Dr. Berkson's Best Health Radio Podcast

Your Brain & Today’s Chaotic World with Neuroscientist Shonte Jovan Taylor (#187)

Your Brain Your relationship with your brain rules every aspect of life. Yet, in today’s world, rife with emotional and pollutional toxicity, it’s way too easy to be ruled by your brain, rather than you being in charge. “Brain hygiene” plays a prominent role in everyday world-life interactions and perceptions. This includes work, relationships and even cultural perceptions such as politics and inter-racial justice.  In this show you will learn: What part of your brain responds with fe...

Hormones and Covid (#185)

The world is experiencing a pandemic from COVID-19. So research is looking at every which way various physiologic states might be protective or increase vulnerability. Across the world males seem more susceptible, compared to women (especially premenopausal women) to getting COVID. Once they get it, they are more susceptible to severe outcomes as well as fatalities, once again compared to younger women. It has been suggested that estrogen may be protective against COVID-19 in females and...

Post Covid Syndrome with Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum & Dr. Eddie Maristany (#184)

In this show you will learn: What is post Covid syndrome. How it is treated. How to prevent it. How to best prevent getting Covid. The use and dosages of natural anti-inflammatories.  And more. Suzanne Steinbaum, D.O. is president of the SRSHeart, program for Women’s Cardiovascular Prevention, Health and Wellness and was recently the Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Prevention, Health and Wellness at Mt. Sinai Heart in New York City. Dr. Eddie Maristany practices at the Naple...

Safe, Natural Contraception with Susan Caldwell, MD (#183)

Regular medicine is failing women.   For many health issues from irregular periods to acne to PCOS, doctors pass out oral contraception (oral contraceptives) like M&M’s. The “pill” is good at stopping symptoms. But they do not address the “root cause” of what initiated the symptoms. And they can have downstream adverse effects as they are made up of endocrine disrupting synthetic hormones.     Birth control pills (oral contraception) contains synthetic hormones. These synthetic hormo...

Melatonin and Viruses (#182)

Melatonin is a versatile molecule. Melatonin is synthesized by the pineal gland in the brain. But it’s not widely known that melatonin is such an important hormone. It’s made all throughout the body—in the gastrointestinal tract, retina, thymus, bone marrow, and by white blood cells called leukocytes. Besides regulating sleep and our relationship with light and dark, melatonin wears a lot of other hats. Melatonin is a power anti-oxidant, hormone protector and up-regulator of critical m...

Hope and Global Opportunity with Spiritual Mystic, Religious Scholar and Amazing Human: Andrew Harvey (#181)

This is a show of reality. You will hear a dialogue of what is going on deep inside humanity’s psyche. In this profoundly healing and inspirational show, Mr. Andrew Harvey shares what the human race is collectively facing during this time of global pandemic and uncertainty. In 2012, Mr. Harvey was nominated for the Templeton Prize, eventually awarded to the Dalai Lama, a spiritual colleague and life-long friend of Mr. Harvey’s. Both Mr. Harvey and the Dalai Lama feel humanity is at a cro...

COVID is Not a Hoax – Debunking Conspiracy Theories (#180)

COVID-19 is not the flu.  When folks get ill with COVID-19, it can last a lot longer and adverse effects can linger for months or even years. If folks get ill enough and end up on a ventilator in the ICU, this experience can last a lot longer with more severe issues in and out of the hospital. Someone with COVID can transmit the illness, even if they don’t know they have it, for much longer than the flu. The flu mostly damages the lungs while COVID-19 can travel through the blood causing iss...

To Mask Or Not to Mask (#179)

Dr. Berkson unmasks recent controversies about wearing masks in the United States. Citing multiple studies from around the world, Berkson shares how wearing a mask or other face covering can reduce the spread of the highly contagious novel coronavirus and COVID-19. Berkson discusses statistics about asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission of COVID-19, how different mask types affect the spread of the virus, lessons from countries and communities who have held the virus at bay, and more...

