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After battling a long list of rare and difficult symptoms, Karen Cofield was finally diagnosed with Nutcracker Syndrome and eventually underwent an ileostomy, yet still struggled to find the relief she desperately needed. Then, through Real Bread made with freshly milled flour, Karen began experiencing the relief and renewed hope she had been searching for. Her story is a powerful testimony to the remarkable impact that changing what we eat can have on our health and our lives. Topics included in this episode: ruptured intestines, ileostomy, Nutcracker Syndrome, terminal cancer, nutrition through a feeding tube LISTEN NOW
Welcome to a new episode of ASMR Sleep Recordings. In this episode, you will hear the rain in the tropics. Improve your health and happiness.The sound you hear in this episode creates a calm atmosphere and at the same time blocks out disturbing noises. This will help you de-stress, unwind, and rest. Enjoy two hours of relaxing sounds to help you relax, focus, study and fall asleep.About ASMR Sleep Recordings:The purpose of ASMR Sleep Recording is to help you sleep and concentrate better. This particular episode lasts two hours and has no ads in the middle, so you won't be woken up or disturbed while focusing or relaxing. When you listen to ASMR Sleep Recordings, you can lock your phone, so you won't get any bothersome stimuli from notifications and other sounds from your phone. You can switch between apps while studying or working without pausing the ambient sound.About our sounds:Water creates a natural white noise. Infused with the relaxing quality of nature and the sound-masking properties of white noise, listening to running water is an ideal way to turn off all the stressful things life brings, and to de-stress. Some of our most popular sounds include a river, flowing creek, babbling brook, gentle waves on a lake, and a bamboo fountain. Rain also creates a natural white noise. Infused with the relaxing quality of nature and the sound-masking properties of white noise, listening to rain is an ideal way to switch off all the stressful things life brings and to de-stress. Some of our most popular sounds are rain on an umbrella, hailstorms, hard rain, soft rain, gentle rain, wind and rain, rain on a car.White noise helps babies and children to get a better and deeper night's sleep. This is because external sounds are masked by the noise. With white noise in the background, your child will not hear annoying cars driving by or dogs barking in bed. This allows your little one to sleep better. And it also saves you as a parent a lot of hours!Pink noise is more common in nature than you might expect. It can be compared to continuous rainfall or wind. In addition to white noise, pink noise is also increasing in popularity, especially in business environments. Because it can increase productivity, concentration and creativity.Brown noise can be compared to waves of the sea, a river current, strong winds or the sound of thunder during a storm. Like pink noise, brown noise is very similar to white noise. However, the frequencies have been lowered even further and a lot more concentrated. This gives it a rougher/coarse tone than pink noise. It sounds a bit deeper and a bit bass-like. The benefits of brown noise are the same as the other types of noise. It provides relaxation, increased focus and improved deep sleep.DISCLAIMER: Be aware that loud noises can damage your hearing. If you can't carry on a conversation without raising your voice while playing one of our spheres, the sound may be too loud for your ears. Do not place the speakers directly next to a baby's ears. If you have trouble hearing or ringing in your ears, stop listening to the white noise immediately and see an audiologist or your doctor. The sounds provided by ASMR Sleep Recordings are for entertainment purposes only and are not a treatment for sleep disorders or tinnitus. Consult your doctor if you regularly have severe sleeping problems, experience fitful/restless sleep or feel tired during the day.ASMR Sleep Recordings is the white noise and nature sounds podcast to help you sleep, study or soothe a baby. ASMR Sleep Recordings has uploaded more than 400+ episodes in the 4 years that the podcast has been online. You can listen to all episodes of the podcast on your favorite podcast platform. People use white noise for sleep, focus, sound masking or relaxation. This podcast has the sound for you, whether you're using white noise to study, to soothe a baby with cramps, to fall asleep, or to just enjoy a quiet moment. You don't need to buy a white noise machine if you can listen to these sounds for free.
Research Notes/Bibliography can be found here: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground Common Intelligence Picture: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=204a59b01f4443cd96718796fd102c00 Border Crisis Map: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=7f13eda1f301431e98a7ac0393b0e6b0 TOC Dashboard: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/ebe374c40c1a4231a06075155b0e8cb9/ 00:00 - Global Overview 01:04 - Saudi Arabia 05:16 - Hormuz 11:46 - Europe 14:30 - France 18:41 - HomeFront 24:27 - 5th Generation Warfare 26:24 - GhostNet Download the GhostNet plan here! https://github.com/s2underground/GhostNet The text version of the Wire can be found on Twitter: https://twitter.com/s2_underground And on our Wire Telegram page here: https://t.me/S2undergroundWire If you would like to support us, we're on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=30479515 Disclaimer: No company sponsored this video. In fact, we have ZERO sponsors. We are funded 100% by you, the viewer. All of our funding comes from direct support from platforms like Patreon, or from ad revenue on YouTube. Without your support, I simply could not do this work at all, so to those of you who chose to support my efforts, I am eternally thankful. Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/S2Underground BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/P2NMGFdt3gf3/ Just a few reminders for everyone who's just become aware of us, in order to keep these briefings from being several hours long, I can't cover everything. I'm probably covering 1% of the world events when we conduct these briefings, so please remember that if I left it out, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's unimportant. Also, remember that I do these briefings quite often, so I might have covered an issue previously that you might not see if you are only watching our most recent videos. I'm also doing this in my spare time, so again I fully admit that these briefings aren't even close to being perfect; I'm going for a healthy blend of speed and quality. If I were to wait and only post a brief when it's "perfect" I would never post anything at all. So expect some minor errors here and there. If there is a major error or correction that needs to be made, I will post it here in the description, and verbally address it in the next briefing. Also, thanks for reading this far. It is always surprising the number of people that don't actually read the description box to find more information. This content is purely educational and does not advocate for violating any laws. Do not violate any laws or regulations. This is not legal advice. Consult with your attorney. Our Reading List! https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/133747963-s2-actual The War Kitchen Channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYmtpjXT22tAWGIlg_xDDPA
Is saturated fat really the villain it's been made out to be? Or has decades of poor research and dietary policy misled us?In this video, Dr. Bret Scher dives into the controversy surrounding RFK Jr.'s call to remove the cap on saturated fat, and the Wall Street Journal's misleading take on it.We explore:✅ Why saturated fat doesn't just mean pizza and ice cream✅ The science behind whole foods vs. processed foods✅ How carbs, fats, and metabolic health interact✅ What the evidence really says about saturated fat and heart disease✅ Why individualized, whole-food diets matterRemoving the cap on saturated fat isn't about giving fat a health halo, it's about making room for nutrient-dense, metabolically supportive diets.
Welcome to a new episode of ASMR Sleep Recordings. In this episode, you will hear babbling brook sounds for sleep and focus. Improve your health and happiness.The sound you hear in this episode creates a calm atmosphere and at the same time blocks out disturbing noises. This will help you de-stress, unwind, and rest. Enjoy two hours of relaxing sounds to help you relax, focus, study and fall asleep.About ASMR Sleep Recordings:The purpose of ASMR Sleep Recording is to help you sleep and concentrate better. This particular episode lasts two hours and has no ads in the middle, so you won't be woken up or disturbed while focusing or relaxing. When you listen to ASMR Sleep Recordings, you can lock your phone, so you won't get any bothersome stimuli from notifications and other sounds from your phone. You can switch between apps while studying or working without pausing the ambient sound.About our sounds:Water creates a natural white noise. Infused with the relaxing quality of nature and the sound-masking properties of white noise, listening to running water is an ideal way to turn off all the stressful things life brings, and to de-stress. Some of our most popular sounds include a river, flowing creek, babbling brook, gentle waves on a lake, and a bamboo fountain. Rain also creates a natural white noise. Infused with the relaxing quality of nature and the sound-masking properties of white noise, listening to rain is an ideal way to switch off all the stressful things life brings and to de-stress. Some of our most popular sounds are rain on an umbrella, hailstorms, hard rain, soft rain, gentle rain, wind and rain, rain on a car.White noise helps babies and children to get a better and deeper night's sleep. This is because external sounds are masked by the noise. With white noise in the background, your child will not hear annoying cars driving by or dogs barking in bed. This allows your little one to sleep better. And it also saves you as a parent a lot of hours!Pink noise is more common in nature than you might expect. It can be compared to continuous rainfall or wind. In addition to white noise, pink noise is also increasing in popularity, especially in business environments. Because it can increase productivity, concentration and creativity.Brown noise can be compared to waves of the sea, a river current, strong winds or the sound of thunder during a storm. Like pink noise, brown noise is very similar to white noise. However, the frequencies have been lowered even further and a lot more concentrated. This gives it a rougher/coarse tone than pink noise. It sounds a bit deeper and a bit bass-like. The benefits of brown noise are the same as the other types of noise. It provides relaxation, increased focus and improved deep sleep.DISCLAIMER: Be aware that loud noises can damage your hearing. If you can't carry on a conversation without raising your voice while playing one of our spheres, the sound may be too loud for your ears. Do not place the speakers directly next to a baby's ears. If you have trouble hearing or ringing in your ears, stop listening to the white noise immediately and see an audiologist or your doctor. The sounds provided by ASMR Sleep Recordings are for entertainment purposes only and are not a treatment for sleep disorders or tinnitus. Consult your doctor if you regularly have severe sleeping problems, experience fitful/restless sleep or feel tired during the day.ASMR Sleep Recordings is the white noise and nature sounds podcast to help you sleep, study or soothe a baby. ASMR Sleep Recordings has uploaded more than 400+ episodes in the 4 years that the podcast has been online. You can listen to all episodes of the podcast on your favorite podcast platform. People use white noise for sleep, focus, sound masking or relaxation. This podcast has the sound for you, whether you're using white noise to study, to soothe a baby with cramps, to fall asleep, or to just enjoy a quiet moment. You don't need to buy a white noise machine if you can listen to these sounds for free.
Vanessa breaks down the biggest scientific takeaways and most actionable gems from her recent conversation with Dr. Lee Breen, one of the world's leading researchers in protein metabolism, resistance training and skeletal muscle health across the lifespan. Before diving into the latest research, Vanessa shares an exciting update from her postpartum fat-loss and body-recomposition journey: she has lost five pounds since beginning her gentle fat-loss phase two weeks ago. She explains the four simple food swaps that reduced her intake by only approximately 150–200 calories per day, why the initial change likely includes water and glycogen as well as body fat, and how she is using three to four resistance-training sessions per week to gradually reveal her muscle while continuing to exclusively breastfeed baby Taylor. Vanessa also shares why she is deliberately giving herself the longest possible runway, why she does not expect to continue losing five pounds every two weeks, and why she plans to wait until Taylor begins eating solid foods before bringing Protein-Sparing Modified Fasting days back into her routine. BACK TO SCHOOL SALE! For a limited time, save 40% sitewide at ketogenicgirl.com with code BACKTOSCHOOL40, including the Protein-Sparing Modified Fasting Library, ToneLUX Red Light Therapy Collection, and Tone Breath Ketone Analyzer. Australia, New Zealand & Southeast Asia: Save 75% on available ToneLUX and Tone products during the warehouse moving sale with code WAREHOUSE75, while supplies last. One of the biggest themes from Dr. Breen's research is that losing weight and improving your body composition are not necessarily the same thing. Vanessa explores why the scale cannot tell you whether you are losing fat, water or metabolically active tissue; how much lean mass may be lost during significant weight loss; and why regaining weight after dieting or discontinuing a GLP-1 medication could potentially leave someone with less muscle and a higher body-fat percentage than when they started. She also examines how much protein may be needed to protect muscle during weight loss. Is approximately 1.4 grams per kilogram enough, or should you aim closer to 2–2.2 grams per kilogram? And how should that target change based on your body size, activity level, age and the aggressiveness of your calorie deficit? Create your own custom protein blend at truenutrition.com/vanessa and use code VANESSA for 20% off your first order. Let Vanessa know what your custom blend is! Now shipping internationally. Vanessa explains why protein and resistance training are most powerful when used together, why at least two whole-body resistance-training sessions per week can provide an effective starting point, and how training tells the body where the amino acids from dietary protein are needed. She also unpacks Dr. Breen's research comparing whey and pea protein in middle-aged and older adults. Whey produced a greater leucine response—but did that translate into more muscle protein synthesis over the complete 10-day intervention? The full results were more nuanced than a simple animal-versus-plant-protein conclusion. They also revealed something potentially even more important about the effect of resistance training on the muscle's ability to use the protein being consumed. Vanessa finishes with Dr. Breen's fascinating prehabilitation research showing that a single resistance-training session helped protect older adults' muscle during five days of bed rest, emerging evidence on whey protein and glycemic control, and the essential questions anyone using a GLP-1 medication should consider to help protect muscle and improve the quality of their weight loss. In this episode: Vanessa's latest postpartum fat-loss and body-recomposition update How she lost five pounds during her first two weeks of gentle dieting Why those five pounds are unlikely to represent body fat alone The four simple swaps that reduced her intake by approximately 150–200 calories per day Why she expects her rate of weight loss to slow from here How she is approaching fat loss while exclusively breastfeeding Why she is deliberately giving herself a longer fat-loss runway Her goal of protecting her muscle—and potentially more facial fat and collagen—this time Why she is waiting until Taylor begins solid foods before reintroducing PSMF days How three to four weekly resistance-training sessions are supporting her body recomposition Why she plans to complete another DEXA scan at the end of the process Why losing weight and improving body composition are not necessarily the same thing How much lean mass may be lost during significant weight loss Why lean mass loss is not always identical to contractile-muscle loss What may happen to body composition when lost weight is regained The potential consequences of losing fat and muscle but regaining predominantly fat Why the scale should not be your only measure of progress DEXA scans, measurements, strength, performance, photographs and clothing fit Why muscle preservation must be built into a fat-loss plan from the beginning Is 1.4 grams of protein per kilogram enough during weight loss? When 2–2.2 grams per kilogram may provide additional muscle protection Why the conventional protein RDA should not be treated as an optimal fat-loss target When goal weight, adjusted body weight or estimated lean mass may provide a more appropriate calculation Why protein and resistance training work better together How training helps your muscles use the amino acids you consume Why two whole-body resistance-training sessions per week can be an effective starting point How to begin resistance training without a complicated program or gym membership Why breakfast may be the most important protein meal to improve The potential benefits of approximately 0.4 grams of protein per kilogram per meal How to create a breakfast containing approximately 25–40 grams of protein Why two eggs may not provide as much protein as many people assume When protein's appetite-suppressing effect is helpful—and when it may not be Why an enormous protein shake could be counterproductive for a frail older adult with a low appetite Whey protein vs. pea protein in Dr. Breen's latest research Why whey produced a greater leucine response Did the higher leucine response produce more muscle protein synthesis? Why well-planned plant protein can still support muscle remodeling When protein quality may become more consequential Why nothing has consistently outperformed whey protein Why whey can be especially efficient when calories or appetite are limited The benefits of a "food first, but not food always" approach When a protein supplement can be a practical tool Why ingredient quality and third-party testing matter Could one resistance-training session help protect muscle for five days? What prehabilitation may mean before planned surgery or predictable inactivity How Vanessa used a similar strategy before delivering her babies Why building muscle now creates a reserve for future illness, injury or inactivity Can whey protein help improve post-meal glycemic control? Why the idea that whey is automatically bad for blood sugar because it stimulates insulin is overly simplistic Previous research using approximately 15 grams of whey with or before carbohydrate-rich meals Dr. Breen's ongoing trial in adults over 75 with obesity and type 2 diabetes The difference between completed findings and promising ongoing research Why protein, resistance training and diet quality become more important—not less—when using a GLP-1 medication The questions every GLP-1 user should consider about protein, strength, fiber, micronutrients and long-term maintenance Vanessa's practical action plan for losing fat while protecting muscle BACK TO SCHOOL SALE! For a limited time, save 40% sitewide at ketogenicgirl.com with code BACKTOSCHOOL40, including the Protein-Sparing Modified Fasting Library, ToneLUX Red Light Therapy Collection, and Tone Breath Ketone Analyzer. Australia, New Zealand & Southeast Asia: Save 75% on available ToneLUX and Tone products during the warehouse moving sale with code WAREHOUSE75, while supplies last. Follow @ketogenicgirl and @optimalproteinpodcast on Instagram to see visuals and posts mentioned on this podcast. Link to join the Facebook group for the podcast The content provided in this podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. Consult with a healthcare professional before making significant changes to your diet, supplements or exercise regimen.
