Podcasts about western medical

When Rachel Gofman was in college, she had terrible back pain - just like me! After going down the Western Medical rabbit hole to no avail, she discovered Dr. Sarno and her back pain subsided completely. But years later, when Rachel was in her Doctorate program for Physical Therapy, acute and widespread pelvic pain struck. Similar to me as well, this time she forgot all about Dr. Sarno and went full steam into traditional medicine in the hope of helping herself. When the best specialists told her there was, "nothing else they could do for her," thankfully she considered Sarno again, and this time found my work. Rachel had to confront her scientific training around the human body, and realized that there is a huge hole in so much that is taught to PTs and all medical professionals. Embracing MindBody medicine, Rachel was able to TOTALLY recover from debilitating pelvic pain, and now is a MindBody PT! Enjoy this thoughtful conversation about all things TMS and the ways in which an open mind can save your life. XO n. Don't forget to PRE-ORDER MIND YOUR BODY! I AM SO FREAKING EXCITED FOR YOU TO GET YOUR HANDS ON THIS BOOK AND HAVE ACCESS TO THE GUIDANCE THAT HAS BEEN BUILDING IN MY MIND FOR 20 YEARS! Please pre-order now to help me get the word out to people all over the world. Each pre-order raises the algorithm and allows me more power and choice in sharing this life-changing information. I appreciate you! PRE-ORDER MIND YOUR BODY AND HELP ME SPREAD THIS MESSAGE ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! https://www.yourbreakawake.com/book FREE GIFTS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDERS ONLY Get a copy for yourself. By pre-ordering just one copy of MIND YOUR BODY, you'll receive a free ticket to the first of its kind, virtual MIND YOUR BODY CON in late February (after you've had a little time to enjoy and take in the book).This event will immerse you in the teachings of MindBody medicine and connect you with fellow humans committed to choosing freedom over pain. It's a virtual book club with me! Be a part of the movement! When you pre-order three or more copies of MIND YOUR BODY, you'll secure your spot at an exclusive, intimate VIRTUAL afternoon with me.. This is your chance for us to connect and dive deeply into the transformative practices from the book with a select group of notable special guests who are passionate about spreading the MIND YOUR BODY message. Share this life-changing knowledge with friends and family, and help start a revolution in how we see and 
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With the scope of services and treatments expanding in their stores, independent pharmacies are realizing their ability to significantly impact the communities they serve. Pharmacists are now taking on more responsibilities beyond traditional roles and extending their services into their communities.  Erik Hudson, pharmacy manager of Western Medical Equipment and Drug in Woodward, Oklahoma, not only shares his journey into pharmacy but also addresses what he's doing to encourage his seven pharmacies, five medical supply locations and over 90 employees to meet their community members where they are: in nonprofits, food banks and long-term care facilities.  For Hudson, being a successful independent pharmacy means getting involved in the communities he serves, and success to him means he's effectively reaching and treating them.  Listen to Erik Hudson's inspirational story today.    

With the scope of services and treatments expanding in their stores, independent pharmacies are realizing their ability to significantly impact the communities they serve. Pharmacists are now taking on more responsibilities beyond traditional roles and extending their services into their communities.  Erik Hudson, pharmacy manager of Western Medical Equipment and Drug in Woodward, Oklahoma, not only shares his journey into pharmacy but also addresses what he's doing to encourage his seven pharmacies, five medical supply locations and over 90 employees to meet their community members where they are: in nonprofits, food banks and long-term care facilities.  For Hudson, being a successful independent pharmacy means getting involved in the communities he serves, and success to him means he's effectively reaching and treating them.  Listen to Erik Hudson's inspirational story today.    

Bioidentical Hormone discussion with Dr. Karen Kaufman, board certified OB/GYN. Karen Kaufman, MD is a board-certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist who has been practicing in Boulder, Colorado since 2003. Her medical school training was at Case Western reserve in Cleveland, Ohio followed by OB/GYN residency at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.While practicing conventional medicine in Boulder, Dr. Kaufman became aware that patients needed and wanted more than what they were receiving from traditional Western Medical healthcare. She observed that while traditional medicine had its role, many of her patients symptoms and issue weren't being addressed with this approach. She pursued the idea of functional or integrative medicine and then completed fellowship training with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine where she honed her skills using bioidentical hormones.We will be discussing:1. Bioidentical hormones do NOT increase breast cancer risk. If estrogen causes breast cancer then why don't 25 year women, bubbling with estrogen get breast cancer?2. VAGUE language creates confusion – HORMONES – ESTROGEN. We discuss the actual names of bioidentical hormones such as estradiol and distinguish it from drugs such as birth control pills or Premarin.3. Birth control pills, Premarin and Provera are not hormones. They are drugs. Drugs are useful but dangerous and are never a part of “Bioidentical hormone replacement”.4. Bioidentical means it is identical to the hormones you have made your whole life and need forever if you intend on having a vital life. 5. Top 4 benefits derived from using BHRT: Reduce risk of heart attack by 50%. Brain protective and reduces risk of Alzheimer's by 30-60%. Bones stronger and reduced risk of osteoporosis. BEST first line treatment for bone density. Longevity: mice studies show 19% increase in lifespan.6. Why doesn't my OB/GYN offer BHRT? Hormones are not “drugs” so it is not taught in traditional western medicine. The vast majority of OB/GYN physicians know next to nothing about true bioidentical hormones or how to use them.

Show Summary In this episode, Linda Abraham interviews Christian Essman, Senior Director of Admissions and Financial Aid at Case Western Reserve University Medical School. They discuss the unique aspects of Case Western's three MD programs, the significance of research in the application process, and what makes an applicant stand out. Christian emphasizes the importance of quality experiences and reflections in the application essays and advises applicants to submit their applications when they are in tip-top shape, rather than rushing to submit on the first day. He also discusses the culture at Case Western, describing it as laid-back, balanced, and invested in the success of its students. Show Notes Thanks for tuning into the 571st episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Are you ready to apply to your dream medical schools? Are you competitive at your target programs? Accepted's med school admissions quiz can give you a quick reality check. Just go to accepted.com/medquiz, complete the quiz and you'll not only get an assessment but tips on how to improve your chances of acceptance. Plus, it's all free.  I'm delighted to introduce today's guest, Christian Essman, senior director of admissions and financial aid and fellow podcaster and host of the All Access Med School Admissions Podcast.  Christian, thank you so much for joining me today on Admissions Straight Talk. [1:31] Hi, Linda. Delighted to be here. Thank you for having me. Let's start with some just really basic information about Case Western University's medical school programs. Can you give a 30,000-foot perspective or view of the three MD programs that it offers? [1:39] Certainly. We're a bit unique in that we have not one, not two, but three different pathways to an MD/MD-PhD. The first one is the university program, which is our four-year MD, which is a traditional four-year degree. Then we have our MD-PhD program, which is a medical scientist training program, and that's about eight or nine years. MSTP actually started at Case Western back in the 1950s, by the way. It's the longest NIH-funded program ever in the history of the universe. And then the one in the middle is unique. I don't know if the word boutiquey is a word, but it's boutiquey. Our Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. So these are all three Case Western programs. They're under the umbrella of the university and they're all Case Western students, but we have three tracks. So the one in the middle, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, is a five-year MD and it's for students who really like research. Really, really, really like research. But maybe advancing to an MD-PhD is not an educational goal to be in school for eight or nine years and getting a PhD, but they really like research. And so the reason why it's five years is because they thread research throughout the entire five years that you're there. And at one point students will step away usually after the second year to do 12 months of research with the results of hopefully having some publishable results. And so it's for students who might be considering MD-PhD, maybe they're also applying to MD-PhD. So it's one in the middle there and so that's why we have three different tracks. It's a bit unique. It is unique. I don't know of any other school that has that three structured program. [3:36] When people apply to us in AMCAS, they apply to Case Western and then in the secondary application, they can indicate which program or programs plural that they want to apply to. And so you could apply to the university program and the Cleveland Clinic program and then you get separate admissions decisions. We review them separately. So it's two for one or three for one if you want to think of it that way. But I will say this. Very few students apply to all three. Usually, if you're interested in MD-PhD, that's what you're applying to, and then maybe add in Cleveland Clinic,

Dr. Matsuo shares powerful insights into nutrition and lifestyle drawn from both her indigenous Native Hawaiian roots as well as her Western Medical training. For further information visit: www.KuKuiLifestyleMedicine.com

Host: David DeRose, MD, MPH. Guest: Jodi Leslie Matsuo, DrPH, MPH, RDN, LDN. Description: Dr. Matsuo shares powerful insights into nutrition and lifestyle drawn from both her indigenous Native Hawaiian roots as well as her Western Medical training. For further information visit: www.KuKuiLifestyleMedicine.com

Have you wished that you could find a Doctor who weaves the wisdom of Eastern traditions with Western medical science?In this conversation with Dr Fatima Khan, we cover everything from hormone health to the influential role of our elders, reminding us that this phase is not just about changes but about adaptation and growth.Hormones can be a rollercoaster, and Dr Khan is no stranger to their ups and downs. Sharing experiences of her hormonal imbalances, this honest conversation with Dr. Khan highlights the need for clear, accurate education on hormone health. We debunk myths and alleviate fears, emphasising that Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) isn't a one-size-fits-all solution but part of a spectrum of options that cater to a woman's unique body and life. It's about finding balance and embracing lifestyle modifications that synergize with medical interventions to navigate these years with grace and vitality.As we wrap up our conversation, we turn our focus to the evolving landscape of women's healthcare. Discussing the need for more in-depth research and better access to specialised care, acknowledging the rich, complex lives women lead well beyond menopause. From heart to bone health, we underscore the necessity of personalised self-care rituals, challenging the norms that often leave women's health in the shadows. This episode is a hat tip to the strength of women in their midlife and a treasure trove of insights that will inspire you to cherish and prioritise your well-being as you move into your most liberating years.Resources:Dr Khan's websiteDr Khan on InstagramThank you for listening to my show! Join the fun on InstagramTake the Midlife QuizStellar Women Website

We are starting a new gut health podcast series this week, which is my favourite topic to share with you all. Over the next four weeks, we will be diving into uncovering the cause of your kid's digestive symptoms or tummy troubles.As an experienced naturopath, I am here to help you unravel the root cause of gut issues rather than simply treating the symptoms. We will start this episode by discussing the contrast between the Western Medical approach and the naturopathic approach when it comes to digestive issues. We will then move on to discussing the following:Examining some specific digestive ailments such as constipation, diarrhea, reflux/GERD, abdominal cramping, and gastrointestinal infections that are common in children;We'll discuss the underlying causes of these digestive issues;The diet, lifestyle, and environmental factors that affect your child's gut microbiome; The role of food sensitivities and weakened immune systems in recurrent infections.I'm excited for you to dive into this episode and explore the underlying causes of your kids' tummy troubles and the natural ways you can treat them. And, remember, this is just the beginning of our gut health series - so stay tuned for more educational episodes.Episode Links:Looking for personalised support? Book a consultation with our online clinic here. 