Genetics, Medicine, Nutrition & COVID-19 with Dr. E. Maristany (#178)

Dr. Maristany is a board-certified internal medicine physician who is also trained by the Institute of Functional Medicine in advanced personalized genomic interpretation, and inflammatory diseases. This is a fascinating show on how a medical specialist can look at your genes and see how this guides your personal use of nutrients, foods, medicine and even life-style recommendations. In this show you will learn: What are genetic polymorphisms or snips. How do doctors interpret your sni...

Harmony in Life Demands Listening Skills (#177)

Listening improves connection and success in personal, business and even political relationships.   Listening   The ability to “listen” creates more successful relationships in every aspect of life. But most of us have no idea of how to do it. Most of us do not listen with an intent to “understand”. Many of us merely listen with the intent to “reply”.   Enter Center Stage: Mike Carr   Mike has been lecturing, for decades, throughout the country on “listening” and leadership” ...

Functional Heart Health with Mark Houston, MD (#176)

Heart disease is the number one killer for both men and women. Often, we are told our only answer is medication, more medication…  and to avoid salt. However, if you understand more about why your cardiovascular system is ill, for example if you have some faulty cardiac genes, or a chamber is faulty and causing “nocturnal” hypertension, then you often can fix it. Especially if you work with a doctor that understands the heart from these points of view. Enter center stage. Dr. Mark Housto...

Organic Food & Gardening with Eliot Coleman (#175)

What is Organic? We hear a lot about organic foods these days. What are they? Are organic foods from Whole Foods, farmers’ markets, Walmart, and the organic food section of your local grocery store all the same?  What is soil biome and what does healthy microbial life in soil have to do with the biomes in our colon, lungs, or sinuses?  How do plants direct which nutrients “gather round their roots” to create the heathiest microbial life? Eliot Coleman answers these questions in his i...

LDN: Super Immune Booster with Dr. Pamela Smith (#174)

Hear all about Low-Dose Naltrexone from Pam W. Smith, MD, MPH – an Anti-Aging Medicine Specialist. Dr. Smith is an international expert on LDN and was a guest speaker at the first international LDN conference in Australia in 2019. Dr. Smith created and teaches many of the modules that certify MDs, pharmacists and NPs to become board-certified as functional practitioners. For the past decade Dr. Berkson and Dr. Smith have often lectured together most recently, team teaching a 16-hr. hormone...

The FDA’s Role in the “Covid Crisis” and What You Can Do About It (#173)

Dr. Mary J. Ruwart is a scientist, ethicist, libertarian author/activist and a close girl friend of Dr. Berkson’s. Thus, this show is informative but also down-home; a chat between friends. Dr. Ruwart has a Ph.D. in Biophysics and was a research scientist at The Upjohn Company involved in developing new therapies for diverse diseases, such as liver cirrhosis and AIDS. Presently, in Texas, Dr. Ruwart oversees IRB’s which allow peer-research to unfold in proper regulatory pathways. Dr. R...

COVID-19: Promising Treatments By Docs On The Frontlines (#172)

COVID-19 has now been reported in every continent but Antarctica. We have no standard treatment nor time for randomized trials to test treatments in accepted scientific manner. In this show you learn about a team of 8 physicians throughout the country, including seasoned ER doctors, ICU physicians and critical care providers, who got together and created a protocol based on various published anti-viral interventions. In their facilities this protocol is saving lives. Their very ill COVID...

Busting Wine Myths: Bad, Better & Best (Healthiest) Wines (#171)

More and more people are drinking wine. But how healthy is your wine? Are there specific wines to avoid especially if we are ill or have vulnerabilities to gut issues? Turns out the answer is yes and in this show you will learn all the wine facts you ever need to know! Todd White, founder and owner of Dry Farm Wines explains the details of what’s in your wine, what the FDA allows, and what kinds of wine are the healthiest. Or not. In this show you will learn: The difference between “wet...

Super Human: Aging Backwards with Bulletproof’s Dave Asprey (#170)

You know how the old saying that the “Two Inevitables” are taxes and aging? Well, what if aging, at least as we know it, wasn’t a given? This show, with one of the world’s experts on anti-aging. Dave Asprey,  is a super dynamic interview about extending your life. Dave is a genius, agile thinker and you get to hear his effective, distinctive array of science-based anti-aging tools. Dave Asprey has used specific nutrients and off-label use of medications, to pull himself back from being a...