How do we respond to our children when they say things that can upset us or take us by surprise? Lynn shares how saying less and staying calm in the face of emotional declarations form our kids can help them (and us) remain calm and learn an important skill. WE'VE MADE PLAYLISTS OF OUR EPISODES TO HELP YOU FIND RESOURCES ON SPECIFIC TOPICS. Here is our first: For those brand new to the podcast, we suggest starting with this playlist featuring Lynn Lyons and the 7-part anxiety disruptor series as well as a 3-part series on the skills most helpful in managing anxious kids: flexibility, problem solving, and autonomy. Consult our Spotify profile for the most up-to-date selection. We will select two listeners who complete our listener survey. We hope it is you! FOLLOW US Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids. Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram. Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Introducing The Consult: Real FBI Profilers — The Tylenol Murders In the fall of 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules that had been deliberately laced with cyanide. The poisonings triggered a nationwide panic, an enormous investigation, and changes to product packaging that are still with us today. More than four decades later, no one has ever been charged with the murders. In this episode of The Consult: Real FBI Profilers, retired FBI profiler Julia Cowley is joined by her former FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit colleagues Angela Sercer, Susan Kossler Drew, and Bob Drew to examine the Tylenol Murders from a behavioral perspective. Who was the offender targeting? What can the method of poisoning tell us about motive, planning, and risk? And what does the behavior suggest about the person responsible? Head over now to The Consult: Real FBI Profilers wherever you listen to podcasts to hear the complete episode and the rest of the series. You can also visit The Consult at truecrimeconsult.com.
Can Food Change Your Life? Personal Chef Carmie Alvaro on Health, Autoimmune Issues & Eating BetterWhat if the food you eat every day is either helping you perform better or working against you?On this episode of Diversified Game, Kellen Coleman sits down with Carmie Alvaro, an Integrative Nutritional Personal Chef and longtime food professional, to talk about healthy cooking, personal chefs, autoimmune challenges, inflammation, fitness, premium ingredients, and why taking control of your diet can change the way you feel and perform.Carmie shares her personal journey from growing up in an Italian-Calabrese family and owning restaurants to dealing with major health challenges that pushed her to study nutrition more deeply and completely rethink the way she eats and cooks.We also discuss whether hiring a personal chef is really as expensive as people think, how much families may already be wasting on restaurants, delivery and unused groceries, and why Carmie believes investing in quality food is an investment in your body.Carmie also explains how she approaches clients with different dietary needs, including gluten-free, sugar-free and specialty diets, while still focusing heavily on flavor.This conversation is about much more than cooking. It is about discipline, health, personal responsibility, longevity and deciding how much your health is really worth.CONNECT WITH CARMIE ALVAROWebsite:https://carmieshealthycooking.com/Instagram:@CarmiesHealthyCookingIN THIS EPISODE00:00 Introduction02:04 Meet Carmie Alvaro02:48 Can Regular People Afford a Personal Chef?05:27 Healthy Desserts and Controlling Sugar07:20 Carmie's Personal Health Journey10:24 Changing Your Diet and Mindset12:53 Turning Personal Experience Into Helping Others16:01 Nutritionist vs. Dietitian Discussion18:24 From Restaurant Owner to Personal Chef20:53 Real Food vs. AI Food Photography24:13 Carmie's Italian-Calabrese Roots26:40 Could Healthy Cooking Become a Reality Show?28:02 Helping Clients Make Better Choices30:42 What Does Healthy Eating Really Cost?33:03 Health, Money and Priorities33:41 Giving Back Through Nutrition Education35:06 Future Courses and Public Speaking36:02 Bringing Nutrition Education Into Premium Clubs36:47 Final Words and How to ConnectDISCLAIMER: This episode reflects the guest's personal experiences and opinions and is for educational and entertainment purposes only. It is not medical advice. Consult an appropriate licensed healthcare professional regarding medical conditions, medications or significant dietary changes.✊
“I'll start later.” “I'll get through this week first.” “I have time.” In this episode of Cashflow Legendz, Nate, Brandon, and Brock explore what those familiar phrases can cost when they become a pattern. The conversation begins with personal reflections on delayed income protection and cash flow structure, then moves into the harder-to-measure costs of waiting: missed learning, unresolved conversations, strained relationships, and postponed growth. Nate shares his experience with protecting his human life value and the challenge of communicating when he is frustrated. Brock reflects on early financial habits, learning to have difficult conversations, and moving beyond the need to prove himself. Brandon connects those stories to coaching, accountability, and the difference between being interested in change and being committed to it. This is not a call to rush into decisions. The guys distinguish between taking time for discernment and repeatedly postponing something you have already recognized as important. Their closing challenge is simple: What is one thing your future self will thank you for doing this week? Join the Cashflow Legendz Inner Circle: https://www.skool.com/cashflow-legendz-inner-circle Get a free copy of What Would The Rockefellers Do? https://stonecenturyfinancial.com/book Schedule a free Cashflow Legendz clarity call with Nate: https://calendly.com/chroniclesnate/cashflow-legendz-consult This show is for educational purposes only and is not financial, tax, legal, or investment advice. Consult with your professional team before making financial decisions. Money. Cashflow. Legacy. Break the rules. Build your legend.
Karen Briscoe is a real estate professional, author, speaker, and coach with more than 23 years of experience helping people achieve success in business and life. As a partner of HBC Group at SERHANT, she has built a top-producing real estate business while serving more than 1,500 clients throughout Northern Virginia. Through Up Level Coaching, Karen helps real estate professionals move beyond feeling stuck in lead generation, conversion, leverage, and mindset so they can create greater success with purpose and intention. Drawing from her experience as a top producer, author of four books, podcast host, and certified coach, she empowers agents to up level both their business and their lives. Karen believes success is built one intentional step at a time—and that every agent has the potential to achieve more than they ever imagined. Results speak for themselves; words from a coaching client: Tanya LaForce, We're Good Podcast "Your coaching helped me reframe how to think about my leadership style and the idea that things don't need to be "perfect" but great enough to launch, test, and adjust from there. I thank you sincerely for your guidance and support." In this episode, Karen discusses: Success Story of Karen Commit to Get Leads Lead generation is not an emergency activity; it is a business-building activity that needs to be consistent, repeatable, and sustainable. Consult to Sell What if you improved your conversion rate by 10% or 20%? What would that do to your income without generating one additional lead? That's an uplevel question. We don't always need more; sometimes we need to become better with what we already have. Connect to Build and Grow Control is a new devil in your growth. If you want a business that can grow beyond your personal capacity, you have to build something bigger than yourself. Success Thinking, Activities and Vision Every next level begins twice. First, it is created in your thinking. Then, it is created through your actions. Sweet Spot of Success "If you're encountering some new devils right now, consider this: maybe they're not a sign that you're stuck. Maybe they're proof that you're growing, and maybe the question isn't how do I get rid of this challenge. Maybe the better question is: Who do I need to become to meet it?" - Karen Briscoe *5 Minute Success - Listener Giveaway* Get your FREE 30-minute confidential consultation on how Up Level Coaching can help you achieve a higher level of success in business and life. Schedule here; if a time slot is not available that works for your schedule, email Karen@5MinuteSuccess.com About the Podcast Join host Karen Briscoe each month to learn how you can achieve success at a higher level by investing just 5 minutes a day! Tune in to hear powerful, inspirational success stories and expert insights from entrepreneurs, business owners, industry leaders, and real estate agents that will transform your business and life. Karen shares a-ha moments that have shaped her career and discusses key concepts from her book Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day: Secrets of a Top Agent Revealed. Looking to up level your success? DM Karen to schedule a mini-session to see how Up Level Coaching can help you love the life you have as you create and co-create the life of your dreams! Here's to your success in business and in life! Connect with Karen Briscoe: Website: 5MinuteSuccess.com Email: Karen@5MinuteSuccess.com Facebook: 5MinuteSuccess Instagram: @5_minute_success LinkedIn: Karen Briscoe 5 Minute Success Links Learn more about Karen's book, Real Estate Success in 5 Minutes a Day Karen also recommends Moira Lethbridge's book "Savvy Woman in 5 Minutes a Day" Subscribe to the 5 Minute Success Podcast Spread the love and share the secrets of 5 Minute Success with your friends and colleagues! Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
The Immigration Lawyers Podcast | Discussing Visas, Green Cards & Citizenship: Practice & Policy
On this episode of The Immigration Lawyer's Toolbox Podcast, host John Khosravi sits down with Beatriz (Trillos) Ballerini, Esq., a Houston based immigration attorney, AILA Region 4 Director, and immediate past chair of the Texas AILA Chapter, to talk about the 54% NIW denial rate and why she's stopped taking new NIW cases, the growing uncertainty around adjustment of status and I-130 processing times, how she's rebuilt her retainer agreements for this administration, what's ahead for the Texas AILA Chapter including its November 18 to 20 conference in Santa Fe, the political shift underway in Colombia, and her own family's immigration story from Cali, Colombia to holding three passports today. Timestamps: 00:00 Opening 00:33 Intro 03:58 Welcoming Beatriz to the show 04:20 Growing up in Houston and finding immigration law 04:49 Her earlier career litigating international plane crashes 06:31 Launching her own practice in 2006 08:14 From family cases to 80% business immigration 10:18 Firm size, staffing, and long-tenured team members 12:11 Why NIW cases are so stressful right now 13:04 Adjustment of status and detention risk uncertainty 16:00 Managing client expectations and putting it in writing 16:26 Retainer updates with ethics counsel Craig Dupzyk 18:08 AILA's lawsuits pushing back on policy changes 18:34 Her role as AILA Region 4 Director 19:26 Leading the Texas AILA Chapter 20:12 Texas Chapter conference, November 18 to 20 in Santa Fe 23:05 Coordinating a chapter spread across Texas, Oklahoma & New Mexico 27:44 A growing chapter and mentoring new members 29:20 What's stressing Beatriz: the 54% NIW denial rate 30:00 Worrying about approved EB-1A clients stuck in limbo 31:00 Colombia's political shift under President de la Espriella 32:13 Direct filing I-130s at consulates for exceptional circumstances 34:10 USCIS's overseas offices and the new Ethiopia unit 34:43 Deportations to third countries and the human toll 36:07 Increased ICE activity around Houston 37:14 Holding three passports and dual citizenship through marriage 38:22 Her family's immigration story from Colombia 39:15 Discovering her own immigration history through a FOIA request 40:52 Her father's decision to naturalize after being strip searched 41:13 Comparing notes on growing up in immigrant families 43:08 The unpredictability of 30 day RFE deadlines 44:33 Where to find and follow Beatriz Ballerini 44:50 Closing thoughts Spotify | iTunes | YouTube Music | YouTube Follow eimmigration by Cerenade: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn Start your Business Immigration Practice! (US LAWYERS ONLY - SCREENING REQUIRED): E-2 Course EB-1A Course Get the Toolbox Magazine! Join our community (Lawyers Only) Get Started in Immigration Law! The Marriage/Family-Based Green Card course is for you Our Website: ImmigrationLawyersToolbox.com Not legal advice. Consult with an Attorney. Attorney Advertisement. #podcaster #Lawyer #ImmigrationLawyer #Interview #Immigration #ImmigrationAttorney #USImmigration #ImmigrationLaw #ImmigrationLawyersToolbox
Should LDL be treated? In this episode of Metabolic Mind, Dr. Bret Scher explains why the better question is who may benefit from LDL lowering, how aggressively it should be treated, and what outcomes matter most to the individual patient.Dr. Scher reviews two major trials that studied aggressive LDL lowering in very different populations. VESALIUS-CV looked at high-risk patients with serious vascular disease and found that adding a PCSK9 inhibitor reduced both cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. STAREE studied older adults without known cardiovascular disease and found fewer cardiac events with statin therapy, while overall survival and hospitalizations did not change. Disability-free survival also showed no differenceHe covers:Why LDL treatment depends on the person, not just the numberWhat VESALIUS-CV found in high-risk patients with vascular diseaseWhy STAREE tells a different story in older adults without known heart diseaseThe difference between reducing cardiac events and extending lifeWhy vascular disease should shape how aggressively LDL is treatedHow age, frailty, cognition, cancer risk, and independence affect the risk-benefit conversationWhy LDL may need a different discussion for someone using ketogenic therapyHow metabolic health, insulin resistance, and direct evidence of vascular disease fit into the decisionThese trials illustrate why LDL treatment should be individualized with a healthcare provider. For some patients, aggressive lowering may save lives. For others, the benefits may be smaller or less connected to the outcomes they care about most.