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My beautiful guest for today's show is the mystical Michelle Veneziano. Dr. Michelle Veneziano is a physician, adjunct clinical professor at Touro University, and research faculty at the California Institute for Human Science. She has been a student of Continuum, Yoga, Buddhism, Tai Chi and Tantric practices for many years. Her approach to osteopathic medicine is rooted in Cranial Osteopathy, a hands-on, evidence-based therapeutic practice that sources both western & eastern philosophies to support the body's ability to heal itself. Through studies in both Environmental Design and Traditional Osteopathic Medicine, she has come to appreciate that true balance and vitality are accessed through alignment with the natural world. See the show notes below for some of the main points (in order) we covered and dived deep into together: The loving history that Michelle and I share Medicine moving beyond time and space What is "Flow is Medicine"? The importance of the midline and channel of the body Michelle and her role as an Osteopath Why is the Western Medical system so lacking? Michelle shares a beautiful story about the importance of "loving our shadows" The "Divine Mirror" of the external world Using our mind as an extension of our body The role of WATER as the passage of consciousness in us How does our LOVING INTENTION impact water consciousness? The Heart as a portal to our multi-dimensional being Where does Breath fit into this flow? Re-coupling with our primary breath and releasing effort for coherence The balance of following the science and following your heartfelt intention Using the breath to flow into altered states Making choices from our Ego/Mind Vs. Heart/Soul The importance of movement and "natural walking" within the flow of being Michelle gives us an example of how to do this practice The Inner Child movement connection Michelle shares a seated meditative practice Michelle and her definition of LOVE Please connect with Michelle here: The course: https://practices.flowismedicine.com/pages/course_info?ref=3d22ff  Social: Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/michellevenezianodo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michellevenezianodo/ YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/MichelleVenezianoDO Website:  https://www.michellevenezianodo.net If you enjoyed this episode make sure you check out the following previous SPIRITUAL MEDICINE EPISODES: EP 116 - Dr. Emi: Holistic Medicine & Spiritual Heart for FASTER Healing EP 08 - Dr. Emi: Holistic, Individualised & Spiritual Medicine Looking for more FREE SELF-LOVE TOOLS? Join my newsletter and download some meditations, affirmations and visualisations on me: www.harrisonmeagher.com/learn-more  Don't forget to LEAVE A REVIEW (down to below) if you loved the show to go into a draw for our WEEKLY prizes!  My NEW BOOK “Your Cosmic Love Antenna” was just released! Find it here: https://www.cosmicloveantenna.com  Need more COMMUNITY and TRIBE? Join the Cosmic Love Antenna FB GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/cosmicloveantenna Wanting to connect deeper either for coaching, feedback, or becoming a guest? See the following options: Social (FB, Insta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Youtube): @harrisonmeagher  Website: www.harrisonmeagher.com  Email: harrisonmeagher.business@outlook.com  Intro/Outro Music: Music by Yurii Kohut from Pixabay Music by Alex Golubiev from Pixabay LOVE you xxx Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/cosmic-love-antenna/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jess + Rye are joined by Dr. Nathan Riley (OB/GYN). Despite completing extensive training within the traditional (western) medical model, Nathan's sense of self and independence was destroyed in the process, leading him to explore holistic approaches to patient treatment and care. In this episode, Nathan helps us understand WHY appts with your OB/GYN may leave you feeling disappointed or neglected, including: the gaps that exist in their training, why they push prescriptions and procedures and why they aren't educated about fertility awareness / cycle tracking. WE ALSO DISCUSS: What it means to be a holistic OB/GYN How incentive structures work at hospitals How to communicate with your doctor and advocate for your hormone health How the traditional western model of medicine came into existence Examining the medical system's focus on treating only the "physical" Taking radical responsibility over your health, exercising autonomy with your decisions ENJOY THIS EPISODE, let us know your feedback + stay tuned for part 2 in early FEB! MORE ABOUT NATHAN: Nathan Riley, OB/GYN- Nathan is the founder of Beloved Holistics, PCA, medical practice offering truly holistic care. His practice is one of the rarest in the United States, providing truly holistic care to individuals across the entire human journey from birth to death. As a medical doctor and Fellow of The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Nathan has assisted with the birth of thousands of newborns into the realm of life. And as a hospice doctor, he has passionately supported hundreds of families and individuals as their loved ones returned across the veil. In addition to Nathan's training as a medical doctor he is a CHEK professional and yoni steaming facilitator. Nathan is currently working on his third board certification, anthroposphical medicine, derived from body of wisdom brought forth by Rudolf Steiner, and he is a trained practitioner of Biogeometry, a design science which aims to harmonize the built and natural environments we live in to the benefit of all biological systems within those environments. His aim as a medical provider is to connect each of his clients with their own innate Nature, a discovery which lays the foundation for sustaining excellent health across the entire arc of one's life. CONNECT WITH DR RILEY BelovedHolistics.com @NathanRileyOBGYN CONNECT WITH US Shoot us an email! Solo2.0podcast@gmail.com Send us a DM! Solo 2.0 Podcast on @SOLO2.0PODCAST Follow Rye on Instagram @ryeburch and Jess @bodyblissbyjess

The release of Brittney Griner exposes so much of America's double standards. The US and Western medical systems are tragic failures and the people in those systems are getting what they deserve. And Stone Clanton from Americans For Prosperity is in studio.

Today I'm joined by a really good friend, Emmalee Thompson! Emmalee is a former nurse who navigated many different areas and units in the hospital. In this episode she talks about why Western med has it's place, while also understanding that it's not the only option. Emmalee's Instagram My Instagram My Website

Those plagued with long-lasting effects from Covid-19 has turned to TCM clinics to find a natural, long-term and effective solution. And even though some may argue that the vaccine, aka Western medicine is doing most of the heavy lifting, others like Eu Yan Sang considers this a success in marrying both TCM treatments and Western medicine. Dominic Wong, Group CEO, Eu Yan Sang International shares more on the company's efforts marrying Chinese and Western medical practices.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Or does it? Medical practices have certainly changed over the years – and one hopes for the better. Where did we come from medically speaking? That's this week on the podcast. I've been reading some books about pandemics and epidemics. It is damn fascinating. One of things I am finding most fascinating is the evolution of science, health and medicine. Things didn't just happen – much research goes into scientific discovery. Certainly there is some luck or just being in the right place at the right time, but much of it is laborious, painstaking, tedious work. This week I take a look at the history of "modern" medicine from a western point of view. Witty commentary included. References this week: Common causes of death worldwide: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/the-top-10-causes-of-death Western medical history timeline: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4379645/ Medical oddities: https://www.history.com/tag/medicine --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/data-doyenne/support

Podcast Intro: The problem with the Western Medical model is when you have asthma, it's super scary because you can't breathe. We never actually get to the root of the problem of what is causing asthma. All we know is that it is a chronic inflammatory disease.  In this episode, we will be talking about asthma. We will be exploring the views of modern culture on asthma and the root of the disease. Cate will also share breathing exercises that will help expand your airways. Stay tuned. What you'll get out of tuning in: What do you need to understand about asthma? What's the problem with the Western medical model right now? How can intermittent fasting help someone with inflammation? What is the frequency of shifting parasympathetic? Why is breathing through your nostrils important? Links/CTA: https://yogahealer.com/ https://yogahealer.com/allergy-relief https://yogahealer.com/free-workshops/ https://yogahealer.com/ayurveda-masterclass/ Highlights: Cate talks about the growing issue of chronic inflammatory diseases Cate shares breathing exercises Cate tells a story about chronic inflammation during the 1900s Timestamps: [03:01] Understanding Asthma [07:55] Exercising the Lungs [13:26] The Microbiome in the Lungs [18:33] Three-Part Inhale [23:15] Why physiology becomes hyper-responsive [25:17] The Death Rate of Chronic Inflammation [29:17] Chronic Psychological Shift Quotes: [01:12] “In modern culture, we get a scary diagnosis like asthma and then we get medication for that, which is chemical medication. In general, it's created by chemistry in the lab. And the issue is that if we don't understand the underlying cause. We never get to the root of the problem of what is causing allergies, asthma, or autoimmune conditions. If we don't get to the root of the issue, then what happens is that issues stack on top of each other.”  [07:23] “Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease. Trying to rewrite our program thinking asthma is something separate from chronic inflammation will remodel the pathways. It is important to understand that asthmatic airway are also characterized by remodeling a term used to define complex morphologic changes involving all the structures of the bronchial wall.” [14:13] “Bacteria, viruses, archaea, and fungi are there for the functionality of your lung tissue. They're not human DNA cells. They're bacterial and viral cells. When the microbiome of your lungs is happy and healthy, you're not inflamed. They actually eat the inflammation the microbes actually eat the viruses actually eat the inflammation.” [17:32] “When we do the easy things that make life harder in the long run that increases chronic inflammation.”

Ed Harrold and Emily Hightower share their background in Yoga Pranayama studies and explore the opportunities and challenges of breath skills becoming mainstream in the West. Emily Hightower was initially trained in Pranayama Yoga by Deborah Koehn and furthered her studies with many Master Teachers over the last 20 years including Ed Harrold, who gave Breath AS Medicine training to Emily and her husband on extensive weekend stays at their studio in Carbondale, CO. Emily began her career on a Mountain Ambulance Service as a Wilderness EMT where breath physiology played an integral role in patient diagnosis and care. Ed and Em share a love of cold plunging in wild mountain water and talk about healing from trauma by using a combination of breath, outdoor supported risk, and the power of pranayama to cultivate presence. About Emily Hightower Founder of Intrinsic and Educator at SH//FT Emily Hightower faced severe traumas as a teenager including her mom's traumatic brain injury and her dad's suicide. At risk in her teens, she found a healthy outlet in the outdoors and spent her 20's chasing rivers, powder, and working as a wilderness EMT. In 2001 she discovered pranayama yoga and has trained in the healing arts ever since. She has dedicated 20 years and over 15,000 contact hours of teaching intrinsic skills like advanced breathwork, meditation, somatic yoga, and real food nutrition with people at their own edge of capacity and healing. With SH//FT she found a team that shares her language around stress physiology, performance, and trauma healing. There she hosts her Skill of Stress breath and physiology course, monthly webinars, daily training support, and private coaching. Emily works with combat veterans groups in the US and abroad. She coaches Team SOCOM's Adaptive Care Unit and has trained active duty, front lines EMS services, substance recovery groups, and athletes. She has worked in a neurology clinic and lives to find the root causes behind modern dis-ease. She blends her Western Medical background with her Eastern Healing Arts training and sees no distinction between healing and performance. Follow Emily www.intrinsicway.com www.shiftadapt.com Instagram @Intrinsic_Way Learn From Emily Hightower Skill of Stress online course, N = 1 Live Workshops, Neuro Nidra offerings at SH//FT

Glenn van Zutphen and award-winning author Neil Humphreys speak to Leong Weizhen, Co-Founder and Lead Physician, Oriental Remedies about the efficacy of Oriental Remedies' technology-enhanced TCM treatments in improving mental health and debunks myths and misconceptions pertaining to the enhancement of mental health through TCM. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Super excited to have Dr Alex Lee on this episode! On a personal level Dr Alex has been a huge source of inspiration and comfort to Lisa throughout the last year. Although Dr Alex isn't big on elevator pitch introductions, for the purpose of this preamble he is a Chiropractor who runs a Healing and Performance Business in Florida and is also an advocate of Health Freedom and Informed Consent. We discuss Dr Alex's lightbulb moment into a different way of thinking about health, after an injury as a baseball player, and that health expression comes from inside out rather than outside in. We discuss terrain theory and that it is only our inability to adapt to the environment or self that makes us sick. We chat through Health Freedom and Informed Consent and Dr Alex explains why he would 'die on the hill' for these causes and that the key to informed consent may begin with homebirths. Dr Alex shares his view on why the Western Medical system needs to fall, why the future of healthcare needs more empathy and why we have to be walking examples of living congruently with our beliefs. We discuss Dr Alex's work with the Passport Resistance and it's aim of posing the question 'is it ever ok to split society into two based on an experimental injection.' You can learn more about Alex and his work here: https://aleechiro.com/ You can also connect with him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.alexlee/?hl=en And find out more about his involvement with Health Freedom for Humanity https://healthfreedomforhumanity.org/ Music: Buddha by Kontekst https://soundcloud.com/kontekstmusic

In which I discuss WHY I believe that framing my neurodiverse brain and the way I experience the world as a DISORDER, a disability and/or a PROBLEM which NEEDS to BE FIXed is only ONE way to frame it (and is potentially very limiting and dangerous). I discuss: decolonization begins within (how I treat my self and my parts) (decolonizing the self); unlearning and questioning the colonial capitalist mindset; reconnecting my parts; learning love and compassion; CURIOSITY as the polar opposite of shame; and SO much more! This was recorded in response to a listener asking for clarity on what I said about "mental illness is a deep disconnection from the self" in a past audio journal. Recorded May 23, 2021 Support Feelin Weird on PATREON: www.patreon.com/feelinweird Buy M E R C H: www.kyeplant.bandcamp.com Donate via PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=FZLGHJJCMWDYJ&source=url Instagram: @feelinweirdpod Web: feelinweird.com Email: feelinweird@gmail.com

Is thousands of years of history of medicine slowly going down the bureaucratic toilet? Part 2 of 2. This isn't a typical episode, but I have felt the need to get this issue out there for a while now. Ive never had AHPRA try to interfere in my personal health until now... Discussion points include different systems of health care, and discussing are we slowly letting our system of medicine be eroded? Why this might be a bigger problem going forward using western medicine model to measure a different medicine system altogether...why isn't anyone concerned about that? Why isn't our board standing up for us about our system of medicine? How this has concerned me throughout the past 14 months. Is thousands of years of history of medicine slowly going down the toilet ? If your a student of TCM (or a disillusioned practitioner) I think you will find this interesting. CONTACT: chinesemedicinepodcast@gmail.com IMPORTANT: This video, as with all videos on the The Chinese Medicine Podcast are NOT a replacement for a health professional diagnosis. While Marie may answer your questions, all answers are not of a professional consultation level - it is impossible to check your pulse through the internet, hence Chinese medicine cannot be practiced properly through the internet. If you have any undiagnosed symptoms, or changes in your health condition The Chinese Medicine Podcast urges you to see your own doctor, GP, Chinese medicine practitioner, acupuncturist or other health professional as appropriate. If it is an emergency call 000 in Australia. If you are unsure if this advice is appropriate for your individual situation ask your own practitioner before applying any diet or lifestyle techniques /concepts discussed in this video. Marie Hopkinson and The Chinese Medicine Podcast wishes you the best of health and improvement in your own health journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marie-hopkinson/message

