Tune into this enlightening podcast interview with Dr. Aimie Apigian, a renowned expert in the field of trauma and its biological effects. Dr. Aimie, a double board-certified physician, possesses advanced degrees in Biochemistry and Public Health and has deep expertise in neuro-autoimmunity, nutrition, and the genetic aspects of addictions, mental health, mood disorders, and behavioral disorders. She is also skilled in multiple trauma therapies, including the Instinctual Trauma Response Model, S...
Apr 23, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Dr. Sangita Pedro, Naturopathic Doctor specializes in treating complex chronic conditions including autoimmune and neurodegenerative conditions. Her expertise includes recovery from mold and mycotoxins, chronic infections like Lyme and co-infections, and gut imbalances like candida and parasites. Dr. Pedro utilizes both pattern recognition plus modern diagnostic tools to help uncover the root causes; and she employs a variety of modalities to treat those causes including herbal medicine, nutriti...
Apr 09, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Dr. Joan Rosenberg is a cutting-edge psychologist, best-selling author, consultant, master clinician and media host. She’s a professor of graduate psychology at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, and is a two-time TEDx speaker and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders. Her latest book is 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience and Authenticity. Today we discuss the keys to becoming more resilient. Quote: ...
Mar 26, 2024•42 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Scott Forsgren, FDN-P, is a health coach, blogger, podcaster, health writer and advocate. He is the founder of BetterHealthGuy.com, where he shares his 21-year journey through the world of Lyme disease, mold illness, and the myriad of factors that chronic illness often entails. On his podcast BetterHealthGuy Blogcast, Scott interviews many of the top leaders in the field of Functional and Integrative Medicine. He is also the co-founder of The Forum for Integrative Medicine which hosts an annual ...
Mar 12, 2024•48 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Scott Forsgren, FDN-P, is a health coach, blogger, podcaster, health writer and advocate. He is the founder of BetterHealthGuy.com, where he shares his 21-year journey through the world of Lyme disease, mold illness, and the myriad of factors that chronic illness often entails. On his podcast BetterHealthGuy Blogcast, Scott interviews many of the top leaders in the field of Functional and Integrative Medicine. He is also the co-founder of The Forum for Integrative Medicine which hosts an annual ...
Feb 27, 2024•49 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Karen martel is a Certified Hormone Specialist, Transformational Nutrition Coach and women’s weight loss expert. Like many root cause health experts, Karen has her own healing journey through severe hormonal dysfunction including hypothyroid, estrogen dominance, and adrenal insufficiency. She educated herself, optimized her food, addressed stress, and was able to balance her hormones and even reverse premature menopause. Today Karen has a passion for nutrition and women’s hormones, especially bi...
Feb 13, 2024•57 min•Season 1Ep. 23
At age 19, Dr. Mindy Pelz, DC became severely ill with extreme fatigue, brain fog, and muscle wasting. She was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and was told by doctors that she would have to drop out of school. With the help of her mother who took her to a holistic doctor, Mindy went on an anti-candida (ketogenic) diet. Once she added fasting, she healed completely. Now Dr. Mindy leads large communities of people through various fasting programs, she’s written a bestselling book cal...
Jan 30, 2024•32 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Deborah Fryer, PhD is a money mindset mentor, spiritual business coach, and creator of the Anatomy of Money system for holistic wealth and well-being. She helps heart-centered entrepreneurs break through subconscious mental, emotional, and financial blocks and create soul-aligned 6- or 7-figure businesses with ease, speed, and confidence. Deborah holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton, two Masters degrees in classics and art history, and she is an award-winning filmmaker who has cr...
Jan 16, 2024•54 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Adrian Klaphaak is the founder of A Path That Fits, a holistic career and life coaching company that serves clients all over the world. His company IS his life’s work – his path that fits. He’s poured all of himself into creating the most effective and meaningful coaching programs possible because he wholeheartedly believes that everyone has a path that fits, and he knows what a difference it makes to find it. Adrian’s formal training comes from The Coaches Training Institute, Hakomi Mindfulness...
Jan 02, 2024•55 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Hillery is an intellectual property and technology attorney who serves as General Counsel for technology companies. She has a powerful story of completely reversing lupus, Sjogren’s, Raynaud’s, Hashimoto’s, undifferentiated connective tissue disease, arthritis, depression, insomnia, and more! Like many who develop autoimmune disorders, Hillery experienced lots of early stress, starting in childhood when she helped raise her far younger siblings, dealt with severe parental expectations, and, as o...
