Autoimmune Connections

Episode 12 | How Sleep Deprivation is Harming Your Health and How to Get a Good Night's Sleep

Are you getting a full night of uninterrupted sleep every night, and waking up filled with energy each morning? Are you getting through your days without the aid of caffeine? Are you free of brain fog, aches and pains? Is your sex drive amazing? Are you free of disease and have an immune system that keeps you free of the bugs that are going around? If not, this episode is for you! Sleep deprivation is an epidemic in the United States (and probably around the world) today. Most people are unaware of how dangerous chronic sleep deprivation really is and how damaging it is to your health, not just now, but long-term. In today's episode, I step away from my typical interview format to myself riffing on a topic that is paramount to our health and long-term well-being. Listen in as I share some consequences/symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation, why sleep is SO IMPORTANT to your health and NOT a luxury, and recommendations that you can implement starting today, to achieve a good night's sleep. Visit my website:http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/ [http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/] The blue blocker sunglasses [https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thrivingprima-20&keywords=swanwick%20blue%20blocker&index=aps&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=xm2&linkId=08dfc4e632e6d95d9c7dd6b00e6f7e72] I refer to on the podcast can be found here [https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thrivingprima-20&keywords=swanwick%20blue%20blocker&index=aps&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=xm2&linkId=08dfc4e632e6d95d9c7dd6b00e6f7e72]. *** Click here [http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1283428877]to leave a review on iTunes. Your reviews are super important and will help me get this podcast available to more people who need it! Oh, and please remember to share this podcast with anyone you know would benefit from the information! Head on over tohttp://thrivingprimallywellness.com/autoimmune-podcast.html [http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/autoimmune-podcast.html], sign up for my weekly newsletter, and share the podcast!

Episode 11 | Whitney Morgan: Interstitial cystitis...GONE! Chronic Headaches...GONE! Anxiety, panic attacks, asthma...GONE! Joint pain...GONE! Insomnia/Sleep dysfunction...GONE!

GIVEAWAY! At the start of Episode 12 (my next episode), I will be giving away two copies of Robb Wolf’s new book, Wired to Eat [http://amzn.to/2zYlnJp], or one of two copies of Dr. Terry Wahls’s new book, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life [http://amzn.to/2zZGU4m] to four lucky winner! To be entered into this giveaway, I need you to do two things: 1. Click here [http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1283428877] to leave a review on iTunes. Your reviews are super important and will help me get this podcast available to more people who need it! 2. Head on over to my website, thrivingprimallywellness.com [http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/] and sign up for my weekly newsletter. When you sign up you’ll receive a download for a free copy of my color-coded Food Planning Guide to Optimize Wellness! *** Being the daughter of a surgeon and an O.R. nurse, Whitney Morgan (sagepointacupuncture.com [http://www.sagepointacupuncture.com/]) believed that doctors had magical powers. She grew up struggling with asthma and allergies, and taking pills, liquid medications and inhalers to manage the symptoms. Even though Whitney never got better taking the medications, all of her faith and trust was endowed upon the medical field. Until it wasn’t. In her early 20s, while still struggling with the symptoms of allergies and asthma (and taking the prescribed medications that went along with those conditions), she began to have panic attacks. Never fear, Xanax is here! Later on, after the birth of her daughter, she began having skin flares and was diagnosed with psoriasis. The dermatologist’s answer? Steroid creams! In her mid-thirties came a diagnosis of interstitial cystitis (an inflammatory bladder condition). The urologist’s answer? Surgery! Powerful pain medications! “Join a support group, ‘cause you’re stuck with this for life Babe!” That was the breaking point for Whitney. The point at which she decided to take her health into her own hands and investigate how her symptoms were connected, and what was at the root of all her maladies. In this episode, Whitney talks about what she learned, the steps she took, and the changes made to bring her body back into balance. She learned that symptoms are not the problem, but rather, the body’s way of telling you that something is out of balance. Interested in learning more about the FDN Course [https://ua175.isrefer.com/go/Cert/tamyTPW/] that Whitney and I are both trained through, and looking into becoming a FDN-P yourself? Click here [https://ua175.isrefer.com/go/Cert/tamyTPW/] to learn more. *** GIVEAWAY! At the start of Episode 12 (my next episode), I will be giving away two copies of Robb Wolf’s new book, Wired to Eat [http://amzn.to/2zYlnJp], or one of two copies of Dr. Terry Wahls’s new book, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life [http://amzn.to/2zZGU4m] to four lucky winners! To be entered into this giveaway, I need you to do two things: 1. Click here [http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1283428877] to leave a review on iTunes. Your reviews are super important and will help me get this podcast available to more people who need it! 2. Head on over to my website, thrivingprimallywellness.com [http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/] and sign up for my weekly newsletter. When you sign up you’ll receive a download for a free copy of my color-coded Food Planning Guide to Optimize Wellness! Oh, and please remember to share this podcast [http://autoimmuneconnections.libsyn.com/] with anyone you know would benefit from the information.

