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Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#97 Anjali Brannon: Ayurvedic Practitioner discusses Trauma & ParentingSummaryIn this episode of the Neuroveda podcast, host Gillian Ehrlich and guest Dr. Anjali Brannan delve into the intricate relationship between parenting and trauma. They explore various techniques for somatic trauma resolution, the importance of heartfulness meditation, and how Ayurvedic principles can guide parenting practices. The conversation emphasizes the significance of intuition, the integration of Ayurveda with allopathic medicine, and the healing potential of the mind-body connection. The episode concludes with a discussion on the importance of being aware of health implications, such as nickel allergies in medical treatments.TakeawaysParenting and...
2025-10-2459 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#96 Vinita Prachi Murarka; Ayurvedic Doctor, Waldorf educator, and transformational guideSummaryIn this episode of the Neuroveda podcast, host Gillian Ehrlich engages with Ayurvedic doctor and Waldorf educator Vanita Prachi Mararca to explore the principles of Waldorf education, its unique approach to child development, and the integration of spirituality and culture in learning. They discuss the importance of nurturing the head, heart, and hands in education, the role of nature in fostering resilience, and the critiques of Waldorf education. The conversation also touches on the traditional Gurukula system of education in India and concludes with Vanita's upcoming book release.Prachi Healing is excited to give a...
2025-10-0957 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#95 Dr. Jon Berner discusses his unique lens to reimagining how we treat complex mental health conditions with both precision and humanity.SummaryIn this episode of the Neuroveda podcast, host Gillian Ehrlich engages with Dr. John Berner, a Harvard-trained psychologist and neuroscientist, to explore the intricate relationship between mind and body in the context of mental health. They discuss the limitations of traditional medical silos, the importance of cellular communication, and the role of hormones in health. Dr. Berner introduces the concept of intersectionality in psychiatric treatment, emphasizing the need for personalized approaches. The conversation also delves into innovative treatments like rapamycin and the significance of understanding cellular interactions through advanced technologies.Takeaways
2025-09-2556 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#91 Dr. Jessy Dhanjal: What is Oxidative Stress?Bio:Dr. Jessy Dhanjal, ND is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor in California. He earned his Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine from Bastyr University in San Diego and holds a Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Davis. During his time at UC Davis, he participated in the Emergency Medicine Research Associate Program at the UC Davis Medical Center, gaining early clinical experience in the emergency department.Dr. Dhanjal has pursued advanced training in Functional Medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine. His clinical interests include primary care with an emphasis on cardiometabolic h...
2025-07-1649 min
RNegadeAyurveda, The Science Of Life, Understood Health Before We Invented Stress w. Dr. Gillian EhrlichIn this podclass episode, we're talking with Dr. Gillian Ehrlich, a nurse practitioner with a doctorate and an expert in Ayurveda. Gillian shares insights on the interconnectedness of mind and body, emphasizing the impact of thoughts on physical health. She explains the Ayurvedic concepts of doshas—vata, pitta, and kapha—and their influence on individual health. The episode highlights Gillian's commitment to personalized care for comprehensive wellness. Gillian shows us how this ancient system still delivers modern solutions for nurses, patients, and humans who are totally fried.
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2025-04-271h 10
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#85 Dr Ehrlich and Dr Giles discuss immunity from and Ayurvedic and Western perspectiveIn this episode of the Neuroveda podcast, Dr Gillian Ehrlich and Dr. Julianna Giles explore the immune system from both Ayurvedic and Western perspectives. They discuss the complexities of cancer, autoimmunity, and chronic infections, emphasizing the importance of understanding the underlying factors that contribute to these conditions. The conversation delves into the roles of psychoneuroimmunology, cellular biology, and the Ayurvedic concepts of Prana, Tejas, and Ojas in maintaining health and wellness. Practical approaches to healing and supporting the immune system are also highlighted, along with the significance of lifestyle choices and conscious awareness in promoting overall health....
2025-04-1747 min
The POTScastAyurvedic approach with Gillian Ehrlich, DNP, ARNP: Mast Cell Matters with Dr. Tania DempseyGillian Ehrlich's NeuroVeda Clinic in Seattle treats complex patients with a wide variety of treatments including peptides, Ayurvedic medicine, diet and nutrition, imaging, mind-shifting therapeutics, plasmapheresis, and more. In this episode, Dr. Tania Dempsey interviews Gillian about her Ayurvedic approach and also her experiences with plasmapheresis. More information about Gillian and her clinic is available here.
Dr. Dempsey's website can be found here.
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2025-03-1155 min
Mast Cell Matters: Deep dives on MCAS with Tania Dempsey, MD - Presented by The POTScastFrom Ayurveda to Apheresis with Gillian Ehrlich, DNP, ARNPGillian Ehrlich's NeuroVeda Clinic in Seattle treats complex patients with a wide variety of treatments including peptides, Ayurvedic medicine, diet and nutrition, imaging, mind-shifting therapeutics, plasmapheresis, and more. In this episode, Dr. Tania Dempsey interviews Gillian about her Ayurvedic approach and also her experiences with plasmapheresis. More information about Gillian and her clinic is available here.
Dr. Dempsey's website can be found here.
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2025-03-1155 min
One Thing with Dr. Adam RindeEpisode 111 . Gillian Ehrlich, DNP, ARNP Advanced Medicine For Chronic Disease with ancient originsEpisode summary and time stamps
I. Introduction (0:00-1:31)
Host Intro: Introduces Gillian Ehrlich, DNP, ARNP,(Neuroveda Health), highlighting expertise in complex chronic illness, blending #Ayurveda, conventional nursing, #functionalmedicine, and #integrativemedicine. Mentions therapies: #ketamine, #plasmapheresis, #IVtherapies, and conditions treated (e.g., #fibromyalgia, #chronicfatigue, #POTS, #longCOVID).
II. Early Influences (1:31-10:38)
Childhood: Grew up in polluted Cleveland, OH, noticing tired adults; standard American diet.
Jane Esselstyn: Health teacher (daughter of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn) inspired her with her focus on outdoor education and veganism.
Hypermobility: Personal experience with #hypermobility, #EhlersDanlosSyndrome, #POTS, and...
2025-01-2347 min
Hunt Harvest Health#209: Ancient Medicine in a Modern World with Gillian EhrlichPodcast Sponsor: StHealthy Nutrition use code STHEALTHY for 10% offGet your FREE Men's Health Guide SummaryIn this episode of the Hunt Harvest Health podcast, Dr. Hilary Lampers welcomes nurse practitioner Gillian Ehrlich to discuss complex medical conditions, the importance of community in healthcare, and the integration of Ayurvedic medicine into modern practices. They explore the significance of education in medicine, the connection to nature through outdoor leadership, and the principles of regenerative agriculture. Gillian shares her journey into health and wellness, emphasizing the need for personalized care through understanding doshas and individual...
2024-10-311h 11
The Vibrant Wellness PodcastThe Intersection of Ayurveda and Modern Medicine, with Dr. Gillian Ehrlich, ARNP, DNP, IFMCPCurious about how the ancient principles of Ayurveda can enhance your functional medicine practice? Join us as Dr. Gillian Ehrlich, founder of Neuroveda Health in Seattle, shares her unique insights. Drawing from her background in regenerative agriculture and wilderness leadership, Gillian explains how these experiences shape her holistic approach to healthcare.We’ll explore how digestion and the body’s waste elimination processes are linked to autoimmune diseases—highlighting the importance of understanding both our connection to the earth and our individual constitutions. Gillian’s practice merges Western diagnostics with Ayurvedic methods, offering a comprehensive view of nutritio...
2024-10-2354 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#80: DC Kim Bruno: Review of Neurologic Antibody TestingChiropractor Kim Bruno furthered her training with the
Institute of Functional Medicine, ILADS, Horowitz Lyme Master Classes and holds a board-certification as a Certified Clinical Nutritionist. She owned a private
practice for 17 years and was the functional medicine medical director for the largest immunology clinic in Colorado. She comes to us today as the Senior Medical Science liaison for Vibrant Wellness Labs. Today we discuss their panel of 48 neurologically-oriented antibodies: the Neural Zoomer Plus.
