Some might say, "cancer is a diagnosis; suicide is a choice." It's not that simple.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1524ns3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Mary Jean Teachman
- Guest Website Mary Jean Teachman
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Guest Bio
Mary Jean Teachman was born in Detroit, Michigan. She went to the University of Detroit where she studied pre-law and mathematics. She married and had two children, Arthur Forrest Tull II and Valarie Tull. She later divorced, was single for four years, married Mort D. Lieberman and was then widowed after 18 years of marriage. She found love again with Dr. Gerard W. Teachman and has been married for 23 years. She had a successful career for eight years as a runway and print model and appeared in Vogue magazine.
A longtime activist, she started and ran a successful campaign-RABAC: "Real Americans Buy American Cars” in the early 80’s. She distributed bumper stickers and gave interviews to the print and broad cast media. At one point, a representative from the Japanese government came to interview her because they felt threatened by this movement. Gradually the unions adopted the project, which developed into their “Buy American” campaign.
She was President of Groesbeck Investments for ten years and President of MIRA (Mental Illness Research Association) for three years and a board member for ten. In Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, she sits on the board of the John E. Upledger Foundation, an international healthcare resource center recognized worldwide. She was also president of the Juno Beach Chapter of the Florida Shore and Beach Association, a key player in the restoration of the beaches, and a major part of the restoration of the first beach renourishment in the early 1990s. She has been active in numerous charities, and has served as chairperson for many charitable events.
She and her husband reside in Juno Beach, Florida, and Asheville, North Carolina, with their cat, Jackson. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes repeat guest
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Whether you're planning to give birth at home or in a hospital, a midwife can be an excellent option.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1524ns3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Patricia Harman, MSN
- Book Title Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's Journey
- Guest Website Patricia Harman
- Guest Twitter Account @PatsyHarman
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Guest Bio
Patricia Harman has spent over 30 years caring for women as a midwife, first as a lay-midwife, delivering babies in cabins and on communal farms in West Virginia, and later as a nurse-midwife in teaching hospitals and in a community hospital birthing center.
She spent over a decade in the sixties and seventies in her wild youth living in rural communes in Washington (Tolstoy Farm), Connecticut (The Committee for Non-Violent Action) and Minnesota (Free Folk). During the Vietnam years, she and her husband, Tom Harman, traveled the country, often hitchhiking, as they looked for a place to settle. In 1974 they purchased a farm with a group of like-minded friends on top of a ridge in Roane County, West Virginia. Here on the commune, they built log houses, dug a pond, grew and preserved their own food and started the Growing Tree Natural Foods Cooperative.
It was during this time that Patsy attended her first home birth, more or less by accident. "Some people are destined," she has written. "I was staying at a woman friend's commune when she went into labor and I ended up delivering my first baby." Soon after, Harman traveled to Austin, Texas, to train with a collective of home-birth midwives. When she returned, she became one of the founding members of The West Virginia Cooperative of Midwives. Her passion for caring for women and babies led her to become an RN as the first step in getting licensed as certified nurse midwife. In 1985, with her children, a yowling cat and her husband she traveled north, pulling a broken down trailer to begin her training at the University of Minnesota where she received her MSN in Nurse-Midwifery.
For the past 20 years, Ms. Harman has been a nurse-midwife on the faculty of The Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University and most recently West Virginia University. In 1998 she went into private practice with her husband, Tom, an OB/GYN, in Morgantown, West Virginia. Here they devoted their lives to caring for women and bringing babies into the world in a gentle way. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes repeat guest
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Do you suffer from "scattered brain syndrome"? Learn why multitasking is bad for your health.
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1524ns3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Devora Zack, Author
- Book Title Singletasking: Get More Done, One Thing at a Time
- Guest Website Only Connect Consulting
- Guest Twitter Account @devora_zack
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Guest Bio
Devora Zack is author of the newly published, Singletasking (Berrett-Koehler 2015), as well as the internationally released, award-winning, Networking for People Who Hate Networking (Berrett-Koehler 2010) and Managing for People Who Hate Managing (Berrett-Koehler 2012). She is CEO of Only Connect Consulting, Inc. (OCC), providing leadership programs to 100+ clients.
