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After decades in more traditional settings as a medical doctor and surgeon, Dr. Darshan Shah became tired of the disease-focused healthcare system in which he worked; rather than addressing a person as a whole, as he believes should be done, doctors seem to be encouraged to provide pills and surgery, thereby masking underlying problems. He decided to become part of the solution and started Next Health, a "health optimization and longevity center." Next Health applies the latest science and technology to create effective evaluation and treatments for their members in order to help people take control of their health before pills and surgery are even on the table.
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Next Health currently has two locations in Los Angeles and plans for locations in New York City, San Francisco, and Orange County.
Visit the Next Health website at www.Next-Health.com or Instagram at @next_health.
Despite being otherwise enamored by the intrigue of holography, Dr. Daniel Smalley says that unfortunately the scene in Avengers during which Tony Stark puts his gloved hands into holographic projections would not be possible; holography couldn't allow light to travel through his hands and certainly couldn't bend the light to go around it. Such imagery could, however, be created by 3D projections and Dr. Smalley, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Brigham Young University, is happy to tell us how.
Listen in to learn more about holography and 3D projection technology, including its potential uses in medicine, aerospace surveillance, and telepresence. Visit his website at www.smalleyholography.org and the Brigham Young University ElectroHolography Research Group at https://holography.byu.edu.
Marian Bacol-Uba, bestselling author, TEDx Speaker, conscious business coach and founder of Thriver Lifestyle, provides valuable insight on the many ways we can maximize our potential and lead more productive happier lives.
Marian is passionate about empowering women, helping them reach their full potential to thrive in not only business but in their personal lives as well. She understands the roadblocks that many faces on their journey to fulfillment, because she has faced them herself, and overcome them.
The coach and author talk about her background, and how she arrived at her current career and passion—helping others to improve their lives and maximize their potential. She speaks candidly about the abuse she suffered, as well as her past problems with drugs and alcohol. As she explains, she went on to become incredibly successful in business but was still leading a double life, trying to numb her pain with alcohol and drugs, and in 2014 she overdosed and had a near-death, out-of-body experience that changed her. Seeking to change her life, she moved from LA to Miami, to start over and begin a life transformation, looking inward to heal herself. Marian began extensive research into healing and meditation; she attended conferences and read book after book, seeking the answers that would improve her life completely. Through the process, she healed herself from the inside out, and she began to wonder why this information was not readily available for everyone. She came to the conclusion that she needed to take all that she learned and develop a program and coach others to find ways to heal themselves as well.
Marian's intensive journey of personal healing, transformation, and development, has helped her to help others. She talks about the importance of disrupting negative patterns, and how we can all change our mindset and bring positive thinking into our daily lives. Marian talks about her clients and how she works with people. While she predominantly works with women, she does have male clients as well. She talks about her typical coaching scenarios and the methods and practices that are involved.
Wrapping up, Marian talks about abundance and how we can all be successful. She discusses her big goals for career and life, and how we can get our maximized results when we remove distraction from our lives. And she explains how her one-on-one coaching is what makes her thrive, and is her motivation for pushing forward, as she sees her clients reach their own goals.
In this episode, we are joined by Corrado Spadafora of the Institute of Translational Pharmacology and the Italian National Research Council. Spadafora gives us an inside look at how his laboratory discovered that mature sperm cells of several species can take up DNA molecules from outside themselves and bring that DNA to oocytes during fertilization. Because this can compromise the genetic identity of the resulting embryo, the seminal fluid that surrounds sperm protects it from exogenous DNA upon ejaculation.
However, the sperm cells are not protected when still in the epididymous. While Spadafora is more focused on the evolutionary implications of these findings, he does note some possible medical consequences; particularly the suggestion that the father's lifestyle and environmental conditions could be reflected in the makeup of his children, potentially predisposing them to certain metabolic conditions.
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Dr. Thomas O'Bryan, DC, CCN, DACBN, sought-after speaker and recognized expert on autoimmune diseases, offers us his interesting perspective and deep knowledge on health, food sensitivities, toxins in our environment, and the development of autoimmune diseases. His book, The Autoimmune Fix: How to Stop the Hidden Autoimmune Damage That Keeps You Sick, Fat, and Tired Before It Turns Into Disease is a must-read for everyone who wants to find a path to better health.
Dr. O'Bryan's mission: 'Making It Easy to Do the Right Thing' is more than an idea, it's a way of life. Dr. O'Bryan is an internationally celebrated, sought-after speaker on multiple issues that affect our health, from environmental toxins, to food sensitivities, to the early development of autoimmune diseases and how to manage them.
Dr. O'Bryan talks about his journey, the path that inspired him and led him to his current passion—helping people lead healthier lives. He talks about some early problems he and his wife had with infertility. Through his research he found the key to fertility issues that opened the door to a healthy pregnancy, and he quickly became the go-to guy for couples who were experiencing problems with infertility and just couldn't get pregnant. He explains testing, and some of the mineral deficiencies that relate to fertility issues.
As Dr. O'Bryan explains, most traditional health practitioners are simply not trained to go 'upstream' as he calls it, meaning they don't often know how to take a deeper look into issues that could be confounding or extremely complex. As he explains, traditional health practitioners are more like 'crisis practitioners' as they deal with crises, and they do it well, but there are many underlying issues in 'healthcare medicine' that could be overlooked.