We start by discussing the lab technology itself, which
is somewhat unique in the testing world- it’s an 'Immunochip’, also...
2024-08-011h 05
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#75 MD Todd Levine: Skin biopsies: getting information about the central nervous system through the skinDescription:
Dr Todd Levine, with 20 years of experience as a clinical neurologist with specialty in disorders of the peripheral nervous system, shares with us about the Syn-One skin biopsy run by his company, CND Life Sciences.
Against a backdrop of clinical information about the divisions of the nervous system (central vs peripheral and sensory vs motor vs autonomic), we review the 3 tests in this procedure: small fiber nerve counts, synuclein and amyloid deposition.
Dr Levine notes that brain & skin both come from ectoderm tissue in the embryo, meaning they arise from similar roots soon after...
2024-07-1657 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#79: MD Ferdinand Hui: Neurointerventional Surgery- exploring the diseases and treatments of the blood vessels of the brainDr Ferdinand Hui is a rare gem of a surgeon- brilliant in his craft, able to communicate complicated concepts clearly, and caring and compassionate for the reality that disease can impart in the life of a person and their family. Here we get a chance to cruise around the blood vessels of the brain with a neurointerventional surgeon, who's focus is minimally invasive procedures to treat the blood vessels of the brain and spine. Although he thinks of himself as a plumber, rotor-rootering the pipes, these are live pipes and much of our discussion centers on the nature of...
2024-07-0148 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#78 MD Gary Stobbe: Complex Basics of AutismNeurologist Gary Stobbe has been working with patients with autism since his residency in the early 1990's. Listen in to hear how this compassionate physician has been learning from his patients, their families and advocates. Dr Stobbe's perspective has evolved from the medical approach within which he was trained to now recognize the spectrum of stable neurodivergence to profoundly symptomatic patients who desperately need extensive support for living their daily lives.
We start with the DSM-V diagnostic criteria of impaired social communication + repetitive behaviors or interests, recognizing that the social communication network of the brain touches multiple...
2024-06-011h 09
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#77 Whitney Mack: Women's Holistic Health, Hormones & MovementDescription.
This is a power-packed episode in which Whitney Mack walks us through what women should have been taught since birth about how our bodies work and how we can care for them lifelong. Turns out, we have an infradian (vs circadian) rhythm that drives our cellular communication/ hormones systems over time. This means that we are in constant cycles of change, just like the moon that cycles through from new to full and back to new. To anchor into our holistic health, we can emphasis sleep, nutrition and movement in alignment with these cycles.
2024-05-011h 09
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#76 Paul S. Malchesky, D.Eng., on Plasmapheresis: history, technology and potential benefit for deep disease & longevityDr Paul Malchesky, with a Master’s degree in Chemistry and a Doctorate in Engineering, has been working with apheresis since the 1970’s. This is a blood filtration or ‘cleaning’ therapy we offer at Neuroveda Health as plasmapheresis (also called plasma exchange, PLEX and TPE (total or therapeutic plasma exchange)). There’s been a lot of recent excitement regarding treatment of Long-COVID and as a ‘biohack’ for longevity, but the truth is that it’s been nearly half a century since the FDA approved this therapy for auto-immune and neurodegenerative conditions. The technology has come a long way and Dr Malchesky has...
2024-04-2358 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#74 ND Julianna Giles: Integrative Oncology (Cancer Care) soup to nutsCancer is a tremendous topic. Dr Julianna Giles, ND, has
focused her career on evidence-based approaches for this complex condition. Dr Giles now directs our Integrative Oncology program at Neuroveda Health in Seattle, Washington. In this podcast, she walks us through cancer, soup to nuts. This includes defining cancer, describing different types and stages of cancer, and the conventional treatments of surgery, radiation chemotherapy and now immunotherapy. Dr Giles then layers in integrative approaches including high-dose (aka ‘pro-oxidant’) IV vitamin C, other botanicals, metabolic approaches to treating cancer and the relationship between other immune dysfunction, like auto-immune disease or chro...
2024-04-031h 17
The Lab ReportAll Things Ayurveda with Dr. Gillian EhrlichAyurvedic medicine is one of the oldest holistic healing systems. It was developed thousands of years ago in India and is still practiced throughout the world both exclusively and in conjunction with Western medicine. Ayurveda works to find balance between our innate constitution and how we adapt to our world. Dr. Gillian Ehrlich is extensively trained in conventional and functional medicine but also weaves the art of ayurveda through each patient encounter helping to treat the whole patient – body, mind, and spirit. In today’s episode, Dr. Gillian Ehrlich discusses the principles of Ayurveda. We learn how she...
2023-01-3155 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#73 John Moos, MD discusses his transition from trauma surgeon to psychedelic healer including research and current status of psychedelics for healing in the USDr John Moos, MD discusses his transition from trauma surgeon to psychedelic healer- the unifying factor being proximity to trauma. He notes the trauma he initially treated with surgery most typically occurs within a container of many other traumas- social, political and economic violence, resource scarcity, fear, addiction, intergenerational traumas, ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and others. His (to-be) wife looked at him one day and said “I wonder if it’s possible to heal it before it happens”, meaning, is there a way to pre-emptively address the container of trauma before the physical trauma results as the outward explosion of inn...
2022-12-0157 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#72 Jennifer Bahr, ND: All about Homeopathy and its use for children with PANS/PANDASDr Jennifer Bahr is a Naturopathic Physician with deep interest, experience and success in treating children using Classical Homeopathy for PANS (Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) and PANDAS (Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Disease Associated with Streptococcus).
We start this show with the fascinating story of Homeopathy- history, mechanisms and current practice around the world. The American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH) was actually the first medical society formed in the United States in 1844. The Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States, still regulated by the FDA, recognizes over 1000 remedies. Research first published in 2010 used scanning microscopy to identify nanoparticles of a...
2022-11-161h 01
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#71: Arnold Eiser, MD: Intersections of Neuroscience & Public HealthDr Arnold Eiser, MD, MACP trained as a nephrologist over 40 years ago but has come to see that the kidneys, liver and other 'extracranial factors' (influences from outside the cranium, the skull holding the brain) hold some of the most impactful sway over the health of our brains. He's termed this relationship between organ dysfunction in the body to assumed compromise in central nervous system brain neuroinflammation Eiser's Corollary of Related Toxicity. His book, Preserving Brain Health in a Toxic Age: New insights from neuroscience, integrative medicine and public health (Rowman & Littlefield, Oct 2021) explores this topic in depth. He exa...
2022-08-141h 02
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#70 Dr Tarun Singhal, MD on microglial activation as a common root of neuroinflammatoy conditions but also brain fog, fatigue and mood changesMicroglial cells are responsible for sensing and driving the immune response in the central nervous system. Their activity, be it supportive or destructive, can be at the root of many different neuroinflammatory conditions including diseases like MS, ALS, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury), but may also play a large role in the vague hallmark symptoms of complex and chronic disease like brain fog, fatigue, pain, alertness and mood changes including OCD, ADD, and depression.
Dr Singhal systematically walks us through an easily understood description of the types of cells in the brain (neurons, macr...
2022-07-1151 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#69: ABORTION: SPECIAL EPISODE: Anuj Khattar, MD on the day Roe v Wade is overturned: Women's Realities of Reproductive Health in AmericaRecorded on Friday, June 24, 2022, the day Roe v Wade was overturned by the United States Supreme Court, when safe full-scale reproductive health care responsibility was returned back to the states resulting in millions of women losing access to accurate information about safe reproductive care, this episode lays out the realities of abortion.
We know this decision will inflict a range of dangers, even well beyond the simple forcing of women to continue undesired pregnancies with all of the physical, emotional and financial realities (the Turn Away Study shows mental health may recover but physical and financial outcomes...
2022-07-0144 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthComing Soon: Oops, All Franchises!Coming July 8th from Partyfish Media! Oops, All Franchises is a new movie podcast ranking film franchises and sequels to find the best IP there ever was! What makes a good sequel? Does it have to be a good movie? Does it improve on the original?