Ms. Zack has keynoted for Smithsonian, National Institute of Health, John Deere, U.S. Department of Energy, Urban Land Institute, National Association for Women Business Owners, Treasury Executive Institute, and Mensa International.
She serves as visiting faculty for Cornell University’s business school, teaching leadership and networking to international MBAs. She has been invited twice to tour Australia by the Australian Institute of Management. Additional sample clients include London Business School, Deloitte, America Online, U.S. Department of Education, and TSA. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
How does manifestation work? Or, more importantly, does it work?
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- Segment Number 5
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1523ns3e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Shaman Isabella Stoloff
- Guest Website Orange County Healing Center
- Guest Twitter Account @isabellastoloff
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Guest Bio
Shaman Isabella Stoloff is a dynamic leader. She founded the Orange County Healing Center in 2009 and since that time has committed herself to leaving the world a better place. Isabella has been called the Golden Condor and World Ambassador. She has traveled to connect people to their inner wisdom and provide ceremonies for the land. She has a full time practice, writes articles, a YouTube channel, and does guest spots to carry the message of enlightenment. Isabella is a mother and grandmother and understands what is needed today to raise a conscious family. Shaman Isabella feels honored to be on the planet during this time of great awakening. She feels once you empower yourself through positive thought and action you will feel connected and centered. Isabella’s message is to awaken to the light that you are, so you can become the Shaman in your own life.
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: June 3, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis, MPH
Guest: Shaman Isabella Stoloff
She’s not here to judge. She’s here to report the honest news on healthy living. She’s Andrea Donsky along with Lisa Davis. It’s time for Naturally Savvy.
ANDREA: What does it mean to manifest something? When you really want something to happen and today we’re going to talk about using clear intentions to manifest and our wonderful guest, Shaaman Isabella Stoloff is going to jump into that. Isabella, welcome back.
ISABELLA: Thank you, guys. Thank you so much for having me again. Here we go, right?
ANDREA: We love having you on.
ISABELLA: I love being on. I love your show. I’m listening to this guy give you kudos. The last guy that was on. Decluttering is really important. Everyone. We’ve all got to “out with the old and in with the new” but, you know, how he was just praising you and I just love being on the show. I love your show. You’ve got to get more listeners. It’s true. There’s a certain vibration that’s happening with your show and, you know, it’s one of a kind. I don’t know any other show out there like it. Please, listeners, please, please Facebook, get people listening because it’s a very beneficial show. I mean it’s just fantastic.
ANDREA: Thanks, Isabella; that is very kind of you to say. We appreciate that. That’s very sweet and we love our show, too. We do love doing it. Let’s move on to manifesting. So, let’s manifest everything that we’re talking about. Give us some tips. So, for people who are listening, I’m a huge believer in manifesting and I love everything about the concept of making things happen for us and, you know, asking our angels, asking the universe. What are some tips people can do in order to manifest things for themselves?
ISABELLA: Well, the first thing I want to say, I always do this, don’t I? Well, the first thing I want to point out is that people, we’re so desperate to manifest and when it doesn’t happen right away we give up. We say, “Oh, you know, I’ve been trying to manifest that forever and it’s never come true,” and then what happens is you give the universe the wrong signal. So, I manifested my house, a darling little Orange County Healing Center that you came down and took a look at.
ANDREA: I saw. I loved it. Yes.