In this episode, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Neil Nathan about the intersection between brain symptoms and complex illness. Dr. Nathan has practiced medicine for over 50 years. He is one of the leading experts in complex chronic illness and mold toxicity — author of the bestselling Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, and Chronic Environmental Illness and The Sensitive Patient's Healing Guide. I am grateful to call Dr. Nathan a mentor and colleague. His pioneering work has been responsible for my healing from chronic illness, as well as that of many patients I've treated. Together, we co-lead a small peer group (within the larger mentoring group he provides with Marie Matheson, ND), supporting practitioners who treat those with complex chronic illness.In this episode we discuss:03:43 – Dr. Nathan's path to understanding complex illness11:20 – Why complex illness is rising and underrecognized19:30 – Why new medical ideas take decades to reach patients23:15 – Mold, Lyme, and long-COVID: the “big three” root causes25:58 – The limbic-vagal-mast cell “trifecta”30:31 – Are some people born more vulnerable?44:39 – The risk in “just do limbic retraining” advice47:35 - Biochemical contributors49:26 – Structural root: jaw and cervical instability53:58 – Differentiating Between Mold, Lyme & Long-COVID58:49 – A message of hope, and where to learn moreFull Transcript belowYou can find Dr. Nathan's books, consultations and mentoring program through his website at neilnathanmd.com. If you'd like to help get this information out into the world, please consider liking, sharing, or commenting.Until next time,CourtneyCourtney Snyder MDDr. Courtney Snyder MD is a holistic and functional child and adult psychiatrist and host of the Holistic Psychiatry Podcast and can be found at courtneysnydermd.comMedical DisclaimerThis podcast is for educational purposes only and is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Consult your own physician for any medical issues you may be having.Full TranscriptDr. Nathan's Path to Understanding Complex Illness03:43Courtney: I'm so glad we're doing this, and I feel like it's long overdue. As you know, in the mental health space in psychiatry, there's a lot of recognition of a dysregulated nervous system, threat response in the body, but oftentimes that's attributed to external forces or trauma, and not necessarily internal threats that we see, obviously, in complex chronic illness, which we'll be talking about. There's also not the recognition of the relationship between physical symptoms and brain-related symptoms. So I know you're going to help us connect a lot of these dots. As we sort of just lay the groundwork for what complex chronic illness is — when in your path did you start to recognize the distinction, when was the beginning of your work and appreciation of complex health issues?Neil: Okay, there are two answers to that question. First, when I went to medical school, my hope was to become a healer. And I was very disappointed that when I got there, I realized they weren't going to teach me to be a healer. And back then I used to question my professors at medical school — why do you do it this way, and how is that? And I kept feeling in all of our interactions that we were missing something. And my professors would go, “Okay, Mr. Wise Guy, smart guy, what are we missing?” And I'd go, “I don't know, I just know we're missing something.” Later I would come to recognize that we were missing the emotional and spiritual component to whatever was affecting people in their illnesses. And I have language for it now — I didn't then. The person in medical school who influenced me the most was Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who I view as my main mentor in medical school. She, unlike anyone else, had a one-and-a-half-hour seminar once a week. Back then there weren't video cameras — you were in a small confined room with a two-way mirror, and you're sitting there watching someone do this. And she would simply interview one of her patients. She was a psychiatrist, but she was the only one in medical school who demonstrated how to really listen to people, how to really communicate with them, and not have this standard review of systems — here's my questions, here's your answers, and that's what I do, and this is what I write up. She was really listening. She was trying to really take in, okay, what happened to you, and what's going on with you? So I would want to give her credit as a role model to change how I learn to listen. Okay, that was step one.I'm going to fast forward to the early 1980s. And I am, at that point, the medical director of a regional pain clinic. And we are starting to see a whole bunch of patients who had this complicated process of fatigue, unrefreshed sleep, irritable bowel syndrome, and pain migrating all over their body. And back then we called it fibrositis. Now we call this fibromyalgia. And so whenever medicine encounters a thing that they don't know what they're looking at, it's psychological until proven otherwise. And people would get therapy, and they would take antidepressants and anti-anxiety agents. Didn't help much. And so it became clear to me that we didn't understand what this was at all. It was not psychological. Something was going on in their bodies — now I recognize it as an inflammatory process. Back then there was no concept of that at all. And then, slowly, in the early nineties, we began to find pieces of the puzzle to understand what was triggering fibromyalgia. I was working back then with Jacob Teitelbaum, who did a lot of work with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, and we both independently came up with an understanding that a deficiency of magnesium, DHEA, adrenal issues, thyroid issues, sex hormone deficiencies, GI dysbiosis, and food allergy — if we looked at those and treated those, the majority of people with fibromyalgia got cured. It was different for different patients. It was not like there was one thing that caused it. And as time evolved, we began to realize that there was lots of other biochemical imbalances in the body that would contribute to this kind of a process that represented chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia.We discovered that Lyme disease and coinfections was a huge piece of that. And later still we discovered that mold toxicity was a huge piece of that. And so my understanding of the complexity — and it's not really confined to chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia at this point, we're really talking about almost all chronic illness — with a huge psychological component to that. So we've begun to understand this as essentially some version of inflammation. And if we start to really dig into what are the potential causes of that inflammation, we can make a huge impact for them. So this is a multi-year evolving understanding of how a person's genetics, biochemistry, physiology impacts their whole being in every way. And that inflammation extends to the nervous system, contributing greatly, if not causing directly, a large number of what are now called psychiatric diagnoses.Courtney: Right. So even among those patients that you were seeing — you were seeing, I'm assuming, depression, anxiety, brain fog?Neil: Yeah, the vast majority of our patients with mold toxicity have brain fog and anxiety, depression, OCD behaviors, mood swings, depersonalization, derealization. I mean, all of that is super common in our patients.Complex Illness Is Rising — and Underrecognized11:20Courtney: Do you feel like this is more recognized now — or do you feel like the number of people being hit with these complex health issues is increasing — or both?Neil: Both. I would love to say that the medical profession is increasingly recognizing all of this as important, but that recognition is coming very, very slowly. The majority of folks out there, if they were to list the symptoms that they had, their doctors would basically look at them like, “I have no idea what's causing it, so this must be in your head.” And that is the message they're getting from their physicians at this point. So many patients are being gaslighted, so many patients are being told it's in your head. And the repercussions of that are the family is hearing that same message, and the families become less supportive of those people, because they're saying, “This is not real, so why would I support you? This is still in your head, go get your head fixed.” And they're wrong, and it's really a travesty. But so yes, very slowly, this awareness is growing. There are now more medical meetings that I'm aware of where psychiatrists can learn more about this than there were ten, fifteen years ago, for sure. But not enough — it's still not enough.The other part of that is some of the main triggers for this inflammatory process are increasing. So we're seeing more and more mold toxicity, we're seeing more and more Lyme and coinfections, partly because the environment that we are all exposed to has gotten extremely increasingly toxic. So it's now known, for example, that there are 350,000 new chemicals in our environment than existed 70 years ago. The vast majority of those have never been tested for safety in human beings. So human beings have a tremendous amount of chemical exposure that they never had before. Human beings have a tremendous amount of EMF, electromagnetic exposures that they never had before in the history of the human race. So these exposures are cumulative. Our major organs, like our liver and our kidney, that have to deal with toxicity, are overloaded. And so, yes, we are seeing an epidemic of a whole bunch of these conditions. In children, we are aware that autism has skyrocketed — it went from one in several thousand kids to one in thirty kids in many states now have autism. And forgive me, but the pediatric profession is not taking this seriously. It's like, “Yeah, that's sad, it's unfortunate.” It's like — really, you don't want to look at this? This means one in every three kids born are getting autism — does that not concern you? But, forgive me, the medical profession is very slow to embrace new information, and that is really to the detriment.We're seeing an epidemic of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, ALS, all of which involve neuroinflammation. We've seen already an epidemic of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. And all of these things are interrelated, because — yes, I'm supposed to be an expert on mold toxicity, and I probably am — but mold toxicity doesn't exist in a vacuum. You have mold toxicity as one of multiple environmental toxins we're being exposed to. It is simply one of the most common, the easiest one to diagnose, because we have tests for it. We don't have tests for the hundreds of thousands of chemicals out there. We're just beginning to be able to have some tests that will tell us what's in someone's body that might be making them sick.Courtney: Right, right. And I would imagine that this typical medical model of looking for one cause to autism, one cause to dementia — it's a completely different way of thinking. When you get away from that and you look at complexity of the human body, that way of thinking holds back the research, it holds back any progress.Neil: What I think is helpful for people to look at is: we are all uniquely, biochemically, genetically different. And so the same inflammation in one person could trigger cardiovascular disease, and another person could trigger Alzheimer's, and another person could trigger chronic fatigue. So we need to take a step back and go, okay — and this is not a brand new idea. For the last ten years, there are many papers in the medical journals that are saying chronic illness is almost certainly an inflammatory process. Now, it hasn't really integrated into what people are being taught in medical school or in their residency program. But this is not a brand new idea, and there's tons of medical research documenting that.What behooves us as physicians is to look at every human being and go, “Okay, this is your named chronic condition — what are the triggers for you?” We have to kind of be like a medical detective and dig in and go, okay, what's triggering your inflammation, so I can treat the cause — not put a band-aid on it, which is, forgive me, in the psychiatric field, taking antidepressants and benzodiazepines. That's a band-aid. It's a helpful band-aid, it could be a very important band-aid, help someone to function. But you really need to be looking at, okay, I have this great band-aid, but wouldn't it be nice to actually cure this? And I think that would be, for me, to your audience, Courtney, my take-home message — which is always look for the root cause, because it is possible that we will find that root cause, and you won't have whatever name you've been given, depression, anxiety, OCD, for the rest of your earthly life. Maybe.And I've treated thousands of people successfully here. So this is not — I've had one or two successes here — we're talking thousands of people that have responded to this way of practicing medicine, with fabulous results. People who've been literally bedridden, incapacitated by their illness, are now out there working again and being with their family and living full lives. So that's the take-home message.Courtney: Right. Which makes it so satisfying to treat. And I mean, I can speak to that, having experienced it personally. But at the same time, you do get pushback from other areas of medicine that don't give it necessarily credibility, even though people, on the other side, are thriving and healing, and it's really amazing.New Medical Ideas & Research Take Decades to Reach Patients19:30Neil: You know, the history of all science, including medicine, is: new technology, new drugs are fast-tracked to get into our lives. Ideas, not so much. Typically it takes a generation — twenty, twenty-five years — for a new idea to come into acceptance. And the first reaction of any science, medicine included, is to get into denial, which is, “There isn't enough data to support this concept, and I can't be perceived as practicing bad medicine by embracing a concept that isn't proven yet.” But that means that all of their patients are going to have to wait twenty years — until suffering — until that person goes, “Now there's enough evidence, now I can learn how to do this, and now I'll begin to help you.” I'm not wired that way. I'm wired that if I have a suffering person, and I have something that I can offer them that might help, I'm going to try it. I'm going to do it in the safest way I know how, but I can't leave someone dangling for twenty years and say, “I'm sorry, I have to wait until my profession figures out what to do.” That's not me.I worked at the medical school at the University of Minnesota Duluth for eleven years. And I was not only on the faculty, but I was on the committee that determined what new information was put into the curriculum. For example, AIDS was just coming into vogue at that particular point, and it was obvious that we needed to have courses on AIDS for the medical students, because this was big. What a lot of people wouldn't understand is that each department in a medical school fiercely guards its time allotment. Everyone gets a certain number of hours, and they're not open to adding new things or giving up any of their time slots for anything new. And so what I would watch is, as new information came into the medical school, each department fiercely refused to add any new lectures in their department, or give up any of the time that they had to anybody else to add that information. So we're talking about university politics now — this is not even medicine, this is people guarding their turf. And I don't even think that would occur to any consumers, that that would happen like that — well, certainly, why would that happen in a medical school? Well, it's because human beings are responsible for each department, and they guard their own turf. So it's a kind of an insidious process about how new information isn't embraced by the profession, to go into the medical school curriculum.Mold, Lyme, and Long-COVID: The “Big Three”23:15Courtney: I want to come back to what you were saying about inflammation being at the core of chronic illness and complex chronic illness. And when it comes to complex chronic illness, whether it's SIRS or mast cell activation from mold or Lyme, we talk about multiple systems being affected — the central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, endocrine, skin, just you name it. If the inflammation then is from a source of oxidative stress or a major insult — would you say that mold toxicity is the most common, or would you put Lyme or now even COVID on a par with that, as far as the deepest roots causing the inflammation? Not that the chemicals, metals, and everything else we're being exposed to aren't at play.Neil: In my experience, those three are the biggies — mold toxicity, Lyme with its co-infections, and long-haul COVID. Those are the three most common. Of those, in my experience, mold is the most common, and the one that has to be treated first if you have some or all of them. So, for example, in people who have long-haul COVID or Lyme, often their body will not respond to that treatment optimally until you first get the mold out. So there's a little hierarchy of what we do, in what order. And then within that hierarchy, there's also an order in which we do things for people to respond optimally. So, for example, mold toxicity will trigger — and Lyme and Bartonella will do the same thing — limbic dysfunction, vagal nerve dysfunction, and mast cell activation in most of our patients. Not all, but in most. And the longer they have it, the more likely those things are going to get triggered. Once somebody does not feel safe — and the systems that we have in our body to monitor that safety and to keep us safe are the limbic system, the vagal system, and mast cell activation — we have to get the body safer, or it will not be able to take what you need to take to treat mold or Lyme or long-haul COVID. People will literally shut down — their limbic system will essentially go, “Mm, I see what you're trying to do there, and I can't let you do it, because I'm not sure that's safe.” And it will literally not allow people to do it.The Limbic-Vagal-Mast Cell “Trifecta”25:58Courtney: So with one of those, or a combination of those, on board, these threat mechanisms would be kicked up — mast cell activation, limbic system dysfunction, autonomic nervous system dysfunction. If they look similar, or a timeline isn't easily helping parse out what might be primary, how able do you feel to make the distinction — versus if mold is present, starting there?Neil: If we look at our patient's symptoms, they will point us clearly to whether there's a limbic or vagal or mast cell piece, to be specific. The limbic system's job involves primarily monitoring and regulating and keeping emotion and sensitivity in check. So any symptoms that involve those two things are limbic almost by definition. So on the sensitivity side, if someone describes an increased sensitivity to light, sound, touch, smell, chemicals, EMFs, food — they're already telling me my limbic system is dysfunctional. In some ways it doesn't matter what the cause is; if someone has this increased sensitivity, regardless of the cause, I know we have to treat their limbic system first.On the vagal side, the symptoms would primarily run into symptoms that involve the autonomic nervous system, which would involve things like temperature dysregulation, palpitations, insomnia, POTS, blood pressure dysregulation, or symptoms that involve the gastrointestinal tract, because the vagus nerve controls almost the entire intestinal tract. So any GI symptoms — gas, bloating, distension, reflux, diarrhea, constipation, abdominal pain — again, that would lead me to go, the vagus is involved here. So by listening to my patient's symptoms, I can immediately know what's dysregulated here, and what my first treatment arm will be — to get the limbic and vagal systems back up and running again at a safer level, because otherwise our patients aren't going anywhere. They can do binders and antifungals and antibiotics for Lyme, and they will get worse. Their body will basically go, “I know I might need that, but why are you doing that? I can't even get to a place of safety to respond. I'm on self-preservation mode here.”And in the mast cell category — again, all of the same symptoms that could be mold or Lyme or long-haul COVID could also be mast cell. Again, it's a multi-systemic process. A tip-off, which I find very helpful, is if someone describes a symptom that comes on immediately after eating, sometimes while eating. Nothing causes that kind of reaction that fast except mast cell activation. Allergy — and most people, if they do have some symptom that comes after eating, they're going to be thinking, “It must be what I ate, what did I just eat?” But it's not food allergy, it's mast cell activation. In that context, many of our patients have already observed that they can eat a particular food one day and have a very strong reaction, and the next day, same food, nothing. And they'll go, “That doesn't make sense — if this was allergy, I ought to react the same way every time.” And so that is classical mast cell activation, which fluctuates. So — for the first part of your question — that's what I'm looking for. When I take a history, when I talk with patients, I'm going to really dig into: are they already manifesting symptoms that clearly tell me what we need to do first, to get them safer, so that now they can respond properly to the treatment that will really get at their root cause.Are Some People Born More Vulnerable?30:31Courtney: I know you take deep timelines when you meet with someone, so you're really accounting for a lot. But one of the things that I think about a lot is: who is most vulnerable? Do some of us come into the world already with a vulnerability similar to Elaine Aron's highly sensitive person model? And then maybe there's trauma, early attachment disruption — and already vulnerabilities — but then the toxic load that we're all experiencing. But then something like mold or Lyme then hits. And then, all the years and all the patients you've seen — I'm curious how many you feel already had sort of a vulnerability. Not that they ever had to really become sick necessarily, but already had a vulnerability.Neil: Honestly, I would say most. Our limbic system evolves from the time we were in our mother's uterus, so that almost no one has had a perfect childhood. And so whatever someone has had to deal with in childhood — it could be recurrent ear infections or throat infections, or it could be a surgical procedure, or it could be parents, both of whom worked and they didn't get enough time, or they could be abusive parents, sexually, physically, verbally abusive — whatever someone has been exposed to, that forces their limbic system to have to deal with it. Because that's the job of the limbic system, is to keep you safe. So your limbic system is basically going, “Okay, I'm just a little thing here, what do I need to do to cope with this?” And so their limbic system slowly, inexorably, becomes more and more hypervigilant to protect them. Let's say someone had an alcoholic parent, and they would come home, and you were never sure what their status would be — and so you'd kind of hold yourself back from that, which is, “I've got to see what this person is showing me, is it safe for me to come up and give them a hug, or do I want to hang out in my room for a bit until whatever this is settles down?” That's the beginning of this limbic hypervigilance process. And then it just goes on through life. So that if you've had difficult relationships, or surgeries, or severe infections, or anything in the physical or emotional or spiritual plane, a betrayal of some type — the limbic system becomes slowly more and more and more hypervigilant, when the straw hits the camel's back. And that straw could be COVID, or Lyme, or mold toxicity, or another infection of some type — that's the straw that breaks the camel's back. At that point the limbic system goes into shutdown, which — we