Dec 19, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Holly Ladd is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach and a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach who has her own healing story from scleroderma. She believes her autoimmune set up was a combination of heavy air pollution, growing up in LA in the 1970s; then experiencing the stress of career mismatch; and finally having a mercury filling removed by a conventional dentist. Once she started experiencing severe symptoms of skin hardening, pain, and stiffness, she sought solutions....
Dec 05, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Holly Bertone beat both breast cancer and Hashimoto’s. She’s the author of the book, Thriving in the Workplace with Autoimmune Disease: Know Your Rights, Resolve Conflict, and Reduce Stress , the first book ever to educate others on Autoimmune Disease as a legal disability in the U.S. workplace. She is an authority on autoimmune disease in the workplace and she’s a gratitude evangelist. Holly is currently the President and CEO of Pink Fortitude and founder of the health and wellness website pink...
Nov 21, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald, D.A.O.M., D.H.M., L.Ac., C.C.N., has a Doctorate Degree in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, a Master’s Degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine, and a Doctorate in Homeopathic Medicine. She is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, as well as a Certified Clinical Nutritionist. She is also a qigong instructor and breathing expert. In this interview she teaches us how to breathe properly so we can use this amazing, free resource we all have inside us to oxygenate, calm, ...
Nov 07, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 16
I am honored to collaborate with Dr. Pedro and together, we help clients all over the U.S. via telemedicine to reverse and prevent autoimmune disorders. Sangita Pedro, ND specializes in treating complex, chronic illness including autoimmune and neurodegenerative conditions. Her main focus is restoring gut health, which includes addressing chronic imbalances and infections like candida, parasites and Lyme co-infections, and toxins like mycotoxins, chemical toxicity, and heavy metals. Dr. Pedro ut...
Oct 24, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Dr. Nik Hedberg, DC is a Functional Medicine expert, board-certified Chiropractic Internist, Nutritionist, Herbal Medicine Fellow, and author of The Complete Thyroid Health and Diet Guide. He is the founder of the Immune Restoration Center in Asheville, NC. Dr. Hedberg is an expert in the autoimmune-infection connection and I’ve been looking forward to interviewing him on this topic for a long time. In this interview, we discuss why autoimmunity is on the rise; how infections trigger autoimmune ...
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 14
Mary Brooks, M.Ed. Nutrition, is a fatigue, gut and thyroid expert. She had her own personal health journey including thyroid cancer and an addiction to sleeping pills. Today Mary is healthy, happy, sleeps well, and takes no prescription drugs. In this episode we discuss Mary’s healing journey, the role of hormones in sleep, and Mary’s top strategies for getting good sleep. Quote: “Everyone else is going to sleep. Chickens go to sleep. Cows go to sleep. Mary goes to sleep. Day is done.” What's I...
Sep 26, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Linda Clark, MA, CNC, holistic health expert, educator and founder of Universal Wellness Associates in Sacramento, CA. Linda is an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University where she teaches numerous courses for the Holistic Health master’s program. In this episode Linda shares her personal experience of reversing celiac disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and other autoimmune issues with food; and she shares lots of nuggets about the biggest autoimmune food triggers she’s seen in 18 years o...
Sep 12, 2023•39 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Dr. Jill Carnahan is a board-certified Integrative Holistic Medicine specialist, known as Your Functional Medicine Expert® and often referred to as "The Sherlock Holmes of Medicine," for solving medical mysteries. She uses state-of-the-art lab testing and biochemical analysis; she helps patients identify the root causes of their illness by identifying nutritional or metabolic imbalances; and then she uses nutritional protocols, supplements, and lifestyle changes to improve function, always seeki...
Aug 29, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Cynthia Li, MD, is a doctor and author whose personal healing journey through a disabling autoimmune condition took her from public health in underserved populations to integrative and Functional Medicine. In this interview, Dr. Li shares her own autoimmune healing journey which expanded her beyond her conventional training. I believe her memoir, Brave New Medicine: A Doctor’s Unconventional Path to Healing should be required reading for doctors and anyone who wants to be inspired to pursue a mi...