ISABELLA: You love my little place, right? Well, I created that. That was a manifestation from 15 years ago. So, it’s not that it happens right away guys. Just be patient. The universe, you know, there’s a long list of things that we need and want but what I have found is that the clearer you are in what you’re creating, your intention for manifesting, the clearer you are, the quicker it’s going to come to you. So, here’s a great story. As many of you know, I’ve been traveling. I just got back on Monday night so I’m still a little jet-lagged but bear with me. I had no idea. First of all, let’s start there. I had no idea that I was going on this European tour to seek and heal and teach and do ceremony but I had no idea. I was at a wedding in Las Vegas and somebody put something up about Egypt. My father made a film in Egypt in Cairo in the 30’s and I said “Oh! You know, I really want to go to Egypt and you know what? I need to London again. I’ll do the summer solstice London,” and this just sort of started happening. It manifested so quickly. I called my contacts in London and she said, “You know, we’re doing Ibiza? Why don’t you come to Ibiza?” Okay, yes. She needed a driver. I said, “Sure, I’ll be your driver.” The demonic driver. So, I manifested the Ibiza trip. While I was there, one of the gentlemen took my last trip to Peru, my last space. I only had one space for a man left although now I’m thinking about opening it up to five more people just because the universe is asking me to take more but so he took the last space and manifested that. He wanted this hat, he said, “Can you help me out? I really want to get this hat. I want to have an Ibiza hat.” You know Ibiza’s in the sea of Spain, a little island and so he said, “What does it look like Isabella?” I said, “What does it look like?” He said, “Yeah, you know is it white, is it black.” and I started to describe the hat to a T. I said it will be cream, it will be straw. It will have brown band. You know he was asking me the questions. I was very, very clear. We turned the corner; there was a huge hat stand. Now, I kid you not, you guys there was no hats, we’d been looking for days. The minute I got clear for him on the intention and we turned the corner. I walked right up to the hat and said, “There it is. That’s your hat. The hat I just saw.”
ANDREA: That’s awesome.
ISABELLA: You know, this is how clear you need to be and then you let it go. You know, you’re clear. You say your prayers over it but let it go. Just because of when you—
ANDREA: That’s the hard part.
ISABELLA: That’s the hard part, right? You’re like, “But I didn’t get it yet. So, maybe I need to fine tune it a bit and maybe I need to pull it back out the drawer and take a look at that again.” No. Let it go. Get on to the next thing. So, I manifested from there, Italy and Holland. I spoke to a group in Holland and, you know, it was just, it was a manifestation. This month has flown, I mean that month is gone. It’s just flown by.
ANDREA: So, Isabella, I just want to get some clarity on something. So, you said before that, you know, some people will try and manifest things and then we give up on that when it doesn’t happen and then in another conversation, later on in the conversation you were like, “You know, let it go.” So, I just want to be clear what that means. So, when we’re trying to manifest something, we ask for it within a clear intention. We ask for it, could we ask for it many, many times? Can we say prayers every single morning? You know, I talk to God and my angels all the time. Is it something that we should do on a regular basis or is it something, when you say let it go does it mean to detach? Just a little bit of clarity.
ISABELLA: Right. So, when I say, “Let it go,” I mean don’t hold on to it with a desperation grasp.
ANDREA: Ah! Okay.
ISABELLA: I taught this. Years ago, I taught about how do you pray? Do you pray? Well, many of us have forgotten how to pray. Many people don’t even know how to pray. So, I think pray. I just made a little video. Go to my Facebook page and you’ll see this little video about trusting yourself. So, I think pray. Prayers are from your heart, right? So, when you speak from your heart, that’s when you’re praying, to the god of your own understanding, to your higher self or to yourself. Well I…You know, it comes from the heart. So, it’s coming from a place of love. So, you’ve created this beautiful intention, you’ve set this beautiful manifestation in process and you let it go from your heart with light and love knowing that it will come highest and best good no harm to anyone when it needs to come to you. But what we do is, we don’t usually do that. We usually pray from a place of desperation, “Oh, god please. I need this. I’m going to die without it [inaudible 7:02]. Okay, I got to have it. It’s got to be perfect. Oh, shoot. No. I didn’t make that perfect manifestation. I didn’t mean yellow. I meant blue,” like you don’t give the universe any room to give you what you need. So, it’s like a flow. So, if you can pray and you can breathe and you can say, “Yeah, it could be this beautiful cream-colored hat with brown band and kind of brim and I can sort of see it in my mind,” and I let it go into the universe so the universe can make that happen for me.
ANDREA: Right.
ISABELLA: With the house, right? With the house, I had a very clear intention of the house and I had no idea I would be a Shaaman so I was teaching acting to little kids and every Saturday morning, you’d know there’d be a class at my house. So, it didn’t quite turn out that way, I’m teaching Shaamanism at children’s acting but pray from an open heart. Don’t pray from a place of desperation. Pray from a place of confidence, knowing that you are a divine magical being and you deserve the best.
