Radical Vitality

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Prevent Alzheimers, Optimize Your Brain Health + Live Your Best Life With Drs Ayesha & Dean Sherzai Mar 30, 2021

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If you are tired of the nutrition wars, mindless bickering among so called health experts and diet debates and are looking for REAL solutions for optimal brain and overall health, this conversation is for you.
Drs. Ayesha and Dean Sherzai are clinicians, researchers and educators on a mission to help us prevent Alzheimers disease, prevent cognitive decline and enjoy optimal brain (and overall) health through the power of science-based dietary and lifestyle measures.
Learn about the best diet for brain health based on the scientific evidence and other key lifestyle practices that can help you show up as the sharpest version of yourself so you can share your gifts with the world, be present for those you love and essentially live a life of radical vitality.
Pick up their new book THE 30 DAY ALZHEIMER'S SOLUTION here and follow them on Instagram @sherzaimd.

About the Sherzais:
Dr. Dean Sherzai is a behavioral neurologist / neuroscientist whose entire life has been dedicated to behavioral change models at the community and population level. He has revolutionized the world of public health nationally and internationally. Dean finished his medical and neurology residencies at Georgetown University with a subsequent fellowship in neurodegenerative diseases at the National Institutes of Health, followed by a second fellowship in Dementia and Geriatrics at the University of California, San Diego. He also holds two master’s Degrees; in advanced sciences at UCSD and in lifestyle epidemiology from Loma Linda University. He has received a PhD in Healthcare leadership focused on community empowerment from Loma Linda/Andrews University. Finally, he completed the executive leadership program at Harvard Business School. His vision has always been to revolutionize healthcare by empowering communities to take control of their own health.
Dr. Ayesha Sherzai finished two residencies at Loma Linda University; preventive medicine and neurology. She also holds a master’s in advanced sciences from UCSD. Subsequent to completing her residency Dr. Sherzai completed a fellowship in vascular neurology from Columbia University, and is currently enrolled to finish a PhD in women’s leadership. Knowing the importance of empowering her patients, and their communities Ayesha completed an extensive culinary training program and now teaches large populations how to make tasty, easy, and healthy food for their brain health.

How To Stop Feeling So Effing Tired With Dr. Amy Shah Mar 12, 2021

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If you are ready to go from feeling effing tired to effing fantastic, this episode with the wise and inspiring Dr. Amy Shah is a must listen.
Dr. Amy Shah is a Cornell, Harvard and Columbia trained double board certified physician who realised she herself was on the brink of burnout. When a dark moment in a car crash served as a wake up call, she decided that this sense of constant fatigue wasn't ok or normal and there had to be another way.
Combining the science around circadian rhythms, time restricted eating, fasting, microbiome and emotional health, Dr. Shah's blueprint is a game changing, revolutionary, science backed approach to reclaiming your energy and your life so you can enjoy Radical Vitality in this lifetime.
You can buy Dr Shah's brand new critically acclaimed book I'm So Effing Tired here and follow her on instagam @fastingmd.

Raising Healthy Kids In An Unhealthy World With Dr. Ana-Maria Temple Feb 12, 2021

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Dr. Ana-Maria Temple has been practicing medicine since 1995 and has treated over 36,000 patients. In her revolutionary new book The Rule of 5, Dr Temple shares her blueprint to transform our kids' (and families') health so we can live long, vibrant, disease-free lives.
Dr Temple's approach focuses on less not more medications, recognising that food and lifestyle can be our most potent solutions.Dr Temple also knows that in our modern world, this isn't always easy. Her own experience with her kids and their health struggles have led her to develop a very practical, step up step, compassionate and actionable road map where wellness is a family affair and every baby step adds up to more vitality for your kids and yourselves.
In this episode, Dr Ana-Maria educates, inspires and empowers us to raise healthy, strong, resilient kids by focusing on progress not perfection. She has inspired me to take the baby steps towards better family health and I know she will do the same for you.
Pick up Dr. Ana-Maria's book The Rule of 5 or learn more about working with her here. You can also follow her on instagram where she is always sharing valuable uplifting content to inspire radical vitality for our families and ourselves.