This isn't a typical episode, but I have felt the need to get this issue out there for a while now. Part 1 of 2. Discussion points include the pros and cons of registration in Australia, what our system means for how we can advertise Chinese medicine - essentially speak about how we use it, and WHY are we agreeing for Chinese medicine to be measured and evaluated with a different system of medicine -the biomedical model. Happy to have more of a chat about this on the channel in future episodes, as mentioned in the episode, email below. If your a student of TCM (or a disillusioned practitioner) I think you will find this interesting. CONTACT: chinesemedicinepodcast@gmail.com IMPORTANT: This video, as with all videos on the The Chinese Medicine Podcast are NOT a replacement for a health professional diagnosis. While Marie may answer your questions, all answers are not of a professional consultation level - it is impossible to check your pulse through the internet, hence Chinese medicine cannot be practiced properly through the internet. If you have any undiagnosed symptoms, or changes in your health condition The Chinese Medicine Podcast urges you to see your own doctor, GP, Chinese medicine practitioner, acupuncturist or other health professional as appropriate. If it is an emergency call 000 in Australia. If you are unsure if this advice is appropriate for your individual situation ask your own practitioner before applying any diet or lifestyle techniques /concepts discussed in this video. Marie Hopkinson and The Chinese Medicine Podcast wishes you the best of health and improvement in your own health journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marie-hopkinson/message

I hear from more and more of my clients and patients how frustrated they feel seeing their doctors. To be clear, I don’t fault any doctors in this. We have a medical system in the US and in other western countries that have been the breeding ground for shortened appointment times, long waits, and generally a lack of answers beyond an antibiotic or a surgery. EVERYONE in the system is frustrated. And yet, even in the alternative health world I exist in, there is a time and a place where western medicine serves a purpose. If you enjoyed the show, please head over to iTunes to SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review. Each month I’ll select one lucky reviewer to receive a special “impeccable health sample kit” from me. Also, I don’t want to be working with you on your health only once or twice a week. I want to be in this conversation and in the trenches with you every single day. I invite you to join me in my private Facebook Group for high performing women ready to transform their health and lives called the Tribe of Rejuvenated Women. There you’ll have access to free trainings, a community of like-minded women from around the world, and even more information, inspiration, and motivation to transform your health and become vibrant, energetic, and on fire. Be sure to check out our website, follow us on Facebook and Linked In, and Instagram.

How the Rockefellers used Western Medical to Takeover of Holistic Health. Allopathic medicine, or allopathy, refers to a suppose science-based, modern medicine. There are regional variations in usage of the term. In the United States, the term is used to contrast with osteopathic medicine, especially in the field of medical education. Holistic medicine is an ancient system of health care that dates back thousands of years ago, however the expression is of much more recent vintage. The word "holism" was coined by Jan Christiaan Smuts in 1926 to describe the concept that living beings are "greater than and different from the sum of their parts.” The word "holistic" wasn't widely used until the 1970s. | Addiction Nutrition Academy:  Stopping Relapse Masterclass. http://bit.ly/StoppingRelapse | Brain MD Amino Trial: BrainMD https://shrsl.com/2v50f | Zen Brain Website: ZenBrainCoach.com | This episode is taken from excerpts from Stoned Free. You can find it on Amazon. https://amzn.to/3sbg1Vz --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/zenbrain/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/zenbrain/support

How can we listen for the deep and authentic wisdom of our body's inner knowing, whilst benefitting from the expertise of the Western medical paradigm?  Dr. Jennifer Lang, an obstetrician and gynecologist with a specialty in gynecologic oncology, shares how her experience of surrendering to the authority of her own body's wisdom during her natural birth radically changed her approach to obstetrics.  We also discuss the vital role of consent - both in the medical setting and in intimate realms - which her 2nd book, "Consent," explores from the perspective of teen-agers navigating intimacy, sexuality, and honoring their boundaries.  

Dr. Orlando Rojas believes in ethical bio-aesthetic dentistry and discovering the truth. After graduating as a dental surgeon in Colombia in 1986, Dr. Rojas was deeply disturbed and disappointed after uncovering that amalgam fillings were not safe and the dentistry world knew it but still used them. He wondered if they lied about that, what else had they lied to him about? Since that fateful day Dr. Rojas has been on a journey of truth, including witnessing the crippling effects of fluoride, and devoted his dentistry practice to that as a biological dentist, much of which he pioneered and taught himself. He has a degree in Dental Surgery and a litany of advanced certifications from local and international universities such as Harvard and NYU. He is an international lecturer and instructor, member of the International Associate for Dental Research South Africa and the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology as well as many other South African and international associations, co-founder of Dental Care Group, a group that as early as 1994 treated underprivileged South Africans with the best biological dental care, and is an associate fellow of the World Clinical Laser Institute. Dr. Rojas is also a man of principles, and abides by “the” golden rule: Do unto others what you would like to have do to you. He aims to provide the highest quality of health care through gentle, personalized conscious dentistry, which acknowledges everyone as a holistic person with not only a physical body but also mental and emotional bodies as well as a soul. Or as he puts it, “All medicine comes down to this – find out what doesn't belong in your body and get rid of it. Find out what is missing, and replace it. The body does the rest and it is more important to understand the imbalances in your body's basic systems and restore balance rather than name the disease and match the pill to the ill.”Join us as we explore:Dr. Rojas's journey from believer in traditional dentistry to leaving that worldview behind.What exactly is biological dentistry?What to do if you have mercury fillings and why mercury is dangerous.How both root canals and wisdom teeth extraction usually lead to a poisoned body.What to do about root canals and wisdom teeth?How we are more than a “sack of teeth and bones”.Dr. Rojas's personal dental hygiene routine.3 hacks to immediately improve your oral health.MentionsDr. Karl Ulrich Volz, https://www.swiss-biohealth.comDr. Alvin Danenberg. Nutritional Periodontist. https://drdanenberg.comDr. Dominik Nischwitz. “It's All in Your Mouth”.https://www.amazon.com/Its-All-Your-Mouth-Biological/dp/1603589546Made To Thrive Show – Dr. Nischwitzhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqz2aeaTXaoJ-Hqxdx7smfg?utm_source=Made+To+Thrive&utm_campaign=53d5b5de28-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_shareyourstory_01.02.2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_085d9e6312-53d5b5de28-South African Academy of Biological Practitioners https://saabp.co.za

In this "Part 1” episode of a two Episode series, Licensed Oriental Medicine Practitioner Angela Lai (see bio below) joins us on the program to discuss the multiple-millennia practice and healing art form of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).  Angela and I briefly discuss the origins of TCM, a few of its common applications, how TCM differers in practice and approach from traditional Western medicine, and how people in Western societies sometimes approach this unfamiliar treatment option.We also touch on how TCM is being integrated into the new collaborative / alternative medicine approach in modern Western medical hospitals. Stay Tuned for the upcoming “Part 2” episode of this interview, where I will undergo TCM Acupuncture LIVE on the Podcast!!!! After that, we will continue our conversation with Angela about TCM, energy, the internal connective nature of our body's internal systems, and more.Key Discussion Points and Takeaways from this Our Cancer Journey Episode:Compare the differences between Traditional Chinese Medicine's Whole-Person approach to healing and Western Medicine's compartmentalized outlook towards treatmentWhen to seek Western Medical care and when to integrate TCM into your recovery plansHuman body “Micro-systems”, the energy known as “Qi” (pronounced Chē) and how TCM works with them to improve our health and well-beingHow TCM views food consumption, “GUT” health and eating best practicesCommon apprehensions and misconceptions people have about TCM and its benefitsReferences and Resources mentioned in this Episode:Angela C. Lai, L.O.M.: https://www.uchealth.com/physician/angela-lai/UC Health Integrative Medicine Service - University of Cincinnati Hospital: https://www.uchealth.com/integrative/Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego: https://www.pacificcollege.edu/prospective/programs/san-diego/medicine/National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine: https://www.nccaom.org/Pepperdine University, Malibu, California: https://www.pepperdine.edu/The Yellow Emperor's Classic of (Internal) Medicine - Huangdi Neijing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2287209/Neurobiological foundations of acupuncture: the relevance and future prospect based on neuro-imaging evidence - Written By: Lijun Bai 1, Lixing Lao - Published 2013 May 14 in PubMed: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23737848/Episode Guest(s): Angela C. Lai, L.O.M.Angela C. Lai. L.O.M., is a licensed Acupuncturist and Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner. Angela received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA in 1998. She then worked in a cardiac electrophysiology lab at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA where she collaborated with other researchers from around the world to publish their findings. Angela received her Masters of Science in Traditional Oriental Medicine (MSTOM) from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego, CA in 2005 after which she opened a clinic providing acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in Redondo Beach, CA. In 2020, she relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio to join the UC Health Integrative Medicine team. Angela holds a Diplomate of Oriental Medicine (Dipl. OM.) certificate from the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM). She is Licensed in Oriental Medicine (LOM) by the Ohio Medical Board, and she is a regular TCM lecturer and educator.https://www.uchealth.com/physician/angela-lai/UC Health Integrative Medicine Service - University of Cincinnati Hospital: https://www.uchealth.com/integrative/Episode Host: Bruce WatkinsA Father, Cancer survivor, podcaster, writer & content creator, speaker, voice-over artist, facilitator/moderator, traveler, cultural explorer, humanitarian, giving-back & minimalist evangelist, music enthusiast, former Corporate people leader, and curious soul who transformed into an unapologetically optimistic and unpretentious advocate of Life-Optimization for all. After surviving Cancer and other life-changing experiences in 2017, Bruce gave away most of his possessions, left his home behind and began traveling, writing, volunteering, and giving-back. Learn more:https://www.ourcancerjourney.com/about-our-cancer-journey-bruce-watkins/https://www.brucewatkins.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brucewatkins/Follow Our Facebook Page:https://www.facebook.com/ourcancerjourneypodcastSubscribe for Free to the OCJ Newsletter:https://www.ourcancerjourney.com/contact/Check out Our Official Webpage:https://www.ourcancerjourney.com/Request to Subscribe/Follow, Review and Ratings - Please help us share this information!A top aim of the Our Cancer Journey Podcast is to help share valuable information with those impacted by Cancer, their caregivers and their loved ones. Your positive ratings, show reviews (on Apple Podcasts), and especially your personal recommendations and sharing of our show with others, are the most effective ways you can help us get the important information about Survivorship out to those that need it! So please subscribe, rate, review and share the Our Cancer Journey Podcast, our website and our Facebook page with friends and in your social media. Thanks for Listening! With Gratitude, The Our Cancer Journey Podcast Team.

