

The Health Upgrade Podcast
Navaz Habib
This podcast is for high-performing entrepreneurs, healthcare professionals, and those who want to upgrade every aspect of their lives by experiencing UPGRADED energy, UPGRADED focus, and UPGRADED ability to show up, every day of their lives. Dr. Navaz Habib and JP Errico will bring you weekly shows including interviews with world-class experts in functional medicine, longevity, health, high performance, and functional movement. We aim to bring you game-changing tools to upgrade your performance, so you can eliminate what is holding you back, show up in your business, relationships, and family, and bring your gifts to the world.
Find out more at: www.healthupgradepodcast.com
Find out more at: www.healthupgradepodcast.com
Episodes
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Jul 20, 2022 • 1h 6min
Vagus Nerve Involvement In Somatoform Disorders
Hello everybody, welcome back to the Health Upgrade Podcast.In today’s episode, we're going to dig into somatoform disorders. We are going to analyse what somatoform disorders are and how they are caused. We are also going to dive deeper into the pathophysiology of these disorders and what can we do to treat them, in order to have a better life quality.Rate and review before the next episode. If you want to know more about us and what we do, go to www.healthupgradepodcast.com.Contact info:Navaz HabibEmail: podcast@healthupgraded.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNavazHabib/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnavazhabib/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/drnavazhabibJP ErricoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-errico-097629aa

Jul 13, 2022 • 1h 15min
Central Nervous System Disorders and The Vagus Nerve
Hello everybody, welcome back to the Health Upgrade Podcast. In today’s episode we are digging into Central Nervous System disorders. Especially, we're going to focus our attention on understanding the pathophysiology and how these conditions start off. Also, we're going to do an overview of central nervous system function, dig into negative processes that can lead to negative conditions, chronic health conditions and central nervous system disorders. Stay tuned until the end, as we'll be reviewing some really awesome literature on this topic! Rate and review before the next episode. If you want to know more about us and what we do, go to www.healthupgradepodcast.com.Contact info:Navaz HabibEmail: podcast@healthupgraded.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNavazHabib/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnavazhabib/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/drnavazhabibJP ErricoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-errico-097629aa

Jul 6, 2022 • 58min
Overview of the Autonomic Nervous System - featuring JP Errico
Hello everybody, welcome back to the health upgrade podcast. I am so so excited for this new season of the health upgrade podcast, because we're doing something a little bit different. We're doing an entire series dedicated to understanding the autonomic nervous system, understanding the consequences of a non functional or dysfunctional autonomic nervous system, and what we can do about it.This particular serie is going to be for practitioners and biohackers, those who really want to get to know the underlying pathophysiology and the specific reasons for why conditions occur in the first place. I'm honored and excited to be doing this alongside JP Errico. He's very research minded, has a very diverse background, when it comes to research and inventing. His focus is on helping to create health using tools that are available to us and allowing our human ingenuity to come out and really create positive change in our health and in the world. In this episode we are going to do a basic overview of the vagus nerve, the parasympathetic autonomic nervous system, the parasympathetic and sympathetic components, and understanding kind of the function of those particular sections of the autonomic nervous system.Listen to the episode to learn more about the autonomic nervous system. Rate and review before the next episode. If you want to know more about us and what we do, go to www.healthupgradepodcast.com.Contact info:Navaz HabibEmail: podcast@healthupgraded.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNavazHabib/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnavazhabib/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/drnavazhabibJP ErricoLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-errico-097629aa

Apr 13, 2022 • 50min
Upgrade your self love - featuring Brandon Evans
In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of talking with Brandon Evans. He is a Speaker & Storyteller who thrives on motivating others to succeed and grow. He also holds over a decade of frontline firefighting work, which has allowed him to bring a great deal of crisis and trauma-informed expertise to his coaching. He has also recently expanded his platform: a Mentorship Practice called Dad PoD (power of Dad) which is a community of fathers who are looking to lead their families with love and presence, working towards generating the best possible health for their families.In today’s interview, we are talking about how to improve our self love and to understand our own minds a little bit better. Brandon explains that health is not just our physical appearance and he guides us step-by-step on how we can find the health that already exists within, by giving us strategies to build on.Listen to the episode to learn more about Brandon Evans and how you can upgrade your self love. Rate and review before the next episode. If you want to know more about us and what we do, go to www.healthupgradepodcast.com. Contact info: Navaz Habib Email: podcast@healthupgraded.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNavazHabib/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnavazhabib/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/drnavazhabib Brandon Evans Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandon.evans.1610 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandon.r.evans/Websites: https://www.brandonrevans.ca/ & https://www.dadpod.ca/

Mar 30, 2022 • 57min
Upgrade your Child's Behaviour - featuring Dr. Nicole Beurkens
Welcome to another episode of the Health Upgrade Podcast. In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of talking with Dr. Nicole Beurkens. She is the world’s leading holistic child psychologist and has dedicated her 25 year career to providing parents with simple, effective, research-based strategies that get to the root of children’s attention, anxiety, mood, and behaviour challenges, so they can reach their highest potential. In this interview we dig into this really important topic of understanding the behaviour of our kids. Dr. Nicole Beurkens explains how habits, chronic anxiety and nutrition can affect children's behaviour and what we can do to help our children overcome their challenges and reach their highest potential. Listen to the episode to learn more about Dr. Nicole Beurkens and how you can upgrade your child’s behaviour. Rate and review before the next episode. If you want to know more about us and what we do, go to www.healthupgradepodcast.com. Contact info: Navaz Habib Email: podcast@healthupgraded.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNavazHabib/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnavazhabib/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/drnavazhabib Dr. Nicole Beurkens Website: https://www.drbeurkens.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnicolebeurkens/ Facebook:https://web.facebook.com/drnicolebeurkens

