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The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 96: Fermentation and Fibre to Feed Your Gut with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDIn this episode of the Good Mood Podcast, Dr. Talia, ND, reflects on Sonnenberg's study showing how gut microbiota-targeted diets can influence human immune status.
The study involved two dietary intervention groups, high-fibre and high-fermented foods, with the latter showing decreased inflammatory cytokines.
The podcast stresses the importance of microbiota-accessible carbohydrates (MACs) found in fibres and fermented foods for gut health. It offers insights on probiotics, fermenting foods at home, and gut health testing methods. Encouraging the inclusion of fibres, antimicrobial herbs, and fermented foods in one's diet, Dr. Talia invites listeners to explore ways to enhance gut health...2024-05-2533 minThe Good Mood PodcastEpisode 95: The Psychology of Coercion: Cults, MLMs, Large Group Awareness Trainings, and coercive relationships with Brandie HadfieldBrandie is a recovering wellness nano-influencer working towards becoming a Registered Psychotherapist. Brandie used to be an obedient follower and team leader. Still, today, she’s writing a Substack and a memoir on the topic of cult awareness and her experience inside a commercial cult. Brandie speaks out about abuses of power and coercion perpetrated by MLM scams because she firmly believes that every mind deserves to be free.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandiehadfield/
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2023-12-042h 05The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 94: How to Sleep Better: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Insomnia with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, ND, RP-QDr. Talia Marcheggiani, naturopathic doctor and registered psychotherapist (qualifying), talks about the importance of sleep and how to treat chronic insomnia with Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, the gold standard for supporting insomnia and improving sleep.
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This video is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. No 1:1 doctor-patient relationship is formed through this process, a proper intake and assessment has not been performed, and no advice-giving will be undertaken.
Please run any changes to your healthcare regime past your naturopathic doctor or functional medicine provider to ensure these principles are right...2023-09-121h 58The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 92: Parasites and Poop with Dr. Michelle Pobega, NDParasites are gross, and despite our desire to avoid them, they may be necessary to talk about. Dr. Michelle Pobega aka the "Poop and Parasite Princess" and I talk poop... and parasites. What they are, how they live, what they want with your life, health and well-being, how to uncover their slimy ways, and how to rid yourself of them.
This may be a disgusting episode, but it's our episode. And hopefully, it's also your episode. Dr. Michelle Pobega is a naturopathic doctor with over 12 years in private practice. She has a clinical focus...2023-05-241h 07The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 91: The Last "Diet" You'll Ever Do with Gina Livy of the Livy MethodIn 2021, I started hearing about a weight loss program patients were doing via Facebook. Patients are always telling me about weight loss programs. However, these patients were motivated, losing weight, regularly eating, enjoying protein for breakfast and hydrating. They were engaging in better self-care. They were also following our work together with more inspiration and motivation and noticed many healthy changes and better metabolic health. I hate treating weight loss, and I'm happy when patients find something I can't offer them: daily support, motivation, and a community. So, I joined the Livy Method myself to see what all the...2023-05-081h 05The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 90: Neurodivergence-Informed Therapy with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDI talk about neurodivergence in Canada and considerations for counselling and naturopathic medicine, including support for executive functioning skills, therapeutic relationship-building, and nutritional support.
Learn more: taliand.com learn.goodmoodproject.ca 2023-03-021h 55The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 89: Nourishing and Navigating Health After Cancer with Dr. Martha Sharpe, NDDr. Martha Sharpe, ND is back on the Good Mood Podcast to talk about cancer survivorship, nourishing our bodies and supporting mental health, as well as the healing philosophy of naturopathic medicine, an additive approach to dietary and lifestyle changes and how to support your whole body after cancer. Find Martha here: https://marthasharpend.com/podcastpromo Promo code: PODCAST1002023-02-131h 27The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 88: Eat the Darn Eggs: the truth about cholesterol with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDWhat is the truth about cholesterol, this devilish and dreaded molecule that must be headed off at the pass with cholesterol-lowering medications? Is it a heart attack in a box, or fuel for the brain?
Learn the truth about this molecule including how to interpret your blood tests, what cholesterol's many roles are in the body, how to balance your body for optimal health and cardiovascular disease prevention and more!
I am interviewed by Tracy Seider of the Reshape Method https://tracyseidercoaching.com/the-reshape-method
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Ins...2023-02-021h 51The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 87: Understanding Hair Loss with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDI talk with Tracy Seider about hair loss. Do you dread washing or brushing your hair for fear of seeing clumps falling out in the shower? Listen to or watch this presentation on diagnosing and uncovering the cause of hair loss and learning how to treat it.
First appeared on Tracy's Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/142386369718570
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learn.goodmoodproject.ca 2022-11-171h 14The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 86: The Art of Receiving with Dr. Shayla Garland, NDI finally have Dr. Shayla Garland, ND on my podcast, after much deliberation and convincing. Shayla graduated a year ahead of me at CCNM but after we both graduated we became friends. She is a wonderful ND and very talented artist and skilled world traveller and expert free spirit. On this pod she will share her epic story that changed it all for her and gave her that secret zing of unbridled trust in the universe.
You see, we all want freedom and happiness. We want to be free of our hangups and lack of self-consciounsess and s...2022-10-111h 57The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 85: Homeopathy: Simillimums, Miasms and Dolphin Milk with Victor Cirone, HOM, DSHM, RHIn this episode Victor Cirone joins us for a third time, this time to talk about homeopathy.
We cover the who, why, what and where--the history, details and definition of homeopathic medicine as well as discuss healing philosophy, resistance to healing and fear of death (and dolphin's milk).
Victor Cirone is a Registered Homeopath with The College of Homeopaths of Ontario as well as a Registered Clinical Herbalist with the Ontario Herbalists Association. He graduated with honours from the Canadian College of Homeopathic Medicine, and before that from Diane Kent’s program in clinical herbal medic...2022-09-232h 17The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 84: Activate Your Energy: The Iron, Copper and Magnesium Connection with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDDr. Talia Marcheggiani, ND review (Cu)Re Your Fatigue by Morley Robbins, and explains the complex dynamic between iron metabolism, copper and magnesium and how they play a role in our energy production in the body and reduction of oxidative stress that leads to chronic disease. Energy is everything and a lack of energy and increase in oxidative stress may contribute to the rise in health conditions we see today.
Learn how iron, copper and magnesium harness the energy from oxygen in the mitochondria to optimize our mental, emotional and physical health and keep us free from d...2022-08-151h 43The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 83: Fascia, Lymph and Trauma with Nicole Argentieri, Registered Massage TherapistOn the Good Mood Podcast we've spoken before of fascia. We've even mentioned lymph, but this interview with Nicole takes it to a whole new level.
