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Today’s guest is Dr. Greg Dennis, the host of the Fit Rx Podcast.
His podcast is full of cutting edge information, and focuses on health and fitness and challenging the standard ‘sick” model of healthcare. He has a wide variety of guests that discuss cutting-edge topics in anti-aging medicine and share their expertise to help optimize health. His show covers the ever controversial Carnivore Diet to fascinating supplements such as Spermidine ….. and everything in between.
Dr. Dennis is Board Certified in Family Medicine and also has Certification in Age Management Medicine. He and his wife have their own Direct Primary Care Practice (DPC) called Vibrant Life Direct Care, that focuses on wellness, hormone optimization and weight loss. He shares with us his thoughts on optimal health, healthy lifestyle and his decision to leave corporate medicine for his own direct patient care practice.
May has been binging on his podcast recently and feels like a groupie that can’t get enough of the discussion on anti-aging, achieving optimal health and ‘bio-hacking’.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3N6oAAJOvotNTxKYC7zyYL?si=quUeFhcwQRC0BKKyAavIHw
May is now bilaterally bionic, or to quote the pop star Sia: “I am Titanium!” As our daughter said, “50 is now the new 80” and joint replacements are not a “last resort” medical procedure anymore. Thanks to advances in technology and Medicine, patients of all ages are getting joint replacements and regaining their quality of life.
Can you believe May had a hip replacement one week ago and just recorded a podcast?! In 1992 when May had her ACL repaired, the standard of care was one week in a hospital bed! In 2023, you get to walk out of a surgery center hours after a major joint replacement! Technology and rehab has even changed again since her first hip replacement in 2016.
We discuss some of the non-surgical alternative options and causes of joint deterioration other than old age. Learn about advances in the medical field, how robots don’t just clean your floors, and what to expect if undergoing the knife …… or should we say saw!
https://open.spotify.com/episode/19TfGoQsh2Ujd7VIM3hqZF?si=aS0W5RlFRAOVpCGRPBQERQ
You asked, so we are bringing it! Today is all about hormones- especially those that impact your quality of life, performance and health.
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) , specifically questions regarding menopause and testosterone replacement therapies, is one of the most commonly asked questions we get. HRT for menopause has been and still IS a widely debated issue. Will it cause heart disease and cancer or do hormones actually help reduce risk factors and improve quality of life ? Understanding and supplementing women and men with HRT has been something that allopathic physicians struggle with doing well.
Dr. Robert Yoho is back as our guest today. He is a retired cosmetic surgeon with a 30 year career that also included prescribing hormones. He is the author of “Hormone Secrets” that explains his experience in using HRT and how it transformed patients’ lives. He believes that HRT is vastly underused, is generally safe when done correctly and that the health and quality of life benefits exceed most of the risks.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6EoGyinzd2qN9JK28HfkwH?si=le5pYlLLRL6kr_0Y83dC6w
Fear Is No Excuse
Want to hear from one of the greatest stuntmen of all time sharing his thoughts on “safety”?
Tim is man crushing & fanboying out on this week's epic interview with stuntman Eddie Braun.
Eddie’s life is an example that “fear is no excuse”. He will be the first to tell you that recklessness is different from planned risk. Doing great things is not necessarily about risk, but having the skills to manage your fears. People are often unable to live their dreams, because they are too busy living their fears.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/06skGAJEo3Zd37xQ0ckq7n?si=py0ULsdZT5eXP1OYetgZXQ
I have a slight obsession with a trainer I follow on Facebook and Instagram. I’ve been following Cori Lefkowith of Redefining Strength for years, enjoying her motivational posts and loving her targeted exercises for my troublesome injuries. She has great rehab advice that I have tried and tested on my numerous Ortho injuries. She has helped me when many PT’s couldn’t even crack the mystery. She posted something a few weeks ago that blew my mind: “Most people fail because of how they try to achieve their goals.” She went on to write that the date at which most people completely quit on their New Year’s Resolutions...is…..?? It’s not the Summer...Or a specific holiday or event… It’s not the middle of February which was my guess. It’s JANUARY 19th! (This date is based on a study done of over 800 million people’s activities in 2019)
Which led me to thinking and asking WHY do people quit so early? What are the stumbling blocks that cause us to give up? How can physicians and other healthcare experts help motivate their patients or themselves even….to realize their fitness and weight loss goals?
Cori oozes with energy and positivity and encouragement. She will tell you, you are NEVER too old, too big, too injured ( insert your excuse) to not achieve your fitness goals!
