bio
Dr. Richard Jacoby is one of the country’s leading peripheral nerve surgeons. He practices in Scottsdale, Arizona, and specializes in the treatment of peripheral neuropathy. He is also one of the co-founders of the Scottsdale Healthcare Wound Management Center, a diplomat of the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and a member of the American Podiatry Association, the Arizona Podiatry Association, and the Association of Extremity Nerve Surgeons.
-
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 10, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Richard Jacoby, 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: My next guest estimates that 19 million Americans have undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes on top of the over 350 million diagnosed diabetics worldwide. Now, he is here to tell us why it's so important to reduce sugar intake to prevent such diseases. He's the author of the new book, Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage and Reclaim Good Health.
Welcome to the show, Dr. Richard Jacoby.
I'd like to ask you first thing, you know, often when you mention about reversing nerve damage, I talk a great deal about vitamin B's, how important vitamin B's are for stimulating and strengthening your nerve conduction and regenerating nerve, in fact. So, tell us about the Sugar Crush, your book, and how even B vitamins is linked to that.
DR JACOBY: Excellent. That's a great question because what I've done in the book is to put the neuropathy, especially the peripheral neuropathy into phases. In Phase I, we get these buzzing sensations. They come and they go and they're very sporadic that you couldn't really attribute to anything. A lot of people will call this restless leg syndrome. So, that's the small fiber neuropathy. We'll talk about that in a second. Phase II, you get these we'll call them "zingers" at the present time. They're more intense and they come and go more frequently. When you hit Phase III, you have buzzing in your feet constantly and you may be on medication. We'll talk about Lyrica and some of those drugs that kind of take the symptoms away as the process continues into process Phase IV. Phase IV, a lot of my patients say, "Doctor, I'm actually getting better. I have less pain, but you know, I'm getting more numbness." Phase V, they come in and they say, "You know what? I'm all cured. I don't feel anything. But, what's that hole in the bottom of my foot? Why does it stink?" because they've got gangrene.
DR SUSANNE: Oh, my goodness.
DR JACOBY: Very dangerous disease. Between 100,000 and 150,000 amputations a year in the United States, over a million worldwide. It doesn't have to happen. So, what can you do to reverse or stop this process? Number one: don't eat sugar in any form. I tell my patients, "If it tastes good, don't eat it unless you read the label." It always gets a chuckle, but it's true. Eighty percent of the food in the United States has high fructose corn syrup. It's everything. Even fruits and vegetables. The only fruits and vegetables that people like are the ones that are sweet. A grapefruit. Forty years ago, you had to put sugar on it, it was so tart. Today, you can eat it like an apple because it's got 10 times the amount of sugar. Fructose. So, what can you do? You can mitigate that by eliminating from your diet wheat, bread, plus fruits and vegetables, you have to be very careful because you're going to raise your blood sugar with that substance. On the vitamin side of it what can you do? Well, I think the B vitamins are very, very important and in the nitric oxide pathway and please excuse me for going into biochemistry because everybody hates that, but it's the crux to this argument. There's a substance called L-arginine and it's a semi-essential amino acid. In diabetics, they are deficient in that and you can measure that in the blood. L-arginine converts to nitrous oxide. If you have enough L-arginine, you'll get a lot of nitric oxide. You'll dilate your blood vessel, your end organ will function fine. If you don't, you get perioxynitrite. Very vasoconstrictive. So, why does one turn to the other? One, if you have L-arginine, you'll not convert or, if the co-enzyme, tetrahydrobiopterin, and we'll call that BH4, that's it's nomenclature, and what is that? It's B6, B12, folic acid and vitamin C. The higher the levels of those ingredients, then the more nitric oxide you'll produce, the more blood flow you'll get to an end organ. It doesn't matter what the end organ is. In women, I just digress to one of the problems is pelvic floor pain. That's mediated by nerve compression, pudendal nerve. The symptoms of pelvic floor pain are very similar to the symptoms you get in your feet. The number one symptom in the beginning is burning. That is because of too much sugar in your system. Now, let's go back to the formula. Vitamin C. Linus Pawling, famous for his talk in books on vitamin C and cancer. What he was saying