FX Medicine Podcast Central

In today’s podcast Andrew is joined by dietician Belinda Reynolds. Belinda has over 15 years experience in Integrative Medicine. She is a senior educator and lecturer for BioCeuticals, and has a true gift for pulling clinically relevant information from research. Today she takes us through extemporaneous dispensing of N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC). Her expert clinical knowledge reveals just how broad the use of this compound is outside the conventional medical uses for paracetamol (acetaminophen) toxicity and respiratory disease.

Dr Kylie Dodsworth is an integrative general practitioner who specialises in treating chronic, complex and confounding conditions which in the modern medical model, are often ill-defined and poorly treated. Today, Kylie discusses the purpose and focus of the 2015 AIMA Conference, “Taking the Pulse of Integrative Medicine". She also shares with us her path to becoming an Integrative GP adopting a mind-body medicine approach.

On today’s FX Medicine Podcast Andrew talks to Nutritionist, Claudette Casey Freeman who recently won the BioCeuticals Integrative Medicine Award (BIMA) for "Student of the Year”. Claudette, along with juggling the many demands of new-motherhood, is also a regular contributor to many health magazines and also runs the "Nutritional Medicine Practitioners Network", a private Facebook community designed for practitioners of Nutritional Medicine to connect, network and share knowledge.

Our medical system is broken and patients are looking, indeed demanding, more integrative care from a diverse array of health professionals. In today’s podcasts, Dr Penny Caldicott, President of the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association (AIMA) shares the evolution of her thriving clinic which embraces a team of health practitioners from all walks of life and integrates seamlessly with the orthodox healthcare system. She also showcases the upcoming AIMA conference to be held in Melbourne, July 2015. The topic of the conference is "Taking the Pulse of Integrative Medicine”. The AIMA conference aims to educate Integrative Medicine practitioners in safe, effective natural therapies, whilst maintaining a pinnacle standard of medical care.

Elizabeth Cowley is a well-established Naturopath, Herbalist and Nutritionist who practices in a multi-modality clinic in Sydney's busy North Shore. Elizabeth is also committed to sharing her clinical knowledge with Naturopathic students at the famous Nature Care College, both by lecturing and supervising the clinic to ensure safe, effective delivery of naturopathic principles to patients. Elizabeth has a very broad scope of practice but today we focus on the many faces of pain and how to effectively manage various presentations with herbs, nutrients, diet, and lifestyle interventions.

Dr Janet Schloss is a well-known and highly respected Naturopath and Nutritionist who has recently completed her PhD thesis on nutritional supplementation in Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy (CIPN). Indeed, so powerful were her discoveries during her research that she is now regularly asked to speak internationally to disseminate these clinical implications to improve patient care in hospitals. Today she shares her knowledge in this area as well as her expertise in treating chronic pain conditions with nutrition, herbs, and lifestyle interventions. Janet's multi-disciplinary approach creates new avenues of care for those suffering debilitating pain conditions and her humanity shines through as her driving force to improve the wellbeing of those under her care.

Our regular discussion with the esteemed Dr Mark Donohoe, will revisit the 2015 BioCeuticals Symposium and it's themes of Oxidation, Inflammation and Immune Dysfunction. Dr Donohoe also touches on the challenges facing modern medicine in the changing terrain of patients who don't fit into a "well-described diagnostic box". This will be the first in a series of podcasts taking practitioners through the clinical implications and practical implementation gleaned from the speakers at the 2015 BioCeuticals Symposium.

Dr Lise Alschuler is a Naturopathic physician from the U.S. who has spent the last half of her 21 years in practice specialising in integrative cancer support. In this interview, Lise talks to Andrew as a prelude to her forthcoming Integrative Oncology Seminar series across Australia in July 2015. Lise leads us through some of the differences in training and application of Naturopathy in the U.S. versus Australia. She discusses her own journey as a clinician, including her personal experiences with cancer and how they have shaped her practice and approach. Lise explores the latest dietary and lifestyle interventions open to cancer patients including the universal use of curcumin and medicinal fungi as well as broaching the antioxidant-fear-controversy often debated in cancer treatment. Listen in to find out what four major treatments make Lise’s “short list” for cancer care.

Dr Mark Houston, world leading integrative cardiologist, discusses the broken medical system and the need for lifestyle changes. They explore how health issues are interconnected through inflammation, immune dysfunction, and oxidative stress. The podcast also delves into the ripple effects of insults to the body and the positive experiences of the Bioceticals 2015 symposium.

According to Dr David Haase, a keynote speaker at the 2015 BioCeuticals Research Symposium, the human body is a network of networks of networks. As a functional neurologist, Dr Haase is mindful of this fact when treating patients with neurodegenerative disease. He goes on to explain the difficulty faced when trying to influence someones health by addressing a single target of influence. Rather, a multidirectional, iterative approach, incorporating dietary changes and judicious supplementation is typically required, which can influence a whole host of biomolecules that interface with the body. In this podcast interview, David Haase explores the predisposing factors of neurodegenerative diseases and the functional clinical strategies he adopts when addressing these underlying causes of neurodegeneration in his patients.