LISA: Oh, I like that. Well, how do you define clear intention is what I’m curious about. How do you know you have…that your intention is clear?
ISABELLA: Okay, so clear intention. Are you coming from a place of beauty? Are you coming from a place of delicious, yummy clear intention from a high vibration? Are you coming from a place of guilt, maybe not in the highest integrity? You know, not really caring if you’re going to step on somebody to get it where you need to go? You know, you’ve got to hold a very high clear vibe or else it backfires. You know? That’s just how I look at it. I always say highest and best good, no harm to anyone. This is what I wish for and you know sometimes it just takes time, you guys. It takes time but start to play with the angels. Start to play with the elements. When you see a feather on the ground look at that feather and say, “Thank you, angels. Thank you for being with me today.”
ANDREA: I love that, Isabella. I mean, this conversation I could have literally all day long so this is right up my alley. I love it, we have to go Isabella but you know what we’re going to have you back on. Yes. I’m just going to tell them right now.
So, you can find Isabella, perfect, OCHealingCenter.com and you can also follow her on Twitter @isabellstoloff. I’m Andrea Donsky along with Lisa Davis. This Naturally Savvy Radio on RadioMD. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Look around the room that you're in right now, whether it's your kitchen, bedroom or office. Could you pick out five or 10 things you simply don't need?
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- Segment Number 4
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1523ns3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Cornell Thomas, Author & Motivational Speaker
- Book Title The Power of Me
- Guest Website Power of Positivity
- Guest Twitter Account @cornellthomas
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Guest Bio
Cornell Thomas is a basketball coach, trainer, life coach, motivational speaker, and author. Through his program Crossroads Basketball he has helped hundred of kids in the last nine years reach their goals. For the last four years Cornell has been inspiring and motivating people of all ages through his own motivational quotes and blog site at www.powerofpositivity.net
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
If you're expecting a baby, you might be excited to decorate the nursery. Unfortunately, if you aren't careful, you can expose your baby to a host of toxic chemicals.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1523ns3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Lisa & Ron Beres, Certified Green Building Professionals
- Book Title Just GREEN It! Simple Swaps to Save the Planet + Your Health
- Guest Website Ron and Lisa: The Healthy Home Dream Team
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/RonandLisaTheHealthyHomeDreamTeam
- Guest Twitter Account @RonandLisa
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Guest Bio
Lisa and Ron Beres are Certified Green Building Professionals, Building Biologists and published authors of several books including Just GREEN It! and the children's book, My Body My House. In addition to testing the health of homes, their consulting business includes celebrities and Fortune 500's. They are award winning television media experts and have appeared on The Rachael Ray Show, The Suzanne Show, The Doctors, Fox & Friends, The Today Show with Matt Lauer, NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, Discovery’s Greenovate and Chelsea Lately on E!
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes repeat guest
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
We all make mistakes; we're human, after all. The key is to learn from them and move on.
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- Segment Number 2
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1523ns3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Johnny Lops, MD
- Book Title Reinvent Yourself: Essential Tools from a Brooklyn Psychiatrist Who has Seen it All
- Guest Website Dr. Johnny Lops
- Guest Twitter Account @drjohnnylops
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Guest Bio
Dr. Johnny Lops is a practicing psychiatrist in Brooklyn, NY. He is the former team psychiatrist for the Brooklyn Nets. His new book is Reinvent Yourself: Essential Tools from a Brooklyn Psychiatrist Who has Seen it All (Tailwinds Press, May 2015). An accomplished actor and film producer, Lops has starred in numerous stage productions, as well as commercials for Sprite, Budlight, and the NY Knicks. He is the medical advisor for the boxing website, thesweetscience.com and the medical advisor to the new independent film in production, Life Hack.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Internal Notes repeat guest
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Mushrooms been used medicinally for for thousands of years. Which varieties are the most beneficial?