know the vagal system goes into shutdown, literally, that's something the vagal system is trained to do. It's “okay, we are so unsafe that I'm shutting down my systems here.” And so that predisposes to illness. But I want to tie that back to inflammation, which — a lot of people don't understand that the vagus nerve, for example, controls inflammation in the body also. There are branches of the vagus that go to the spleen, to the gut-associated lymphoid tissue, and to the thymus, all of which are major immune organs. And if the vagus is dysfunctional, inflammation can rage out of control. So again, this comes back to understanding this complexity of inflammation, and how we need to both understand it and know where it is we want to look to get at that inflammation. So there is a profound interconnected limbic-vagal-mast cell piece. Each totally connects to the other. There's an interaction between the thousand biochemical mediators that mast cells make and the nervous system itself. So I call this interconnection the trifecta, which is: you can't just treat the limbic system in a vacuum, because if you're not also looking at the vagal and mast cell system, your treatment may be a little bit helpful, or it might not even work at all, until you combine all three — so that you really understand this is a package deal here, in terms of how we work with it.There was one more piece I wanted to add, Courtney, to understanding the inflammation piece: whether or not someone gets mold toxicity or Lyme or COVID depends on how robust their immune system is. So you could have a family living in a moldy environment — one person is really sick, several are a little bit sick, and one is not sick at all. And the one who's not sick at all can easily go, “I'm not sure what's wrong with you all, but I'm fine in this environment, it can't be my environment because I'm fine.” And what they're not understanding is: yes, they are fine, as long as their immune system stays robust. For the others, they were at risk for all of these conditions because their immune system took a hit. And for many people who were living in a moldy environment, during COVID, for example, when we isolated and people were spending twenty-four hours in their home rather than the eight hours out, they were many now being exposed to more mold at home than they were before. I don't think people began to think about that or look at that. So in that environment, whether or not they were affected depends on the hit they took. Now, the things that will hit an immune system to weaken it, and allow whatever's there to manifest, are: COVID was a biggie, any severe infection, a surgical procedure, childbirth, menopause, or any emotional upheaval will weaken that immune system, and then the immune system loses containment, and now we are off to the races. So what I try to convince people who are living in a moldy environment who are well is that they're living with a ticking time bomb. Should they take an immune hit, they will be just as sick as their family member who they're kind of lording it over, which is, “I'm not sick, what's wrong with you?” You'll be right there yourself if you take that hit — to try to help them understand, yeah, you're okay for now, but once your immune system weakens. So I'm trying to tie together the immune system, its ability to regulate inflammation, and this whole process here.Courtney: Right, right. Which I guess is why we call it complex, complex illness.Neil: It is the way human beings are. We're not making up a new word of complex illness — illness was always complex. We're just beginning to understand how complex it always has been.The Limits of Treating Symptoms Alone44:39Courtney: Right, so there's communities out there addressing mast cell activation. There's communities out there addressing POTS and dysautonomia. Communities out there addressing OCD and more obvious limbic-type issues. And then there's the whole mental health field. And the dots aren't getting connected. I mean, I've yet to see someone with OCD — I think it's like eighty to ninety-five percent have mold toxicity as part of the picture.Neil: You know, an example — and I won't name names — is there's an eminent pediatric physician who is very well known for his work in autism, who thought he was ADD his whole life until he recognized that he had mold toxicity and started taking antifungals, and all of a sudden his brain went online and he doesn't have it anymore. So that's just a very clear example of what you're talking about. And what we are talking about is: it's absolutely essential that all people who work in the medical field, all healthcare providers, embrace this complexity, because if you're only working on a piece of it, you will help some people to a certain extent, but you will not help people optimally. I mean, that is the absolute bottom line.The understanding that mast cell activation was huge came in 2016, when Larry Afrin wrote his book, Never Bet Against Occam. It was a huge game changer. When I read his book, it was like, “My goodness, I've been missing this in my patients.” And the whole world embraced this information, so that every medical center in the country now has a mast cell activation clinic. However, they're looking at it as a single thing with a label to it, and they're treating it just that way. They have not recognized that if they don't add limbic and vagal work to it, their treatment is not going to be adequate. And so, yes, they're helping people, but absolutely not optimally. And to make it worse, very few of those clinics have recognized that what's causing mast cell activation, which absolutely needs to be treated, is mold toxicity and Lyme. So people go to these clinics and get a certain amount of help, but they're not being treated comprehensively, which is a pet peeve of mine — which is, come on, if you're going to have a clinic, understand the whole interactions of whatever name it is you're working with. If you're going to be an ENT specialist, understand everything that impacts that area. If you're going to be a cardiologist, understand everything that impacts it. And we just don't see that. We see people kind of in their little box — “No, no, I've learned this, this is what I do, this is how I work” — and it's just unfortunate that they're not looking at the bigger picture.Courtney: Right, I think add to that PANS and PANDAS, because in psychiatry, people feel like they're deep diving because they're getting to PANS and PANDAS. It's like, okay, you've got to go deeper than that, because even those conferences, they talk about the need for treating relapse, and it's just going to keep reoccurring.Neil: I mean, they're using IVIG to help. That's nice, but they're not getting to cause. And we know when PANS and PANDAS first emerged on the scene, it was all about strep, and that was the focus for a long time. But as time emerged, it was very clear that this was a neurological inflammation triggered — here we go, broken record — Lyme, mold, other infectious agents had to be looked for. And if we treated those, you could cure PANS. It wasn't something that needed IVIG for the rest of your earthly life.Courtney: Even among those, would you say very often mold is underlying the mycoplasma, the candida?Neil: I think mold is one of the most missed components to illness that I can think of. If I have a goal in life, it would be to raise the consciousness of our profession as to the importance of mold toxicity, how common it is. We're talking millions and millions of people who are not diagnosed, because their doctors don't know about it, and therefore are not making the diagnosis. I'd love to see the consciousness get to the point that someone would present with these complicated stories and a doctor would say, “Why don't we think about mold toxicity?” That would be the most important thing I would have done in my career.Courtney: Yeah, well, you're certainly raising awareness.Neil: I'm working — it is slow. As we said, I'm working on a twenty-year generational issue here.Courtney: You've mentioned that the underlying source needs to be addressed, but the nervous system and immune systems need to be addressed. So one of the things that comes up with limbic system retraining is: I've had people hear the message that if they just address their limbic and autonomic nervous system, then they wouldn't need to address what I see as an ongoing threat, such as a mold toxin. So I'm hoping you can speak to that, and the importance of these programs, despite that.Neil: Sure. A couple of the better-known limbic retraining programs, the coaches get a little bit zealous about — “limbic retraining is so important, this is all you need to do alone, don't even do anything else, just do limbic retraining.” And I suspect that there are a handful, very few, but a handful of people who've gotten well just doing limbic retraining. If, for example, if you had mold toxicity, if it was relatively new, if you had not colonized, and you moved out of your mold exposure soon, it is possible that the limbic retraining would help reboot it to the point that your immune system rebooted itself and you'd be fine. I believe there are a few people like that. The vast majority of people who have limbic dysfunction — you need to do limbic retraining and vagal retraining. You may also need to do mast cell retraining, and please look for the cause of that. Those are downstream effects, those are not named diagnoses that you treat alone and it fixes it. Please look for at least mold and Lyme, which are the two most common things that are triggering this at this point. And people are getting the wrong message if they think they need to do it in a vacuum. To make it worse, they're being told, “No, no, just do limbic retraining, that's all you need.” And the truth is, no, you need to combine limbic retraining and vagal rebooting and mast cell activation most of the time. And of course you've got to get back to cause.Courtney: Right, I mean I try to liken it to — if they were in an abusive relationship or toxic relationship, they wouldn't just limbic-system their way out of that, if there was an external threat.Biochemical Contributors47:35Neil: No, you've got to fix what's primary here. I want to add to this discussion — we're focusing on inflammation from toxins and infections, but there are also other biochemical issues, some of them downstream, that need to be looked for and addressed in order for people to recover completely. So, for example, Lyme and mold will trigger kryptopyrrole issues, or imbalances in the ratio between zinc and copper, or they'll trigger methylation issues super commonly. And I just wanted to expand this discussion — I know it's complicated enough, but I don't want to oversimplify it either — that there are other biochemical things that we want to be looking for, because they're treatable, and they will help people to heal faster, if we're also addressing methylation, the need for zinc, the need for magnesium or B6 — those are common components of this whole process here. And so I just want to kind of tie that all together for a moment.Courtney: No, I'm glad you did, because those are topics that I talk about here, so it's important to connect those. The other thing I see, because I integrate the Walsh approaches with treating people that have complex health issues, is zinc seems so amazing when it comes to mast cell activation — making sure that's optimized. As well as connective tissue — and that was something else I wanted to ask you about — is structural issues that can be impacting the autonomic nervous system. I just see a lot of people — I inquire about it because I had it myself — but who have upper cervical instability as part of this whole picture.Structural Contributors49:26Neil: Again, all of these things are interrelated, and the physical structure can prevent people from moving forward in several different ways. One is the structure of the jaw and the face — the body puts a priority on teeth occluding properly. And if the teeth don't meet just quite right, and the jaw is a little bit out of structure, people often talk about TMJ — the body basically freaks out, it goes into sympathetic overdrive. And for some patients — it's not common, but I've seen several dozen — where the jaw had to be realigned by a combination of dentists specially trained in this work, working with osteopathic physicians, to realign the jaw. Often in those patients, they couldn't respond to the limbic and vagal treatment until their jaw got realigned.Same thing is true with what you're talking about, as cervical cranial instability, which is basically a weakening of the ligaments at the base of the skull, where it attaches to the first cervical vertebra. Now, these are all again intertwined — for example, it begs the question of what weakens those ligaments. And the answer is: if you have mast cell activation, some of the materials that the mast cell makes weakens the ligaments. So the ligaments get weak, and where the skull attaches to the first cervical vertebra, instead of being pulled apart, like ligaments do, it collapses. And that influences the blood flow to the brain, the nerve flow to the brain. And again, the body recognizes that as a priority, and often you can't get that better — you can't get limbic and vagal response until that gets fixed.So there are a bunch of structural issues that also need to be looked at, when people become overly sensitive and are not responding properly. And there's more in that area. So, for example, there's a chapter by Tasha Turzo, who's an expert on the jaw structure. There's a chapter in there by Andy Maxwell on cervical cranial instability. So that book would give people a really good overview of how complicated things are, and they might, chapter by chapter, get a clue of, “I haven't looked at this piece yet.” I mean, we haven't talked about oxalate or salicylate imbalances, which can add to that. So I just think that is a resource for folks that could really help them understand how they've gotten where they are, and understand the path out.Courtney: Right, right, because not everyone has all of these areas, but certainly could be held back or have a unique something that they could be getting relief from early on in the process. So I think it's both, to the degree that people are able to learn, and your book Toxic, too — it's like an encyclopedia, even if someone doesn't read straight through it, they can go to the mast cell section, or they can go to the Bartonella section.Neil: It was intended to be a readable way to understand this complexity, because it basically will talk about almost everything we've talked about today, and help people to get better understanding. I mean, we've talked about the bigger picture today. We didn't talk about, okay, how do you diagnose Lyme, how do you diagnose mold toxicity, how do you diagnose long-haul COVID, and most important, because this is very complicated, how do you decide which of those is the biggest player that you want to address first?Distinguishing Between Mold, Lyme & Long-COVID53:58Courtney: Right, I have shared resources on diagnosing mold toxicity. Would you comment on your last point — how do you recognize, are you using specific testing that you want to reference, the RealTime?Neil: I do. But I would emphasize, we're taught in medical school that if you really listen to patients, ninety-five percent of the time you will make the diagnosis by history alone. And I don't want to get too focused on testing, because listening to the patient and having them describe in detail what they're going through will really give you the little pieces you need to tease it apart to a certain degree. That's only possible to a certain degree, because there's a huge overlap between the symptoms of Lyme and Bartonella and mold and long-haul COVID and mast cell activation. Huge overlap. So there's little teeny pieces that will tend to lean more in one way than another. And honestly, that's what's required from all of us, literally years of study, to really get a handle on — someone will say something, okay, that's much more of a mold symptom than it is a Lyme symptom, something else. So I do encourage people, if they think they might have mold, to get a urine mycotoxin test. That has revolutionized our ability to make these diagnoses.Courtney: Would you still set RealTime as the preferred? That's what I've communicated to this audience.Neil: I would. Any test can help make the diagnosis, but for follow-up testing, the only one that's been really consistent is RealTime. And you want a follow-up test, so you want to know what your baseline starting is, and then you want to know, okay, am I getting these toxins out of my body? From my perspective, you know that you're done treating it when that RealTime comes back reading not present in every category. We have better tests now for Lyme than we've had in the past. Years ago, our tests were inadequate to say the least. And the CDC recognized years ago that the tests were so inadequate that it was basically a diagnosis made by a physician by examining all of the history and information that you had. That was enough — you didn't need a lab report to make the diagnosis of Lyme disease. A new test that I'm particularly fond of is Bruce Patterson's fourteen-panel cytokine test. This is a test that measures cytokines, which are the molecules of inflammation — cytokines are made by your immune system to deal with, or fight, different inflammational causes. And so what Dr. Patterson has discovered is there's a pattern of cytokines that we see with long-haul COVID, which is different than the pattern we see for Lyme. And I'm working with him now on the pattern for mold. So we can literally look at that test and look at, okay, what is inflaming this person primarily now, because I'm looking at that inflammational pattern, and I can literally read that. Some of my patients will have all of those on a particular test, or only one, but it really helps tease apart what is — I call it public enemy number one for my patient, what do I need to address as root cause right now. So our science is improving as we go here.A Message of Hope — and Where to Learn More58:49Courtney: And that's huge. Before we go — I think all of your books, but I'm thinking specifically about Toxic and The Sensitive Patient — all the information you generously share gives people a lot of hope who've been struggling out there. And I think your mentoring and teaching so many of us helps extend some of that reach. Is there anything you'd want to convey to people out there in the throes of chronic illness who are feeling hopeless and not getting the feedback from their doctors that this is something they can get beyond?Neil: Sure. My take-home message is always: everything we talked about today is treatable. Is there hope in there? You bet there is. But if you are not getting the help you need from whoever you are seeing, find someone who understands these things. For example, I do have on my website a list of physicians that I've trained over the years that I'm comfortable that they really know what they're doing — it's a growing list. There's someone like Courtney, who's been trained for years to do this, she's good at it. Find someone who knows what they're talking about, so that you can get someone who does embrace this complexity, and will look at it in its entirety, and then get you moving in the right direction, doing the right things in the right order. To me, this can be done. I mean, I have personally helped to cure four or five thousand people with mold toxicity, and an equal number of people with Lyme disease. So we can help the vast majority of people that we're seeing. So, regardless of how long you've been sick, if you haven't been properly diagnosed and you haven't gotten the right treatment, you can be helped.Courtney: Right, right, that's great. And for physicians out there who are interested in learning more about complex chronic illness — are there resources you would point to? I'll be sharing your books, because I think those are great references — but also how people can find what you're doing currently.Neil: Sure, my books — particularly with this discussion, Toxic and The Sensitive Patient's Healing Guide would be the two most appropriate. I would add that I have just finished writing a book on this whole subject of inflammation. It's currently being edited, I hope it'll be out by early next year. So if you stay tuned to my website, I'll let people know when that's going to be available. And I think, Courtney, what you're referring to is: I do have a mentorship program for healthcare providers. We now have three hundred and fifty-plus people in the mentorship program, it keeps growing. You were in one of the first groups — we started with eight, and then people kept wanting to get in on it. So we welcome people to join. If you go to my website, which is simply neilnathanmd.com, there's a whole thing which talks about the mentorship and how to sign up for it. So I certainly welcome people who want to learn more.Courtney: And then you offer consultations and professional consultations also?Neil: I do. My consultations — I am, at this point, since I'm semi-retired, not seeing people directly. But I do offer consultations with a patient and their primary treating physician — so we all get on a Zoom together, and we will go over the details of that person's history and their lab work, and I will help outline a treatment program that looks to me like it will get people well. And actually, Courtney, I actually do a lot of that — I'm not really retired, my wife will tell you. I stay pretty busy. I love helping people. I love being able to take this complicated information and tease it apart, so that I can help people to understand what they need to do, in what order, in order to get better.Courtney: And we're all grateful — grateful that you've followed your path, because so many people have benefited personally and professionally. So thank you for bringing your wisdom and expertise, really appreciate it.Neil: You're very welcome, happy to do that.You can find Dr. Nathan's information, consultations, and mentoring program through his website at neilnathanmd.com. If you'd like to help get this information out into the world, please consider liking, sharing, or commenting.Until next time,CourtneyCourtney Snyder MDDr. Courtney Snyder MD is a holistic, functional, and environmental psychiatrist for children and adults. 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If you could do anything within your control to give your body the best possible chance to heal, what would actually matter most?In this episode, we look at remarkable recovery stories alongside research to identify five areas I would personally focus on during a serious illness: giving the body the resources it needs to repair, reducing unnecessary biological strain, becoming deeply engaged in your own healing, having something meaningful to live for, and staying flexible enough to learn from your own response. You'll hear extraordinary recovery stories involving ALS and MS and discover what research on physical reserve, stress, patient activation, and purpose can teach us about creating better conditions for recovery.Most importantly, I'll give you a simple five-part exercise to identify one thing you can do now—because increasing your chances of healing doesn't mean changing your entire life by tomorrow.Join my free email community for practical healing tools, research, survivor stories, and encouragement between episodes: https://TheRenegadeNutritionist.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only and does not offer medical advice. Consult your licensed healthcare provider before making any changes to your treatment or health regimen. Reliance on any information provided is solely at your own risk.This podcast explores stories and science around ALS, dementia, MS, cancer, mind body recovery, healing, functional medicine, heart disease, regression, remission, integrative medicine, autoimmune conditions, chronic illness, terminal disease, terminal illness, holistic health, quality of life, alternative medicine, natural healing, lifestyle medicine, and remission from cancer, offering hope and insights for those seeking resilience and renewal.
