The MindHealth360 Show

In this inspiring and comprehensive interview, the tables are turned as Cressida Bonas interviews Kirkland Newman, our very own founder and editor of MindHealth360, and discuss the key factors that impact our mental health, and integrative solutions to common mental health issues.  Encapsulating her extensive knowledge of integrative medicine and her experience interviewing leading practitioners, Kirkland outlines ways to identify and treat the root causes of mental health symptoms such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, cognitive decline and insomnia.  She explores and offers solutions to the two most important areas for successful healing from poor mental health  -- biochemical factors (such as hormonal imbalances, nutritional deficiencies, toxin exposure, adrenal fatigue and leaky gut), and psycho-spiritual factors such as underlying nervous system dysregulation (often due to trauma and chronic stress) and lack of purpose and meaning.

Dr. Kyrin Dunston is a Board Certified OBGYN and Functional Medicine Specialist, host of Stop the Menopause Madness Summit and author of Cracking the Bikini Code: 6 Secrets to Permanent Weight Loss Success. In this interview she discusses her all-natural journey to losing 100 pounds and healing from anxiety, depression, chronic exhaustion, IBS and fibromyalgia. She outlines how to sustainably recover from poor mental health and reveals the most common causes of mental health symptoms, with a focus on hormonal imbalances. She explains that by treating mental and physical health simultaneously, we can not only heal, but truly thrive.

In this unnerving interview, Nick Pineault, investigative health journalist and author of The Non-Tinfoil Guide to EMFs, reveals the pervasive effects of EMFs (electromagnetic fields) emitted from our mobile phones, wifi and wireless devices. Using scientific research, he outlines why EMFs are NOT safe, despite assurances that they are, and explains how they could be affecting our physical and mental health. He suggests the solution to the problem lies in changing how we use our gadgets in order to reduce EMF pollution, rather than in rejecting these technologies.

Behavioural Neuroscientist and co-director of the Healthy Brain Programme in Colorado, Dr. Ilene Naomi Rusk is a specialist in functional brain health. In this captivating interview, she explains what neuroplasticity is and how to use it to rewire your brain for the prevention and treatment of cognitive decline. She shows how neurological and psychological health are interrelated, and outlines ways to fortify your brain, optimise your cognition and sustainably heal other mental health symptoms by addressing both biochemical (genetic, environmental) and psychospiritual (psychological, emotional) imbalances.

Classically trained board certified psychiatrist and integrative physician Dr. Mary Ackerley is a summa cum laude graduate from Harvard University, having completed her residency in psychiatry and neurology at Johns Hopkins. In this rich and stimulating interview, she reveals the incredible ways integrative medicine can heal psychiatric symptoms such as depression, anxiety, and cognitive decline, by addressing their most common root causes – biotoxin illness, poor diet and neuroinflammation – to leave you feeling better than ever before.

Dr. Kat Toups, known as the Godmother of functional medicine psychiatry, author of the upcoming book Dementia Demystified is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. In this rich and complex interview, she tells us that psychiatric care for dementia cannot be found in a pill, and shows how dementia and cognitive decline can be prevented and reversed by attending to the factors that affect brain function—including diet, exercise, toxins, infections, hormone deficiencies, stress and inflammation.

Richie Bostock, AKA ‘The Breath Guy’, author of Exhale: How to Use Breathwork to Find Calm, Supercharge your Health and Perform at Your Best, is one of the world's leading practitioners of breathwork. In this fascinating interview, Richie explains how to breathe to regulate our nervous system, feel calmer and recover from panic attacks, depression and anxiety, and how we can use breathwork to heal trauma and reach higher states of consciousness.

Dr. Felice Gersh, author of “PCOS SOS: a gynecologist's lifeline to naturally restore your rhythms, hormones and happiness”, is a multi-award winning physician and renowned expert in OB-GYN (obstetrics and gynecology) and integrative medicine. In this rich and stimulating interview she tells us how to optimise our hormones, circadian rhythms and lifestyle for better mental health, and explains why an integrative approach is so much more effective in improving mental and physical health compared to conventional medicine.

Dr. Neil Nathan is a board-certified family physician, founding diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, and expert in pain management and chronic illness. Dr. Jill Crista is a naturopathic doctor and world renowned expert in neuroinflammatory conditions. In this hugely insightful interview, they discuss the widespread and devastating role mould can play in mental health, causing neuroinflammation, hormone imbalances, cognitive decline, severe anxiety and depression, and outline ways to heal from mould toxicity.

In this fascinating interview with Dr. Emeran Mayer, gastroenterologist and Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Physiology and Psychiatry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, find out about the factors that impact our gut microbiome, and how our gut plays an essential role in neurodegenerative diseases, neurodevelopment disorders, anxiety and mood, and how we can improve our gut microbiome for better mental health.