back in the 70's was, we don't eat enough vitamin C. That statement is true, but, actually, we're eating too much sugar because the molecule of vitamin C and glucose are about 2 carbons different, both mediated by insulin. So, let me give you an example. You reach for orange juice because you think you need the vitamin C. True. But, you're really getting sugar. Lots and lots of sugar. So, both those molecules compete with insulin. So, just a little metaphor. Mr. Insulin steps into the cell and says, "What can I do for you?" and there's vitamin C standing there standing there and glucose. Glucose trumps C. C is washed out of the bloodstream and the glucose goes into the cell. So, it's then down regulating your nitric oxide pathway and you're cutting off the blood supply. So, you think you're doing the right thing, but you're not. Should you supplement with L-arginine? Yes. But you have to make sure you have the B6, B12, folic acid and vitamin C. Now, a lot of people can't absorb those B vitamins because diabetics are generally overweight and they have lots of different diseases in the alimentary canal in the stomach and in the intestine, one of which is GERD, the reflux. So, a lot of people are taking proton pump inhibitors because they're trying to mitigate or lessen the effects of hydrochloric acid in their stomach and it causes burning in their esophagus. But, it also knocks out the hydrochloric acid which you want to do, but you don't want to do that because you need that hydrochloric acid to break down protein and the B12 is in meat. So, a good thing and a bad thing. So, you need a supplement, in my opinion. Otherwise, you're going to cause a grave process of losing your nitric oxide. I hope that explains it without too much detail.
DR SUSANNE: No, you did such a great job. I love the fact that you are a true believer in supplementation because I am as well. As we get older, we have a difficult time absorbing these nutrients as well. When you have sugar and, everyone, what I want to talk about is that B vitamins are very important if you drink alcohol. Alcohol is a sugar and it really reduces your ability to maintain your B vitamins in your body, isn't that right? I know you recommend in your book, Sugar Crush, I know you recommend a low carbohydrate diet. It's called a ketogenic diet. We only have about 1 minute and maybe, if you can, just explain what the ketogenic diet means.
DR JACOBY: It means the absence of carbohydrates in any form. The body will go into ketosis and produce ketones and it's ketones—I talk about cancer in this book as well. Otto Warhburg, in 1931, got the Nobel Prize for what I'm going to tell you: sugar causes cancer. He said that ketones kill cancer cells because they can't metabolize ketones. They die. They need sugar and, specifically, fructose. So, that's his theory in 1931. I tell my oncology friends, I say, "He got the Nobel prize. Not the Marvel comic book prize. The Nobel Prize. Yet, you never hear any talk about him." There is some new literature that proves his point, once again. The answer is, sugar. Low carbohydrate diet means a ketogenic diet. So, I'm kind of over towards the Paleo type meal. If you can't pronounce words, you shouldn't be eating it.
DR SUSANNE: Thank you. Dr. Jacoby, such great information. If you want to learn more about the book, Sugar Crush, I put it on my Wellness for Life Radio show page on RadioMD.
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
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
We use it to sweeten just about everything; but did you know that what sugar does to your body is, well, not so sweet?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File wellness_for_life/1515wl5c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Richard Jacoby, MD
- Guest Website Sugar Crush
- Guest Facebook Account facebook.com/sugarcrushbook
-
Guest Bio
Dr. Richard Jacoby is one of the country’s leading peripheral nerve surgeons. He practices in Scottsdale, Arizona, and specializes in the treatment of peripheral neuropathy. He is also one of the co-founders of the Scottsdale Healthcare Wound Management Center, a diplomat of the American Board of Podiatric Surgery and a member of the American Podiatry Association, the Arizona Podiatry Association, and the Association of Extremity Nerve Surgeons.
-
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Wellness for Life Radio | Original Air Date: April 10, 2015
Host: Susanne Bennett, DC
Guest: Richard Jacoby, 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.
DR SUSANNE: According most nutritional experts and doctors alike, sugar is known to make you gain unwanted pounds, but did you also know that it's linked to severe life-threatening diseases? Staying healthy is all about keeping informed. My next guest is the author of a ground-breaking book, Sugar Crush: How to Reduce Inflammation, Reverse Nerve Damage and Reclaim Good Health. He is here to inform you about the dangers of sugar.
