Healthy Wellthy U

Are you living your best life? Are you being proactive about your goals and your future? Do you feel fulfilled? Or do you long for change? Is there anything in your past getting in the way? In this inspiring episode, Dr. Camille shares a roadmap for creating the life you’ve always wanted. She talks about finding your life’s purpose, exploring your goals and values, and creating a plan that is in alignment with your core nature. She discusses how to shed obstacles from the past, whether it’s clutter, financial barriers or PTSD, so that you can take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves. She talks about trusting your own resourcefulness and cultivating your resources, whether they are your own talents and strengths, or the support of family and friends. Whether the changes you want to make are big or small, the Life You’ll Love is yours to create.

To be healthy, it is so important to have a healthy community and nowhere is that more important than it is with our children and the kind of environment, the kind of education, the kind of society that we provide to them. Technology impacts that hugely. It is a powerful tool. And like any powerful tool, it can magnify both the positive and the negative. And that is a difficult thing to navigate for ourselves, let alone how we navigate it for our children. Our guest today is Matija Krmek. He teaches technology to grade school and junior high school students. In addition, as an instructor for Travel & Learn, a provider of courses for the European Union’s Erasmus Plus program, he teaches educators how to integrate technology into their classrooms. It’s an episode that is helpful for parents, educators and anyone concerned with navigating the effects of technology, with a wide range of topics: AI, social media, educational tools for kids and at what age they are appropriate, programs for children with learning challenges, support for gifted learners and more.

Listening may be the most unappreciated aspect of communication. Yet, it is a foundation of successful relationships of all kinds. Dr Camille explores the differences in our brains when we are simply hearing, as well as when we’re really listening. She explores the social barriers to true listening and how to overcome them. True listening takes a generosity of spirit. It takes a belief that the other person has something to teach us. It takes empathy. People are always trying to tell us who they are. To hear that, we need to listen. As author Ram Charan said, “Truly empathetic listening requires courage — the willingness to let go of the old habits and embrace new ones. But once acquired, these listening habits are the very skills that turn would-be leaders into true ones.”

Long Covid is a condition in which the symptoms of Covid persist for three months or more. It is a condition that still affects an estimated 35 million Americans, and at least 65 million globally, who have continued to have chronic illness, lasting months or years after their infection with Covid. In today’s episode, we discuss Mast Cell Activation Syndrome with Dr. Thalia Hale, naturopath, functional medicine doctor and expert on Mast Cell Activation Syndrome. MCAS is likely one of the reasons that a simple Covid infection becomes Long Covid. It is also the cause of allergies, chronic skin conditions, environmental sensitivity, mold issues and more. We’ll be looking at what people are experiencing, why it occurs and strategies for resolving it. For more information on Dr. Thalia, please see https://www.drthalia.com.

Dr Camille continues her deep dive on the subject of Emotional Intelligence. She helps to discern nuances of emotions using the book “Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaning Connection and the Language of Human Experience” by Brene Brown, adding her own insights and experience to the conversation.

Dr Camille does a deep dive on the subject of Emotional Intelligence. She focuses on the usefulness of Empathy and how easy it is to feel Empathy Burnout. She helps to discern nuances of emotions using the book “Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaning Connection and the Language of Human Experience” by Brene Brown, adding her own insights and experience to the conversation.

Every day, we experience hunger but do we ever stop to think about what is happening in our bodies? And do we know what it means to help our brains feel satisfied? Americans spend more than $60 billion per year pursuing weight loss, from gym memberships to weight-loss coaching to this week’s new diet book. More often than not, the pursuit doesn’t lead to success. Dr Camille explores the hormonal mechanisms that create hunger and satisfaction and why those mechanisms have broken down for so many people. She helps us to understand why we feel insatiable, why we haven’t been successful, and why starving ourselves only makes things worse. She outlines a program based on full, life-long nourishment and satisfaction, transforming our health at the deepest levels.

Dr. Camille welcomes guest Susan Merenstein RPh, the Glutathione Pharmacist, as they discuss the many benefits of glutathione, our body’s most important antioxidant. Glutathione helps us with oxidative stress, immunity and detoxification. Susan explains how it can be helpful for Long Covid and other infectious diseases, for a variety of immune and infllammatory conditions and for degenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s. They discuss the role of glutathione in cellular regeneration and the importance of glutathione for athletic endurance.

