Protecting Your NEST with Dr. Tony Hampton

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Episode 36: Dr. Stephen Beeson Mar 05, 2021

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr Stephen Beeson is a Family Medicine Doctor, Medical Group Leader, and physician coach working in San Diego, California. He is the author of two best-selling books (Practicing Excellence and Engaging Physicians) and is an influential speaker for leaders, clinicians, and medical teams on the topics of engaging physicians, purpose-driven work, and coaching to impact patients and clinicians.

In their discussion, Drs. Tony and Stephen talk about Stephen's work which has to do with improving the ways in which clinicians engage with their patients for maximum success, the factors that make for optimal clinician/patient relationships, how to learn something effectively, what effective coaching looks like, philosophy of happiness (living life according to your deepest held beliefs), how the attitude of a leader effects the whole team, and clinician burnout.

Additionally, Dr. Beeson shares the factors that coalesce to make a great clinician with regard to patient relations, colleague relations, and efficiency/effectiveness as a doctor.

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Episode 35: Matt Janes Feb 26, 2021

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Matt Janes is an autonomic neuroscientist, nutritionist, as well as a functional medicine and mental health practitioner. He is also a keynote speaker, author, and works to help people resolve mental illness and chronic disease using diet. He has trained at Harvard, Berkley, and Liverpool universities as well as at the Institute of Functional Medicine.

In their discussion, Tony and Matt discuss the sadness, pain, and empathy involved in watching a loved one suffer from a mental illness, the work of Dr. Weston Price, the autonomic nervous system and how balance in this system relates to good mental health, the problem with diet-absolutism, and the role of Functional Medicine in the work that Matt does.

Additionally, Matt shares some insights about how a person's personality is usually a general indicator of what type of diet will work for them, the importance of tailoring dietary advice to individuals from a scientific perspective, and the science of how sleep, meditation, and exercise effects our mental health.

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Episode 34: Gary Taubes Feb 19, 2021

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Gary Taubes is an award winning scientist and health journalist as well as being the co-founder/director of the Nutrition Science Initiative. He is the author of several books, former staff writer for Discovery, and a correspondent for Science. He graduated from Harvard and Stanford with degrees in physics and engineering respectively.

In their discussion, Gary and Dr. Tony discuss the difference between good and bad science, historical paradigms for understanding the cause of obesity, Gary's new book, The Case for Keto, personal experiences with success on the Keto diet, historical perspective on the natural human diet, whether or not the LowCarb/ketogenic diet is sustainable, and Gary's motivation for continuing to pursue the nutrition-science related work he is doing.

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Episode 33: Jamie Sandoval Feb 12, 2021

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Jamie Sandoval is a nurse practitioner specialist in New Mexico. She has worked in critical care for seven years (mostly as an open heart recovery nurse). She has her bachelor of nursing from Eastern New Mexico University, and did her Family Practice Nurse Practitioner training at Walden University. She currently works for Presbyterian Medical Group Family Practice and is the Medical Director of Round 2 IV Infusion Clinic.

In their discussion today, Tony talks with Jamie about how she discovered the LowCarb/keto diet as a result of her search for a way of eating that would alleviate the pain from/cure the many ailments she was afflicted with, how she started utilizing her revolutionary dietary discovery to help her patients, and how to communicate effectively with patients and inspire them to take their healthcare into their own hands.

Additionally, Jamie shares some information regarding the culture of New Mexico and the indigenous communities of the state, the indigenous diet and foods of the state, the history of oppression of the native people in the area, and how this history has led to many of the unhealthy dietary traditions among the native people.

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Episode 32: Dr. Tro Kalayjian Feb 05, 2021

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Tro Kalayjian is a Board Certified Internal and Obesity medicine doctor who utilizes lifestyle/dietary changes to put chronic metabolic diseases into remission. He himself has lost over 150lbs and has helped countless people meet their health goals.

In their discussion, Drs. Tony and Tro talk about systemic oppression and medically underserved communities, how the American medical system could do better with respect to obese patients and minority communities, how Dr. Tro discovered the Low Carb diet, Dr. Tro's lifestyle counseling methodology for patients seeking metabolic health, why it can be important to focus on hunger and satiety when seeking to help a patient achieve their goals, the danger that can come from "cheating" on your diet, and the carnivore diet.

