Neuroveda Podcast for Complex Health

Originally recorded in the first week of March 2020, before the last two weeks of protest and before Coronvirus up-ended our social & economic lives, with an update recorded June 2nd, this podcast with organizational development and workplace equity consultant Fleur Larsen shines a bright and clarifying light onto the role white women can and do play in the structures of racism in our social fabric and economy. These are ongoing issues (for centuries since prior to the inception of America as a country) and are so ingrained that they constitute ‘the water we swim in and the air we breathe’. Unlearning these patterns requires attention and awareness and often brings up feelings. “I’m a good person so how can I be racist?” The two are not mutually exclusive- we will make mistakes and the solution is to learn and make amends. “As a woman, I am targeted by sexism. How can I be the oppressor?” The two are not mutually exclusive- in fact, historically because of sexism, we have used our white privilege to stay closer to power. Join us for a conversation that was critically necessary before the last week of video and events and will remain some of the most important work we can do to heal our collective neurology- uncovering and uprooting each deeper layer of bias so we can show up authentically and accountably for racial justice for the long haul. Resources: · www.Fleurlarsenfacilitation.comincluding curated list of resources, books and organizations: https://www.fleurlarsenfacilitation.com/resources · https://futureforus.co/To support the advancement of women of color in the workplace. · Rachel Cargle:https://www.rachelcargle.com/ · Robin Diangelo & understanding white fragility: https://robindiangelo.com/ · The Conscious Kid with age-appropriate resources for parenting & teaching children about race & racism: https://www.theconsciouskid.org/ · Seeing White Podcast: https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/ · To diversity the news sources: https://www.democracynow.org/ · Nikita Oliver: https://crosscut.com/author/nikkita-oliver · Compiled list of articles & resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic · https://www.upworthy.com/white-americans-asking-what-can-i-do · https://blacklivesmatteratschool.com/teaching-materials/ · Article: What will be different this time? By CompassPoint: https://www.compasspoint.org/blog/what-will-be-different-time%C2%A0 · Digital Postcard from the Ground: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyyUWh09lC4&feature=youtu.be · Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) helps white people move into accountable action & has chapters across the country: https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/chapters-and-affiliates.html

Instead of posting and promoting our regular episodes this week, Partyfish Media is pausing our shows and social media and standing in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movements and protests in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Nina Pop, Tony McDade, and countless others at the hands of corrupt police brutality, founded upon and perpetuated by white supremacist culture. Black Lives Matter and they are in need of support and attention, now in this moment and into the future. Ways to help & places to donate: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/# Books you can read to educate yourself (also available as audiobooks): So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo Follow these accounts to stay up-to-date on how you can help: http://www.instagram.com/blklivesmatter http://www.instagram.com/strongblacklead http://www.instagram.com/decolonizemyself http://www.instagram.com/ckyourprivilege http://www.instagram.com/blackvoices http://www.instagram.com/eji_org http://www.instagram.com/colorofchange http://www.instagram.com/colorlinesnews http://www.instagram.com/anantiracismbookclub http://www.instagram.com/reclaimtheblock http://www.instagram.com/privtoprog http://www.instagram.com/naacp http://www.instagram.com/showingupforracialjustice http://www.instagram.com/civilrightsorg http://www.instagram.com/unitedwedream Here's a larger list of resources: https://bit.ly/2McDnqu

Hear our favorite engineer, David Feinberg, founder, creator & CEO of Pure Juicers, describe in all the juicy (ha!) details about how juicers work and why they are so good for health. Over 40 years of designing equipment, including repairs to over 500 juicers of various brands, David took his fate into his own hands to create ‘the best juicer in the world’. Listen to him wax poetic about patented nuts, press pressure, clothes vs bags, blade friction and the different types of juicers (centrifugal, masticators and the two-stage juicers). We then dive into what a better juicer does for the juice itself (spoiler: minerals, enzymes, vitamins and shelf-life). Next, it’s a rousing love-fest for various fruits & vegetables and the best ways to prepare them for juicing (hear the engineer’s mind as applied to oranges, limes, pineapples, spinach, berries and others). Finally, we close with a celebration of the bees. Join us to learn the big deal about juice & how to think about the machinery used to extract fruit & veggie magic. Resources:  www.PureJuicer.com https://www.facebook.com/purejuicer/ https://www.instagram.com/purejuicer/ YouTube site with lots of videos & instructions on making juice: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWWidujA36vIVKdHnNvaiFw

