hol+ with Dr. Taz MD | The Future of Medicine is Holistic

Sara Schulting Kranz is a wilderness expert, author, and professional coach who specializes in helping people overcome their trauma. As a survivor of multiple traumas, Sara shares how she healed her severe PTSD and connected back to the core of herself by spending time in nature. She explores how being in nature rewires the brain after trauma, and how spending as little as 5 minutes a day outside can make a difference in your recovery.

Today on Super Woman Wellness:

• Sara’s journey of healing her multiple traumas
• How our children inspire and push us to heal
• How being in nature rewires the brain after trauma
• Tips for making each day easier when healing trauma
• Why Sara’s nature retreats are so powerful for healing
• What happens to the brain when you experience PTSD

Connect with Sara:

• saraschultingkranz.com 
• Book: Walk Through This

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Amidst the pandemic, election season, and having a new baby, Kimberly Snyder shares how she’s been navigating this time by connecting deeper to her spiritual practice. Kimberly and Dr. Taz also delve into how nurturing your spirit and finding your center brings out your physical beauty, along with how to begin separating your thoughts and feelings to find more stillness in your day-to-day.

Today on Super Woman Wellness:

• Navigating difficult times through a spiritual practice
• Finding your center & nurturing your spirit
• How the beauty of the soul comes through physically
• The intersection of emotions and beauty
• How to move through negative feelings

Follow Kimberly:

• IG: @_kimberlysnyder 
• Website: mysolluna.com 
• Podcast: Feel Good Podcast

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

As women, we’ve become so strong that we tend to believe that needing help is weak. What has this come from and how can we connect back to our true feminine fierceness. Once we take a moment to get curious about what our hearts need, we can rise and defy all the blocks in our way to the life we really want. Today, Christine Arylo joins Dr. Taz to share her experience of the feminine super powers. 

Christine’s approach to leadership guides other women towards more expansive levels of self-awareness, resilience, presence, insight and the courage to lead the way to new ways of working, living, creating and relating.

Today on Super Woman Wellness:

• Embodying the fierce feminine heart
• Getting real about women’s martyrdom  
• Getting connected with what our hearts need 
• The super power of harmonic defiance 
• Retaining vs. draining lifeforce 
• Top 3 practices for avoiding burnout

Follow Christine:

• Instagram: @christinearylo
• Website: christinearylo.com
• Podcast: Feminine Power Time
• Book: Overwhelmed and Over It

This show is produced by Soulfire Productions

Relationships with our parents, even the best ones, hit rough spots every so often. But for some, those rough spots grow, and last and lead to an estranged relationship between parent and child. 

An online survey found that 60% of parents claim their child never explained why they needed to cut off their relationship.

Tina Gilbertson is a psychotherapist, author, and co-founder of the Reconnection Club, offering education, community, and support to help estranged parents repair their relationships with their adult children.

We hear about her book Reconnecting with Your Estranged Adult Child, the most common reasons children and parents become estranged, generational and cultural differences, as well as where to begin the journey to repairing this relationship. 

After being diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder Hashimoto's, Meena Chan's world was rocked. Desperate to recover as a new parent, fulltime worker, and managing her family was incredibly difficult and frustrating.

After being diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder Hashimoto's, Meena Chan's world was rocked. Desperate to recover as a new parent, fulltime worker, and managing her family was incredibly difficult and frustrating.

Going from doctor to doctor, pursuing a western medicine route was just not working for her, and she realized a shift when she pursued a more holistic path. 

Graduating with a Masters in Communication, she thrived for 13 years in a successful marketing career and as a freelance writer for a leading publication, and is now an Author and Speaker, conducting workshops and wellbeing seminars.

Meena tells us about her book, "The MOTTO Effect," staying positive in the pursuit of a diagnosis, a bit more about what Hashimoto's is and healing your thyroid. 

If you're concerned about a hormone imbalance, your primary care doctor probably isn't the best resource to head to first. That's what happened to Dr. Carissa Alinat when she started looking into her hormone journey.

If you're concerned about a hormone imbalance, your primary care doctor probably isn't the best resource to head to first. That's what happened to Dr. Carissa Alinhart when she started looking into her hormone journey.

She is a Functional Medicine practitioner and an expert in bio-identical hormone replacement therapy and menopause weight loss. She runs a busy clinic in Tampa Bay, Florida, and has helped thousands of patients reach their wellness goals. On top of all that, she is a mother of 5! 