Nicole is a registered massage therapist with certifications in Fascial Stretch Therapy, Massage Therapy Body Mechanics, Reiki, Lymph, Performance Stretch Systems and Lifestretch. Her focus is on fascial stretch therapy and moving lymph. In this podcast we talk about fascia and its relationship to pain, trauma, fatigue and chronic health conditions and the lymphatic system. We speak about the mind-body connection and how somatic psychotherapy is the new talk therapy--trauma and m...2022-08-031h 50The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 82: Circadian Rhythms, Hormones and Stress with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDThis episode is a recording of an interview I did on Tracy Seider (of the Reshape Method)'s Facebook group. We talk about the stress response and hormones. How changes in your hormones can affect stress: sleep, energy and mood and how this can affect your Circadian Rhythms. We discuss the master stress hormone cortisol and how to tame it to promote stress resilience, energy, mood and longevity.
check out Tracy's Reshape Method here https://tracyseidercoaching.com/
And her Facebook group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/142386369718570
Also check out my programs at l...2022-07-191h 06
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 81: When my patients say they want to lose weight... with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDDr. Talia Marcheggiani, naturopathic doctor, discusses natural weight loss--when her patients want weight loss what are they actually asking for? What hormonal inputs cause unwanted fat gain and maintenance?
Why is calorie restriction not that answer?
What two lifestyle strategies does she recommend instead that restructure the metabolism and heal the cause of weight gain?
Resources:
learn.goodmoodproject.ca for the course You Weigh Less on the Moon
taliand.com for appointment booking, articles, more podcasts and more information on naturopathic medicine2022-06-2054 minThe Good Mood PodcastEpisode 80: The Anxiety Masterclass with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDWelcome to the 80th episode of the Good Mood Podcast!
To celebrate I've created another epic episode: The All About Anxiety Masterclass. This episode encompasses: how to rewire your anxious brain, how to support OCD, how to ride the waves of your emotions for 90 seconds and how to recover from stress and burnout.
This episode couples well with the other Masterclasses in this series: The Trauma Masterclass and The Nutrition Masterclass.
I never thought people would listen to long-ass podcasts like this, but they are the most-listened-to episodes. So, I guess this means you...2022-05-255h 46The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 79: Functional Movement and Alignment with Tracy Seider, Peri/Menopause Movement and Posture CoachYour alignment habits can be stopping you from getting what you need out of your exercise: building muscle, preventing injury, and getting the shape you want. Alignment is everything. When I was a student I discovered the world of biomechanics: how the body is supposed to move, in alignment with the natural curvatures of the spine and angles of the joints. I learned about Katy Bowman, who taught me the way I was holding my arms stiff at my sides was preventing me from building tricep strength.
Tracy Seider is an alignment coach who studied with Katy B...2022-05-131h 54The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 78: Dancing with Dopamine: Mood, Motivation & Movement with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDDr. Talia Marcheggiani, ND describes how dopamine works in the brain. How does it connect to mood, motivation, desire, willpower, tenacity, self-efficacy, creativity and happiness? How can dopamine breed or affect satisfaction? How can we use dopamine to improve desire, motivation, executive functioning and pleasure?
Perhaps now you’re having trouble concentrating, feel anxious with a low mood, wish you were more motivated, excited and driven. Perhaps you’re having issues with memory and word recall. Perhaps you’re feeling overwhelmed and scattered, having trouble being motivated. You procrastinate. You lose time on the couch. You’re dealing wi...2022-05-072h 06The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 77: You Are the Medicine with Asha Frost"In my ways of knowing, medicine is the vital, healing energy that connects the Spirit, mind, and emotional bodies. It’s something carried by all living things. It is our connection, our roots, our life force. Medicine is something we all carry, birthed from our Ancestors and held by our Spirit."
- Asha Frost, "You are the Medicine"
Asha Frost (she/her) is an Indigenous Medicine Woman and member of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. She is from the Crane Clan, the totem of leadership, and believes in holding space from vision and heart. As an...2022-04-1545 minThe Good Mood PodcastEpisode 76: The Nutrition Masterclass with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDHere's an all-in-one-podcast related to everything about nutrition that you were afraid to Google (or maybe did Google and ended up more confused). In this podcast I pull together previous pod episodes on nutrition, where I discuss cravings, the Dos and Don'ts of Human Nutrition, nutrients for mental health, and why eating meat is healing. This episode is more than 4 hours long--but I'm hoping it will be a one-stop-shop for your mental health nutrition education needs. Nutrition is a passion of mine. I love the mind-body connection, acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy, nature therapy, psychotherapy--I am so passionate about these...2022-04-044h 02The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 75: Thyroid and Mental Health with Dr. Katie Rothwell, NDDr. Katie is a Naturopathic Doctor, clinic owner, thyroid authority and educator. Her mission is to break the mold of traditional thyroid care and to bring evidenced-based thyroid education to practitioners and patients.
As a clinician, Dr. Rothwell uses her signature framework and a practical down to earth approach to help her patients navigate the confusing world of thyroid health.
As an educator, she is fiercely passionate about providing accurate, evidenced based thyroid education to a variety of health professionals including Naturopathic Doctors. She created her two flagship practitioner trainings before creating The Thyroid Academy, a re...2022-03-251h 29The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 74: Perinatal Mental Health and "Impossible Parenting" with Dr. Niki Nephin, NDI talk with my friend Dr. Niki Nephin about... a whole lot of things related to perinatal mental health. We discuss post-partum anxiety and depression, the hormonal changes that occur during pregnancy, labour and the post-natal period, the social and environmental factors that shape post-partum mental health, how it's "not just serotonin", recreating the village, shame, stigma and the silencing of the struggles of birthing parents, and a whole bunch of other things.
Niki is super real. She's a cool ND who shares her post-natal struggles with her first born (she's now a mother of 3). She's also a...2022-03-181h 56The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 73: The Trauma Masterclass with Ayan Mukherjee, Registered PsychotherapistEveryone has trauma. We all have past experiences that left a mark on our nervous systems, which might in our adult lives cause nervous system dysregulation, leading to symptoms of brain fog, emotional numbness, anxiety and depression, issues with sleep and digestion, and chronic inflammation. Ayan Mukherjee is a registered psychotherapist and EMDR therapist and consultant. He has a focus in trauma and dissociation.
Here are two back-to-back episodes with Ayan from the Good Mood Podcast, wrapped up into one trauma-informed masterclass that you can listen to in one go.
We talk about trauma and ho...2022-03-122h 53The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 72: Navigating Mental Health with Dr. Christina Bjorndal, NDDr. Christina Bjorndal is the OG of mental health naturopathic doctors. We talk about her story of living through an eating disorder, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and a suicide attempt and how she found her way to naturopathic medicine.
We talk transformation, mental health nutrition, treating the physical, bipolar disorder, medication and working with a label among many more topics!
Dr. Christina Bjorndal, ND is considered an authority in the treatment of mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, bipolar disorders and eating disorders using a physical, mental, emotional and spiritual approach. Having overcome many mental hea...2022-03-031h 47The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 71: Vaccines, Immunity and Informed Consent with Dr. Taylor Bean, NDIn British Columbia, Canada, naturopathic doctors with a certificate can vaccinate children 5 and up (Ontario NDs do not have vaccination in our scope). Dr. Taylor Bean is one such doctor. In this episode we chat vaccination, what it is, how a vaccination naturopathic doctor does vaccines, who vaccines are for, what Informed consent looks like and the case against mandates. We also talk about why vaccination is such a divisive and emotional topic vs. exercise and nutrition, for example.
