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In this roundtable discussion, Dr. Shan Hussain is with Dr. Haider Al-Hakim host of the ‘Surgical Spirit’ podcast, Dr. Paul Polyvios host of the ‘A Doctor’s View’ podcast and Dr. Suhail Hussain portfolio GP for both the NHS and private sectors and senior tutor at 3 London medical schools. Together they discuss the reality of COVID19 and what it is really like on the frontline along with what it could and should be like for the world as we begin the process of moving on from Lockdown.   KEY TAKEAWAYS There is a fear of ‘this thing’ but how much is real, how much is paranoia and how much is hype? The next 6-12 months in the NHS will be critical. There are a huge backlog of cases that haven’t been brought to the attention of GP’s. Why don’t they talk about improving health through nutrition and activity As human beings, we need to take back responsibility for our own health and wellbeing outside of big institutions There should be many options for people to access healthcare but the key is changing perspectives and helping people to increase health through nutrition and activity The infection rates in this country a reflection of our collective health as a population. It has shown there is a lot more we can be doing to look after ourselves and could kickstart a better way forward. Normal before was not a good place to be. There needs to be a rethink about how we run the world.   BEST MOMENTS ‘The people who decided on the type of PPE to be worn are those that would run with speed in the opposite direction if near a patient with covid19’ ‘We can’t out-medicate chronic conditions’ ‘As humans, we all need our connections with others and we need to continue to build and maintain these’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Enduring Health Podcast Surgical Spirit Podcast A Doctor's View Podcast   ABOUT THE HOST Dr. Shan Hussain is an author, general practitioner, health coach, wellness advisor and ambassador to the World Health Innovation Summit. As Founder of The Health Studio and a medical doctor of 18 years, he has a special interest in health promotion and disease prevention. He works with individuals and organisations to help naturally improve health in a sustainable, holistic manner. Dr. Hussain has developed several coaching and mentorship programmes designed to help reverse the symptoms of many stress-related health problems. His best-selling book, 'The Big Prescription' serves as a guide for readers to learn about evidence-based holistic health practices that create the foundation of his work.   CONTACT METHOD       Connect with Dr. Shan Hussain through his website at https://thehealthstudio.net/       If you would like to support our podcast, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/enduringhealth Support the show.

Dr Joe Delaney is a Consultant Principal Lecturer in Integrative Health Practice, an Associate Lecturer in Postgraduate Medicine and also a recognised teacher of Evolutionary Psychology. He is a Specialist in Integrative Health Practice and creator of the ‘IAM Approach to Health and Wellbeing’. He shares his story as a health professional who has lots of information and has also lived through the experience of stress and anxiety building to a point where it changed his life. There is a difference between living a pretentious life and an authentic life and its vital to look within and find what brings you into balance because what goes on in the body affects the mind and what happens in the mind affects the body.   KEY TAKEAWAYS How we think determines how information is sent through our nervous system to our endocrine glands, these flood the system with various biochemical substances that influence how the cells perform. What goes on in the body affects the mind and what happens in the mind affects the body. What is important is the difference between living a pretentious life and an authentic life. Stress is excessive pressure that takes us out of our wellbeing level. The nervous system kicks in with the flight or fight response, heart rate increases, blood pressure goes up and we go into hypertension. When you are in a continual state of stress you can go into a rapid mind loop as you continually try to cope with the problems. Lots of people also become physically exhausted as they try to cope and this can lead to comfort-seeking behaviours. We become toxic and out of balance. It all begins with self-awareness and being body aware. Learning to put your hand on your heart and breath is the key to achieving balance. At 6 breaths per minute the magic happens, there is a perfect balance between the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous systems of the heart.   BEST MOMENTS ‘There was a whole load of me that I wasn’t paying attention to’ ‘I’d been living everyone else’s life not my life’ ‘All the choices I had made were based on external information’ ‘I’d never made any choices based on how I felt about myself from a place of authenticity’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Enduring Health Podcast Dr Joe Delaney website   ABOUT THE GUEST Dr Joe Delaney PhD CSci FIBMS PhySoc Joe is a Consultant Principal Lecturer in Integrative Health Practice with Wirral Metropolitan College and an Associate Lecturer in Postgraduate Medicine with Edge Hill University and also a recognised teacher of Evolutionary Psychology with the University of Liverpool. Previously, he worked for many years as a Senior Research Fellow in Medicine at Wirral University Teaching Hospital, exploring the use of non-medical interventions alongside pharmacological methods for treating hypertension in patients suffering with diabetes and chronic kidney disease. In line with the above role, Joe was appointed as the country’s first NHS Specialist in Integrative Health Practice. His role was to help individuals reduce the stress, tension, depression and anxiety arising from living with a long-term condition and to help them find the power and enthusiasm to make healthier choices. He is the creator of the ‘IAM Approach to Health and Wellbeing’ which is a deliberately developmental, mindfulness-based stress re-education (DD-MBSR) programme that helps individuals to focus on what’s strong in them and not what’s going wrong with them. In this way, they become more empowered, emotionally flexible, mentally alert and much more able to flex and flow in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and often ambiguous world.  ABOUT THE HOST Dr. Shan Hussain is an author, general practitioner, health coach, wellness advisor and ambassador to the World Health Innovation Summit. As Founder of The Health Studio and a medical doctor of 18 years, he has a special interest in health promotion and disease prevention. He works with individuals and organisations to help naturally improve health in a sustainable, holistic manner. Dr. Hussain has developed several coaching and mentorship programmes designed to help reverse the symptoms of many stress-related health problems. His best-selling book, 'The Big Prescription' serves as a guide for readers to learn about evidence-based holistic health practices that create the foundation of his work.   CONTACT METHOD       Connect with Dr. Shan Hussain through his website at https://thehealthstudio.net/       If you would like to support our podcast, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/enduringhealth Support the show.

