Awareness Is Not Enough: Reflections on The Staggering Statistics for Adolescent Mental Health: Dr James Greenblatt's extract from IMMH Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Conference 2023. Dr. Greenblatt will be speaking at IMMH 2024: www.immh.org about Suicide Prevention Redefined: The Tragic Consequences of Ignoring Functional Medicine so come join us at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort in Washington, DC 10-13th October 2024 to hear him and our other fantastic speakers on the latest scien...
May 11, 2024•44 min•Ep. 58
In this episode of The MindHealth360 Show in conjunction with the How To Academy, distinguished Harvard psychiatrist and prolific researcher Dr Chris Palmer unveils his pioneering insights into how metabolic processes underpin mental disorders, challenging traditional psychiatric paradigms. Dr Palmer leads the Metabolic and Mental Health Program and directs the Department of Postgraduate and Continuing Education at McLean Hospital. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medic...
May 02, 2024•1 hr 17 min
Join us in this insightful interview for The MindHealth360 Show and the How To Academy with Dr. Anna Lembke, Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and author of the best-selling Dopamine Nation . In this interview, Dr. Lembke explores the intricate balance between pleasure and pain governed by our brain's dopamine levels, and offers valuable strategies for finding balance in an age of indulgence. With the rise of digital drugs and behavioural addictions, such as socia...
Apr 10, 2024•1 hr 18 min
The latest episode of The MindHealth360 Show is an event replay done in partnership with The How To Academy and features Harvard Nutritional Psychiatrist Dr. Uma Naidoo. In this interview, Dr. Naidoo discusses the importance of food to mental health and healing as well as lessons from her new book, Calm Your Mind with Food , where she lays out both science and practical advice for using food as medicine for mental wellbeing. Dr. Naidoo tells us about the major advances made in understanding the ...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Our latest guest on The MindHealth360 Show, Dr. Janina Fisher, one of the world's leading experts on treating trauma, explains the revolution in trauma treatment since Bessel van der Kolk's work, which showed that trauma is not in the event itself, but rather in the body's reaction to that event, which is stored in the body, the nervous system and the lower brain regions. This explains why talk therapy and CBT, which engage the brain's higher prefrontal cortex, so often fail to address the root ...
Jan 11, 2024•1 hr 30 min
Deb Dana, LCSW, is a world-renowned clinician, consultant, author and speaker who has successfully put into practice Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory (PVT), making it accessible and beneficial to hundreds of thousands of people around the world by developing therapeutic practices based on PVT. Deb has a busy career training therapists around the world on how to bring a Polyvagal approach into their clinical practice, and also works with agencies and larger systems to explore how to incorpora...
Dec 01, 2023•1 hr 17 min
Dr. Robert Hedaya has been practising functional medicine psychiatry for many years, and is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is the author of Understanding Biological Psychiatry , The Antidepressant Survival Guide and Depression: Advancing the Treatment Paradigm , and the founder of the Whole Psychiatry and Brain Recovery Center, as well as a faculty member at The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM). In this captivating interview for The MindHeal...
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Ben Greenfield is one of the world's leading biohackers. Voted by the NSCA as America's top personal trainer, he is also a health consultant, nutritionist, physiologist, competitive athlete, 13-time Ironman triathlete and New York Times bestselling author of 13 books, including the wildly popular Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health, & Life and Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging . With a focus on brain hacks for improving mental health, in this fascina...
Aug 16, 2023•1 hr
Addressing the survival of our civilization, this is one the most pressing interviews ever featured on the MindHealth360 Show. Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of the most brilliant systems thinkers and social philosophers of our time. Combining astounding intellect and depth of knowledge with profound concern and wisdom, he is tackling the many issues that threaten humanity. Founder of the Civilisation Research Institution (a think tank focused on preventing global catastrophic risks) and foundin...
Jul 04, 2023•2 hr 15 min
Dr. Richard Schwartz is the Founder of IFS (Internal Family Systems), an evidence-based therapy which is revolutionising traditional psychotherapy. IFS has shown to be remarkably successful where other therapies have proven to be ineffective or unsustainable in helping patients resolve issues with addictions, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, self-harm, suicidality, and other mental health problems. Its strength lies in its simple and intuitive premise that we each have parts (the fearful p...