In this episode, it was an honor to co-create a conversation with Alexandar Mei who is a very well-rounded and profound healer. In this conversation, we go deep on understanding what does it mean to become a healer? Why understanding the energy behind healing is crucial instead of remaining in an endless victim cycle in Western Medical. We offer perspective and provide a lot of clarity on understanding your biological DNA and how to upgrade it. As well as an introduction to the world of energy. This BY FAR is one of the most profound transmissions on the podcast and I highly suggest tuning in.Tune in to receive the frequency.Alex is an activator to activate your full potency. He uses techniques of Theta healing, BARS to release subconscious programming, crystal healing, sound healing, and many other modalities to assist others in their self-healing process.https://www.colleengallagher.cohttp://www.alexandermei.comhttps://www.instagram.com/alexmeitodayhttps://www.instagram.com/iamcolleengallagherhttps://www.facebook.com/thecolleengallagher

Jodie Skillicorn is an osteopathic physician board certified in Psychiatry and a diplomat of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine. She integrates conventional medical training with evidence-based holistic methods that include breath work, meditation, yoga, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Mind-Body Medicine, energy medicine, nutrition, exercise, nature, and auricular acupuncture at her private practice. She is the author of the new book Healing Depression Without Medication: A psychiatrists guide to balancing mind, body and soul.In today's conversation we talk about:Going through psychiatry medical school and then realising that everything Jodie had been taught under that system was not true.Understanding how broken the western medical system is in regards to treating disease and illness.Medications causing depression and illness.What is depression and the many ways depression can manifest.Real solutions to heal depression that are more effective than medication.Healing trauma.Jodie perspective on using psychedelic or plant medicines for healing deep severe trauma.If you enjoy this episode please share on social media, with your friends and family and leave a rating and review. I hope this episode brings you tons of value . I Love you guys, Lets keep Transforming Ourselves and Transforming The World.Connect with Jodie:Website, book and social medias: https://www.jodieskillicorn.com/bookConnect with me:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lachlan.dunn/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lachlan.dunn.161/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOSrM6mN5TcDst3MwUAjKfg/videos?view_as=subscriber

On this episode of the Comprehensive Canadian University Guide, we feature Western University's Medical Sciences program. Our guests this week are Chris, the senior liaison officer at Western, as well as Youmi, an Honours double major alumni of Medical Sciences and Biology. We discuss everything from academics and student life, to co-op, admissions and more! We highly recommend going to Western's website for more information or contacting bmsc@schulich.uwo.ca if you're interested in learning more. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @ccugpodcast Show Notes (1:50) – (First question) - General (7:45) – Academics (26:44) – Extra-Curriculars / Student Life (31:29) – Student Support (38:22) – Admissions (42:41) – Why Western Medical Sciences? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ccug/message

– Dr. Smithers had his entry into medicine, studying Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. After graduating Top of his class in Oriental Medicine he went on to enter Western Medical school. He graduated Cum Laude from Medical School but his time in the hospital reaffirmed his awareness that western medicine shines in some areas and it is extremely misguided in others. While allopathic medicine is unparalleled in the areas of emergency and Trauma medicine, it is remarkably deficient in its ability to address chronic disease. The western model is based on symptom management and does extraordinarily little to address the root cause or alter the disease process. In addition, the Allopathic model has a very Newtonian, linear and reductionist view of the human body while the traditional philosophies understood that the body is a multidimensional and infinitely intelligent quantum pattern of energy. The new physics is confirming what the ancient traditions knew all along and it is through this lens that the body can be brought into a proper balance and one in which true healing can occur. Dr. Smithers has received extensive postgraduate training in regenerative injection therapies through the American Association of Orthopedic Medicine (AAOM) and is one of only a few doctors in Florida using Prolozone Therapy with huge success. A native of Sarasota, Dr. Smithers’ family has a long and well-known history in the community. Dr. Smithers’ work with Prolozone, Prolotherapy and other regenerative therapies as well as High Definition Ultrasound gives him a special gift in this field of medicine.

– Dr. Smithers had his entry into medicine, studying Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. After graduating Top of his class in Oriental Medicine he went on to enter Western Medical school. He graduated Cum Laude from Medical School but his time in the hospital reaffirmed his awareness that western medicine shines in some areas and it is extremely misguided in others. While allopathic medicine is unparalleled in the areas of emergency and Trauma medicine, it is remarkably deficient in its ability to address chronic disease. The western model is based on symptom management and does extraordinarily little to address the root cause or alter the disease process. In addition, the Allopathic model has a very Newtonian, linear and reductionist view of the human body while the traditional philosophies understood that the body is a multidimensional and infinitely intelligent quantum pattern of energy. The new physics is confirming what the ancient traditions knew all along and it is through this lens that the body can be brought into a proper balance and one in which true healing can occur. Dr. Smithers has received extensive postgraduate training in regenerative injection therapies through the American Association of Orthopedic Medicine (AAOM) and is one of only a few doctors in Florida using Prolozone Therapy with huge success. A native of Sarasota, Dr. Smithers’ family has a long and well-known history in the community. Dr. Smithers’ work with Prolozone, Prolotherapy and other regenerative therapies as well as High Definition Ultrasound gives him a special gift in this field of medicine.

Haley has a passion for yoga and is so excited to start her journey as a yoga teacher. She is currently a medical student and believes yoga can be a powerful tool in healing and wellness, and she hopes to incorporate yoga into her medical practice in the future. She has a background in gymnastics and cheerleading and started practicing yoga at age 14. Yoga has helped her become a stronger athlete, a balanced student, and an overall more positive person. She loves to teach power vinyasa and ashtanga styles of yoga. Haley is currently in her second year of medical school after graduating with a degree in Physiology and Metabolism from UC Berkeley. She has been practicing yoga for 10 years and says it has been essential in transforming her into the person she is today.