Aug 15, 2023•49 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Antony Haynes has been in private practice for over 28 years and is one of the most experienced Registered Nutritional Therapists and Functional Medicine practitioners in the UK, having seen over 18,000 clients. He’s a health educator, author, and expert in addressing infections that underlie autoimmunity. In today’s interview we discuss counteracting sarcopenia, age-related muscle decline in mass, strength, and function. Put more positively, we focus on the importance of dynamic muscle training...
Aug 01, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Dr. Mindy Pelz is a women’s health expert who overcame both chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and awful menopause symptoms naturally, and now helps others do the same. She has a terrific book called The Menopause Reset . While this one is mostly for women, Dr. Mindy treats men too, and we can ALL benefit from her wise lifestyle recommendations. Quote: “If you keep asking why, and why, and why, you will eventually get to the root cause of your issue.” What’s inside: 03:03 Dr. Mindy’s health journey ...
Jul 18, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Dr. Joan Rosenberg is a cutting-edge psychologist, best-selling author, consultant, master clinician and media host. She’s a professor of graduate psychology at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, and is a two-time TEDx speaker and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders. Her latest book is 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience and Authenticity. Today we discuss the keys to becoming more resilient. Quote: ...
Jul 04, 2023•55 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Dr. Debi Silber is the founder of the Post Betrayal Transformation Institute. She’s a holistic psychologist, a health, mindset, and personal development expert, and author of the book Trust Again: Overcoming Betrayal and Regaining Health, Confidence, and Happiness . Debi completed her PhD study on how we experience betrayal, and how we can move through it to completely heal. She has been called “The Brene Brown of Betrayal” and she’s here to share her findings and 5-step model for how to break f...
Jun 20, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Dr. Christine Schaffner is a naturopathic doctor who specializes in helping people recover from complex, chronic illness, with a combination of ancient wisdom and cutting edge biological, natural and energy medicine and treatments. In this interview we dig deeply into the lymphatic system, a frequently overlooked area that you don’t want to neglect. The lymphatic system is literally our trash removal system. Imagine what would happen if our trash didn’t get picked up and disposed of. Pretty awfu...
Jun 06, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Susan Blum MD, MPH is a pioneering practitioner of Functional Medicine. She has an illuminating personal story of overcoming stress from a traumatic childhood, later parenting 3 kids, and feeling the mismatch of a chosen career in conventional medicine. Dr. Blum hit rock bottom in her 30s when juggling work and family. She was unhappy and blamed her husband and other external factors. Her true healing began when she learned how to meditate, sought therapy, and then discovered the Center for Mind...
May 23, 2023•50 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Terry Wahls, MD, is a clinical professor at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials testing the efficacy of diet and lifestyle to treat multiple sclerosis (MS). She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles. Her protocol emerged from her own quest to slow the increasingly debilitating symptoms she experienced as a sufferer of progressive MS. Informed by science, she began using Paleo principles as gu...
May 09, 2023•48 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Ann Louise Gittleman is a nutritional visionary, author, and health pioneer who has fearlessly stood on the front lines of diet and detox, the environment, and women’s health for decades. She is always ahead of the curve and she busts prevailing myths about the underlying causes of weight gain, weight loss resistance, thyroid dysfunction, gallbladder disease, and autoimmunity. In this interview we discuss top imbalances driving gut dysfunction and autoimmune disorders and what you can do to heal...
Apr 25, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Dr. Pizzorno is a naturopathic physician, educator, researcher, and expert spokesman, and he’s currently chair of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine. He founded Bastyr University — a leading university for naturopathic medicine –in 1978. He’s the author of the excellent and important book, The Toxin Solution. In this interview we discuss how toxins are driving the autoimmune epidemic; the root cause of diabetes (hint: it’s not just sugar!); the best markers to track your body bur...
Apr 11, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Reclaim your health and your best life with bestselling author and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, Palmer Kippola. Autoimmune disease may be epidemic but Palmer puts the power to heal and thrive back in your court by bringing you interviews with health and wellness experts, scientists, and people who have successfully beat autoimmune disorders. We dive deep into autoimmune root causes and actionable solutions. Get empowered, get inspired, get motivated, and get going! Learn about the...
Feb 27, 2023•1 min•Season 1Ep. 1