COVID-19 with Dr. Leo Galland (#169)

Dr. Leo Galland practices in the epicenter of the worst outbreak of Covid-19 in the US, in Manhattan. He is a board-certified internist and specialist in immunology and Integrative Medicine and has quickly become a medical spokesperson for COVID-19 in NY and the country. In addition, Dr. Galland has authored 40 scientific articles and written chapters for numerous textbooks including Integrative Gastroenterology and Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition.  In this show you will learn: How COVID-...

COVID-19: In Light of Historical Pandemics, the Health of Planet Earth, & What We Can Do! (#168)

We are at war with the virus that causes the new viral illness, COVID-19. In this show you hear Dr. Berkson’s theory on the “Gaia Principal” and taking a look at “root cause” of escalating pandemics. In this show you learn: Four portals of entry of the coronavirus. Suggested tools for prevention in high-risk and low-risk persons. Suggestions for once infected. What is a virus is. Discussion and controversy on this virus and NSAIDs. The main time-frame for human pandemics and h...

Motivation & Brain Trauma with “Relentless” author Lisa Tamati (#167)

Dr. Berkson interviews Lisa Tamati about the incredible story told in her new book, “Relentless,” of never giving up and healing from brain injury. Lisa’s mom had a stroke and aneurysm both within 3 days and was given a few weeks to live. But Lisa would not take “no” for an answer. In ingenious manners, Lisa had her mother go on  hyperbaric oxygen treatments, nutrients and medications. All these boost brain function to return after devastating injury. Lisa kindly put together a list for ...

Mindfulness with Dr. Kristen Race (#166)

Be master of your mind rather than having your mind be master of you! As our culture and world gets more stimuli, more screen time, more job demands, our mindfulness and peace can suffer.  In this show you learn: What is mindfulness. How mindfulness is like “falling in love” with the details that make up your life, rather than be overwhelmed by them. Exact steps to practice it within minutes.  How mindfulness can help you deal successfully with physical pain and negative emotions. ...

Astrology & 2020 Predictions with Alan Oken Master Astrologer (#165)

Astrology is a system that looks at cycles of life using the language of planets. It’s about planetary energies that influence our personal personalities, temperament, challenges and strengths. The practice of astrology has been around in various forms for thousands of years. The New Age movement of the 1960s and ’70s launched the New Age as the “Age of Aquarius”—the 2,000-year period after the Earth is said to move into the Aquarius sign. People especially turn to spirituality and astro...

LOVE with Maya Diamond, MFT (#164)

Many of us want love. But most of us have never learned the skills to get love, keep love and make love sustainable. Relationships are more complex today than ever before. In this warm and easy-listening interview you will hear how to approach love effectively and sanely and get the tools you need to enjoy love for years to come. Maya Diamond is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) and holds a master’s degree in Somatic Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies...

Your Breast Friend, with Dr. Véronique Desaulniers (#163)

Dr. Berkson interviews Dr. Veronique Desaulniers who specializes in guiding women through breast cancer. Up to 30% of cancers are not found by mammogram, but by self-palpation (do it yourself breast exams). Dr. V—as she is respectfully known as—has a new product (Your Breast Friend) to help train women how to do effective and safe “self-breast exams”. In this show you learn: Current days statistics for breast cancer. For women with breast cancer, 89.7 percent survive for five years a...

Coconut Controversy: Issues of Coconut Oil and Leaky Gut (#162)

Health food tends to run in trends. At the moment coconut is king. But just as we live in a material world with two sides to everything, it appears there may be a “shadow side” to coconut oil—for some patients. You will learn Dr. Berkson’s conclusions from first hearing this at an A4M Anti-aging Gastroenterology module she was both a professor and student at, along with “sleuthing’ the science. In this show you will learn: What is intestinal permeability and why is “Goldilocks” just rig...