Dr. Taylor Bean is a Naturopathic Doctor and owner of TaylorMade Wellness in Salmon Arm, BC. She has ex...2022-02-241h 37
PHYT For TomorrowLearning hormones and health with Naturopathic Doctor Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDNick Sanders and Dr. Talia Marcheggiani discuss natrupathic medicine, gut health, and other related factors to help you feel and move better.
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Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/phyt-for-tomorrow/id1543045933
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Free Online Mini Course. https...2022-02-221h 26The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 70: Healing Chronic Illness and Pain with Edna Pereira, Registered PsychotherapistWhen we are diagnosed with a chronic illness or suffering from chronic pain, our life, our identity and our future flash before our eyes. Experiencing these changes to our physical health and well-being can be life-changing.
Edna Pereira is a registered psychotherapist whose focus is in helping her clients manage and heal from chronic pain and chronic illness through validation, acceptance, and learning to live with their experience in a place of non-judgement and self-compassion.
Edna has a nonjudgmental and inclusive approach to collaborate with you to best meet her clients' needs and life goals th...2022-02-171h 31The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 69: The Akashic Records and the Energy of Choice with Andra Wochesen, energy coachI talk with Andra Wochesen about the energy of choice, and how to heal using the Akashic records.
Andra Wochesen is multi-certified Coach, with training in Law of Attraction, Reiki, Soul Realignment, Tapping into Wealth and Quantum Flow. This unique combination of skills coupled with intuitive coaching and energy techniques creates an extremely integrated, highly embodied experience for her clients.
This approach enables her to support her clients in releasing any subconscious blocks that may be preventing them from flourishing while simultaneously connecting to their innate Soul gifts so they can fully thrive in their l...2022-02-101h 39The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 68: Ketamine-Assisted Therapy with Dr. Rae St. Arnault, NDOn the latest episode of the Good Mood Podcast I talk to naturopathic doctor Rae St. Arnault about ketamine-assisted therapy. We talk the legality of psychedelic medicines, using psychedelics for depression, how a ketamine-assisted therapy session works, who it might be beneficial for, and Dr. Rae's more recent work on bringing psychedelic therapy to First Nations communities in Canada.
Dr. Rae St. Arnault is a Naturopathic Physician practicing in Vancouver, BC, and is the co-founder of Empower Health Clinic, a multidisciplinary health clinic that started the first legal, interdisciplinary ketamine-assisted therapy programs in Canada. Her approach to...2022-02-021h 58The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 67: Burnout and the Stress Cycle with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDEpisode 67 of the Good Mood Podcast is all about Burnout and the Stress Cycle.
Drawing from the book Burnout: The secret to unlocking the stress cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski, Polyvagal Theory, General Adaptation Theory, and other stress-response models we talk about burnout, rest, replenishment, dopamine/serotonin, motivation, protein, and how to heal your body, mind and emotions from chronic physical, mental and emotional exhaustion.
check out the Cortisol Care Challenge for $5 https://learn.goodmoodproject.ca/courses/the-cortisol-care-challenge
Learn more about naturopathic medicine, from 1:1 visits and other educational resources: taliand.com and lea...2021-12-291h 45The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 66: Rewire Your Anxious Brain with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDI review the book Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Dr. Catherine M. Pittman, PhD where she talks about the two types of anxiety, amygdala and cortex-based anxiety, or body-based and worry-based anxiety.
We talk about how to recognize the features of these two types of anxiety, what is going on in the brain with both and how to nutritionally, behaviourally and cognitively rewire your brain to reduce your symptoms.
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learn.goodmoodproject.ca 2021-12-161h 13The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 65: Meat Play Love: The Benefits of Eating Meat with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDI talk about the benefits of eating meat: for mental health, hormones, mood from a nutrient perspective, and how eating meat can heal the environment through regenerative agriculture.
Resources: The Carnivore Code, Paul Saladino, MD
The $100 Billion Ingredient Making Your Food Toxic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQmqVVmMB3k
Courses: Learn.goodmoodproject.ca
Booking and appointments: taliand.com 2021-11-301h 43The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 64: It's not me---It's OCD: on Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDIn this solo episode Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, ND talks about OCD: the biological and neurological underpinnings, the symptoms, behaviour therapy, and nutritional support. It is possible to overcome OCD symptoms--the key is to learn where the symptoms arise in the brain and how to combat them to break the obsession-anxiety-compulsion-relief cycle. I discuss Jeffrey Schwartz's book Brain Lock and naturopathic nutritional and supplemental support including Dr. James Greenblatt's ZEEBRA method.
Learn more about nutrition for mental health: https://learn.goodmoodproject.ca/courses/feed-your-head
Jeffrey Schwarz's Book: https://www.amazon.ca/Brain-Lock-Twentieth-Anniversary-Obsessive-Compulsive/dp/006256143X/ref=asc_df...2021-11-201h 45The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 63: All About Inflammation: The Real Root Cause of Depression with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDDepression is not a neurotransmitter disorder--it is an inflammatory condition. In this solo episode, I talk about chronic low-grade inflammation and how it contributes to virtually every chronic health condition, including mental health conditions and how to construct an anti-inflammatory lifestyle to start feeling like yourself again.
To learn more about courses, check out learn.goodmoodproject.ca (my Food Sensitivities Course, You Weight Less on the Moon, and Feed Your Head).
To book an appointment visit taliand.com2021-10-191h 10The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 62: 90 Seconds to Emotional Resilience with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDIn this solo episode I review the book "90 Seconds to a Life You Love" by Joan Rosenberg, PhD, who teaches us how to develop more mental and emotional resilience if we are willing to stay open to our experience and ride the 90-second waves of eight unpleasant emotions to their completion.
We talk purging, grief, trauma, and describe the unpleasant emotions. We unpack anxiety as a coping mechanism that helps us avoid the discomfort of these emotions, and the importance of heading into them willingly.
We are not afraid of certain outcomes, we're afraid of th...2021-10-111h 00The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 61: The Wisdom of Cravings with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDWhat do your cravings mean? Are they pesky sensations in the body that compel us to binge eat junk food and struggle with our weight? Or, do they contain inherent wisdom that can guide us to the right food choices for supporting our health and wellness?
I talk about a landmark study from the 1930s in which researchers allowed babies to choose their own diets---the results are pretty remarkable. I also discuss how sugar cravings can be an important signal that tell us how well we're managing our blood sugar, nourishing with protein, and eating enough.
2021-09-241h 13The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 60: Informed Consent, Your Right to Bodily Autonomy with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDIn this solo episode, Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, ND outlines the principles of Informed Consent and medical decision-making from a place of personal empowerment, bodily autonomy, dignity and choice.