Does a good follow-up have to reward the fans for waiting on the edge of their seat, decade after decade? We'll match each movie against each other based on entertainment, cultural impact, artistry, and more. Come with us on this journey through every film franchise we can find!
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2022-06-2401 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#68: Acharya Shunya: Roar Like a GoddessTo Roar Like a Goddess is no joke and a responsibility not to be taken lightly.
In this episode, Acharya Shunya rejoins us (see Podcast for Healing Neurology episode #42: Finding the Sovereign Self) for our first show together) to review some of the juicy bits of her new book, Roar Like a Goddess.
We start with a definition of ‘goddess’ and how the various goddesses have the purpose of revealing the various aspects of our authentic goddess nature. “Just as the moonlight is no different than the moon, the self is no different from the Goddess...
2022-06-2254 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#67 Emily Gutierrez, DNP, CPNP, PMHS: Neuroinflammation in Kids including Autism, OCD, ADHD, PANDAS/PANSAutism, ADHD, OCD, and PANDAS/PANS are some of the challenging neuroinflammatory conditions in growing numbers of children these days. While the conventional treatment has typically been pharmaceuticals and behavioral therapies, we are truly in the midst of a paradigm shift aiming at root causes and asking 'why' and 'how' for both cause and treatment. Innovations in medicine are bringing us new evaluation tools, nuanced diagnosis capabilities, and treatment options.
Dr Emily Gutierrez, a seasoned pediatric psychiatric doctorally-prepared nurse practitioner in Austin, Texas, prioritizes these kids who need new approaches. We begin the show by walking through t...
2022-06-0858 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthComing June 16th: Save The D8 - EpochSeason 3 of Save The D8 drops this June 16th! All new characters with all new adventurers and... a brand new player, Shane Regan!
People are getting abducted from their homelands and trapped in a prison with no name. Prisoners are kept under substandard conditions and either executed or forced to work for the prison when their time comes. Four of these prisoners plan to escape this terrible place and find their way home! Find your way this June 16th on Save The D8: Epoch.
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2022-06-0601 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#66 Karyn Schwartz, community herbalist: Finding our relationship to plantsKaryn Schwartz is a community herbalist what starts out with exactly what we need to know about herbalism, "If you are interacting with plants in any way, you are doing herbalism. If you are cooking with plants in your kitchen, you are doing herbalism. If you are making tea, you are doing herbalism. If you are sitting and listening to the grass, you are doing herbalism. There are so many ways to have relationships to plants and we are bound to them- we are always in relationship to plants. There's no oxygen without plants. We're not here unless we...
2022-05-2654 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthNow on Partyfish Media: Beyond The Ball!Welcome to the World of Pokémon!
Beyond The Ball is the premiere Pokémon research podcast! Join Professors Braden and Will each episode as they read all of the entries for a single Pokémon (selected at random) and try to reach a broader understanding of it and the wider world it inhabits, striving to make sense of the natural world of Pokémon, one Pokédex entry at a time!
You can find more info on Beyond The Ball on the Partyfish Media website at https://www.partyfish.media/beyondtheball, and listen now where...
2022-05-1601 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#65: Dr Howard Weiner, MD, Understanding the Neuroinflammatory diseases: MS, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS & GlioblastomaDr Howard Weiner has been evaluating neuroinflammatory diseases for over forty years now. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is his main target, but in the show today, you’ll hear how comparing the causes and courses of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), and glioblastoma can tremendously deepen our insight into all of these neuroinflammatory conditions together. Dr Weiner is a story-teller (and film maker! ‘What is Life? The Movie”) who starts with a description of the four types of cells that make the brain into the brain: neurons, oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, and microglia. Then it’s on to the details: MS...
2022-05-1545 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#64 Aly Cohen, MD: All you need to know about WATER! Sources, Regulations, Contaminants and Chooseing Filters for your Drinking WaterDr Aly Cohen. MD and environmental health specialist (and very entertaining speaker), gives us the full low-down about our drinking water in the U.S.. She starts out describing how the 160,000 treatment plants in the US make up ~80% of our water sources and are bound only to the regulations, restrictions and testing from the Safe Water Drinking Act of 1974. At that time, and since, it's only federally required to test for 91 known toxic chemicals; 95,000 chemicals have been introduced into our environment since the 1950's, leaving 94,909 untested for in our drinking water, at least 1000 known to be endocrine disruptors (most...
2022-04-2150 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#63: Anup Mulakaluri, ND: Heart & Spirit of Ayurvedic NeurologyDespite being born into an Ayurvedic culture, Dr Anup Mulakaluri, ND, didn't seek out Ayurvedic training until his mom gained medical benefit this ancient science. As soon as he started his training, he knew he was at home and brings the cozy comfort of Ayurveda to each patient he sees and the teaching he does, like in our show today. He starts out describing Ayurveda as 'a system of healing, a way of life, a spiritual practice and as a functional medicine'. He then dives into how we can understand ourselves through our doshic makeup, meaning the three components...
2022-04-1354 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#62 Micki Maes: All about brain imaging; understanding x-ray, CT, MRI, PET scans especially for neurodegenerative conditionsMarilyn (Micki) Maes, MS. RT, (R), (MR), (f), CRT, is a radiologic technologist, professional educator, researcher, 3D quantitative analyst, consultant, and manager with over 15 years of experience in performance and training regarding diagnostic imaging. Prior to her last 6 years at CorTech working with the Neuroquant, which is a specific type of volumetric analysis and report regarding cognitive decline, she was director at Stanford's 3D quantitative radiology department doing manually what CorTech reports now do digitally. This show walks through brain/head imaging from A-Z, or should we say from X-ray to CT, to MRI, to PET and back through ci...
2022-03-3136 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#61 Virtaj Singh, MD: Physiatry Treatments for the Hypermobile BodyDr Virtaj Singh, MD, gives us the physical medicine and rehabilitation perspective of the hypermobile body. We start out talking about how 'hypermobility' presents, starting with the various joints that can get hypermobile (spoiler alert: it's all of them). He explains how lax ligaments may trigger muscles to tighten in order to protect a vulnerable joint which is why sometimes treatment is to loosen muscles and sometimes treatment is to tighten ligaments as a way to address a root cause of pain. We review the various stages of dysfunction including acute, subacute and chronic stages and how to look...
2022-03-1655 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#60 Tami Hafzalla: Yoga & Ayurveda through Bhakti, a devotional lifeTami Hafzalla hails originally from Cairo, Egypt, and found her spirit grounded & home-grown through her explorations of Yoga and Ayurveda. In this podcast, she brings us along on her journey originating in a curious & contemplative childhood, through psychology studies in college that triggered her introduction to Yoga, breath work, meditation and self-discipline. "Yoga is here to liberate me." Her drive to be of service to humanity drove progressively deeper through experiences all over the world with Vedic sciences: music, chanting, ancient texts, Jyotish (Ayurvedic astrology), and bhatki, which means devotion. Bhakti is the style of practice that spoke most...
2022-03-0250 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#59 Alessandro Bitto, PhD: Biological Aging, Cellular Senescence, Mitochondria & the GutDr Alessandro Bitto is a researcher at the University of Washington who studies biological aging, mitochondrial function and metabolic disease. He walks us through the history, current thinking and some of the experimental data of cellular senescence, including the role of DNA damage and telomeres, some of the senolytic drugs (quercetin, Dasatinib and others), and how different cells effect senescence differently, like epithelial cells vs neurons vs immune cells. He talks about the root of cancer being cells that escape cellular instructions. From this foundation, Dr Bitto layers in the role of mitochondria with deep explanations of metabolism as t...
2022-02-161h 00
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#58 Prisca Nwizubo, PMHNP: Non-Medication Mental Health with TMS: Transcranial Magnetic StimulationPrisca Nwizubo is a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner who found herself most at home working with mental health and illness in innovative ways including especially with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and runs Eastside TMS Wellness in Washington State. She brings us through her journey that starts in a public area in Nigeria at age 6 years old seeing a group of mentally ill people being mistreated by their guards or caretakers, all the way through to this cutting-edge modern TMS technology. She walks us through the process that includes consultation, mapping to target the neural location, and then the 'tap...
