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Professor Howard Mielke is a Research Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at TUlane University. His research focuses on environmental signaling and human health. In recognizing the increasing importance of people living in cities, he has been researching and evaluating the status of the urban environment and its chemical impact on human health and disease. For more, visit medicineexplained.org

Dr. Vincent M. Pedre, Medical Director of Pedre Integrative Health and President of Dr. Pedre Wellness, is a Board-Certified Internist. His philosophy and practices are a blend of both Western and Eastern medical traditions. He is a Clinical Instructor in Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, as well as certified in yoga and Medical Acupuncture. His unique combination of medicine is best described as integrative or defined by a functional, systems-based approach to health. He authored the book Happy Gut. With his holistic understanding of both sides of the equation, he can help each patient choose the best course of action for their ailments to provide both immediate and long-term relief. His holistic approach incorporates positive, preventative health and wellness lifestyle choices. Dr. Pedre Wellness is a growing wellness platform offering health-enhancing programs, along with informative social media and lifestyle products, such as dietary supplements, books and weight loss programs.

Dr. Enrique Salmón is a Rarámuri (Tarahumara) and ethnobotanist. He feels indigenous cultural concepts of the natural world are only part of a complex and sophisticated understanding of landscapes and biocultural diversity.  Dr. Salmón's recent studies have led him to seriously consider the connections between Climate Change and Indigenous traditional food ways. Dr. Salmon has written a book focused on small-scale Native farmers of the Greater Southwest and their role in maintaining biocultural diversity.  It is titled, Eating the Landscape. He has also authored Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science. Please leave us a review if you enjoyed this episode. Contact us at MedicineExplained.org Follow us on TikTok @MedicineExplained or on Instagram @Medicine.Explained

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.