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BONUS HP EP #1164: Discover the Self-Care Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day Jan 18, 2023

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Hi, Lisa here. I just got home from walking the dogs on this beautiful winter day with a few inches of snow on the ground and I was inspired to add this episode even though today's already went up earlier.
I am joined by Linda Åkeson McGurk the author of The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day.
Linda Åkeson McGurk is a Swedish American writer and author of the bestselling parenting memoir There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom’s Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge) as well as The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Connect with Nature Every Day. McGurk has been featured in several leading American magazines, newspapers, and online sites, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, New York Post, HuffPost, Psychology Today, Slate, TreeHugger, ScaryMommy, and many more. Her own writings about Scandinavian parenting have appeared in publications across the world, including Time and Parents. McGurk is a passionate advocate for the Nordic outdoor tradition friluftsliv and believes that the best childhood memories are created outside, while jumping in puddles, digging in dirt, catching bugs, and climbing trees. She is also the founder of the blog Rain or Shine Mamma, a resource where parents and other caregivers find tips and inspiration for outdoor play every day, regardless of the weather. McGurk lives in Sweden with her two daughters, husband, and two bonus daughters.
Book description:
A complete guide to Friluftsliv, the Nordic secret to unplugging and connecting more deeply with nature.
In The Open-Air Life, Swedish-American writer Linda McGurk introduces readers to a wide array of Nordic customs and practices that focus on slowing down and spending more and more of ones’ time outdoors. An outdoorsy cousin of hygge, friluftsliv is what Nordic people do outside all day before they cozy up in front of the fireplace with their wool socks on and a cup of hot cocoa.
From the pleasures of foraging for wild berries and birding to how to stay warm and cozy outside in the middle of winter, this charmingly illustrated, inspirational guide shows readers how to harness the power-of-nature to improve their physical and mental health, as well as their relationships with both other people and Mother Nature. Readers will learn:

Why and how they should spend more time outside
How to use friluftsliv to combat stress, anxiety disorders, depression, and burnout
Practical skills like making fire, cooking outdoors and cleaning water on the go.

For country and city lovers alike, this book will serve as an essential guide to slowing down in this modern, fast paced society and connecting with the natural world.

EP #1163: Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception with Brian Boxer Wachler, MD Jan 17, 2023

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Lisa is joined by with Brian Boxer Wachler, MD about his book, The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception. He has over 3 million followers on TikTok.
Book Description: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception.
Unpacks and pulls the curtain back on what happens to our brains and our behaviors each time we addictively engage social media and the influencers we encounter there. Individuals seeking to widen their tribes of friends, fans, and followers have an abundance of resources for building their digital footprints and social media popularity. All of this seems well and good from the perspective of revenue, exposure, and perhaps ego-building, but what is the impact of this on the human brain and our behavior? Is anyone paying attention to the lurking side effects of the social media influencer revolution?As “Dr. Brian” Boxer Wachler—one of the world’s most esteemed authorities on human perception—reveals in Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception, we are oblivious to the mental evolution that is already in process. Science is proving that our addictive reliance upon social media and its influencers is having a demonstrable impact on how we think, feel, and perceive everything around us—and even how we react to stimuli. One might think that a “Like” is nothing more than a split-second tap on a device. However, brain scans tell a different story. Our brains literally light up with every buzz, ding, alert, and ring in anticipation of how our network is responding to us. As we tap away at our devices, we anxiously seek the approval of others—often people we don’t know.Influenced unpacks what happens to our brains and our behaviors each time we click “Like”; follow an influencer; consume a video; share or reshare an article; post or repost a photograph; write a comment; pile on a trend; just scroll for new content; and why do we keep coming back for more. Dr. Boxer Wachler includes his own social and medical findings and highlights them with interviews with top influencers, the latest studies, and pop-culture anecdotes.