Journalist Judith Fein's latest book Communicating with the Dead (#161)

Judith Fein has traveled all over the world. She has written and spoken about her travels in blogs, books, Tedx Talks and keynotes. Now, Judy writes about traveling between life and death. In Judith’s newest book, How to Communicate With The Dead…and How It’s Done Around The World, you learn that death is not the end. Judith shares with us how to safely and satisfyingly communicate across what is perceived as a curtain between life and death.   In this show you learn: How Judith first...

Endocrine Disruptors with Elizabeth Guillett, PhD (#160)

This show is in honor of two amazing scientists that helped the world recognize the human threat of endocrine disrupting environmental chemicals. Dr. Elizabeth (Buzzy) A. Guillet PhD and Dr. Louis Joseph Guillet PhD—lovers, married for decades, visionaries, scientists—and amazing! Both have been Dr. Berkson’s heroes and colleagues for many years. Dr. “Buzzy” Guillett was the anthropologist who first took a look at what endocrine disruptors (environmental pollutants that mimic hormones) w...

Cholesterol Statins: Scientific Facts with Dr. David Brownstein (#159)

David Brownstein, M.D. is a Board-Certified family physician and one of the foremost practitioners and speakers of holistic medicine. Dr. Brownstein has practiced holistic medicine for 25 years, has 16 books out, many of them best-sellers. In this dynamic and personal dialogue between two colleagues and dear friends,  you will learn: What are the most accurate ways to assess cholesterol. What are ideal cholesterol levels. Why do cardiologists recommend statins when the statistical s...

Estrogen’s Vindication (#158)

Dr. Berkson speaks on the “re-analysis” of the Women’s Health Initiative—a 19-year follow-up— presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium on December 13, 2019. (* See abstract below for details). In this show, estrogen gets a “reframe”. You learn: How estrogen protects against breast cancer incidence How estrogen protects against all-cause mortality (death from all causes). How estrogen protects many tissues, especially our energy organelles: mitochondria. You learn ho...

Homeopathy and Functional Family Medicine with Dr. Stephen Weiss (#157)

Dr. Stephen Weiss is a regular family practice physician along with being fully trained as a classical homeopath. Dr. Weiss practices holistic/integrative medicine at Medicine 360 in Santa Fe NM.  Dr. Weiss has a special interest in spirituality- waking up and discovering the truth of who we are. This is a gentle, calm show that enlightens you to: •What is homeopathy? •How does it work? •How it is prescribed. •Case reports that will amaze. •How functional medicine merges with homeopat...

Re-Post: 15 Belly-Fat Busters (#156)

Go to https://drlindseyberkson.com/bigger-belly-fat-smaller-brain-size-shocking-link-mindfulness-15-sophisticated-action-steps/ for an in-depth article on this topic. When it’s fat or real estate, it’s all about location, location, location! Where your fat is located on your body, affects your overall health, your brain structure and function, and even your ability to be mindful… or not.   In this show you learn plenty of facts and fiction about fat cells.   Fat has more functio...

Berkson Reversing Kidney Disease & The Bigger Picture of Health (#155)

This is a show with a lot of pearls to help keep you well. In this solo show by Dr. Berkson you will learn: ·      How part of getting well is making sure your environment isn’t making you ill. ·      The bigger picture of health. ·      Not to sell your house when it might be your duvet cover: “Feather lung inflammation syndrome” caused by a feather duvet and reversed by ditching the duvet. ·      “The bigger the poop the smaller the hospital bill.” ·      Why your brain hormone...

Tick-Borne Diseases (such as Lyme) with Christine Green, MD (#154)

Dr. Christine Green has been treating tick-borne disease for many decades and lectures world-wide to physicians about testing and treating. This is a must hear show. You will never hear all this science-based and nuanced information on Tick-Borne diseases in one place. Dr. Green is an internationally renowned Tick-Borne “Medical Sleuth”! In this show you will learn: • What is Tick-Borne disease? • Where is it and why is it traveling? • How to avoid it? • Why all the mystery around ...