Episode 10 | Corrie Broughton: Beauty on the Other Side of Autoimmunity

Before I dive into the episode details, remember, you can review the podcast to enter to win one of two copies of Robb’s new book, Wired to Eat [http://amzn.to/2zYlnJp], or one of two copies of Dr. Terry Wahls new book, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life [http://amzn.to/2zZGU4m]. Contest ending soon. Click here [http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1283428877] to leave a review on iTunes. Your reviews are super important and will help me get this podcast available to more people who need it! Oh, and please remember to share this podcast with anyone you know would benefit from the information! Head on over to http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/autoimmune-podcast.html [http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/autoimmune-podcast.html], sign up for my weekly newsletter, and share the podcast! *** You are in for a treat on today’s episode! I talk with Corrie Broughton, of corriebroughton.com [https://www.corriebroughton.com/], who shares her “saga” of a lifetime of health struggles that became progressively worse, and involved a cluster of symptoms, including unexplainable pain in her arms and legs, severe ringing in the ears, bloating, pain in her veins, panic attacks, sores on her arms and legs, and even losing her ability to read! Corrie went through the gamut of specialists seeking answers to her mystery ailments, including her primary care doctor, a rheumatologist, cardiologist, dermatologist, otolaryngologist (ear-nose-throat), and gastroenterologist. At some points along the way she was made to feel that she was creating these symptoms in her head, and one doctor even suggested that what she really needed was to be taking anti-depressants! Eventually, Corrie received diagnoses of FIVE different autoimmune conditions, including Hashimoto’s, interstitial cystitis, vasculitis, Sjogren’s Syndrome, and gluten sensitivity. She was offered the standard treatment from all of the specialists she saw, “There’s nothing you can do to reverse this condition. You’ll just have to treat the symptoms with this medication for the rest of your life.” Corrie was determined that her life didn’t have to be filled with such misery and became hell-bent on finding solutions. After doing some functional lab testing, she discovered some hidden causes of dysfunction at the root of her conditions, including food she was eating every day. Corrie also altered her way of being to include more self-love and self-care and has been able to find a beautiful life on the other side of all the suffering. If you are interested in learning more about Corrie, and the work she does with women to help them find their own identity with her life coaching. Remember, you can review the podcast to enter to win one of two copies of Robb Wolf’s new book, Wired to Eat, or one of two copies of Dr. Terry Wahls’ new book, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life. Contest ending soon. Just scroll down on the podcast app you’re listening on to find “Write a Review”, or for iTunes, click here [http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1283428877]. Your reviews are super important and will help me get this podcast available to more people who need it! Oh, and please remember to share this podcast with anyone you know would benefit from the information! Head on over to http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/autoimmune-podcast.html [http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/autoimmune-podcast.html], sign up for my weekly newsletter, and share the podcast!