Thanks for being on Wellness for Life, Dr. Richard Jacoby. Now, please tell us, the listeners, what inspired you to look into sugars?
DR JACOBY: Well, first of all, thank you for having me on and I want to just reiterate, I'm standing as I'm speaking to you because I listened to your previous guest. And, you're standing. That's a very important part of what I'm going to talk about today. Sugar Crush is about how sugar destroys nerves not only the diabetic peripheral neuropathy, the nerves in the feet and the legs, but every nerve in your body. My contention is that all these diseases that we're talking about from Alzheimer's to autism and from MS to diabetic peripheral neuropathy, are really the same disease. I go into the biochemistry of how sugar destroys your nerves and I go into the particular end organ damage that it produces. That's the crux of the book.
DR SUSANNE: You know, when I took a look at the just the beginning, the intro, and the table of contents, in the beginning you wrote, literally, a little diagram that says "sugar equals chronic inflammation plus trauma" and what that equals is "nerve damage, pain and dysfunction". I am a total strong proponent of what you're saying about inflammation and sugar. Can you talk about that a bit because people don't realize inflammation is really the root cause. Of course, sugar is what causes inflammation, but it's also the root cause of these debilitating diseases that we deal with every day.
DR JACOBY: Absolutely. In my book, I trace the history of sugar back into the 1500's, right after Columbus actually brought sugar to the New World. That's why the United States is here today, because of sugar. It was a very valuable commodity brought back to London. It was about 1,000 pounds in those days and in today's money. The rich ate sugar. That's why the rich started to get the problems. If you look through the historical accounts of these diseases like Bell's palsy, Alzheimer's was unknown. There's a lot of reasons why the never got to that point because most people died of infectious diseases, but those people who did live longer died of chronic disease, diabetes mellitus, which means to siphon sugar out of your body. What we're doing is poisoning ourselves with an excessive amount of sugar. Every person today eats about 150 pounds of sugar and maybe 100 years ago, it was only 5 pounds. But, it's more than the genome, our genes, can handle. In the 70's when high fructose corn syrup hit the market, it's been replacing regular table sugar with an artificial sugar that's made from corn. I get into the genetically modified production of that. Few people know that high fructose corn syrup is made with sodium hydroxide. That's a caustic acid that's made with mercury. Mercury gets into our food supply. When I started to look at all these different diseases, it came to me to be the same disease. I'll give you an example. Carpal tunnel, which is the wrist, the median nerve, causes numbness and tingling and eventually, loss of function. Prior to 1960, there were 12 reported cases in the literature. There were close to 500,000 surgeries last years. It was thought that it was a mechanical problem. The computer came on the scene in the early 70's. People were using typewriters prior to that. Typewriters had a lot of force. A computer keyboard really has very little force but what was next to the keyboard was the can of Coke. Coca Cola. That's what they were drinking, but they didn't realize what was in that can was what was causing the problem. The metabolic changes of the nerve. There are three biomechanical pathways. Number one is called the polyol pathway. Sugar gets in the nerve and breaks down to sorbitol. Sorbitol's an alcohol sugar. It pulls water into the nerve and the nerve swells. The malleolar reaction, the second chemical pathway, sugar plus a protein makes the nerve very brittle and less flexible. So, we have a swelling nerve. At the same time, the nerve can't swell and it gets trapped. So, that's called a compression neuropathy. At the wrist, we call it carpal tunnel, but it's the same process throughout the body. The third pathway is called the nitric oxide pathway. When you have sugar blocking that pathway, you have vasoconstriction of the blood vessel and you can't get enough blood to the part. So, it doesn't matter if the brain, Alzheimer's—by the way, the first symptom is compression of the olfactory nerve, cranial nerve number one. Your sense of smell. So, we discuss, in the book, all these end organ damages and how those receptors are affected. So, on the foot, you can't feel because you have mechanical receptors underneath the skin. Your nose is the chemical receptor. Your ears, obviously, and auditory receptor. So, every one of these receptors is being damaged. The face, the facial nerve, number 7, we call it Bell's Palsy only because Dr. Bell, in the 1800's described it. He didn't know about this biochemistry. So, what I've done is taken the literature. It's in the literature. Thousands of articles describe the effects of sugar. I just put them together. Hopefully, in a comprehensive, understandable book. It's very difficult to take biochemistry to the masses. Hopefully, we did that in this book.
