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Why Eliminating Meat From Our Diet Isn’t The Solution To Climate Change with Anya Fernald Feb 24, 2021

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Why Eliminating Meat From Our Diet Isn’t The Solution To Climate Change | This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Thrive Market, and BLUBlox

Human health is dependent on planetary health. A healthy planet coincides with healthy animals; when we look at the way public health and our climate have changed with the industrialization of agriculture, animals are a key focus. We often hear the argument that in order to solve climate change we need to stop eating meat. What these people aren’t realizing is that animal agriculture done right is actually part of the solution. That is a big stipulation because the methods used to raise meat can make or break our climate crisis and our health.

I’m thrilled to sit down today with Anya Fernald to discuss the ins and outs of regenerative farming and animal practices. Anya Fernald is the co-founder and CEO of Belcampo. Belcampo operates 27,000 acres of organic farmland in California and processes its own livestock for sale in its own butcher shops and restaurants. Anya has two decades of leadership and entrepreneurship experience in high-quality, organic and premium foods. Given her expertise on meat and leadership within the meat industry, Anya has been profiled in The New Yorker and The New York Times, and has served as a regular judge on Iron Chef America on The Food Network since 2009. She has been recognized as one of Inc. Magazine’s 100 Female Founders, one of the 40 under 40 by Food & Wine, and was named a Nifty Fifty by The New York Times.

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Here are more of the details from our interview:

Anya’s childhood love of cooking, her early career in the culinary world, and experiences working in Europe (8:19)

Anya’s transition away from vegetarianism (12:16)

The value of low and slow animal farming (15:44)

How beef came to be villainized and why it isn’t the enemy (21:05)

Animal wellness and its connection to human wellness (30:38)

Why animal agriculture is needed to restore our ecosystems (36:25)

Is a regenerative burger better or worse for the climate than an Impossible burger? (42:44)

Why over a third of meat is thrown away in the United States (44:34)

Scaling regenerative agriculture (49:09)

The top policy recommendations Anya would make to improve agriculture (1:01:25)

For a limited time, Belcampo is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners a 20% discount for new customers using the code FARMACY20 at belcampo.com (exclusions do apply).

Follow Belcampo on Facebook @belcampomeatco, on Instagram @belcampomeatco, and on Twitter @BelcampoMeat.

Follow Anya on Facebook @anyaf, on Instagram @anyafernald, and on Twitter @anyafernald.

Ask Mark Q&A #9: Protein, Allergies, Lowering Cholesterol, And More Feb 23, 2021

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In this Q&A series, Dr. Mark Hyman takes live questions from his community. For a chance to speak with Dr. Hyman during a future Ask Mark Q&A, text your question to 413-225-8995 using the hashtag #askmark

Topics covered in this episode include:

Reaping the benefits of grass-fed, grass-finished beef

Getting to the root cause of illness

Detoxing from heavy metals

Treating allergies

Metabolic health, flexibility, and resilience

What are the best skin products to use?

Introducing the Pegan Diet to your household

Genetically driven high cholesterol

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Mentioned in this episode:

How To Activate Nature’s Healing Potential with Zach Bush

Institute for Functional Medicine's webinar, COVID-19 Vaccines: Current Evidence and Clinical Considerations

An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases

Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues

10 Day Reset

10 Day Reset - Free Guide

Environmental Working Group (EWG)

EWG’s Skin Deep

EWG’s Healthy Living: Home Guide

Eat Fat, Get Thin

Autism: Getting To The Root Cause With Functional Medicine with Dr. George Papanicolaou Feb 22, 2021

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Autism: Getting To The Root Cause With Functional Medicine | This episode is sponsored by Athletic Greens and Betterhelp

Rates of autism have skyrocketed over the years, from an estimated 1 child in 5,000 in the 1960s and 1970s to just 1 in 54 kids today. The diagnosis of autism can be shocking and difficult for parents and families which may leave them feeling isolated, alone, helpless, and hopeless, but it doesn’t have to be that way. While we don’t have all the answers, and more research is needed to identify and validate the causes and treatment of autism, there are new signs of hope. And there is no such thing as “autism.” Rather there are “autisms”—different patterns of biological dysfunction unique to each child that result in multiple insults to the brain that all manifest with symptoms we call autism. Like every condition or illness, the key is to dig into the layers and peel the onion to discover what is really happening. It is not usually one thing but a collection of insults, toxins, and deficiencies piled on susceptible genetics that leads to autism.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. George Papaicolaou to discuss the Functional Medicine approach to treating children with autism. They also share specific patient stories that they have treated.