May 24, 2023•1 hr 16 min
Clinical neuropsychologist Dr. Mario Martinez has spent years interviewing healthy centenarians around the world, and studying the effects of culture, beliefs, thoughts and feelings on our biochemistry, longevity and health. He is the best selling author of The MindBody Code: How to Change the Beliefs That Limit Your Health, Longevity, and Success . In this thought-provoking interview, he outlines the profound influence cultural contexts have on the immune system, the endocrine system and the re...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Dr. Datis Kharrazian is an award winning clinical research scientist, Harvard trained academic professor and world renowned Functional Medicine expert. He is at the forefront of developing evidence-based treatments for mood disorders as well as autoimmune and chronic neurological diseases, which are used by academic institutions as well as by thousands of health care providers. A Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, Diplomate of the Board of Nutrition Specialists, member of the American ...
Mar 23, 2023•1 hr 29 min
Renowned Functional Medicine Neurologist Dr. Suzanne Gazda is at the forefront of treating neurological disorders, from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Multiple Sclerosis, to neurodevelopmental disorders such as Autism and ADD and has also become a specialist in Long Covid and its neurological effects. She completed her residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center, and is the founder of the Neurology Institute of San Antonio (NISA). Dedicated to pat...
Feb 17, 2023•1 hr 3 min
In this captivating interview, Dr. Doni Wilson reveals the ways we can overcome stress, anxiety and burnout in modern life. Acclaimed public speaker, researcher and author of the best-selling book Master Your Stress, Reset Your Health: The Personalized Program to Calm Anxiety, Boost Energy, and Beat Burnout, Dr. Doni Wilson is a naturopathic doctor, and is certified in midwifery and nutrition. In this vital conversation, she discusses how we can calm our stress response, and outlines why stress ...
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Board Certified in Family Medicine and in Integrative Holistic Medicine, Dr. Jill Carnahan is a Functional Medicine expert known for her experience with gut health, immunity, and detoxification. In 2010 she founded the Flatiron Functional Medicine Practice, and in February 2023 will release her book Unexpected: Finding Resilience through Functional Medicine, Science, and Faith . An inspirational survivor of breast cancer and Crohn's Disease, she has lived experience of how Functional Medicine ca...
Dec 02, 2022•50 min
In this fascinating conversation with one of the leading physicians in treating complex chronic illness, Dr. Neil Nathan, author of bestselling Toxic, Heal Your Body , speaks of his latest book on Energetic Diagnosis: Groundbreaking Thesis on Diagnosing Disease and Chronic Illness and the importance of the unseen in medical practice. In this interview, learn why sometimes, despite doing everything right physically, true healing will only happen when the more esoteric impact of energy blockages –...
Oct 23, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Conventional mental health treatment manages the symptoms rather than treating root causes of mental health issues. Functional medicine psychiatry seeks to treat the root causes behind these symptoms, whether they are biochemical (hormone imbalances, gut issues, toxic load, inflammation, infections) or psycho-spiritual (adverse childhood experiences, trauma) or both. But what comes first? Do depression, anxiety, insomnia generally come from biochemical imbalances or psycho-spiritual ones? Accord...
Aug 31, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Science journalist and author of "Heartbreak: A Personal and Scientific Journey" and "The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative", Florence Williams takes us on a fascinating journey around the physiological effects of heartbreak, loss and loneliness on our bodies and minds. With access to cutting edge scientific research, as well as her own personal experience of heartbreak when her 20 year marriage ended, she describes how grief and loneliness impact our physiolo...
Aug 04, 2022•1 hr 13 min
Life expectancy, quality of life and health-span are going down, and not because of Covid. We are witnessing an epidemic of chronic noncommunicable disease (CNDs) (such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke, fatty liver disease, cancer, dementia) as well as mental health issues (addiction, depression, anxiety) and autoimmune conditions which are increasing in prevalence and severity. These diseases of metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction cannot be helped with a pill, but rather with food. But...
Jul 19, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Eating disorders are one of the most dangerous and difficult to treat mental health issues in young women and men, with the highest levels of mortality and relapse rates of all psychiatric illnesses. And their numbers are growing. In this urgent and eye-opening interview, leading child and adolescent integrative psychiatrist Dr. James Greenblatt, with over 40 years of clinical experience treating eating disorders (anorexia, binge eating, bulimia, etc.), tells us about the often overlooked bioche...
