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Dr. Sahar Swidan, PHARM.D., ABAAHP, FAARFM, FACA is one of the world’s leading experts on pain, it’s link to the gut, and medical answers that address “root cause”.   Dr Swidan is CEO of Pharmacy Solutions in Ann Arbor, MI, Adjunct Associate Professor of Clinical Research and Leadership at George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy at Wayne State University.   Dr. Swidan received her “Doctor of Pharmacy” and completed a 3-year research Fellowship in “Bio-Pharmaceutics and Gastroenterology” at the University of Michigan.   Dr. Swidan  co-authored “Metabolic Therapies in Orthopedics, Second Edition”.   Dr. Swidan is currently Co-Editing and Authoring a book with many thought leaders from around the globe in advanced therapeutics in pain managements, launching in December 2020.   In this show with you will learn: Various” root causes” of pain. Causes and treatments of migraines. What is centralized sensitization syndrome? How to diag

In this show: The winning 7-minute motivational speech that contributed to Mike being named best speaker of the year in 2020 How to build a fire in your belly about being fully alive The 80/20 rule that helps Mike raise his 8 kids and be a success in his 31-yr. marriage And the joy to hear a handsome man write… “I’m good with anything”. And, more. Links Semi-final winning speech - ‘A Girl Who Was Blue”  Final winning speech: The Librarian and Mrs. Montgomery    

Dr. Berkson offers a wide-ranging discussion on steroids, aging, belly fat and immune function, and nutrition and pregnancy. Plus, Dr. Berkson offers perspective about how science is an evolving discipline, which makes it difficult to understand phenomena—like COVID-19—in black and white.  In this show you will hear about: We need to be guided by science, but science doesn't have black-and-white answers. A call for common sense and reason. A need to not be nonchalant about steroids. Steroids and bones Steroids and clots Steroids and your immune system Steroids and glaucoma Comparing Mask Material by the Univ. of Arizona Food, probiotics and depression Aging plasticity, chronic low-grade inflammation, belly fat and eosinophils. Sugar consumption when pregnant: what starts in the womb…. That gut overlapping your belt. Your belly fat, not under your skin but deeper inside your abdomen, adversely effects immune function. And drives you to age faster than you would have if you had less belly fat.  This is a grea

In this show you will learn: Why are we so complicated? Even Jesus would get frustrated. Peace, why it’s so hard to get over ourselves. Laughing, smiling and your brain. Happiness is not dependent on being partnered. Ionophores and what you should know Zinc a an ionophore and its role with hydroxychloroquine Air is the new food: pollution and brain health Gut microbes and viral infections Body weight has alarming impact on brain function Censorship in today’s pandemic medical space and Dr. Brownstein And more. This show combines science and entertainment with probing questions and perspectives. You won’t want to miss this!

Progesterone is needed in order for a woman to conceive a child, maintain pregnancy, and is produced at exceedingly high levels (around 400mg a day) in the third trimester. In this episode, Dr. Berkson discusses the many benefits of progesterone, how progesterone interacts with other hormones, and how it affects your health. She talks about bio-identical vs. synthetic progesterone and what we can expect to see from Pharma companies in the near future.  (For full show notes go to www.drlindseyberkson.com/podcast)

America is an aging country. Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is now the third leading cause of death in the United States in the aging population. The development of effective treatments and prevention is a major healthcare goal. In this show you will hear about the visionary physician and his program that is successfully reversing AD. Along with the peer review data to prove it! Dr. Dale E. Bredesen Dale E. Bredesen is a professor of neurology at the Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Bredesen has successfully trained 1500 medical doctors in his cognitive decline reversal protocols. These doctors are reporting that they are successfully replicating his success for cognitive decline. In his 40 years in medicine, Dr. Bredesen has over 212 articles published in PubMed with his name on them. Dr. Bredesen has published several studies from 10 to 100 patients demonstrating statistical efficacy in rever

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 fear. How to better control your “reactive” fearful brain. Who are the brain heroes. How toxins play a role in brain health. How hormones play a role in brain health. How the brain and inter-racial perceptions interact. And more. Shonte’ Jovan Taylor Shonte’ has a BA and Masters in Neuroscience, is in the middle of her PhD program, and took a break to start her OptiMind Neuroscience Coaching & Training Institute. Shonte’ holds yearly neuroscience symposiums and had asked Dr. Berkson to co-lecture at one, a few years past. The

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/or that androgens (like testosterone) worsen COVID-19 in men. As of this date, there are three studies being done giving males and menopausal females "estrogen" and/or "progesterone" replacement as it "may" be protective against COVID-19. In This Show You will Hear About Estrogen Is estrogen protective against COVID? Estrogen signals are critical in both innate and adaptive immune responses as well as in tissue repairing processes during respiratory virus infection. Estrogens can regulate the expression of angiotensin-conver

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 Naples’s Center for Functional Medicine in Naples, Florida. Links: Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum’s Heart Book: Every Woman’s Guide to a Heart Healthy Life, teaching all women how to lead the healthiest lives by “living from the heart”. Naples Center for Functional Medicine: https://naplescfm.com/

