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In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I am tackling a topic that has left an indelible mark on the world: the COVID-19 pandemic. As we navigate through new variants and climbing cases, it's crucial to unravel the reasons why so many Americans got so sick and died during the pandemic. We dig into the questions of why we as a nation were so susceptible to COVID-19’s deadly effects. I also explore why and how Functional Medicine steps in where conventional approaches stumble.

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In this episode, I discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Why the U.S. had some of the worst COVID-19 outcomes (7:07 / 5:24)
• The conventional medicine approach to the COVID-19 pandemic (25:46 / 22:41)
• My take on COVID vaccines (28:30 / 25:25)
• Optimizing our immune system to prevent serious infection and disease (39:09 / 36:04)
• Preventing and recovering from illness using diet and lifestyle (47:19 / 44:14)
• Supplements to support your immune system during cold and flu season (57:00 / 53:55)
• Strategies for COVID infection and exposure (59:34 / 56:29)
• Long-COVID (1:02:51 / 59:46)

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In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Scott Sherr, Dr. Bob Hariri, and Ben Greenfield about why hyperbaric oxygen is a great choice for brain health conditions and how stem cell therapy helps with chronic pain relief, reduces inflammation, and increases energy. We also discuss sauna and red light therapy.

Dr. Scott Sherr is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician Certified in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Health Optimization Medicine (HOMe). He is the founder of Integrative HBOT, a worldwide telemedicine practice where he consults and educates patients and clinics using his novel approach to hyperbaric therapy that includes cutting-edge and dynamic HBOT protocols, comprehensive laboratory testing (using the HOMe framework), targeted supplementation, personal practices, synergistic technologies (new and ancient), and more. 

Dr. Bob Hariri is an accomplished surgeon, biomedical scientist, and serial entrepreneur in two technology sectors, biomedicine, and aerospace. He is the chairperson, founder, and chief executive officer of Celularity, Inc., one of the world’s leading human cellular therapeutics companies. Dr. Hariri pioneered the use of stem cells to treat a range of life-threatening human diseases.

Ben Greenfield is a human performance consultant, speaker, and New York Times bestselling author of 13 books, including the wildly popular titles, Beyond Training and Boundless. Ben hosts the highly popular fitness, nutrition, and wellness website BenGreenfieldFitness.com, a site with over a million monthly visitors, featuring articles, podcasts, and product reviews.

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The foundation of our health is a robust immune system that has a very important mechanism of cleaning out inflammatory cells. If this process is broken, the inflammatory cells can actually turn other functioning cells into inflammatory cells. Our daily life habits and exposures, such as sleep, stress management, diet, and toxins, affect key biological processes that impact our immune function. When our immune health is functioning properly, the rest of our body follows with less illness and disease.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Elizabeth Boham and Dr. Leonard Calabrese about ways that we can support our immune systems to reduce the chance of illness and disease.

Dr. Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices Functional Medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing.

Dr. Leonard Calabrese is a Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and Vice Chair of the Department of Rheumatic and Immunologic Diseases. He is also the director of the RJ Fasenmyer Center for Clinical Immunology at the Cleveland Clinic and holds joint appointments in the Department of Infectious Diseases and the Wellness Institute.

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Sleep is powerful. You’ve probably heard this statement a thousand times. It’s all over the books, media, podcasts, videos, everywhere. But many of us still lack a deep understanding of its power and how to use it for our benefit. In today’s episode, 3 guests dive deeper into understanding the amazing human mind and how sleep is critical to operating at 100% mental capacity. We talk about how to unlock its power — particularly during really hectic seasons of life.

Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University. He also runs the Huberman Lab, which studies how the brain functions, how it changes through experiences, and how to repair the brain after injury or disease. 

David Sinclair is a tenured Professor in the Department of Genetics at the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School and serves as President of the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research. He is best known for his work on understanding why we age and how to slow its effects.

Dr. Matthew Walker earned his degree in neuroscience from Nottingham University, UK, and his Ph.D. in neurophysiology from the Medical Research Council in London. Dr. Walker researches the impact of sleep on human health and disease, and he’s written the international bestseller, Why We Sleep, unlocking the power of sleep and dreams.

In this episode you will learn

• How inadequate sleep impacts brain function and overall mental health.
• The ideal amount of sleep necessary for optimal health and well-being.
• The effects of a poor diet on sleep quality, even when you're getting sufficient sleep, compared to the impact of a good diet on nights of poor sleep.
• Ways to influence and potentially control the nature of your dreams.
• Techniques to train your brain for more frequent lucid dreaming experiences.