She’s passionate about what she does and has a massive following on FB and IG to show it. Today we brush the surface on common stumbling blocks like how to stay committed to your workout routine. What causes people to burnout or quit? How to get over the motivation hump and what tricks/tips help people stay consistent.
And then there’s the four letter D word!!!!
Cori’s Bio: Cori Lefkowith is the owner of Redefining Strength. Her company is empowering clients through fitness and nutrition while teaching them to train smarter, not just harder. In our culture of “No pain, no gain” and “more is better,” Redefining Strength is teaching clients a more efficie
Episode 184 of the Curate Your Health Podcast is out! ~ Link below.
Bonnie Koo, MD is here today to discuss Food, Money and Investing in Yourself. The decision to invest in yourself is an important one and often seems difficult to do. What price will you pay in 1, 5, or even 10 years if you don’t invest in yourself today? And it turns out, our thoughts can be similar around money and around food--emotional eating is like emotional spending. A budget feels like a “money diet” according to Dr. Koo, and buying something to feel better is like eating something to feel better. Creating a restrictive budget OR diet creates an impossible situation that sets you up for failure and for you to rebel against it. Learning the skills you need is more important than forcing yourself into these restrictions. Dr. Koo will discuss these topics and share her top money-related tips today.
Bonnie Koo, MD is a certified life coach, physician and founder of Wealthy Mom MD. She is a proud graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Her mission is to help women create wealth and rewrite history. She is the host of the Wealthy Mom MD Podcast and author of Defining Wealth for Women: (n.) Peace, Purpose, and Plenty of Cash!, which is scheduled to be released on January 11th. Bonnie can be found on Instagram and Facebook at Wealthy Mom MD and on her website at https://wealthymommd.com. The introduction and first chapter of her new book can be downloaded for free on her website here: https://wealthymommd.com/book/.
Dr. Heather Hammerstedt and her lifestyle coaching team can be found at www.wholisthealth.com and Wholist: Lifestyle Medicine Consults and Coaching on Facebook and Instagram as well as the Facebook group Curate Your Health with Wholist Lifestyle Medicine and Coaching. Wholist helps high performing women and men lose weight for the last time, with an innovative food and mindset coaching program to blueprint YOUR optimal body and m
Episode 182 of the Curate Your Health podcast is out! ~ Link below.
Ni-Cheng Liang, MD is here today to discuss Neuroplasticity, Meditation and Medicine. Mindfulness intervention helped her through an aggressive cancer diagnosis. While many people catastrophize and “what if” through a situation like this, meditation helped her manage her thoughts and contributed to a better quality of life. By practicing mindfulness, which is “paying attention on purpose to the present moment without judgment,” according to Dr. Liang, we can rewire our brains in a positive, physical way. She will explain some great practical tips for being more mindful and present in order to respond to stressful situations in a healthier way.
Ni-Cheng Liang, MD is a cancer survivor, mother, pulmonologist and mindfulness teacher who was recognized by Mindful Magazine as one of the 10 Powerful Women of the Mindfulness Movement 2021. She founded the Mindful Healthcare Collective, an organization that has been providing free mindfulness based wellness sessions for healthcare professionals and the general public since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to reduce the collective suffering that has been experienced. She also co-hosts the Mindful Healers Podcast. Dr. Liang is a leader and international speaker on physician wellness, mindfulness, anti-racism, integrative and pulmonary medicine. She can be found on her websites at mindfulhealthcarecollective.com and awakenbreath.org.
Dr. Heather Hammerstedt and her lifestyle coaching team can be found at www.wholisthealth.com and Wholist: Lifestyle Medicine Consults and Coaching on Facebook and Instagram as well as the Facebook group Curate Your Health with Wholist Lifestyle Medicine and Coaching. Wholist helps high performing women and men lose weight for the last time, with an innovative food and mindset coaching program to blueprint YOUR optimal body and mind, with real food, real work, real results… and no products or BS. Co
Episode 178 of the Curate Your Health Podcast is out! ~ Link below.
Minako Abe, MD is here today to discuss Modulating Cancer Through Lifestyle Changes. Dr. Abe explains cancer, and gives us tips to boost our immune systems. She’ll speak at length on the impact of exercise, nutrition, and mindset, among other subjects, on cancer. So many people are getting diagnosed with cancer (around 1 out of 3 women in the US), and the time to make changes is now!