In this second episode on creating change, we look at fear and courage. We look at knowing when to override fear and when we shouldn’t. We look at how making sure your own needs are met is crucial to fulfilling your dreams and look at how to cultivate your ideas to make the life you’ve always wanted.

Now that we’ve looked at the core of what it means to support our bodies, what does it really take to change? How do we keep our Daily Lives from getting in the way? In this heart-felt and inspiring episode of Healthy Wellthy U, we look at finding the magic and holding its spark. We look at the power of knowing when to say No and how that makes Yes possible. We look at the meaning of resilience and how to keep your spark alive. Where your mind goes, your life will follow. Follow it to a Healthy Wellthy U.

In the continuing conversation of Being Human, we look at another essential for life - sunshine. We look at the value of vitamin D for our immunity, brain health and mood, cancer prevention, heart health, diabetes and more. We look at genetic differences that may affect how much sunshine and vitamin D we might need - and how living in a different climate from our heritage might be affecting our health in ways we don’t realize.

Burnout - the hardest thing about fixing it is that we can be too burned out to do anything about it. There can be so many pressures coming at us from so many different directions. A single event in our lives can unravel us: an accident or health crisis, the need to care for a loved one with special needs, a divorce, an economic reversal. The demands can seem endless and the pressure to hold it all together is tremendous. Today, we look at both the psychological and medical aspects of burnout. We examine factors, both conscious and unconscious, that drive us - cultural messaging, work culture, family expectations. And we look at ways to give ourselves the strength to break the cycle, including a health checklist to help you get started and a discussion of adaptogens to heal your adrenals, improve energy and increase resilience.

These days, the weather is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. We are not just seeing record high temperatures but also sustained high temperatures, day after day after day. It’s one thing for the body to handle a few hot days; it’s entirely another thing when those extreme temperatures continue on for weeks. The body’s coping mechanisms get challenged for such a long time that the ability to cope erodes. And that means that it can become more likely that we can have serious health consequences. Dr. Camille discusses the early warning signs that help us to recognize when our bodies are starting to be challenged by the heat and what to do before heat becomes a problem. She shows us how the body tries to cope with heat and how that is different in dry heat and humid heat. She discusses special risk factors for people with heart disease, asthma, diabetes, neurological conditions, autoimmune disease, insomnia and more. She also discusses how various medications can affect both heat tolerance and sun sensitivity. She offers many practical solutions that can not only help you to be more comfortable in the heat, but also to potentially avoid serious health consequences. Don’t miss this important life-saving episode!

Dr. Camille compares how a functional medicine doctor looks at symptoms and diseases compared to how it is seen in the medical system. She looks at the root causes of low energy by examining the mitochondria, the “Powerhouse of the Cell”. This is where energy is made at the cellular level. Dr. Camille discusses which nutrients are needed to fuel the chemical reactions that give us energy and what issues can block our energy. She looks at how sophisticated functional medicine testing can help you identify what is needed to bring you vitality and vibrant energy.

It is estimated that 10% of the world population has an autoimmune disease. Type 1 diabetes, lupus, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease, Hashimoto's - there are more than 80 common conditions in which the person's immune system is attacking the body's own tissues. We can avoid the obvious triggers - environmental toxins, pesticides, common dietary allergens such as gluten and dairy. But what happens when you are doing all the right things and are still having symptoms? Today we welcome Dr. Jim Chialtas, an expert in autoimmune cross-reactivity, who explores some of the hidden triggers in our diet that may be continuing to create inflammation and provoke inappropriate immune responses. When our immune systems become sensitized, anything that is chemically similar to that particular trigger can cause a similar reaction. Understanding and identifying these patterns can be a key to reaching new breakthroughs in bringing autoimmune diseases under control. The link to the article discussed in the episode is https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7246018/

What a gem of an episode! Let your heart overflow with optimism and joy. Sequoia Awards provides scholarships to high school seniors in their local community honoring their volunteerism, community service and positive impact. The extraordinary contributions of these remarkable young people are models of what is possible when we dedicate ourselves to Doing Good and when the adults around them nurture, model and reward their good deeds. Sequoia Awards shows us that a few committed people really can change the world. They believe that positive change can best be achieved through an active and engaged citizenry. We hear the stories of many of these inspiring young people and speak with an early award recipient, Jenny Stahler, about how the award impacted her life. Co-founder, Paula Ucelli, and a key organizer, Debra Hall, share with us how grassroots efforts can take the seed of an idea and make profound and pivotal changes in people's lives.