Hormone Balancing Guru, "Flipping-50" Expert Debra Atkinson (#153)

Eye Nutrition & Essential Oils with Holistic Neuro-Ophthalmologist Dr. Runi Banik (#152)

Your vision is priceless. You will learn—in this amazing and magical dialogue—how to preserve, restore and protect your vision, from one of the world’s top eye specialists. Dr. Rani is the founder of Envision Health NYC, a private practice based in New York City. She is an award-winning Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and also serves as principal investigator for 5 multi-centered clinical trials in neuro-ophthalmology. Dr. Banik is a member of...

Eye Nutrition & Essential Oils with Holistic Neuro-Ophthalmologist Dr. Rudrani Banik (#152)

Your vision is priceless. You will learn—in this amazing and magical dialogue—how to preserve, restore and protect your vision, from one of the world’s top eye specialists. Dr. Rani is the founder of Envision Health NYC, a private practice based in New York City. She is an award-winning Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine and also serves as principal investigator for 5 multi-centered clinical trials in neuro-ophthalmology. Dr. Banik is a member of...

Vitamin D: Is too much dangerous? with Dr. Alan Gaby (#151)

Dr. Gaby is known as the “Father of Medical Nutrition”. His life’s work is the huge reference book: Nutritional Medicine, now in its second edition. This is a “must-have” reference with over 16,000 scientific citations on nutritional therapies. This book was written for healthcare practitioners but has also been extremely well received by the average person who wants to know what nutritional options are available for over 400 health conditions (even when most doctors don’t know about them). ...

Reversing Autoimmune Disease with Palmer Kippola (#150)

Palmer Kippola is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach who specializes in helping people reverse and prevent autoimmune conditions. She developed a framework called F.I.G.H.T.S.™ to help others beat autoimmune conditions based on her 26-year battle to overcome MS (multiple sclerosis). She reversed her MS 10 years ago. She wrote her own story and that of 12 physicians who also beat their autoimmune diseases, inside her new best-selling book: “Beat Autoimmune: The 6 Keys to Reverse Y...

Gut & Nutrition UPDATES with Dr. Berkson (#149)

Dr. Berkson – an hour medley show updating you on widespread health information from your gut to your kidneys to allergies. In this show you will learn:  The link between the “Keto diet” and gut wall health. Spores, the new way to heal gut wall and overall gut health. What nutrient helps you break-through a weight loss “plateau”. Foods that increase the “satiety” hormone—leptin. Exactly much fish oil to avoid if you are on blood thinners. The mechanism by which artificial sweete...

Male Hormones – Everything You Ever Wanted To Know with Dr. Mike Carragher (#148)

This show has a lot of dynamic information for men! Dr. Carragher is Board Certified in Family Medicine with advanced certification in Age Management Medicine and specializes in men’s hormones. Dr. Mike has been practicing in the Los Angeles for the past 10 years. Dr. Mike's training is rooted in science. He received his training at New York University, Rutgers University, Yale University and Western University of Health Sciences. Thus, Dr. Mike’s hormone work is solidly based in science...

Injuries, Lymphedema & Tamoxifen (#147)

Injuries, Lymphedema & Tamoxifen with Dr. Berkson In this show you will learn: Sometimes it’s good to assist in your own healing and not treat yourself like a China teacup. Injury reframe! What’s lymphedema? Some possible causes and symptoms. The lymph system has “tight junctions” that can “leak”. The role of estrogen signaling and iodine in lymphatic flow, lymphatic tight junctions,  and lymphatic health. Possible tamoxifen complications in lymphedema. A flavonoid that may he...

Orgasmanaut Susan Bratton on Achieving Passionate Intimacy (#146)

Susan Bratton is an advocate and champion of all who desire passionate intimacy. She is a best-selling author of 34 books and multiple online programs that teach passionate lovemaking, bedroom communication skills and restorative sexual wellness techniques. In addition, Susan frequently trains PhD’s in intimacy and sexual behavior.   Just a few of the sizzling things you will learn in this interview:   The best lubes; ditch the AstroGlide. How there are over 10 types of orgasms and ...