DR SUSANNE: Well, you know, just your describing it as the three different ways that you can damage nerves really explains it all, too. Now, I know that a lot of people don't understand what nerve damage and the subtle symptoms that you may be having. Like you're saying, if you can't smell as well, you're ears are going and you have, let's say, a little bit of buzzing tonight. You can't feel like the fingertips, you know? And, you just feel a little bit more deadening and numbness in your fingers and even burning pain in your feet. Now, are there any other symptoms that we should know about to actually talk to our doctors possibly that it might be a sugar problem?
DR JACOBY: Yes. I have a test in the book and we go through these different symptoms: elevated blood pressure is one of them because the blood vessel is getting less flexible. That's part of the nitric oxide effect, plus the malleolar; then, you have a test to kind of go through all your different "itis" things. Sinusitis and all those types of problems that seem unrelated. Migraines are the perfect example. In the 1600's, Lady Conway, a very wealthy and successful woman who was a philosopher who had chronic migraines. Her physician was Dr. Willis. He's the father of neurology and Gray's Anatomy, the circle of Willis around your neck. He did the original autopsy on her and he actually made the first reference to inflammation in the brain that was lying next to a nerve and a blood vessel. That's what we're studying. I took these concepts up to Stanford, discussed this with Dr. Cook who's a vascular biologist and he was able to measure that. Dr. Dillwyn from Johns' Hopkins and investigators all over the country. At Harvard there are several. They understand this from a very basic biochemical standpoint but they just really never put it into clinical practice for the patient to understand.
DR SUSANNE: Well, I really look forward to reading your book more in depth. I'm so excited because it's a brand new book, everyone out there. I want to thank you again, Dr. Jacoby, for being here with us. If you want to learn more about Dr. Jacoby's book, Sugar Crush, I put it on my link on my Wellness for Life radio show page on RadioMD.com.
Again, go check out his book, Sugar Crush. It's excellent.
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
- Waiver Received No
- Host Susanne Bennett, DC
Listen in as Dr. Mike provides the answers to a wealth of health and wellness questions.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 5
- Audio File healthy_talk/1515ht5e.mp3
- Organization Life Extension
- Guest Website Healthy Talk MD
-
Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Healthy Talk | Original Air Date: April 10, 2015
Host: Michael 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: That's AskDrMikeSmith@RadioMD.com. I could use more questions, so send me whatever you want to talk about. It can be an idea you have. It can be a question about drugs, disease, acupuncture. As I said, I have a whole staff of health advisors at Life Extension that help me answer questions, so send them. Send them my way.
So, this question comes from Diane: "With April being National Autism Month, are there any new theories of autism? Thanks for your show. Diane."
So, when I get questions like this, to me this is kind of like an update kind of question about a disease or a condition and so I've got tell you, I'm not just saying this because I'm the Senior Health Scientist for Life Extension. You know, we have over 140 some odd protocols that are updated with this kind of information. So, I went to LifeExtension.com and went to their "Autism Protocol" so the first thing that I want to mention, it is National Autism Month and I encourage you to go check out, I think, oh shoot. I didn't write the website down. I think it's the NationalAutismAssociation.com, but just Google it. There are just different ways you can help in terms of helping to raise money and awareness. So, go check out some of those sites.
Back to the question that Diane has: "What are some of the new theories?" Well, I think the first one is inflammation and, specifically, inflammation that happens in utero, when the embryo is developing. There are, you know, some studies that are looking at the effects of certain inflammatory proteins and one, in particular, NF-kappa beta. When that is high in the mom, for a variety of reasons, maybe even autoimmune disorders, chronic infections, whatever, when NF-kappa beta is high, it does cross into the placenta, into the developing embryo, and that has been shown to increase the risk of autism, so, again, why and how? The specifics is still not worked out, but more and more researchers are looking at in utero inflammation. Inflammatory mediators passing from mom to embryo. That seems to be a current theory. Another theory would be the genetics. Wait. I'm sorry. Let me back up. I missed this. Again, this comes from the Life Extension protocol. This is about the inflammation again. I wanted to read this.