To learn more about Good Mood Project Courses visit: https://learn.goodmoodproject.ca/
2021-08-2721 minThe Good Mood PodcastEpisode 59: Raising Healthy Kids with Nicholas Hundley, nutritional biochemistIn this podcast Nic and I discuss healing philosophy, mental health and the brain, nutrition and how to raise a healthy family. I have so many patients who come in for help, and are set on transformation only to succumb to the overwhelm of making 3 separate meals: one for their kids, one for their partner and one for themselves. It's a losing battle. Often our families don't get what or why we're trying to do with our health.
And this is unfortunate, because good health starts from childhood, and we have a unique opportunity to set kids u...2021-07-191h 37The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 58: Hair Peace, Bed Peace with Taylor Morozova, hair stylist and beauty expertThis is a podcast about mental health. And while it may seem trivial, I suppose, hair loss is one of the most psychologically and emotionally upsetting symptoms that plagues the people who come into my office.
Treating hair loss is also sometimes the bane of my existence. There are so many reasons why hair loss can occur, or why someone may deal with brittle or dry hair. There are so many different TYPEs of hair loss. And, even more difficult, many causes are difficult to reverse, such as hormonal hair loss, and, the reversible causes take time, t...2021-06-282h 03The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 57: The Dos and Don'ts of Human Nutrition with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDIs nutrition a confusing and sometimes shame-inducing topic for you? Do you read one headline after the next confused about coconut oil, bananas, red meat, or what foods are "good" and what foods are "bad"?
The topic is daunting, so I created this solo episode, on the The Dos and Don'ts of Human Nutrition.
You can hardly blame us. As someone who studies health and nutrition for a living, even I find myself caught up in this health claim game of ping-pong. How could one claim be true if the complete opposite claim was...2021-06-1436 minThe Good Mood PodcastEpisode 56: Preventing and healing diabetes by supporting your metabolic health and blood sugar with Dr. Christina De Avila, ND CDEChristina De Avila is a certified diabetes educator and naturopathic doctor. In this episode, we talk type II diabetes — how lifestyle is really at the core of managing this very common and chronic, often devastating, end-stage condition, and how to take a balanced approach to modifying one’s lifestyle: it doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing Diet with a capital D.
Small, meaningful changes that are strategic, and individualized is where it’s at and this requires time which is why we both feel strongly about the ND model: we get to know you and your unique ne...2021-06-071h 12The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 55: You Weigh Less on the Moon with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDI don't like treating weight loss. As a naturopathic doctor, my principles are to treat the root cause of disease, do no harm, and work with the healing power of nature. Most patients who want to lose weight expect to be put on a calorie-restricted diet and, frustratingly, calorie-restricted diets don't work.
Most people enter a cycle of calorie (or carb, or meal) restriction, find the diet gets harder, they inevitably fall off the wagon, and "cheat", and then gain the weight back and more. This is why 95% of people who go on a diet, gain everything b...2021-05-3148 min
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 54: Depression and the Impossible Task with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDDepression is a sneaky little bugger. Most people associate it with sadness--crying, etc.
And yes, while sadness can be a common feature of depression, low motivation and activation, leading to something called "The Impossible Task" can be pretty universal as well.
In this solo episode I highlight the features of the Impossible Task, explain why it exists from a biochemical/neuroscience perspective, and how to tackle it with curiosity and compassion.
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The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 53: A Conversation with an Elder with Dr. Verna Hunt, ND and Dr. David Miller, ND on That Naturopathic PodcastThis is an episode that originally aired on That Naturopathic Podcast, the famous ND podcast with host Dr. David Miller, ND (the Gut Gangsta, who appeared in one of the episodes on this pod, where we talk about the vagus nerve). TNP interviews NDs in our profession doing something a little different to give you a sense of what it's like to work with us, to go behind your "normal" blood tests, or your multi-pharmacy prescription to tackle health in a holistic, integrated way that addresses the root cause of disease.
That Naturopathic Podcast is doing something a...2021-05-171h 08
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 52: Helping Young People Cope with the Pandemic on the Queen's Power Podcast“I was involved in ______ and then, the Pandemic hit...” how many of us have that story?
I feel so so lucky to have had surfing in the last year. Something to get me out, give me purpose, exercise and community. Something that can be done outside at a distance, for relatively little money (once you have the gear, that is).
I did a podcast with Queen’s University’s Health and Nutrition Society. They told me students are staying up all night, sleeping all day, feeling isolated and asked me for some tips (as an ND and Q...2021-05-101h 04
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 51: Strength and Resilience During Hard Times: Surviving the Lockdowns Part 2 with Victoria Sabo, RPVictoria Sabo, registered psychotherapist is back for a second episode where we talk about surviving the lockdowns, this time part 2.
We spent the last episode lingering in validation and acknowledgment of all the things going on during this past year with our mental health.
Victoria talked about increased cognitive load, the "Covid Fatigue" characterized by lack of motivation, exhaustion and anxiety, as well as the loss of identity that comes from missing social structures and important points of connection.
It was important to highlight the problem--to shed light on it. To share in a c...2021-05-031h 59
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 50: Surviving the Lockdowns with Victoria Sabo, Registered PsychotherapistAs Ontario, Canada heads toward a third round of lockdowns, we're experiencing what Victoria Sabo and her colleagues call "Covid Fatigue". That low motivation, low-grade anxiety, indescribable feeling and set of emotions that characterize our response to over a year of this pandemic.
Victoria and I met to talk about the issues that people are experiencing: whether they be children, essential or frontline workers, immunologically impaired, or those who have lost businesses.
Victoria is a registered psychotherapist who works in Toronto at Psychotherapy in the City. Victoria Sabo is a Registered Psychotherapist with the College of...2021-04-261h 17
That Naturopathic PodcastPatient Empowerment, Trusting the Healing Process, and Transitioning CareToday, Dr. Talia Marcheggiani joins Dr. Dave and Dr. Verna for a group discussion on a variety of topics surrounding patient care and empowerment. Dr. Talia is on the show for a second time (check her out in episode 14!) to share her experience in helping patients in learning to communicate with their body and feel in control of their treatment. Dr. Verna shares her elder knowledge on these topics, giving examples of experiences she has had over the yearsBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/that-naturopathic-podcast--4229492/support.2021-04-231h 08
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 49: Dissociation, Trauma and Polyvagal Theory with Ayan Mukherjee, Registered PsychotherapistAyan comes back on the Good Mood Podcast to talk Polyvagal Theory, trauma and dissociation. In our last episode together we talked trauma and how trauma lives in and impacts the brain. We also talked extensively on the science and process of a trauma-based therapy, EMDR, which helps to rewire traumatic experiences in the brain. We left that last episode off, talking about the exceptions--the people that EMDR doesn't work for (the, "I tried EMDR and it just made me feel sleepy").
Ayan noticed that this was happening to some of his clients and so he did a...2021-04-191h 40
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 48: Peaceful Periods, PCOS and Why Ovulation is Good for Your Mood with Dr. Anne Hussain, NDDr. Anne Hussain is back on the Good Mood Podcast to talk peaceful periods, PCOS and why Ovulation is good for your mood--not just for fertility.
In this pod episode we talk about the menstrual cycle, how our hormones impact our mood, problems with the oral contraceptive, and why ovulation is not just important for fertility--it builds the progesterone in your body that can vastly impact your mood and overall health.