Dr. Carissa & Dr. Taz talk this episode about all things hormone therapy: natural treatments, how safe the treatments are, when you should start thinking about hormone replacement (for some, it's earlier than you may think), and the importance of self-care during menopause. 

We know that the Super Woman audience is a lot of moms and parents, who are all navigating raising children of all genders.

In her latest book TOMBOY, Lisa Selin Davis says she wrote it because the story behind it is personal. When her daughter was in preschool, she gravitated towards "boy stuff" as much as she did "girl stuff."

When her daughter came home a few years later saying someone how called her a "tomboy," Davis decided to explore what that meant exactly beyond short hair on a girl, and how we assume gender identity based on clothes alone.

Lisa Selin Davis is an essayist, novelist, and journalist who has written for major publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many more. She talks with Dr. Taz this episode on the history behind the word tomboy, the boundaries between transgender, tomboy, and other identities, as well as how the gender revolution will come from the parents of boys. 

Terri Cheney is a successful entertainment who went public with her struggle with BiPolar Disorder in the NYT bestseller Manic. 

We don't want to give you another task to deal with during this pandemic, but this one is pretty important. On top of managing your new work-life, odd school schedules, and a pandemic at large, we want to remind you to keep your health in check during this tumultuous time.

This episode we're talking about something we all probably need help doing these days: de-stressing.

Janet McKee climbed the corporate ladder with a career at a Fortune 500 company, but it also drove her into the hospital, with a debilitating autoimmune disease where she couldn't eat or walk.

This experience led her toward pursuing a new life and career of holistic health and wellness.

She chats with Dr. Taz about this journey, physical manifestation of stress, and how positive thinking doesn't really fix it all. 

With all the curveballs life and the universe is throwing at us right now, it's more important than ever to learn to ground yourself.

Whether it's through mindful meditation, journaling, or whatever other methods put you back in your body, Robyn Youkilis is the person to show you how.

She is a board-certified wellness coach, business owner, author, mom, and much much more. 

She joins Dr. Tas once again to discuss leaning into recent life changes and guides us through a meditation. 

You've probably come across some type of astrology, magic and tarot scrolling through your socials lately. And while witchy vibes seem to be the latest trend, it's grounded in decades worth or ritual and practice.

Leah Vanderveldt is an author, tarot reader, and founder of Witchy Wellness and The Nourish Exchange, and joins Dr. Taz to talk all things magic and self-care. 

Hear about the importance of self-care in creating positive changes, why is intuition so important to wellness, and taking charge of your energy.

Stress and anxiety have become a regular occurrence in everyday life. From financial woes to relationship angst, there is no shortage of stress triggers.

Unfortunately, chronic stress and anxiety become more than just a mental or emotional condition. It can have a number of physiological results, such as leaky gut, food sensitivities, bloating, and an upset microbiome. Your body is constantly in reactive mode, which disrupts multiple systemic functions.

Rather than turn to prescription remedies, Ali Miller, RD, LD, CDE, prefers to take a more holistic approach. She utilizes a six-step approach in order to restore balance:

1. Remove inflammation
2. Reset the microbiome
3. Repair the gut lining
4. Restore micronutrients
5. Rebound the adrenals
6. Rebalance neurotransmitters

During the lockdown, a lot of people decided to get into cooking to pass the time.

But being stuck at home changed a lot about cooking, more than you might think. What were people cooking? How can you use those canned pantry staples and frozen foods in new and creative ways? and what if you're missing that key ingredient for a recipe, and know you shouldn't run out to a store?

Here to talk about these quarantine cooking questions and more is Pamela Salzman, a certified holistic health counselor and full-time cooking instructor.

Grief is a powerful emotion and is experienced in many different ways for different people. And right now, many of us are dealing with loss: loss of loved ones due to coronavirus, loss of jobs, loss of weddings and other big events, loss of our "normal" way of life.

Here to talk about grief in all of its forms, especially at this incredibly heavy time in our history, is author, speaker & grief expert Claire Bidwell Smith. 

Meghan Fitzgerald has worked in every domain of healthcare, from the frontlines to the Fortune 500.

Meghan Fitzgerald has worked in every domain of healthcare, from the frontlines to the Fortune 500. She is also a global healthcare strategist, investor, academic, and author.

She joins Dr. Taz talks about her mission to reform and change public healthcare, how to make pivots in your career, and her new book Ascending Davos: A Career Journey from the Emergency Room to the Boardroom. 

Amongst all the unrest and trauma in our world lately, we're taking this week to revisit an important episode from late last year on resilience and well being.