Tahnee welcomes Heba Shaheed to the Women's Series today. Heba is a qualified women's health nutritionist and physiotherapist who specialises in pelvic and sexual pain, menstrual health, bladder and bowel health, pregnancy, postpartum, and complex trauma. Heba provides women’s health and paediatric pelvic health services including physiotherapy, exercise and nutrition. Heba’s mission is to make women's health information accessible globally and to provide high-quality women's healthcare in the privacy and comfort of a woman's own home. Heba believes women's healthcare needs to be disrupted so that women can stop suffering in silence. Heba is a global leader in her field and an absolute wealth of knowledge. Today's chat is informative and truly inspiring, if you're a woman or know one - tune in!   Tahnee and Heba discuss: The anatomy and physiology of the pelvic floor. The normalisation of period pain. What healthy bowel and urinary movements should look like. Mechanical constipation. The functionality of the squat. The pelvic floor and child birth. The use of Jade eggs - best and worst practice. The East vs West approach to pelvic floor therapy. Releasing trauma from the psoas. Multidimensional health and the importance of taking an integrated approach, heart, mind, body.  How and where the body stores emotion.  The subjective nature of pain. Retraining the brain and neuroplasticity. The correlation between pelvic pain conditions and childhood trauma. Sensitivity, self awareness and the importance of developing emotional boundaries. Tips for creating a happy and healthy pelvic floor.   Who is Heba Shaheed ?  Heba Shaheed is co-founder and CEO of The Pelvic Expert, a digital wellbeing platform specialising in maternal, menstrual and hormone health. Heba was inspired to work in this space following her own challenges with a 15-year history of chronic pelvic pain and endometriosis, and after witnessing the devastating effects of birth injury following her sister's first birth. Through the The Pelvic Expert Heba provides holistic and research-based, women-focussed, online wellbeing programs to corporates, government, private health insurers, workplaces and individuals. A qualified physiotherapist, Heba has supported more than 2000 women on their journey to better health and wellbeing, and instructed more than 1200 therapeutic yoga and Pilates exercise classes.  Heba is a leading authority on women’s pelvic health and is a media commentator on this important yet under-represented issue, and a regular speaker at global health and women’s conferences. Heba also offers specialised physiotherapy for complex female pain and endometriosis in her private practice.     Resources:   Heba Website The Pelvic Expert Website The Pelvic Expert Instagram The Pelvic Expert Facebook The Pelvic Expert Youtube The Pelvic Floor Program - Paid 4 Week Course   Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast?   A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We’d also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher :)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Tahnee:   (00:01) Hi everybody, and welcome to the SuperFeast podcast. Today, I am here with Heba Saheed, and she's a qualified women's health nutritionist and physiotherapist. Her expertise lies in pelvic and sexual pain, menstrual health, bladder and bowel health, pregnancy, postpartum and complex trauma. And a lot of that is as you guys know, a massive area of interest for us at SuperFeast. So I'm really excited to have her here today.   Tahnee:  (00:27) She offers one-on-one pelvic health physiotherapy consultations in the Sydney CBD area. And this is for complex pain conditions like endometriosis, bladder pain symptoms, chronic constipation. I may not do these words justice, but I'm going to try, vaginismus and vulvodynia and painful sex, you can laugh at my pronunciation Heba. And she's also the founder of The Pelvic Expert where she blogs about pelvic health and provides online pelvic health programs and consultations which especially right now, given that everyone's in lockdown, is really useful for people.   Tahnee:  (01:01) She has also got a really great Instagram account with is how I came across Heba. It's @thepelvicexpert but we'll put a link to that in the show notes as well. And she also has a really awesome website, so if you guys want to go check that out after this, I would highly recommend it. Thanks for joining us today, Heba. It's really nice to have you on the podcast, finally.   Heba Shaheed:  (01:19) Thanks so much for having me. I know we've been going back and forth for a while now.   Tahnee:  (01:23) I know.   Heba Shaheed:  (01:23) But yeah, it's great and I really hope I'm able to provide some insight on this wonderful world of pelvic health. It's kind of a bit, it's almost sometimes hard to understand if you don't really get it.   Tahnee:  (01:41) Yeah. In researching you and preparing for this podcast I listened to a view other interviews you did and I was, because I've got a bit of a background in anatomy too, and I think you made the point in one of them of how a lot of people when they imagine a pelvic floor they're thinking about a banana hammock shaped piece of tissue in the pelvic area that just contracts. And they don't really have much of a three dimensional concept or a visual of what the pelvic floor actually is and how it functions.   Tahnee:  (02:15) Is that fair to say when you start seeing people, that you're educating them as well as obviously working with them?   Heba Shaheed:  (02:22) Ah yeah, absolutely. Education is the first thing. Educating them firstly, part of that is anatomy and that it is a three-dimensional, multi muscle system. I think people picture the pelvic floor as just this one little muscle that goes from your pubic bone into your tailbone, but it's more complex than that. It's got a right side, it's got a left side. It's got muscles that go to your hips, muscles that go to your tailbone, muscles that go to your pubic bone, muscles around your vagina, muscles around your urethra, muscles around your anus.   Heba Shaheed:  (02:55) It's a very complex system and they all have to interplay together. It's more than just muscles, it's connective tissue and fascia and nervous system and an immune system. There's just so much going on down there that we're almost oblivious to how important it is. There's organs there as well. Your pelvic organs, your bladder or your rectum, your uterus if you're a female.   Heba Shaheed:  (03:21) A lot of that is just beginning with education about yes, anatomy, like your physiology. But then even more than that, it's education around simple things like habits. What's appropriate for emptying your bladder? How often should you be going? What position should you be emptying your bowels in? How long should you be spending on the toilet? What should your periods feel and look and how long should they last? And all that sort of stuff. It's a lot of, more advice around simple things like your basic pelvic habits that we often have to educate people. And they're coming to us when they're in their 20s, 30s, 40s, even up to their 80s and not having known such simple concepts.   Tahnee:  (04:11) Yeah. I think back to health ed at school, which was pretty poor. It's such a mystery area for so many of us. And obviously then there's all the cultural stigma around bums and vaginas and vulvas and all those kinds of things.   Tahnee:  (04:30) When you're talking about these general health markers I suppose, something I'm really passionate about educating women around, is it's not actually normal to experience bad periods. For example, I have my period right now, and apart from feeling a little bit more introspective and a little bit quieter, like physically I don't have symptoms and that took me quite a long time to work out through my own journey of course. I think that's the same with things like bowel movements and urination. These are natural processes that require a really complex interplay of the nervous system and the myofascia and all of these things.   Tahnee:  (05:16) They're bio-markers. They're ways of us actually assessing our overall, more holistic state of health, right? So if you were talking to someone, what would you say how many times should we be going to the toilet? And what should we be looking for? And same with bowels. What are the averages, I suppose, if there are any that you would be looking for?   Heba Shaheed:  (05:35) Mm-hmm (affirmative). I can empathise with you on that front of having had periods that weren't great. And I agree with you in that we've kind of normalised period pain to the point that we don't even acknowledge that period pain is not normal. It's to the point where, "Oh I know, that's normal. Everyone goes through it. That's, you just kind of have to put up with it. That's life as a female."   Heba Shaheed:  (06:04) But the thing is, we know that period pain it still comes along with, if you start off your periods having had severe period pain and then you go on to have severe period pain through your whole teens and your 20s and whatever, that actually sets you up for development or exacerbation of both bladder and bowel symptoms. Because, as you mentioned before, it is a very complex interplay of the myofascia, which obviously your uterus is connected to your bladder and your bowels, fascially and muscularly as well, and of course your nervous system, the nerves are all supplying the same kind of area, and then the immune system and so on, right?   Heba Shaheed:  (06:46) In terms of what is acceptable in terms of behavioural habits when it comes to the bladder and urination, unfortunately what I often see in my clinic, because I see mostly complex pain patients is, "Oh yeah, I go about two or three times a day to empty my bladder." And I'm like, "Well, that's not right." And they're like, "I have such a strong bladder, I only need to go two or three times and I can really hold it." And I'm like, "Well, that's not actually something to be proud of, because you're actually putting a lot of strain on your bladder when you do that. Actually what you should be doing, is going around about every three hours."   Heba Shaheed:  (07:25) The bladder capacity, think of a bladder like a balloon. It's deflated when it's empty and then that balloon slowly inflates and the nerves send us messages when the bladder's more on the full end. But, you should also be getting minor nerve messages saying, "Ah, yeah. It's a little bit full," or, "It's moderately full." But if you're only going when your bladder is like stretched to extreme capacity, that's not actually healthy. Every three hours is good. That's about four to six times a day, or six to eight times a day. Six is kind of like a good, round about average number. If you're going less than four times, then I find that unhealthy.   Heba Shaheed:  (08:07) It should be a steady stream, a straight stream. If your stream's going off to one side or spraying, that could indicate that there's something going on. There should be no burning. It should be a steady stream, there shouldn't be any start stop of the flow. The flow should be relatively normal, not too slow, not too fast. Unless your bladder's full, then of course it's going to be a little bit fast. We also need to pay attention to what's happening. I think a lot of people, even when they're coming to my clinic and I'm asking them these questions, they're like, "Oh, I don't know. I don't know if it starts and stops. I don't know if it's a slow flow. I don't really know. I'm not aware."   Heba Shaheed:  (08:50) Or things like you go to sit on the toilet and it takes a few moments before the stream actually starts. That's suggesting that something's off with the muscles there as well. It's like these little things that if we start to become aware, I mean obviously we don't want to be hyperaware in that we're just fixated on it. But it's just like little cues that your body's telling you that the bladder or urinary system is functioning optimally or not. That's that.   Heba Shaheed:  (09:22) In terms of your bowels, the literature is strange, in that it says three times a week is okay to go to the bathroom for bowels. But I really don't believe that.   Tahnee:  (09:35) Yikes.   Heba Shaheed:  (09:38) I really don't believe that that is [crosstalk 00:09:38]-   Tahnee:  (09:38) Is that the scientific literature, I suppose in inverted commas?   Heba Shaheed:  (09:41) Yeah. It goes from three times a week to three times a day, is the realm of acceptability.   Tahnee:  (09:48) Geez louise.   Heba Shaheed:  (09:49) Yeah. I'm not really a huge fan of that. I'm thinking of it biologically and physiologically and mentally, psychologically the impact of not emptying your bowels on a daily basis. I'm a big proponent of, bowels should be emptying every day. If you're eating every day, you should be emptying your bowels every day. And if you're not, then that is suggesting that something is off in the digestive system, or in the immune system or in the nervous system. And it is something that needs to be addressed.   Heba Shaheed:  (10:22) And the fact, the thing is because I work with so many women who have complex pain and chronic constipation, irritable bowel and Crohn's disease and all sorts of bowel disfunction, I know for a fact that every single one of them is able to achieve daily bowel movements. Regardless of whether they came to me having said, "I haven't been in a month," or, "I haven't been in a week." In clinical practice I'm able to get them to go every day. It further justifies my belief that we should be going every day.   Heba Shaheed:  (10:53) And of course, it's just logical that you should be going every day. If you're having three massive meals a day, you could very well be going three times a day to empty your bowels, right? And they could be three type four stools, which is like a long smooth sausage, and that would be considered healthy. I would say at the very least once a day, and up to three times a day is good. But it's more about the consistency of the stool as well. It shouldn't be, "Oh, I'm going three times a day, but it's coming out as small pebbles and I'm incompletely emptying."   Heba Shaheed:  (11:27) It should be a complete empty of a type three to four stool, which is a long smooth sausage, and it should be easy to come out and I should be done instantly, I shouldn't be sitting there for 20 minutes trying to empty my bowel. And there shouldn't be any pain when I'm emptying, there shouldn't be any fissures, I shouldn't be straining, I shouldn't have haemorrhoids popping out. It should be a complete empty and I should feel like once I'm done, I'm done. I don't have to sit there trying to get little bits and pieces out.   Heba Shaheed:  (11:58) And if you're feeling that there is, sensations that aren't as I described, then it is starting to suggest again, that there might be some dysfunction. Whether that's a pelvic floor dysfunction, so for example the pelvic floor muscles, because the pelvic floor muscles surround your rectum, one of the muscles is called puborectalis, it surrounds your rectum and another is your external anal sphincter, these two muscles are part of your pelvic floor and if they're too tight, then they can make you functionally constipated.   Heba Shaheed:  (12:33) A lot of people get confused in that they think, "Ah, I just have to have more fibre. Or I just need to drink more water." It's a very nutrition focused approach, which is important for sure, but there is also a type of constipation that is purely mechanical. It is the muscles of the pelvic floor are extremely tight, and then it's actually physiologically difficult to push your bowel motions out. Or they are dyssynergic in that when you visualise yourself trying to push out your number two, it's actually tightening instead, because you're having this poor coordination. Your brain is sending the wrong message to the muscle.   Heba Shaheed:  (13:15) This is where pelvic floor physio comes in. Because it's like, "Okay, what's going on? How do we figure it out?" How do we... that's why we have such a great success rate with functional physiological pelvic floor dysfunction based constipation. What else? Yeah, I think that's the main kind of things. When we do go to the bathroom for number twos as well, positioning is super important. As I mentioned before, puborectalis slings around your rectum. It's part of your pelvic floor.   Heba Shaheed:  (13:45) When you're sitting on the toilet in just a general normal position like you're sitting on a chair, that puborectalis muscle is kinked, right? But as soon as you elevate your feet onto a stool and you lean forward, that kink relaxes, so that pelvic floor muscle actually physically relaxes just by being in a squat position. So think, eastern countries and so on, where they squat to empty their bowels, that's actually physiologically healthy and normal. We need to replicate that in the western world and that's where you would get a stool, and you'd lean forwards to produce that same effect. And that, again, physiologically, physically releases the muscles and you're able to actually empty your bowels without having to sprain and or without feeling uncomfortable.   Tahnee:  (14:36) Yeah. We have squatty potties in every toilet in our house and office. They are-   Heba Shaheed:  (14:42) Perfect.   Tahnee:  (14:42) They are very popular. But it's interesting just thinking about that, because I was lucky enough to have a birth that I was in control of. And I found the birth also I wanted to squat to deliver my baby. My mum, as I was growing up, always talked about that as being the most natural position to deliver in. I remember when I studied physiology that bend in the pelvis as well, you can really when you start to look at the muscles in the anatomy you can see how being in that squat position just allows everything to relax.   Tahnee:  (15:17) I think one of these misconceptions around the pelvic floor is that we always want to be tightening it, because and I was taught this through more the Taoist tradition but we work a lot with jade eggs and I don't know, you might not be into this, but taught me certainly to actually be able to relax and contract my whole pelvic region. And one of the practises we do is like almost using the vagina like a hand to like swirl them up and then down through the vaginal canal.   Tahnee:  (15:49) The first time I tried that I was just, "Oh my God, I have no connection to the... Like I can't feel anything in there. I don't," it was like one area was quite strong and then everything else was really weak. Is that kind of a similar thing when you're doing internal exams, what you're noticing is that people are quite tight in certain areas, but then really unable to get their brain to talk to their tissue in other areas? Is that what you're talking about with the anal sphincter as well? Things just gripping and holding on?   Heba Shaheed:  (16:23) Yeah. There's varying presentation that would come I guess. I think the biggest thing is that we have a complete lack of awareness of our pelvic floor. That's number one. It's just this disconnect, like our mind, body disconnect between the, well with the pelvic floor and pretty much that whole female region.   Heba Shaheed:  (16:50) If we go back to firstly what you mentioned about birth, yes, we're traditionally and physiologically you're supposed to birth, not supposed to birth, but it's inherently more conducive to birth to be in a squat position, right? Because we know that physiologically that opens up the pelvic floor muscles. And whereas in more kind of medicalized births where they're lying on their backs, that's completely not conducive to birth at all, because just the fact of lying on your back shuts your tailbone, it doesn't allow that tailbone to move. And that in itself tightens up, well not tightens, but it reduces the capacity of the pelvic floor to open, right? Yes, you're in a contractile state rather than a relaxed state, which is what it's supposed to be and then a bearing down state which you're supposed to be in for birth. That's number one. That's birth, right? But then aside from birth, well to be honest for birth you need to be connected to your pelvic floor.   Tahnee:  (17:58) Mm-hmm (affirmative). Totally.   Heba Shaheed:  (17:58) The issue that we see a lot with now is things like obstetric anal sphincter injuries. And that's because it's almost like women have been told, "Push through your butt like you're trying to push out a poo." But that's not the same muscles. They're part of the muscular system of the pelvic floor, but the vagina is very different to your anal sphincter. The anal sphincter in your posterior compartment, which is why you'll end up with an obstetric anal sphincter injury and perineal tears. And your vagina is your medial, like the middle system, but it's also part of the anterior system of the pelvic floor. It's very different, even the imagery that we are giving women is completely inappropriate. That's number two.   Heba Shaheed:  (18:55) We need to be connected to our pelvic floor, but not just, and I guess this is what you're saying, is like part of it is strong, what part of it is weak and part of it is connected, but part of it's disconnected. Well, that's the thing. If a person is visualising the pelvic floor as that little banana hammock thing, then of course you have no idea what's happening in your pelvic floor, because it's beyond that. Like I said, there's part of the pelvic floor that surrounds your urethra, part of it that surrounds your vagina, part of it that's part of your anus.   Heba Shaheed:  (19:25) Then you have another part that is a triangle that goes from your pubic bone out to your sit bone and across to the other sit bone and it creates a triangle. Then you have your perineal muscle, which are also part of your pelvic floor. Then you have a deeper perineal muscle. Then you have puborectalis that goes from your pubic bone and slings around your rectum and goes around to the other side of your sit bones. Then you have iliococcygeus, then you have pubococcygeus. Now I'm just putting words out there.   Tahnee:  (19:54) Then all of those are ligaments.   Heba Shaheed:  (19:55) That they have no idea what I'm talking about.   Tahnee:  (19:57) Well, [crosstalk 00:19:57].   Heba Shaheed:  (19:57) Yeah.   Tahnee:  (19:58) They're all ligaments of the uterus and the bladder and the vagina.   Heba Shaheed:  (20:02) Exactly. You've got all the ligaments which are your, so you've got contractile tissue that's under your control, but then you have ligaments that you can't really [crosstalk 00:20:11] control.   Tahnee:  (20:11) Yeah, not innervated.   Heba Shaheed:  (20:12) Yeah, exactly. Then you have your connective tissue beyond that. You have fascia, pubovesical fascia, you have the rectovaginal fascia. You've got all this complex system that I feel, yeah it might sound like it's hard to understand, but if you're going to go and give birth, at the very least you can develop a basic understanding so that you're able to differentiate between a posterior compartment push, right, as opposed to an anterior compartment breathing and let go and just facilitation of birth. It's not about forcing birth, it's about facilitating birth. It's changing the focus from a straining kind of action to allow the body to generate force from within to facilitate the birth, right?   Heba Shaheed:  (21:12) You mentioned jade eggs. Yeah, in traditional cultures there has been an emphasis, and the thing is today a lot of the, I guess western pushers of jade eggs aren't using it accurately.   Tahnee:  (21:30) Yeah, I know. Don't worry.   Heba Shaheed:  (21:33) A lot of them are more about, yeah.   Tahnee:  (21:33) I have that pet peeve too.   Heba Shaheed:  (21:33) Yeah. A lot of them are more focused on, "Ah, let's tighten up the vagina and tight, tight, tight. And squeeze and tighten." And it's all about squeezing, right?   Tahnee:  (21:43) Yeah, and like better sex and blah blah.   Heba Shaheed:  (21:43) That's right. Like you want to have... The thing is even if you want to have better sex and you want to have better everything down there, it's actually every muscle has the ability to contract and relax. And the pelvic floor is part of that. The pelvic floor musculature, rather than just a muscle, the pelvic floor musculature needs to be able to engage in contraction and relaxation. And traditional cultures who were using the jade egg in more traditional form, we talk about the engagement of the muscles in a contractile state, but also in a relaxation state. It's a bit of, not ballooning, but it's opening. It's letting go as well. And that when you have the jade egg, you shouldn't feel discomfort in there. You shouldn't feel sticky and uncomfortable and painful, but it also shouldn't feel like it's just going to fall out. It's like two concepts.   Heba Shaheed:  (22:39) The jade egg is something that's used in traditional cultures, but in more physical-   Tahnee:  (22:47) Modern context.   Heba Shaheed:  (22:47) Yeah, modern physical therapy context, we use something similar, but it's, what are they called? Vaginal weights. So they use vaginal weights, which are usually like a silicone thing or a plastic type of thing which I'm not really a fan of, so a silicone type of thing with magnets or weights in there that helps. It's a similar kind of concept. And-   Tahnee:  (23:10) Yeah, because I use weights. But just I use crystals.   Heba Shaheed:  (23:15) Yeah. And it's in the sense of that they use them more again, for strengthening and coordination, but again there is that kind of focus on tightening things as well. Usually you wouldn't see vaginal weights being used in somebody who has already a tight pelvic floor. However, in saying that, I could see the benefits of doing that in a sense that you're getting them to be more aware of their pelvic floor. And for them to desensitise the pelvic floor. Because a lot of issues with pelvic floor, pelvic floor pain in particular, is that there is an over sensitisation of the nerves and the muscles and the connective tissue of the pelvic floor.   Heba Shaheed:  (24:03) Can we go back to, what was the last question that you asked me?   Tahnee:  (24:07) I feel like I've gone so many places now, I think I was asking about in examining women and what your actual experience was as a clinician, I suppose. In the back of my mind, because we don't know each other super well, but I've studied with this guy in Thailand who's a Chinese man. Part of his system is you actually have internal massage to relax all of the tissue. And they work on your psoas through your vaginal wall and the psoas attachment at the femur and everything. It's interesting.   Tahnee:  (24:45) Yeah, so [crosstalk 00:24:46]. I was curious as, because for me I had probably six or seven treatments in a period of time. And then obviously didn't find many people here offering that sort of thing. But it's become more common lately, I've noticed. I just wondered, because for me I could really feel where there were areas of tension and pain, and then areas where I was, like you were saying, desensitised or didn't have a lot of awareness. I had that pre-birth and it was, I think, one of the reasons I had such a great birth. Because it had given me some context and some of biofeedback. I was able to, I love manual therapies in general because they teach you how to connect into your body in this new way, the tactile kind of way. I guess I was leading into what is your experience as a clinician and what do you see?   Heba Shaheed:  (25:34) Yeah. I guess my qualification is as a physiotherapist, but I work specifically in pelvic floor right, and women's health. But even more deeper than that, my expertise lies in female pain. I work specifically with women as you mentioned earlier, with women who have sexual pain, pelvic pain, period pain, vulva pain. Very specific to dysfunctions of pain down there. If we talk about the guy in Thailand, in a lot of traditional cultures we know that they utilise a lot of abdominal myofascial work.   Tahnee:  (26:23) Yeah, that's what I'm trained in.   Heba Shaheed:  (26:24) Yes. And intrapelvic myofascial work. And that's kind of in that whole body worker type of thing. And it's a traditional kind of thing, but then there's the Westernised modern thing which is pelvic floor physical therapy or pelvic floor physiotherapy where there's a medicalised version of it. Depending on the physio that you see, because again we're also divided in our approach. A lot of physios are moving towards more of mind focusing thing where it's like change your brain, change your body kind of thing, was my approach is a little bit more hands-on.   Heba Shaheed:  (27:09) I'm like change the body and the mind and the heart all at the same time, integrate them all. I know that I'm very, I don't know, just a bit more progressive in my approach and I'm very open, because I've also studied. I did a lot of South American Mayan type of abdominal massage training.   Tahnee:  (27:31) Yeah, like Arvigo and stuff.   Heba Shaheed:  (27:32) And I've done Ayurvedic and Abhyanga type stuff. I'm very open to all disciplines and all medicines. I'm not the type that's like, "No. It's all just about evidence-based pelvic floor physiotherapy." I'm not like that. And I'm very open about the fact that I'm not like that. And it's not exactly, it doesn't sit well with a lot of the evidence-based physical therapists, but I don't really care anymore.   Tahnee:  (28:00) I was curious about that, because when I saw you, I saw that you were working in kind of in clinic and like quite, like at universities and things. And I was thinking that's interesting that you're so open-minded, because I've, I guess in my career, bumped up against a lot of people who are evidence-based who think a lot of the stuff we practise is really wild. I've seen amazing transformations, and I also believe strongly in evidence-based stuff as well, but I'm like traditional evidence is still evidence to me.   Heba Shaheed:  (28:31) That's right. And clinical practise is still evidence. The thing is I find that the discussion or the disputes kind of occur because a lot of people get so focused on evidence-based being what is researched and done in a trial and done in a research study, but the thing is, most practitioners regardless of whether you're eastern, western whatever, most practitioners aren't sitting in research studies. They're actually with people.   Tahnee:  (29:04) Every day.   Heba Shaheed:  (29:04) Fixing the people's bodies. They've treated thousands of people using their practises. And this is where Ayurvedic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine and all these other traditional medicines come in. They've been doing that for thousands of years with beautiful results, right? And it has nothing to do with sitting in a lab or in a research group or whatever. I think people forget that clinical practise is actually, so there's three type of evidence-based medicine. One of them is research study. But the other one is clinical practise. Thousands and thousands of hours of clinical practise.   Heba Shaheed:  (29:40) And you know what? It comes down to a personality thing. We are all structured, we all have proclivities, right? I have an extreme proclivity for openness. Openness to experience and openness to intellectual things and openness to all sorts of things. But then you have other people who are more about like conscientiousness in like orderliness, or very low on the openness scale. And that's fine. That's who you are, like whatever. We're going to attract whoever is aligned with us. That's the people that I attract to my clinic. Most of the people, well 95% of my clientele are like intuitive, feeling, empathetic type of people who are very disconnected from their bodies, which is pretty much exactly who I am.   Heba Shaheed:  (30:29) I'm very intuitive person, a very feeling person, and I was very disconnected from my body, that I didn't realise that I had all these pelvic pain problems coming up, but they were there from when I was little, I just didn't realise until my periods came, and it hit me like a tonne of bricks that I wasn't emptying my bowels on a daily basis, that I was holding my bladder and only going twice a day. All these little things that you don't even realise, and it comes down to just who you are I guess biologically and psychologically anyway.   