Our Health Talks: Recent Episodes
Our Health Talks
Our Health Talks is a platform for health and wellness conversations away from the noise of social media. Currently, our episodes are focused on the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, and look at both the disease, as well as general wellness in the time of COVID-19.
Our Health Talks was pleased to welcome psychiatrist Dr. Drew Ramsey to the program recently to discuss the mental health implications of the coronavirus pandemic. This conversation addressed one of the most important, and overlooked, implications of this current moment: the mental health ramifications of social isolation, distancing, and a global pandemic.
We'll discuss:
- Having respectful disagreements
- Nutritional psychiatry and the role of food in mental health
- The need for resiliency
- Media consumption and your mental health
- And more!
This conversation was originally recorded on May 27, 2020.
Our Health Talks was joined by the dynamic (married) duo of Drs. Ashley Eskew and Will Haas to discuss everything new and expecting parents need to know about COVID-19 and their family planning.
Today, we'll cover:
- Integrative fertility
- If this is a good time to conceive
- COVID-19 contraction and what that means for a child being carried
- Any concerns around breastfeeding in this moment
- And much more!
This interview was originally recorded on May 8, 2020.
This week citizen scientist and best-selling author Max Lugavere joined us to discuss how we can all empower ourselves to better understand science and cut through the noise to interpret what we need to know during this mile-a-minute Coronavirus news cycle.
This interview was originally recorded on May 19, 2020.
Our latest talk featured allergy and asthma expert Dr. Kari Nadeau, who joined us to discuss the management and implications of those very conditions in the COVID-19 age. This conversation challenges many of the assumptions we have about what these concerns mean for COVID-19 risk profile and outcomes. This conversation covers:
- Asthma as a risk factor for COVID-19?
- Differentiating between symptoms: COVID-19 or allergy.
- Allergy medication and the immune system.
- The relationship between air pollution and asthma and allergies
- And much more!
This conversation was originally recorded on May 13, 2020.
An Our Health Talks special event! This talk was our first-ever panel discussion, and it was on the subjects of mental health, wellness, and performance while quarantined at home during physical distancing and COVID-19. To discuss the impacts of this on family, relationships, children, and career, Our Health Talks was joined by three expert panelists for a roundtable discussion. Joining were Drs. Claudia Gold, Joan Rosenberg, and Scott Sonenshein.
Our latest talk featured heart surgeon, four-time New York Times best-selling author, and physician-scientist Dr. Steven Gundry, who joined us to discuss gut health, immune health, and take your questions on health and wellness during COVID-19.
In this interview we covered:
- Why gut health is so critical right now, and what good gut health looks like
- The role for vitamin C
- The role of self-care in gut and immune health
- And more!
This interview was recorded on May 5, 2020.
Our latest talk featured gastroenterologist Dr. Robynne Chutkan, who joined us to discuss gut health, immune health, and the management of disease and chronic conditions in the COVID-19 age. Naturally, the core of our conversation (pun intended) was about the health of the gut, but we further explored how gut health and immune health are linked, and what you can do to build you body’s defenses in our current moment.
This conversation covered:
- How Dr. Chutkan’s “Live Dirty, Eat Clean” mantra applies to health today
- Risk of antibiotics to gut health
- How nature exposure and sunlight might help in combating the spread of COVID-19
- The role of hand sanitizers in the COVID-19 battle
- And more!
This talk was originally recorded on April 29, 2020.
Our latest talk featured functional medicine expert Dr. Will Cole, who came to us to shine a light on what we can do to strengthen our immune system during, and after, the age of COVID-19. This illuminating discussion touched a number of topics, from the foods we eat to the lifestyle choices that affect immune health, and should answer a number of your most pressing health questions, including:
- Defining immunity, and the immune system
- Key factors that cause inflammation
- How to find foods that trigger an inflammatory response in your body
- Vitamin D's role in the immune system?
- How stress compromises our immune health?
- And more!
The interview was originally recorded on April 22, 2020.
