Food Junkies Podcast
194 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 132 ratingsWelcome to the "Food Junkies" podcast! Here we aim to provide you with the experience, strength and hope of professionals actively working on the front lines in the field of Food Addiciton. The purpose of our show is to educate YOU the listener and increase overall awareness about Food Addiction as a DISEASE with Abstinence as the Solution. Here we talk about all things recovery. Most importantly how to THRIVE rather than just survive. So Stay positive, make a change for yourself, tell others about your change, and hopefully the message will spread.
The content on our show does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder or mental health concern.
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Episode 135: Dr. Sarah Zaldivar
July 27, 2023 11:49 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBDr. Sarah Zaldivar holds a Ph.D. in Exercise Physiology from the University of Miami in addition to both a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in nutrition and Dietetics. She is a Licensed Dietitian in addition to being a certified Exercise Physiologist with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). Dr. Zaldivar is currently an adjunct faculty in nutrition and exercise physiology at Miami Dade College, DeVry University, and ACSM. She previously taught nutrition and exercise physiology for...
Episode 134: Marc David
July 18, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBMarc David, M.A., is the Founder and Primary Teacher of the Institute for the Psychology of Eating. He is the leading visionary behind the fascinating field of Eating Psychology, and the author of the bestselling books, Nourishing Wisdom and The Slow Down Diet, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Marc holds a range of qualifications, including an M.A. of Psychology and a B.S. of Biology, and has participated in several Clinical Mind-Body Medicine Programs, all of w...
Episode 133: Dr. Linda Mercadante
July 14, 2023 02:00 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MBDr. Linda Mercadante is a Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita, Methodist Theological School in Ohio. She is the founder of HealthyBeliefs – HealthySpirit, a member of the Scioto Valley Presbytery, and an active participant in many professional groups including The American Academy of Religion and The Workgroup on Constructive Theology. She is a prolific author of five books and more than 100 articles. She lectures internationally, conducts seminars for a wide variety of audiences, an...
Episode 132: Ally Houston
July 05, 2023 14:55 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBAlly Houston is a former physicist who fixed his brain with food. After suffering from ADHD, seasonal depression, chronic anxiety, and a host of other metabolic problems, a paleo ketogenic diet and lifestyle change resulted in a quantum leap in his health. The effect was so profound that he switched career. He is now a metabolic mental health coach trained by PreKure and Dr. Georgia Ede. Molly Painschab and Clarissa Kennedy (and I) asked Ally Houston about how changing his diet changed his...
Episode 131: Dr. Louise Graves
June 29, 2023 23:50 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBDr. Louise Graves began her work life in the field of Therapeutic Recreation working in such settings as the Prison for Women in Kingston and group homes for various populations. She has a Ph.D. is in Psychology and Theology with an emphasis on Pastoral Psychotherapy from the Claremont School of Theology, California. She did her clinical internship at the Clinebell Institute and at the Walnut Valley Counseling Center and she worked at the San Gabriel Valley Association of Lesbians and Gays C...
Episode 130: Marc Lewis
June 21, 2023 11:18 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBMarc Lewis, PhD, is a neuroscientist and professor of developmental psychology. He has authored or co-authored more than fifty journal articles in neuroscience and developmental psychology. Presently, he speaks and blogs on topics in addiction science, and his critically acclaimed book, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain, is the first to blend memoir and science in addiction studies. His newly released book, The Biology of Desire, debunks the currently popular disease model of addiction. In this...
Episode 129: Brenda Wollenberg (Part 2)
June 15, 2023 11:34 - 1 hour - 66 MBBrenda Wollenberg is an author and educator. She combines her education and experience as a nutritionist, social worker, and co-pastor in her work as a body /mind /spirit wellness coach. Over the past five years, she has expanded her training and scope of practice to help her clients understand how genetics influences overall wellness. She has worked for decades using metabolic typing to inform food plans, exercise routines, and stress management tools. With the added epigenetic compone...
