Dr. Berkson's Best Health Radio Podcast

Why thyroid disease is undiagnosed, why you might go to your doctor yet not get the right care, why the epidemic of thyroid disease, the pros and cons of taking iodine replacement, the correct dosages, the organs involved, the link of iodine deficiency with both types of diabetes and cancers, hormone fear and misunderstanding, why you should know about this information for issues from heart disease to diabetes to cancer. With family practice physician, author and integrative doctor Dr. David Brownstein drbrownstein.com

Ozone. What is it? What conditions does it treat? Why doesn't your doctor tell you about it? How to do it, the pros and cons, the supplement conundrum (how you might be taking too many supplements), oxidation versus anti-oxidation (what you must know to protect yourself) and more with Dr. David Brownstein and his new book on a natural therapy you should know about - ozone. drbrownstein.com

Research from the University of Sydney and the University of Wisconsin at Madison excitingly show exactly which foods ruin your microbiome and which ones fluff it up. Your microbiome is part of your epigenome. But it can work for good or bad, all depending on what you eat, and how you live. The power of food is enormous. You make about 200 fork-in-the-road food decisions each day, all that impact your microbiome and thus your genes, too. Learn how to care take your microbiome with food, brilliantly.

Most people gain weight over the holidays. This podcast reviews a study in the NEJMedicine that demonstrates this is a global issue. But there are steps to take to not fall into this fatty trap. This podcast is filled with practical steps as well as some raucous humor. Plus you can download for free 5 foodgasm recipes and a bonus: Dr. Berkson's Chocolate Pudding - low-carb, high in taste, and everything that helps you stay healthy while feeling like you are sinning. Visit Drlindseyberkson.com for recipes useful health tips, and more.

What is autoimmune disease? How and why to test for it? What many doctors don't know about it and how that might be leaving you in a place where you are not healing. How to have hope and really get well at last. The old paradigm of a drug for an issue, a nutrient for an issue or a detox for an issue is gone. There is a long list you must check off to really get well in this very toxic world where in the last 46 years we have lost over 57% of our wildlife. It is much harder to be healthy today no matter what you do.  Learn how to turn that around in this talk with this cutting-edge doctor, Dr. Tom O'Bryan. Dr. O brought gluten awareness to the world, and now does the same with his new book (The Autoiimmune Fix) and a rivetting docu-series 'Betrayal: The Autoimmune Disease Solution They're Not Telling You'. Order to own for only $47 which includes ALL interviews 85 of the Worlds Experts at https://betrayalseries.com/besthealthradio

How parasties might be ruining your health, the difference between the test your regular doc might order and an in-depth comprehensive stool analysis, how you can order this test on your own. Learn how you can protect yourself and your family, especially if you have pets. Regular stool comprehensive analysis should become like physicals to keep you extremely well. Gut issues can cause fatigue, brain fog, gut disorders, and more.

The health of mom and dad (and their eggs and sperm) before conception affect their baby’s health far into adulthood. What a pregnant mom eats influences her child’s adult health and her grandchildren. Learn some simple dos and don’ts to keep your family healthy for generations to come. Share with anyone looking to create a young family or presently with one.

Dr. Ann Gittleman on how our toxic enviroment is making it hard to loose weight, and exact steps to combat it. Plus, introducing omega 7 fatty acid.

Appetite control has a number of unappreciated factors. Learn how to eat less more easily. Learn which digestive enzymes, hormones and foods help you accomplish your healthy eating goals. It is more difficult in 2016 to keep a healthy weight than it was in the 1980’s. But armed with this smart information you can be a healthy, and leaner, winner.

New information has come to light about how the sugar and peer-review medical industries have given the American public wrong information for decades. This translated into the low-fat, high carb nightmare. Based on this wrong information, millions of Americans went on to develop diabetes, cancer and obesity, and all while trying to eat healthier. We all, docs included, must become realistic medical cynics.

Fermented foods give very specific benefits that many people don’t know about. They reduce food to a state that is very cancer protective. They can even reduce a food, for some allergic people, to a form that no longer causes an allergic reaction. Learn benefits of fermented foods, and easy--tasty ways to make them part of your daily delicious diet.

Brains file factoids into cranial files. Younger brains get info in and out faster, but older brains can adapt by being better at “attention” and “intention”. Learn exact steps to keep these adaptation systems flowing so your brain keeps up with you.

We all feel better when we look better, but how do we achieve gorgeous skin? Time outside is precious, but can be damaging to skin health and appearance. Learn about the two isomers (types) of metabolite equol that protect your skin along with an inexpensive nutritional secret that acts like a healthy daily microbrasion.

Our toxic soup is attacking our gut bugs, and thus our overall health. Intestinal gut bugs (microbial flora) are in constant communication with our immune system, hormones and brain. If we are toxic, flush with endocrine disrupting pollutants, many of our systems can go south. Take action.

To flax, or not to flax? Especially if you have had a hormonally driven cancer. Learn the science-based facts that even a lot of oncologists don’t know. Flax and other seeds are protective against incidence of first time cancers (primary cancers) and recurrence (secondary cancers). Learn how seeds protect men and women both and in what exact amounts.

Enjoy a highly inspirational audio blog on the power of your choices. You learn that moment-by-moment, your foods, thoughts, actions and decisions, have the ability and power to morph your genes to act better… or worse.  Genes are not set in stone. They are highly influenced by your daily actions through the power of epigenetics. Even women with serious breast cancer genes can take strategic and positive actions that morph their fate toward better protection. This is a blog you will want to listen to over and over again on down days to boost your “hope” and on up days to reinforce it.

Learn the exact processes of how your amazing gut immune system, microbiome and digestive enzymes try to fight off any lurking pathogens that may be hiding in foods such as those in a typical salad bar. You will gain a deeper understanding of how and why 80% of your immune system lives inside your gut. You’ll never look at food the same way again.

As we age, we need resilience to meet what shows up in our lives, and this podcast gives you exact steps for developing physiologic grit and resilience to be the best that you can be.

Contemporary children are being prescribed excessive drugs, which often cause side effects that then result in even more prescriptions. Our children are caught in a dangerous pharmaceutical loop. Learn the shadow sides of common drugs and exact steps to protect your children. For example, did you know that anti-histamines for allergies rinse magnesium out of the body and can shrink brain volume in your child’s developing brain? Be smart, and learn from Berkson.

One of the number one complaints of many people today is that they can’t shed unwanted FAT. This podcast gives you an understanding of how to “break out of your fat cell,” and exact steps to win this common battle.