Dr. Anne struggled with PCOS, Hashimoto's thyroiditis and has a genetic anemia called thalassemia. Through her research she got to work on regulating her pe...2021-04-121h 32
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 47: Hacking Your ADHD with Erica Robinson, Health CoachErica is back on the Good Mood Podcast to talk ADHD and how we can heal our inflamed brains with nutrition. We talk the symptoms of ADHD, what goes on in the brain, Erica's journey with getting diagnosed and trying Vyvanse for 9 months, to how she mastered her productivity and brain health using nutrition. According to Erica a lot of people with ADHD go undiagnosed, as their symptoms don't fit the typical picture of hyperactivity we often expect to see.
We talk mindset, organization, diagnosis, Polyvagal Theory, histamine, glutamate, brain inflammation, nutrition for ADHD and how to m...2021-04-051h 47
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 46: My Year of Being Bad with "Ray"I think we're starving. Not for food per se, but something else. Something deeper. Something perhaps more nourishing (once you have enough food, of course). We're starving for pleasure. And this can show up with low appetite. Think about how if all you ate was the gruel porridge they were eating in the Matrix you probably wouldn't be that interested in food anymore. We're hungry for pleasure and adventure and because we're often missing these things, or don't know how to get them or if we deserve them, we go without. We start to lose our appetite, our libido...2021-03-291h 29
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 45: Beyond Digestion with Dr. Laura Brown, NDSo, my friend and colleague, naturopathic doctor, Laura Brown wrote a book--Beyond Digestion.
We've talked digestion on The Good Mood Podcast: the structure and function of the vagus nerve and how putting your hands on can help diagnose and treat disease with Dr. David Miller, the gut microbiome and your trillions of little friends with Dr. Kim Bretz. BUT we can never talk too much digestion. As Dr. Laura shows us, there are multiple multiple angles at which we can examine, play with and learn about the gut.
This is what Laura talks about in h...2021-03-221h 50
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 44: The Addictions Episode with Dr. Aaron Van Gaver, ND and Addictions CounsellorI met Dr. Aaron at an addiction workshop he hosted with a colleague Dr. Tanya (who was then Dr. Tanya Mate, daughter in law to THE Gabor Mate), called Project Starlight. Aaron is a naturopathic doctor and addictions counsellor, with a passion for mental health and providing healing, support, empowerment, community and resources for those living with and dealing with addiction.
We haven't had an addictions episode on the Good Mood Podcast. We've talked about body image, shame, eating disorders, psychedelics, trauma, technology, self-care, and many many other mental health topics, but not addiction. So I've been t...2021-03-151h 10
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 43: My Thoughts About Food and Nutrition with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDDr. Talia Marcheggiani, ND hosts another solo episode sharing her story: her health and food journey, and her thoughts and beliefs around food and how to eat for health.
Topics:
Cravings
Different Diets
Restrictions/Dieting Culture
Listening to the Body and Intuitive Eating
And more.
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The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 42: Through the Dark Woods: Conversations on the Healing Journey with Dr. Dimpi Patel, NDDr. Dimpi rejoins the Good Mood Podcast to continue a conversation we started on Instagram.
What makes us frustrated in the doctor-patient interaction? What unseen obstacles step in the way of our healing? So many times we've met and worked with patients who have seemingly done all the work and yet still struggle with feeling lost, that they're not making progress. This can be such a frustrating experience for both patients and practitioners: that feeling that you're both spinning your wheels. Both of you are trying so hard, to make progress, to feel better, and yet you f...2021-02-221h 04
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 41: The Loneliness Series with Dr. Talia Marcheggiani, NDAnother solo episode with Dr. Talia
What do the great minds of neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, literature, science and religion have to say on the topic of loneliness?
Is there a pill for loneliness?
Can you be lonely in a crowded room?
Does solitude equal loneliness?
How can we cope with grief?
What do the Buddhists and Stoics say about loneliness?
And, most of all, how can we cope with an ever-increasingly isolated world?
Tune in to listen.
Remember conversations from "Saying Hello Again" by David...2021-02-111h 10
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 40: Happy Happy Joy Joy with Dr. Ellen Wong, NDWhy do I focus on mood and mental health? Well, at the core of it, when I was working with patients who were suffering from various physical ailments, I often found mood, mental and hormonal health at the bottom of it.
After all, what do we want to be if not happy? I mean the reason your IBS or your PCOS or your CFS or your MS bothers you is that, ultimately, it makes you unhappy. And so, for me and for most of us, health is happiness.
I also saw SO MANY solutions in my...2021-01-181h 44
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 39: Deep Transformational Healing with Alison Crosthwait, Trader turned CoachPresence... is that the key to healing? Being present in one's body, being present with one's thoughts. Existing in the present moment. The present moment is where everything is happening. It gets us out of the head and into the body.
The body is our home. It's where our emotions live, as they manifest in real-time, where they can be processed. Being present and embodied are the key states for healing from trauma, from accessing our truest, wildest selves, and from experiencing optimal mental and emotional health.
Bodily presence is also where the richness of ex...2021-01-041h 27
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 38: Environmental Medicine and Mental Health with Dr. Marillea Yu, NDI am always scared to talk about environmental medicine. I know it's a big topic and that eliminating the chemicals from our lifestyle: our environment and our bodies is an important aspect of keeping us well.
But the more I learn about environmental medicine the more I feel the doom and gloom of hopelessness--and the more overwhelmed I feel about what must be done.
However, Marillea Yu, a naturopathic doctor, helps me see this topic through a more empowered lens.
Marillea and I talk about why we should care about environmental medicine, how envir...2020-12-212h 04
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 37: Replenishing Your Resilience Reserves with Dr. Tara Guzzo, ND, R.Ac.Resilience is the body and mind's ability to adapt to stress, challenge and change. Some of us would refer to it as "bouncing back" from hardship. But even better, if we are truly resilient when hardship hits, we're able to "bounce forward". Coming out of trauma or difficulty with more strength and grit than we had going into it.
Dr. Tara Guzzo is a fellow naturopathic doctor and acupuncturist who works with busy women who are tired and unsatisfied with a life that is just “okay”.
She is the CEO and Clinical Director of InVersa Healt...2020-12-071h 17
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 36: Mindset, Manifestation and Mood with Adele Tevlin, Pattern Interruptor and Behavioural ExpertWe talk extensively as naturopathic doctors about the mind-body connection. Of course many of us have been told that our mental health or physical symptoms are "all in our head", and while this can seem dismissive and invalidating it's definitely true that our mindset plays a role in how we feel.
Adele Tevlin walks us through the connection between our thoughts, our beliefs and our environment and how our mindset can influence our external circumstances.
I believe this to be true: even if you're truly suffering it's how we frame this suffering that helps us su...2020-11-2359 min
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 35: Forest Bathing with Dr. Cyndi Gilbert, NDShinrin-Yoku, or Forest Bathing, as it is literally translated from the original Japanese, is one of my personal therapeutic lifelines. My mentor and colleague, Dr. Cyndi Gilbert, agrees. In fact, Cyndi wrote a book about it called Forest Bathing: Discovering health and happiness through the Japanese practice of Shinrin-Yoku.