2022-02-0245 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthREPOST: #42 Acharya Shunya: Finding the Sovereign SelfHow can we find authentic freedom, everlasting joy, and unshakable sovereignty? In this episode, Acharya Shunya shares the seven stages of falling through desire from consciousness to unconsciousness to discover our true nature and improve our health. Acharya Shunya is the first female leader in her 2,000 year Vedic lineage from India. Her insight is profound and under the heel of her gentle, poetic tone, she crushes the Ego that keeps us isolated and alone to hand us our larger Self. This is the process we all walk through over the course of our lives as we search for connection...
2022-01-1951 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#57 Hiba Jameel: Iraqi nutritionist & artist on food, family, culture, food policy, blue zone eating, and the power of priorities and choicesMs Hiba Jameel grew up in Iraq during the Gulf War and transitioned from coming to the US as a refugee to studying Blue-Zone longevity & nutrition including the biomarkers regarding mTor & IGF1 during her Masters training at Tufts University. She paints us a gorgeous picture of sitting at her grandmother's table as a child with the fruits, nuts, vegetables and spices of the Iraqi table and moves through her understanding of people through her understanding of food, nutrition and the world 'healthy'. Her love of food is palpable and it's evident especially in her respect for the variety of...
2022-01-191h 02
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#56 Alissa Zingman, MD, Everything to know about EDS: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome & Hypermobility SyndromesDr Alissa Zingman is a physician board-certified in Occupational & Environmental Preventative Medicine. Prior to medical school, she was a professional dancer & pilates instructor. She also has a connective tissue disorder called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility Type, or hEDS, which makes her one of every 5000 people who may be functioning like 'canaries in the coal mine of biomechanics'. She’s had five orthopedic surgeries, several herniated discs in her spine and had to leave her orthopedic surgery residency to pursue intensive rehabilitation for her spine & pelvis. Being a physician did not shield her from the medical neglect and abuse that is...
2021-12-141h 01
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#55 Katja Kovacic, MD pediatric gastroenterologist: Neurogastroenterology the gut brain connection of IBS, cyclic vomiting, gastroparesis and chronic abdominal pain as seen through the autonomic nervoThere are more neurons in the gut than in the spinal cord. WHAT?! Dr Katja Kovacic is a pediatric gastroenterologist who specializes in the gut-brain connection especially through the perspective of the autonomic nervous system. She discusses the complex and difficult to treat functional gut disorders including IBS, cyclic vomiting syndrome, gastroparesis and chronic abdominal pain. Her experience is extensive. She describes the symptoms that come along with these conditions and some of the testing to diagnose these conditions. We then spend the second half of the show discussing treatment options. Dr Kovacic starts with a simple listing of...
2021-11-2530 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#54 Alan Cash: Using Oxaloacetate (Benagene) to support failing mitochondrial energy pathways & scavenge glutamateAlan Cash got curious about why our energy pathways fail us. Armed with an MS in physics, he's found himself innovating commercial production methods for oxaloacetate, a metabolite in the citric acid cycle that sits squarely within our mitochondria and are fundamental in producing the ATP that fuel every energy-requiring process in the body. In this episode, we review the nitty gritty details of energy production from the perspective of how oxaloacetate (brand names Benagene and Jubilance) can impact us from the systemic perspective. We don't typically discuss one commercial product on our show, but we have many patients...
2021-11-101h 01
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#53 Kyla Pearce, PhD, MPH, E-RYT 200: LoveYourBrain *free* programs offering Yoga for Traumatic Brain InjuryYoga was one of the key tools Olympic-hopeful snowboarder Kevin Pearce found to reorient to himself as able, connected and calm after his severe head injury on a practice run in January 2012 left him comatose for weeks. Despite high-tech and caring medical attention, devoted family support and extensive neurorehabilitation, Kevin's identity remained rooted in his life as a professional athlete and snowboarder for years after his accident. After traumatic brain injury (TBI), however, we may not return to our 'former' self and the struggle to find our new self, identity and value is a worth search. In response to...
2021-10-2745 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#52: Shae Datta, MD: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), gut-brain connection and supplements for healingDr Shae Datta, MD, is a Sports NeuroTrauma Neurologist and the current Director of Concussion & Neuro-Cognition at New York University, Long Island. Dr Datta specializes in helping people heal from brain injuries, especially including traumatic brain injuries and concussion (also called mTBI = mild traumatic brain injury). In this incredible episode, we wind our way first through the anatomy and physiology of the central nervous system, meaning the brain, spinal cord and associated microglia, astrocytes, relay neurons and the glymphatic clearance system of the CNS. Dr Datta then illuminates an understanding of the gut-brain axis with a special focus on...
2021-10-1452 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#51 Nzinga Harrison, MD: The ‘correct way’ to understand and support those suffering with substance use disordersAs the daughter of a public school teacher/administrator and an electrical engineer, who was also the commander of the local Black Panther Party, Nzinga was raised as an advocate who always knew she would become a doctor and a teacher. In medical school, her world was upended by a psychiatry rotation that drove her into mental health care within the context of social & political factors. Compassion, connection, and relationships drive health. Coming correct to substance use disorder treatment means bringing the compassion and resource we offer cancer patients and the biological, social, & cultural interventions we use to manage...
2021-10-0158 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#50 Sri Ganeshan, MD and physician scientist: Into the weeds on folate and mitochondrial metabolism with FRAT and MitoSwab testingDr Sri Ganeshan, MD and physician scientist, dives into the weeds on folate and mitochondria
Please note, even though we discuss folate doses in depth, we are NOT recommending that using folate in any form is right for you or your child. A podcast conversation is never a replacement for personalized and direct medical care.
Did you know mitochondria is involved in fighting viral infections including COVID? Listen all the way through to get this info!
It’s a soup-to-nuts discussion about the types of folate, functions of folate across the lifespan, location of r...
2021-09-161h 02
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthREPOST: #5 Dr Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH: It's social & political factors that make populations healthy, not just healthcare!There's been so much upheaval in our social, political & physical world that it's timely to remember what determines our health, which is not necessarily what happens in the doctor's office. This was one of our first shows, originally released Jan 2, 2020, because the importance of talking about how our health flows (or doesn't) from our economic structure.
Dr Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH, teaches us that healthcare as an industry doesn’t inevitably result in a healthy population. In fact, despite spending the most money of any country in the world on healthcare, we are #36 in lifespan, just behind Chi...
2021-09-011h 04
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthREPOST: #4 Sufi Imam Jamal Rahman: How poetry & the Koran can heal our neurologyIt's the right time to repost this incredible episode in which the beauty of Islam is beamed through the words and spirit of Sufi Imam Jamal Rahman. It was one of our opening podcasts on January 2, 2020 and is in the top 3 of my favorite podcasts we've ever produced. Listen in and heal.
From 1/2/2020: Sufi Imam Jamal Rahman reveals insights from Rumi, Hafiz and other poets into the ways that Koranic verses can nourish personal, community, racial, economic and environmental healing. According to the Koran, a good life is built “50% of the visible and 50% of the invisible” meaning rooted...
2021-08-1956 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#49 Manish Butte, MD PhD: All about immunology, especially T cellsDr Manish Butte, MD PhD, is a pediatrician & Division Chief of Immunology, Allergy & Rheumatology, and is also a surprisingly down-to-Earth kind of guy. In this show, he causally lays it all out there from the perspective of a scientist and compassionate clinician who works at the edges of what we know regarding genetics and rare diseases to give us a view of the whole playing field of immunology, including allergy, autoimmunity and infection (especially the post-infectious drive towards autoimmunity). We discuss Lyme, EBV (Epstein Barr Virus) and the ways in which the B cells & T cells function to mount...