Be mindful. Fake it until you make it. Focus on the positive.

We hear so many phrases and instructions on how to be resilient and have a positive outlook on life, but according to Dr. Rick Hanson, it all comes down to neuroscience. He explains how neurons that fire together, wire together, and he lays out practical steps you can take to definitively develop inner calm, self-worth, and emotional intelligence. 

By taking 5-10 minutes a day to sit with your positive and negative thoughts and turn them into feelings, you’ll build up strength over time that you can draw on in times of need. This practice works for both adults and children. 

Dr. Hanson encourages people to sit with their emotions after something positive happens to make sure they permanently store those feelings of accomplishment in the brain. When you have a negative experience, he recommends a three-step process.

1. Be. Sit with the experience and try to view it with compassion and mindfulness.
2. Let go. Release the tension from your body and disengage with any beliefs that aren’t good for you or for others. 
3. Let in. Replace the negative feelings you’ve released with positive alternatives.

• have a hard time losing weight or experience severe, unwanted cravings
• suffer from brain fog, lack of focus, and poor memory
• lose energy halfway through the day

• wash your hands with soap and water
• quarantine if you're not feeling well -- even if you don't have "typical" COVID-19 symptoms.
• social distancing (groups of 10 or less)
• use a cleaning solution that is at least 60-70% alcohol
• don't travel unless it is absolutely necessary
• stay hydrated
• get fresh air (it's okay to go outside!)
• try to avoid highly processed or sugary foods, as comforting as they may be
• find a mindfulness practice that works for YOU (e.g. breathwork, prayer, journaling, meditation)

• Creating a structure around your eating habits.
• Creating an experience around eating.
• Trusting yourself to get interested in new foods.

Determining the cause of digestive and gut health issues can be complex. Though many know of disorders like leaky gut, GERD, and IBS, a lesser known gut disruptor is histamine intolerance. 

Histamine is a compound released by immune cells and is very important to the immune system and estrogen production. However, having too much histamine can cause digestive cramps, loose stools, urgent bowel movements, and flushing skin or hives.

An increase in patients with histamine intolerance and similar gut issues is caused by a number of factors:

• Today, people aren’t eating enough vegetables or enough variety of vegetables. 
• People are eating too much processed food that’s high in sugar and low in fiber.
• Humans no longer ferment foods regularly, which used to be a regular practice in the winter.
• Everyone is exposed to medications, and there is more self-prescribing and self-diagnosing than ever before. 
• More toxic substances are present in everyday household items like makeup and cleaning supplies.
• Americans are generally undernourished because diets lack the proper vitamins and minerals.

For many, our current healthcare system isn’t working.

Conventional medicine doesn’t provide the care needed to uncover the root causes of chronic disease, and expensive insurance premiums keep underprivileged communities from accessing appropriate care. 

James Maskell has spent the last decade sparking debate and innovating at the cross section of functional medicine and community. His Functional Forum helps healthcare professionals explore alternate routes to insurance, predictive and preventative medicine best practices, and learn more about group visits, in which multiple patients experiencing the same issue can seek treatment together.  

Listen as James Haskell joins Dr. Taz to discuss the evolution of medicine and a cure for loneliness. 

In recent years, Alzheimer's disease has affected more and more people and it’s hitting at an earlier age. It’s the third leading cause of death in the United States. Two-thirds of Alzheimer's patients are women.

As recently as a few years ago, there was no hope for people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. However, recent research shows that those who come in early can have a very good prognosis. The key is prevention and early detection. 

In addition to genetic testing, adults age 45 and older should have conversations with their physician about lifestyle factors that can cause Alzheimer’s. They should also start getting regular cognoscopies, a test used to evaluate the risk factors that can cause neuro-degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. 

Dr. Dale Bredesen explains that a healthy plant-based diet that’s mildly ketogenic, stress management, and regular sleep patterns can help prevent Alzheimer’s and other neuro-degenerative diseases.

Listen as Dr. Dale Bredesen joins Dr. Taz to discuss the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease. 

The solution to both of these issues might be simpler than you think — establishing a regular walking practice with other women. Studies have shown that women who walk regularly with friends are 2.5 times less likely to often feel lonely.

A regular walking practice also reduces your risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, dementia, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and several types of cancer. 

Listen as 99 Walks founder Joyce Shulman joins Dr. Taz to discuss regular communal walking. 

Listen as Darren joins Dr. Taz to discuss how to live an extraordinary life.

Listen as Robyn Spizman joins Dr. Taz to discuss loving out loud.