Cyndi and I talk about how immersing oneself in nature in some capacity: whether it be looking at a poster of a nature scene on the ceiling of your dentists' chair, to having a room with a view when recovering from surgery to complete wilderness backcountry trekking, have...2020-11-161h 31
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 34: Getting in the Mood with Dr. Yousuf Siddiqui, NDHello and welcome to the Good Mood Podcast! Today I have the pleasure of talking to my buddy from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine Dr. Yousuf Siddiqui, ND. Yousuf and I talk about sexual health and naturopathic medicine.
How do we talk to patients about sexual health? Where do sexual health concerns like low libido come from? Yousuf discusses some of the ways he opens up the conversation about sexual health with patients and how our sexuality can be an entryway into whole-body healing.
In fact this part of interesting--we talk about how a n...2020-11-022h 01
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 33: One Bad MTHFR: Methylation and Your Mood with Dr. Christina Carew, NDIs your B complex making you sick? It might be if it contains folic acid, the synthetic form of "folate", or vitamin B9 which is involved in mood, energy production, DNA repair and other tasks of "methylation".
Ok, are you lost already?
Methylation is a process in the body that does a bunch of things. Many of us have a genetic variation in an enzymes called MTHFR, yes, I know what it looks like, that help us make folate.
Changes in our genome can affect this pathway and our health. Researchers have become par...2020-10-191h 22
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 32: Healing Eating Disorders, Food Stress and Body Image with Dr. Alexandra Sisam, NDEating disorders are a difficult thing to identify and treat, not to mention to live with. Unlike other mental health conditions they can be life-threatening, but we also need to eat everyday and therefore our interaction with the substance of choice is something we need to learn to negotiate and to work with as we heal.
Dr. Alexandra Sisam is a fellow naturopathic doctor with a focus in eating disorders. We talk about how to identify disordered eating patterns, from anorexia and bulimia to binge eating and just a high-stress relationship around food. We talk about body i...2020-10-121h 17
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 31: Sleep Your Way to a Good Mood with Dr. Leigha Saunders, NDFor 7 to 9 hours every night we human beings spend our time unconscious. During this time we can't eat, procreate, or defend against predators. We're not building shelters. We're not innovating. We're completely vulnerable. And yet, our bodies and brains evolved to require this unconscious time in order to survive.
When we're deprived of sleep we die. And when we're subtly deprived of sleep, an hour here, an hour there, for nights and nights on end our mental and physical health suffer.
Dr. Leigha Saunders is a fellow naturopathic doctor with a sleep focus. We talk a...2020-10-0554 min
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 30: Healing the Highly Sensitive Person with Dr. Dimpi Patel, NDAt the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine we have a teaching clinic, The Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic where 4th year students spend their 12 months of internship treating patients in the clinic under the supervision of licensed NDs.
As first through third year students we were encouraged to support our bodies and minds, as well as experience naturopathic medicine first-hand by seeing an intern. Dr. Dimpi Patel was my first intern when I was a first year student.
Dimpi was one of the first doorways to my experience with naturopathic medicine. She helped me deal with th...2020-09-281h 14
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 29: Naturopathic Medicine: Riding the Waves, Dr. Talia's appearance on the Weird Waves PodcastIn March Taylor Morozova, a fellow Great Lakes Surfer (who has now moved on to ocean waves) and host of The Weird Waves Podcast and I sat down to talk pandemics, surfing and naturopathic medicine.
This was at the beginning of the global pandemic, a time filled with certainty, misinformation and... for me, at least, some surfing.
Taylor asked to interview me to talk about some hot topics at the time: vitamin D, viruses, and the immune system. In this convo we also discuss my story: how I got into naturopathic medicine (and all the cr...2020-09-211h 24
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 28: Feeling Hormonal with Dr. Jordan Robertson, NDWhen a friend of mine signed up for her period tracker app, it asked her for her partner's email address.
Several times a month he would receive an email about the state of my friend's menstrual health. "You partner is in her luteal phase. You may want to tread lightly and carry a big stick".
Well, that's not what the emails said exactly, but it was something to that effect: "During this time in her cycle she may need warm tea, cuddles and chocolate".
Whenever they'd get into a fight he'd go, "What's th...2020-09-141h 22
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 27: Staying Safe and Social: Polyvagal Theory with Dr. Stephanie Cordes, NDWe were introduced to the vagus nerve through Dr. Dave Miller, ND, the gut gangsta. In today's episode we learn more about the vagus nerve with Dr. Stephanie Cordes, a naturopathic doctor and mental health advocate.
Steph is obsessed with Polyvagal Theory, that discusses how our stress response can throw us into fight or flight, but also into shutdown via the vagus nerve. Through stimulating our ventral vagal response, we can enter into the safe and social states that create calm and connected nervous systems and help us heal from trauma or prevent burnout.
We d...2020-09-071h 51
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 26: Our 40 Trillion Little Friends: Microbiome and Your Mood with Dr. Kim Bretz, ND40 Trillion.
The latest guesstimate that Dr. Kim Bretz, naturopathic doctor and gut microbiome guru throws out there: the amount of bacterial cells living in our guts and on our skin.
We are outnumbered by them, but as Kim says, "thankfully our human cells are bigger so we look like our super-cute selves, otherwise it would be way more creepy".
Not only do these bacteria take up residence inside of our systems, they influence our bodies in vast ways--from our gut health and digestive systems to our moods to our hormones.
Dr. Kim Bret...2020-08-311h 46
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 25: The Power of Community with Robin Pacquing and Shazia Mazhar of The Lake SurfistasIn 2019 I was in Costa Rica learning to surf. I met a girl there from Toronto who told me about the Lake Surfistas, a group of people who identify as women who surf the lakes. I found their Facebook group, started going to their events and was hooked.
They taught me to surf: to find friendship and comfort in the waters of the Great Lakes. I remember driving home from an impromptu surf get-together with a group I'd met through their Lake Surfista Facebook Discussion Page and remember thinking to myself, "Wow, this is happiness".
R...2020-08-241h 45
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 24: Narrative Conversations and Sex with Mauricio Yabar, MSW, PhD Candidate, Narrative Sex TherapistA narrative conversation is a magical thing. Michael White, the founder of narrative therapy is famous for saying, "The person is not the problem, the problem is the problem". And yet so often we are stigmatized and shamed for who we are.
Attempts to solve our problems often end up destroying our sense of identity, our personal power and our agency.
Shame. It's a big topic that has come up in various episodes of this podcast. This podcast's central theme is: how do we remove the obstacles that stand between us and a Good Mood? An...2020-08-171h 37
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 23: Visceral Reactions with Dr. David Miller, ND, aka "The Gut Gangsta"It takes guts. You know that feeling, the trembling, clenching and nauseous pit-in-your-stomach feeling when your nerves are on edge, or the gut-wrenching sobs when you're sad. You also know the complete and utter intestinal devastation that almost seems to precede a panic attack. Or, you know, just gut feelings. Visceral Reactions.
