Dr. Ban Health Podcast

Episode #33: Is Seasonal Allergies Driving You Crazy? You can't breathe out of your nose, you're constantly coughing and sneezing, your eyes are watery, and these symptoms are affecting your sleep.

Topics: 1. Traditional Medical Approaches: intranasal steroid spray and antihistamines. 2. Intramuscular injection of "steroid" to help suppress these symptoms 3. Alternative Approaches: Xlear and wild oregano *Footnote: my patient called me in the middle of the podcast, and you can hear my ring tone. I'm not re-recording. It's too nice outside. There's allergies to be had. Lol!

Episode #32: How do I Approach Winter "cold, flu months" with Supplements, Essential Oils, Nebulizer? Can it help to Prevent and/or Treat Infections, and Decrease Symptoms?

Topics: 1. Supplements that help improve immunity, and decrease inflammation can help us during winter months (N-acetylcysteine NAC, Vitamin D3/K2, Vitamin C, Essential Amino Acids, Zinc, Selenium, Iron, Magnesium, Tumeric, Probiotics, Omega-3 FA) 2. Essential Oils ARE great when you have symptoms, cough, congestion, aches.  3. Nebulization can prevent and help symptoms of infections. Use of hydrogen peroxide, iodine, saline with Dr David Brownstein's approach.

Episode #31: New Year Resolution: What do I do to lose Weight? Ozempic/Wegovy, Mounjaro/Zepbound, Carnivore Diet, Fasting, Exercise, etc...

Topics: 1.  62 y/o male who wants to lose weight bc he has indigestion, and not feeling well. What type of diet and exercise? 2. 44 y/o female who is very active during her work but has a lot anxiety and depression, and doesn't have energy. She's regaining a lot of weight she has lost last year. Need to figure what brain areas are affecting anxiety and depression, use diet and supplements to help her before trying to deal with her weight. Then use Tirzepatide in this case to help her drop her weight while maintaining her muscle mass.   3. 72 y/o female who has severe arthritis in both hips affecting her mobility, and have sleepless nights due to pain. Her BMI is over 40, and her surgeon won't operate on her unless she drops 30 pounds to get her BMI below 40. She can't really walk, and exercising is very limited. She has a good eating habit because she grow most of her own foods. Her fasting insulin level is close to 30. In this case, Tirzepatide helped her drop her weight while maintaining her muscle mass.

Episode #30: Does Having Low Magnesium Affect my Metabolic Health?

TOPICS: 1. An example of a patient going through magnesium and other macro and micronutrients deficit, and how magnesium supplementation was able to help correct some of the metabolic and brain health issues. 2. Why magnesium is so important? There are over 3500 magnesium binding sites that produce over 300 bodily functions.  3. How do we know if we are deficient in Magnesium? What are tips to help assess our need for magnesium?  4. What can we do to increase our magnesium intake?

Episode #29: Does having Low Thyroid Function Affect my Blood Sugar Level, thus increasing Risks for potential Metabolic Problems like Weight Gain, Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver, Pre/Diabetes?

Topics: 1. Example of patient with low thyroid function struggling with fatigue, elevated blood sugar, poor kidney functions, and fatty liver.  2. What are things that will cause thyroid dysfunction? Higher blood sugar/insulin (insulin resistance), poor liver and kidney functions, deficiency in selenium, zinc/copper, iron, chronic stress, medications, alcohol/smoking, heavy metals, and environmental toxins.  3. What to do when I have symptoms of potentially thyroid dysfunction like fatigue, weight gain, dry skin, losing hair, irregular menstrual, sleeping more, feeling cold all the time, etc...