Take Charge of Your Health

Take Charge of Your Health: Carol interviews Jessica Bonovich from Great Plains Laboratory

We are exposed to many toxins including those in our work and living spaces from mold infestations.  Great Plains Lab has developed testing for some of these.  Carol and Jessica discuss sources of toxicity, how these can be measured and what steps could be taken to relieve the body burden of the toxins.

Take Charge of Your Health: Linda Elsegood and Her Personal Journey with Low Dose Naltrexone

In 1984, naltrexone, an opioid or endorphin blocker  was approved by the FDA for use for treatment of addiction.  In 1985 Dr. Bernard Bahari discovered that small doses had a short term block and the body responded by an abundant release of endorphins, the body's own feel good hormones.  He applied this treatment to autoimmune diseases including multiple sclerosis.  At a very low point in her health, Linda Elsegood discovered this treatment and has reversed most of her severe symptoms.  She determined to bring this therapy to everyone who needs it.  She established the LDN Reach Trust and maintains an active website offering the research, practitioner and pharmacy finders, LDN radio, conferences, webinars and books.

Take Charge of Your Health: Corinne and Carol Discuss Functions of Hormones

We discuss various signs and symptoms of hormone imbalances.  In addition, we share what hormone therapies can do.  Although the focus is often on sex hormones, insulin/glucose, thyroid, pituitary and adrenal hormones play significant roles.   There are lifestyle and diet changes that can be used along with nutrients and herbal remedies.

Take Charge of Your Health Dr. David Brownstein is Our Guest on Taking Charge.

Lacking guidance from the medical community in general, we discuss how people can build and protect their immune system to prevent illness.  Here are steps you can take when illness occurs to rapidly engage your body's healing potential.

Take Charge of Your Health - We Have a Discussion with Dr. Stephen Hotze

 Dr, Stephen Hotze is an author (Hypothyroidism, Health & Happiness: The Riddle of Illness Revealed and Hormones, Health and Happiness:  A Natural Medical Formula for Rediscovering Youth with Bioidentical Hormones) and prominent Texas physician.  He speaks out about our basic human right to take charge of our health.  We discuss the means available to us simply and inexpensively to boost our immune systems.  

Take Charge of Your Health - Dentist, Dr. Hans Jurgen Schwartz Discusses Mercury Amalgam in the Mouth

 It is well established that mercury is a potent toxin.  We discuss the use of mercury in dental amalgam with Dr. Hans Jurgen Schwartz, dentist.  Filling a tooth with mercury containing amalgam introduces exposure to the toxic effects of mercury, damages the tooth structure, and is an environmental hazard for dental professionals and public water supplies.  We discuss prevention of cavities, use of fluoride in dentistry, brushing and flossing and the possibility of organ (tooth) transplant.  Finally, we discuss the detoxification procedures to eliminate mercury. 

Take Charge of Your Health - Interview with Dr. Robert Lustig, Author of ”Fat Chance” and ”Metabolical”

Dr. Robert Lustig is a Professor Emeritus from the University of California, San Francisco in Pediatric Endocrinology (www.robertlustig.com).  He observed the terrible toll that the processed food industry has taken on the health of our children and ourselves.  These foods lure us to pleasure instead of happiness, he writes.  He is the author of "Fat Chance" and his latest book "Metabolical: The Lures and Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine". Here's a quote from his website: 
Sugar is now the most ubiquitous foodstuff worldwide, and has been added to virtually every processed food, limiting consumer choice and the ability to avoid it. Approximately 80 percent of the 6,000,000 consumer packaged foods in the United States have added caloric sweeteners.

Take Charge of Your Health : Microbiologist Jeff Thurston joins Corinne and Carol to Discuss the Gut Microbiome

"Death begins in the colon" is attributed as a old Chinese saying.  We discuss the foundations of our wellness, particularly the microbiome of our gut.  Microbiologist Jeff Thurston joins us to discuss the power of using probiotics (various cultures of bacteria) to alter the milieu in our digestive tract.  This is an encore and the introduction contains our thinking at the beginning of the pandemic the world has suffered.

Take Charge of Your Health: Back to Basics, Corinne and Carol Review the World of Sweeteners

We have come a long way from only choosing honey, saps and fruits in our diet.  Our grocery stores are filled with alternative sweeteners, high fructose corn, and syrups of all sorts.  We discuss various sweeteners and the consequences to our health.

Take Charge of Your Health: Dr. Jamie Kaufman and Her Book ”The Chronic Cough Enigma”

There is a disconnect in medicine, Dr. Kaufman, an otolaryngologist, tells Corinne and Carol and the audience. A constant sinus drainage problem which causes constant nighttime coughing is in reality a gastrointestinal problem. It is originating with gastric reflux.  She relates to us how she remedies this in her practice but also zeros in on practical tips for us to apply on our own.  She says since this occurs in gaps in medical specialties, physicians cannot identify and treat the root of the problem.