Dr. Anna Yusim: Becoming Fulfilled Through Science & Spirituality Jan 08, 2021

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Anna Yusim went to the best colleges in America, got her medical degree from Yale University and did a Psychiatry residency at NYU. On paper, everything looked perfect, but somehow, despite all the external accomplishments, Dr. Yusim felt unfulfilled. In her journey to find personal fulfilment and happiness beyond that which is promised by the material world, she discovered the science of spirituality and began to integrate her discoveries into her own life and the lives of her patients, affecting their mental and overall health in profound ways.
In this heartfelt conversation, Dr Yusim shares the thesis of her incredible book FULFILLED: HOW THE SCIENCE OF SPIRITUALITY CAN HELP YOU LIVE A HAPPIER MORE MEANINGFUL LIFE. Her tips are practical, powerful and will result in a profound deepening of your wellbeing as it has done for so many of her patients. To learn more about Dr. Anna Yusim and her important work, visit https://www.annayusim.com/ and grab a copy her game changing book FULFILLED here.

Feeding Kids, Taking The Pressure Off & Self-Care with Jennifer Anderson of Kids.Eat.In.Color Dec 04, 2020

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Jennifer Anderson, MSPH, RDN is a social media sensation with her Instagram account kids.eat.in.color now at over a million followers and her pragmatic, inclusive, empathetic and knowledgable advice on how to feed kids with minimal stress often going viral (for good reason)!

I had the good fortune of being able to sit down with Jennifer to chat about the inspiration for her platform, her powerful and down-to-earth approach to nourish our kids (and ourselves as moms!), her own health struggles and how she overcame them, and all her incredible programs, offerings and free resources to help more parents raise adventurous eaters without the stress and anxiety that is all too common these days.

This chat was honest, refreshing and packed with insight. You can follow Jennifer on instagram @kids.eat.in.color or visit her website at www.kidseatincolor.com

The Unique Nutritional Needs Of Women With Dr. Erin Stokes of MegaFood Nov 18, 2020

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This episode is sponsored by MegaFood but all opinions and discussion points are my own.

When it comes to recommendations on nutrition and health, the unique needs of women are often overlooked. In this episode, packed with information and insight, Dr. Erin Stokes, the Medical Director at MegaFood guides us through specific micronutrients and other aspects of health that women need to pay attention to for optimal vitality. If you are a woman looking to access your deepest health and radiance of body AND mind, this is a conversation you do not want to miss.

More about Dr. Erin Stokes

Erin received her Naturopathic Doctor degree from Bastyr University in 2001. Shortly afterwards she pursued her passion for education by becoming an instructor at Southwest Acupuncture College.

Erin combines her experience in private practice as a Naturopathic Doctor with an extensive background in the natural products industry. In her role as Medical Director at MegaFood, she has the opportunity to educate on health and wellness topics via webinars, podcasts, and radio shows. She is a registered Naturopathic Doctor in the state of Colorado, and lives with her family in Boulder, Colorado.

More about MegaFood

MegaFood is a leader in the natural supplements industry and the first company to have harnessed the nutritional power of farm fresh foods to make vitamins and supplements from scratch. They are a certified B corp, joining together with some of the world’s best brands to not just be the best in the world, but to be the best for the world by being committed to meeting rigorous standards for social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. You can learn more about MegaFood and their top quality supplements and products here.

This Is Your Brain On Food with Harvard Nutritional Psychiatrist Dr. Uma Naidoo Oct 23, 2020

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What we eat doesn't just impact our physical health but also has powerful implications for our mental health. In fact, the body and the mind are intimately connected and to help us understand how we can optimize our brain health with food, I sat down with Dr. Uma Naidoo, a rare kind of medical doctor who is not just a Harvard trained psychiatrist but also a nutrition expert AND a chef!!!! Dr. Naidoo recently released the bestseller, THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON FOOD and shares potent tips to help us improve our brain health with delicious food starting right now. You can learn more about Dr Uma Naidoo here and follow her on Instagram @drumanaidoo

More about Dr. Uma Naidoo

Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space: a Harvard trained psychiatrist, Professional Chef graduating with her culinary schools’ most coveted award, and a trained Nutrition Specialist. Her nexus of interests have found their niche in Nutritional Psychiatry.

