Mind-Body Medicine
Understanding mind-body medicine is essential in the Functional Medicine approach to healthcare. Learn more about how the mind and body are connected—and how that link impacts health.
Busyness: Badge of Honor or Cultural Disease?
Status symbols are a part of every culture. Conspicuous consumption and expensive brands have been the dominant status symbols in America. Now “busyness” is overtaking them. But is being busy a good thing?
Is It the “Terrible Twos”? Or Is It a Disrupted Gut Microbiome?
Kids out of control? New evidence suggests that a disrupted gut microbiome could be partly responsible for unruly behavior in children.
Do Emotions Impact Our Health?
In today’s podcast, I discuss how our emotions can affect our health and why focusing on emotional well-being may be a key part of the healing process.
Do Gut Microbes Control Your Food Cravings?
Do you have cravings for particular foods? Your gut microbes can influence your food choices. You can also manipulate your gut microbes to curb cravings.
How Distraction Is Rewiring Our Brains—and How Mindfulness Can Help
Modern lifestyles provide endless sources of distraction. Learn about how distraction literally rewires our brains and what you can do to protect yourself.
The Healing Power of the Placebo Effect—with Jo Marchant
Can placebo heal underlying conditions or just change our experience and perception of them? Jo Marchant and I explore the placebo effect — problems with how it is defined, the measurable biological and physiological effects,...
5 Simple (But Powerful) Tools for Fighting Stress
We can't always avoid stress, but we can influence how it affects us. Learn the tools for changing how you experience it.
Adrenal PCOS: Surprising Ways Stress Affects Your Hormones
Is stressing about your diet and exercise routine ruining your fertility and causing PCOS symptoms? Learn how to change your lifestyle and get your hormonal health back on track.
What Is Health?
There’s no shortage of discussion about the factors that contribute to health and how to optimize and improve it. But what is health, really? How do we define it?