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Virgo, the physician of the zodiac, rules the gut, the harvest, and the humble herbs that heal without fanfare. In this remastered Astro Herbalism episode, Kyle Denton of Tippecanoe Herbs, Mario Garza of Symbolic Studies, Michelle Lundquist of Michelle's Healing Home, and Slick Dissident join Chance Garton to explore the mutable earth sign through its plants, its myths, and its medicine.We weigh the Hermit card as an elder shepherd carrying the lamb, trace the Virgin from the Mesopotamian furrow to the fleur de lis, and ask why the gut prefers to stay hidden. Then the herbs: Chamomile, the gentle healer that proves soft can still be strong; Queen Anne's Lace, the wild carrot with the single drop of blood at its center; the Madonna Lily and its long lineage of virgin birth symbolism; Milky Oats for burnt out nerves; Corn Silk and the hairy, hidden wisdom of whole grains; and Wood Betony, the forgotten herb that reconnects a busy head to its gut instincts.This remaster (originally recorded in 2023) has cleaner audio and a tighter cut, turning a rambling livestream into a focused master class on Virgo, discernment, digestion, and the doctrine of signatures.Herbal content in this episode is shared for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Consult a qualified practitioner before using any herb, especially during pregnancy.THE PANELKyle Denton, Tippecanoe Herbs: https://tippecanoeherbs.com (use code INNERVERSE for 10% off)Mario Garza, Symbolic Studies: https://www.youtube.com/@symbolicstudiesMichelle Lundquist, Michelle's Healing Home: https://www.youtube.com/@michelleshealinghomeSlick Dissident: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSSMh4fE7dAdhPcdtP0rW2AWORK WITH CHANCEBook a Biofield Tuning session: https://innerversepodcast.com/biofield-tuningBecome an InnerVerse member: https://innerverseplus.comSupport InnerVerse with our affiliates: https://innerversepodcast.com/supportLISTEN AND FOLLOWWebsite: https://innerversepodcast.comSubstack: https://innerversepodcast.substack.comPatreon: https://patreon.com/innerverseInstagram and TikTok: @innerversepodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Welcome to a new episode of ASMR Sleep Recordings. In this episode, you will hear gentle rain and bird sounds for sleep and focus. Improve your health and happiness.The sound you hear in this episode creates a calm atmosphere and at the same time blocks out disturbing noises. This will help you de-stress, unwind, and rest. Enjoy two hours of relaxing sounds to help you relax, focus, study and fall asleep.About ASMR Sleep Recordings:The purpose of ASMR Sleep Recording is to help you sleep and concentrate better. This particular episode lasts two hours and has no ads in the middle, so you won't be woken up or disturbed while focusing or relaxing. When you listen to ASMR Sleep Recordings, you can lock your phone, so you won't get any bothersome stimuli from notifications and other sounds from your phone. You can switch between apps while studying or working without pausing the ambient sound.About our sounds:Water creates a natural white noise. Infused with the relaxing quality of nature and the sound-masking properties of white noise, listening to running water is an ideal way to turn off all the stressful things life brings, and to de-stress. Some of our most popular sounds include a river, flowing creek, babbling brook, gentle waves on a lake, and a bamboo fountain. Rain also creates a natural white noise. Infused with the relaxing quality of nature and the sound-masking properties of white noise, listening to rain is an ideal way to switch off all the stressful things life brings and to de-stress. Some of our most popular sounds are rain on an umbrella, hailstorms, hard rain, soft rain, gentle rain, wind and rain, rain on a car.White noise helps babies and children to get a better and deeper night's sleep. This is because external sounds are masked by the noise. With white noise in the background, your child will not hear annoying cars driving by or dogs barking in bed. This allows your little one to sleep better. And it also saves you as a parent a lot of hours!Pink noise is more common in nature than you might expect. It can be compared to continuous rainfall or wind. In addition to white noise, pink noise is also increasing in popularity, especially in business environments. Because it can increase productivity, concentration and creativity.Brown noise can be compared to waves of the sea, a river current, strong winds or the sound of thunder during a storm. Like pink noise, brown noise is very similar to white noise. However, the frequencies have been lowered even further and a lot more concentrated. This gives it a rougher/coarse tone than pink noise. It sounds a bit deeper and a bit bass-like. The benefits of brown noise are the same as the other types of noise. It provides relaxation, increased focus and improved deep sleep.DISCLAIMER: Be aware that loud noises can damage your hearing. If you can't carry on a conversation without raising your voice while playing one of our spheres, the sound may be too loud for your ears. Do not place the speakers directly next to a baby's ears. If you have trouble hearing or ringing in your ears, stop listening to the white noise immediately and see an audiologist or your doctor. The sounds provided by ASMR Sleep Recordings are for entertainment purposes only and are not a treatment for sleep disorders or tinnitus. Consult your doctor if you regularly have severe sleeping problems, experience fitful/restless sleep or feel tired during the day.ASMR Sleep Recordings is the white noise and nature sounds podcast to help you sleep, study or soothe a baby. ASMR Sleep Recordings has uploaded more than 400+ episodes in the 4 years that the podcast has been online. You can listen to all episodes of the podcast on your favorite podcast platform. People use white noise for sleep, focus, sound masking or relaxation. This podcast has the sound for you, whether you're using white noise to study, to soothe a baby with cramps, to fall asleep, or to just enjoy a quiet moment. You don't need to buy a white noise machine if you can listen to these sounds for free.
Send us Fan MailTwo heads are better than one—especially when one understands the numbers and the other understands what may be happening behind the walls.In Real Estate AF Episode 165, Mark Jones sits down with San Antonio Realtors Laura Vincelette and Jeff Froboese for a direct conversation about home inspections, repair requests, financial strategy, teamwork, staging and long-term client trust.Laura brings a banking and financial-education background. Jeff brings real estate, first-responder and prior home-inspection experience. Together, they explain why a long report does not automatically mean a home is falling apart, why repairs are not simply a second price negotiation, and why they joined forces to launch KSM Realty Group.IN THIS EPISODE:• What a home inspection is—and what it is not• Why “deficient” does not always mean catastrophic• Negotiating repairs versus renegotiating the purchase price• Seller repairs, credits and lender-required property conditions• Why buyers should attend the inspection when possible• Laura's move from banking into full-time real estate• Jeff's real estate, first-responder and inspection experience• The story and meaning behind KSM Realty Group• Why sellers must showcase—not merely list—a home• Physical staging versus virtual staging• How added service creates repeat and referral businessGUESTS:Laura VinceletteREALTOR® | Phillips & Associates Realtyhttps://www.phillipsrealty.co/agents/1894051/Laura%2BVinceletteJeff FroboeseReal Estate Advisor | Premier Realty Group Platinumhttps://www.zillow.com/profile/JFroboese0Together announcing KSM Realty Group in this episode.HOST:Mark JonesHost, Real Estate AFBranch Manager | Senior Mortgage Loan OfficerNMLS #513437https://MortgageTalkWithMark.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MortgageTalkwithMarkPOWERED BY LOANBOT:Smarter mortgage matching and practical tools.https://myloanbot.ai/CHAPTERS:00:00 Real Estate AF Intro00:32 Episode Setup01:17 Meet Jeff Froboese & Laura Vincelette04:38 Why Two Skill Sets Work Better Together08:18 What a Home Inspection Actually Means11:47 Repairs Are Not a Second Price Negotiation13:25 Lender-Required Repairs & Appraisal Concerns16:56 Laura's Return to Real Estate20:26 Going All In & How Jeff and Laura Met25:45 Building a Team in Today's Market30:32 The Story Behind KSM Realty Group35:20 Roles, Values & Team Culture38:54 Working With the Other Side44:12 Why Two Heads Are Better Than One47:20 Staging as a Listing Strategy49:22 Physical Staging vs. Virtual Staging56:42 Advice for Buyers, Sellers, Lenders & Realtors1:00:04 Becoming a Trusted Real Estate Advisor1:02:33 What the Staging Data Says1:05:21 How Extra Service Creates Referrals1:06:42 Keep Moving: Final Takeaways1:07:45 Mark's Closing MessageQUESTION FOR YOU:After an inspection, what matters most: the seriousness of the defect, the cost to correct it, the buyer's comfort level or the effect on financing?Comment below, subscribe and share this episode with someone who needs a clearer understanding of inspections and repairs.IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES:This content is provided for general educational and informational purposes only. It does not constitute mortgage, financial, legal, tax, credit, inspection, engineering, construction or investment advice.Mortgage programs, guidelines, rates, costs and qualification requirements are subject to change and vary by borrower, property, lender and investor. Nothing presented constitutes a commitment to lend, loan approval, rate quote, rate lock, Loan Estimate or offer to extend credit. Examples are illustrative or hypothetical unless expressly identified otherwise. All loans are subject to qualification, credit and property approval, verified documentation, underwriting requirements and program availability.A home inspection is not a guarantee of property condition. Consult appropriately licensed inspectors, engineers, contractors, attorneys and other qualified professionals.Guest statements and opinions are their own and do not necessarily represent Mark Jones, Real Estate AF, iThink Mortgage, Premier Mortgage Resources or LoanBot AI. No compensation is paid or received for referrals, endorsements or podcast appearances unless expressly disclosed. No referral or settlement-service arrangement is intended or offered in violation of RESPA or applicable law.LoanBot AI is an educational mortgage technology resource. It does not approve loans, make credit or underwriting decisions, guarantee eligibility or replace consultation with a licensed mortgage professional.Mark Jones | NMLS #513437iThink Mortgage powered by Premier Mortgage Resources, LLC | NMLS #1169Equal Housing Opportunity#RealEstateAF #HomeInspection #SanAntonioRealEstateSupport the showRealEstateAF is Powered by LoanBot.com Host: Mark Jones | Sr. Loan Officer | NMLS# 513437 If you would like to work with Mark on your next home purchase or as a partner visit iThink Mortgage.
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Learn more about the heart scan that actually sees inside https://www.midlifeconversations.com/heartprevention Heart disease is the number one killer of women. And most heart attacks come from plaque that never shows up on our cholesterol panel, our stress test, or our EKG. Traditional cardiology has been treating us blindly. In this episode, preventive cardiologist Dr. John Osborne walks us through why standard tests miss the disease, what soft plaque actually is (he calls it the lava), why menopause is a massive cardiovascular event, and the modern imaging that finally lets us SEE our arteries and reverse the disease decades before symptoms show up. This is the conversation every midlife woman needs to hear. IN THIS EPISODE • What plaque actually is and why it starts in our teens • Soft plaque vs hard plaque. The killer plaque is the invisible plaque • Why cholesterol, stress tests, and calcium scores miss the real disease • How CCTA with AI changes everything • The ClearCardio white-glove process. Scan. Labs. Consult. 12 months of care • Menopause as a massive cardiovascular event • Why women get missed. Atypical symptoms nobody teaches us • Microvascular disease, Takotsubo, and SCAD • The ONE thing every midlife woman should do this week TIMESTAMPS • 00:00 | What plaque actually is. Soft vs. hard. Why 99% of us have it. • 12:00 | What traditional cardiology misses. Cholesterol. Stress tests. Calcium scores. • 24:00 | The CCTA + AI. The white-glove ClearCardio process. • 36:00 | Menopause and the women's cardiovascular story. • 48:00 | ClearCardio. What to actually do. • 55:00 | The ONE thing this week. Close. Catch the full episode on YOUTUBE HERE: https://bit.ly/MidlifeConversationsYouTube Learn More About Dr. John Osborne Instagram ➜ https://www.instagram.com/clearcardio Website ➜ https://www.midlifeconversations.com/heartprevention Thank you to our show sponsors: TIMELINE:Timeline is offering 20% off your order! Go to https://timeline.com/NATALIEJILL BIOTIMIZERS: Most magnesium products give you 1, maybe 2 forms. This one gives you all 7. Save with code NATALIEJILL https://bioptimizers.com/nataliejill Free Gifts for being a listener of Midlife Conversations! Mastering the Midlife Midsection Guide: https://theflatbellyguide.com/ Age Optimizing and Supplement Guide: https://ageoptimizer.com Connect with me on social media! Instagram: www.Instagram.com/Nataliejllfit Facebook: www.Facebook.com/Nataliejillfit For advertising inquiries: https://www.category3.ca/ Disclaimer: Information provided in the Midlife Conversations podcast is for informational purposes only. This information is NOT intended as a substitute for the advice provided by your physician or other healthcare professional. Do not use the information provided in this podcast for diagnosing or treating a health problem or disease, or prescribing medication or other treatment. Always speak with your physician or other healthcare professional before making any changes to your current regimen. Information provided in this podcast and the use of any products or services related to this podcast does not create a client-patient relationship between you and the host of Midlife Conversations or you and any doctor or provider interviewed and featured on this show. Information and statements may have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent ANY disease. Advertising Disclosure: Some episodes of Midlife Conversations may be sponsored by products or services discussed during the show. The host may receive compensation for such advertisements or if you purchase products through affiliate links. Opinions expressed about products or services are those of the host and/or guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of any sponsor. Sponsorship does not imply endorsement of any product or service by healthcare professionals featured on this podcast.