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- Segment Number 1
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1523ns3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Patrick Fratellone, MD
- Guest Website Fratellone Medical
- Guest Twitter Account @patric1939
- Guest Bio Patrick Fratellone is one of the few intergrative physician with a medical degree (MD) as well as being a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbal Guild. Although his conventional training was in Internal Medicine and Cardiology- the scope of his practices is vast. He trained with both Andrew Weil MD and Tierona LowDog MD RH at the Fellowship of Integrative Medicine at the Uniersity of Arizona. He has written the forward to two recent books: My Journey with Celiac Disease: Jennifer Esposito and the Tracy Piper Protocol by Tracy Piper. He writes a daily blog, and has a weekly internet radio show. www.fratellonemedical.com.
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Transcription
RadioMD Presents: Naturally Savvy | Original Air Date: June 3, 2015
Hosts: Andrea Donsky, RHN & Lisa Davis, MPH
Guest: Patrick Fratellone, MD
Your organic search is over. Here’s Naturally Savvy with health experts Andrea Donsky and Lisa Davis.
LISA: Last night with dinner I took some mushrooms--just regular old button organic mushrooms--and I sautéed them in some avocado garlic oil that I got and it was so good. Now at the time, I wasn’t thinking about the health benefits but now I’m like, “Wait a second. Are these really great for me?” Apparently mushrooms are good for you and I’m so excited. Andrea has something to say. Did you make mushrooms too?
ANDREA: Well, you were like, “I took some mushrooms”. I’m like, “Wait. Is this conversation going somewhere that I wasn’t sure about?”
LISA: Okay. I have a funny story which I’ll tell at some point about that. I didn’t take them but I was working at a camp and this guy sent them to me in my care package and I’m like,
“Why?” As a teenager, I’m like, “Why did you do that? Are you trying to get me fired?” Anyway, we’ve got Dr. Patrick Fratellone with us. He is a fantastic integrative physician. Hi, Dr. Patrick.
DR. PATRICK: Hi, how are you? That was a funny story you started. Mushrooms? Okay. Well, now you cooked real mushrooms last night. So, I put on my blog a recipe for marinating mushrooms which came from a book by John Moore. It’s called 100 Edible Mushrooms. I did that two nights ago combining mushrooms with apple cider vinegar, olive oil, paprika, lemon juice and chili powder and some parsley and keeping them, shaking them up, and then serving them. They were delicious and there are very health conscious benefits because mushrooms could help your immune system. They’re adaptogens. They fight off viruses, fight off bacteria. They have a cancer prevention and they’ve been used for thousands and thousands of years. So, there’s nothing bad about them.
ANDREA: So, my question is and I always wonder, you know, is eating let’s say a white button mushroom just as healthy as eating, let’s say, a Chinese mushroom like a shitake. Do they have different benefits?
DR. PATRICK: They do. I mean a white button mushroom really doesn’t have the medicinal benefits as shitake. I mean shitake’s been known for centuries to be anti-cancer, to be anti-viral. It also reduces blood pressure, reduces lung inflammation. You know, the button mushrooms, they’re some benefit but not as much as the medicinal like shitake, shitake and cordyceps.
ANDREA: Oh, they are delicious. Are we supposed to be eating them as food or do we want to be taking them as supplements? I know I was at a lot of the health food shows and I noticed a lot of the companies are making supplements with mushrooms?
DR. PATRICK: Right. I mean, you could do it either way. I mean some people don’t like the taste of mushrooms so they use it as supplements. For my cancer patients, I do both having them as food and as a supplement and you want to get a good company. There are really, Paul Stamets who’s in Olympia, Washington state, and I did a couple of courses with him. He wrote a book called, The Mycelium Running. You want to go and buy his mushrooms at the, I think it’s called Fungi Imperfecti where you can look up Paul Stamets and he is a great…I mean he is a really phenomenal mushroom. You don’t just want to buy them anywhere because you want them grown organically. You want to make sure their grown in soil that has no metals. So, I mean, his mushrooms are good. There is another company Aloha Medicinals but you want to get them in especially to pick up your immune system to fight off all these diseases we have, especially autoimmune disease.
LISA: You know, it’s funny. I was going to ask about that because you mentioned cancer and I was going to ask why are they’re particularly good for that? It sounds like boosting your immune system obviously is beneficial for all these different diseases we have.