Episode 128: Brenda Wollenberg - Part One
June 08, 2023 15:37 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBBrenda Wollenberg is an author and educator, and combines her education and experience as a nutritionist, social worker and co-pastor in her work as a body /mind /spirit wellness coach. The past five years she has expanded her training and scope of practice to help her clients understand how genetics influences overall wellness. She has worked for decades using metabolic typing to inform food plans, exercise routines and stress management tools. With the added epigenetic component, howe...
Episode 127: Melanie Martin, FdSc, DipION, mBANT, CNHC, IPE
June 01, 2023 11:02 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBMelanie Martin is a registered Nutritional Therapist, having studied at The Institute for Optimum Nutrition in Richmond London. The principle around which she was trained is that of Functional Medicine. Mel looks for the underlying causes of health issues rather than treating symptoms. Those underlying issues could be lifestyle, genetics, diet, existing drug treatments, or a whole host of things. Since she qualified and started practicing more than 10 years ago, Mel has become increas...
Episode 126: Rachel Lewis- Marlow
May 24, 2023 11:42 - 1 hour - 55.1 MBRachel Lewis-Marlow is the director and co-founder of the Embodied Recovery Institute which provides Embodied Recovery for Eating Disorders (ERED) training for eating disorders providers. ERED is a trauma-informed, relationally oriented and somatically integrative approach to eating disorders treatment. Rachel has extensive experience as a teacher and presenter, focusing on accessing the body’s unique capacity to give voice to the subconscious and to lay the foundation for healing an...
Episode 125: Viktoria Hamma, RMT, CPT
May 17, 2023 13:29 - 1 hour - 55 MBViktoria Hamma is a Chronic Pain and Wellness Coach with education in Hypnotherapy, Massage Therapy and personal training. She has her own practice both in person at True North MVMNT in Muskoka ON and virtually. She works educating clients and people alike at a Private Addiction Treatment Centre in Ontario, various Indigenous reserves in Canada and does contract work with many other organizations including businesses and private schools. She helps to educate clients on the biopsychosocial ...
Episode 124: Michelle Shapiro, RD
May 12, 2023 01:04 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBMichelle is an integrative/ functional Registered Dietitian from NYC who has helped over 1000+ clients reverse their anxiety, resolve long standing gut issues and approach their weight lovingly. She is the host of the Quiet the Diet Podcast and aims to illuminate natural healing methods for listeners, as well as invite listeners to approach their weight in a body neutral way. She clears up nutritional dogma and takes a strong role in the middle ground (where she believes people can want t...
Episode 123: Dr. Gary Fettke
May 03, 2023 14:46 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBDr. Gary Fettke is an Orthopedic Surgeon practicing in Tasmania, Australia. He has a major interest in preventative medicine and encourages his patients to lose weight before undergoing surgery. Although his specialty is surgery, Gary believes it is much better to help people avoid surgery if at all possible, by taking preventative measures, which often involve altering the diet. In recent years Gary has focused on the role of diet in the development of diabetes, obesity, and can...
Episode 122: Lauren Anton MS, RD, CEDS-S, CPT
April 26, 2023 11:48 - 1 hour - 55 MBLauren Anton is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, iaedp-approved Supervisor, and Certified Personal Trainer helping people to break free from diet culture using a weight-inclusive, non-diet approach. She has hands-on experience working with eating disorders from residential through outpatient levels of care and currently works with clients out of her Los Angeles-based private practice. She also supervises fellow dietitians. She is currently in-process for the Body Trust® Certification ...
Episode 121: Dr. James Muecke
April 19, 2023 14:16 - 1 hour - 55.3 MBDr. James Muecke is an ophthalmic surgeon and ophthalmologist. James has also been recognized for his work globally, particularly in Southeast Asia, and has been awarded the Australian of the Year for 2020. Dr. James Muecke AM graduated with Honours from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1987. Following his internship, James lived and worked as a doctor in Africa and subsequently as an eye surgeon in the Middle East, battling malaria, wild animals, and rebel soldiers. He founded...
Episode 120: Calley Means
April 12, 2023 09:19 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBCalley Means Intro Hey everyone Clarissa Kennedy here. On todays episode of the Food Junkies Podcast we are bringing you the incredible Calley Means. We asked him here to discuss his viral Tweet stating that he “saw inside the room” of Coca-Cola’s tactics to ensure sugar-sweetened beverage taxes failed and that soda was permitted in government-funded nutrition programs. Calley is a whistleblower who is exposing the Dirty Tactics that Coca-Cola Used to Rig the System and Keep Vulnerable Pop...