DOG-EARED with Lisa Davis EP #1 - BOOK "The Dog Behavior Answer Book: Understanding and Communicating with Your Dog and Building a Strong an Jan 12, 2023

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On the debut of DOG-EARED with Lisa Davis. They write about dogs. I interview them, Lisa is joined by Arden Moore who talks about the 2nd edition of her book, The Dog Behavior Answer Book: Understanding and Communicating with Your Dog and Building a Strong and Happy Relationship.
Arden grew up in a Brady Bunch-like family in a town called Crown Point located near Chicago in Northwest Indiana. During her first year in high school, she cajoled the editor of the local weekly newspaper into hiring her to be a sports writer. As a corn-fed Hoosier, she valued her Midwest roots, but knew she needed to experience other places. Her insatiable curiosity led to spending the next 20 years chasing stories as a reporter and editor for daily newspapers in Indiana and Florida. This is where Arden honed her amazing interviewing and writing skills! From there, she entered the publishing world at the family-owned Rodale Press. At Rodale, her “day job” was senior health writer for the book division, but she also moonlighted as a writer for their new magazine called Pets: Part of the Family. That is where Arden realized that she could tap her love of writing and interviewing to help people become healthier, and to tout the power of her other lifelong passion, pets. Pets and people — that’s what Arden is all about. Fast forward to today, and Arden has done just that, in her trademark edu-taining style. She has:

interviewed hundreds of guests over the last 13+ years on her immensely popular pet podcast, the Oh Behave! show.
written more than two dozen pet books and counting as well as co-authored books with medical doctors and gardening experts.
recognized as America’s Pet Health and Safety Coach, teaching the latest veterinarian-approved pet first aid/CPR and safety classes.
given hundreds of talks on the health, behavior and safety for cats and dogs across the country.
served as a pet expert on numerous television and online video segments, in addition to serving as emcee/host for pet-oriented gatherings.
authored pet-based content for blogs, magazines and educational platforms.

Today, Arden happily shares her home in Dallas with her wife, Julie, and their furry Brady Bunch of three cats, three dogs and an overworked vacuum cleaner.
In this episode, Arden shares shares info & advice about:

The senses of dogs and how they differ from ours.
Sizing up the brain power of dogs
Not assuming certain breeds can do certain things just because of their breed (e.g. my lab Benji does not retrieve)
Nipping the herding instinct
Seeking the right canine
What dog whines can mean
What to do about "Licky Lou's"
Barking
Knowing When to Say Goodbye.

Plus lots of stories about Lisa's dogs and Arden's dogs (plus her cat. It's ok. It's a super cool cat!)

SPECIAL CROSS OVER EPISODE of DOG-EARED & Health Power with Dr. Judy Morgan!! Jan 11, 2023

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To celebrate the kick off of the debut episode of DOG-EARED with Lisa Davis. They write books about dogs. I interview them, I am posting this VERY SPECIAL CROSSOVER episode which combines the best of Health Power and the best of
DOG-EARED.
I recently interviewed Dr. Judy Morgan about integrative medicine for dogs. I learned a ton!! Here is some info about Judy Morgan DVM, CVA, CVCP, CVFT:Dr. Morgan grew up in Pitman and Woodstown, NJ, where she graduated high school as valedictorian in 1977. In 1980 she graduated from Rutgers with a Bachelor of Science and received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine in 1984. Dr. Morgan is also a certified and accredited veterinary acupuncturist, chiropractitioner, and food therapist.After 36 years, Dr. Morgan retired from clinical practice in 2020. She now focuses on speaking, creating educational content, online consultations for clients, and her webstore,.
Dr. Morgan spends much of her time working with Cavalier King Charles Spaniel and English Toy Spaniel rescue groups by assisting in finding, transporting, and fostering neglected animals. She is Chief Veterinary Medical Officer for Monkey’s House dog hospice and senior sanctuary. She also enjoys public speaking and giving presentations at local, national and international continuing education venues.She is a best-selling author of four books, hundreds of online and print magazine articles, and hosted her own Naturally Healthy Pets radio show on DreamVisions7 Radio network for two years. She has been featured on Fox News, local cable television, CNN, PBS, ABC, CBS, and as a guest on over 200 radio shows. Her goal is to change the lives of over ten million pets by educating and empowering pet owners worldwide in the use of natural healing therapies, minimizing the use of chemicals, vaccinations, and poor quality processed food.