Episode 9 | Paul Nottoli: Recovery from Cancer & an Autoimmune Skin Condition

In this episode I talk with Dr. Paul Nottoli of Vitality Chiropractic Center in Auroroa, IL [http://myvitalitychiropractic.com/], and founder of Health Geeks [https://healthgeeks.co/] and the Health Geeks Radio Podcast [https://healthgeeks.co/health-geeks-radio/]. *** Before I dive into the episode details, remember, you can review the podcast to enter to win one of two copies of Robb’s new book, Wired to Eat [http://amzn.to/2zYlnJp], or one of two copies of Dr. Terry Wahls new book, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life [http://amzn.to/2zZGU4m]. Contest ending soon. Click here [http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1283428877] to leave a review on iTunes. Your reviews are super important and will help me get this podcast available to more people who need it! Oh, and please remember to share this podcast with anyone you know would benefit from the information! Head on over to http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/autoimmune-podcast.html [http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/autoimmune-podcast.html], sign up for my weekly newsletter, and share the podcast! *** Dr. Paul is a survivor of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, a type of bone marrow cancer that he was diagnosed with at the age of 4. In this episode, he shares about his 3 ½ years of treatments and the impact his illness had on his family at the time. He discusses the long-term impact of the conventional treatments of chemo and radiation on his health, with a compromised immune system and getting sick easily, and the later development of an autoimmune skin condition that left him covered in a blistery rash from head-to-toe. Dr. Paul talks about how finally deciding to “stop being an idiot” and making necessary changes to his diet and lifestyle allowed him to get his autoimmune skin condition under control. At the end of this episode, Dr. Paul talks about the Real Food & Fitness Masterclass [https://healthgeeks.withcoach.com/a/g5ovu] summit that he has put together. This episode is airing at the end of the free 10-day access to the Masterclass, but you can still access it and own all of the information he has put together for you here [https://healthgeeks.withcoach.com/a/g5ovu]. You won’t want to miss the fun 80s theme he has interwoven throughout! Remember, you can review the podcast to enter to win one of two copies of Robb Wolf’s new book, Wired to Eat, or one of two copies of Dr. Terry Wahls’ new book, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life. Contest ending soon. Just scroll down on the podcast app you’re listening on to find “Write a Review”, or for iTunes, click here [http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1283428877]. Your reviews are super important and will help me get this podcast available to more people who need it! Oh, and please remember to share this podcast with anyone you know would benefit from the information! Head on over to http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/autoimmune-podcast.html [http://thrivingprimallywellness.com/autoimmune-podcast.html], sign up for my weekly newsletter, and share the podcast!