DR. PATRICK: Yeah, I mean, I think there’s numerous studies on mushrooms. I mean, hopefully, conventional medicine is accepting more and more and a lot of these are published in peer review journals. I mean, mushrooms are excellent for cancer-- not only protection but for prevention and treatment and they’ve been used in other countries for thousands of years with great benefits, so I don’t think we should shy away from them. Now what I want to say, a lot of mushrooms this time of the year…There’s a lot of people going to pick mushrooms in the woods-- in the forest--and you have to be careful. If you’re just going to go pick a mushroom in the woods, please do not ingest it. You really should look it up. There are poisonous mushrooms out there. Some of them look similar in look to one that’s edible, so you have to be very careful.
ANDREA: So, now let’s talk a little bit about dosage because for those that are listening they might say, “Oh, I have a little bit of, you know, a couple of mushrooms in my salad every day or maybe sautéing them like you guys recommended.” Is there a certain amount that we should be eating to get that cancer prevention or some type of autoimmune prevention?
DR. PATRICK: Yes. You should be having at least two ounces. I mean, if you’re going to eat mushrooms let’s have like a full side dish, a whole two ounces. You can marinate them in olive oil but you want to have it as a side dish every day.
ANDREA: Now, does cooking them ruin some of their nutrient value like some of the other vegetables that we eat?
DR. PATRICK: You don’t want to cook them. You want to steam them because you don’t want to eat them raw because sometimes raw mushrooms have some alkaloids in it that are not good for your body and make you sick.
ANDREA: Oh. Interesting.
DR. PATRICK: You don’t want to, then, take all the medicinal benefit out of it by cooking them to like soup like. So, you want to have it like an Italian al dente, a little steamed.
LISA: Now, I’m curious you said now people go out and pick mushrooms and I actually had a boyfriend that I went out for a long time in my twenties who actually use to go look for chanterelles. He was obsessed of going and looking for mushrooms.
DR. PATRICK: Oh that’s fine yeah because he knows that, that’s great. Yes. Go ahead.
LISA: I was just going to say but what happens, how do you know because you said you want to be careful, some are poisonous. Once you get them home, is there a way to find out?
DR. PATRICK: Yes. There’s mushroom guides. There’s a book called The Fungal Pharmacy, which is a guide. 100 Edible Mushrooms is a guide. There are many mushroom guides. Paul Stamets on his website lists the ones. There are color-coded books to look for. Also, your local town like in New York City, the Botanical Gardens has a course on mushrooms. So, for that person who wants to go upstate and pick them, you have to be careful but at least you can show them; you can look in a book. The problem I have is that you know the way with plants is some species look like good species but they are they are poisonous. So, some of them are similar to the good species so you have to be careful but you can definitely pick them Right now, everyone’s picking…I’m trying to think of the name. It’s morel. Everyone likes morels. So, morel picking is like June and July. So, there’s people that go find patches of morels which is, you know, they sell for a lot of money. So, if you can find a, really one grown in the wild, that’s great.
ANDREA: Out of curiosity, I don’t know if you know this answer but how many different types of species or different types of mushrooms are there?
DR. PATRICK: Oh, my god, we’re talking 20-30,000.
ANDREA: Wow, not many at all.
DR. PATRICK: Paul Stamets when you read his book Mycelium Running he believes that mushrooms can save this planet because the way they grow, they could eat up the toxic waste that we have in this world.
ANDREA: That’s interesting.
DR PATRICK: You know mushrooms take over. Well, mushrooms are fungi. They take over. You know, they’re scavengers so the thing is they could take over a garbage bin and eat it all up so we can really use it to get rid of toxins in this world. So, when you’re reading Mycelium Running mushrooms are so, I mean it’s ingenious. They’ve been living for thousands of years. They’ve found mushrooms over 5,000 years old. So, mushrooms are really important.
ANDREA: I love mushrooms. I mean, I make soups. I love soups and I always throw at least three different varieties of mushrooms in my soup every single week and I just love them. Now, before, you know, we only have about maybe under two minutes left. We work with a company called North American Urban Spice and they have a chaga mushroom.
DR PATRICK: Oh, chaga.
ANDREA: So, they do teas. Chaga, yes. So tell us a little bit about chaga.