Episode 119: Sandra Elia #2
April 05, 2023 12:49 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBHappy Friday Food Junkies listeners! Molly here. Today, Clarissa and I invited Sandra Elia BACK to speak about her new book!!! If you've tried every diet on the market to no avail, if eating and weight are affecting your physical health, your career, your relationships, your mental health, and your self-worth, then Sandra’s book: Never Enough is for you. Equal parts self-help and memoir, this book contains everything you need to develop healthy relationships with food, others, and, mo...
Episode 118: Dr. Tro Kalayjian
March 29, 2023 14:30 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBDr. Tro is a board-certified Internal Medicine & Obesity Medicine Physician. Dr. Tro received his medical degree from Touro Medical College and completed his Internal Medicine Residency in the Yale New Haven Health System at Greenwich Hospital, serving as Chief Medical Resident during his time there. Dr. Tro has also published research on the topics of Achalasia, Binge Eating Disorder, Food Addiction, and Severe Hypertriglyceridemia. He has worked on several clinical research projec...
Episode 117: Charlie Bishop, LMFT
March 23, 2023 16:54 - 52 minutes - 47.7 MBCharlece "Charlie" Bishop, CEO, Founder, & Lead Therapist at CR Counseling, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with a passion to help create change in you. She has worked with clients transitioning into corporate America, relational or marital issues, anxiety, depression, and issues with self-esteem. Charlie has a passion for eating disorders and aims to bring awareness to the Black community. Charlie provides a safe space for you to be vulnerable while learning skills to c...
Episode 116: Odette Cressler
March 15, 2023 20:47 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBHappy Friday Food Junkies Listeners! We have a treat for you today: A personal recovery story! Clarissa and I interviewed Odette Cressler. We loved meeting Odette and hearing about her recovery story. Her message of letting go of perfectionism in her recovery is so powerful! We are not all in the same boat- but we are in the same storm and we could relate to her experiences. Odette is a daughter, a mother, a sister, a wife, a person in recovery and so much more!! In this interview: Ode...
Episode 115: Dr. Claire Wilcox, MD (Part 2)
March 08, 2023 11:40 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBHappy Friday Food Junkies Listeners! Today I and Clarissa dive deeper into food addiction treatment with Dr. Claire Wilcox and the three of us get passionate about the topic. Dr. Wilcox, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist and addiction psychiatrist, an associate professor of translational neuroscience at the Mind Research Network and adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico. She has worked in various clinical settings, including a medical weight loss clinic and an eating disor...
Episode 114: Dr. Claire Wilcox, MD (Part 1)
March 01, 2023 14:39 - 53 minutes - 48.5 MBDr. Wilcox, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist and addiction psychiatrist, an associate professor of translational neuroscience at the Mind Research Network and adjunct faculty at the University of New Mexico. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings, including a medical weight loss clinic and an eating disorder treatment facility, and she completed an internal medicine residency before her psychiatry residency. She has been awarded NIH grants and published numerous academic wo...
Episode 113: Emily August
February 24, 2023 00:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBEmily August is an Associate Professor of Literature at Stockton University. She holds a PhD in English from Vanderbilt University, and an MFA in creative writing from University of Minnesota. As a longtime body liberation proponent, she focuses on the human body in her research and writing. Her scholarly work examines representations of the body in 19th-century literature, art, and scientific discourse. She seeks to understand how a very narrow, specific version of the body became the autho...
Episode 112: Vanessa Kredler
February 17, 2023 00:26 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBVanessa is a counsellor and psychotherapist registered with the Australian Counselling Association. She has lived experience and takes a compassionate and curious approach to working with clients with a focus on addiction, complex trauma and the intergenerational nature of trauma. Vanessa’s special area is food addiction, because that was the first addiction that forced her into recovery. Her approach is trauma-informed, person-centred and informed by Internal Family Systems. Vanessa has a...