Episode 8 | Robb Wolf: Wired to Eat

In this episode, I talk with Robb Wolf, the self-proclaimed “Poop Guy”, and bestselling author of The Paleo Solution [http://amzn.to/2zY3f2l], the newly released, Wired to Eat [http://amzn.to/2zYlnJp], and host of The Paleo Solution Podcast [https://robbwolf.com/podcast/]. This is a long episode, but so filled with golden nuggets, that you’ll want to listen to every minute! *** Before I dive into the episode details, remember, you can review the podcast to enter to win one of two copies of Robb’s new book, Wired to Eat [http://amzn.to/2zYlnJp], or one of two copies of Dr. Terry Wahls new book, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life [http://amzn.to/2zZGU4m]. Contest ending soon. Click here [http://getpodcast.reviews/id/1283428877] to leave a review on iTunes. *** In his new book, Wired to Eat [http://amzn.to/2zYlnJp], Robb discusses how we are genetically wired to eat more and move less, which is why in our modern world of hyper-palatable processed foods that are readily available in unlimited quantities, that it’s no wonder so many people are chronically ill and struggling with achieving and maintaining healthy weight. But, as Wolf shares in his book, there is a solution! Robb goes into his personal story of what he calls a “precipitous crash” in his health, when he dropped from a muscular 175 pounds to 130 pounds due to malabsorption from ulcerative colitis, and was suffering from a myriad of symptoms including hair loss, splitting nails, and horrible sleep. He shares the multiple triggers that sent his health into a downward spiral…triggers that included both how he was feeding his body AND how he was treating his body with lifestyle choices. He shares how the doctors threw their hands up and told him that he drew the short straw with bad genes, and that he would be facing surgery and a lifetime of medications, which as a research biochemist, he knew were a BAD idea. Oh, and they also congratulated him on his vegan diet filled with grains and legumes and told him that he’d be dead without it. And then…he dug into the research and decided to make himself the experiment. He talks about the fallacy in modern medicine that proof from lab research is required for medical reimbursement to justify trying dietary regimens that are divergent from food guide recommendations (which are based on horrible science by the way), and suggests that we let clinical outcomes drive the boat. He dives into how owning the 1st and 4th CrossFit affiliate gyms IN THE WORLD allowed him to have a massive “laboratory” for about 10 years in which to experiment with an ancestral approach to diet and lifestyle. Robb discusses how modern medicine has done a fantastic job at dealing with infectious disease, but a HORRIBLE JOB of dealing with chronic degenerative diseases, and that because chronic disease is a multifactorial problem, we need a multifactorial approach to resolving it, including: * Eating foods our grandparents would’ve recognized * Sleeping more * Having loving, supportive relationships * Not living beyond our means (STRESS!) He also dives into the importance of identifying your emotion-based “WHY” for long-term buy-in and success with improving your health, and discusses how the phrase, “Everything in moderation” is a dangerous TRAP because in our modern world of foods that are engineered to make you want to eat more, moderation simply does not exist! And he discusses his perhaps controversial take on the concept of having a “healthy relationship with food”…that there should never be guilt or morality associated with food. With food, there are only consequences, not a relationship (healthy or not). *** Remember, you can review the podcast to enter to win one of two copies of Robb’s new book, Wired to Eat, or one of two copies of Dr. Terry Wahls new book, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life. Contest ending soon. Just scroll down on the podcast app you’re listening on to find “Write a Review” *** Robb also weighs in on the connection between autoimmunity and the gut. We discuss Personalized Nutrition, and how research suggests that individuals respond to various foods, specifically carbohydrates differently, and shares how the 7-Day Carb Test he shares in his book Wired to Eat can help you identify which carbohydrate foods are best for you, and which ones you should probably avoid. Finally, Robb weighs in on Ketosis as an outstanding tool for some, but not all people. Check out the big project he’s been working on, the  newly released Keto Master Class, a 13-module program that includes a workbook, and bonus downloads such as ketosis, cholesterol, epigenetics, and intermittent fasting. You can find the Keto Masterclass at www.robbwolf.com/km [http://www.robbwolf.com/km]. In this episode, we dive into Robb’s incredible new book Wired to Eat [http://amzn.to/2zPt3g4], but if you haven’t read his first book, The Paleo Solution [http://amzn.to/2zQKE7c], it is a MUST READ as well. In the Weekly Nudge, Robb discusses the importance of getting adequate sleep and having a good circadian rhythm for overall health. Here’s a link to the blue light blocking glasses [https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thrivingprima-20&keywords=blue%20light%20blocker%20glasses&index=aps&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=xm2&linkId=e0630509b35f95d73289d15627a0ec43] he referred to. My personal favorites are Swanwicks [https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thrivingprima-20&keywords=blue%20light%20blocker%20Swanwick&index=aps&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=xm2&linkId=3b02a78782eeb1133e1c2cc2230e5cec]. I tried a cheapy pair at first and they distorted my vision, so I upgraded to Swanwicks [https://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thrivingprima-20&keywords=blue%20light%20blocker%20Swanwick&index=aps&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=xm2&linkId=3b02a78782eeb1133e1c2cc2230e5cec]. You can find Robb at www.robbwolf.com [http://www.robbwolf.com], on Facebook, Twitter @robbwolf, and on Instagram @dasrobbwolf. *** Remember, you can review the podcast to enter to win one of two copies of Robb’s new book, Wired to Eat, or one of two copies of Dr. Terry Wahls new book, The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life. Contest ending soon. Just scroll down on the podcast app you’re listening on to find “Write a Review”