Stefan Weitz was initially trained as a physicist, ultimately spent nearly two decades at Microsoft and in the interim, 14 years ago, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, MS. Despite trialing a number of pharmaceuticals and following conventional instructions, he continued to have symptoms not consistent with his expectation for what he wanted his life to look like & feel. He dove into learning about his diagnosis and potential treatments with the same curiosity and tenacity with which he’d already approached his life and career. Stefan noticed deep shifts with foundational changes in his… wait for it, not brain or nervous system, but GUT! He ultimately was able to ditch the daily fistfuls of pills with these changes in diet & gut support and started Jetson Health to share these insights and produce the world’s first seasonal probiotic based on the latest research. His mission is to intertwine the art and science of healing. His continually evolving probiotics, prebiotics and children’s products are the launching pad for discussing transformative medicine. We are thrilled to have Stefan on the show today as an ‘n-of-one’ for his experience and as a ‘citizen scientist’ for the knowledge he’s gained along the way.

Dr Daniel Krashin, MD, Psychiatrist, also board certified Pain, Addiction and Headache Medicine brings his extensive experience and uncanny ability to make science understandable and applicable to this widely ranging conversation (my favorite kind!).  In the first half, we review how pain and addiction are driven by the reward system in our brain. While this can get called the 'pleasure center', we really feel 'good' when we are 'rewarded' for life working, which has evolutionarily been eating and staying safe. This is akin to PacMan eating a pellet. Life is essentially running around, eating pellets for points, getting chased by ghosts and intermittently gaining powers to chase the ghosts back. Within all of this, we have learned how to short circuit this, like a cat with catnip, with substances. When the life is too stressful, our time horizon can shorten from what's best for us in the future to what will help us survive in the moment and the pressures can be shockingly minimal that drive us to think against our best longitudinal survival. Now in the time of COVID-19, these stressors are even more intense. This is a critical podcast for understanding how your brain works so you can think more clearly about making future choices. In the second half of the podcast, we dive into specific headache treatments especially highlighting 'electroceuticals' like GammaCore (which you can try in our clinic and/or be prescribed), Cefaly, H-wave and others which can be both preventative and abortive for chronic and/or debilitating headaches. Join us for this conversation that is both broad & deep. 

Dr Stephen Bezruchka, MD, MPH, is an emergency room doctor turned public health renegade who has devoted the last 25 years to seeing ‘the country as the patient’. Economic downturns in developed nations seem to prevent us from working ourselves to the bone and result in more time home with family, which research shows actually extends our lifespan. This contradictory insight is where we start. Most of us were squeezed for time and money prior to this pandemic. Now, what are we left with? How do we move around fear to find each other and intentionally move forward with our social and political structures? Spoiler alert: do what you love, do what you can do well, and do what you can for an extended period, preferably without being paid. But there’s lots more between our start and our conclusion, all anchored by Dr Bezruchka’s command of the social and political history of the United States & global events. Get ready for an intense and deep dive into our social, political and health realities. Resources:  Dr Bezruchka's faculty page: https://globalhealth.washington.edu/faculty/stephen-bezruchka The Population Health Forum: http://depts.washington.edu/eqhlth/index.htm The Effect of Economic Recession on Population Health: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734206/pdf/1810281.pdf