Episode 111: Dr. Joy Jacobs
February 07, 2023 16:57 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBDr. Joy Jacobs is a clinical psychologist, assistant clinical professor at UCSD School of Medicine, and published author who provides individual, family, and group therapy for adults, adolescents, and children with eating disorders (including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder), food addiction and weight management concerns. She has trained in multiple treatment modalities, including family-based therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy,...
Episode 110: Dr. Mary-Frances O'Connor
February 03, 2023 00:20 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBMary-Frances O’Connor, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona where she conducts studies to better understand the grief process both psychologically and physiologically. She is a leader in the field of prolonged grief, a clinical condition in which people do not adjust to the acute feelings of grief and show increases in yearning, avoidance, and rumination. Her work primarily focuses on trying to tease out the mechanisms that cause this ongoing and severe ...
Episode 109: Julia Ross - Part 2
January 26, 2023 20:56 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBJulia Ross is the author of The Diet Cure, The Mood Cure, and The Craving Cure; she has been the subject of many articles in publication from Vogue Magazine to The Journal of Molecular Psychiatry. Her own articles have been published in Counselor Magazine, the Journal of the American Psychological Association, the Townsend Letter, Practical Pain Management and elsewhere. She has frequently appeared as an expert on radio, television, and the internet: An NBC special on The Mood Cure’s approac...
Episode 108: Julia Ross - Part 1
January 20, 2023 01:22 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBJulia Ross is the author of The Diet Cure, The Mood Cure, and The Craving Cure; she has been the subject of many articles in publication from Vogue Magazine to The Journal of Molecular Psychiatry. Her own articles have been published in Counselor Magazine, the Journal of the American Psychological Association, the Townsend Letter, Practical Pain Management and elsewhere. She has frequently appeared as an expert on radio, television, and the internet: An NBC special on The Mood Cure’s approac...
Episode 107: Netta Gorman
January 12, 2023 11:29 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBNetta Gorman has a passion to inspire you to live a healthier sugar-free life with joy and confidence! Netta is the host of Life After Sugar and the creator of the Life After Sugar Program. Netta struggled with sugar cravings, headaches, bloating, and low energy. She used to feel exhausted all the time. Her energy crashes made her reach out for sweet snacks just to get through the day. She never wanted to cut out sugar. She loved desserts, chocolate, and her comfort foods. But Netta was su...
Episode 106: Brian Baumal
January 05, 2023 16:07 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBBrian Baumal is a Registered Psychotherapist in Canada who helps people who Eat emotionally, binge eat, and/or have a food addiction; Just want a normal relationship with food and their bodies; Don't want one slip-up to lead to an entire binge, purge or downfall; Constantly or obsessively think about their weight and/or food; have gained/lost hundreds of pounds in their lifetime; Are any weight on the scale, whether in a thinner or heavier body; Engage or think about any sort of binging, re...
Episode 105: Esther Kane, MSW, RSW, RCC
December 29, 2022 13:07 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBEsther Kane, MSW, RSW, RCC, has been an Eating Disorders Psychotherapist for 25+ years. She lives in Victoria BC but works all over Canada. She is the author of "It’s Not About the Food: A Woman’s Guide to Making Peace with Food and Our Bodies". She is also the host of the Compassionate Conversations Podcast & YouTube Channel, where she has recently done a series on food and body image. She can be found at: https://www.estherkane.com Todays Topics: Her personal journey to recovery ...
Episode 104: Dr. Jennifer Reid, MD
December 22, 2022 14:23 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBDr. Jennifer Reid, MD is a Philadelphia psychiatrist, award-winning educator, writer, and podcast host. She trained at Columbia University and UCLA and is on the clinical faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. She is married to a physician and a proud mom to 2 boys. She grew up in rural North Dakota in a family of physicians and studied zoology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. You all have something unique to say, and the world will be better for hearing it. After leaving acade...
Episode 103: Dr. Rachel Brown
December 14, 2022 19:07 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBDr. Rachel Brown is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the UK who specializes in metabolic health. She graduated from Edinburgh University in 2003 and has worked in the field of psychiatry since 2004. She is a Nutrition Network Advisor and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. She also holds a master’s degree in medical laws and Ethics and is involved in ongoing research into ketogenic diets and mental disorders. Dr. Brown is an advocate for therapeutic carbohydrate restriction and dietary m...
