Get Real to Heal: Recent Episodes
Amanda LaPlante
A weekly show devoted to illuminating the healing potential within us all and the powerful impact that food, lifestyle, and mindset play in our health. Hosted by Amanda LaPlante, MA, INHC, who fought chronic mental and physical health issues for decades. After dropping over a dozen meds, 50 lbs, and turning her life around through root cause approaches to prevention and healing, she set out on a mission to "Get Real to Heal". Check out interviews with an array of experts on health, mindset, and more.
Michael Patrick Burke has accomplished a lot, especially when you consider the "fact" that he's not supposed to still be here. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as an infant, odds were he wouldn't survive much into adulthood. But his is a case when mind literally overcame matter. He not only survived, he excelled. He has run marathons and competed in triathalons, enjoyed an award-winning career in sales, and now he has set his sights on coaching.
We'll talk about the pivotal moments in his journey, how he maintains his mindset and his health, and we'll dive into what true coaching is and why he loves it. All this an more!
Need a little inspiration today? This episode is for you.
For more information from Michael Burke:
michaelpatrickburke.com
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Kristen Craren, MEd, LPC, EMDR, Clinical Director of Archway Therapy joins me for another episode... To say family dynamics have been strained lately would be a vast understatement for many of us. Craren runs a family counseling practice. She's going to help us get clear about the challenges we're all facing and share tips for helping our families navigate these difficult times.
We'll discuss:
👉the different ways people are reacting to the traumatic experience of a global pandemic
👉how to create a support system (even with social distance)
👉ways to approach difficult conversations and make peace with gridlock topics
👉how empathy factors into healthy communication
👉what Crarer refers to as "curious questioning" for approaching difficult conversations
👉how to be an active listener (and how to apply that as a parent)
👉how to help kids navigate technology and media
For more information from Kristen Craren, MEd, LPC, EMDR:
begintalking.com
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amandalaplante.com
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Dr. Kaylea Boutwell Lenarz MD joins me for part 2 of our discussion on the shift in perspective that lead her to become an integrative practitioner.
Could food be contributing to your pain, excess weight, and more? Dr. Boutwell breaks down why she decided to offer food sensitivity testing in her practice.
Dr. Boutwell also shares how she is using orthobiologics to help her patients, which includes technology such as PRP and stem cells. She breaks down how this cutting edge medicine works and who might benefit from it.
For more information or to contact Dr. Boutwell:
katalystmd.com
314-230-7800
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Dr. Kaylea Boutwell Lenarz MD of Katalyst Pain Management and Restorative Treatment Center is a graduate of the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic and has completed 4 board certifications, including anesthesiology and pain medicine. She is a multi-year recipient of St. Louis Magazine's peer-chosen "Top Docs" status, serves as the President of the Missouri Society for Interventional Pain Physicians, and has received the Rising Star Award from the American Society for Interventional Pain Physicians.
In this lively episode, I go deep with this MD who's gone integrative, learning about a few pivotal moments that led to her shift her perspective from conventional to integrative. She also shares how sometimes simple steps such as improving nutrition, adding relaxation and aromatherapy, and other mindset shifts can make a world of difference for someone who is struggling with a painful condition.
For more information or to contact Dr. Boutwell Lenarz: www.katalystmd.com
For more information or to contact Amanda LaPlante, MA, INHC: www.amandalaplante.com or 314-583-6749
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"A doctor said to me, 'If you are taking a prescription drug, that is the equivalent to you getting up to disable the smoke detector and then go back to bed, as the fire is still raging on.'"
Robin Stewart is the CEO of MindBody Talent and Novis Health joins me to discuss the rapid growth of the functional and integrative sector within healthcare, and why many patients and practitioners are embracing these approaches. Robin's personal health journey led her to discover the power of these root cause approaches in medicine, and now she's helping bring it to the masses with Novis Health.
Novis Health focuses on treating type II diabetes and thyroid disorders. We discuss the prevalence of these and other preventable health issues in America today and some of the ways doctors at Novis are helping patients overcome their health challenges.
We also discuss the challenges faced by doctors in private practice and how her company is helping them become effective physician entrepreneurs through mentor-ship and more.
For more information or to contact Robin Stewart:
robin@mindbodytalent.com
For more information or to contact Amanda LaPlante, MA, INHC:
amandalaplante.com
314-583-6749
Shannon Hayes Buescher, MS, RDN, LD, is a registered and licensed dietitian, Intuitive Eating counselor, and Health At Every Size activist. She is passionate about helping people to stop dieting, recover from disordered eating and make peace with food and their bodies.
Amid these historic, turbulent times, Shannon is helping her clients to connect to their bodies, eat more intuitively and overcome emotional eating. In this episode, we discuss our society's diet culture, how it impacts us, and how it creates a disordered relationship with food. We also discuss the range of eating behaviors that can be present in times of stress, and how to check in with ourselves about that. Healthy mindset, body image, and many more topics were discussed as well, and Shannon even shared some nuggets of wisdom she learned from her personal health journey to help us all find freedom with food!
For more information or to contact Amanda LaPlante, MA, INHC, please visit amandalaplante.com.