We are in desperate need for conversations about how to anchor and possibly reinvent our lives and identity towards something beyond our usual social networks as required by this quarantine and Coronavirus pandemic. Matia Indigo Jones rooted her training and research in medical anthropology with an emphasis on social and environmental justice as preventative health and a dissertation in institutional and municipal food policy as it supports food sovereignty. She is unique in her approach to modern life in that she tip-toes thoughtfully into social media but spends the majority of her time with her phone off and her hands in the dirt. In this session, Matia shares her reflections and insights on the possible benefits of Coronavirus (“It’s not as deadly as Ebola or Spanish Flu & has the potential to serve as a capacity-building exercise for all of us for true threats like climate change.”), how to engage in moment to moment gratitude (“My identity has shifted into one who senses instead of one who does something.”) and she gives some essential tips on starting a Victory garden and extols the virtues of eating spring weeds- cheap, plentiful and nutritious. Join us for thinking differently about this new social landscape, within which the natural world remains unchanged and, as always, awaits us with open arms.

Patient advocate Janee Penington-Watson join Podcast for Healing Neurology host Gillian Ehrlich for this special podcast episode to share our current best understandings & advice for all aspects of this pandemic including how to gauge exposure & risk, testing options & realities, prevention support as well as possible interventions, including those along the cutting edge to keep an eye out for based on the science we currently know about this virus. This is one of two parts to address COVID-19; please see podcast #11 with Matia Indigo Jones for the social, behavioral and mental health aspects of rising to meet this global challenge. COVID-19 newsletter: https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=42f960988e6a7bd9df6d3287e&id=e4e9eaa302 Resources: Are there 2 strains instead of one? https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236544-coronavirus-are-there-two-strains-and-is-one-more-deadly/ Types of coronavirus: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html Testing: LabCorp started testing as of March 5th& is rolling out more widespread testing now. It can still take 4-6 days to get results. N95 ‘reusable’ use: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/hcwcontrols/recommendedguidanceextuse.html CDC page about testing:  https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/testing-in-us.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fcoronavirus%2F2019-ncov%2Ftesting-in-us.html COVID-19 tracking project: as of 4pm Friday March 13th: 16,500 tests done, 1,953 (+), 13,419 (-) and 1,130 pending; https://twitter.com/covid19tracking Great article about testing: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/3/12/21175034/coronavirus-covid-19-testing-usa Testing in Washington state as an example, came out of Dr Helen Chu’s defiance of federal instructions to move forward with Coronavirus testing despite an eventual ‘cease & desist’ from the feds funding the Seattle Flu Study. https://mynorthwest.com/1758762/coronavirus-washington-seattle-flu-study/ MedScape intervention options: https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/2500114-treatment

Ryan Smith discusses the world of peptides, from creating them to their diverse effects on biology. He explores specific peptides like neurocognitive and mood enhancers, immune system boosters, repair peptides, and cosmetic products. Learn about the benefits, administration methods, costs, and future trends of peptides in medicine and skincare.

“It’s an odd panacea, this plant-based diet” which seems to reverse so many different chronic diseases like heart disease, auto-immune disease, common cancers and others, improve symptoms and really hone athletic performance. Learn the juicy details about how to get started and make it inexpensive and easy: no meat, dairy, added oil, minimal salt & sugar. Find Jane’s recipes in The Engine 2 Diet, The Engine 2 Diet Cookbook, Plant Strong & the Seven Day Rescue (authored with her brother, Rip Esselstyn), including her “Lightening Bowl” with lime, jalapeno, rice noodles, rice vinegar & veggies- yum! Hear her tricks for sauces, salsas, a million types of hummus, her favorite kitchen equipment and learn what a Tovolo is. Also hear how ‘plant-based diets’ are under fire from the industry that wants to bring you ‘plant-based foods’ that don’t have any measurable fiber, the indication of plant material, and why junk-food vegan diets are not the same as eating whole, unprocessed foods that get their energy closest to the sun (it’s only a few steps from sunlight to plant vs sunlight to plant to multiple degrees of further processing to a processed gluten-free muffin). “Eating plants gives everyone a chance for a healthy life.” Resources:  Jane's website: https://janeesselstyn.com/ Books & Cookbooks wth her recipes: https://www.elliottbaybook.com/search/site/rip%20esselstyn Well, Now! Camp https://janeesselstyn.com/well-now-camp/ Esselstyn Foundation: https://esselstynfamilyfoundation.org/