George Papanicolaou is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and is Board Certified in Family Medicine from Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also an Institute for Functional Medicine Practitioner. Upon graduation from his residency he joined the Indian Health Service. He worked on the Navajo reservation for 4 years at the Chinle Comprehensive Medical Facility where he served as the Outpatient Department Coordinator. In 2000, he founded Cornerstone Family Practice in Rowley, MA. He practiced with a philosophy centered on personal relationships and treating the whole person, not just not the disease. He called that philosophy “Whole Life Wellness”. Over time as the healthcare system made it harder for patients to receive this kind of personal care Dr. Papanicolaou decided a change was needed. He began training in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine. In 2015, he established Cornerstone Personal Health – a practice dedicated entirely to Functional Medicine. Dr. Papanicolaou to join The UltraWellness Center in 2017.

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In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Papanicolaou discuss:

The significant rise in autism cases

Recent changes to environmental factors, including food and toxins

The role of inflammation in autism

Conventional vs functional medicine treatment of autism

Sleep and behavioral issues in children with autism

Autism, gut health, and mitochondrial dysfunction

Eliminating gluten and dairy

Additional Resources:

New Science-Based Approaches to Treating Autism with Dr. Theresa Lyons

https://drhyman.com/blog/2019/05/09/bb-ep54/

A Functional Medicine Approach to Autism

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2017/09/08/a-functional-medicine-approach-to-autism/

Improving Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): Does a Gluten and Dairy Free Diet Really Make a Difference?

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2017/08/21/improving-autism-spectrum-disorders-asd-does-a-gluten-and-dairy-free-diet-really-make-a-difference/

Dr. Elizabeth Boham on The Doctor’s Farmacy: How to Find the Real Cause of Your Disease and How to Fix It

https://www.ultrawellnesscenter.com/2019/11/04/dr-boham-on-the-doctors-farmacy-how-to-find-the-real-cause-of-your-disease-and-how-to-fix-it/

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The Pegan Diet: Eat Like A Regenetarian Feb 19, 2021

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Our agriculture system is destructive— for the earth and for human health. The food produced by industrial agriculture leads to at least 11 million deaths a year and drives our obesity epidemic. We need to build a regenerative system—one that regenerates the earth and human health. Regenerative agriculture is more profitable for farmers, produces higher yields, and better-quality food. When we vote with our dollars and our forks by choosing regeneratively grown food, we send a message to Big Food that we want more sustainable farms. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman discusses how to eat like a regenetarian, the ninth principle in his new book, “The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World” out February 23, 2021. Learn more and pre-order the book at pegandiet.com

The Pegan Diet is Dr. Hyman’s definitive guide to using food as medicine and understanding how food impacts every system of our body. It has 21 easy to follow principles for anyone, regardless of where they are on their health journey. It also contains 30 delicious Pegan-approved recipes. Get Dr. Hyman’s discount bundle which includes discounts to all of his favorite brands when you pre-order The Pegan Diet today.

Reflections On Living An Authentic Life with Matthew McConaughey Feb 17, 2021

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Reflections On Living An Authentic Life | This episode is brought to you by Paleovalley, ButcherBox, and Four Sigmatic

I was lucky enough to learn at a young age that we can write our own stories. We can become the authors of our own lives instead of the victims—living authentically is a cornerstone of that process. Throughout life we’re posed with obstacles, successes, and everything in between. My guest on today’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, the one and only Matthew McConaughey, shares how challenging events (redlights) can provide us with the opportunity for growth and success (greenlights), which is the focus of his new book Greenlights.

