A Dose of Dr. Karla: Recent Episodes
Dr. Karla Mitchell
A Dose of Dr Karla is where we elevate and celebrate self-care and the holistic healthcare experience. This is a space we will also bring you a weekly dose of serious to light-hearted, yet enjoyable and trustworthy health related content. You'll get facts not fiction, along with Dr. Karla's practical, professional opinion.
The podcast is hosted by Dr. Karla Mitchell, best known for applying natural and holistic methods to commonly diagnosed medical conditions. Leading Detroit's most innovative model for urban community healing, she offers innovative care options, provides leadership in developing culturally appropriate strategies to address health equity, health disparity, and health literacy. Her work focuses on improving health outcomes, reducing and preventing dependencies, and educating and empowering people to make informed health care choices.
Genetics gives us the blueprint but doesn't necessarily translate to our story. Are your parent's past health challenges putting you in an endless circle of new medications and constant worry? Could your prevention plan really be as simple as exercise, vitamins and supplements?
Tune into this week's episode where Dr. Karla answers some of listeners most pointed questions about prevention and hears first hand how one middle aged man threw his scripts to the side and started finding normal levels through a combination of natural supplements.
Your body is the compass, it will tell you where it's going if you just tune in and listen.
Lungs, they never get enough attention, well, until you can’t breathe. The lungs are one of the most powerful organs in our body, yet it never gets love until you are in distress. With Spring is upon us. What does that mean to asthma and allergy sufferers? As the flowers bloom, so do the daily times we start wheezing, sneezing and eyes starting to itch. This year may be even more severe, especially for those who contracted COVID and are still healing. Dr. Karla is bringing you some remedies today, in fact, some that may be growing in your backyard.
This show is for the grown folk, those 40 and over. Mid life sex can be amazing, yet as we get older some parts of our body start to react and feel different. And of course, hormones start changing, so urges we once had can start to quiet down. Women move into menopausal years and as we see from the constant ads on TV and websites, erectile dysfunction has started to haunt more men.
Dr. Karla is bringing sexy back in this episode….and you’ll never believe this one simple item you can add into your daily routine to help that libido.
Are our children really hyperactive or are they kids being kids? 80% of adolescent children and teens are diagnosed with ADHD. Of that 80%, over 60% are being given a pharmaceutical to help kids cope. What is this doing the development of their brain? How is this shaping their coping mechanisms? Does this lead to addiction down the line? Dr. Karla really unveils the risks your kids could be facing by falling under the ADHD umbrella.
A year ago, tomorrow, our world shut down to flatten the curve. This week, Dr. Karla is diving deep into the year we just experienced: physically, mentally and socially….distant that is. Hope may be on the horizon, but how do we filter all the information coming our way? Dr. Karla’s talking vitamins that helped combat this virus, vaccination shaming.
Trauma Bonding: Are we unconsciously continuing the cycle? After we recorded our first episode, "Can You Really Ever Evict Trauma, or is it a Squatter that Will Live with you Forever?" Our special guest, Adaora Ezike from the Detroit Health Department brought up another strong topic, Trauma Bonding. Trauma Bonding is a psychological response to abuse. If we've never had the real help we need to confront the abuse we've dealt with in the beginning, we may find ourselves continually finding different people or situations that mimic the trauma we experienced.
What defines a traumatic experience? What happens to the brain? How does one and the family deal with PTSD Realigning your perspective or providing real time coping techniques to manage the aftermath of trauma, i.e. stress, anxiety, night terrors, etc?
The definition of Trauma is “a deeply distressing and disturbing experience” or “a physical injury.” Over 70% of the world has endured at least one traumatic event in life. How do we get past this? Or will our brains and our bodies ever let us free from the aftermath of trauma. This week on “A Daily Dose of Dr. Karla,” Dr. Karla is digging deep with giving an overview of the four types of trauma, the initial months that follow and really explaining what these experiences can do to the body if it’s not confronted or processed.
Adaora is a Public Health professional using restorative and trauma-informed practices to inform population health interventions and foster community partnerships.
The old cliché you are what you eat is so dated and should be removed from our brains. We are built to eat to reenergize, to heal, and to provide energy to think sharper and to continue to excel at life. But what if we’re heating is ACTUALLY slowing us down, creating brain fog, or even taking in toxins that are attacking our bodies? Inflammatory foods have become a buzz word in the medical and health communities, but do we really know what threats are of consuming foods that create more swelling in our body? On this week’s show, we’re talking what you really need to fuel, and what foods that you think are healthy are really adding more fire and potential pain in your body.
There's beauty in individuality. We are all created with our own blueprint. So, why when we aren't feeling well or we're handed down a diagnosis we believe that all treatments or remedies should be the same? Each one of us metabolize, react and/or have different experiences.
Dr. Karla Mitchell, a Naturopathic Doctor, has learned from experience and constant research the power of understanding and listening to our bodies. This week on A Dose of Dr.Karla we’re going to tune in to what your body may be telling you and how you can create an all natural path to achieve your health goals - both physically and mentally.
Our bodies are a compass. Our bodies are powerful, they can tell us when we're feeling good, but if we listen closely, the body can also tell us what could be wrong. Every week, Dr. Karla Mitchell, a world renown Naturopathic doctor will teach us how to listen to our bodies, how we can self heal and how to really understand the dangers of our habits, choices and environment and the havoc it could be reeking on your system.
Dr. Mitchell's interest in holistic care began with her own cancer diagnosis, several years ago. She immediately knew that the standard approach to cancer treatment, including radiation, chemotherapy, surgery and its associated risk, was not the path she'd choose. As a wife, a mother (of four at the time, my son came after), a leader in the community and a believer of self-healing, Dr. Mitchell knew there had to be other options. Hear firsthand about Dr. Mitchell's journey, her travels across the globe, the healers she met along the way, and the day she learned she no longer had a cancer diagnosis.