The gut-brain connection.
Our gut is sometimes termed "The Second Brain", connected through one of our cranial nerves, the Vagus Nerve (which is Latin for "Wandering Nerve"). The vagus nerve sends information from brain to gut and back again.
9 out of 10 of...2020-08-101h 25
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 22: Creating Intentional Relationships with Melissa Johari, RSW, MSW and Couple Wellness ExpertRelationships are hard. They're also one of the main stressors, among finances, work, and health. Relationships, when they're smooth and harmonious, can be a reflection of cause of an optimally mentally healthy state. When things are going wrong, it can be hard to think of anything else.
In today's episode I talk to Melissa Johari, fellow Bloorwest Wellness Practitioner, Registered Social Worker and The Couple Wellness Expert. Melissa is a therapist, focusing on premarital counseling using the Prep-Enrich program. She implements many modalities in her practice including Emotionally Focused Therapy, Resilience in Marriage therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, B...2020-08-031h 16
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 21: Ayurveda and Self-Care with Dr. Sairupa Krishnamurti, NDDr. Sairupa Krishnamurti is a Naturopathic Doctor (ND) and Ayurveda Practitioner. She has a general family practice with clinical interests in Reproductive Health, Fertility, Pregnancy, Post-natal-care, Paediatrics and Mental-Emotional Health. She also teaches Ayurvedic medicine, the ancient Indian healing system, as a faculty member at Jai Wellness, and the Centre for Ayurveda and Indian Systems of Healing.
Sairupa practices in Toronto, at a clinic called Aurum. However for two years she was working in Singapore.
Her aim is to support individuals in the rediscovery of their inner wisdom through a non-judgmental, inclusive approach.
In ou...2020-07-271h 20
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 20: Anti-Racism and Mental Health with Asante Haughton, Motivational Speaker and Mental Health AdvocateIn today's episode I talk to Asante Haughton. Asante and I met in the summer of 2015 at the Narrative Therapy Intensive. Asante is a mental health advocate and motivational speaker. He's a program director, peer development and training manager at Stella's Place, a centre for Young Adult Mental Health, a web series host and interviewer, a poet, front-line worker, group facilitator, community outreach worker, researcher, prolific tweeter and a freelance writer. It seems like there isn't one job title for all Asante does. Asante does a lot of things.
He's passionate about positive social change, equality, and m...2020-07-201h 40
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 19: Full Body Nourishment with Aglaée Jacob, Registered DieticianAglaée Jacob is a registered dietician who I met at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine.
Aglaée's journey, like many of ours, began with trying to fit her body into a certain mould: a particular size and shape under the guise of "health".
She is the author of the book Digestive Health with Real Food, which helps identify underlying causes of gut conditions.
Her journey has led her to start to listen to the body as an animal to heal disordered eating patterns within her, and to focus on nourishment: of the bod...2020-07-131h 18
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 18: Herbal Anarchy with Victor Cirone, Registered HerbalistVictor Cirone, registered herbalist returns to the Good Mood Podcast to talk about how the sickness of our civilization may contribute to disease. Modern medicine may be a mechanism of healing "sick machines" and true healing should be concerned with the restoration of "what belongs to nature".
Victor discusses the work of John Zerzan, and other Green Anarchists, while describing how herbal medicine might help us realign with nature's internal wisdom and agenda that lies outside of society and time.
Victor talks about how plant medicine differs from pharmacotherapy, and how true holistic medicine is ab...2020-07-061h 15
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 17: Shameless Health with Dr. Emily Bennett, NDDr. Emily Bennett is a classmate and fellow naturopathic doctor. Emily focuses her practice on community medicine and advocacy. She has a special interest in addressing oppressive power structures we might encounter in our society, and in our clinics, both the conventional medical clinic, but also the ways we might inadvertently shame patients within the context of an alternative healthcare model.
We talk about Emily's work with empowering patients through body awareness, and having deeper conversations around conventional, potentially shame-inducing treatment goals, like weight loss or dietary changes.
We talk about how shame might be add...2020-06-2947 min
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 16: The Way of the Warrior with Melissa "Scare" Croden, Professional Mixed Martial ArtistIn this episode I talk to Melissa "Scare" Croden, a professional mixed martial artist and my cousin.
Mel's MMA career started a few years ago, in 2015. As an amateur she won 5 for 5 fights before turning pro in Fall of last year. As a pro she has won 2 out of 2 fights. Her pro career has been temporarily interrupted due to Covid-19, however she is scheduled to fight again in Fall.
We talk warrior mindset, how the mind-head-brain complex is the most important component for success as an athlete, and what it takes to train and fight i...2020-06-221h 41
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 15: Emotional Intelligence and the Teenage Brain with Dr. Erin Tewinkel, NDDr Erin Tewinkel is a fellow naturopathic doctor and Teen Wellness Warrior. She believes that adolescence holds keys to opportunities most parents miss. And that if a young person is given the proper foundations of health, they have access to health the rest of their life.
I love seeing teens in my practice. Adolescence is a time where we can really make a big difference as healthcare practitioners, teachers, parents and peers to help shape a teen's experience, creating mental and emotional resilience. This is a time when mental health conditions such as depression and anxiety often s...2020-06-151h 12
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 14: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion with Dr. Lachlan Crawford, NDIn today's episode I talk to Dr. Lachlan Crawford, fellow mental health focused naturopathic doctor. Lachlan has a practice in Toronto helping patients find the root of their mental health concerns.
She incorporates mindfulness into her practice and has participated in a few silence meditation retreats a 30-day retreat in Thailand and a 10-day silent Vipassana retreat.
We talk about mindfulness, self-compassion, chronic low-grade anxiety and how carrying an umbrella everywhere you go might actually undermine your ability to be happy.
This is an awesome conversation where we talk medicine, meditation, metal health and...2020-06-081h 21
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 13: Awestruck: Ecotherapy and Community Medicine with Dr. Fernando Janer, NDIn this episode I talk to my friend and colleague Dr. Fernando Janer Sanchez, a naturopathic doctor and fellow graduate of the class of 2014 from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine. Fernando lives in Puerto Rico teaching Mind-Body Medicine and Physical Examination at the Puerto Rican naturopathic college, Universidad Ana G. Mendez.
Fernando and I talk about psychoneuroimmunology, the social determinants of health, and how your occupation might affect your immune system. He shares his history as a social worker in New York City and in Puerto Rico working in a needle exchange program with homeless youth. W...2020-06-011h 34
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 12: Micro-Dosing Psychedelics for Mental Health with Dr. Amanda Satov, NDMicro-dosing, taking small doses of psychedelic substances, like LSD or psilocybin-containing “magic” mushrooms, probably entered the public consciousness in early 2015, after James Fadiman, PhD and author of The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide, appeared on the Tim Ferris Podcast.
Fadiman is the author of the 2011 book “The Psychdelics Explorer’s Guide” where can be credited with presenting the idea of taking a “sub-perceptual” dose of a hallucinogen, like LSD or Psilocybe cubensis “magic” mushrooms, that contain the hallucinogen psilocybin.