May 04, 2022•1 hr 11 min
Dr. Lara Salyer, author of Right Brain Rescue , is a family medicine physician who retrained in Functional Medicine after experiencing debilitating burnout. In this inspiring and complex interview, she explains how increasing our neurochemical flow can successfully soothe burnout, calm a dysregulated stress response and improve mental health symptoms. Dr. Lara Salyer's remarkable approach to burnout and poor mental health draws on her training in functional medicine and her personal experience a...
Mar 31, 2022•57 min
Dr. Josh Friedman is a pioneering psychotherapist and psychologist who uses not only psychological therapies and mind-body practices such as yoga and breathing techniques, but also a wealth of tools and knowledge to support his patients' biochemistry using diet, supplements and amino acids. He has found that this combination approach is more effective in helping his patients' mental health than psychotherapy alone. Dr. Friedman earned his doctorate in psychology from New York University, did pos...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 8 min
In this lively and informative interview, Professor Bonnie Kaplan and Professor Julia Rucklidge, co-authors of The Better Brain , discuss the vital role of nutrition in mental health, the importance of diet and the right kind of supplementation (spoiler alert: the right type and combination of supplements is crucial). Prof. Bonnie Kaplan, winner of the Rogers Prize for Excellence in Complementary & Alternative Medicine, is a research psychologist at the University of Calgary's Cumming School...
Feb 01, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Dr. Hyla Cass is a psychiatrist and pioneer of integrative health and functional medicine psychiatry, author of several popular books including Natural Highs , 8 Weeks to Vibrant Health , and The Addicted Brain and How to Break Free . In this striking interview, she outlines the ways we can recover from mental health issues (PTSD, depression, anxiety, PMS, poor memory) by using CBD to support the endocannabinoid system. She explains what the endocannabinoid system is and why it is so central to ...
Jan 13, 2022•50 min
Dr. Ameet Aggarwal, best-selling author of Heal Your Body, Cure Your Mind , is a naturopathic doctor, psychotherapist, homeopath, EMDR and family constellations therapist . In this fascinating and comprehensive interview, he explains that healing from poor mental health, anxiety, depression, and insomnia can be successfully achieved by addressing gut health, liver stagnation and inflammation (our biochemistry) and painful emotions and past traumas (our psychospirituality). By understanding the m...
Dec 16, 2021•57 min
In this astounding conversation for the How To Academy in association with MindHealth360, Dr. Dale Bredesen and Dr. Kat Toups reveal their pioneering research into new treatments for dementia and cognitive decline. They explain that, contrary to widespread medical belief, cognitive decline and dementia are not only preventable, but also reversible. Both leading experts in neurodegenerative diseases, Dr. Dale Bredesen, legendary neurologist, is the author of the two best-sellers The End of Alzhei...
Nov 24, 2021•1 hr 9 min
Christina Veselak is a psychotherapist and nutritionist, specialising in addiction recovery, relapse prevention and mental health. She is the Founder and Director of the Academy for Addiction and Mental Health Nutrition. With a unique focus on psychotherapy (trauma, emotion, addictions) and nutrition (biochemical imbalances), in this compelling interview she explains that nutrient and neurotransmitter depletion in the brain can cause addictive behaviours and other mental health symptoms, and out...
Nov 02, 2021•54 min
In this fascinating interview, Dr. Michelle Veneziano, board-certified in family medicine and a clinical professor of osteopathic medicine at Touro University, California, discusses her work with the nervous system, embodiment and brain health. Detailing how tongue position, posture and circulation have a significant impact on mental health, she explains how osteopathy can initiate a mechanical body-release which helps to reset the nervous system, and enable recovery from symptoms such as depres...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 6 min
In this inspiring and comprehensive interview, the tables are turned as Cressida Bonas interviews Kirkland Newman, our very own founder and editor of MindHealth360, and discuss the key factors that impact our mental health, and integrative solutions to common mental health issues. Encapsulating her extensive knowledge of integrative medicine and her experience interviewing leading practitioners, Kirkland outlines ways to identify and treat the root causes of mental health symptoms such as depres...
Oct 08, 2021•1 hr 31 min
Dr. Kyrin Dunston is a Board Certified OBGYN and Functional Medicine Specialist, host of Stop the Menopause Madness Summit and author of Cracking the Bikini Code: 6 Secrets to Permanent Weight Loss Success . In this interview she discusses her all-natural journey to losing 100 pounds and healing from anxiety, depression, chronic exhaustion, IBS and fibromyalgia. She outlines how to sustainably recover from poor mental health and reveals the most common causes of mental health symptoms, with a fo...
Sep 30, 2021•1 hr 3 min
