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Fish Oil Supplements — What's the Evidence? with Tim Radak, DrPH, MPH, RDN Jan 19, 2023

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Tim Radak, DrPH, MPH, RDN is Academic Coordinator for the Public Health PhD program at Walden University, where he has taught public health courses since 2010. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietetic Internship Director at Appalachian State University, Senior Research Program Manager for the Cancer Prevention Institute of California, and Director of Nutrition for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. He has been credentialed as a Registered Dietitian since 2000 and earned his doctorate in Public Health Nutrition at Loma Linda University.

Tim has authored or co-authored 15 articles and abstracts in peer-reviewed scientific journals, written several textbook chapters, and contributed to and participated in television, radio and newsprint media as an expert on various public health and nutrition topics. His research interests include: the relationship between plant-based diets and reduced risk of chronic diseases; epidemiology of chronic diseases; essential fatty acids requirements and metabolism; behavioral strategies for lifestyle modification; body composition; food insecurity; and nutritional assessment methodologies.

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Visit Tim's website or learn more about his work at Walden University here.

Health and Healing with Anoop Kumar, MD Jan 10, 2023

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Anoop Kumar, MD is Co-founder of Health Revolution, creator of the Health Jumpstart program, host of the Healing Is Possible podcast, a front-line emergency physician, and author of the books Michelangelo's Medicine and Is This a Dream? He was drawn to the philosophy of Vedanta early in his life, especially its profound views on the complete anatomy of the human being–a perspective missing from modern medical science. Informed by this, he communicates a compelling narrative about the power each person has to heal and discover what true health means. Dr. Kumar is Board-Certified in Emergency Medicine and has a Master's degree in Management with a focus on Health Leadership.

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Anoop's Website: AnoopKumar.com

Anoop on Instagram and LinkedIn

Health Revolution and the Health Revolution Jumpstart Program

The Past, Present, and Future of Brain-Gut Communication with Emeran Mayer, MD Dec 21, 2022

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Emeran A. Mayer is a Gastroenterologist, Neuroscientist and Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, the Executive Director of the G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience at UCLA and Founding Director of the Goodman Luskin Microbiome Center at UCLA. As one of the pioneers and leading researchers in the role of brain gut interactions in health and chronic disease, in particular in IBS, his scientific contributions to basic and translational enteric neurobiology with wide-ranging applications in clinical GI diseases and disorders is unparalleled. He has published close to 410 scientific papers, co-edited 3 books, published the best selling The Mind Gut Connection book in 2016 and The Gut Immune Connection book in June 2021. He is the recipient of the 2016 David McLean award from the American Psychosomatic Society and the 2017 Ismar Boas Medal from the German Society of Gastroenterology and Metabolic Disease. His most recent work has focused on alterations in the bidirectional communications within the brain gut microbiome system and their role in chronic inflammatory and functional diseases of the gut, obesity, and cognitive decline.

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Dr. Mayer's Website: EmeranMayer.com

Dr. Mayer on Instagram and YouTube

Dr. Mayer's books, The Mind-Gut Connection and The Gut-Immune Connection

Tackling Pathogens By Building Your Immune Defenses Oct 31, 2022

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Dr. Robynne Chutkan is an integrative gastroenterologist and the author of four books, Gutbliss, The Microbiome Solution, The Bloat Cure and The Antiviral Gut. Educated at Yale and Columbia, she is a faculty member at Georgetown Hospital and the founder of the Digestive Center for Wellness in Washington, D.C. A former Governing Board member and Training Committee Chair of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, she's authored dozens of scientific articles and lectured globally on the role of the microbiome in health and disease. A frequent medical expert on The Dr. Oz Show, The Today Show, CBS This Morning, and other media outlets, Dr. Chutkan is passionate about democratizing access to gut health information and introducing more dirt, sweat and vegetables into her patients lives.

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Dr. Chutkan's Website: DrChutkan.com (formerly Gutbliss.com)

Dr. Chutkan on Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, & YouTube

Be sure to order Dr. Chutkan's book, The Anti-Viral Gut: Tackling Pathogens from the Inside Out, releasing November 1.

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Protecting Your Brain Health Using the Power of Nutrition Oct 26, 2022

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For more information about nutrition and other ways you can improve your brain health, you can take the free Better Brain Health Challenge available on my website

If you have questions or comments, you can find me on:

Linked In: Dr. Sharon Horesh Bergquist

Instagram: @drsharonbergquist

Twitter: @SHBergquistMD

Some of the studies mentioned in this episode:

Morris MC, Tangney CC, Wang Y, Sacks FM, Bennett DA, Aggarwal NT. MIND diet associated with reduced incidence of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's & Dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association. 2015;11(9):1007-1014.

