Dr. Aristo Vojdani is back to explain some fascinating basics about food sensitivities and oral tolerance. For instance, did you know dental cavities and gum disease can increase your risk of food sensitivities and autoimmunity? Or that eating the same food too often can weaken your immunity? You’ll learn about "nature’s vaccine" — secretory IgA (SIgA) — that will make you want to become an SIgA warrior so you can stay healthier, enjoy a more diverse diet, and maintain healthy immunity. Dr. Vojdani explains Cyrex Labs’ Array 14 screen of mucosal immunity (SIgA) and how to make sure your SIgA levels are healthy prior to testing. Dr. Vojdani's bio: Aristo Vojdani, PhD, MSc, CLS, obtained his MSc and PhD in the fields of microbiology and clincal immunology from Bar-Ilan University in Israel with postdoctoral studies in comparative immunology at UCLA and tumor immunology at Charles Drew/UCLA School of Medicine and Science. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Dept. of Preventive Medicine at Loma Linda University in California, and an Adjunct Professor at the Lincoln College of Professional, Graduate and Continuing Education at the National University of Health Sciences. His ongoing research focuses on the role of environmental triggers in complex diseases. Dr. Vojdani's research has resulted in the development of more than 300 antibody assays for the detection of autoimmune disorders and other diseases. He holds fifteen US patents for laboratory assessments of immune disorders associated with the brain and gut, has published more than 170 articles in magazines and scientific journals, and has just published the book "Neuroimmunity and the Brain-Gut Connection" with Nova Science Publishers. He is the CEO and Technical Director of Immunosciences Lab in Los Angeles, California, and is also the Chief Scientific Advisor for Cyrex Labs in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Vojdani sits on the editorial board of five scientific journals. Over the years he has received the Herbert J. Rinkel Award, the Linus Pauling, PhD Award, and the F. R. Carrick Research Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
A patient with painful symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) went to doctor after doctor but her tests kept coming back negative, which is common in the early stages of RA. When she went to see Dr. Geronimo, he saw in her obvious signs of autoimmunity. Although functional medicine protocols helped, it was functional neurology to address cerebellar decline that really turned this patient around — her gut function was restored in less than a week. Dr. Geronimo explains how you can tell if your brain plays a role in your gut problems, and how Zumba, Tai Chi, and core exercises can serve as profound neurological rehabilitation in some cases. Dr. Rommel Geronimo is a functional medicine and functional neurology practitioner in the San Diego area. http://sdbraincenter.com/
Cavin Balaster was able to significantly recover after a severe brain injury once he began incorporating functional medicine and functional neurology therapies. Inspired, he went on to become a self-educated functional medicine advocate for brain injury survivors. He is author of Feed a Brain, hosts the Adventures in Brain Injury podcast, and created the Feed a Brain Interview Series, in which he interviews experts, including Dr. Kharrazian, on achieving optimal brain health.
This episode goes outside of the box to discuss the importance of including intuition into functional neurology and functional medicine. Benoit Lapierre of Montreal works using spiritual kinesiology and intuition to unblock old traumas in people. He helps functional medicine and functional neurology doctors patients who are stuck and not improving using principles of intuition and energy medicine. Though educated in functional neurology and medicine, Lapierre has stepped out of the box and tapped into his intuitive powers to help others. He also talks about ways to ensure your newborn’s brain gets off on the right track.
Posturologist Annette Verpillot from Montreal, Quebec presents a fascination explanation on how your posture reflects your neurology, and how neurological rehabilitation can improve your posture. Your feet, your eyes, and even your jaw play a profound role in your posture. She also talks about how when people improve their posture through brain-based exercises they not only relieve pain and improve brain function, but also boost mood, well being, and overall quality of life. With host Elaine Marshall.
https://posturepro.co/
Australian physiotherapist Paul Michael explains how learning how to tremor — an involuntary full-body shaking — is a miracle balm to the central nervous system that relieves stress, remedies anxiety, improves sleep, speeds recovery, and can help heal trauma and PTSD. Michael explains how a person can learn how to trigger tremors on their own and theorizes what it’s doing to the brain that is rehabilitative. A great way to chill out and improve overall brain and body health. With host Elaine Marshall. (Please excuse my mild cold.)
https://traumaprevention.com/
Dr. Ryan Cedermark describes a fascinating case in which a 25-year-old woman was reduced to a liquid diet due to gut dysfunction caused by concussions in her past. Very soon after starting a functional neurology brain rehabilitation protocol, she was able to go back to eating regular food again. Dr. Cedermark is a fun interview subject who is great at explaining the basics of how brain function affects gut function and how brain rehab can restore gut health. With host Elaine Marshall. https://www.vitallifehc.com/
In this episode, Dr. Chad Larson talks about dopamine, the neurotransmitter that may be responsible for the evolution of life itself. You’ll learn about the role of dopamine in motivation, feelings of pleasure and reward, and self-worth, and the connection between dopamine and addiction. You’ll also learn symptoms of low dopamine, such as lack of motivation, bouts of rage, and general lethargy. You may think the obvious solution is to take a dopamine supplement, but Dr. Larson offers a surprising and sustainable approach that can start improving your dopamine activity in the right parts of the brain today. This is a very useful and enlightening talk.