EP #1162: Self-Care for Inflammation: The Story of Diet and Disease Jan 10, 2023

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Lisa is joined by Shilpa Ravella, MD who talks about her book, A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease.Shilpa Ravella is a transplant gastroenterologist with expertise in nutrition and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Slate, Discover, and USA Today, among other publications, and she has appeared as an expert on ABC's Good Morning America and in print media outlets including Forbes, Cosmopolitan, Food and Wine, Glamour, and Women's Health. Her TED-Ed lesson, 'How the Food You Eat Affects Your Gut,' has garnered over five million views.
Description of A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease:
A riveting investigation of inflammation—the hidden force at the heart of modern disease—and how we can prevent, treat, or even reverse it.
Inflammation is the body’s ancestral response to its greatest threats, the first line of defense it deploys against injury and foreign pathogens. But as the threats we face have evolved, new science is uncovering how inflammation may also turn against us, simmering underneath the surface of leading killers from heart disease and cancer to depression, aging, and mysterious autoimmune conditions.
In A Silent Fire, gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella investigates hidden inflammation’s emerging role as a common root of modern disease—and how we can control it. We meet the visionary nineteenth-century pathologist who laid the foundation for our modern understanding of inflammation, the eccentric Russian zoologist who discovered one of the cells central to our immune system, and the dedicated researchers advancing the frontiers of medical and nutritional science today. With fascinating case studies, Ravella reveals how we can reform our relationships with food and our microbiomes to benefit our own health and the planet’s.
Synthesizing medical history, cutting-edge research, and innovative clinical practice, Ravella unveils inflammation as one potential basis for a unifying theory of disease. A paradigm-shifting understanding of one of the most mysterious, buzzed-about topics in medicine and nutrition, A Silent Fire shows us how to live not only long but well.

EP #1161: Discover Earth's Irreplaceable Glaciers and Learn What You Can Do to Save Them with Anita Sanchez Jan 05, 2023

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Lisa is joined by Anita Sanchez, an author with award-winning books that sing the praises of unloved plants and animals: dandelions, poison ivy, bats, tarantulas. She loves to explore the under-appreciated wild places of the world, from glaciers to mud puddles.Years of field work and teaching outdoor classes have given her firsthand experience in introducing students to the terrors and joys of nature. Many of her books come from real experiences on real nature trails.Today she joins Lisa to talk about her latest book, Meltdown: Discover Earth's Irreplaceable Glaciers and Learn What You Can Do to Save Them
Book description:
Meet the glaciers—before they disappear. Meltdown: Discover Earth's Irreplaceable Glaciers and Learn What You Can Do to Save Them is a kids’ guide to the glorious but endangered world of glaciers. Glaciers may not be as well-known as rain forests or coral reefs, but they are just as vital to the health of the planet, and just as threatened by climate change.
Packed with information, grounded in the latest science, with lively writing and illustrations throughout (including graphs, charts, infographics, photographs, and full-page art), Meltdown gives readers an eye-opening overview of glaciers and how important they are: There are over 100,000 glaciers covering 10% of earth’s landmass, that hold almost three-quarters of the planet's fresh water, and act as protective shields to cool the atmosphere and combat climate change. We learn how glaciers were formed (some over two million years ago), how they move and carve the planet's landscape, and how scientists study them (the bluer the ice, the older it is). We learn the secrets of earth’s climate history hidden deep in a glacier’s core—and discover how climate change is causing glaciers to melt at unprecedented rates, putting the health of the planet in jeopardy.
But we are not left without hope. The final chapter offers positive steps readers can take to become climate activists, reduce their carbon footprint, and save the glaciers.

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW - They write about dogs. I interview them. Jan 04, 2023

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In this exclusive preview episode, They write books about dogs. I interview them.
On today's show, Lisa asks an important question about dogs and farts. Yup. Farts. We talk about EVERYTHING dog on this podcast.
Lisa shares how her love of dog started and tells us about how she got her very first dog Bailey, a pit mix. It began Lisa's love affair with pitties!
After this, Lisa shares part of an interview with Carol Novello, the author of Mutual Rescue: How Adopting a Homeless Animal Can Save You, Too.
Moving forward, the interviews with the authors will be complete, not just part of the interview. Enjoy!