2021-08-051h 13
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#48 Dan Olesnicky, MD on Neuropathy and regenerative options for addressing peripheral nerve pain syndromesNeuropathy is dysfunction or damage (or both!) to the nerves and is a source for movement disorders as well as burning, tingling and numbness. It's a condition that can result from so many different triggers. Did you know ~40% of neuropathies remain 'idiopathic' in cause, meaning of unknown origin? In this podcast, MD Dan Olesnicky walks through them all. Step by step, he discusses the central vs peripheral nervous system (the peripheral being the end 'rootlets' of very small nerves that can enervate our hands and feet but also wrap around our gut and heart), and then goes into mono...
2021-07-0750 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#47: Ilene Ruhoy, MD discusses the her work as the Medical Director of the new EDS Center at Mt Sinai in South Nassau, New YorkDr Ilene Ruhoy is the Medical Director of the new Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Center at Mt Sinai in South Nassau, New York. In this podcast, Dr Ruhoy shares the structure, goals and approach to EDS patient care. Dr Ruhoy lays out the challenges that EDS and hypermobile patients encounter in experiencing connective tissue disorders, getting a diagnosis and the work that is happening at the EDS Center to center complex and chronically ill patient care. It starts with a triad structure binding together clinical practice with the illustrious Dr Anne Maitland, surgery led by Dr Paulo Bolognese, as driving and...
2021-06-2432 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#46 Sharad Kohli, MD: Healthcare work is political workHealth is well beyond just a medical status and is inherently political. Dr Sharad Kohli, MD, has been working in primary care with underserved populations for over 15 years. He shares his story of transition from wanting to provide good healthcare to realizing that health required other services like voting rights, access to healthy food and exercise opportunities. The transition was complete in the further realization that going upstream to work on the criminal justice system, gun rights, immigration and poverty requires attention to provide care that truly targets health. This work was formalized in the non-profit IM4US (www...
2021-06-0955 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#45: Bela Chheda, MD on Lyme & Co-Infections Testing & TreatmentWhy are chronic, persistent infections like Lyme, Bartonella, Babesia and others like long-COVID and Epstein-Barr Virus so difficult to diagnose and treat? Infectious Disease specialist, Dr Bela Chheda, MD, walks us step by step through testing options including Elisa, Western Blot, PCR, Immunoblot (Igenix, Vibrant America), FISH testing for Babesia (Igenix), and some of the uncommonly tested parts of the immune system like the T-cells (InfectoLab). She also reviews how these bacteria can hide deep within tissue compartments and intracellularly, and that they can change themselves to hide from our immune system as well as changing our immune system it...
2021-05-2953 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#44: Nancy Nomellini: On Yoga. "When consciousness began, Yoga began"Nancy Nomellini is driving the development of the community-rooted Yoga center called Mother Yoga in Seattle, Washington. In this episode, she rips off the assumptions we have about Yoga as something that we go to or do. “When consciousness began, Yoga began.” There is no way which we can escape Yoga. Yoga exists as we exist. Are we living or are we LIVING? There might not be a difference except in our awareness. Can we raise our awareness, attitude & mental temperament to meet this gift of living reality? Join us as we swim around in the science, history, stories and s...
2021-05-1251 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthComing Soon: Gays Making!Gays Making is the podcast that spotlights LGBTQIA creators, artists, musicians, actor, performers - any and all creatives. Join Grayson Hay as he has conversations with LGBTQIA creators about their art, their inspirations, and how they stay creative in the world.
Premiering May 27th and releasing every other week on Thursdays! Subscribe now where you get your podcasts!
Presented by Partyfish Media 🎉🐟
2021-05-1001 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#43: Matia Jones, Medical and Ecological Anthropologist: health & illness across space & timeHealth and healing have history in time immemorial. We all do it- people, animals, plants, communities, and planet. In this episode, Matia Jones, Medical and Ecological Anthropologist, and Gillian Ehrlich, Family Nurse Practitioner, dive into definitions of health and healing across time and space. The conversation covers one of the traditional definitions of health from the ancient Ayurvedic texts as well as descriptions of ‘intactness’ from the Mayan culture. We reflect on the recent conviction of Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd as a type of autoimmune disease, in which the cells of the organism charged with protection and se...
2021-04-3034 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#41 Richard Boles, MD: Genetics, especially underlying functional diseasePut on your seatbelt because Dr Boles is taking you for a genetics ride you might need to listen to twice! We start at the beginning, talking about Mendel's pea plants, what is DNA, RNA and how does inheritance work. Then, we peel the onion another layer and review mitochondria, which have their own genetic lineage, including how, when and why our inheritances overlap. THEN, we further peel the onion to get into the poly-genetic origins of functional disease. Boom. It's a fascinating discussion that delineates structural vs functional disease and how most of what we struggle with in...
2021-03-171h 20
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#40 Anne Maitland, MD: Mast cells, connective tissue & the nervous systemWhy should we care about mast cells? Well, we can’t live without them! Mast cells, part of our innate immune system, are critical to our survival and reproduction. Researchers are just beginning to uncover their complex and important roles, as allergies, asthma, and mast cell disorders have become more prevalent.
In this episode, Dr. Anne Maitland explains connective tissues are the brick and mortar of our bodies, while our mast cells are our security system, and our nervous system is our electrical system. She discusses how day-to-day optimization is required to protect these systems from our en...
2021-03-031h 04
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthComing Soon: The Villainous Podcast!Podcast podcast in my hand, who is the most wicked in the land?
Coming March 15th: The Villainous Podcast, where we seek to find the most dastardly, despicable, and downright vile villain in the world of Disney. Join us biweekly for our Bracketed face off as we have friends, family, and foes defend their favorite villain. Play along at home with your own Rubric of Evil and we will soon discover who is the most evil of them all!
The Villainous Podcast, hosting by Alex Garramone and presented by Partyfish Media, premieres on March 15th...
2021-02-2401 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#39 Arinola Dada, MD: Understanding AutoimmunityWe are blessed in this episode with the brilliant and joyful rheumatologist, Dr Arinola Dada. Through her insightful metaphors, Dr. Dada explains the nuances of the immune system, including the innate and adaptive immune responses, and how and why autoimmunity occurs. She walks us through the multiple cellular check points that our system has to gauge and respond to judge threats and then reviews some of the different ways autoimmune disease presents when these checkpoints fail. The cells 'under attack' can be localized to a tissue- as in the central nervous system with multiple sclerosis (MS)- or can b...
2021-02-1758 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#38 Jodi Boone discusses the heart of Ayurvedic bodyworkAyurveda teaches the practitioner to treat each patient they would their newborn baby, with the same care and attention to their every need. Jodi Boone, Ayurvedic bodyworker, lifestyle & diet consultant, and Yoga teacher, dives directly into the authentic heart of Ayurveda. She captures the reverence Ayurveda teaches for people and nature in honoring the individual within the context of their life, including successes, struggles, and traumas. Jodi then breaks down the various Ayurvedic treatments that are offered at the Center for Healing Neurology, including Reiki, abhiyanga (oil massage), shirodhara (warm stream of oil on the forehead), basti (localized ghee...
2021-02-031h 04
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#37 Risa Suzuki: Electromagnetic fields (EMFs) and youRisa Suzuki has been certified as a Building Biology Environmental Consultant from the US-based international Institute of Building Biology & Ecology and shares with us all about Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs). We learn that EMFs are simply the vibrational signatures that occur in the natural world as trees, flowers and animals that our systems recognize (and must yearn for!) but now, discussions about "EMFs" center on the man-made electronics that pepper us, day and night, with unfamiliar signals which can trigger an occult stress response. Risa dives into the biology and chemistry around frequency, resonance, and the impact on our health o...
2021-01-2155 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#36 Anisha Durve: Titans of Medicine; Ayurveda & Chinese MedicineAnisha Durve, Doctor of Oriental Medicine and Ayurvedic Practitioner, holds a very unique perspective as an expert in the two most ancient health systems in the world: Ayurveda (originating in India) and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). In this wide-ranging episode, Dr Anisha shares with us some key principles of medicine, like healing is inevitable- like nature, any blockage is temporary only as well as explaining the nut-and-bolt similarities and differences between the systems. Both are five elements, but different elements. Both utilize points of pressure to access and influence the body, mind and spirit, termed Marma in Ayurveda and...