Episode 102: Paul Churchill
December 08, 2022 16:10 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBPaul Churchill was a normal drinker in high school and most of college. He loved to drink. He played several sports in high school and football at Chapman University where he majored in Business and Spanish. His love for alcohol led him to Granada, Spain where he bought a bar in January 2006. He walked away from the bar after 34 months since he was drowning himself with alcohol. He attempted the geographical cure, moved back home to Colorado for a year, and then went to graduate school in Se...
Episode 101: Food Addiction Research Clinical Study (FARCS)
December 01, 2022 11:05 - 58 minutes - 53.3 MBHey there Food Junkies Listeners! Molly here! Clarissa and I are super excited for this episode of the podcast. But before I tell you about that – I have an announcement for those of you who have been waiting for group coaching to return! Clarissa and I are excited to invite you to a pre-launch of Sweet Sobriety with monthly group coaching. You will have the opportunity to join us 5 times a week each month for $25 per month. To learn more or join us – go to www.sweetsobriety.ca NOW for Tod...
Episode 100: Dr. Ellen Vora, MD
November 24, 2022 15:29 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBEPISODE 100!! Ellen Vora, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher, and she is the author of the bestselling book The Anatomy of Anxiety. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health—considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root. Dr. Vora received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.D. from Columbia University. In her book Anatomy of Anxiety, she has a whole chapter on Food for Thought in which she shares her own personal st...
Episode 99: Dr. James M. Greenblatt
November 18, 2022 13:19 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBA pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, James M. Greenblatt, MD, has treated patients since 1988. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr. Greenblatt completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA, and serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University Schoo...
Episode 98: Dr. Daniel Lieberman
November 11, 2022 01:49 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MBDaniel Z. Lieberman, MD is a professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Dr. Lieberman received his medical degree and completed his psychiatric training at New York University. He is an award-winning educator and researcher and has provided insights on mental health topics for the US Department of Health and Human Services, the US Department of Commerce, and the Office of Drug and Alcohol Policy. Dr. Lieberman shares his expertise on th...
Episode 97: Dr. Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg
November 02, 2022 11:55 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBKerstin Uvnäs Moberg got her MD and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She has been employed as a full professor of Physiology at the University of Agriculture in Uppsala, Sweden. She has worked with research on the physiology of labor and breastfeeding for more than 30 years. The focus of the research has been on the role of oxytocin and sensory stimulation, in particular, stimulation of cutaneous sensory nerves during labor, skin-to-skin contact after...
Episode 96: Dr. Bunmi Aboaba
October 26, 2022 14:01 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MBDr. Bunmi Aboaba is a Food Addiction Coach who helps clients achieve a healthy relationship with food to meet long-term health goals. Dr. Bunmi’s work covers the full spectrum of disordered eating, including overeating, compulsive eating, emotional eating, and other associated patterns. She runs seven-day self-care retreats for clients suffering from food addiction and is the author of ‘Craving Freedom’, a book for those wanting to build a healthy relationship with food. In this episode: ...
Episode 95: Esther Helga Guðmundsdóttir
October 20, 2022 17:11 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBToday, in this reprisal episode, Vera interviews a mentor and colleague – Esther Helga Gudmundsdottir. Esther is a pioneer in the field of food addiction treatment. She opened one of the first food addiction treatment programs in the world, MFM. The MFM program in Iceland has treated approximately 3000 Icelanders. Esther’s program gives them hope and the tools to achieve long-term recovery and is based on the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous. Esther also founded INFACT, an internatio...
Episode 94: Dr. Cali Estes
October 12, 2022 15:42 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBToday, Vera and Molly interview Dr. Cali Estes, an interactive, solution-focused Positive Psychologist, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapist. She is a best-Selling Author and a highly sought-after Celebrity Coach, Counselor, Life Coach, Transformational Coach, and Wellness Guru that blends talk therapy with forward and positive change to assist her clients in unlocking their true potential. She offers a unique service of combining holistic modalities with talk therapy that gets to the Root Cau...