A registered dietitian and mom of two boys shares the exact four-step framework she uses to pack cold lunches her kids actually eat, no Pinterest required. In this episode, Steph walks through the four-step framework she has used for six years of packing cold lunch every single school day. You'll learn why letting your kids choose within structure beats deciding for them, which smarter swaps to make on lunchbox staples like Lunchables, juice boxes, and fruit snacks, and how to troubleshoot why a lunchbox is coming home untouched. She also covers why appetite and preferences shift throughout the school year and how to stay flexible without starting from scratch every time. Topics Covered In This Episode: Why Lunchboxes Come Home Full Build the Lunchbox With Them, Not For Them Smarter Swaps and Deciding What's Good Enough Troubleshooting the Untouched Lunchbox Staying Flexible as Preferences Change Show Notes: Click here to learn more about Dr. Elana Roumell's Doctor Mom Membership, a membership designed for moms who want to be their child's number one health advocate! Click here to explore Steph Greunke, RD's Mindset and Metabolism Substack, nuanced discussions on fat loss and behavior change for women. Watch this episode on our Youtube channel @medschoolformoms Listen to today's episode on our website This Episode's Sponsors Discover for yourself why Needed is trusted by 15,000+ women's health practitioners, including Dr. Elana and Steph. Needed supports optimal health and nourishment throughout the Motherspan--from preconception through perimenopause. Enjoy their range of practitioner-formulated, third-party tested supplements and get 20% off with code DOCTORMOM. Visit thisisneeded.com Active Skin Repair is a must-have for everyone to keep themselves and their families healthy and clean. Keep a bottle in the car to spray your face after removing your mask, a bottle in your medicine cabinet to replace your toxic first aid products, and one in your outdoor pack for whatever life throws at you. Use code DOCTORMOM to receive 20% off your order + free shipping (with $50 minimum purchase). Visit BLDGActive.com to order. INTRODUCE YOURSELF to Steph and Dr. Elana on Instagram. They can't wait to meet you! @stephgreunke @drelanaroumell Please remember that the views and ideas presented on this podcast are for informational purposes only. All information presented on this podcast is for informational purposes and not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a healthcare provider. Consult with your healthcare provider before starting any diet, supplement regimen, or to determine the appropriateness of the information shared on this podcast, or if you have any questions regarding your treatment plan.
The Real Reason You Can't Think Your Way Out of Anxiety and Intrusive ThoughtsMatt Codde, LCSW, founder of Restored Minds, breaks down one of the biggest traps in anxiety and OCD recovery: trying to use the mind to fix the mind. If you've ever tried to think, analyze, or reason your way out of a fear loop and found it just makes the racing thoughts worse, this episode explains exactly why.Matt walks through why the mind can't solve a problem it's the source of, why visualizing "getting better one day" quietly lets you off the hook from actually changing, and why real healing happens by stepping into consciousness rather than deeper into the mind. This is the foundation of Restored Minds' consciousness-based approach to anxiety, OCD, and intrusive thought recoveryTake the FREE Assessment here: restoredminds.com/start
A Sacred Thinking catch-up, a personal story of disappointment, and learning to trust God when life doesn't go as plannedIn This Episode, You'll Discover:Why our thoughts matter in the ordinary moments of everyday lifeHow we can partner with the Holy Spirit to recognize and transform unhealthy thought patternsWhat disappointment can reveal about our expectations, identity, and desiresWhy trusting God doesn't mean we won't experience sadness or disappointmentHow to bring difficult thoughts captive and replace them with God's truthWhy we can come to God's table exactly as we are—hurting, hungry, thirsty, or simply needing HimA powerful book recommendation connecting neuroscience and faithAn exciting update about Sacred Thinking: Quiet Strength for Daily Living00:00 Introduction and Personal Update02:15 A Message from Carol McLeod about Sacred Thinking05:49 My Personal Story of Disappointment09:32 The Biblical Perspective on Disappointment and Trust13:41 Invitation to the Come to the Table Event18:01 Book Recommendation: The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery22:04 The Power of Thoughts and Entrusting Them to God23:25 Closing Encouragement
Preparing for birth matters—but it is only one part of preparing to become a parent. In this episode, I sit down with Nina Spears, founder of Baby Chick and a certified baby planner, birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, newborn care educator, infant massage instructor, and perinatal nutrition expert.After supporting hundreds of families in person and thousands more virtually, Nina noticed a pattern: many parents entered labor feeling informed, yet still felt blindsided by the identity shifts, relationship changes, mental load, recovery, and emotional vulnerability that followed. Our conversation explores how families can prepare not only for the birth of a baby, but also for the birth of a parent.Together, we talk about matrescence and patrescence, why postpartum planning must go beyond freezer meals and baby gear, and how partners can become proactive co-parents instead of waiting to be assigned tasks. We also discuss mental health preparation, visitor boundaries, sleep, household responsibilities, and the support systems that can make the transition feel less isolating.In This Episode, We Cover:Why childbirth education matters—and why preparation should continue beyond laborThe identity shifts of matrescence and patrescenceHow expectations, exhaustion, and the invisible mental load can affect relationshipsConversations to have about sleep, feeding, parental leave, household work, and intimacyWhy partners should notice, learn, and take ownership before being askedHow to build a postpartum support plan for meals, older children, visitors, and check-insPreparing for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders before support is urgently neededWhy a positive experience means feeling informed, prepared, and supported—not achieving perfectionYou do not have to predict every part of birth or parenthood to prepare well. The goal is not control or perfection. It is to build enough knowledge, communication, and support that you can meet change without feeling completely alone in it.Resources MentionedBaby Chick resources and Nina's pregnancy book: https://www.baby-chick.comA written postpartum support planPostpartum doula supportPerinatal mental health specialists and PMAD educationLactation support and pelvic floor physical therapyEpisode 197: What No One Told Me About Postpartum—and Why I Became a Postpartum Doula- with Sam ByingtonIf this conversation is helping you see that preparation continues long after labor begins, listen to the full episode of The Mindful Womb Podcast. Nina's resources can help you think through pregnancy and parenthood week by week, and my childbirth classes can help you build an evidence-informed foundation for birth, partnership, and the early postpartum transition.***If these topics light you up, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you're listening.After you review the show - snap a pic and upload it here - and I'll send you 70 printable affirmation cards as a thank you.Your feedback helps this podcast grow, and I am so grateful for your support! Disclaimer: The information provided in this podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. Consult with a qualified healthcare professional for personalized advice.
Is it possible to follow a diet that's both vegan and keto? And can a diet like that be used as part of a care plan for bipolar disorder? In this episode of Metabolic Mind, Dr. Bret Scher speaks with author and advocate Dyane Harwood about how she uses a vegan ketogenic diet as part of her treatment for postpartum bipolar disorder.Dyane shares how she first discovered vegan keto, why she started tracking ketones and net carbs, and what she eats in a typical day, from her vegan keto smoothie to tofu, avocado, nut butter, and carefully chosen supplements. She also discusses the practical challenges of vegan keto, including protein intake, B12, omega-3s, magnesium, vitamin D3, eating out, social pressure, and finding a clinical team that understands metabolic psychiatry.They cover:How Dyane discovered vegan keto for bipolar disorderWhy ketosis became more important to her than dietary labelsWhat a typical vegan keto day looks likeHow changing her protein intake affected her ketone levelsWhy tracking net carbs, glucose, and ketones helped her personalize the dietThe supplements she uses, including B12, DHA/EPA, magnesium, vitamin D3, and acetyl-L-carnitineWhat Dyane reports about changes in her energy, activity level, cravings, and moodWhy support, resources, and mentorship can make the process easierHow she thinks about progress, flexibility, and improving over timeDyane's experience offers a personal example of how a vegan ketogenic diet can fit within a broader treatment plan. Her approach is practical and grounded in the idea that progress can start before everything feels perfect.
We just wrapped the 45th Annual ANMA Convention and Educational Seminar at the Westgate Las Vegas, and members are calling it one of the best years yet. In this episode, we are taking you straight to the exhibit hall floor to hear from our president and the exhibitors who make this event what it is.Attendees told us the education was insightful and spot on, the exhibit hall was fantastic, and the comment we heard most "These are my people." Among three days of speakers, CEUs, a busy exhibit hall, and our new exhibitor raffle, this year was as much about connection as it was about education. Some of the best moments happened in the hallways, over lunch, and in conversations between sessions.Voices from the Exhibit HallDr. Richard Drucker — ANMA President and founder of Drucker Labs, on a convention that exceeded expectations, Dr. Fab Mancini's banquet keynote, and his goal of filling next year's banquet room with a thousand peopleCountry Doctor Herbals & Country Doctor Academy (Cheyenne, WY) — an ANMA member since 2003 on their nutritional therapy clinic, botanical line, and the mentorship program helping practitioners turn their training into sustainable businessesBronwyn Eisen, Jigsaw Health — on their flagship Mag SRT magnesium malate with sustained-release technologyLoren Swenson, Solex & Solex School of Naturopathy — a walking tour of one of the biggest booths on the floor, featuring the Ion Rain, Infinity Mats, AO Scan, Theta Chair, and pelvic pulse chairVictoria, Apex Water Research Institute — a five-year ANMA exhibitor and past podcast guest on their structured water supplementDebbie Bailey, Bumbiotics — the most memorable conversation we recorded all weekend, on her probiotic suppository (and the nickname you won't forget)Marcelo Hamwi, VORG Superfoods — single-sourced superfoods with adaptogens and nootropics, plus the Aura O3 healing chamber parked in the middle of the hallAmeya, Health Buddha & ScaleUp42 — tech and digital marketing built specifically to help holistic practitioners acquire, manage, and retain clientsJeff, Rev222 — 12 years of ANMA conventions, their patented olive leaf extract, and why community matters when you've got a tough Monday morning caseBody Tone Wellness — 25+ years in practice and 7–8 years speaking at ANMA, with a focus on painMonica Head & Paul Burt, Austin Air Systems — first-time exhibitors from Buffalo, NY, on HEPA and activated carbon air purifiersMark Your Calendar: ANMA 2027Next year's ANMA Convention & Educational Seminar takes place in August 2027 in Las Vegas. As Dr. Drucker put it, next year is already tomorrow — and we're already working on making it even better.Visit anma.org for details as they're announced.Connect with us:Stay tuned for updates on the 45th Annual ANMA Convention at anma.orgAmerican Naturopathic Medical Association: https://www.anma.orgAmerican Naturopathic Medical Certification Board: https://www.anmcb.orgAmerican Naturopathic Medical Accreditation Board: https://www.anmab.orgSociety of Complementary Alternative and Holistic Practitioners: https://www.scahp.orgEmail: admin@anma.orgThis podcast is produced by Espresso Podcast Production: https://www.espressopodcastproduction.com/Disclaimer: This podcast is for educational purposes only and should not be taken as medical advice. Consult your doctor before implementing any information shared. Views expressed are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect ANMA or ANMCB positions.
In this episode, we sit down with Mark Herrmann, a retired firefighter who spent 20 years on the front lines before facing his toughest battle: severe occupational trauma and PTSD. After traditional treatments failed to offer relief, Mark discovered breakthrough plant-based therapies and clinical research that transformed his recovery. Now, he advocates for first responder mental wellness, trauma-informed care, and alternative healing modalities. We also discuss the first ever FDA and DEA approved whole plant psilocybin study the host himself went through as well as his personal experiences. We discuss:• The hidden mental health toll on first responders and firefighters• The turning point: moving past conventional treatment limitations• The science and personal experience of breakthrough mental health therapies• The journey of psychological reset, recovery, and finding purpose after serviceConnect with Mark Herrmann:• Email: mark@awakened-journey.com• Number: 602-326-4469Connect with the Show:• Email: bluetogreenpodcast@gmail.com ---DISCLAIMER: This podcast episode is for educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute medical, psychological, or legal advice. The discussions herein reflect personal experiences and perspectives on emerging mental health treatments. Consult a licensed healthcare professional before making any medical decisions.
When the scale goes down, how much of that weight is actually body fat—and how much could be metabolically active muscle? BACK TO SCHOOL SALE! For a limited time, save 40% sitewide at ketogenicgirl.com with code BACKTOSCHOOL40, including the Protein-Sparing Modified Fasting Library, ToneLUX Red Light Therapy Collection, and Tone Breath Ketone Analyzer. Australia, New Zealand & Southeast Asia: Save 75% on available ToneLUX and Tone products during the warehouse moving sale with code WAREHOUSE75, while supplies last. In today's episode of the Optimal Protein Podcast, Vanessa welcomes leading protein and muscle researcher Dr. Leigh Breen back to discuss how to protect lean mass during weight loss. They examine an important concern surrounding traditional dieting and GLP-1-assisted weight loss: people may lose muscle alongside body fat, yet regain predominantly fat afterward. Could repeated cycles of weight loss and regain ultimately leave someone with worse body composition? Try my favorite new electrolytes, Cure Hydration! Head to curehydration.com/VANESSA and use code VANESSA to save 20% on your order.