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Are you getting the sleep you need? Do you wish you could improve your sleep, but you’re not sure how?

Dr. Gina Poe is an accomplished researcher and trained neuroscientist with a PhD in basic sleep. Currently a professor at UCLA, Dr. Poe has been researching the functions of sleep for over 30 years and has authored nearly 200 publications on the topic.

Today, Dr. Poe is here to answer your questions like, Why do you sleep? What is your brain doing as you sleep? What is REM sleep? What are sleep cycles? What are circadian rhythms?

And perhaps most importantly, you’ll get 5 research-backed recommendations from Dr. Poe on how anyone, including you, can not only improve their sleep but also get a “perfect” night’s sleep, as defined by a neuroscientist.

In this conversation, Dr. Poe discusses topics such as:

What is the “perfect night's sleep”?

How long are you supposed to sleep every night?

What is a sleep cycle, and why should you care?

What is N1 sleep?

What is N2 sleep?

What is N3 sleep?

What is paradoxical sleep and how can you tell someone’s in that state?

What REM sleep really is and how often we must be in it.

The physiological and neurological difference between being awake and asleep.

What a neurotransmitter is and how it changes composition when asleep.

What the functions of our brain’s two hemispheres are.

How sleep cleans the brain.

The connection between sleep and neuroplasticity.

The link between sleep and brain health.

The scientific reason why they call it “falling” asleep.

How sleep directly affects longevity and vitality.

Why you don’t remember your dreams.

How sleep impacts how we learn during the day.

What happens to your body and brain when you close your eyes at night.

The one phase of sleep you cannot miss.

A neuroscientist's top 5 recommendations for better sleep.

What the purpose of vasodilation is.

Which hours of sleep are absolutely critical for memory processing.

How many hours of sleep you really need for optimal functioning.

Why a consistent bedtime is the start of the best sleep of your life.

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Histamine is a common term when discussing allergies, but there is really so much more to it. Histamine is both made by the body and found in food. It has a key function in digestion and also acts as a neurotransmitter. People who have more histamine in their bodies than they can break down may experience a variety of symptoms including hives, heart palpitations, migraines, fluid retention, runny nose, and more. Often, histamine intolerance can be traced back to gut dysbiosis and mast cell activation syndrome.

In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Todd LePine, Dr. Leo Galland, and Lisa Dreher about how histamine plays a role in sleep, digestion, allergies, skin conditions, and so much more.

Dr. Todd LePine graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and is board certified in internal medicine, specializing in integrative Functional Medicine. He is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner. Prior to joining The UltraWellness Center, he worked as a physician at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, MA, for 10 years.

Dr. Leo Galland is a board-certified internist, an international bestselling author, and one of the founders of Functional Medicine. Since the onset of the pandemic, he has devoted most of his time to research on Covid-19 and to the education of other health practitioners in understanding the biology of the disease. His latest publication, Long Covid: Prevention and Treatment, is available on his website.

Lisa Dreher is a registered dietitian who got her undergraduate nutrition degree at the Rochester Institute of Technology and completed a dietetic internship through Cornell University. Lisa first worked in the acute care hospital setting and became a clinical nutrition specialist working in pediatric gastroenterology at the University of Rochester Medical Center. At the same time, she pursued her master’s degree in nutrition and integrative health from the Maryland University of Integrative Health and started practicing integrative and functional nutrition in private practice before joining The UltraWellness Center in 2015.

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Kari Nadeau is a physician scientist with expertise in treating food allergies. In this episode, Kari first explains the fascinating workings of the immune system, exploring how it adeptly defends against bacteria and viruses but how the same system can lead to food allergies. She proceeds to explore the complexities of food allergies, detailing their typical developmental patterns, underscoring the significance of preventative approaches like early exposure, and highlighting the potentially life-threatening nature of severe food allergies. Kari illuminates the latest advancements in immunotherapies that not only mitigate allergy severity but also hold the potential to completely cure the patient. Additionally, Kari shares her concerns about the increasing levels of air pollution, elucidating its adverse effects on health while providing valuable suggestions for reducing exposure.

We discuss:

• Kari’s motivation to study food allergies [4:00];
• Overview of the immune system and the family of immunoglobulins [9:00];
• How our immune system fights viruses, bacteria, or fungi, and some exceptions to the rule [13:00];
• Why our immune system is generally better at fighting viruses than bacterial infections [18:45];
• Differentiating a food sensitivity from a food allergy, and a discussion about celiac disease [25:30];
• How food allergies develop, why they can be lethal, and factors contributing to the uptrend in food allergies [35:45];
• The role of environmental factors in the onset of food allergies and strategies for prevention [50:15];
• How immunotherapy helps to overcome, and even cure, food allergies [1:04:15];
• Can immunotherapy work for environmental allergens like pollen? [1:24:00];
• Air pollution: impact on health and tips for reducing your risk [1:25:30];
• Resources for those wanting to learn more or find clinical trials related to food allergies [1:40:45]; and
• More.