Since 2012 Ivor Cummins has been intensively researching the root causes of modern chronic disease with a particular focus on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. His career speciality, leading large worldwide teams in complex problem-solving activity provided the key questions that have helped him to explore the root causes of chronic disease and find the answers. Key nutritional and lifestyle interventions can transform an individual’s health and productivity and Ivor shares the changes that will make the biggest difference and explains why it’s vital to understand the root cause and take the right action to transform your life.   KEY TAKEAWAYS I discovered excessive carbohydrate and refined carbohydrate were almost certainly driving my bad physiology, I had believed my whole adult life that fat was bad but it’s not. I changed my diet removing any processed foods, refined sugar and the majority of carbohydrates and everything transformed. My energy levels and mental acuity also increased dramatically and my weight loss accelerated. There are many illnesses that are preventable through dietary measures. Simple dietary changes such as wholefoods, cutting out the starchy carbs and refined sugars make a difference. Ferritin is an acute-phase reactant and should be the sixth marker for metabolic syndrome. Your A1C is a late-stage indicator for type 2 diabetes but a post-meal glucose test will provide a more accurate indicator of possible problems much earlier on because what gets measured is what gets treated and managed. If you check post-meal glucose levels then you will have more knowledge than most people. A healthy fats based low carbohydrate diet is one of the most important changes you can make. There are some crucial vitamins and minerals such as magnesium, potassium and fish oil and it’s important to eliminate vegetable oils and factory seed oils to lower omega 6 fats.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I cut out the bread, pasta and junk food and my results were dramatically changed’ ‘If the experts in the field don’t really know how to handle the basic measurements then something unusual was afoot’ ‘The answer is carbohydrate metabolism’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Enduring Health Podcast https://thefatemperor.com Ivor Cummins at the Public Health Collaboration VCon 2020 Eat Rich, Live Long by Ivor Cummins & Jeffry Gerber   ABOUT THE GUEST Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP completed a Biochemical Engineering degree in 1990. He has since spent 30 years in corporate technical leadership positions. His career speciality has been leading large worldwide teams in complex problem-solving activity. Since 2012 Ivor has been intensively researching the root causes of modern chronic disease. A particular focus has been on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. He shares his research insights at public speaking engagements around the world, revealing the key nutritional and lifestyle interventions which will deliver excellent health and personal productivity. He has recently presented at the British Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR) and also at the Irish National Institute of Preventative Cardiology (NIPC) annual conferences. Ivor is currently the Chief Program Officer for Irish Heart Disease Awareness: https://IHDA.ie ABOUT THE HOST Dr. Shan Hussain is an author, general practitioner, health coach, wellness advisor and ambassador to the World Health Innovation Summit. As Founder of The Health Studio and a medical doctor of 18 years, he has a special interest in health promotion and disease prevention. He works with individuals and organisations to help naturally improve health in a sustainable, holistic manner. Dr. Hussain has developed several coaching and mentorship programmes designed to help reverse the symptoms of many stress-related health problems. His best-selling book, 'The Big Prescription' serves as a guide for readers to learn about evidence-based holistic health practices that create the foundation of his work.   CONTACT METHOD       Connect with Dr. Shan Hussain through his website at https://thehealthstudio.net/       If you would like to support our podcast, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/enduringhealth   Support the show.