A sub-perceptual dose means that, while these substances still exert effects, they don’t produce a noticeable hallucinogenic “high”. Whi...2020-05-291h 05
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 11: Treating Inflammation Using Plant-Based Nutrition and Mindset with Dr. Daina Patel, Chiropractic DoctorDr. Daina Patel is a Chiropractic Doctor with a focus on women’s back pain and plant based nutrition. Daina shares her journey to a plant’s based diet as well as her own personal struggle with inflammation and chronic pain.
We talk about the difference between being plant based and vegan, how nutrition is not about adhering to specific “diets” per se but an ongoing process developing a deep relationship with our individual bodies and food.
Daina and I discuss how diet plays a role in inflammation that lies at the root of chronic pain and...2020-05-251h 12
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 10: Biohacking Mood and Mental Health with Ivo SuveeWelcome to episode 10 of the Good Mood Podcast. In this episode I interview my friend Ivo Suvee, a biohacker. Biohacking is the art of optimizing one’s biochemistry and physiology through various practices from basic lifestyle techniques to using more advanced technologies like apps, genetic testing, and employing unique compounds like peptides.
Whatever the method the goal of biohacking is to tweak health to be the best version of ourselves.
Ivo’s story is interesting. From a young age he was interested in using food to optimize his health. He then applied this interest to enha...2020-05-211h 37
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 9: Reclaiming Our Sacred Feminine Energy with Erica Robinson, Women's Health CoachI talk to my friend Erica L. Robinson, a naturopathic medicine graduate, health coach, holistic nutritionist, kinesiologist and expert on the sacred embodied feminine.
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine and Daoism there is a Yin (feminine) and Yang (masculine) energy present in all things. From the anima and animus of the Jungian psyche, our relationships, the archetypes in Disney's The Lion King, to all of society, we can find a dualistic masculine/feminine nature.
According to Erica, female burnout and hormonal dysfunction such as hair loss, infertility, acne, and fatigue come in large part to li...2020-05-201h 25
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 8: Nutritional Inspiration with Melissa Ieraci, Holistic Nutritionist and HomeopathI talk to Melissa Ieraci, a fellow Bloor West Wellness practitioner, Holistic Nutritionist and Homeopath. If you are a patient at Bloor West Wellness you may have met Melissa, who womans our front desk and keeps the show going as well as treats her own patients, focusing on making sure families nourish themselves through diet, herbal medicine and lifestyle.
Melissa and I recorded this conversation at the midst of the physical distancing measures put in place in our province, Ontario in early April.
We talk about her Instagram Live channel, Mondays with Mel in which sh...2020-05-2051 min
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 7: The Enneagram and Personality with Joseph Simone, Enneagram ExpertMy friend Joseph Simone is a teacher by trade and musician. He's also fascinated by the human mind: how do our individual brains work? Are we all born with unique personality traits that, if understood, can help us relate more optimally to ourselves, our dreams and our goals, while having more compassion for others?
Joseph and I talk about the Enneagram of Personality, an ancient personality system that is composed of 9 main core types, subtypes and 3 main instincts.
This topic is complex and this interview only barely scratches the surface.
Joseph is a hil...2020-05-1945 min
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 6: Anxiety and Men's Mental Health with Dr. Katie Thomson Aitken, NDI talk to my friend and colleague, Dr. Katie Thomson Aitken, a naturopathic doctor practicing in Guelph, Ontario with a special focus in anxiety and men's mental health.
Dr. Katie and I talk about the unique issues men experience with their mental health, including some hormonal underpinnings that drive mental health issues in this population.
We also talk about how to manage anxiety and stress: when is it appropriate to stay with emotions vs. spring into action to manage strong emotions like anxiety and panic?
Dr. Katie is working on a book and offe...2020-05-1942 min
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 5: 5 Key Nutrients for Mental HealthIn this solo episode I geek out on my top 5 supplements for mental health conditions. While every patient is different, these 5 nutrients play a major role in our mental health and mood. Most have been shown to decrease symptoms of depression.
I introduce you to these 5 nutrients, talk about issues around testing and supplementation and describe how they fare in the latest research.
Studies and sources in order of mention:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26357876
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4915253/
https://www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com...2020-05-1826 min
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 4: Mood and Menstruation a Back-to-Back Interview with Dr. Anne Hussain, NDIn this episode, Dr. Anne Hussain, naturopathic doctor, menstruation guru, PCOS-solver, and period literacy advocate, and I go back-to-back with two interviews. First I talk to Dr. Anne about how hormones affect our mood, then she interviews me.
As you know I'm super interested in the intersection between our mental health and hormones. Hormones are really cool (as we discuss in these two interviews): they orchestrate how we feel physically and mentally. Our moods are subservient to our hormonal states and learning how to honour these hormones is so important for living in accordance with nature and o...2020-05-181h 29
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 3: Trauma and EMDR with Ayan Mukherjee, Registered PsychotherapistI'm so excited for this interview I had with my friend and colleague Ayan Mukherjee, Registered Psychotherapist and Certified EMDR Therapist.
In this episode, we talk trauma (both with a capital T and lower case t). We talk about how trauma forms in the brain and how that can affect our mental and emotional states, how EMDR works as an evidence-based form or rewiring the traumatized brain, and how healing from trauma may first mean addressing dissociation and internalized parts.
This is such an informative conversation.
A WORD OF WARNING, however: we do get...2020-05-181h 15
The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 2: The Fascinating and Threatening Other with Victor Cirone, Registered HerbalistI talk to Victor Cirone, Certified Herbalist and scholar of Steiner, Jung, Freud, Hillman and other psychoanalytic characters.
We talk about society's search of "the perfect image" and how this leads to a breakdown in mental and physical health, and society.
We talks herbs and dreaming, how Jung and Freud's theories of dreaming differ, and how to connect more deeply with the "fascinating and threatening other", to unify the Self.
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The Good Mood PodcastEpisode 1: Do You Need a Mental Health Diagnosis?I discuss why a label may be helpful in terms of accessing research, community and specialists with a specific focus, but isn't particularly helpful for accessing the root cause of our concerns.
Unlike insulin for type I diabetes, mental health conditions aren't caused by one single factor that a proper diagnosis can help us uncover.
Instead, they're complicated phenomena that are likely the results of various factors at play.
My job as a naturopathic doctor is to figure out how these factors work together to help you develop a roadmap to reverse them.2020-05-1807 min
Weird Waves PodcastEpisode 40: Dr. Talia Marcheggiani & Taylor MorozovaDr. Talia flips the script and interviews Taylor for this weeks episode. They talk about how Taylor discovered Surfing, why she almost cried over buying a keep cup and explains why hairdressers hate coconut oil in this week's episode.
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Weird Waves PodcastEpisode 35: Dr. Talia MarcheggianiWe talked with Dr. Talia about how to keep your immune system strong, learn about The Good Mood Project and hear about how she discovered freshwater surfing on this weeks episode.
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