2021-01-0659 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthSeason Two Out Now: Your Daily Cathartic Scream!A daily scream-along for the modern adult. Partyfish Media is back to remind you to let it all out.
Enjoy & scream along every day in your shower, on your commute, or with a friend! Subscribe now where you get your podcasts!
Season Two of Your Daily Cathartic Scream is back now with new episodes, from Partyfish Media 🎉🐟
2021-01-0101 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#35 Naomi Pascoe, RN: Health Coaching for Intentional LivingCenter for Healing Neurology is excited to announce our newest service– health coaching with Nurse Naomi Pascoe! In this episode, Naomi details the iterative, goal-oriented, behavior-centered process of health coaching. As your coach, Naomi is like your mountain guide, who isn’t there to climb the mountain for you, but can share in the route-finding, keep you accountable in hard moments and celebrate accomplishments. She firmly believes "it shouldn’t be painful to be healthy; coaching is not a punishment!" Goals should be customizable and achievable. Health coaching is perfect for anyone who is interested in knowing themselves better and li...
2020-12-1625 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#34 Matthew Fogarty, MA, SEP, HMIP: Orientation & re-orientation (aka Rites of Passage) to nature & self to remedy anxiety and kindle lifelong growthAnother nature talk! This time, ecopsychology therapist, author and outdoor mentor, Matthew Fogarty, discusses orientation and re-orientation as primordial remedies to anxiety and feelings of being lost in our modern society. By starting with our awareness to the place in which we are, we become the ‘place’ itself instead of trying to go somewhere else or be something else. We only have power in this moment, with this body, in this place of the soft animal of our body, to impact our future as well as process our past. All of this occurs in a real world- not within soci...
2020-12-0252 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#33 Jeannie Di Bon: Movement Therapist & hypermobility expert: awareness over mechanics for pain“Our connective tissue is everywhere so this collagen-based defect of hypermobility (sometimes diagnosed as Ehler Danlos Syndrome) can affect everybody differently.” And thus starts our interview with movement therapist & hypermobility expert Jeannie Di Bon. She has built her life’s work, both personally & professionally, around living with and minimizing pain and instability within a body that gets accustomed to bracing or guarding in one direction while potentially painfully overextending or dislocating in other joints. Ever do ‘party tricks’ with your body as a kid or watch kids around you do ‘party tricks’? Then this podcast is for you. We walk through h...
2020-11-181h 01
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#32: Anthony Padula, MD: rheumatology is now the new immunology: consciousness in the networks for immunity, auto-inflammation, allergy & infectionRheumatology describes 'aches & pains' which really includes over 200 autoimmune (and auto-inflammation- what is this?! Listen in!) diseases and, since HIV-AIDs blew open the doors on research into re-discovering the immune system, now includes science ranging from tolerance to the trillions that live in and on us as our microbiome, cancer, autoimmune disease, auto-inflammation (like with chronic inflammatory response syndrome), allergies and mast cell activation, and pathogenic and/or sub-occult infections. What a 'specialty’! In today’s Podcast for Healing Neurology episode, classically-trained and triple-board certified (internal medicine, pediatrics and rheumatology) physician, Anthony Padula, brings his experience to bear on this...
2020-10-2855 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#31 Kael Balizer: IN THIS MOMENT! Unbind the mind through the practice of EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, aka ‘tapping’Kael Balizer is an Ayurvedic consultant and educator as well as an astute observer of human nature. Her practice has taught her the power our mind can play in either keeping us sick or getting us well. EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique is a simple but effective method that using traditional Chinese acupuncture points and Ayurvedic Marma points to regulate our emotional state. This technique just utilizes our own bodies and minds so is available at every moment as a way to shift our thinking- in the car, at work, at home, in bed. There is an evidence base to...
2020-10-2227 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#30 Suzanne Bartlett-Hackenmiller, MD, discusses the power of nature as medicine including the research, resources and activity focus to remind you to go outside for healingDr Suzanne Bartlett-Hackenmiller, MD, started out as an OB/GYN but found she consistently wanted to ‘take it outside’- not common for a women’s health doctor doing pelvic exams. The outdoors continued to call to her as she raised her autistic spectrum son and was solace during and after losing her husband to cancer. It wasn’t until she found Shinrin Yoku, the Japanese Art of Forest Bathing, however, that her understanding of the true power of nature became clear. Her book, The Outdoor Adventurer’s Guide to Forest Bathing, exemplifies her unique approach to nature as medicine...
2020-09-301h 03
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#29: Jeff Granville launches his mindfulness career in desperation as his 4-year-old son needs a lumbar puncture for cancer. Now he can help you.Jeff Granville, Mindfulness Practitioner & father of 8 children, found himself at a crossroads when his youngest son's eyes were swollen shut, had labored breathing and required an emergent lumbar puncture to establish if he could receive chemotherapy. The nurses had seen how Jeff had talked his son through earlier procedures like an IV placement, blood draw and oxygen administration and suggested to the medical team they bring him into the procedure room for the PICC line placement & lumbar puncture. What happened in that room astounded medical staff and even Jeff himself. By using mindfulness, Jeff was able to keep his...
2020-09-2359 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#28 Marty Ryan, LMP, discusses the anatomy, physiology and treatment of the gut from the perspective a 26-veteran of visceral manipulation (belly massage).Summary: Marty Ryan is a massage therapist that has specialized on the gut. In this episode, he shares insight from his two decades of listening to bellies with his hands. He lays out how gut organs, membranes, ligaments, muscles and other tissues are both held in place (so your liver doesn’t drop into your pelvis when jumping up and down) but also are allowed to slide past each other as a food bolus passes through or you do a pretzel pose in Yoga without kinking or binding. It’s a fairly mobile environment! Our bellies also hold our repr...
2020-09-1654 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health27 Aly Cohen, MD talks the MOST NEEDED information about being Non-Toxic: Living Clean in a Chemical WorldDr Aly Cohen, MD’s, new book is out & you need it. She lets us in to her transition from triple-board certified internist, rheumatologist and integrative medicine doctor to non-toxic warrior, sharing that she wrote this book out of her shock and rage that the medical world doesn’t include environmental medicine in assessment or treatment of disease. She’s taken this mission seriously and is refreshingly frank about the creation, use and impacts of these chemicals. The book walks systematically through topics of prenatal care, food, air, water, medications, personal care products, gym and travel tips, giving a practi...
2020-09-1147 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#26 Kelly Casperson, Urology MD & sex education teacher has a message for you: You and Your Vulva are Not Broken!Research shows that same-sex sex has the highest rates of ‘orgasmic equality’ meaning that both partners are satisfied with their sexual experience. Heterosexual women have the documented lowest levels of satisfaction and have come to Dr Casperson over the years with the chronic question, “what’s wrong with me?” trying to point to their own anatomy, desire, arousal, or pleasure as the 'problems'. Dr Casperson has said “You are not broken” so many times, that she has now started a podcast (“You are not broken”) and coaching classes to address these aspects of women’s sexuality. Her mission is to empower other wome...
2020-09-0946 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#25 Sarah Kruse: Ayurveda fundamentals: a fun & simple explanation of the 5000 year old original personalized genomic medical systemAyurveda is the traditional medical system of India and sets out recommendations for health from preconception to the final breath, covering preventative wellness, the daily life and deep disease treatment (including resolution of the Cell Danger Response). Learning Ayurveda can last the lifetime, but so much applicable wisdom is easily and simply available from the start. This episode features Sarah Kruse, Ayurvedic consultant and Panchakarma director (Ayurvedic detox). She discussed Ayurveda from the start- what it is and how it covers not just health and illness, but really how to establish swastha, meaning health as a way of being...