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From her champion equestrian career to her 4 board certifications after graduating her specialty fellowship at Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Kaylea Boutwell Lenarz, MD, doesn't back down from a challenge. So, when this Missouri-raised anesthesiologist and pain management specialist suffered her own debilitating back pain, she set out to learn everything she could about not just managing the pain but truly overcoming her injury. Along the way, she discovered integrative / functional, lifestyle, and regenerative medicine approaches that helped her recover.
Now, along with the fantastic sense of humor and massive sense of gratitude that are ever-present in her phenomenal bedside manner, this doctor is truly practicing medicine as the art that it is -- employing a diverse array of techniques and perspectives to meet her patients where they are and help them to live their best life through her practice, Katalyst Pain Management and Restorative Treatment Center in St. Louis.
You won't want to miss a minute of this episode!
For more information or to contact Dr. Boutwell:
katalystmd.com
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amandalaplante.com
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As the survivor of a life-threatening illness caused by bacteria, I'm particularly interested in particulates. I share more on that part of my journey in this episode.
Leah Amir, MS, MHA is an expert microbiologist and healthcare economist. She joins me to discuss COVID-19.
What does the world ordinarily look like through the lens of a microbiologist? And during a pandemic? We talked about the steps she's taking personally and requirements she's putting in place as the CEO of her company now that employees are returning to work.
We also discussed the efficacy and cost of antibody testing currently being offered, her stance on herd immunity, personal choices, and a whole lot more.
Christian Henley, President of Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Mid-America, joins me. As a fellow Crohn's survivor, we had a lot to talk about!
We shared our personal health journeys from diagnosis to procedures, medications, and management. We also talked about nutrition approaches that are being studied and what has helped each of us personally.
Chris shared ways the Foundation has been supporting patients during COVID-19 (including a 1200% spike in website traffic), some of the staggering stats on irritable bowel diseases in America today, new frontiers in research, and ways in which we can show support in the search for a cure.
For more information, to volunteer or donate, visit:
crohnscolitisfoundation.org
To contact Amanda LaPlante, MA, INHC for hosting, speaking, or health coaching:
314-583-6749
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In session after session with my clients the last few weeks, the subject of dreams kept coming up. Something about the pandemic and quarantine is causing people to believe they are dreaming more frequently, remembering them more readily, and having dreams that are more vivid. That got me curious... why do we dream? Do all dreams have meaning? And what's causing dreams to be so noteworthy during the current crisis?
Joining me to answer this and more is Dr. Laurel Clark. She is a teacher, certified dreamologist, interfaith minister, counselor, and author. She is a past president of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, a graduate of the College of Metaphysics and the Institute for Dream Studies, and owner of Whole Life Resources. Laurel teaches people how to discover or uncover their purpose in life through meditation, understanding their dreams, and mindfulness practices of concentration and listening.
Dr. Clark is the author of Intuitive Dreaming and contributor to The Encyclopedia of Sleep and Dreams, Dreams That Change Our Lives, Interpreting Dreams for Self Discovery, Lucid Dreaming, Weaving Dreams in the Classroom, and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Dreams and the Unexplainable.
During the interview, we also touch on precognitive dreams and deja vu, how to remember your dreams, symbolism and more!
For more information or to contact Dr. Laurel Clark:
859-230-4146
www.laurelclark.com
For more information or to contact Amanda LaPlante, MA, INHC:
314-583-6749
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Are you concerned about all the screen time your kids are getting? Are you wondering how it might be affecting their development? Could their ADD/ADHD, mood, eye issues really be related to time on screens??
Dr. Kimberly Twyman, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician at Mercy Kids Autism Center in St. Louis, Missouri joins us to share how she's helping families make healthy decisions about technology use. She also shares her tips for helping kids cope with social distancing, today's headlines in the news, and a whole lot more.
To contact Dr. Kimberly Twyman:
(314) 872-3345
To contact Amanda LaPlante, MA, INHC:
amandalaplante.com
(314) 583-6749
Some topics in integrative medicine can be hard to get your arms around if you're a science-minded person. One of these, in my opinion, was energy medicine. I had experienced it, even practiced it... But how the heck could I explain it without sounding totally nuts?
Dr. David Trybus joins me to discuss how he blends Eastern and Western modalities along with emotional clearing and energy medicine into his own truly unique approach. He shares how his personal health crisis led him to become a doctor, and how patients who were previously given no hope are now living a "happy, healthy, and energized life" as part of Trybus's tribe. And he breaks energy medicine down for us with a science-minded explanation that even the most skeptical mind can begin to grasp.
For more information:
davidtrybus.com
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Everyone is looking for ways to boost immunity lately, but this focus is nothing new for Naturopath Dr. Asia Muhammad. She shares why some populations are harder hit during pandemics, and how she keeps her own immune system strong through nutrition, supplementation, sleep, stress management, mindset and more.
For more information:
asiamuhammad.com
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There's a lot of controversy surrounding 5G. But what's science versus spin? How much do we really know about this and other technology we've got in our hands practically every minute of every day? How concerned should we be, and what can we do about it?
For credible information on this controversial topic, we turned to Dr. Michael Twyman, a board certified cardiologist who utilizes the best of conventional medicine, integrative/functional medicine, quantum medicine, and biohacking to get to the root causes of disease. He discusses what it is, how it might be affecting us and why, and how to protect your health.
For more information from Dr. Twyman:
apollocardiology.com
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