Dr. Naidoo founded and directs the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the United States. She is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at MGH Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School.

She was considered Harvard’s Mood-Food expert, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Non-Toxic: A Guide To Living Healthy In A Chemical World with Dr. Aly Cohen Sep 29, 2020

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When it comes to chemicals in our food supply, homes and environment, ignorance is sadly, not bliss. Mounting research continues to suggest that these chemicals, all too rampant in our modern world, are wreaking havoc on our health.

In this actionable and insightful episode, Dr. Aly Cohen, author of the newly released Non-Toxic and founder of www.thesmarthuman.com helps us understand WHY we should care about chemicals and what to do about them without feeling the need to be perfect or paranoid.

If you want to take your health or the health of your families seriously, this episode is an invaluable resource to detoxifying your life in an approachable, practical and accessible way.

More about Dr. Aly Cohen

Dr. Aly Cohen is tripled board certified in internal medicine, rheumatology, and integrative medicine, and she is also a trained specialist in environmental health. She specializes in a variety of rheumatologist ailments as well as mental health issues, migraines, dementia prevention, diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, obesity, and women’s health.

Dr. Cohen received her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to medical training at Hahnemann University Hospital School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. Dr. Cohen continued her specialist training in rheumatology and autoimmune diseases at Montefiore Hospital/Albert Einstein University Hospital in the Bronx, New York. Dr. Cohen is currently in private practice in Princeton, New Jersey. Her practice, that she founded in 2011, Integrative Rheumatology Associates P.C., focuses on both traditional western medical management of rheumatologic ailments, as well as integrative options for total “wellness”, such as biofeedback, acupuncture, cognitive therapy, diet and exercise counseling, environmental toxin counseling, smoking cessation, stress management and sleep evaluations.

Learn more at www.thesmarthuman.com and follow Dr. Aly Cohen on Instagram @thesmarthuman

How Intermittent Fasting Can Change Your Life With Dr. Amy Shah Aug 07, 2020

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Intermittent fasting is an ancestral practice that has become ultra trendy in the modern day. But is all fasting created equal? And how can we leverage the science of circadian biology and fasting to properly implement these age old practices in our modern lives?
To help us navigate these important issues, I sat down with double board certified, Cornell, Columbia and Harvard trained medical doctor, Dr. Amy Shah also know as @fastingmd. Amy experienced the transformative effects of what she calls CIRCADIAN FASTING in her own life and has helped countless patients experience the same shift in their energy levels, digestion, hormonal and overall health through fasting done correctly.

In this conversation, Amy shares incredibly valuable, nuanced strategies to practice intermittent fasting correctly for both short term gains and longer term health and vitality. Amy also points out the most common mistakes people, especially women, make when beginning a fasting protocol.

If you are interested in how to leverage the power of fasting to live your best life, this conversation is a must listen.

You can learn more about Amy's work and mission on instagram @fastingmd or at https://amymdwellness.com/

The Healing Magic of Herbs With Rachelle Robinett Jul 16, 2020

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In this episode, we dive deep into the magic of herbs for health with Rachelle Robinett, an Herbalist & Holistic Health Practitioner combining plant-based and natural medicine with practical lifestyle habit reshaping to help people find balanced, lasting health.
Rachelle holds certificates in Complementary and Integrative Health, and Clinical Herbalism, and has been studying the relationship between plants and people her entire life - be that on a farm in the Pacific Northwest (where she grew up) to time with healers, specialists, and shaman in farther-away places.
Rachelle is the founder of Supernatural, a New York based company dedicated to real-world wellness and including Supernatural cafe, a product line of herbal gummies (HRBLS), ongoing workshops and events, and one-on-one health coaching. Entrenched in the wellness world but with an eye on the rest of the world, Rachelle brings a global perspective to individual health.
Follow Rachelle on social at @rachellerobinett and use the code SPICE for a discount on all her offerings.

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