Integrative Medicine

Freeze-drying fruits and vegetables retains 90% of its nutrients and is a great way to make a shelf-stable product. It is great for snacking or to use in recipes, making it a great option for people looking for nutritional value from fruits and veggies.
 
Transcript: "Do freeze dried, fruits, and veggies have the same nutritional value as fresh fruits and veggies. Well, they're not exactly the same as fresh as we like to say fresh is often best and the same thing with raw as long as it's something that you can tolerate. I know in the veggie Department, some people have to eat it cooked in order to digest, it safely but compared to other food preservation methods, freeze-drying fruits and vegetables retains 90% Of its nutrients. So it is a great way to make a shelf, stable product out of fruits and vegetables. It's also great to keep on hand for snacking or to reconstitute and add water and utilize in other recipes. So as far as snacking, as far as shelf stability and being able to add as ingredients to your food, I do believe that freeze-dried fruits and vegetables offer a tremendous option for people. That's It's an awesome question. Ryan, thank you so much for asking."

Seasonal Affect Disorder (SAD) is a form of depression that occurs mainly in the fall and winter when there is less daylight. Lightbox therapy, psychotherapy, and medication are effective treatments for SAD.
 
Transcript: "Seasonal affect disorder or sad is a form of depression that occurs primarily in the fall and winter months when there is less daylight. It also occurs more often in climates that get less Sun during the fall and winter. It is not just a few days of having the blues. It is persistent pervasive symptoms of depression. Luckily, there are several very effective treatments including lightbox therapy, which uses a broad-spectrum? Ultraviolet light to mimic. Daylight. And using that for about 30 minutes a day can be very effective Psychotherapy and medication can also be very effective."

Metformin has been studied as a potential antiaging drug, and research is looking at how it might contribute to longevity by lowering blood sugar and insulin resistance. This could reduce the risk of chronic diseases like obesity, hypertension, prediabetes, diabetes, Alzheimer's, lung, kidney, and liver disease.
 
Transcript: "How does metformin contribute to longevity? That's a great question. And it's being answered as we speak in ongoing research at the National Institute of Health, which is looking at metformin as a potential antiaging drug. So for those who don't know, metformin has always been considered a diabetes drug. It lowers blood sugar. And it's often prescribed to diabetics. I actually having read so many positive things about metformin's side effects in terms of good stuff happening that I actually asked my very open-minded doctor for a prescription for it. I didn't need it. I wanted it. And I've been on it for the past few years precisely because I think it does contribute to longevity. And here's my hypothesis about how. We know it lowers blood sugar. It also seems to lower one of the side effects of having too much high blood sugar, which is often insulin resistance. I believe insulin resistance is the metabolic plague of the 21st century. We know that it's intimately connected to every single chronic disease we know of. And I suspect that the action of metformin on insulin resistance is the mechanism by which it extends life because we know that insulin resistance bad stuff happens. It's connected to obesity, hypertension, prediabetes, diabetes, Alzheimer's, lung, kidney, liver disease. All of these things are connected to insulin resistance in a very significant way. So to the extent, I believe that metformin lowers your insulin resistance. I think that's one of the mechanisms by which we will eventually find that it has a positive effect on lifespan. At least that's what I'm hoping. And that's why I take it."

Eating sugar is not a healthy choice, regardless of activity level. It can lead to metabolic damage that increases the risk for chronic diseases.
 
Transcript: "How unhealthy is it to eat much sugar? While being active look, sugar is not a healthy substance to ingest. It has nothing to do with what they were active or not. I think what you're asking is based on the notion that oh, I'll burn it off. You know that I'm taking in these empty calories but it doesn't matter because I'm going to be so active. All burn it off, it really has nothing to do with burning it off. It has to do with the metabolic effects of sugar which is to raise blood sugar, raise insulin in many Cases lead to insulin resistance, which is a metabolic plague that underlines just about every major chronic disease. So it's the metabolic damage that you do to your body with sugar. Not the ability to burn it off by being very active. That isn't the criteria by which we judge, whether or not sugar is dangerous."

In order to stop a food addiction, you need to get to the underlying issues which is usually emotional. Brain spotting and EFT (tapping) can be used to go deep into the unconscious brain and help process the emotions that are driving the addictive behavior. Studies have shown that EFT is effective in reducing cravings and the emotions that drive those behaviors.
 
Transcript: "In order to stop a food addiction, you need to get to the underlying issues, which is usually emotional. Most plans that you'll see out there are more Behavioral or maybe cognitive meaning the thoughts and they don't go deep enough. They don't get to the roots of why the addictive behavior is happening under any addictive behavior is usually some kind of distressing emotion that the person is trying to escape or trying to seek comfort from in the substance or the activity. So, you need a That's going to go deep and I would recommend two things. One is brain spotting which has particular protocols, we use for addiction and also can be used on the urges to eat certain foods and we'll go very deep into the unconscious brain and help you process. Whatever that is that's driving that behavior. The other one is EFT or tapping where you tap on certain acupressure points in the body. Dr. Pita Stapleton. Out of Bond University. Australia has done several. Studies showing that EFT is very effective and reducing cravings for certain food. And in reducing the emotions that drive those behaviors,"

Before beginning the Bounce Back from Burnout program, participants will take assessments to determine their levels of burnout and positive emotions. This information can then be used to create activities that help them overcome burnout.
 
Transcript: "Before we jump into the signature program Bounce Back from Burnout, I invite all the participants to work through a series of assessments so that we can determine where that individual stands within the Maslock Inventory for Burnout and also within the PERMA questionnaire. The PERMA questionnaire was designed by Dr. Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology and UPenn, and this questionnaire looks at the five different components of PERMA. They want to know where an individual stands in their positive relationships or positive emotions. And then E stands for engagement, R stands for relationships, M is meaning, and A is accomplishments. So once we look at the individual's assessment in this questionnaire, we are able to determine specific activities which might enhance a person's ability to be able to thrive and to overcome burnout."
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