Align Your Health: Recent Episodes
Dr. Ryan Berlin & Ashley Berlin
Dr. Ryan Berlin & wife Ashley Berlin share their expertise helping thousands of people over the last decade achieve amazing health through developing a mindset around fitness, nutrition, chiropractic, and detoxification
To read more about the chiropractic research talked about in today’s episode, check out A Comparative Study of the Health Status of Children Raised Under the Health Care Models of Chiropractic and Allopathic Medicine.
https://chiro.org/Conditions/Comparative_Study_of_the_Health_Status.shtml
Bodily autonomy. Your ability to choose. Your right to pay the price of your own good or bad decisions. Your religious, philosophical, and medical rights. These are being challenged. No one has the right to tell you how to care for your health but you because you are the only one who has to live in your body. If we give up this freedom out of fear for our safety, we will regret it forever. There is so much uncertainty around COVID-19. What matters most is what you are currently doing to support health. Lets sort through some numbers. Let’s get some perspective. Cooler heads prevail. Truth will set us free. Fear is the enemy.
COVID-19: Stats and How Not to Become One. [Episode: 70]
There is so much uncertainty around COVID-19. What matters most is what you are currently doing to support health. Lets sort through some numbers. Let’s get some perspective. Cooler heads prevail. Truth will set us free. Fear is the enemy.
Heart Disease/Health: What Actually Causes a Broken Heart [Episode: 69]
We discuss Heart Health. How does it heal. What causes a diseased heart? When not in a state of healing, disease is inevitable. What actually causes a heart to get weak? Statins, Meds, Blood pressure, Subluxation. We cover it all and give the evidence to support it.
Pain: Hey Doc, It Hurts Right Here! [Episode: 68]
We discuss pain and why you don’t want to treat pain. You want to correct the CAUSE of your pain. The pain is protecting you. You need to HEAL from what is causing the pain. How do you find the cause? what do you do once you find it? We discus correcting causes and why medical care is missing the boat.
Health Isn't Complicated: Sickness is complicated [Episode: 67]
Dr. Ryan & Ashley discuss why health is simple, less expensive and requires a smaller time commitment than being sick. Disease is expensive, time consuming and complicated….health isn’t. Dont over complicate it. Follow the five essentials and keep you health simple!
Vitalism: The only lens worth looking through for health [Episode: 66]
Vitalism believes you are an intelligent creation with a POWER to HEAL. Mechanism says you are a machine, with parts that wear out. You are an intelligently designed creation, however the intelligence never left, its still on the scene, healing you daily.
Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies & Why? [Episode: 65]
The steps to surviving anything from high blood pressure and heart disease all the way to a terminal diagnosis...what do survivors do well? How do we learn from those less timid souls who know how to keep moving on and surviving even though eminent doom is ahead!! What the heck does this have to do with you? You need to survive the worst health statistics, in the worst performing health care model, in the worst country evaluated by health standards to ever exist.
Corona Virus What?: Who Cares? Corona Virus, Zika, Swine Flu, Ebola, SARS, the Tse Tse Fly, Avian Flu, Killer Bees? [Episode: 65]
What Lens Do You View Your Health Through? Fear? Or Empowerment. Do you kill virus & bacteria? Or do those tiny little bitty bugs pose a threat to you? Corona Virus, Zika, Swine Flu, Ebola, the Tse Tse Fly, Avian Flu, Killer Bees, it literally doest matter when you are HEALthy.
Longevity? or VITALITY: Have we / can you extend your life? [Episode: 62]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss that we haven’t actually increased life expectancy in 6,000 years. ancients may have died younger but if they made it past childhood, they lived to be 78 on average. No one gets out of this life alive. this research shows that medicine actually hasn’t made us more healthy. What we should really be focused on is living out as much health as we can in the life that we life. No one wants to be the oldest sick person in the nursing home.
New Beginning/Ending: How will you end this year?!? [Episode: 61]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss Why resolutions are non-sense. How are you going to END 2020? What a true year long strategy should look like. Why motivation is not your best friend. Inspiration has to come from within.
Most people have big plans and fail by February. We overestimate what we can do in a month and unbelievably underestimate what we can do in a year. Lets create a great 2020.