Heba Shaheed:  (31:05) The people who are a bit more, I suppose, conservative would end up with the more conservative physios. And then the people who are a bit more liberal end up with the bit more of the open physios or a bit more with the open traditional type of medicine. You're going to attract whatever, and that's fine. There's room for everybody. There's room for everything. And so I guess if we go back to what you were saying about what do I actually encounter in my practice, because I see mostly pain patients, they're coming in with these pelvic floors that are really tight, really uncomfortable, the fascia's yuck the nerves are very sensitised and all sort of things.   Heba Shaheed:  (31:43) And because I have such a touch-based approach, like I do a lot of intra-vaginal massage with them, and I do a lot of abdominal massage. And not just that, I do whole body massage. I work through the whole, if you're looking at meridians or myofascial lines, I work up into their ribs. I work down into their feet. I work into their cranium. Whatever I feel like, because I'm more of an intuitive person, it's like they come in and I don't know. It's just a weird thing that I have. I don't know how to explain it, but I can just look at them and I'll be like, "Yeah, this, this and this." And then I work into it and it frees whatever's holding. It's like it's something deep inside that you just have. You either have it or you don't. Or you can grow it, I guess.   Heba Shaheed:  (32:28) That's why, some people say, "Oh, she's a bit woo." But I don't care. I'm like, "Yeah, I am, but it works." And my patients are attracted to that and they love that. And then while I'm working with them, I'm talking to them, like anatomy and stuff. In talking to them, to their rational mind too. Obviously there's a rational part of this. There's and intuitive part and there's a rational part too. And I'm talking to them. And usually when I'm working on something and it might be the psoas interiorly, right? And they were like, "Oh yeah, my ex-boyfriend was very abusive," or something like. Things come up. You know that when we interact with the psoas, you're talking trauma extroverting muscle. As soon as you start to engage with it, the person starts to remember and wants to get out the trauma that occurred or whatever.   Heba Shaheed:  (33:24) Part of that is also allowing them to verbalise stuff, because we know a lot of stuff is repressed or held in. And because I attract this certain type of clientele who are the type, they're usually very assertive females who are assertive in their life, what they want, they're all like a bit type A type personalities. Type A, type B, I guess, but then they don't put their own needs ahead. They're putting other people's needs ahead of their own. And then they hold things in and a lot of them are quite out of touch with what is actually their feeling, because they're just constantly looking after people around them.   Heba Shaheed:  (34:09) It's like getting them back in touch with, "Okay, what happened to you and how did it change your life?" It's more like I do a lot of coaching stuff with them at the same time. It's an integrated thing. I've been to a lot of other pelvic physios and I can see the difference in the way that I treat, because a lot of them will just sit there quietly and do the work. Or ask you about your weekend or something, and I can never ever remember what I've done on the weekend, so it's like well what's the point of that?   Tahnee:  (34:45) You have a three year old, it's like, "I don't know."   Heba Shaheed:  (34:48) [crosstalk 00:34:48]. Yeah, you're having a deep meaningful conversation where you're freeing a lot of repressed stuff, whether it's microtrauma or a macrotrauma, it doesn't matter, they're still traumas. Even microtraumas have an impact and they're repressing them. And when a body comes to me in that state of, this inflamed state of severe period pain, chronic constipation, bloating and all this stuff, oh man, there's shit going on in there. There's stuff. It's not just, "Oh yeah, I fell over on the weekend." It's not that. This is deep stuff. What do you have to do? You have to have a deep conversation, otherwise that person's going to be going from one therapist to another never really figuring out what's wrong with them.   Heba Shaheed:  (35:33) And they're the ones that end up, because they start with the modern medical stuff and then it's not working, and then they have all this surgery and it's still not working, then they end up seeing traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurvedic Medicine and any of these traditional type of stuff, Mayan and whatever. And you know what? That's okay, because for you that is what is going to work, because it isn't just a body thing for you. When it becomes this complex and angry really, it is, there's like a poor alignment of your heart, your mind and your body. And it's trying to integrate all of them so that you actually feel like you're in control of your body, and it's not your body that's kind of controlling everything else.   Tahnee:  (36:19) Mm-hmm (affirmative). That's a such a common theme I think with women, is repressed anger and this sense that they have no control. I think especially women that are sensitive and like you were saying, empathetic and intuitive, because they take on so much and then it's this kind of push back or rage against what they've... It's their gift as well. I know you're an empath, and I am as well. It's my gift, it's also my curse sometimes. But I can feel, and that's certainly been my lived experience in my body, is when my own boundaries get brittle I start to really find that my body starts to lean back into the patterns that I've worked really hard to unravel.   Tahnee:  (37:11) I think it's just a constant process. But it sounds like you have such a holistic focus that people are able to work on that multidimensional level which I think, I mean for me it seems outrageous that that idea of bedside manner and all these things have been lost from the Western Medical system. Because, I think about just how important therapeutic touch and therapeutic listening is. I can remember going to older GPs when I was a little kid, who were like grandfatherly and gentle and kind. And just being in their presence was really healing. And I think now the system is really flawed obviously. But I can see how this disassociation of body from mind, from spirit has really led us down this path.   Tahnee:  (37:56) I'm super inspired to talk to someone who's actually gone through that system and continues to integrate, because I think that's really the future of medicine. That we need to have the evidence-based deep research and for me studying anatomy has given me so much power. But on the flip side of it, I have to keep remembering that the body is an integrated system and it's a holistic system and I can't just work on my pelvic floor and not have an overall effect on every single part of my body. It's this kind of dance always I think between the poles, I suppose, the Yin and Yang to use the Taoist ideas. But I mean-   Heba Shaheed:  (38:32) Yeah, well, it makes so much sense because what happened was in the last 50 or odd years or whatever, it really went into a more of a biological focus, like medicine went into a really biological focus. And then in the last kind of 20 years or so, they're like, "Oh no. We have to look at the mind as well." It's now kind of like a bio-psycho process, biological and psychological and then they're like, "Oh well, we know we do better in community." They're at this stage going to go into bio-psycho-social kind of thing. But the thing is, even the psycho-social stuff is still from a biological point of view, because it is like looking at psychology from a biological point of view.   Heba Shaheed:  (39:19) Really, depending obviously on what you believe in and stuff, and I'm assuming that obviously many of the people listening to SuperFeast are going to be more on the spiritual side. We feel like we have a, it's like a deeper connection, it's like a bigger connection, it's not just about my body right now. It's my body, it's my mind, but it's not just my body and mind, it's my heart and my soul as well. I need to be nourished in my soul too, for me to be really healthy. It's not just about always focusing on the physical elements.   Heba Shaheed:  (39:53) And that's part of it. It is part of it of course. You need to nourish your body to nourish your soul, but it's also vice versa. It's interesting. And the other thing that you mentioned before as well was about anger. One of the things that I've studied is when you look at, we have the mind or the head. And the mind and the head is where you hold fear. And then you have the heart, and that's where you hold shame. And then you have the gut or the pelvis, the gut and the pelvic paradigm where you hold anger. And that anger could be like anger to others, or it could be anger to yourself, or repressed anger.   Heba Shaheed:  (40:39) A lot of, that's often what we see. People are angry at themself, or they're angry at their bodies for not working the way that they want to, and it just feeds that cycle of anger. And their pelvic region gets worse and worse and worse. But if you really, really trace it back, you trace it right, right, right, right, back, there is that initial sliver of anger that started, but even before that there might have been an element of shame. There's even the heart isn't integrated. It could be shame, like shame at your own self. Or it could be a shame because somebody put a belief of shame onto you. Like, "Ah, that's not what girls do," or something like that.   Tahnee:  (41:18) Cultural.   Heba Shaheed:  (41:20) Yeah, cultural type of things. But it's somebody else's thoughts and feelings that you manifested of your own shame, or it's somebody else shame. Or even with a partner that you're with, or the parents, or whatever. Or society. And then even more so than that, your head is where you hold fear. Then what happens with a lot of my clients is that they get so stuck in their head, in that they're afraid that, "Sex is always going to hurt. That I'm always going to have period pains. Like, this is my life for the rest of my life. I'm never going to get better."   Heba Shaheed:  (41:56) It's like constant looping of fear in their head. What I try to do, is I try to get right to the beginning. It's like, "Okay, what was the first thought and feelings? What was the first thought?" If we go right back it could be something, a shameful thing that happened when you were two. Or it could be a fear driven thing that happened when you were just born. Maybe you were born to very abusive parents. Or like anger driven thing where you weren't allowed to be your authentic self, for example.   Heba Shaheed:  (42:33) It's like tracing it right back, because a lot of the time you can get so caught up in trying to treat the body, and then you think you're treating the mind because you're giving them pain education advice and all this stuff which is important, but at the end of the day the heart is completely not even involved. But I feel like that's really crucially important especially with the patients that I see, because they're all the kind of the feeling heart centred type of people. And then sometimes it's something as simple as, "I just hate my job. My heart's not in my job, and because I'm in my job," and I've had patients like this where it's like, she wants to be a naturopath for example, but she's working as a lawyer, you know what I mean? And she just hates her job. And I'm like, "Well, if your heart's not in it, your body's going to rebel against it."   Heba Shaheed:  (43:21) It's like even simple concepts like that could be the key that unlocks why a woman is having so much dysfunction.   Tahnee:  (43:31) Yeah. I can hear a little girl. Hello darling.   Heba Shaheed:  (43:35) She's dancing in the room.   Tahnee:  (43:37) Super.   Heba Shaheed:  (43:37) Spinning around, dancing.   Tahnee:  (43:39) Very cute.   Heba's Daughter: (43:39) Dah.   Tahnee:  (43:40) Yeah. It's you.   Tahnee:  (43:43) I'm curious-   Heba's Daughter: (43:47) Dah.   Tahnee:  (43:47) You're in a podcast darling.   Tahnee:  (43:50) I'm curious about complex trauma and pain and stuff, because one of the big epiphanies for me, I mean I was so scared of pain when I was 20. To the point where I've made some hilarious statements that now make me laugh. But I remember being 18 and 19 and saying, "There's no way I'm giving birth naturally. I need drugs to do that. I don't want to feel it." And obviously 10, 15 years later had a home birth naturally and blah blah. I changed. But a lot of the pain science and stuff I researched, I know that's an area you've studied a lot, like pain is just this completely subjective and incredibly difficult thing to measure and track. And so much of it is really due to this, I guess inability to be intimate with ourselves and to really give ourselves permission to have the full human experience, which is warts and all. It's not always sunshine and rainbows.   Tahnee:  (44:47) Is that kind of, I assume that's something because you work so much with really chronic difficult issues, is that something that you're always trying to educate people around? Is that, I'm not trying to say pain isn't real, because I feel like that's a really difficult thing to say, but it's sort of like from my experience, I've changed my relationship with sensation so much that pain and I have a very different relationship now. Is that what you're trying to work with people toward? Is to redefine their experiences, sensation and how they relate to their body?   Heba Shaheed:  (45:20) Absolutely. So it's all about perspective. We can create a relationship with our body that is pain driven. Or we can create a relationship with our body that's pleasure driven. Memories create little tags in your brain, neurotags, that can latch onto experiences as being with negative emotion or with positive emotion. And it depends on which part of your brain that you're using. We know that the right side of the brain is more associated with negative emotion, and the left side of the brain is more associated with positive emotion. Actually, we know that people, the ideal, so positive emotion isn't to do with being happy. Positive emotion is to do with not suffering. We don't want to suffer. And pain is an embodiment of suffering. We don't want to be in pain. If you're the type that is so fixated on not wanting to be in pain, that you'll use that-   Heba's Daughter: (46:25) Mum.   Tahnee:  (46:25) Exactly.   Heba Shaheed:  (46:31) If you're the type that doesn't want to be in pain, you'll become so fixated on that, you can become so fixated on that negative emotion, because you don't want to suffer, but unfortunately that actually propagates the feeling of suffering because you've become so fixated on that part of your brain that, because pain in itself is a negative emotion. Now here's the thing, right? Your brain actually doesn't know the difference between truth or lies. And this is a fact. It doesn't know. It's what you feed it. The food that you give your brain, food that you give your mind, is going to nourish it. If you're feeding it negative thoughts, which is fear of pain, and fear driven messages, and suffering driven messages, negative polarity based messages, then the brain will be nourished by that. And it will become hyper aware of that.   Heba Shaheed:  (47:28) But on the flip side, if you're feeding it positive thoughts, like I'm safe. I am content. If you're sending it positive messages, that will then nourish the brain in that sense. Think of it as like negative emotions and negative messages drying out the brain and making it hard and inflexible and uncomfortable. And positive thoughts and feelings and messages nourishing the brain and lubricating it, and filling it up that the brain is sitting in a soup, and it's relaxed and chill.   Heba Shaheed:  (48:01) Firstly a lot of it is just education on that sort of thing. Like visualisation based education, but then also anatomical and physiological based education in that explaining the actually neurophysiology of pain can be very helpful. But not just explaining that, but also getting them to do little workbook tasks to help them identify their patterns and behaviour. Because, remember a lot of it is beliefs driven as well. If you have this belief, that belief can be changed. We know that the brain is plastic, it's neoplastic. That means that it can be changed.   Heba Shaheed:  (48:40) Within three months, six months, 12 months, you'll have a completely different brain and cells in your body, if you continue to send it specific type of messages. That's why we can see a person, for example myself, I had like a 100 out of 10 pain 10 years ago. Literally every moment of every day was severe, excruciating neuropathic pain. From migraines to pelvic pain, or pain down my leg, sciatic nerve, and just like fibromyalgia type, like just horrific pain. That was because I was so fixated on the pain and the fear that I was always going to be in pain. Remember what I said about the head space being driven by fear.   Tahnee:  (49:29) I know. I call is the loop, like that constant feedback.   Heba Shaheed:  (49:32) That's right. And the thing is, that is very draining. That is very, very draining. Then you've got this rock hard brain that is completely devoid of lubrication, whereas today 10 years on, I can't even remember the last time I had a migraine. I can't remember the last time I had severe period pain. You can very drastically change it. And it's a constant work of it on daily basis. Obviously there are some times where I might regress and it's oftentimes where my mental state isn't well. Like if I fall into severe depression because of whatever, at the end of the day it is my thoughts and feelings. But certain events can trigger it.   Heba Shaheed:  (50:21) And that also comes down to trauma. We were talking about trauma just before, you mentioned trauma just before. Trauma, especially childhood trauma effects your hard-wiring. I was born into a very malevolent, narcissistic personality disorder family. To the point where there were times where I would be left by myself in the apartment crying my head off under the age of one, because of like no safety. No... Obviously that would've triggered a, what's it called? Fight or flight response in the brain. And we know that the nervous system is divided into two. Your sympathetic nervous system which is your fight, flight, freeze or fawn system. And your parasympathetic nervous system which is your relax, reproduce, digest, rest, chill system.   Heba Shaheed:  (51:17) If a baby is living in a chronic state of sympathetic nervous system hyperactivity, fight or flight, screaming and crying and being scared and feeling unsafe and all this sort of stuff, that's going to send your nervous system into overdrive. And your brain is just going to shrink, not shrink, but it's just going to become like that dried sponge. If it's a dried sponge, well all your nerves are coming out from your brain, well then those nerves aren't lubricated. Your immune system is then compromised. Your immune system is largely lubrication, right? It's mucous membranes.   Heba Shaheed:  (51:57) That's what I mean about going right back with my patients is that we're trying to figure out what caused this nervous system to go nuts? What caused your immune system to go nuts? And the musculoskeletal system is only the end product, the end thing. This all started way back when. It's like, "Okay, how do I then manage that?" Because I was one of those kids that when I was young, I had all this auto-immune stuff, like severe asthma, eczema, this condition called vitiligo where my skin turns white if I'm like severely stressed.   Tahnee:  (52:34) Yeah. I've seen that.   Heba Shaheed:  (52:36) It was just like super auto-immune type condition. And a lot of this stuff said, "Ah people say it's incurable. You'll just have to live with it. And maybe you'll grow out of it or something like that."   Tahnee:  (52:44) Those people are wrong.   Heba Shaheed:  (52:46) That's right. Exactly, because it's your immune system. Your immune system doesn't care, like it's trying to tell you that, "Help me. Help me. Save me. I need to feel safe."   Tahnee:  (53:03) This is the thing. If it's this line of defence, our protection and we're constantly being bombarded, like you're going to end up with immune responses.   Heba Shaheed:  (53:13) Mm-hmm (affirmative). If a patient comes to me and then they report to me that they had childhood asthma. I'm not going to be like, "Oh, you just had asthma." I'm going to be, "Woo, hang on."   Tahnee:  (53:21) Yeah, what happened?   Heba Shaheed:  (53:22) "Why did you have childhood asthma? Why did your immune system react like that?" And it's like 99% of the time that my patients will tell me and I'll be the first person that they've ever told, "Oh yes, this happened to me when I was little." Or something like that. There's a really, there's quite a correlation between persistent pelvic pain conditions and childhood trauma, whether we recognise it or not. And it could be just neglect. It could be neglect, it could be severe abuse, it could be sexual abuse, it could be physical abuse, emotional abuse. It could be anything. It could be sibling abuse, right?   Tahnee:  (53:55) I think even like-   Heba Shaheed:  (53:55) Or it could be bullying at school.   Tahnee:  (53:56) Yeah, I had a really, my family are loving and kind. But my parents had a really weird relationship and I'm super sensitive and I think took on a lot of that. And I disassociated from the body really early. I remember my mum having to be like, I'd be like, "I'm sick." And she's like, "Have you pooed today?" And I'd be like, "Oh yeah. I have to poo." I fully had that complete lack of biological connection. And it'd like that was my whole 20's it was working back to that. It's really interesting, because if I look at it, it's like I had a really happy childhood, but even just being in that energy all the time because I was sensitive to it.   Heba Shaheed:  (54:34) Absolutely.   Tahnee:  (54:35) It's like I can't [crosstalk 00:54:36] put blame onto them, but I have to do my own healing now to work out what my boundaries are.   Tahnee:  (54:43) And I'm curious, because you're an empathetic person and you're working with a lot of people's pain and suffering. Do you have boundaries for yourself on how much you can take on? Or how do you handle that sort of work?   Heba Shaheed:  (54:54) Ah yeah, for sure. I have massive, massive, massive boundaries. I only allow myself to work once to twice a week, and it depends on the week, it depends on my menstrual cycle.   Heba's Daughter: (55:09) I'm hungry.   Heba Shaheed:  (55:13) And with my patients, I used to think it was better to have breaks between patients, but it's not. For me, I need to just see them bang, bang, bang, one after the other with no break. Because then I don't allow all of the emotions to overwhelm me between patients.   Heba's Daughter: (55:32) I'm hungry. I'm hungry.   Heba Shaheed:  (55:35) That's my daughter crying out, "I'm hungry. I'm hungry."   Tahnee:  (55:38) I know, we're nearly finished, darling. They eat so much at three. My daughter's like a bottomless pit.   Heba Shaheed:  (55:44) I know.   Tahnee:  (55:44) It's ridiculous.   Heba Shaheed:  (55:48) Yeah, so.   Tahnee:  (55:50) Boundaries.   Heba Shaheed:  (55:50) Yeah, so boundaries. Yes, I discovered for myself that I need to see them bang, bang, bang, one after the other, because I couldn't allow myself to experience the overwhelm of emotion in between patients, because then it would be too draining to see the next patient. And then what I do is, I only, I actually see a lot of patients in one day. I can see between eight to 12 patients in one day, which is quite-   Tahnee:  (56:18) Whoa.   Heba Shaheed:  (56:18) A lot for-   Tahnee:  (56:18) That's heaps.   Heba Shaheed:  (56:20) Yeah. That's why I only work one to two days.   Tahnee:  (56:23) Yeah. Sure.   Heba Shaheed:  (56:23) And it depends. I do these really weird stuff, but before I go to work I tell myself, "Okay, who am I going to be today?"   Tahnee:  (56:38) Good. Yeah. I love this stuff.   Heba Shaheed:  (56:42) Which mask, which costume am I going to put on today? Even like now when I'm talking to you, this isn't the real, like it is, it's a part of me.   Tahnee:  (56:51) Yeah. It's one aspect of you.   Heba Shaheed:  (56:52) Mm-hmm (affirmative). But like the real me is actually very quiet and I kind of stick to myself, like a very introverted type of person. But, I'm like, "Okay, which costume am I going to put on today?" And that almost serves as like a physical barrier between my emotions and theirs. And then I have to physically tell myself, "Everything I feel today, none of this is my emotions. Anything that I feel," so like if I'm with a patient, the patient walks in and I immediately feel depressed, I'm like, "I know I am not depressed. She is depressed. Why is she depressed? What's happening?" Or if a patient walks in and they're like super happy, super excited and I suddenly feel like really bubbly and stuff, I'm like, "I know," I'm like, "Yes, I have the capacity," like obviously you have a capacity to be depressed and bubbly or whatever, "but in this moment every emotion that I'm feeling, is her emotion."   Heba Shaheed:  (57:45) Being conscious of that, so when the person walks in having that immediate consciousness of, "This isn't my emotion." And in that way I'm able to kind of, so I reflect. I imagine myself as a mirror and I'm reflecting her. So whatever I'm feeling is only hers. What I do, and this is a really amazing thing I've discovered is like I feel her emotion and then I allow myself to process her emotion, and then I actually speak out her emotion to her. I rationalise what she's feeling. And then she comes back to me with something, but it's allowed her to heal in that moment, that emotion that she was feeling, because instead of just feeling it inside, we've brought it to her outside. She's extroverted it out.   Heba Shaheed:  (58:30) And that in itself can be really powerful. What I've done, is I've also rationalised that it's not my feelings. It's like being very, very in the moment conscious of everything that you're feeling isn't actually your feeling, and it's theirs, but you're also letting them process their feelings. It's a really amazing thing to be an empath in the sense that you can allow other people to actually sort out their own feeling. It's a really amazing thing.   Tahnee:  (59:00) Yeah, in mirroring them.   Heba Shaheed:  (59:02) Yeah. And then-   Tahnee:  (59:04) Do you have meditation practises or anything as well around that? Or you just-   Heba Shaheed:  (59:07) What is it?   Tahnee:  (59:10) What do you do other... like yeah, obviously you're going to keep talking, so go. I jumped in.   Heba Shaheed:  (59:14) Oh, I was just saying and then at the end of the day I get on the train back home, and all I do is just filter everything out. I'm like, "Okay, what am I feeling right now? Is it mine? Or is it someone else's?" And then just letting it out. And then by the time I get to my car to go pick up my daughter, I've already sorted everything out, because I'm on the train for half an hour or whatever. It's like, "Okay, I've done it." And then it's like I could be super drained if I just let myself, because the thing is you have to filter them. Because in the past I hadn't done that and I would be so exhausted.   Tahnee:  (59:46) Oh it smashes you, yeah.   Heba Shaheed:  (59:47) After a day of work. Ah, my God, like I would be dead literally, and I'm just, "Leave me alone. Don't talk to me. I just cannot deal. I need to be on my own." But if you do that filtering process, and then you reflect on the day. And you reflect on how much you helped them, because remember as an empath helping other people, helps you as well. You feel that sense of, you get energy from that. And then it's the end of the day. And then I go pick up my daughter and I'm fine, because I know what's my feelings and what's not.   Heba Shaheed:  (01:00:17) I could do this every day if I wanted to, because I've kind of gotten really good at filtering my feelings, but I don't want to. Because I know there's a capacity to give, right? And a capacity to give, because we're giving people, but then there's also an importance of individually as well. I need to also be myself and do stuff that I want to do, and it's not always just about work and helping other people.   Tahnee:  (01:00:41) Yeah. And being a mum as well. For me certainly when I had my daughter, my priorities shifted a lot around she needs me more than others do a lot of the time. That's the priority.   Heba Shaheed:  (01:00:53) Absolutely. Especially that zero to seven really, it's like they need you, to nurture them.   Tahnee:  (01:01:02) Yeah. I wonder, I'll start wrapping up, but I was wondering if you had any advice for home care for the pelvic floor for people. Because I get frustrated that the Kegel thing, because I'm like that's not really good enough. But for so many people, it's pretty foreign territory down there. Is there stuff that people can-   Heba Shaheed:  (01:01:25) I'm not really a huge fan of Kegel, I actually am like well what the?   Tahnee:  (01:01:30) Yeah, it's just more tightening which people don't need.   Heba Shaheed:  (01:01:33) Yeah, so I don't. My focus for home care is more around your daily habits. We talked about it right at the beginning. Healthy bladder habits, going every three hours. Healthy bowels habits, going every day. And that means eating well, because we know your diet heavily influences your ability to empty your bowels. And just healthy bladder habits, healthy bowel habits, sexual health habits and vulva health habits as well. Like not using all these creams and douches and washes and all this stuff. The vagina's a self cleaning machine.   Tahnee:  (01:02:07) Leave it alone.   Heba Shaheed:  (01:02:08) Just use warm water. Yeah, just leave it. Don't put anything in there, except if you're having penetrative intercourse or if you're using jade eggs and whatever, that's okay as well. But, just leave it. Let it do its job, kind of thing. You don't want to mess with the PH and all that. And when you're having sex, simple hygiene practises.   Heba's Daughter: (01:02:31) [inaudible 01:02:31].   Heba Shaheed:  (01:02:31) Like washing your hands and stuff beforehand. And wiping from front to back. And emptying your bladder after sexual intercourse rather than before. And using a tissue. Stuff like that. Just simple sort of stuff. And even like the underwear that you wear and the pads that you wear. I'm a very, because I know this, I've seen it, like just simple thing of changing your pads to an organic cotton pad, or a menstrual cup or something, can be very helpful, rather than a lot of these mainstream pads and stuff that are like heavy with perfumes and toxins and stuff like that.   Tahnee:  (01:03:10) Yeah. And that stuff actually gets into your tissues and create issues.   Heba Shaheed:  (01:03:12) Mm-hmm (affirmative).   Heba's Daughter: (01:03:12) [crosstalk 01:03:12].   Tahnee:  (01:03:14) Yeah, inflammation. Okay, well, I think you have a little darling that needs you.   Tahnee:  (01:03:21) I will say thank you so much for your time and for this conversation. I really enjoyed speaking with you. And for anyone who wants to connect with Heba, she's on social media @thepelvicexpert and she's also online at www.thepelvicexpert.com.   Tahnee:  (01:03:36) I saw you have some courses up there. People can have online consultations. There's lots of ways people can reach you. Is there anything I've missed? Or anything else you wanted to add?   Heba Shaheed:  (01:03:46) Yeah, no that's all. If you are in Sydney and you do want to book a consult, if you have any complex