Episode 93: Anne Poirier
October 07, 2022 02:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBToday we have guest Anne Poirier who talks to Molly and I about how to become body joyful. Anne overcame her own eating, food, weight, and body image challenges. And, drawing upon close to 4 decades of experience, she wrote the book The Body Joyful to share her highly personal and life-changing journey. Furthermore, Anne is a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Body Confidence Coach, and Eating Disorder Specialist. Anne is the leader of the Body Joyful Revolution, a non-diet, weight in...
Episode 92: Dr. Bret Sher
September 28, 2022 15:34 - 55 minutes - 50.3 MBANNOUNCEMENT: Enrollment for Dr. Vera Tarman’s Sugar & Food Addiction Course with Adapt Your Life Academy is open and WE have a special discount code just for YOU. Thank you for listening each and every week…..This code will entitle you to 10% off the course which is incredibly thorough and is great for both professionals interested in working in the field and individuals just starting out on their own sugar-free journey to learn the ins and outs of food addiction. There will also be a 3-wee...
Episode 91: Dr. Ben Bikman
September 21, 2022 17:07 - 1 hour - 55.8 MBDr. Bikman’s research focus is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms that mediate the disruption that causes and accompanies metabolic disorders, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. Driven by his academic training (Ph.D. in Bioenergetics and postdoctoral fellowship with the Duke-National University of Singapore in metabolic disorders), he is currently exploring the contrasting roles of insulin and ketones as key drivers of metabolic function. He frequently publishes his research ...
Episode 90: Dr. Vera Tarman
September 13, 2022 12:43 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBI’m Clarissa Kennedy and today we are bringing you a one-of-a-kind episode. Molly & I are interviewing the expert Dr. Vera Tarman and asking her some of the tough questions we see every day in our clinical interactions with clients to see if she has some insight or best practices to help us help our clients. Today we dig deep on Volume, Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome, Food Addiction Recovery Maintenance - what does that look like? Ultra-Processed Food Addiction – what are her thoughts on gra...
Episode 89: Dr. Shabnam Das Kar, MD, FMNM
September 06, 2022 16:02 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBDr. Shabnam Das Kar MD, FMNM is a doctor, a specialist in Functional and Metabolic Medicine, and an international speaker. Before transitioning into Functional Medicine she was practicing as an Obstetrician Gynaecologist for more than 20 years in Mumbai. She lives in Calgary, Canada, and Mumbai, India. TRAINING AND CREDENTIALS MBBS and MD (OB-GYN) from India Fellow, American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), USA. Advanced Endocrinology Certification from Metabolic Medical Institu...
Episode 88: Dr. David Wiss, Ph.D.
August 31, 2022 20:01 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MBDr. David Wiss, Ph.D., RDN is the founder of Nutrition in Recovery and Wise Mind Nutrition, a group practice in Los Angeles specializing in substance use disorders, eating disorders, body image, mental health, and general wellness. Mr. Wiss has contributed numerous articles to peer-reviewed journals and book chapters on his various topics of expertise, including nutrition for substance use disorder, food addiction, and eating disorders. He has spoken at dozens of academic conferences on thes...
Episode 87: Dr. Sandy Van, M.D.
August 24, 2022 16:44 - 53 minutes - 49 MBDr. Sandy Van is a licensed medical doctor in Family Medicine and diplomat of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. She is the founder and medical director of Haven Weight Management, a virtual medical clinic focused on obesity care. Additionally, she co-founded 3 Sails, a social learning program for mental resiliency in weight management, and is a staff physician at MEDCAN, an Executive Health Clinic. She dedicates her practice to helping individuals achieve sustainable weight loss with t...
Episode 86: Dr. Loretta Breuning
August 16, 2022 21:26 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBLoretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D. is the author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, and Endorphin Levels. She founded the Inner Mammal Institute to help people build new neural pathways to turn on their happy chemicals in new ways. (www.InnerMammalInstitute.org) As a Professor of Management at California State University, and a mom, Loretta was not convinced by prevailing theories of human motivation. While researching alternatives, s...