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It’s time to think about immunity in a new way. There’s been a lot of focus recently on “boosting” your immune system. However, boosting immunity merely exaggerates all the defects of an aging immune system, whereas rejuvenation reboots immunity from your cells up. Rejuvenation is way more foundational and longer lasting than a basic boost because it uses your built-in programming to rebalance and optimize that system’s function. 

In today’s episode of my series I’m calling Health Bites, I dive into immuno-rejuvenation—what it is, how it happens in the body, and my top strategies for switching it on. 

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• Why rejuvenation is better than the conventional approach to immune health (5:37 / 3:55)
• How rejuvenation happens in the body (7:06 / 4:22)
• Activating our body’s own immuno-rejuvenation (11:05 / 8:25)
• How positive stress is rejuvenating (13:38 / 11:22) 
• Examples of positive stressors (16:52 / 14:37) 

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Keith Flaherty is the director of clinical research at the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and a previous guest on The Drive. In this episode, Keith first delves into the statistics on cancer's prevalence as we age, underscoring the significance of finding effective treatments and early detection methodologies. He touches on the history of cancer therapeutics and illuminates the notable enhancements in cancer therapy within the last decade that are setting the stage for a promising future. He goes into detail on the potential of immunotherapy and therapies that can combat cancer’s evasive tactics while explaining some of the existing challenges around specificity, cost, and scalability. Additionally, Keith highlights the significant leap in early detection methodologies, namely liquid biopsies, which have the potential not only to determine if a cancer is present in an early stage, but also identify the possible tissue of origin.

We discuss:

• Keith’s interest and expertise in cancer [3:15];
• Cancer deaths by decade of life, and how cancer compares to other top causes of death [7:00];
• The relationship between hormones and cancer [12:00];
• The link between obesity and cancer [18:45];
• Current state of treatments for metastatic cancer and reasons for the lack of progress over the decades [22:30];
• The interplay between the immune system and cancer cells [32:00];
• Different ways cancer can suppress the immune response, and how immunotherapy can combat cancer’s evasive tactics [39:30];
• Elimination of a substantial portion of cancers through immune cell engineering faces challenges of specificity, cost, and scalability [52:15];
• Why TIL therapy isn’t always effective, and the necessity for multimodal therapy to address various aspects of the cancer microenvironment [1:01:00];
• Potential developments in cancer therapy over the next five years: T-cell activation, metabolic interventions, targeting tumor microenvironments, and more [1:06:30];
• The challenge of treating metastatic cancer underscores the importance of early detection to improve survivability [1:19:15];
• Liquid biopsies for early detection of cancer and determining the possible tissue of origin [1:24:45];
• Commercially available cancer screening tests [1:33:45];
• How to address the disparity in cancer care, and the exciting pace of progress for cancer detection and treatment [1:40:15]; and
• More.

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Hidden inflammation is at the root of all chronic illness—conditions like heart disease, obesity, diabetes, dementia, depression, and cancer. So if inflammation is at the root of most modern diseases, how do we find the causes and get the body back in balance?

Today on The Doctor’s Farmacy, I’m excited to talk to Dr. Shilpa Ravella about what is driving our epidemic of inflammation and inflammaging, why it plagues so many people, and what we can do to combat it. 

Dr. Ravella is a gastroenterologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center. She is the author of A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet & Disease, which investigates inflammation—the hidden force at the heart of modern disease. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Slate, Discover, and USA Today, among other publications. 

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Here are more details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

• Helpful and harmful inflammation (5:18 / 2:46)
• How to know if you’re inflamed (7:37 / 4:46) 
• Diagnostic testing to assess inflammation (10:11 / 9:00) 
• What is driving our chronic inflammation? (14:59 / 12:42) 
• The health of our gut microbiome and inflammation (20:17 / 17:47)
• Stress, loneliness, and inflammation (25:44 / 21:47) 
• How environmental toxins drive inflammation (27:56 / 23:57) 
• The rise in food allergies and sensitivities (30:30 / 26:59)
• Reducing inflammation in the body (38:06 / 33:34) 
• Anti-inflammatory foods and supplements (49:52 / 45:30) 

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