2020-09-0254 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#24 Keesha Ewers, ARNP, PhD: The Tantric Teaching of COVID: sex, connection & intimacy in a time of upheaval, fear & uncertaintyAbout half-way through this podcast with the incredible Dr Keesha Ewers, Ayurvedic & Functional Medicine Nurse Practitioner with her PhD in Sexology, she defines a Tantra as ‘a teaching’, but this whole show is actually a Tantra. It’s no holds barred as she challenges us to remove the veils of duality, even with things we have traditionally considered dirty or unpleasant or anathema. This makes everything in our environment a potential Tantra, from strangers we meet along a trail to our closest physical lover, with whom we still often maintain a separation. Dr Keesha then applies this perspective of Tantra...
2020-08-1453 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#23: Dr Ilene Ruhoy, MD, PhD All about mitochondria; what they are, how they work, how we can test them & what can we do for them & why it all mattersMitochondria are the cellular organelles that make our energy and they play a HUGE role in our ability to sense accurate threat as well as heal! Dr Ilene Ruhoy is a mitochondrial specialist and has spent years evaluating and optimizing their function. Listen in to learn what mitochondria are, why they are so special, how we can preventatively care for them to resolve our cell danger response and interventions to recover their best possible function including hyperbaric oxygen, nutrients in food and IV therapies and of course, stem cells (learn about nanotubules!).. Mitochondria are truly one of the most...
2020-08-0734 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#22 Carley Squires, ND: All about the regenerative medicine solutions for musculoskeletal joint pain: innovations to prevent and treat pain (acute, chronic & arthritis) and preserve functionFrom Dr Carley Squires' early days as an athlete focused on keeping her own joints healthy, to the thousands of hours in training across the country in naturopathic school and in post-doctoral training focused on osteopathic and musculoskeletal assessment and treatment, we get the benefit of her passion for healthy joints both preventatively through the foundations of health as well as regeneratively through a wide variety of innovative treatments. She starts this podcast with the truest understanding of inflammation which is necessary at adequate levels to heal and remodel an injured joint. Dr Squires then systematically lays out joint t...
2020-07-2951 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#21: Dawn Ipsen, Pharmacist: the modern science of Compounding Pharmacies and how they can personalize your pharmaceutical medication for YOUlAre you familiar with compounding pharmacies? This is not cauldron and puppy dog tail work. Dawn Ipsen, Doctor of Pharmacy, and owner of Clark’s Compounding Pharmacy and Kusler’s Compounding Pharmacy, breaks down all about compounding pharmacies, the mission of which is to personalize the pharmaceutical to the individual patient. Cutting edge medicine is all about personalizing the program- how about putting together the right ingredients, in the right formulation, removing the wrong fillers, and choosing the best form of administration for the patient? This is an amazing science. We start with describing the characteristics of a modern-day comp...
2020-07-181h 02
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#20: Ryan Smith tells about the TruAge test which gives a biological age scoring based on the most comprehensive array of epigentic methylation markers available to dateAging is certainly the measure of our years but, aging is also a metabolic process that science has combed for secrets across millennia. Of course, the most common goal is to reverse aging or to age more slowly with the goal of a higher quality and longer life. The first step is assessment. Modern technology has been looking at a number of these 'biological' clocks including telomere testing and the multi-omics testing which brings together algorithmic evaluations of proteinomics and metabolomics. The most promising test, however, is an epigenetic quantification of methylation. In fact, the TruAge test has over...
2020-07-0837 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health19 Chef Arran Stark: Turning on to food & reimagining hospital food: 8+ years of local, organic, seasonal hospital food in Port Townsend, WashingtonChef Arran Stark, Director of Food Service at Jefferson Healthcare talks method cooking, local eating and recipes like quinoa-crusted ling cod and citrus slaw to eat in season, like how many ways kale can be used over a winter growing season. Incredibly, this is how he feeds patients (both in-patient in the hospital as well as employees and out-patient visitors to the Hospital Café) at the critical access hospital in Port Townsend, Washington. Sitting around a campfire with his farming buddies, he hatched a plan to bring more local business to the labor-intensive process of organic small-scale farming and t...
2020-07-0253 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#18 Linda Bluestein, M.D.: Hypermobility, Ehler-Danlos Syndromes and chronic pain: classification, diagnosis, pain sensitization, and treatment options with a focus on uncommon pharmacy optionsDr Linda Bluestein, is a board-certified anesthesiologist and integrative medicine physician with a focus on hypermobility, Ehler-Danlos Syndromes and complex patients with chronic pain. In this brilliant exposition, she defines hypermobility, lays out the esoteric classifications of hypermobile Ehler Danlos Syndrome vs Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders and why naming matters for assessment and treatment of symptoms. Dr Bluestein then dives into practical recommendations for thinking about how connective tissue dysfunction (it's said "If you can’t connect the issues, think connective tissues”) can impact a variety of systems like the gut (constipation, prolapse, reflux, distention, gastroparesis), skin (delayed wound healing, poor...
2020-06-241h 03
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#17 Riana Giusti, Certified Nutritionist: Developing healthy relationships with food with anti-inflammatory eating plus details about ketogenic diet, intermittent fasting, blood sugar and CHOCOLATE!Riana Giusti, Certified Nutritionist, lives, practices & teaches the power of food as medicine in her role at Starkel Nutrition (www.StarkelNutrition.com). In this show, she shares with us insights from years of experience which have included directing brain-health focused teaching-kitchen counseling for patients with cognitive and neurological disorders (Alzheimer’s dementia, cognitive impairment), health coaching for a Seattle-based wellness company translating comprehensive blood, genetic, hormone, and gut microbiome data into personalized nutrition plans, work as a personal and professional chef throughout Seattle kitchens and in her current role seeing patients for nutritional consults and managing the Metabolic Reset Pr...
2020-06-171h 06
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#16: Fleur Larsen: For White Women Working on Showing Up for Racial Equity- Understanding How We've Been Set Up and How to Make the Invisible Visible to Heal our Collective NeurologyOriginally recorded in the first week of March 2020, before the last two weeks of protest and before Coronvirus up-ended our social & economic lives, with an update recorded June 2nd, this podcast with organizational development and workplace equity consultant Fleur Larsen shines a bright and clarifying light onto the role white women can and do play in the structures of racism in our social fabric and economy. These are ongoing issues (for centuries since prior to the inception of America as a country) and are so ingrained that they constitute ‘the water we swim in and the air we breathe’. Unle...
2020-06-081h 08
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthIn Solidarity with Black Lives MatterInstead of posting and promoting our regular episodes this week, Partyfish Media is pausing our shows and social media and standing in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movements and protests in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Nina Pop, Tony McDade, and countless others at the hands of corrupt police brutality, founded upon and perpetuated by white supremacist culture. Black Lives Matter and they are in need of support and attention, now in this moment and into the future.
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2020-06-0301 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#15 David Feinberg, designer, engineer & CEO of Pure Juicer talks (juicy!) details about technology of juice, juicers, fruits, veggies and BEES!Hear our favorite engineer, David Feinberg, founder, creator & CEO of Pure Juicers, describe in all the juicy (ha!) details about how juicers work and why they are so good for health. Over 40 years of designing equipment, including repairs to over 500 juicers of various brands, David took his fate into his own hands to create ‘the best juicer in the world’. Listen to him wax poetic about patented nuts, press pressure, clothes vs bags, blade friction and the different types of juicers (centrifugal, masticators and the two-stage juicers). We then dive into what a better juicer does for the juice itse...
2020-05-2848 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health14 Stefan Weitz, co-founder of Jetson Health, discusses his personal experience of having MS & how attention to his GUT changed his life making him into the citizen scientist he is today.Stefan Weitz was initially trained as a physicist, ultimately spent nearly two decades at Microsoft and in the interim, 14 years ago, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, MS. Despite trialing a number of pharmaceuticals and following conventional instructions, he continued to have symptoms not consistent with his expectation for what he wanted his life to look like & feel. He dove into learning about his diagnosis and potential treatments with the same curiosity and tenacity with which he’d already approached his life and career. Stefan noticed deep shifts with foundational changes in his… wait for it, not brain or nervous syst...