EP #1160: Creative Confidence: How to Think Outside the Box and Achieve Your Goals for Ultimate Self-Care Jan 03, 2023

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Lisa is joined by Susie deVille is a speaker, author, and Founder & CEO of the Innovation & Creativity Institute to talk about her book, Buoyant: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Becoming Wildly Successful, Creative, and Free.
Her coaching firm connects entrepreneurs and business leaders to their innate capabilities, guiding them to lead from a place of creative confidence.Breaking the status quo and creating a wildly-innovative methodology to build successful businesses, Susie is a sought-after enterprise expert. She is known for creating “rebels” out of entrepreneurs and leaders who yield lighter workloads and higher profits. Her book, Buoyant: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Becoming Wildly Successful, Creative, and Free is available wherever books are sold. From https://innovationandcreativityinstitute.com/book/
You already hold the key to your success
Susie deVille is on a mission to show entrepreneurs the power of trusting themselves. Work lighter while making higher profits. Eliminate self-doubt. To stop trying to overachieve one’s way into a sense of self, but rather lean into the surprising power of innate creativity. Her new book, Buoyant: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Becoming Wildly Successful, Creative, and Free, shows you how.In this transformational book, Susie shares the tools and exercises you need to tap into creativity, cultivate inspiration, and become your best, truest self.Buoyant helps you shed the belief that being an entrepreneur means prioritizing productivity at all costs. Instead, Susie invites you to embrace an easier path to success and freedom. She provides all the knowledge you need to end burnout and live an artful life of joy.Buoyant is The Artist’s Way for entrepreneurs. The way to creativity is to be wild, bold. Unapologetically yourself. Your voice and vision matter. You can positively impact the world, one idea, one person at a time.It’s time to accept the grand adventure of being you.

EP #1159: How to Support Your Body Nutritionally Through the Right Self-Care Dec 30, 2022

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Andrea Donsky, Lisa's occasional co-host is joined by Stewart Brown, the founder and CEO of Genuine Health
Andrea sits down with Stewart Brown, founder of Genuine Health, to get. to know the story behind the brand and its products.
2:00 The story behind Genuine Health and its Greens+ line of products
6:50 The secret to why Greens+ works so well
7:40 What is the microbiome and why it's so essential to our overall health
9:15 The brain-gut connection
11:45 The difference between prebiotics and probiotics
13:30 The synergy between fatty acids and gut bacteria
15:10 Why we need probiotics every day
19:20 What to look for when buying a probiotic
21:10 Different types of probiotics for different conditions and gender
22:40 When to take your probiotics
Learn more about Genuine Health by visiting GenuineHealth.com.
A Note from Stewart Brown,
Our Founder & CEO of Genuine HealthI love natural health. I have been in this industry since I was 16 years old and I cannot imagine anything more important that I could have dedicated my life’s work to.In the mid 80s, I opened a health food store in the heart of the LGBT community in Toronto. Shortly after, the HIV crisis hit and my store, Supplements Plus, was in the heart of the epidemic. I learned a lot at that time – I was doing my best to help those affected and watched the community around me in crisis as friends were lost. It was an important time in history and it was an important time in my life, as it created the value system of what became Genuine Health.At Genuine Health, we are so fortunate that we have the opportunity to change people’s lives every day, and we take that responsibility very seriously. What we do matters, what we put in the bottle matters, how we treat the planet matters, and providing you with the latest credible information matters, so that you can make the best choices for your health.We’re passionate about looking at the latest research in nutritional science to drive innovation in our products. The most important thing to me is that the products that we create make a difference in your life, by giving your body the nourishment it needs to bring you more energy, vitality and overall health and wellbeing. When you have all these things, you can live your life to its fullest expression.

EP #1158: Self-Care Sleep Hacks for Health: Improve Your Sleep, Improve Your Life Dec 29, 2022

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Andrea Donsky, Lisa's occasional co-host is joined by Lauren Hauswirth, the New Product Development Manager at Genuine Health to talk about how integral sleep is to a healthy life and ways to get it! Sleep Hygiene, sunlight in the morning, supplements and more.
In this interview, Andrea sits down with Lauren Hauswirth, New Product Development Manager at Genuine Health. Lauren has a degree in Naturopathic medicine and is passionate about helping people improve their health and well-being.
0:44 Why sleep is so important
2:00 What is the impact on our health from a lack of sleep
3:45 How can we improve our sleep
6:55 Supplements to help with sleep
12:15 Information on mushrooms and how we are learning more about them and their health benefits
15:20 Poor sleep is a solvable problem
To learn more about Genuine Health's Sleep supplement visit: https://naturallysavvy.com/ghs
About Genuine Health:
All natural, non-GMO supplements to give your body the nourishment it needs to thrive.
More than just a name, ‘Genuine Health’ embodies all that we are and all that we want for you.
We want to help you unleash your optimal state of health. One that taps into more energy, more vitality, and more joy for living.

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