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With a background in psychiatric medicine, neurology, advanced ayahuasca dietas, psychedelic integration, and neurocognitive restoration, Dr. Dan Engle is one of the most unique and important voices in the psychedelic movement today. As founder of Full Spectrum Medicine and author of the new book The Concussion Repair Manual, Dr. Dan brings together a deep understanding of both the medical world and the psychedelic experience with an eye toward therapeutic personal transformation. Psychedelic Times founder Joe Mattia spoke with Dr. Dan recently at a mutual friend’s float studio, and their conversation ranges from Dan’s fascinating personal story of ayahuasca dietas in the jungle to his return to the Western world to advance the cause of integrative, soul-centered healing.   Sponsors: Dr. Bronner’s was founded in 1948 by Emanuel Bronner, a third- generation master soapmaker. He used the labels on his superb ecological soaps to spread his message that we must realize our unity across religious & ethnic divides or perish: “We are All-One or None!” Still family-owned and run, Dr. Bronner’s honors its founder’s vision by continuing to make socially & environmentally responsible products, and by dedicating our profits to help make a better world.   The Temple of the Way of Light is an ayahuasca center in Peru that opened in 2007. Their team of indigenous Shipibo healers represents over 250 years of experience practicing the ancient art of ayahuasca shamanism. The healers are supported by highly trained and experienced Western facilitators, who act as a critical cultural bridge between the healers and guests. The Temple was founded on the philosophy that an atmosphere of genuine care and compassion provides the optimum conditions for healing. Show Notes: The grassroots psychedelic movement [9:00] The powerful data from psychedelic research [12:00] The broken medical system [14:00] Psychiatry [15:00] Sustainability [8:00] Finding your truth [18:00] Ayahuasca and dietas in the jungle [20:30] Returning to civilization [26:30] Being an emissary from the forest [29:30] Full Spectrum Medicine [30:00] Western allopathic medicine [32:20] Pharmaceuticals [34:30] Detoxification and healing [37:30] Ibogaine addiction treatment [43:00] Drug policy and ibogaine experiences [50:00] Exploring the shadow [54:00] Being True to You [55:50] Preparation and integration [58:00] That place inbetween worlds [61:00] Kambo [62:00] Selected Quotes: On balancing vision and action: “It can be easy, particularly in the medicine space, to have the grand vision and to see the meta view, but it’s just as important- if not more important- to actualize that and move it into this 3-dimensional reality in the most effective way.” On returning to civilization after intense ayahuasca dietas: “I had married the medicine path so to speak, and I didn't have much of a desire or interest to come back to this way we collectively live in the West. But then I realized that if I was to be of support and a positive impact to the greatest degree that I could be, then it was probably not going to be just hanging out solo in the jungle. It was going to be coming back to potentially be a voice to bridge the psychedelic medicine community with the psychiatric medical community. If we do choose to see the right place that psychedelic medicines have in the unfolding potential of health care moving forward, then it’s helpful to have people who can speak from both perspectives.” On jungle medicine: “When we know that the pharmacy of the entire jungle itself, and the river system itself, with the soil and the animals and the plants and the fish and everything is this buffet of potential options for someone’s healing protocol, then all of these things are used synergistically.” On Deanne Adamson’s program Being True to You: “The program that Deanne has created with Being True to You does turn the whole addiction frame on its head. It encourages a shift from the victim role into an empowerment role. To be able to say “Ok, this experience that I’m going through is my journey towards personal development and towards a more whole, integrated self.” Some people choose the doorway of depression, some people choose the doorway of chronic anxiety, some people choose the doorway of chronic pain… we all have our own hero’s journey that we’re going through. And it is a liberating frame to be able to try on… all of a sudden, now it puts us in the driver’s seat.”