Academy Award–winning actor Matthew McConaughey is a husband, father of three children, and a loyal son and brother. He considers himself a storyteller by occupation, believes it’s okay to have a beer on the way to the temple, feels better with a day’s sweat on him, and is an aspiring orchestral conductor. In 2009, Matthew and his wife, Camila, founded the just keep livin Foundation, which helps at-risk high school students make healthier mind, body, and spirit choices. In 2019, McConaughey became a professor of practice at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as Minister of Culture/M.O.C. for the University of Texas and the City of Austin. McConaughey is also brand ambassador for Lincoln Motor Company, an owner of the Major League Soccer Club Austin FC, and co-creator of his favorite bourbon on the planet, Wild Turkey Longbranch.

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Here are more of the details from our interview:

What Matthew found when he looked back on the journals he kept over 30 years (8:12)

The science of satisfaction (11:25)

Being an author vs. victim of your life (14:16)

Reframing selfishness (16:28)

Matthew’s recurring dream and what he did to follow it (23:16)

The transformative wrestling match that Matthew inadvertently found himself participating in (29:36)

Prioritizing what matters most to you (42:08)

How relinquishing need can bring in more (48:09)

The power of journaling and writing down your thoughts (49:10)

Get a copy of Matthew’s book, Greenlights athttps://greenlights.com/.

Follow Matthew on Facebook @MatthewMcConaughey, on Instagram @officiallymcconaughey, and on Twitter @McConaughey.

Heavy Metals And Health: The Untold Story with Dr. Elizabeth Boham Feb 15, 2021

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Heavy Metals And Health: The Untold Story | This episode is sponsored by Joovv and AquaTru

We live in an environment steeped in chemicals that our bodies were not designed to process. When it comes to toxins one plus one does not equal two. There is a compounded effect. Chronic toxicity can wreak havoc on our health and result in symptoms ranging from fatigue to sleep and skin issues. It can also be related to autoimmune issues, diabetes, hypertension, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, autism, and many other conditions. Unfortunately, conventional medicine rarely examines the role of toxic load when it comes to treating these conditions.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the Functional Medicine approach to assessing a patient's toxic load and supporting the body to detoxify and reduce high levels of heavy metals. They also share their personal experiences treating patients in this area.

Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices functional medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Boham has contributed to many articles and wrote the latest chapter on Obesity for the Rankel Textbook of Family Medicine. She is part of the faculty of the Institute for Functional Medicine and has been featured on the Dr. Oz show and in a variety of publications and media including Huffington Post, The Chalkboard Magazine, and Experience Life. Her DVD Breast Wellness: Tools to Prevent and Heal from Breast Cancer explores the functional medicine approach to keeping your breasts and whole body well.

This episode is sponsored by Joovv and AquaTru.

Right now, Joovv is offering Doctor’s Farmacy listeners an exclusive discount on Joovv’s Generation 3.0 devices. Just go to Joovv.com/farmacy and use the code FARMACY. Some exclusions do apply.

This episode is sponsored by AquaTru. We need clean water not only to live but to create vibrant health and protect ourselves and loved ones from toxin exposure and disease. Learn more about the AquaTru water filter at a special price at www.drhyman.com/filter.

In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Boham discuss:

How heavy metals affect the immune system, gut health, chronic disease, and more

Concerns over metal dental fillings

Testing heavy metal levels

Lead exposure in our environment

Optimizing your detoxification system with food

Patients cases they have treated

Heavy metal chelator treatment

Additional Resources:

How To Optimize Your Body’s Detoxification System with Maggie Ward

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/10/26/podcast-hc28/

How Lead And Other Environmental Toxins Are Affecting Us

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/12/04/podcast-minisode65/

How Environmental Toxins in Our Water, Air, and Products Wreak Havoc on Our Immune System with Dr. Aly Cohen

https://drhyman.com/blog/2020/05/18/bb-ep112/

The Pegan Diet: Have Fats With Every Meal Feb 12, 2021

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Fat has been unfairly vilified for decades. The truth is that the right fats can make you healthy and lean, and can fuel your brain, while the wrong fats can be deadly. Unlike sugar, which is pretty much all bad, fats are complicated. Some people thrive on a high-fat diet, while others gain weight and struggle with abnormal cholesterol. However, even though fats are complicated, eating a fat-free diet is not good for your health. We need fats to survive. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman discusses why we should be eating fats with every meal, the seventh principle in his new book, “The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World” out February 23, 2021. Learn more and pre-order the book at pegandiet.com

The History Of Our Food System: What’s Wrong And How To Fix It with Mark Bittman Feb 10, 2021

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The History Of Our Food System: What’s Wrong And How To Fix It | This episode is brought to you by Bioptimizers, Thrive Market, and Athletic Greens

What do wealth inequality, chronic disease, climate change, and the industrialization of agriculture all have in common? The answer is food, and more specifically our food system. Very few people are able to connect the dots between some of the world’s most pressing issues in a way that lets us see the big picture. My guest on today’s episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy, Mark Bittman, is someone who does exactly that in an effort to achieve a different future for food.