Dr. Chad Larson practices in Solana Beach, California and his speech topic at the IAFNR 2017 functional neurology conference is The Great Motivator: How Dopamine Deficiency Hijacks Your Ability to Get Shit Done.
With host Elaine Marshall.
In this enlightening conversation, Dr. Kirk Gair explains the many benefits of using low-level cold laser treatments to lower inflammation, tame autoimmunity, boost energy, improve circulation, and increase glutathione production — all of which are profoundly beneficial for the brain. He explains how cold laser works exactly to help the brain, what conditions it can be used for, which laser treatments to be cautious of, and what to look for in a laser and in laser therapy. Dr. Gair’s enthusiasm is infectious!
Dr. Gair will speak at the IAFNR 2017 functional neurology conference on Low-Level Laser Therapy for Brain Injuries.
With host Elaine Marshall.
Dr. Shane Steadman is a functional neurology practitioner in Denver, Colorado who treats and teaches about a variety of neurological conditions, including migraines. In this discussion, he reveals one of the most common, and easiest to treat, migraine causes he sees in his office. He also goes over some lesser known causes, and talks about how the complexity of the female hormonal system often plays a role in migraines and what do do about it.
Dr. Steadman will be speaking at the IAFNR 2017 functional neurology conference on Renewing the Aging Brain.
With host Elaine Marshall.
David Gallina is a naturopathic student who studies the connection between movement and neurology. In this fascinating discussion, he explains how sitting all day and loss of flexibility severely impacts brain function, even if you work out regularly. The human brain is advanced as it because it developed to perform complex physical movements, yet few of us do them regularly. You’ll learn how you can radically boost brain health through simple movements throughout the day, even if a chronic autoimmune condition has you feeling run down. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself sitting in a rejuvenating squat by the end of the episode.
Gallina is the founder of Hybrid Movement Practice in Seattle. He will be speaking at the IAFNR 2017 functional neurology conference on the Importance of the General Movement Paradigm and Novelty in Functional Neurology.
With host Elaine Marshall.
Dr. Andrew Campbell, MD gives a thorough overview of the things you can start doing right away to drastically lower your risk of developing Alzheimer’s and dementia later in life. If you’re already noticing some memory loss, then follow these steps to halt the brain degeneration and win back your brain health.
Dr. Andrew Campbell MD has practiced medicine for nearly four decades and has had over 80 peer-reviewed articles published in medical journals and other publications, and has received twelve awards for excellence in healthcare and patient treatment.
He will be speaking at the IAFNR 2017 functional neurology conference on Aging, Diseases, and the Immune System.
With host Elaine Marshall.
In this episode, Dr. David Rosenthal explains how we can detect brain development dysfunction as early as in newborns. Once you understand some early neurological development basics, you can watch your baby for signs of milestones that aren’t happening or happening unevely. Likewise, he explains the neurology behind intuition and why parents should trust theirs even if a doctor brushes them off. Catching these signs early can alert you to an increased risk of autism, ADD, ADHD, tics, and so on so you can take action sooner rather than later and help the brain get on track. Whether a baby cries too much or is too lethargic, paying attention to subtleties can help you steer your baby’s brain in the right direction sooner rather than later with some functional neurology help. Dr. Rosenthal is presenting at the 2017 IAFNR functional neurology conference (iafnr.org). You can learn more about Dr. Rosenthal at http://www.davidrosenthaldc.com/.
With host Elaine Marshall.
In this episode, renowned childhood brain development specialist Dr. Robert Melillo talks about how early survival reflexes shape the development of the brain, and how early brain development disorders — which start in the womb — can throw a wrench in healthy brain growth. This leads to incomplete development and the rise of issues we increasingly see today: autism, ADD, ADHD, OCD, Tourette’s, etc. in children. Dr. Melillo is the author of several books about childhood brain development disorders and the many factors that cause autism. Learn more about Dr. Melillo at drrobertmelillo.com. Dr. Melillo is the founder of IAFNR and will be speaking at the 2017 IAFNR functional neurology conference. (iafnr.org)
With host Elaine Marshall.
Dr. Michael Trayford is a functional neurologist practicing in Asheville, NC. He is also published journal author, national lecturer, and currently serves on the Advisory Council for the Dementia Society of America. In this episode, Dr. Trayford explains how to spot an increased risk of addiction in early childhood, the neurological issues that raise the risk of addiction and make it harder to recover, and how functional neurology can help rehabilitate the neurological issues and thus facilitate addiction recovery. His talk at the IAFNR 2017 functional neurology conference will be The Role of Functional Neurology in Addiction Recovery. (iafnr.org). To learn more about Dr. Trayford, visit http://apexbraincenters.com/.
With host Elaine Marshall.
Dr. Elroy Vojdani, MD, is not only the son of Aristo Vojdani, PhD, he’s also a functional medicine MD practicing in Los Angeles. With training and experience in interventional radiology, Dr. Vojdani explains the many ways brain MRIs can play a part in identifying brain-based problems as well as serve to track protocol success. They are even affordable. Dr. Vojdani will speak on the topic at the 2017 IAFNR functional neurology conference in Las Vegas, NV Nov. 3-5 (iafnr.org). To learn more about Dr. Vojdani, visit http://www.regenerawellness.com/.
With host Elaine Marshall.
Many consider Dr. Aristo Vojdani, Ph.D., the father of functional Immunology. During his 50-year career, he has innovated many immunological tests and findings that are now commonplace in functional medicine and functional neurology. He is the Technical Director of Immunosciences Lab, Chief Scientific Advisor to Cyrex Labs, and teaches with Dr. Datis Kharrazian at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine Dept. of Preventive Medicine.
He will be presenting on Pathogens Associated with Leaky Gut at the 2017 IAFNR Conference in Las Vegas, NV Nov. 2-5.
https://iafnr.org/conferences/2017-conference/
You can now learn directly from Dr. Vojdani on his YouTube Vojdani University series.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT7uP1RpyHJ6R1BY4V7Km5Q/videos
With host Elaine Marshall.
In this episode, Dr. Flannery and I discuss Gardasil vaccine injury — the prevalence of injury, a functional medicine view of why some people sustain vaccine injuries, and functional medicine strategies for vaccine injury. This is a thoughtful and level-headed approach to a highly controversial topic by a practitioner who has helped more than 100 vaccine-injured patients improve their health.
Dr. Timothy Gerhart is a functional neurologist and functional medicine practitioner in Arizona who also does neurofeedback therapy. Dr. Gerhart is author of several books, the most recent being Why Am I Not Right Since My Concussion? A Program for Injured Brain Recovery. In this podcast Dr. Gerhart talks about why it’s so important to be evaluated and treated even after mild brain injuries, otherwise problems can manifest long down the road. To learn more, please visit Dr. Gerhart’s site at http://www.renovarewellnessbydesignpro.com/.
With host Elaine Marshall.
Dr. Jared Seigler is a functional neurologist and functional medicine practitioner in Ohio. In this podcast, he talks about the neurology of touch — how vital it is to proper brain development in childhood and healthy brain function in adulthood. He also talks about how trauma, violence, and sexual abuse can interfere with a person’s ability to receive healthy touch and the path to rehabilitation, as well as how the brain can start to rewire simply from observing others who are more secure in this area. To learn more, please visit Dr. Seigler’s site at https://thelivingproofinstitute.com/. With host Elaine Marshall.
Download this podcast In this podcast episode Dr. Andrea Rosario, DC, DACNB and I talk about how being stuck in fight-or-flight (sympathetic stress) is so prevalent with chronic health conditions and what to do about it. We also talk about the underlying emotional stressors — toxic people or situations, poor self-confidence, etc. — that are so often overlooked and how greatly they can impact your health. Dr. Rosario is a mom and a Hashimoto’s patient who knows first-hand what many of her patients are going through. Check out Dr. Rosario’s site at https://flihealth.com/.
With host Elaine Marshall.
Dowload this podcast In this podcast Dr. David Lepp talks about the connection between the brain and the teeth, orthodontics, and palate widening, and the little-known world where functional neurology and orthodontics intersect. This is a fascinating look at how crowded teeth and braces can impact the brain in some cases, and corrective measures that can not only give you a prettier smile, but also improve brain function. (I rambled a bit too long in the intro, sorry, please fast forward. More succinct and better spoken intros in the future!)
Interviews with functional neurology doctors from around the country to help educate you about understanding and improving brain function through functional neurology.