Google's Gone Biased, Ditch the Mouthwash & More (#145)

In this show you will learn how Google is driving traffic “away” from functional medicine sites, like driving large amounts of cyber traffic away from the famous health advocate site named Mercola.com. Google especially drives traffic away from sites that are anti-vaccine, supportive of alternative cancer care, and discuss alternative medicine treatments. Thus, natural answers will be harder to find on Google. Try other sites such as Ecosia.org – the search engine that will plant a tree ...

Hormone Legal Update With Compounding Pharmacist Jim Hrncir R.Ph. (#144)

Jim Hrncir, owner of Las Colinas Pharmacy, Compounding & Wellness in Irving, Texas, has received plenty of accolades during his nearly 40-year pharmacy career. Jim was named PCCA Compounding Pharmacist of the Year in 2017. PCCA is the company that makes many of the bases and formulas that compounding pharmacists use. PCCA also trains compounding pharmacists and MDs in yearly functional medicine courses (that Dr. Berkson often lectures).   Jim is the ‘go-to guru’ teaching and giving advic...

Silver Health Benefits with Dr. Gordon Pedersen (#143)

Dr. Gordon Pedersen is one of the world’s experts on the health benefits of silver. Dr. Pedersen is board certified in Anti-Aging Medicine, has a Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine, Ph.D. degrees in Immunology and Medical Biology and performed his cardiology internship under Jonas Salk, the medical researcher who discovered the polio vaccine.    In this show you will learn the “ins” and “outs” of which silver is best for healing and how to apply silver for various conditions. For example...

End Dieting Hell! With Michelle Melendez (#142)

In this show you will learn how to stop your failing struggle with weight.   Michelle Melendez's new book, End Dieting Hell: How to find peace with your body and lose weight is not another diet book! With over ten-years of experience as a weight loss specialist, Michelle shares insights most trainers and even bariatric doctors (weight loss docs) don't know.  Michelle put together a fascinating theory and been working with hundreds of women in her famous and effective Women Being Fit pr...

Hormones Under Attack with Dr. Daved Rosensweet (#141)

THIS IS VERY TIME ORIENTED: PLEASE TAKE ACTION ALONG WITH US!  Hormones Are Under Attack, Dr. Berkson’s Interview with Dr. Daved Rosensweet.  Daved Rosensweet MD has been specializing in bioidentical hormone therapies for decades. Dr. Rosensweet has developed his own training program (www.menopausemethod.com), patented hormone bases, and now this.   Dr. Rosensweet just came back from Washington D.C, where he testified in front of the National  Academies of Sciences, Engineering and M...

Daikon Radish Escapades, Oxytocin and More (#140)

Dr. Berkson discusses coming back from lecturing in Canada, daikon radish escapades with customs, security, dating and oxytocin. In this show you learn about oxytocin’s global clinical applications, oxytocin receptor locations, delivery mode options, critical co-factors, and other specific nuances that play direct but often unappreciated role in how oxytocin helps your body function optimally. A big focus is on liquid oxytocin mixed with a muco-adherent liquid for application in esophage...

Oxytocin Retreat in Costa Rica with Drs. Jenna Clack and Matthew Barker (#139)

In this show you will learn about metabolic medicine, functional compounding pharmaceutical medicine, and an upcoming retreat on oxytocin with Dr. Berkson, Dr. Clack and Dr. Barker in Costa Rica in September 2019. As humans, we are called to find our own space, and then fill it up. In this retreat these conversations gets you started. The Costa Rica conference is called espaciosinnombre.com Without a name.  Meaning, find your own name, find your own purpose, find your own place and...

Generic Medications: The Awful Truth with Katherine Eban (#138)

Knowledge is power. Join Dr. Berkson's interview with KATHERINE EBAN, an investigative journalist, Fortune magazine contributor, Andrew Carnegie fellow, and New York Time’s best-selling author of Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom and expand your knowledge base. Ms. Eban is known and respected for lecturing on pharmaceutical counterfeiting and pharmaceutical integrity, or lack of it. And… now… generic medications. In this illuminating and must-hear show you will le...