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 hormones can damage our own home-made hormones. The pill often contains synthetic estrogens (ethinyl estradiol) and synthetic progesterone’s (progestins).  All have been found to have endocrine disrupting actions.   For example, it’s clearly been shown that women on oral contraceptives have more tendency to experience anxiety, poor partner choices, more divorce, migraines, and even inflammatory bowel disease in women with genetic glitches. Much of this occurs from the endocrine disrupting action of these endocrine disruptors, or by

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 molecules like glutathione. One important emerging role for melatonin is its huge influence over our immune system functions. In this show you will learn. The role of melatonin in fighting viruses. What’s the melatonergic pathway. Uses of melatonin in COVID. Dose spectrum? Types of supplements. Melatonin as a natural aromatase inhibitor. And more. A good night's sleep will definitely put an energetic lilt our steps. Why? Pineal melatonin (the melatonin made in the brain) regulates mitochondrial melatonin. This runs your energy.

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 cross-roads: extinction or transformation. In this show you learn what these two paths look like and the how’s and why’s needed for humanity to save itself. Much of humanity has been continually run by greed, money and narcissism. Priorities of profit and power have shadowed humanity’s future or social injustices.  The planet, air and water upon which humanity survives, continues to be polluted for power, greed and self-service. Now is the time for change… or suffer. Now is the time to make “hope come true”. Mr. Harvey had been h

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 issues in the gut, kidneys, brain and even the vestibular system which keeps us centered in mind, body and space. In this show you will learn: Why fever may not be the best indicator of COVID in folks over 70 with COVID. What frontline docs especially worry about. How COVID is a blood-clotting illness and which blood type is more prone to blood clots. What you can do at home to naturally vs. pharmaceutically, ward off excess “fibrinogen” a substance that can boost the risk of blood clots. What natural products are helpful an

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. In this show you will learn about: Asymptomatic COVID transmission Presymptomatic COVID transmission The Annals of Internal Medicine/Scripps Institute and WHO snafu The 16-cluster study that shows you are more infectious before you know you are ill The Diamond Princess Cruise study that revealed almost 40 guests that were COVID carriers, had CT proven lung damage all without NO symptoms at all. Definition of N95 masks and comparison of mask effectivity Lessons from Iceland, how they beat COVID without masks or lockdown.

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 snips to guide you for healing or protection. How hormones and genetic interpretation intertwine. Why some snips don’t show up until we get older. How genetics plays a role in COVID. Tips on getting off Proton Pump Inhibiting Acid Blockers. And info on migraines, gut issues and genes.   Listen and you will hear specific cases of severe migraines and severe histamine reactive patients that could not be helped by medications or other nutrients for years, but with genetic interpretation got better permanently better within weeks. As

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” for big industry, states associations and even in political realms. He has been a winning speaker many times over for Toast Master’s International. Along with Dr. Berkson, he is a member of “Where Laughing Really Matters” a unique toastmaster club focusing on comedy.    A Critical Art   Listening is a critical art, not taught in schools and most homes. This is a time in history when we need to learn how to “listen” to each other better and authentically. Then, we can create more unity and humanitarian successes versus remaining polarized

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 Houston. Dr. Houston is renowned as the “iconic functional cardiologist” who put functional cardiology on the map. Functional cardiology looks for “root causes” of hypertension and heart disease, such as the specific molecules that create heart damage. The patient is then guided toward making improvements in lifestyle, sleep, blood pressure throughout 24/hours, diet and medications to bring them back to heart health once again. Dr. Houston created the only “functional cardiology certification course” for medical doctors taught at A4

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 interview with Dr. Berkson, an interview between two long-time friends. Eliot Coleman and Four Seasons Farm Eliot Coleman is an American organic farmer, author, researcher and educator. Eliot along with Scott Nearing, PhD, is credited with helping farmers and all of us become aware of authentic organic gardening: what it is, how it benefits life, and how the FDA has sold out to big Agra lobbies . . . even when it comes to organic labeling. OMG! It’s just like medicine! His book, The New Organic Grower, is a “bible” for organic farm

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 course a few months ago in Salt Lake, City. Naltrexone is used in high dosages in the ER for drug overdosages. In smaller dosages (micro amounts to typically 4.5 mg) is referred to as “Low-Dose Naltrexone” known mostly often as its acronym:  LDN. LDN has many uses. For example LDN: boosts immune function, tamps down unhealthy inflammation, stops cancer tumor growth and metastases, helps auto-immune diseases go into remission, and much more. Clinical reports on LDN have demonstrated many possible benefits in diverse diseases

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. Ruwart writes an Internet column, Ask Dr. Ruwart, featured in the Advocates for Self-Government “Liberator OnLine” e-zine. In this show you’ll learn: How the lack of testing kits helped the spread of COVID. Why the CDC’s original testing kits didn’t work. The FDA’s role. The official “change” of the FDA in 1962 and how this effects each one of us. How each of us, the average person, can have some input. What the average person can do to help solve some of these problems. Dr. Ruwart wrote a must-have book on how the FDA got to b