Our latest talk featured functional medicine expert Dr. Kara Fitzgerald, who came to us to shine a light on what functional medicine can teach us during the fight against coronavirus.
This conversations covers:
- Dr. Fitzgerald’s favorite anti-inflammatory foods
- Cytokine storm
- The importance of testing, and explaining antibody testing
- What we can learn from traditional Chinese medicine when fighting COVID-19
- Dr. Fitzgerald’s take on masks
- A COVID-19 second wave
- A role for vitamin C?
- Much more!
The interview was originally recorded on April 15, 2020.
Our latest talk featured Dr. Shivani Mody, an Emergency Medicine doc with Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, who went viral when she shared her experience working in a community hospital. She joined us to discuss what she and other doctors are seeing on the front lines in our hospitals.
In this discussion, we covered:
- How a physician "cleans up" when coming home from a shift
- How a COVID-19 patient presents
- Being a mom and a medical practitioner during COVID-19
- Symptoms in the gastrointestinal tract and Coronavirus
- Increased risk for communities of color and younger people
- How physicians are able to interact with patients right now
- And much more
This interview was recorded on April 8, 2020.
Our Health Talks was honored to have Dr. Susan Blum join us for a special Q&A on coronavirus and COVID-19. Dr. Susan Blum is an MD with an MPH, and is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine, Certified in Functional Medicine, and Integrative and Holistic Medicine. Dr. Blum joined us to discuss the public health implications of COVID-19 and coronavirus.
In this conversation, we discuss:
- Flaws, regulatory hurdles, and leadership concerns that cost us a month of testing
- Vitamin D and immune health
- The importance of masks
- And more
This conversation was recorded on March 28, 2020.
Our Health Talks was honored to have Dr. David Perlmutter join us for a special Q&A on coronavirus and COVID-19. Dr. David Perlmutter is a board-certified neurologist and fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and 5-time New York Times bestselling author. Dr. Perlmutter joined us to answer your burning questions on COVID-19 and coronavirus.
In today's conversation, we'll discuss:
- How gut bacteria and the microbiome impact immune health
- NSAIDs and the coronavirus
- Vitamin C, IV-C, and COVID-19
- Coronavirus: Round 2?
- And much, much more
This interview was originally recorded on March 28, 2020.
Our Health Talks was honored to have Dr. Terry Wahls join us for a special Q&A on coronavirus and COVID-19. Dr. Wahls is a physician, author, researcher, and TEDx speaker. She joined us to discuss the science on coronavirus, specifically as it relates to those with autoimmune conditions and compromised immune systems, and take your questions.
In this conversation, we'll discuss:
Cytokine storm
Probitoics and health
What we can learn from Italy's COVID-19 fight
And much, much more
This conversation was originally recorded on March 28, 2020.
Dr. Austin Perlmutter is a board-certified internal medicine physician and New York Times bestselling author, who joined us to deliver a presentation on mental health and wellness in the time of coronavirus.
This presentation covered topics including:
- Social connection – how to connect with those you care about during social distancing
- Managing the double-edged sword of news exposure
- The importance of nature exposure
- The power of practicing meditation and mindfulness
- How to care for a loved one with COVID-19
This interview was recorded on March 27, 2020.
Our Health Talks was honored to have Dr. Darria Long Gillespie join us for a special Q&A on coronavirus and COVID-19. She joined us to share the perspective from the ER, and to discuss the health measure we can all be taking to promote wellness in this time of pandemic.
In our conversation, we covered:
- What a day in the ER looks like
- The COVID-19 infection timeline
- How to talk to kids about coronavirus
- And much, much more
This interview was recorded on 3/27/20.
Gastroenterologist and Gut Health Expert Dr. Will Bulsiewicz joined us to discuss the coronavirus, and the need to focus on the fundamentals of health at this time.
In this conversation we'll discuss:
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- How COVID-19 affects the GI tract
- The prospect of a second wave
- Advice for the immunocompromised
- And much more