Sabrina Allen was diagnosed with Granuloma annulare and struggled to find relief—until she began incorporating Real Bread into her daily diet. As she made the change, she experienced relief from her symptoms and noticed another unexpected transformation in her menstrual cycle, which finally became regular. Her story is a powerful reminder of how nourishing our bodies with Real Bread made from freshly-milled flour can really make a difference. Topics in this episode include: Granuloma annulare, gluten-free, menstrual cycle, migraines, brain fog, vision, A1C, snacking LISTEN NOW
Betrayal is one of the deepest wounds divorce can carry. As part of her summer series on rebuilding after divorce, Susan Guthrie, family law attorney and mediator, turns her attention to healing itself, sitting down with Dr. Debi Silber, founder of the PBT (Post-Betrayal Transformation) Institute. Whether it's a loved one, a friend, a colleague, or someone entirely unexpected, betrayal reaches into nearly every part of life and can be hard to move beyond, sometimes for years. Dr. Silber has spent her career studying exactly that, building a program that guides people through the five stages of betrayal toward a new foundation and a new worldview. Together, she and Susan unpack why betrayal cuts so deep, walking through those stages and the reasons so many people stay stuck in the process without realizing it. As Dr. Silber puts it, "the best revenge is a life well lived." Wherever someone is in their own healing, this conversation offers a clear next step toward it. What You'll Learn Why betrayal is uniquely devastating, striking at the sense of self in ways other traumas don't Why Dr. Silber says that even though betrayal happened to you, it was never really about you The five stages of betrayal and healing, and how to recognize which one you're in The three reasons people get stuck and never fully heal from betrayal Why staying stuck in betrayal can function like an addiction, and what it takes to break the cycle Episode 7 of 8 in the Divorce & Beyond Summer Essentials Series. This summer, Divorce & Beyond brings back 8 the episodes listeners reach for most, the conversations with the clearest, most practical guidance for anyone thinking about, going through, or rebuilding after divorce. New Essentials air every other Monday all summer. Follow the show so you never miss one. About this week's special guest: Dr. Debi Sibler Dr. Debi Silber, Founder and CEO of The PBT (Post Betrayal Transformation) Institute and National Forgiveness Day, is an award-winning speaker and 2-time #1 International bestselling author. Her podcast, From Betrayal to Breakthrough, ranks in the top 1.5% globally. Her groundbreaking PhD study revealed 3 discoveries that completely revolutionized our understanding of betrayal-and how to achieve full healing physically, mentally, and emotionally. Creator of the world's #1 betrayal recovery certification for life, business, health, and leadership coaches, Dr. Debi equips practitioners globally with her evidence-based framework so they can deliver exponentially better results with their existing clients. Featured on FOX, CBS, The Dr. Oz Show, and TEDx (twice), she equips practitioners with the missing framework-helping them move from uncertainty to confidence, from using general tools that keep clients stuck to specialized approaches that create genuine transformation. Find More Information on Dr. Silber: Website: http://thepbtinstitute.com Book: Unstuck: The Practitioner's Guide to Moving Betrayal Clients from Survival to Transformation You can view Dr. Debi's latest TEDx Talk, "Do You Have Post-Betrayal Syndrome?" HERE! If This Episode Helped You Follow Divorce & Beyond so you never miss an episode. Share it with someone who needs clear, reliable guidance right now. And if you have a moment, a five-star review makes a real difference in helping the show reach the people who need it most. Follow Divorce & Beyond Website: divorceandbeyondpod.com Instagram: instagram.com/divorceandbeyondpod About the Host: Susan Guthrie, Esq. Susan Guthrie is one of the nation's leading family law and mediation attorneys, with more than 35 years of experience helping people navigate divorce with clarity and strategy. She is a Past Chair of the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, a best-selling author, and a sought-after speaker and trainer. Susan recently appeared as the featured expert on The Oprah Podcast and has been cited in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Town & Country, The Washington Post, NewsNation, and NBC Chicago Today, among others. As the creator and host of Divorce & Beyond, ranked in the top 1% of all podcasts worldwide with more than 1.3 million downloads and an Apple Top 100 Self-Help designation, Susan brings together leading legal and mental health experts to help listeners move through divorce and into what comes next. Learn more at divorceandbeyondpod.com/about. Disclaimer: The commentary and opinions shared on this podcast are for informational and entertainment purposes only and do not constitute legal advice. Consult a licensed attorney in your state regarding your specific situation.
The Immigration Lawyers Podcast | Discussing Visas, Green Cards & Citizenship: Practice & Policy
In this episode, John sits down with Judy Wong, Esq., a Bay Area business immigration attorney for tech companies, to talk about the EB-1A hype nobody wants to admit is hype, the uncertainty H-1B and L-1 employees are living with right now, and what happens when a reduction in force derails a case that's been years in the making. Judy also shares her path through AILA NorCal leadership and her role helping plan the AILA California Chapters Conference this November in San Francisco. Read the latest issue of the Immigration Lawyer's Toolbox Magazine (Issue 12) Spotify | iTunes | YouTube Music | YouTube Follow eimmigration by Cerenade: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn Start your Business Immigration Practice! (US LAWYERS ONLY - SCREENING REQUIRED): E-2 Course EB-1A Course Get the Toolbox Magazine! Join our community (Lawyers Only) Get Started in Immigration Law! The Marriage/Family-Based Green Card course is for you Our Website: ImmigrationLawyersToolbox.com Not legal advice. Consult with an Attorney. Attorney Advertisement. #podcaster #Lawyer #ImmigrationLawyer #Interview #Immigration #ImmigrationAttorney #USImmigration #ImmigrationLaw #ImmigrationLawyersToolbox
Welcome to a new episode of ASMR Sleep Recordings. In this episode, you will hear flowing river sounds. Improve your health and happiness.The sound you hear in this episode creates a calm atmosphere and at the same time blocks out disturbing noises. This will help you de-stress, unwind, and rest. Enjoy two hours of relaxing sounds to help you relax, focus, study and fall asleep.About ASMR Sleep Recordings:The purpose of ASMR Sleep Recording is to help you sleep and concentrate better. This particular episode lasts two hours and has no ads in the middle, so you won't be woken up or disturbed while focusing or relaxing. When you listen to ASMR Sleep Recordings, you can lock your phone, so you won't get any bothersome stimuli from notifications and other sounds from your phone. You can switch between apps while studying or working without pausing the ambient sound.About our sounds:Water creates a natural white noise. Infused with the relaxing quality of nature and the sound-masking properties of white noise, listening to running water is an ideal way to turn off all the stressful things life brings, and to de-stress. Some of our most popular sounds include a river, flowing creek, babbling brook, gentle waves on a lake, and a bamboo fountain. Rain also creates a natural white noise. Infused with the relaxing quality of nature and the sound-masking properties of white noise, listening to rain is an ideal way to switch off all the stressful things life brings and to de-stress. Some of our most popular sounds are rain on an umbrella, hailstorms, hard rain, soft rain, gentle rain, wind and rain, rain on a car.White noise helps babies and children to get a better and deeper night's sleep. This is because external sounds are masked by the noise. With white noise in the background, your child will not hear annoying cars driving by or dogs barking in bed. This allows your little one to sleep better. And it also saves you as a parent a lot of hours!Pink noise is more common in nature than you might expect. It can be compared to continuous rainfall or wind. In addition to white noise, pink noise is also increasing in popularity, especially in business environments. Because it can increase productivity, concentration and creativity.Brown noise can be compared to waves of the sea, a river current, strong winds or the sound of thunder during a storm. Like pink noise, brown noise is very similar to white noise. However, the frequencies have been lowered even further and a lot more concentrated. This gives it a rougher/coarse tone than pink noise. It sounds a bit deeper and a bit bass-like. The benefits of brown noise are the same as the other types of noise. It provides relaxation, increased focus and improved deep sleep.DISCLAIMER: Be aware that loud noises can damage your hearing. If you can't carry on a conversation without raising your voice while playing one of our spheres, the sound may be too loud for your ears. Do not place the speakers directly next to a baby's ears. If you have trouble hearing or ringing in your ears, stop listening to the white noise immediately and see an audiologist or your doctor. The sounds provided by ASMR Sleep Recordings are for entertainment purposes only and are not a treatment for sleep disorders or tinnitus. Consult your doctor if you regularly have severe sleeping problems, experience fitful/restless sleep or feel tired during the day.ASMR Sleep Recordings is the white noise and nature sounds podcast to help you sleep, study or soothe a baby. ASMR Sleep Recordings has uploaded more than 400+ episodes in the 4 years that the podcast has been online. You can listen to all episodes of the podcast on your favorite podcast platform. People use white noise for sleep, focus, sound masking or relaxation. This podcast has the sound for you, whether you're using white noise to study, to soothe a baby with cramps, to fall asleep, or to just enjoy a quiet moment. You don't need to buy a white noise machine if you can listen to these sounds for free.
Can changing the way you breathe help you release stored emotions, regulate your nervous system and experience less pain?Breathing is something we do automatically, yet intentional breathwork may influence our physical, mental and emotional state in powerful ways.In this episode of Beyond The Pain, Leigh speaks with breathwork instructor Jon Paul Crimi about his unexpected introduction to breathwork, the profound experience that changed the direction of his life and why he now describes the practice as an “emotional gym”.Jon Paul explains that breathwork is an umbrella term covering many different techniques—from calming practices such as box breathing to more intense forms of conscious connected breathing. He also discusses how different techniques affect the nervous system and may help people access emotions and past experiences that have remained beneath their conscious awareness.In this episode, you'll discover:• How Jon Paul went from sceptic to breathwork instructor• What happened during his first transformative session• The differences between common breathwork techniques• How breathing can influence the nervous system• Why unresolved emotions may contribute to physical tension and pain• How breathwork may help people safely access and process stored emotions• Why Jon Paul describes breathwork as an emotional gym• How regular practice may build emotional resilience• Simple ways to begin exploring conscious breathingThis conversation does not suggest that all chronic pain is emotional. Pain is influenced by many interconnected physical, biochemical, neurological and emotional factors. However, for some people, breathwork may provide another valuable way to calm the nervous system, explore unresolved emotions and create a greater sense of safety within the body.If you are living with chronic or persistent pain—or feel that stress, anxiety or unresolved emotions may be affecting your health—this episode offers a fascinating introduction to the potential of conscious breathing.Find out more about Jon Paul:Website: https://breathewithjp.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonpaulcrimi/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breathewithjp/Connect with Leigh:Beyond The Pain book: https://amzn.to/4y2HVWgBeyond The Pain 14-Day Programme: https://bodychek.co.uk/beyond-the-pain-programme/Consult with Leigh: https://bodychek.co.uk/consultationIf you found this conversation helpful, please follow Beyond The Pain and share the episode with someone who may benefit.
What if some of the healing approaches you've been told are “unproven” are actually backed by far more science than you realize?Alternative medicine and holistic healing are often treated as either miracle cures or pseudoscience. But what happens when we actually look at the research?In this episode, we explore remarkable recovery stories alongside studies showing measurable changes in heart disease, cancer outcomes, cognition, inflammation, immune function, and chronic disease from approaches that are often dismissed. You'll learn why not proven and disproven are very different things, why some holistic therapies receive far less research funding than drugs, and why conventional and alternative medicine don't necessarily have to compete. Most importantly, you'll learn a practical three-part framework for deciding what deserves a place in your healing plan—based on the evidence, the risks, the potential benefits, and what actually happens in your own body. Join my free email community for practical healing tools, research, survivor stories, and encouragement between episodes: https://TheRenegadeNutritionist.comThis podcast is for educational purposes only and does not offer medical advice. Consult your licensed healthcare provider before making any changes to your treatment or health regimen. Reliance on any information provided is solely at your own risk.This podcast explores stories and science around ALS, dementia, MS, cancer, mind body recovery, healing, functional medicine, heart disease, regression, remission, integrative medicine, autoimmune conditions, chronic illness, terminal disease, terminal illness, holistic health, quality of life, alternative medicine, natural healing, lifestyle medicine, and remission from cancer, offering hope and insights for those seeking resilience and renewal.
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Can therapeutic ketosis be considered for type 1 diabetes and bipolar disorder? In this Metabolic Mailbag episode, Dr. Bret Scher and producer Erica Gerard answer viewer questions about ketogenic therapy, type 1 diabetes, Parkinson's medications, omega-3s, fasting, protein intake, metabolic rate, and why some protein foods are more filling than others.They cover:The association between type 1 diabetes and serious mental illnessWhy ketogenic therapy may be possible for some people living with type 1 diabetes, but only with careful medical supervisionHow Parkinson's medications can interact with protein timingWhether cooking salmon changes the benefits of omega-3 fatsHow intermittent fasting can affect protein intake and ketone levelsWhy MCT oil in coffee may change the meaning of a “fast”What basal metabolic rate means and how ketogenic diets may affect itWhy a protein shake may feel less satisfying than meat, even with the same grams of proteinFrom medication timing to protein needs, this episode explores why metabolic therapies work best when they are personalized, measured, and guided by the realities of each person's health goals and daily life.
Most conversations about nutrition begin with what is on the plate. This one begins much farther upstream—with the soil, the grass, the animal, and the way our food is raised.In this episode of the Homesteaders of America Podcast, Amy speaks with Julia Mitchell, MSc, CNS, LDN, a clinical nutritionist, grass-fed bison rancher, mother of two, and Lead Educator for Ancestral Supplements. Julia shares how a desire to become more capable and connected to her food led her from a regional food hub to bison ranching in southwestern Alberta—and how working with the land has reshaped her understanding of human nourishment.Together, they discuss what nutrient density actually means, why the quality of our food begins in living soil, and how modern agriculture's focus on yield can leave nutrition behind. Julia also explains why traditional cultures valued the whole animal, what liver and other organ meats can add to the family diet, and simple ways homesteaders can make those foods less intimidating—from blending liver into ground meat to using bones, marrow, connective tissue, and slow-cooked cuts.The conversation also explores where whole-food supplements may serve as a practical bridge, what consumers should know about sourcing and third-party testing, and why no capsule can replace the deeper work of rebuilding food skills, supporting responsible farmers, and understanding where nourishment comes from.This episode is an invitation to think more deeply about food—not merely as calories or protein, but as the product of healthy soil, careful stewardship, practical knowledge, and a resilient family culture.In This Episode, We DiscussHow Julia moved from city life and a regional food hub into grass-fed bison ranchingWhat makes raising and handling bison different from raising cattleWhy nutrition begins with soil—and why food quality cannot be separated from land healthWhat “nutrient density” means beyond marketing languageHow farming for yield can dilute the vitamins and minerals in foodWhy organ meats fell out of favor and what was lost when they disappeared from the family tableHow nose-to-tail eating honors the animal and broadens the nutrient profile of the dietA simple way to ask your butcher to blend liver into ground meatWhy liver is so nutrient-dense and why it should not be misunderstood as a storage tank for toxinsWhere food-first nutrition ends and whole-food supplementation may beginHow freeze-drying preserves organ meats for capsules or powdersWhat third-party testing and careful sourcing should addressWhy practical food skills are essential to family resilience and self-sufficiencyWhy bison ranchers are, at heart, grass farmers—and why protecting grasslands mattersAbout Julia MitchellJulia Mitchell, MSc, CNS, LDN, is a clinical nutritionist, bison rancher, mother of two, and Lead Educator for Ancestral Supplements. Her work sits at the intersection of functional nutrition, ancestral health, regenerative agriculture, and optimal health. Shaped by both her clinical nutrition work and her hands-on experience raising grass-fed bison on a regenerative ranch in southwestern Alberta, Julia is especially knowledgeable about nose-to-tail eating, organ meats, animal-based nutrition, and making nutrient-dense whole foods approachable for modern families.Links and Resources MentionedAncestral Supplements — ancestralsupplements.comThe Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It by John SeymourSavory Institute and holistic management principles — savory.globalVISIT HOA ONLINE at homesteadersofamerica.comDISCLAIMER: This episode is for general educational purposes only and is not individualized medical or nutrition advice. Nutrient needs and supplement safety vary. Consult a qualified healthcare professional before making significant dietary changes or using concentrated supplements, especially during pregnancy, for children, when taking medications, or when managing a medical condition.