Dr. O'Bryan talks in detail about environmental toxins, and provides some surprising information about common products that may be putting toxins into our bodies, products that millions of people use daily. He talks about toxins in regard to accumulation, explaining that long term use of a toxic product, or exposure, are possible paths to health
problems.
The autoimmune disease expert discusses the concept of patience, meaning that we all need to take a more patient path to solving our health problems, applying sensible principles to improve our health overall instead of looking for the quick fix, as we so often do. As he explains, reading is the key, as there is a wealth of information on health, and how we can all go upstream, meaning we can find better solutions, better ways of managing our health, and new ways of eradicating toxins from our bodies and our environment.
Jianyi "Jay" Zhang, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, delivers an insightful overview of his extensive education, work, and research in cardiac tissue engineering and heart-related issues in general.
Dr. Zhang is an internationally recognized leader in myocardial bioenergetics, biomaterials, and stem cells for use in cardiac repair. Dr. Zhang is a tenured Professor of Medicine and of Engineering. He is the T. Michael and Gillian Goodrich Endowed Chair of Engineering Leadership, as well as the aforementioned Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Zhang talks about his background and research interests, which include, cardiac tissue engineering, NMR imaging, and heart failure. Dr. Zhang explains that myocardial bioenergetics pertains to how energy is produced in the mitochondria, transported, and utilized to generate force to pump blood. Dr. Zhang explains how the processes work, and some of the reasons why hearts fail to pump properly.
The research doctor explains the energy metabolism reserve as it relates to dysfunction. He talks energy production in detail as he explains how the mitochondria can utilize glucose, fatty acid, and literally anything available. Dr. Zhang states that researchers are getting closer each day to understanding some of the complex problems of the heart, getting closer to being able to alter pathways—to utilize as a therapy method to prevent heart failure altogether or at least delay its occurrence.
Dr. Zhang talks about the structure of the heart and its various components. He explains the use of gene therapy in their work, and discusses the current work and research regarding the use of patches that could possibly cure debilitating heart failure.
Dr. Zhang earned his MD from Shanghai Medical University in the early 80s, and went on to earn a PhD in biomedical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1992. In addition, Dr. Zhang holds a master of science in engineering as well as a certificate of business administration from the prestigious Tufts University in Massachusetts. Dr. Zhang completed his post-doc work at the University of Minnesota in the Cardiovascular Division.
"If none of the existing definitions of 'life' please you, then why don't you find one yourself?" While not verbatim, this was the challenge presented by an undergraduate student to Arnold de Loof while he was teaching zoology at the University of Leuven in the 1970s. So began his years of searching for a suitable answer, during which he discovered a flaw central to many definitions: they compared living things to non-living things, rather than examining what changes when something goes from being alive to no longer living. So what changes at the moment of death? Tune in to find out.
De Loof has authored several papers, many of which can be found on ResearchGate and Pubmed. He has also written two books, What is Life: The Immaterial Dimension, and Communication, Life, Mega-Evolution: Decrypting Life's Nature.
Albert Presto, Associate Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, provides an overview of the ways our air quality is changing and what is being done to improve air quality.
As an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dr. Presto is passionate about his work; his research focuses on important areas of science concerning pollutant emissions from energy extraction and consumption, as well as the ensuing atmospheric transformations that these types of emissions go through. Dr. Presto holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Presto discusses his background, and his work as a member of CMU's Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies. Dr. Presto explains his particular interests and some of the areas they focus their efforts upon, such as understanding how air quality impacts various environments from neighborhood to neighborhood. He explains how weather and topography play a role in pollution drift and air quality. Source activity, such as roads and highways, also obviously play a role.
Dr. Presto explains the dose-response curve. A dose–response relationship describes the significance of of an organism's response, as a function of its exposure to stimulus or perhaps a particular stressor over a span of exposure time. These dose–response relationships are often described by dose–response curves. He explains the levels of particulate matter that exist in certain areas, such as areas of a city that may have a large amount of restaurants, because cooking is one of the activities that can increase types of emissions. Dr. Presto explains the role of the sun in changing chemistry, detailing the mechanisms related to how it can affect air quality.
And the scientific researcher discusses ways that we can work to reduce emissions. Additionally, he talks about some of the legislative bills that are being passed that relate to air quality and emissions monitoring.
If you want to establish a routine of getting up early, but are faced with the difficult task of first getting to sleep on time, Jeff Sanders offers this advice: for three days, get up early, work out in the morning, and avoid caffeine. You may be tired for those few days, but you will ultimately set yourself up for a schedule that allows you to be your most productive self. Sanders, founder of JeffSanders.com and author of The 5 AM Miracle: Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast, joins the podcast today to share his experience and tips for becoming an early riser, and the benefits it can bring to your life.
Click play to hear more. Sanders also hosts a podcast, The 5 AM Miracle Podcast. You can find the podcast, his books, and other resources at https://www.jeffsanders.com.
"Your home is your castle and it's the place you're going to heal from the ravages of the day, and you want to have a clean environment for yourself," says Lawrence Gust, who has a long history of helping people determine the ways in which their homes and offices could be affecting their health and quality of life. Due to the massive influx of wireless technology over the past couple of decades, Gust has become largely involved in the evaluation and mitigation of electromagnetic radiation in the environment.
Wireless routers, wireless phones, entertainment systems, virtual assistants…there is no doubt that these products have made our lives more convenient and more exciting, but what else are they doing to our lives? Are we paying a greater price than they're worth, without even knowing it? And is there a way to protect our well-being while still enjoying modern technology? These are just a couple of the questions Gust explores in today's episode.
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