Health Roadmap: What is Your Plan for Good Health [Episode: 60]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss what is your plan for great health. How will you achieve it if you have never planned it out? Are you on the right road to health?
Pharmacology vs Healing
Symptom Manipulation vs. Correcting the Cause
Proactive or Reactive
The Habit of Gratitude: Change Your Thoughts Change Your Life [Episode: 59]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss their favorite tool for developing a gratitude habit. Gratitude is the single largest influential thought practice for changing your happiness and your life.
“As a man thinketh in his heart so is he”
“What you think about you bring about”
When you are grateful for what life has given you…you get more of it.
The Science of Life: What Causes Man to Live [Episode: 58]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley celebrate chiropractics birthday. They discuss how chiropractic began. BJ Palmer said, “Medicine is the study of disease and what causes man to die. Chiropractic is the study of health and what causes man to live.” The 5 signs of life are one of the great teachings of chiropractic and vitalism.
Nutrient Density: Nutrient vs. Calories and Toxins [Episode: 57]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss Why calories matter very little and what is more important. Nutrient Density. What are the most nutrient dense foods and why? Also, why is nutrient density the most important principle of nutrition.
A Strong Immune System: How To Build A Healthy One [Episode: 56]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss what a naturally developed strong and healthy immune system looks like. Are you actually sick or expressing symptoms of a desirable immune response. How do you build the strongest immune system possible. What are the biggest threats to your immune system?
How To Win In Your Health: What Does A Win Look Like [Episode: 55]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss how do we win in our health. What would a win look like. Dr. Ryan and Ashley’s goals are no medications, no diseases, able bodied, fit, active. They would like to live past 80 and be able to play with their great grand kids. So how do you get there. First it starts with the right questions
Where are you currently?
Where are you going?
Who do you have to be to get there?
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss that we were intelligently designed by The Creator. What was His intention for our health and well being. What part do we play, and why did He leave so much of it up to us (free will). Overcoming is a theme in the bible. How do we overcome in our health?
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss some strategies that Dr. Ryan brought back from his attendance at Tony Robbins Business Matter course. The Three S’s; Strategy, State, and Story. Creating outcomes not goals is the key to success.
Some people age gracefully, some the opposite. What is the secrete to keeping your body feeling and functioning young as you age. What are the top habits to adopt so that you feel young for a long time.
Do you feel listened to? Do you feel cared for? Are you getting healthier or sicker under their care? Do you feel more armed or less when it comes to battling health issues after seeing your doctor? We explain what to look for and when to say “It’s not me…it’s you”
Allergies are not about pollen, dust or dander. It is a simple problem of you internal environment not being able to adapt to the external environment. Its a communication issue. They are a hyperactive immune response. Correct the cause and they reaction calms down as the body heals.
Chiropractic is arguably one of the single best things you can do for your children’s (and your) health. Dr. Ryan shares the latest chiropractic research on asthma, allergies, childhood cancer, etc. How could chiropractic help your kids live a healthier life???
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss amazing things they get to see everyday in practice. They share stories from their patients and talk through how those people healed and why they saw such amazing results. They also read some amazing office reviews….go check them out for yourself on google reviews or facebook reviews of Align Chiropractic.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss amazing things they get to see everyday in practice. They share stories from their patients and talk through how those people healed and why they saw such amazing results. They also read some amazing office reviews….go check them out for yourself on google reviews or facebook reviews of Align Chiropractic.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss some of the major hormone patters they see in practice. What are the major organs that regulate hormones. Why do they become dysfunctional. How can you get things back on track.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the three recent monsanto verdicts. Roundup, Glyphosate and any other name ….its still toxic. It’s in vaccines, cereal, wine, on your lawn and now in organic crops...what do we do? Can we even avoid it?
All The Right Curves: The Arc of Life [Align Your Health: Episode 43]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the spinal curvatures. Research suggests you live up to 15 years longer and healthier if your curves are healthy. The Archives of Internal Medicine published a study saying the worse our spine gets the more likely we are to die of any organ related disease. Curves matter, here’s why…
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss what makes Men and Women genetically unique when it comes to our health? What does this mean about how we take care of our selves strictly based on our gender? What diseases may we be susceptible to based on being male or female?