Mar 16, 2022 • 45min
Upgrade your meat quality - featuring Zack Langlois
Welcome to another episode of the Health Upgrade Podcast. In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of talking with Zack Langlois. He is doing some really amazing things here in Ontario and I really want to share his story, his vision, and how we can help people with the quality of their food, particularly the quality of their meat. We know that our conventional farming practices are not working well. We know that we are lacking in our ability to get good quality nutrients into our bodies, through our diet. And Zack’s goal is to allow for a lot of that nutrient density to get back into our bodies, and to reconnect with our food. That's exactly why he created his company, Northern Raised Listen to the episode to learn more about Zack Langlois and how to upgrade your meat quality. Rate and review before the next episode. If you want to know more about us and what we do, go to www.healthupgradepodcast.com. Contact info: Navaz Habib Email: podcast@healthupgraded.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNavazHabib/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnavazhabib/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/drnavazhabib Zack Langlois Website: https://northernraised.ca/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/northernraisedmeats/ Personal Instagram https://www.instagram.com/zack.nuc/

Feb 23, 2022 • 58min
Upgrade your light environment - featuring Roudy Nassif
Welcome to another episode of the Health Upgrade Podcast. In today’s episode, we have the pleasure of talking with Roudy Nassif, the co-founder of VivaRays. Roudy has been educating hundreds of functional medicine and naturopathic doctors about the power of light. He is helping them optimize their personal, as well as, their patient's well-being, sleeping patterns, energy, and focus. Roudy is on a mission to elevate people's light environment to a whole new level of alignment with nature in order to live in optimal rhythm, sleep better, and have more energy, focus and higher productivity. That’s how VivaRays was born. In this episode, Roudy explains to us how to live in alignment with nature's light and dark cycles, by wearing VivaRays sunglasses. Rudy has tried many things in order to manage the artificial light in his environment, with all ending in failure. This is why he founded VivaRays, the world's first 3-lens artificial light management solution. Listen to the episode to learn more about Roudy Nassif and how to upgrade your light environment. Rate and review before the next episode. If you want to know more about us and what we do, go to www.healthupgradepodcast.com. Useful links:e-book: https://bit.ly/3J86h6JWebsite https://vivarays.com/ VivaRays LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/77008187/admin/ Contact info:Navaz HabibEmail: podcast@healthupgraded.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNavazHabib/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnavazhabib/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/drnavazhabib Roudy Nassif:LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/roudy-nassif-vivarays/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/electromagnetic_diet/

Jan 31, 2022 • 59min
Upgrade your parenting skills - featuring dr. Julia Sen
Welcome to another episode of the health upgrade podcast. In today’s episode, we will be talking with dr. Julia Sen. She is a registered psychologist with a full-time virtual private practice. She has been seeing clients for over 20 years, and has a special place in her heart for parenting. Julia considers herself to be a possibility psychologist and focuses on helping people awaken the wisdom within, to navigate challenges and fertility, parenting and relationships, with greater ease and flow. In today’s interview, we will be discussing parenting, exploring the difficulties, and navigating through the best tactics, in order to be a great parent. Julia has published the book “Too tired to Parent? Take the C.A.R.” and she has created a renewed parent group program to assist parents in creating a safe energetically present space at home for our children and us to thrive. Listen to the episode to learn more about dr. Julia Sen and how to upgrade your parenting skills. Rate and review before the next episode. If you want to know more about us and what we do, go to www.healthupgradepodcast.comContact info:Navaz HabibEmail: podcast@healthupgraded.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNavazHabib/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnavazhabib/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/drnavazhabibJulia Sen Website: https://drjuliasen.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAydNyAZRTFoIEVtTY-oJ3Q

May 26, 2021 • 55min
Upgrade your gut microbiome - featuring dr. Francois du Toit
Welcome to another episode of the health upgrade podcast. In today’s episode, we will be talking with dr. Francois du Toit. He's a registered naturopath (Natural Medicine Doctor), speaker, wellness advocate, and health coach. He owns a private practice in South Africa, while also presenting high-level workshops on different health topics. Over the last nine years, he has dedicated his life to empowering people to be the healthiest version of themselves as they grow to achieve optimal states of health. He is trained in nutrition, herbal medicine, and detoxification. He wants to walk an individualized path with you so that you can enjoy optimal health! Listen to the episode to learn more about dr. Francois du Toit and how to Upgrade your gut microbiome, Rate and review before the next episode. If you want to know more about us and what we do, go to www.healthupgradepodcast.comContact info:Navaz HabibEmail: podcast@healthupgraded.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNavazHabib/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnavazhabib/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/drnavazhabib Francois du Toit Website: https://www.drfrancoisdutoit.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drfrancoisdutoit/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drfrancoisdutoit/

May 19, 2021 • 23min
My health upgrade journey - featuring Joelle C.
Welcome to another episode of the health upgrade podcast. I'm really excited to have one of my amazing clients, Joelle, with me. And we're going to talk about how Joelle has transformed over the last few months and the big changes that she's noticed not only in her health, but also in her life and her ability to show up and be the best version of herself every day. In this episode, Joelle shares with us that she was able to experience an understanding of what was really going on. She got some answers as to what was happening internally in her body and in her gut. We got answers as to the style of diet and nutrients that her body required. Now, she is a powerful woman and she is able to show up as a parent, as a wife, as the best version of herself.Listen to the episode to learn more about Joelle's Health Upgrade Journey and how you can upgrade your ability to show up as the best version of yourself. Rate and review before the next episode. If you want to know more about us and what we do, go to www.healthupgradepodcast.comContact info:Navaz HabibEmail: podcast@healthupgraded.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrNavazHabib/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drnavazhabib/LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/drnavazhabib