Naked Nutrition - The LGBTQ+ Health Podcast

Jacoby Ballard is a social justice educator and yoga teacher who leads workshops and trainings around the country on diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a yoga teacher with 20 years of experience, he leads workshops, retreats, teacher trainings, teaches at conferences, and runs the Resonance mentorship program for certified yoga teachers to find their niche and calling.  In 2008, Jacoby co-founded Third Root Community Health Centre in Brooklyn, to work at the nexus of healing and social justice. Since 2006, Jacoby has taught Queer and Trans Yoga, a space for queer folks to unfurl and cultivate resilience and received Yoga Journal's Game Changer Award in 2014 and Good Karma Award in 2016. Jacoby has taught in schools, hospitals, non profit and business offices, a maximum security prison, a recovery centre, a cancer centre, LGBT centres, gyms, a veteran’s centre, and yoga studios. He lives with his partner, child, and innumerable plant friends on unceded Goshute, Ute, Paiute, and Shoshone land, now known as Salt Lake City, Utah. More at jacobyballard.net [http://jacobyballard.net/]. Jacoby's book, A Queer Dharma, is released 23rd November 2021. In this episode, we discuss: * How Jacoby got into yoga and meditation * Why did Jacoby write A Queer Dharma * Forgiveness - this can be so hard in the LGBTQ+ community. * How we deal with anger * Integration of self-love * The queer and Buddhism link * Equanimity * Beyond the physical yoga

Mary Burke is the director of clinical services and senior nurse prescriber at The London Transgender Clinic. Mary works alongside a varied multidisciplinary team that includes gender specialist psychiatrists, psychologists and endocrinologists to provide a comprehensive, compassionate and supportive care package for all our transgender and non-binary patients from the first consult, through to hormone therapy and surgery. In this episode, we discuss: * Hormone therapy and who it is suitable for * Patient vulnerabilities * First steps in hormone therapy * Side-effects with treatment * Considerations for transgender health The London Transgender Clinic provides transgender and non-binary individuals with guidance and support for safe and effective care, maximising their health, psycho-social well-being, and self-fulfilment, achieving lasting personal contentment with their gendered selves. This support may include primary care, reproductive options, voice and communication therapy, mental health services (assessment, counselling, psychotherapy), and hormonal and surgical treatments. For more information on The London Transgender Clinic, please visit: https://www.thelondontransgenderclinic.uk/ [https://www.thelondontransgenderclinic.uk/]

Dr. Evan Goldstein is a nationally renowned anal surgeon and the Founder and CEO of Bespoke Surgical [https://bespokesurgical.com/], the leading private practice specialising in an elite standard of sexual health and wellness care in New York City. His practice caters to a wide range of clientele; however, the majority of his patients are LGBTQ+. Dr. Goldstein is also the Co-Founder of Future Method [https://futuremethod.com/], an innovative sex care brand that is the result of Dr. Goldstein’s years of experience working with his clients and understanding their sexual needs which has been embraced by people from a wide spectrum of sexualities. In this episode we discuss: * Anal care and what gets in the way of enjoying sex * How to relax and enjoy sex * Douching 101 * Diet and lifestyle tips for anal sex For more information on Dr. Goldstein, please visit https://bespokesurgical.com/ https://futuremethod.com/ [https://futuremethod.com/] https://www.instagram.com/drevangoldstein/

Dr. Dilan Fernando is a hair transplant surgeon and medical director at The Treatment Rooms London. Dr Fernando is also an Executive Committee member of the British Association of Hair Restoration Surgery upholding and driving its stringent professional code of conduct when it comes to performing hair transplant surgery. Dr Fernando speaks about the hair transplant surgery, processes, transgender options and the pros and cons of medical tourism. For more information about The Treatment Rooms London, please visit their website: www.treatmentroomslondon.com [http://www.treatmentroomslondon.com] Blog suggestion mentioned on the podcast: https://www.bahrs.co.uk/blog/medical-tourism/ [https://www.bahrs.co.uk/blog/medical-tourism/]

In this episode, we speak to David Weale about Body Dysmorphia in the gay community. We discuss the root cause, how to identify it as an issue and steps you can take to overcome it. David Weale is a psychotherapist and psychotherapeutic counsellor. He is a member of UKCP and BACP. Coming from a successful career in education, David retrained as a psychotherapist, firstly as an educational therapist and more latterly as psychotherapist in transactional analysis. He has worked for several years as an honorary psychotherapist at The Terrence Higgins Trust, and London Friend. He specialises in working with gay men and couples. Gay Men’s Therapy is a specialist psychotherapy and counselling service for gay men and men attracted to men. For more information, please visit: https://www.gaymenstherapy.org.uk/