2020-05-1553 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#13: Dr Daniel Krashin talks headache treatments with 'electroceuticals', pain, addiction and our mission in life.Dr Daniel Krashin, MD, Psychiatrist, also board certified Pain, Addiction and Headache Medicine brings his extensive experience and uncanny ability to make science understandable and applicable to this widely ranging conversation (my favorite kind!). In the first half, we review how pain and addiction are driven by the reward system in our brain. While this can get called the 'pleasure center', we really feel 'good' when we are 'rewarded' for life working, which has evolutionarily been eating and staying safe. This is akin to PacMan eating a pellet. Life is essentially running around, eating pellets for points, getting chased b...
2020-05-031h 05
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthDr Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH, discusses health from a deeply historical social and political lens during the Coronavirus pandemic to answer the question, ‘where do we go from here?’Dr Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH, is an emergency room doctor turned public health renegade who has devoted the last 25 years to seeing ‘the country as the patient’. Economic downturns in developed nations seem to prevent us from working ourselves to the bone and result in more time home with family, which research shows actually extends our lifespan. This contradictory insight is where we start. Most of us were squeezed for time and money prior to this pandemic. Now, what are we left with? How do we move around fear to find each other and intentionally move forward with our soci...
2020-04-191h 26
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health11: Matia Indigo Jones: Feeling anxious about Coronavirus? Strategies for anchoring the mind and body in the natural order, senses, gratitude, gardening & wildcrafting of spring weedsWe are in desperate need for conversations about how to anchor and possibly reinvent our lives and identity towards something beyond our usual social networks as required by this quarantine and Coronavirus pandemic. Matia Indigo Jones rooted her training and research in medical anthropology with an emphasis on social and environmental justice as preventative health and a dissertation in institutional and municipal food policy as it supports food sovereignty. She is unique in her approach to modern life in that she tip-toes thoughtfully into social media but spends the majority of her time with her phone off and her...
2020-03-1954 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#10: COVID-19: Current Understanding & Recommendations with Patient Advocate Janee Pennington-Watson & PHN Host Gillian Ehrlich, DNP, ARNP, IFMCPPatient advocate Janee Penington-Watson join Podcast for Healing Neurology host Gillian Ehrlich for this special podcast episode to share our current best understandings & advice for all aspects of this pandemic including how to gauge exposure & risk, testing options & realities, prevention support as well as possible interventions, including those along the cutting edge to keep an eye out for based on the science we currently know about this virus. This is one of two parts to address COVID-19; please see podcast #11 with Matia Indigo Jones for the social, behavioral and mental health aspects of rising to meet this global challenge.
2020-03-1958 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#9: Ryan Smith discusses Peptides, a whole new category of 'biosimilar' proteins addressing health for athletes to Alzheimer's.Ryan Smith co-founded Tailor Made Compounding Pharmacy with a passionate interest in offering peptide therapy, a category of biosimilar proteins with >100 FDA-approved products and 10,000+ products in development, many of which we prescribe to patients at the Center for Healing Neurology. In the first part of this show, we talk about what they are, how they work, why peptides as a category have such few side effects and have such a positive safety profile. In the second part of the show, we dive into specific peptides including neurocognitive and mood peptides (Cerebrolysin, Selank, Semax, Dihexa, FGLL), peptides to target the...
2020-03-0151 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#8: RN Jane Esselstyn illuminates the Plant-Based Whole Food Diet: Get it in your kitchen, on your fork & in your mouth!“It’s an odd panacea, this plant-based diet” which seems to reverse so many different chronic diseases like heart disease, auto-immune disease, common cancers and others, improve symptoms and really hone athletic performance. Learn the juicy details about how to get started and make it inexpensive and easy: no meat, dairy, added oil, minimal salt & sugar. Find Jane’s recipes in The Engine 2 Diet, The Engine 2 Diet Cookbook, Plant Strong & the Seven Day Rescue (authored with her brother, Rip Esselstyn), including her “Lightening Bowl” with lime, jalapeno, rice noodles, rice vinegar & veggies- yum! Hear her tricks for sauces, salsas, a million ty...
2020-02-151h 01
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#7 Peter Wasowski on Vasper: principles, research and history of Vasper technology for optimizing physical performance and hormone balance in elite athletes, the medically-compromised and with eldersPeter Wasowski has over 35 years in the field of medical technology and vascular health per his NASA speaker bio. He is the founder & CEO of Vasper Technologies- Vasper.com- which has produced a physical medicine device based on a recumbent bike that incorporates compression, cooling and interval training and is getting impressive results for muscle strengthening, hormone balance and many other improvements, even in 94-year-old women. Beyond his work with Olympic & professional athletes, Navy SEALS, and NASA, however, he brings a metaphysical approach to health and wellness- the whole performance of the whole being. Listen in today to understand...
2020-02-0242 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#6 The Cell Danger Response: A Living Room Lecture from the Center for Healing NeurologyThe Cell Danger Response can also be titled as the Healing Cycle. From this class presented at the Center for Healing Neurology in December, 2019, learn about the complexity of cellular signaling. At the perception of a threat (be it physical, chemical, pressure, pH, temperature, or a memory of threat that seems imminent again), the cells initiate a cascade of metabolic changes. There are three stages in this cycle: 1) down-regulation of energy production to re-route resources to contain and neurtralize the threat, 2) re-establishment of local order, 3) the re-connection of long-distance communication between the cells at the site of damage and...
2020-01-1648 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#2 Dr Gillian Ehrlich, DNP, ARNP: Primordial tools for healing: Nature, Connection, Ayurveda & Functional MedicineDr Gillian Ehrlich, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner certified in Functional Medicine & Ayurveda discusses her approach to patient care, and really her approach to life. We cover the roots of Ayurveda utilized in every patient visit for personalizing care as well as the holistic roots of disease and dysfunction from the Functional Medicine perspective. We review Dr Gillian’s emphasis on the power of nature and connection to dispel loneliness as a tool to deeply impact our neurology. We finish with reasons that social justice and population health go beyond individual patient care and why and how ou...
2020-01-0248 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#1 Ilene Ruhoy, MD, PhD: What is neurology & what's most important in caring for your nervous system (rhythm & food!)Dr Ilene Ruhoy, MD, PhD, discusses neurology from all angles, including the conventional perspective (which is often right and enough!) of treating neurological symptoms like migraines, seizures and neuropathy with pharmaceuticals, physical therapy and other treatments, and the expanded view which includes immunology, mitochondria, genetics and the ancient understandings now being supported by research including Yoga and meditation. Listening critically to the patient is how she determines her diagnosis and which investigation and interventions to recommend. Dr Ruhoy also reviews the foundations of health as eating, moving and sleeping. She then dives deeply into how we are Circadian beings...
2020-01-0255 min
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health#3 Dr Keesha Ewers: What's in your head goes to your bed: forgiveness and the female libidoKeesha Ewers, ARNP, IFMCP, Ayurvedic practitioner with a PhD in Sexology, shares with us research, intense personal stories, and wise insights about the place that sex and intimacy hold within the rest of our life. Specially, Dr Keesha discusses her own research of the HURT study, Healing Unresolved Trauma, which looks at how our neurological impressions of self and other are rooted in our early life relationships. We can take back the reins on our libido & sex life by frankly facing the realities of life, developing healthy boundaries, and changing the culture of conversation towards connection instead of achievement...
2020-01-021h 01
Neuroveda Podcast for Complex HealthComing Soon: Podcast for Healing NeurologyHosted by board-certified neurologist Ilene Ruhoy, MD, PhD and Functional Medicine & Ayurveda certified family nurse practitioner Gillian Ehrlich, DNP, ARNP, IFMCP. We'll deliver twice-monthly episodes that highlight ways to support your neurology.
Find out more about us at CenterforHealingNeurology.com and send your comments and topic requests to podcast@centerforhealingneurology.com. Please be sure to rate and review each podcast wherever you get your podcasts!
Podcast for Healing Neurology premieres on Jan. 2nd from Partyfish Media 🎉🐟
2019-12-1901 min