DR. PATRICK: Well chaga’s one of the biggest mushrooms. It has a lot of studies on it for medicinal value. It’s definitely used for cancer, immune system. A woman who’s going into menopause, it’s great for that. It’s great for dizziness. It’s an all-around mushroom. As a tea, you have to get used to it. I like chaga to eat. I don’t like to take as a capsule because for me it regurgitates but it’s an excellent mushroom and everyone should be taking chaga.
ANDREA: You know, its funny people are starting to put it into chocolates.
DR PATRICK: Love it.
ANDREA: You’re starting to see functional foods. Yes. There’s functional foods that are coming out that have chaga in it. So, I find it fascinating.
DR. PATRICK: I think it’s a super food. It’s going to be a new super food.
LISA: Oh, definitely. I read, too, that the button mushrooms if they’re dried that there’s an extract that’s found to help with increasing your vitamin D levels. It is something that—
DR. PATRICK: Yes, that’s true. You know the people who don’t want take vitamin D could take mushrooms and get their vitamin D met, their requirements. So, we don’t always have to take—
ANDREA: Really?
DR. PATRICK: Yes. There’s certain mushrooms that have vitamin D in the dried form so it’s good to take. So, fresh mushrooms can help your vitamin D; dried mushrooms can but this way if you don’t want to take the vitamin D liquid or you don’t want to eat sardines, you can definitely eat mushrooms for vitamin D.
ANDREA: Wow. That is a very good tip, I did not know that. Lisa, I am very impressed. That is great information.
LISA: I did my homework.
ANDREA: That is awesome.
DR. PATRICK: Well, thank you, guys.
ANDREA: Thank you Dr. Frattelone and that’s awesome. So, where can people find you if they want to learn more about you in your practice?
DR. PATRICK: Fratellonemedical.com is our website and we also have a Facebook page, all our information is there and most of my website is educational so I hope people read it.
ANDREA: Perfect and you’re also on Twitter as well?
DR. PATRICK: I’m on Twitter. I’m on Facebook. I’m on Instagram and I even do Pinterest, different posts on mushrooms. I have a mushroom post. I have a post on bees and herbs.
ANDREA: Perfect. Well, thank you so much for being on our show today, very interesting conversation. I’m Andrea Donsky along with Lisa Davis. This is Naturally Savvy Radio on RadioMD. Stay well. - Length (mins) 10
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- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
When you picture the traditional farmer, you might envision a man, clothed in bib-overalls, driving a tractor. That portrait is changing.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 5
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1522ns3e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Audrey Levatino
- Book Title Woman-Powered Farm: Manual for a Sustainable Lifestyle from Homestead to Field
- Guest Website Ted's Last Stand
- Guest Facebook Account https://www.facebook.com/audrey.levatino
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Guest Bio
Audrey Levatino is the quintessential modern woman farmer. Thirteen years ago, she left the urban world to fulfill her dream of self-employment in a natural, healthy environment. She now runs a 23-acre farm, Ted’s Last Stand, near Gordonsville, Virginia. She and her husband Michael are the co-authors of The Joy of Hobby Farming. Since writing that book, Audrey has taken over primary responsibility for the farm and now runs a successful cut flower, herb, and vegetable farm business.
- Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
Did you know that broccoli, other than being a great source of nutrition, is also really great for detoxification?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File naturally_savvy/1522ns3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Ashley Koff, RD
- Guest Website Ashley Koff: Better Nutrition, Simplified
- Guest Twitter Account @ashleykoff
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Guest Bio
Ashley Koff is an internationally-renowned registered dietitian who believes better nutrition is simple and is on a mission to help anyone achieve their personal health goals by providing simple but highly effective tips and strategies. A self-described “Qualitarian,” Koff emphasizes the value of quality nutritional choices in achieving optimal health and has developed tools such as The AKA Qualitarian Nutrition Plan and The AKA Personal Shopper to help facilitate this.
Koff is widely sought after for her knowledge and ability to translate nutrition science into practical and motivating messages and appears regularly in the National Media, has authored two books and speaks frequently on the topic of better quality choices for better health. - Length (mins) 10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Andrea Donsky, RHN and Lisa Davis, MPH