Morris MC, Wang Y, Barnes LL, Bennett DA, Dawson-Hughes B, Booth SL. Nutrients And Bioactives In Green Leafy Vegetables And Cognitive Decline: Prospective Study. Neurology. 2018;90(3):e214-e222.

Morris MC, Evans DA, Bienias JL, et al. Dietary fats and the risk of incident Alzheimer disease. Archives of Neurology. 2003;60(2):194-200.

Cremonini AL, Caffa I, Cea M, Nencioni A, Odetti P, Monacelli F. Nutrients in the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease. Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2019 Sep 4;2019:9874159.

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Leaning into relationships in your life and career with Dr. Dan Pino Oct 18, 2022

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Dr. Dan Pino: https://medicine.iu.edu/faculty/6194/pino-daniel

Integrating Lifestyle Into Breast Cancer Management with Dr. Dawn Mussallem Sep 20, 2022

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Dr. Mussallem is a consultant in the Department of General Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine. She is a diagnostic breast and lifestyle medicine specialist at The Robert and Monica Jacoby Center for Breast Health and serves as Medical Director for Mayo Clinic Florida Lyndra P. Daniel Center for Humanities in Medicine. Dr. Mussallem is double-board certified, including a board certification in Lifestyle Medicine. She has over 25 years of patient-centered clinical wellness experience and national recognition in the field of breast medicine, lifestyle medicine, integrative oncology, cancer prevention, and cancer survivorship, and a unique personal experience as a stage IV cancer patient diagnosed 3 months into medical school, as well as a heart transplant recipient. She shares that her journey as a patient cultivated her boundless energy and deep purpose to help guide patients toward renewed vitality. In 2015, she founded the Integrative Medicine and Breast Health Program at Mayo Clinic Florida, a patient-centered program that works with breast cancer patients during and after a breast cancer diagnosis, introducing them early on to the importance of lifestyle optimization and evidence-based mind-body practices alongside conventional cancer treatments with a goal to reframe the cancer diagnosis as a “teacher of life,” leading patients to discover renewed vitality through healthier living.

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If you are not yet an organ donor – please register. You can register on your iPhone Health app or go to www.registerme.org

Dr. Dawn on Instagram & LinkedIn

https://www.mayoclinic.org/biographies/mussallem-dawn-m-d-o/bio-20055494

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Managing Irritable Bowel Syndrome Through the Brain-Gut Connection with Desiree Nielsen, RD Sep 08, 2022

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Resources from Desiree Nielsen, RD

The Allsorts Podcast

good for your gut cookbook

Website: www.desireerd.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/desireenielsenrd/

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@desireenielsennutrition

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"Protecting Your Baby’s Microbiome,” with Meenal Lele Aug 24, 2022

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How Happiness & Lifestyle factors impact Health and Longevity with Dr. Iris Schrijver Aug 12, 2022

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Why does what we eat matter for our health and wellbeing?

"The more fruits and veggies you eat, the more you do for your health, your longevity, your happiness, it even lifts your mood."

Dr. Iris Schrijver is a certified Lifestyle medicine physician, specializing in clinical pathology and molecular genetics. She's an adjunct clinical professor of pathology at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a past president of the association for Molecular Pathology. Dr. Schrijver served as Medical Director of Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine and is now developing a lifestyle medicine service there. Because she believes that healthcare is a basic human right, her dedication to patients in medical progress through science has resulted in the publication of many original research articles, book chapters, and books. Together with her husband and astrophysicist, she wrote “Living with the Stars”, a popular science book about connections between the human body and the universe. Her goal is to make sure that everyone can get high-quality health care via lifestyle medicine.

In this conversation, Dr. Iris discusses the impact of lifestyle factors and happiness on health and longevity. She shares her journey from Genetics & Pathology to Lifestyle Medicine and how medicine is shifting with its new approach. She explains homeostasis and ways to prevent cancer by early detection. She talks about why good health matters and the typical timespan between disease diagnosis & discovery. She also shares what impacts our health the most: food, exercise, or genes. She explains how happiness contributes to health and longevity, how to be really happy despite challenges, the role of money in happiness, and why happy people live longer. She also touches upon the key lessons from the 75-year-old study on health and happiness. She highlights four factors that reduce lifespan - smoking & alcohol, lack of physical activity, the way we eat, and obesity. Tune in to learn more!

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