In this episode we discuss the differences between mens and women spinal problems and how they specifically affect our health.
Mars vs Venus 1: The genetic differences & similarities between men & women. [Align Your Health: Episode 40]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss what makes Men and Women genetically unique when it comes to our health? What does this mean about how we take care of our selves strictly based on our gender? What diseases may we be susceptible to based on being male or female?
Dr. Ryan & Ashley Berlin talk about some of the most frequent things they hear in regards to chiropractic. Ignorance, Skepticism, not usually, most of the time people just don’t understand what we do because a chiropractor has never educated them on what CHIROPRACTIC ACTUALLY IS. We breakdown some of the major questions or objections we hear when people don’t understand the power of chiropractic!
Dr. Ryan & Ashley Berlin blow the dust off of some old/new material that they have been talking about publicly for over a decade on how to build your best fitness now. Ashley previously owned one of the largest personal training and Crossfit gyms in Ohio. The Berlins trained clients to be healthy first and fitness follows when you work hard, smart, and sometimes even shorter than you think.
Dr. Ryan (going solo this week as his wife is a tennis champion) discusses nutrition faux pas. Vegan? Carnivore? How do we know? Did we evolve into our teeth? Or did the creator know, and we are just farming our animals wrong. Forget the China Study or What The Health and Forks Over Knives….and feel free to pick up your fork and knife for your health.
GERD or by Any Other Name: Indigestion, Acid Reflux, H. Pylori, Achalasia, Eosinophilic Esophagitis. {Align Your Health: Episode 37}
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss GERD, indigestion, acid reflux, and any other upper GI disorder. How is it possible that two people eat the same meal and have two completely different reactions to it. Where is there interference? Is it the food? If so, why some people and not others? Could there be more to this? Is there a chance it all goes back to what is controlling the digestive process in the first place?
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss how common and serious birth traumas can be to the newly born child. Un fortunately they virtually all go unnoticed. With the exception of a lung or heart issue you often wouldn’t know a baby was injured at birth. Colic, allergies, ear infections, acid reflux, constipation, sleeping issues, fussiness….all common symptoms of spinal injuries post delivery. Unfortunately C-section and forceps are not only not exempt….they are more dangerous. There is an answer, its gentle and effective.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss how our bodies run on oils (fats really) and running on the wrong fats is breaking your body down…..not unlike your car not getting serviced properly or getting the wrong oil. Its time for an overhaul and a massive shift in th conciseness of what our bodies need. Cholesterol = Good. Butter = Good. Omegas = Good. Vegetable oils = toxic poison……listen up, its about to get good and healthy.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the beauty of growing older gracefully. Getting older without feeling older. Longevity with vitality. How to we grow up with out feeling old. We age but our organs and health don’t have to feel old. Lets all get to 80+ years old and feel, heal, and move well as we enjoy our latter years.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss, first hand, their personal experiences from their auto accidents. What you need to know about the trauma that can occur even in small collisions. The lasting effects. What to do if you are in a auto accident. What the research says about how that “fender bender” and how it may affect you life long.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss Why health trickles from the top down. If you are the bossman and want a productive team, their health matters most. Ditch the wellness fairs and the cholesterol screening and lets talk about what actually moves the needle. Your employees are your biggest asset……increase your ROI on that asset by giving them good access to great health.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss What jobs kill and why health trickles from the top down. If you are the bossman and want a productive team, their health matters most. Ditch the wellness fairs and the cholesterol screening and lets talk about what actually moves the needle. Your employees are your biggest asset……increase your ROI on that asset by giving them good access to great health. Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss Why health trickles from the top down. If you are the bossman and want a productive team, their health matters most. Ditch the wellness fairs and the cholesterol screening and lets talk about what actually moves the needle. Your employees are your biggest asset……increase your ROI on that asset by giving them good access to great health.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss spinal hygiene, how do you care for your spine? Spinal degeneration is directly and independently associated with increased mortality. You die earlier when your spine is unhealthy. What can you do in your day to day to keep your spine and nervous system healthy??? We will tell you.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the most controversial topic/diagnosis of the last decade. Leaky gut syndrome. The diagnosis is clear and literally describes what is happening but medicine love to make things so much harder to understand. Autoimmunity, allergies, dysbiosis, SIBO, constipation, IBS and the list goes on……hunker down, grab a seat (or a porcelain throne) and pay close attention.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. How do we honor this command and reap the benefits in health and life?