Almost all of us start our day with coffee or tea - it is a pleasure, a ritual, a need. It affects our awareness, our mood, thoughts, feelings and behavior. It enhances our mental clarity, reaction time and even athletic performance. It makes everything we do more pleasurable. Why do we love it so much? What is doing for our brains and bodies? Dr. Camille discusses both sides of the caffeine debate. She looks at why it feels so good and why it is so much a part of our social lives. She looks at the tradeoffs of caffeine consumption and how it impacts slow wave sleep, the deepest and most regenerative part of our sleep cycle. She looks at practical ways to maximize the many benefits of caffeine without sacrificing slow wave sleep or creating long term health consequences. Using caffeine thoughtfully can make it a guilt-free pleasure.

Choice enables us to get what we need and want in life. It allows us to express our identity, to show who we are and what we care about. Choice gives tremendous freedom and pleasure to our lives. It enables us to feel sovereignty over our destiny. We have more choices available to us than at any time in human history. Our culture sanctifies freedom of choice so profoundly that the benefits of infinite options is something we assume to be true. But when people are presented with too many choices, we can feel exhausted. We can agonize over whether we are doing the right thing. We can feel overwhelm, regret, anxiety and even depression. A substantial number of people tend to pull back and make no choice at all. Fred Hirsch called it “the Tyranny of Small Decisions”. We can feel so overwhelmed by the many options we have that we pull back from making even significant decisions that affect our lives. We can not afford to give away so much of our individual and collective power. Choice enables us to get what we need and want in life. It allows us to express our identity, to show who we are and what we care about. Choice gives tremendous freedom and pleasure to our lives. It enables us to feel sovereignty over our destiny. We have more choices available to us than at any time in human history. Our culture sanctifies freedom of choice so profoundly that the benefits of infinite options is something we assume to be true. But when people are presented with too many choices, we can feel exhausted. We can agonize over whether we are doing the right thing. We can feel overwhelm, regret, anxiety and even depression. A substantial number of people tend to pull back and make no choice at all. Fred Hirsch called it “the Tyranny of Small Decisions”. We can feel so overwhelmed by the many options we have that we pull back from making even significant decisions that affect our lives. We can not afford to give away so much of our individual and collective power. Dr. Camille discusses the book, The Paradox of Choice by Barry Schwartz. She examines how we make decisions, how we can make our decision-making process more effective and how we can reclaim our power.

Healthy Wellthy U welcomes Woniya Thibeault, two-time participant of the History Channel’s Alone, and the author of the new book, Never Alone: A Solo Arctic Survival Journey. With her two seasons on Alone combined, she spent more time than any other participant of the show living alone, surviving off the land in freezing conditions, having no shelter and next to no food except what she could build and procure for herself. Her survival was dependent on her ingenuity, determination, resilience and what the land provided. Through this, she found an extraordinary joy and wonder. “There are few things as transformative as feeling seen and held by an intact wild place, merging with the natural world around you, and coming to see yourself not as separate but as an important and valued part of it, feeling a belonging so deep that there’s no such thing as loneliness.” Woniya shares with us her experiences, her insights and her joy. To find out more about Woniya, her teaching, Buckskin Revolution and Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/woniyabuckskinrevolution https://www.buckskinrevolution.com https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCJqeQWXKz7vpLnu8Sde7Xrg

There is a lot of buzz among functional medicine docs these days about methylation. Why are we so excited? Methylation is one of the best tools for longevity and healthy aging. It helps us shift so many of the conditions that we see that run in families, that we think are part of our genetic inheritance and that we might feel are inevitable for us. Allergies, heart disease, depression and other psychological and neurological conditions, hormonal issues, cancer and more - methylation gives us some influence over that destiny. We know what goes into a healthy diet and lifestyle. Dr. Camille shows us why those things are so transformative for our health and well-being - and how we can make the choices that can change our future.