A study published last year, so, this protocol that Life Extension was updated at the end of 2014, so this is a study published in 2013. So, a study published in 2013 followed 1.2 million pregnant women in Finland and measured the expectant mothers' levels of c-reactive protein, one of those inflammatory mediators. You know, the higher the level, it's an indication that there's some inflammation. Researchers found a 43% increased risk in children of mothers with the highest levels of c-reactive protein."
So, that's, again cause/effect? No. Association? Yes. So, there's an inflammatory component, an inflammatory association with the risk of developing autism. AF-kappa beta, in this case, c-reactive protein. There are several other inflammatory proteins that could be involved. So, the question becomes, "What's going on?" I mean, how, number one, we need to be managing inflammation in moms. That's right there. Is it the pregnancy in some women that causes higher inflammation? Is it smoldering, chronic infections that haven't been diagnosed? Do we need to be working that up in pregnant women initially? I mean, does that need to be part of the normal work up now? So, these are all questions now that are coming out from some of these studies.
So, inflammation is, I think, probably the leading theory right now. Now, there's also a genetic component. A study published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzed the brain tissue of children with autism. This was done by scientists from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, Washington. They looked at 25 genes in the brain tissue of deceased children with and without autism, including genes that have been linked to autism as well as several control genes. So, they took children that died, with and without autism, and they identified, or they looked at 25 different genes. Some of them associated with autism, some of them not associated with autism. Those are the control genes. Researchers found that the brains of autistic children were missing key genetic markers across multiple layers of brain cells. This was the first study to actually look at the brains of children because, until it was done, scientists had only ever studied the brain tissue of adults with autism and sought to figure out what may have occurred developmentally when the patient was diagnosed as a child.
So now, this is the first study really looking at the brains of kids, identifying certain genetic defects. Now, we've got to go back, map those genetic defects and maybe we can start developing some genetic markers for autism. So, here you have inflammation on one hand, and potentially some genetic markers on the other.
The third one, and this theory may be more associated with the inflammatory theory that I already talked about, but it has to do with autoimmune disorders in the mom. Studies have also shown that women with autoimmune diseases are more likely to produce a kind of antibody that attacks the brain of the developing fetus. So, again, I don't know...I didn't look into what that antibody was, what type of autoimmune disorder, so those are all questions. Maybe we can go back to Life Extension and see if there was some more there. But, again, moms with autoimmune disorders apparently make certain auto antibodies—that's what we call them. They do cross into the developing embryo and can cause some brain damage in the developing fetus.
Why? But, it brings up the question, though. What's driving all of this? So, here you have an inflammatory theory, okay? A really nice Finland study. 1.2 million women looking at CRP in women that had high levels of CRP, and had an increased risk of having a kid with autism. I mean, that's well-established. There's studies with NF-kappa beta and other inflammatory markers. You have this genetic analysis going on and you've got this link to this auto antibody. Again, it brings up the question, though.
Well, why now? Why are we seeing such a sharp rise in autism? And, I do think it is reasonable to believe that on one level, maybe 20-30 years ago, we didn't recognize autism and the spectrum of autistic disorders. I know when I was in medical school, we didn't appreciate all of that. That was just, you know, gosh, almost 20 years ago. I mean, 20 years ago, we didn't have an appreciation for the spectrum of autistic symptoms and disorders. We didn't learn that. So, one hand, we are recognizing it better which may be driving some of the increased diagnosis, but when you factor that out, there's a definite increase in autism and we have this inflammatory theory; this genetic theory; this autoimmune theory. What's driving all of this?
Well, a lot of doctors really think that we need to think of the chemical toxins in our environment that is that overarching umbrella that's driving the inflammation; driving some of these autoantibodies; driving some of these genetic abnormalities and we need some more transparency and understanding of what chemicals are out there; what dangers they may or may not pose. We just don't have that kind of information and it's time that I think we do. So, there you go.
This is Health Talk on RadioMD. I'm Dr. Mike. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received No
- Internal Notes NO GUEST
- Host Mike Smith, MD