Welcome to a new episode of ASMR Sleep Recordings. In this episode, you will hear gentle waterfall sounds. Improve your health and happiness.The sound you hear in this episode creates a calm atmosphere and at the same time blocks out disturbing noises. This will help you de-stress, unwind, and rest. Enjoy two hours of relaxing sounds to help you relax, focus, study and fall asleep.About ASMR Sleep Recordings:The purpose of ASMR Sleep Recording is to help you sleep and concentrate better. This particular episode lasts two hours and has no ads in the middle, so you won't be woken up or disturbed while focusing or relaxing. When you listen to ASMR Sleep Recordings, you can lock your phone, so you won't get any bothersome stimuli from notifications and other sounds from your phone. You can switch between apps while studying or working without pausing the ambient sound.About our sounds:Water creates a natural white noise. Infused with the relaxing quality of nature and the sound-masking properties of white noise, listening to running water is an ideal way to turn off all the stressful things life brings, and to de-stress. Some of our most popular sounds include a river, flowing creek, babbling brook, gentle waves on a lake, and a bamboo fountain. Rain also creates a natural white noise. Infused with the relaxing quality of nature and the sound-masking properties of white noise, listening to rain is an ideal way to switch off all the stressful things life brings and to de-stress. Some of our most popular sounds are rain on an umbrella, hailstorms, hard rain, soft rain, gentle rain, wind and rain, rain on a car.White noise helps babies and children to get a better and deeper night's sleep. This is because external sounds are masked by the noise. With white noise in the background, your child will not hear annoying cars driving by or dogs barking in bed. This allows your little one to sleep better. And it also saves you as a parent a lot of hours!Pink noise is more common in nature than you might expect. It can be compared to continuous rainfall or wind. In addition to white noise, pink noise is also increasing in popularity, especially in business environments. Because it can increase productivity, concentration and creativity.Brown noise can be compared to waves of the sea, a river current, strong winds or the sound of thunder during a storm. Like pink noise, brown noise is very similar to white noise. However, the frequencies have been lowered even further and a lot more concentrated. This gives it a rougher/coarse tone than pink noise. It sounds a bit deeper and a bit bass-like. The benefits of brown noise are the same as the other types of noise. It provides relaxation, increased focus and improved deep sleep.DISCLAIMER: Be aware that loud noises can damage your hearing. If you can't carry on a conversation without raising your voice while playing one of our spheres, the sound may be too loud for your ears. Do not place the speakers directly next to a baby's ears. If you have trouble hearing or ringing in your ears, stop listening to the white noise immediately and see an audiologist or your doctor. The sounds provided by ASMR Sleep Recordings are for entertainment purposes only and are not a treatment for sleep disorders or tinnitus. Consult your doctor if you regularly have severe sleeping problems, experience fitful/restless sleep or feel tired during the day.ASMR Sleep Recordings is the white noise and nature sounds podcast to help you sleep, study or soothe a baby. ASMR Sleep Recordings has uploaded more than 400+ episodes in the 4 years that the podcast has been online. You can listen to all episodes of the podcast on your favorite podcast platform. People use white noise for sleep, focus, sound masking or relaxation. This podcast has the sound for you, whether you're using white noise to study, to soothe a baby with cramps, to fall asleep, or to just enjoy a quiet moment. You don't need to buy a white noise machine if you can listen to these sounds for free.
Vanessa breaks down the most surprising and practical lessons from her recent conversation with Dr. Amanda Paluch on daily steps, walking, cardiovascular health, longevity, fat loss, and body recomposition. She also shares a personal update on her current postpartum fat-loss journey — including exactly what she is doing right now, how much progress she has made, what she is prioritizing with calories, protein, resistance training and daily movement, and why she has decided not to rush back into PSMF days just yet. One of the biggest themes from the Amanda Paluch conversation is that the way many of us think about daily steps may be far more rigid than the science actually supports. Vanessa unpacks the surprising origin of the 10,000-step goal, what the research really suggests about how much movement is enough, and why your current step count may be more meaningful than you think. BACK TO SCHOOL SALE! For a limited time, save 40% sitewide at ketogenicgirl.com with code BACKTOSCHOOL40, including the Protein-Sparing Modified Fasting Library, ToneLUX Red Light Therapy Collection, and Tone Breath Ketone Analyzer. Australia, New Zealand & Southeast Asia: Save 75% on available ToneLUX and Tone products during the warehouse moving sale with code WAREHOUSE75, while supplies last. Vanessa also explores why the people doing the least activity may actually have the most to gain, whether you really need long dedicated walks, and how everyday movement fits into a smart fat-loss and body-recomposition strategy. She also breaks down how walking works alongside resistance training, why more is not always better, and which common assumptions about intensity, timing, step trackers, and daily movement may not hold up the way you expect. Create your own custom protein blend at truenutrition.com/vanessa and use code VANESSA for 20% off your first order. Let Vanessa know what your custom blend is! Now shipping internationally. The episode finishes with a look at sedentary behavior, the "active couch potato" phenomenon, walking after meals, wearable accuracy, and why movement may be doing much more for your health than simply burning calories. In this episode: Vanessa's current fat-loss and body-recomposition update How much progress she has made so far Exactly what she is doing right now Why she is deliberately taking a slower postpartum approach Why she is waiting before bringing PSMF days back in Do you really need 10,000 steps per day? Where did the 10,000-step goal actually come from? How much movement may be enough for meaningful health benefits? Why starting from a lower baseline may matter more than you think Do household steps really count? Walking pads vs. outdoor walking Does walking faster actually matter? Is more always better? How walking fits into fat loss and body recomposition Why resistance training and daily movement serve different roles What is an "active couch potato"? How much can you trust your Apple Watch, Fitbit, or Garmin? Does it matter when you walk? Are post-meal walks uniquely beneficial? Why movement supports far more than weight loss Protein Powder Guide BACK TO SCHOOL SALE! For a limited time, save 40% sitewide at ketogenicgirl.com with code BACKTOSCHOOL40, including the Protein-Sparing Modified Fasting Library, ToneLUX Red Light Therapy Collection, and Tone Breath Ketone Analyzer. Australia, New Zealand & Southeast Asia: Save 75% on available ToneLUX and Tone products during the warehouse moving sale with code WAREHOUSE75, while supplies last. Follow @ketogenicgirl and @optimalproteinpodcast on Instagram to see visuals and posts mentioned on this podcast. Link to join the Facebook group for the podcast The content provided in this podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. Consult with a healthcare professional before making significant changes to your diet, supplements, or exercise regimen.
A listener had a question: how do I help my six year old son be less afraid of bears at night when bears have been invading our neighbors' houses? At first this seems like a unique question, but when we step back from the bears, a more common question (and answer) bubbles up: How do we help our children problem solve when dealing with something scary AND possible? WE'VE MADE PLAYLISTS OF OUR EPISODES TO HELP YOU FIND RESOURCES ON SPECIFIC TOPICS. Here is our first: For those brand new to the podcast, we suggest starting with this playlist featuring Lynn Lyons and the 7-part anxiety disruptor series as well as a 3-part series on the skills most helpful in managing anxious kids: flexibility, problem solving, and autonomy. Consult our Spotify profile for the most up-to-date selection. We will select two listeners who complete our listener survey. We hope it is you! FOLLOW US Join the Facebook group to get news on the upcoming courses for parents, teens, and kids. Follow Flusterclux on Facebook and Instagram. Follow Lynn Lyons on Twitter and Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When you pay a premium for pasture raised chicken or pasture raised pork at the store, you're probably not getting what you think you're getting. Chickens and pigs are monogastric animals — they have one stomach and no rumen, which means they can't ferment grass the way a cow can. Chickens descend from jungle fowl and pigs are woodland animals, so the image of birds on open green pasture has more to do with marketing than with biology. Whatever you feed a monogastric goes straight into its meat. There's no filter. My guest this week is Chester Bidmead, founder of Ancestral Food, who moved from the UK to Texas and built a vertically integrated farm after his son's health forced him to question the eggs and chicken his family was buying. We get into why breed selection matters more than any label — American Bresse chicken versus Cornish Cross chicken, and why heritage breed chickens behave like an entirely different animal — plus fermented chicken feed, rationing, woodland raised pork, and running a corn and soy free chicken operation at commercial scale. Chester also shares what his lab tests actually showed when he compared his birds against store-bought, including one result that surprised him and one that didn't improve at all. If you eat pork or poultry, this episode changes how you shop for it. About Chester Bidmead: Chester Bidmead is the founder of Ancestral Food and a former entrepreneur who grew and sold two businesses before turning to farming, with a family history of fishing in coastal England dating back to 500AD, a 2016 move to San Antonio, Texas, and a vertically integrated monogastric operation he built from scratch in 2025 that controls everything from birth to packet — his own farrowing and hatchery, woodland raising, and a USDA-inspected processing facility. His approach argues that pasture-raising chickens and pigs is largely theater, because neither animal can ferment grass — and that what a monogastric eats is exactly what ends up on your plate. Ancestral Food — https://ancestralfood.com/ In this episode: 00:00 Intro 03:52 Why ancestral foods 06:12 Son's health wakeup 09:23 Breeds over labels 11:01 Woodland trials win 12:29 Rationing and fermented feed 14:28 Can you go zero feed 28:51 If the lights go out 40:08 Clean processing without chlorine 43:39 Fatty acid lab results 57:20 Sourcing and shipping options 01:00:47 Final thoughts Find me on social media for more health and wellness content: Website: https://michaelkummer.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelKummer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primalshiftpodcast/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/michaelkummer/ Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/mkummer82 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realmichaelkummer/ [Medical Disclaimer] The information shared on this video is for educational purposes only, is not a substitute for the advice of medical doctors or registered dietitians (which I am not) and should not be used to prevent, diagnose, or treat any condition. Consult with a physician before starting a fitness regimen, adding supplements to your diet, or making other changes that may affect your medications, treatment plan, or overall health. [Affiliate Disclaimer] I earn affiliate commissions from some of the brands and products I review on this channel. While that doesn't change my editorial integrity, it helps make this channel happen. If you'd like to support me, please use my affiliate links or discount code.
A red flag next to your LDL number can feel alarming, but LDL is only one part of a much larger cardiovascular risk picture. In this episode of Metabolic Mind, cardiologist and lipidologist Dr. Bret Scher explains how to read a cholesterol panel with more context and less fear.Dr. Scher walks through LDL, triglycerides, HDL, non-HDL cholesterol, ApoB, Lp(a), and the triglyceride-to-HDL ratio. He also explains how the 2026 cholesterol guidelines use the PREVENT risk calculator, where LDL targets currently stand, and why individual risk factors, metabolic health, family history, and direct measures of vascular disease can change the conversation.He covers:Why LDL should not be read in isolationWhat triglycerides and HDL can reveal about metabolic healthWhy Dr. Scher pays attention to the triglyceride-to-HDL ratioWhen LDL above 190 may raise concern for familial hypercholesterolemiaWhy Lp(a) should be measured at least once in adulthoodHow ApoB differs from LDL cholesterolWhat the PREVENT risk calculator includesHow coronary calcium scans and CT angiograms act as tools that may help refine riskWhy LDL targets vary by risk categoryWhy metabolic health, insulin resistance, and individual preferences and priorities should be part of the discussionA cholesterol panel can start a thoughtful conversation with your healthcare provider. One number rarely tells the whole story, and better decisions come from looking at the full cardiometabolic picture.
There's one idea behind why anyone invests at all. Compound interest. Understand it, and the way you think about every dollar you own starts to change.The earlier you learn this, the more it's worth. Literally. That's the whole point of compound interest.That's why Kosher Money has teamed up with Collective Kindness to premiere episode one of the Newlyweds Course, the first offering from CK Academy. Your teacher is Yosef. Open a notebook. Then do the exercise at the end.GET THE FULL COURSEThe Newlyweds Course is eight videos plus your own guidance counselor, built for couples starting married life. Normally $100. Use code KOSHERMONEY for 75% off. That's the whole thing for $25.Good for the first 750 couples, so don't wait.BUY: https://collectivekindness.net/academy/newlyweds-courseNot a newlywed? Sign up anyway. The lessons don't expire.Disclaimer: The content in this video is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not financial, investment, tax, legal, or accounting advice, and it is not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security or product. Views expressed by hosts and guests are their own and do not represent any firm they work for. No advisor-client relationship is created by watching this video. Consult your own licensed financial advisor, accountant, or attorney before acting on anything discussed. All figures and examples are illustrative. Past performance does not predict future results.
Is red light therapy a wellness trend? Or a real business opportunity? Cash-pay wellness is growing fast, and business owners are looking for services customers actually want without adding a pile of staff, training, or overhead. In this episode of The Liquid Lunch Project, Matt and Luigi sit down with Dr. Carl Rothschild and Dock Walls to talk about the Trifecta Pro 450 Red Light Table and, more importantly, the business sitting behind the technology. Dr. Carl explains the science they say powers red light therapy, including its effect on mitochondria, cellular energy, recovery, and fat loss. Dock tackles the operator side: who is buying these systems, how businesses are charging for treatments, what it takes to run one, and how owners can think about adding red light therapy as another revenue stream.
Hey girl,In this episode, I sit down with WeezyWTF, a media entrepreneur, producer, podcaster, and New York Times bestselling author known for creating bold conversations around sex, relationships, and wellness. We have an honest conversation about doing love your way. We talk about building a relationship and marriage on your own terms, navigating an open relationship, what partnership looks like behind the scenes, and the unexpected lessons that come with choosing a love story outside the traditional mold.BIO:WeezyWTF is a media entrepreneur, producer, podcaster, and creative visionary known for turning bold ideas into businesses.A New York Times bestselling author of No Holes Barred ( adapted from her hit podcast Decisions, Decisions), Weezy has become a leading voice in conversations around sex, relationships, and wellness. She is also the host of the hit television series Sex Sells, using her platform to highlight how non-traditional businesses operate.Founder of WTF Media Studios, a multi-location podcast production company that has produced projects for thousands of companies and names including Malcolm Gladwell, Kenya Barris, Kamala Harris, Audible, and MasterClass.Her ventures extend into fitness by creating the viral “TRAPHAUS”. A boutique Pilates studio in New York City blending lifting, music, and community. Weezy continues to center her empire around bringing people together, creating meaningful conversations, and pushing culture forward.Whenever You Are ReadyHere are 4 ways I can help you: Pre-Order My Book: Girl, Get Your Guy! - Starting this July, all the way until the official book launch on February 2, 2027, when you pre-order this book,you'll get:
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Most kids' breakfasts spike blood sugar fast, and the focus crash hits right when school starts. Registered dietitian Steph Greunke breaks down the most common breakfast culprits, including cereal, frozen waffles, and flavored yogurt, and shows you exactly what to swap in instead. You'll learn why blood sugar spikes lead to a focus crash right when school starts, what artificial food dyes have to do with hyperactivity, and what to do if your kid refuses breakfast altogether. Topics Covered In This Episode: Why breakfast affects school focus Breakfast culprit #1: cereal and blood sugar spikes Artificial food dyes and hyperactivity Better cereal swaps Breakfast culprit #2: frozen waffles Protein waffle swap Breakfast culprit #3: flavored yogurt Plain Greek yogurt swap What to do if your kid won't eat breakfast Smoothie, snack plate, and car breakfast ideas Show Notes: Click here to learn more about Dr. Elana Roumell's Doctor Mom Membership, a membership designed for moms who want to be their child's number one health advocate! Click here to explore Steph Greunke, RD's Mindset and Metabolism Substack, nuanced discussions on fat loss and behavior change for women. Watch this episode on our Youtube channel @medschoolformoms Listen to today's episode on our website This Episode's Sponsors Discover for yourself why Needed is trusted by 15,000+ women's health practitioners, including Dr. Elana and Steph. Needed supports optimal health and nourishment throughout the Motherspan--from preconception through perimenopause. Enjoy their range of practitioner-formulated, third-party tested supplements and get 20% off with code DOCTORMOM. Visit thisisneeded.com Active Skin Repair is a must-have for everyone to keep themselves and their families healthy and clean. Keep a bottle in the car to spray your face after removing your mask, a bottle in your medicine cabinet to replace your toxic first aid products, and one in your outdoor pack for whatever life throws at you. Use code DOCTORMOM to receive 20% off your order + free shipping (with $50 minimum purchase). Visit BLDGActive.com to order. INTRODUCE YOURSELF to Steph and Dr. Elana on Instagram. They can't wait to meet you! @stephgreunke @drelanaroumell Please remember that the views and ideas presented on this podcast are for informational purposes only. All information presented on this podcast is for informational purposes and not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a healthcare provider. Consult with your healthcare provider before starting any diet, supplement regimen, or to determine the appropriateness of the information shared on this podcast, or if you have any questions regarding your treatment plan.
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