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss being anchored in life. What are you anchored to that keeps you stable when life gets chaotic? BJ Palmer said “Who can anchor to an unanchored mind.” When the going gets tough do you abandon the things that keep you on track or do you lean into the curve and bear down, not abandoning that which got you where you are?!?!?!
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss how 80% of all pharmaceuticals are synthetic copies of plant based compounds. When you search pubmed.com you will return thousands of searches on all sorts of plant based chemicals that are being studied for future medical treatment. So then how do we use plants to support our health? How do they work? What oil and when?
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss how do we turn 3 holidays into roughly 2 months of self sabotage. Excessive eating, excessive drinking, dessert, skipping workouts, not working, kids off school, seeing family we haven’t seen since the last disagreement….its no wonder this time of the year can be hectic. We will give you some practical steps to get you back on track.
Osteoarthritis: Go get the oil can! (oil me) [Align Your Health: Episode 23]
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss osteoarthritis (OA). Specifically in the spine osteoarthritis eventually becomes debilitating but we often don’t even feel or recognize the initial onset. Kind of like a dental cavity, by the time you feel it…the problem may be severe. How do you avoid looking hunched-over, immobile and unhealthy like your grandma.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD). What is a degenerative disc. What is the difference between a budged, herniated, sequestered disc? Can they heal and repair? When is it time for surgery? Can chiropractic help? Is degeneration really a disease? We also share some real life patient testimonials.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss sleep. How much are we supposed to get. Are there certain hours that are best. What does too little sleep cause. What can healthy sleep promote. What are the practical steps to better your sleep tonight
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the principle of “The One Thing”. If there is only one thing you had to change immediately because you life and health depend on it… What would it be? Why don’t you focus ALL of your efforts on THAT right NOW. It will arguably change your life more than ANYTHING else.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss Sugar. It isn’t innocent any more. It’s been processed, mutated, deformed and is now one of the more toxic substances to our lifestyle. Classified as an excitotoxin and an anti-nutrient, it leaches health from our body all while tasting great. Learn how to defeat the sugar monster!
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss kids nutrition. How do we get our kids eating in a way that allows them to grow up to be healthy adults. What should our children be eating. What should they be avoiding. What if they are picky eaters. What if you already started off on the wrong foot.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss headaches. We have both suffered with them at different times in our lives for different reasons. What causes them? Migraine, Cluster, Sinus, Allergic, Regular? Is there a Regular Headache? What do they all have in common? Hear Isaiah’s powerful study, it’s awesome, but how it changed his families health was even more amazing!!!!!
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the power of the mind. The placebo, the nocebo, wrongful diagnoses, our beliefs systems. Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right.” and Einstein said, “There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.” Our minds matter and when it comes to your life, your relationships, your family, your finances, and most importantly your health, our minds matter most! (99%)
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the Cancer Killing Don’t Get It Plan. Five essential areas that we have to take control over our health. Also what supplements and foods have been proven (and studied from the NIH) to increase the effects of chemotherapy and protect your body. What test should you look into first if you get the dreaded diagnosis.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss Cancer treatments. What is wrong with the conventional methods of Cut, Poison, & Burn when it comes to trying to heal from one of the most concerning illnesses we know of. Do they actually work?