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Dr. Rozenn has practiced Integrative Medicine for over 15 years. She is a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine with dual specializations in Women’s Health and Pain Management. She teaches classes to Masters and Doctoral Students how to treat Women’s health and fertility issues at various Universities, and she has recently authored the book Your Fertility Program geared towards helping patients navigate the confusing field of infertility. In today’s episode will talk about the important role that Thyroid health plays in fertility, as well as the important role that having healthy menstrual cycles plays in fertility. We also talk about the Oriental medicine perspective, and how it differs from the western medical perspective. Topics discussed in today's episode How does thyroid health impact fertility? How can an unaddressed thyroid issue negatively impact fertility? What is the difference between the Allopathic or Western Medical perspective on thyroid conditions versus the Oriental Medicine perspective? Why is it important to know if there is an autoimmune component to a diagnosis of hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism? How can hypothyroidism present in a woman's menstrual cycle chart? How does hyperthyroidism differ from hypothyroidism? How does a woman's basal body temperature relate to her thyroid? Why are thyroid conditions so common, especially in women? How do environmental contaminants impair thyroid function? Is it possible to heal the thyroid? Is it possible to treat thyroid disorders without medication? Connect with Maureen You can connect with Maureen on her Website, and on Facebook and Twitter! Resources mentioned Acupuncture Santa Cruz | Dr. Maureen Rozenn Your Fertility Program | Dr. Maureen Rozenn Your Fertility Program (book) | Dr. Maureen Rozen Join the community! Find us on the Fertility Friday Facebook Fan Page Subscribe to the Fertility Friday Podcast on iTunes! Music Credit: Intro/Outro music Produced by Sirc of (The Nock)

Join us in a conversation with Shiroko Sokitch, MD, a physician, successfully incorporating her Western Medical practice with a Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture practice. We will find out if there are advantages in combining both practices when it comes … Continue reading →

Join us in a conversation with Shiroko Sokitch, MD, a physician, successfully incorporating her Western Medical practice with a Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture practice. We will find out if there are advantages in combining both practices when it comes … Continue reading →

The Warburg Institute Conference - Translation and the Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Science Panel 3: Translation across cultural boundaries Chair: Joanna Woodall (Courtauld Institute) Clare Griffin (University College, London) ...

The Warburg Institute Conference - Translation and the Circulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Science Panel 3: Translation across cultural boundaries Chair: Joanna Woodall (Courtauld Institute) Clare Griffin (University College, London) ...

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