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Episode 31: Discussing the COVID-19 Vaccine with Rashard Johnson Jan 31, 2021

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Rashard Johnson is the president of Advocate Trinity Hospital in Chicago and South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, Illinois. He has a Masters in Health Services Administration from the University of Central Florida and has vast experience working in hospitals all over the country.

In this episode Dr. Tony and Rashard discuss a very relevant and timely subject—the COVID-19 vaccine. To begin their conversation, Dr. Tony shares some historical context pertinent for a discussion of why members of the African American community may be hesitant to get vaccinated. Following this, Tony and Rashard share some personal experiences of racism in the workplace, on the road, and in other contexts.

With regard to the vaccine, Rashard shares some of the apprehensions he initially had to receiving it as well as some questions he had about it, and Dr. Tony responds to each one.

Additionally, they talk about their respective experiences of receiving the vaccine, why communities of color are disproportionately being effected by the virus, the contents/ingredients of the COVID vaccine, the virus mutation in South Africa and whether the vaccine will be effective against this mutation, whether you should get the vaccine if you have already had the virus or are very healthy already, and the statistical effectiveness of the various vaccines that are available.

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Episode 30: Martha Tettenborn RD Jan 22, 2021

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Martha Tettenborn RD is a health coach, cancer survivor, author of Hacking Chemo, and, in addition to being a Registered Dietician, is a certified Primal Health Coach focusing on providing help to her clients using the principals of Ancestral Health.

Over the course of this conversation, Dr. Tony and Martha discuss how cancer metabolizes energy, Canada's new health guidelines, studies regarding the effects of fasting on the success of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, and how chemotherapy works in the body to kill cancer and why it can work more effectively when the body is in a fasted state.

Additionally, Martha talks about the difficulties of being a regulated health professional trying to help patients with unconventional methods, how she has creatively discovered how to reach people with her knowledge in spite of this challenge, and how she stayed in a healthy and positive state of mind during her battle with cancer.

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Episode 29: Nina Teicholz Jan 15, 2021

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Nina Teicholz is the executive director of the Nutrition Coalition, an investigative science journalist, author of the international bestselling book, The Big Fat Surprise, and she has testified before the Canadian Senate as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture with regard to the need to reform dietary guidelines based on sound science. She attended Yale and Stanford where she studied biology and majored in American Studies, received her Masters degree from Oxford, and served as associate director of the Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at Columbia University.

The topics of discussion in this episode include how Nina came to be interested in investigating and writing in the field of nutrition, the purpose and scope of different types of scientific studies, which types of studies, largely speaking, are generating the data that is informing our dietary guidelines, the difference between correlation and causation, conflicts of interest and demonstrable bias amongst members of committees and subcommittees whose purpose is to do nutritional research or make guidelines, various other concerns that Nina has with regard to how our nutritional guidelines are formed, how the African American and other minority communities could be particularly effected in a negative way by following the guidelines, and the different ways that diet vs pills work in your body to combat health problems.

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Episode 28: Dr. Sheri Prentiss Jan 08, 2021

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Sheri Prentiss is a best selling author, speaker, board certified Occupational and Environmental Medicine Doctor, a public health expert, owner of her own healthcare consulting business, ordained minister, and host of the Where Medicine Meets Ministry podcast.

The topics of discussion in this conversation include the purposes of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the experience of fighting breast cancer, the relationship between faith and medical care, the risk to cancer patients of developing lymphedema, how to avoid developing lymphedema, and the impact of stress on physical health.

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Episode 27: Dr. Shayna Peter Jan 01, 2021

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Today's guest is a functional medicine doctor, holistic dermatology specialist, founder of Well Ahead Chicago—a Functional Medicine practice for people with unresolved skin conditions—author, and has published articles in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. Please welcome Dr. Shayna Peter.

In this discussion, the topics covered include the definition/goals of Functional Medicine and how it differs from conventional medicine, understanding what factors may be causing a patient to develop acne, whether or not elimination diets can be beneficial for patients with acne, the importance of tailoring medical advice to each individual patient, and the importance of considering gut health when facing a chronic medical condition.

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