Do you know how to find happiness and what difference it can make? In this episode, Dr. Shan is in conversation with Gary King who after a near-death experience sought to find the answers about how to be happy. Having worked and travelled the world with Tony Robbins he has interacted with millions of people and researched extensively about how to have an amazing happy life. People can think that happiness is all about money but Gary shares the true formula for happiness and discusses why the core of happiness is to do with a deep human connection. Listen in and hear how you can live an extraordinary life being happy.   KEY TAKEAWAYS No matter what you go through depending on how you process things there is happiness on the other side. Happiness is the opposite of fear and being happy produces endorphins in the body. Stress, fear and anxiety produce cortisol in the body and this depletes the body’s immune system. If you are happy you don’t produce cortisol or very little. Stress works against the immune system and is the biggest killer across the planet. If people refuse to forgive others they are in fact not forgiving themselves. Being honest with yourself is key because lying produces cortisol. Self-acceptance, self-approval and self-appreciation are what we seek as children and what shapes our self-worth as adults. The human constitution forms the basis of strength in any human being. It’s the kindness, integrity, empathy, honesty and self-worth of any individual. We live in a world of cause and effect and no one has immunity. Forgiveness, honesty, truthfulness and self-worth are the keys to happiness. An extraordinary life is based on forgiving yourself and other people, being honest and truthful with others, understanding self-worth and where it comes from.   BEST MOMENTS ‘You can change a person’s behaviour with one word’ ‘Your whole life is a happiness experiment’ ‘There is no such thing as an inconsequential lie’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Enduring Health Podcast Kyngme2@aol.com   ABOUT THE HOST Dr. Shan Hussain is an author, general practitioner, health coach, wellness advisor and ambassador to the World Health Innovation Summit. As Founder of The Health Studio and a medical doctor of 18 years, he has a special interest in health promotion and disease prevention. He works with individuals and organisations to help naturally improve health in a sustainable, holistic manner. Dr. Hussain has developed several coaching and mentorship programmes designed to help reverse the symptoms of many stress-related health problems. His best-selling book, 'The Big Prescription' serves as a guide for readers to learn about evidence-based holistic health practices that create the foundation of his work.   CONTACT METHOD       Connect with Dr. Shan Hussain through his website at https://thehealthstudio.net/       If you would like to support our podcast, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/enduringhealth Support the show.

In this episode, Shan discusses with Vicki Psarias parenting and the challenges of the day to day life where we are all ‘staying at home’ Vicki is a multi-award-winning blogger, vlogger and best-selling author of ‘MumBoss’ and discusses with Shan the joys of a slower pace of life and the things learnt that will change for the better moving forward along with the challenges of being in physical isolation. Vicki shares some great advice on the importance of looking after yourself, keeping to a routine and be social through virtual channels to support well-being, listen and enjoy.   KEY TAKEAWAYS In pregnancy, you need to understand how strong you are and that you are not alone if things don’t work out the way you are hoping they will. There are ways to be mindful and trust the professionals around you when you are facing medical procedure. Early motherhood is challenging and the reality is most people struggle with motherhood because pregnancy brings such a lot of change. In these unusual times we are physically distancing but need to make sure we are reaching out and communicating with others. We can all suffer from a lack of confidence but it’s important to understand its normal but you must also seek help and talk to someone Being social through virtual channels is vital at this time but curate the sites you are connecting with to ensure you are in control of the information. Work really hard on boundaries and recognise you can’t do everything and it’s better to be more focused rather than undertake a higher volume of activities.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Being social through virtual channels is vital, at this time, for well-being’ ‘It’s important to remember it’s not social distancing its physical isolation and distancing’ ‘It’s important to have gratitude but you can also acknowledge finding it difficult’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Enduring Health Podcast Mumboss: The Honest Mum's Guide to Surviving and Thriving at Work and at Home by Vicki Psarias Honest Mum website   ABOUT THE HOST Dr. Shan Hussain is an author, general practitioner, health coach, wellness advisor and ambassador to the World Health Innovation Summit. As Founder of The Health Studio and a medical doctor of 18 years, he has a special interest in health promotion and disease prevention. He works with individuals and organisations to help naturally improve health in a sustainable, holistic manner. Dr. Hussain has developed several coaching and mentorship programmes designed to help reverse the symptoms of many stress-related health problems. His best-selling book, 'The Big Prescription' serves as a guide for readers to learn about evidence-based holistic health practices that create the foundation of his work.   CONTACT METHOD       Connect with Dr. Shan Hussain through his website at https://thehealthstudio.net/       If you would like to support our podcast, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/enduringhealth Support the show.