Minako Abe, MD is the director of the Tokyo Cancer Clinic in Japan. She attended UC Berkeley and earned her M.D. at SUNY Stony Brook and has dual U.S. board certifications in Emergency Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. Practicing in NY/NJ for over 15 years, she found that nearly 80% of what came to the ED was related to unhealthy lifestyle choices. She then had the opportunity to move to Tokyo, Japan to take over her father’s cancer immunotherapy clinic and decided that to best serve her community, she would help patients thrive and not just survive by boosting their immune system to fight cancer with both lifestyle interventions and cellular immunotherapy. She can be found on Facebook @LifestyleMedDoc, on Instagram @dr.minako, on LinkedIn @minako-abe-63631120a, and her website at https://www.drminako.com/. Dr. Abe is offering CYH listeners a free 1-hour immunotherapy consultation (via zoom if not in Tokyo, Japan). Contact her at https://tokyocancerclinic.jp/lang/en/.
Dr. Heather Hammerstedt and her lifestyle coaching team can be found at www.wholisthealth.com and Wholist: Lifestyle Medicine Consults and Coaching on Facebook and Instagram as well as the Facebook group Curate Your Health with Wholist Lifestyle Medicine and Coaching. Wholist helps high performing women and men lose weight for the last time, with an innovative food and mindset coaching program to blueprint YOUR optimal body and mind, with real food, real work, real results… and no products or BS. Come curate YOUR sustainable health future, and pe
Episode 177 of the Curate Your Health Podcast is out! ~ Link below.
Devin Burke is here today to discuss The Mindset of Sleep. Generally, there are four or five 90-minutes cycles of sleep per night with biological processes taking place during these cycles. REM sleep is deep, dreaming sleep, but light sleep is just as important as it gets you to your deeper stage of sleep. Sleep is so crucial, but is unfortunately put on the side lines too often. So, can we naturally reset our bodies in order to get better sleep? What’s going on in our minds creating fear and anxiety that’s keeping us from sleeping? Getting support and reframing the “middle of the night,” negative thoughts is a good place to start. What are some tools to help with that? How do we get out of our brains and let our bodies get the sleep they need? Devin will share some helpful tips during today’s episode.
Devin Burke is an international and TEDx speaker, the bestselling author of The Sleep Advantage, the founder of Sleep Science Academy, and one of the top health and sleep coaches in the world. His books, keynotes, programs and videos have inspired thousands of people to improve their sleep, energy, and life. Devin Burke helps high achievers and exhausted insomniacs get and stay asleep so they can wake up with more peace, power and presence. He was named one of the Top 25 Health Coaches in America and has studied innovative holistic coaching methods from some of the world’s top health and human performance experts for over a decade. As a speaker and coach, he has inspired thousands of people to open their eyes to what is possible through creating new sleep, health and performance habits, and routines. Devin can be found on social media at Devin Burke and on his websites at https://devinburke.com/ and https://sleepscienceacademy.com/. He’s offering CYH listeners a free e-book, which can be found here: https://go.sleepscienceacademy.com/sleep-ebook.
Dr. Heather Hammerstedt and her lifes
Episode 176 of the Curate Your Health Podcast is out! ~ Link below.
Michelle Quirk, MD joins us for today’s topic: “The Mindful Marathoner Waxes in on Motivation.” What is it about running—or exercise in general—that moves us? How do we slow down in order to appreciate it? What happens when we’re in a slump? Michelle shares some great tips with us today.
Dr. Michelle Quirk is a board-certified pediatrician and a certified run coach with the Road Runners Club of America (RRCA). She founded Mindful Marathon to help make running easy and fun for busy professionals. For anyone thinking that running is too hard or that they can’t be runners, she is ready to help transform you into a runner. Michelle can be found on Facebook MindfulMarathon, on Instagram @mindful.marathon, and on her YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs1QWRIQow5oVDl8NQtR8RA. Michelle is offering our CYH listeners a 1-month Couch to Confidence Walk Plan and a 20-minute How to Get Started with Running Workshop video. Both can be downloaded from the website www.mindful-marathon.com.
Dr. Heather Hammerstedt and her lifestyle coaching team can be found at www.wholisthealth.com and Wholist: Lifestyle Medicine Consults and Coaching on Facebook and Instagram as well as the Facebook group Curate Your Health with Wholist Lifestyle Medicine and Coaching. Wholist helps high performing women and men lose weight for the last time, with an innovative food and mindset coaching program to blueprint YOUR optimal body and mind, with real food, real work, real results… and no products or BS. Come curate YOUR sustainable health future, and personal and professional dynasty.
And remember, Who you choose to be Matters. You are valuable, You are worth this, You are your WholeYou.
Heather is proud to be a member of the Doctor Podcast Network with doctors Brent Lacey, Andrew Tisser, Kate Louise Moreng Mangona, Bradley Block with the Physician's Guide to Doctoring, Ryan Inman with the Finan