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the emperor of all maladies. Cancer diagnoses affect over 1 in 3 people. Cancer has destroyed the health and taken the life of loved ones of almost all of us. We shudder at the word CANCER. However, what is it? Why are we so fearful of it? How does it operate or function? Does cancer make you sick or is it rather the symptom of a sick body? Let's build lasting immunity and discover the power of prevention.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss SORCERY in this day in age. Pharmakeia (strongs 5331) Drugs are this generations biggest issue. literally a spell cast over a population that causes more disease, less health. More bankruptcy, less wealth. More discontent, less happiness. More death, less life. Find out what to do when you don't know what to do.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss our brains. How do you keep your brain healthy long term? Thriving and functioning, memory strong, recall, resilience, and acuity. Why would our memory leave us? Why to we feel brain fog? What are the key signs NOW, that you may suffer dementia LATER. What can you do and when should you do it. Beating dementia and Alzheimer's.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss this generations newest problem. Three thousand chemicals now legally added to food, thirty thousand more used in food processing, air fresheners with over thirty hormone disrupting chemicals, chlorine, fluoride, and pharmaceuticals in the water we are drinking...what do we do? Can we even avoid it? Childhood cancer growing 1% per year (fastest of all growing cancers). Vaccine schedule is 5x what it was two decades ago. Allergies, Asthma & Infertility are becoming the new norm. There has to be a better way.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss this generations newest problem. Three thousand chemicals now legally added to food, thirty thousand more used in food processing, air fresheners with over thirty hormone disrupting chemicals, chlorine, fluoride, and pharmaceuticals in the water we are drinking...what do we do? Can we even avoid it? Childhood cancer growing 1% per year (fastest of all growing cancers). Vaccine schedule is 5x what it was two decades ago. Allergies, Asthma & Infertility are becoming the new norm. There has to be a better way.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss how healthy adults equate to healthy kids. How do we develop the mindset that creates strong, healthy brains for our kids as they go back into the classrooms. ADD, ADHD, ASD, OCD, ODD, and all the other acronyms have in common. How doe the nervous system respond to physical stress, poor nutrition, and medication???
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the #1 killer disease in the U.S., heart disease. Cholesterol...you have been lied to. High blood pressure, you have to hear the newest science on what matters most. Statins.....forget about it...they are literally poison.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss why everything you been taught about your DNA is wrong. The newest scientific knowledge of EPIGENETICS has yet to spill over into healthcare. Your genetic potential isn't a blueprint, its a very adaptable, easily influenced, code that can be turned on and off, up and down almost like a set of dimmer switches on your health code. Its time to turn the focus toward our mindset, nutrition, and nervous system....they have been proven to change your DNA.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss what Hippocrates meant in 400 BC when he first said "Let thy food be thy medicine." We literally build every single cell of our entire body out of what we put in our mouth. Are you building HEALTH or DIS-EASE? What is wrong with the SAD (standard American diet) and how can we set ourselves up for health success regardless of what the FDA says is safe for consumption. Twinkies? FDA approved really?
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss your immune system. What is it? Where is it? How does it work? How do we create a fortress against the germs, bacteria, and viruses so that they don't harm us. Better yet, do we actually need to be concerned about them in the first place? Training the troops before the battle ever begins is the best defense. The NEURO-immune system model is the missing newest science but the oldest principle in the current immune model.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the fitness epidemic. We live in a country that has more fitness magazines, workout equipment, workout facilities, and personal trainers than any other country, yet we are more out of shape, obese, and unhappy than ever. The CDC says that only 23% of the population actually exercise as regularly as they should. Hormones, metabolism, joint disease, heart disease, diabetes and your mood will all benefit from "proper exercise." Learn how only 12 minutes a day will get you into world class shape.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss, as Ashley calls it, the symphony orchestra that are your hormones and your neuro-edocrine system. Many of us (men and women alike) feel hormonally complicated or erratic. The right notes need to being played at the right times and they all need to come together perfectly in order for our hormonal system to function well. If the cadence is off, function can be detrimental. join us as we address where this disfunction begins and how to correct it.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the gut. Commonly called "The Second Brain" it has as the same amount of nerve tissue by weight at your brain. It comprises roughly 80% of the immune system via our protective bacteria. 50% of your dopamine and 90% of your serotonin are produced in the gut causing it to be THE major influence on your mood, depression and anxiety. How do you get it healthy again? Dr. Ryan and Ashley discuss exactly what to do to have a healthy gut.
Dr. Ryan and Ashley Berlin discuss the greatest principle they have ever know. Where does health come from. Do we have it or is it something we have to go look for and then get or achieve. What is your health organ? Plus amazing stories of healing from their decades of experience with thousands of patients.