Mark Bittman is the author of thirty acclaimed books, including How to Cook Everything and the #1 New York Times bestseller, VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health... for Good. He was a New York Times columnist for more than two decades and has hosted four TV series, including the Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously. He is currently on the faculty of Columbia University and is the editor in chief of the blog The Bittman Project, and his most recent book is Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal.

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Here are more of the details from our interview:

Answering the question, what would a good food system look like? (9:29)

Looking back at the development and resulting consequences of our agricultural system (11:17)

Tracing today’s wealth inequality, food industrialization, and monocrop culture back to the agricultural pursuits of the nineteenth century (18:27)

Making measurable, incremental change to improve our modern food system (29:43)

What individuals can do to improve our food system (32:26)

The cost of failing to name that we are in a national food crisis (33:34)

Is Big Food rethinking its role in our food system? (38:29)

Incentivizing regenerative agriculture, nationally and internationally (40:46)

Improving national food policy (48:08)

The link between agriculture and climate change, and the role of animal production in climate change (50:30)

Learn more about Mark Bittman at https://www.markbittman.com/ and get his new book, Animal Vegetable Junk: A History of Food, From Sustainable to Suicidal at https://www.markbittman.com/book-covers-descriptions/yd23vsv00b8bbc0c5rupl6fzq5ofka.

Access Mark Bittman’s newsletter The Bittman Project at https://www.bittmanproject.com/.

Follow Mark on Facebook @markbittman, on Instagram @markbittman, and on Twitter @bittman.

Articles referenced:

Long-latency deficiency disease: insights from calcium and vitamin D https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14594776/

Paradigm Shift: The End of “Normal Science” in Medicine

https://drhyman.com/blog/2010/12/21/paradigm-shift-the-end-of-normal-science-in-medicine/

Ask Mark Q&A #8: Vitamins, Acid Reflux, Intermittent Fasting, And More Feb 09, 2021

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Ask Mark Q&A #8: Vitamins, Acid Reflux, Intermittent Fasting, And More | This episode is sponsored by Thrive Market

Topics covered in this episode include:

Should you take vitamins, and if so, what kinds?

Sugar substitutes

Considerations for eating canned foods

Treating acid reflux

Omega-3’s and fish oil supplementation

Helping a friend improve their health

Intermittent fasting

“Kids food”

Treating osteoporosis

Supporting gut health during and after antibiotic use

Mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Hyman Store

Food: What the Heck Should I Eat?

Getting To The Root Of And Getting Rid Of Heartburn And Reflux with Dr. Todd LePine

7 Steps to Reverse Acid Reflux

10 Day Reset

Why Most Everything We Were Told About Dairy Is Wrong

The Pegan Diet

Addressing The Root Causes Of Childhood Obesity with Dr. Elizabeth Boham Feb 08, 2021

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Addressing The Root Causes Of Childhood Obesity | This episode is sponsored by Beekeepers Naturals and BLUblox

Our children are unfortunately being born into a toxic food environment. Currently, a third of American kids are overweight or obese and in addition to rising rates of childhood obesity, we are also seeing a significant increase in type 2 diabetes in children. Overweight children not only face unfair stigma and judgment, but they are also more prone to battling weight issues in adulthood. Yet, food manufacturers continue to produce and peddle junk to our children that we loosely call food. The good news is that you have control over what foods you bring into your home and the type of modeling you provide for your children when it comes to what to eat.

In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Elizabeth Boham to discuss the Functional Medicine approach to combating childhood obesity and they share patient cases they have treated related to childhood obesity.

This episode is sponsored by Beekeepers Naturals and BLUblox.

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In this conversation, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Boham discuss: