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Dr. Daphne Miller, MD is a family physician, science writer, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco, and Research Scientist at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. As founder of the Health from the Soil Up Initiative, she studies the connections among health, culture, and agriculture, with the goal of building a healthier and more resilient food system from the soil up. Daphne is a regular health and science contributor to the Washington Post. She has two books about food, agriculture and health: The Jungle Effect, The Science and Wisdom of Traditional Diets (HarperCollins 2008) and Farmacology, Total Health from the Soil Up (HarperCollins 2013). Want daily content? Follow us on TikTok @MedicineExpained and on Instagram @medicine.explained

Kamea Chayne is the host of Green Dreamer Podcast and the author of Thrive. She is an eco creative, writer and author. Her show green dreamer illuminates our paths to ecological regeneration, intersectional sustainability, and true abundance and wellness for all.

James Maskell is the creator of Functional Forum, the world's largest integrative medicine conference. He is passionate about accelerating medical evolution towards more effective chronic disease care focused on prevention and reversal. He lectures internationally, has been featured on TEDMED, HuffPost Live, TEDx, and more. He has also authored The Evolution of Medicine andThe Community Cure. In todays conversation we talk about the social determinants of health and how to use communities to heal. James explains what functional medicine is and how he sees it as the future of healthcare. We talk about the root cause of chronic illness and much much more. This was an interesting conversation and we hope you'll enjoy it! Now on to the podcast.

Rob Reiner is the Founder and CEO of CropSwap he has been designing mobile and web app startups for the past 11 years. He saw a need to make locally-grown , healthy food readily available to consumers. In 2017, he created an app to cater to this market, and launched CropSwap. Crop swap is a farm to phone marketplace that connects consumers and businesses with local selections from sustainable farmers.

Dr. Sofia Noori is the first Chief Resident of Digital Psychiatry at the Yale Department of Psychiatry. She is a founding member of the Center for Digital Psychiatry at the Connecticut Mental Health Center, which aims to integrate digital health in the care of patients with serious mental illness. She also served as the curriculum lead for Innovation to Impact, a NIDA-funded substance use entrepreneurship program. Aside from her digital health endeavors, Dr. Noori is the co-founder of the Women’s Mental Health Conference at Yale, the first academic and trainee-led conference on women’s mental health in the United States.

Dr. Sharad Kohli has dedicated his career to working with people who have been historically underserved and to advancing health justice. He is a family physician at People’s Community Clinic, an FQHC in Austin, and is strongly committed to looking upstream at factors that influence health. He has helped develop an interprofessional pain management program integrating numerous services including behavioral health, acupuncture, yoga therapy, nutrition, substance use services, a medical-legal partnership, group medical visits and more. Dr. Kohli is also intimately involved in the growth and development of the national nonprofit Integrative Medicine for the Underserved, a multidisciplinary organization committed to affordable, accessible integrative health for all. He co-founded its annual conference. ContactMedicineExplained@gmail.com

Erin Holt is a board-certified integrative and functional nutritionist. She is a self-proclaimed recovering perfectionist, a former chronic dieter, and an autoimmune ally. She helps women re-energize and find real health without restriction. She blends science, experience, and humor for a personalized approach to nutrition counseling and holistic health. She’s not here to tell you what to do, she allows YOU to be an active participant in your health plan. She is a researcher at heart and is enrolled in different classes, always learning and staying on top of current research. Some of the classes and certifications include being a holistic health coach, a registered yoga teacher, a spiritual coach, has taken multiple programs at the Kharrazian Institute, and MUCH more! She also founded and hosts the Funk’tional nutrition podcast with over 1 million downloads.

Dr. Heather Sandison is the founder and medical director of North County Natural Medicine, San Diego's premier brain optimization clinic, and the founder of Marama. Dr. Sandison specializes in neurocognitive medicine and neurohacking. She has been trained to specifically address imbalances that affect the brain including Autism, ADD/ADHD, depression, anxiety and Alzheimer’s. She has trained with Dr. Dale Bredesen MD, Dr. Neil Nathan, MD, in addition to regularly attending and speaking at integrative medicine conferences throughout the year. In today's conversation Dr. Sandison shares her 5 pillars of healing. We go into depth about toxins and how many we are exposed to in our day to day lives without even knowing. And these toxin exposures can lead to many health problems from fatigue to weight gain and more. She shares some of the surprising places toxins are coming from as well as her approach to detoxing her patients. Throughout the conversation she shares actionable tips for us and you all to do at home to not only avoid and get rid of toxins, but other free health tips to do in the comfort of our own home! We learned a lot from this conversation and we hope you do too! TikTok @MedicineExplained, Instagram @Medicine.Explained MedicineExplained.org, ContactMedicineExplained@gmail.com

Jeanne Rosner is a medical doctor with a passion for teaching about better health, wellness and nutrition. For the past ten years she has been a nutrition educator at local middle and high schools in the Bay area. She teaches middle school and high school students the importance of eating food closest to the source, making good food choices and eating in a balanced and moderate way. In 2011, Jeanne was involved in researching a list of nearly 80 “unacceptable ingredients” for the company Revolution Foods. This project opened her eyes to some of the dangers in our food supply. Revolution Foods feeds over one million freshly prepared, healthy meals per week to students across the country through their school lunch program. Their emphasis on eating food that is more whole and “real” and less processed is Jeanne's main message too. Contact us @ MedicineExplained.org

Dr. Brennan Spiegel, MD, is Director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai Health System. He directs the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE), a multidisciplinary team that investigates how digital health technologies – including wearable biosensors, smartphone applications, virtual reality and social media – can strengthen the patient-doctor bond, improve outcomes and save money. Dr. Spiegel has published more than 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is listed in the 2016 Onalytica "Top 100 Influencer" lists for digital health (No. 13) and virtual reality (No. 14). He also authored VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine, which was named one of the 8 best science books of 2020 by Wired Magazine. Beyond his focus on digital health innovations, Spiegel conducts psychometric, health-economic, epidemiologic and qualitative research across a wide range of healthcare topics. VRx: How Virtual Therapeutics Will Revolutionize Medicine:   https://amzn.to/3cTLI0L VirtualMedicine.org Inquiries: ContactMedicineExplained@gmail.com