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The Roots of Health Archives - WebTalkRadio.net
Dietary food guidelines are a distinctly modern phenomenon. Why do they even exist? Probably because all of the sudden, consumers have so many choices, that they can no longer instinctually feed themselves… and remain healthy. While the US has been making dietary recommendations to its citizens for over a century, and have updated them every […]
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In the past 30 or 40 years, we’ve been getting really good at creating indoor activities. In part this could because of the advances in modern technology, maybe the comfort and safety of home, or maybe simply the convenience of the matter. Whatever the reason may be, our children are increasingly disconnected from nature, in […]
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Cold and flu season is here. When it’s kind of cruddy outside and we tend to be sequestered indoors and more prone to attack by the cold and flu bugs. Now is really the time to ramp up your extreme self-care to boost your immune system. There are plenty of ways to do this, you […]
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Here on The Roots of Health, I like to explore the disconnect between our health and our modern environment, and it’s no secret that the health of your environment is directly related to the health of yourself. I like to approach the health of our environment from an ancestral perspective. Whereas we used to hunt […]
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Bugs. You might even call them creepy crawlies. On one hand we freak out when we see a cock roach scurry across the floor. On the other hand, we might be fascinated with them, particularly when we’re protected from them, when they are behind glass. We’ve invented bug spray and pesticides to keep them wholly […]
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Human beings are hard wired for survival. Our ancestors probably went through some feast or famine process. Food was not readily available for them, they had to hunt for it, they had to collect it, and if they didn’t, they were hungry. If the hunt brought home some giant animal, they might all feast on […]
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I have a very logical mind and I like to think about our health as the cumulative result of how we’ve interacted with our environment for our entire lives. In order to change our health, we need to change our environment going forward. But it turns out that we are more than just physical beings. […]
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It’s that time of year again when we begin to think about the people that we love and how grateful we are for them in our lives… and oftentimes we want to express that gratitude with a gift. And I thought that I would pull together some of my favorite things to give you some […]
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Nearly 1 out of 4 deaths in the US today can be attributed to heart disease, it’s the number 1 cause of death. And our conventional way to treat heart disease is to prescribe statin medications, to tell people to move more, to eat less fat., to eat a healthy diet including heart healthy whole […]
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Seems like at least once a year, we’re seeing headlines about how red meat is killing us. The latest news is from the World Health Organization – who has just announced that processed meats are carcinogenic, and that red meat is probably carcinogenic. This conclusion was determined by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, […]
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How would you feel if you had headaches and you were stressed out and you couldn’t figure out what was wrong but you wanted to feel right again. And you went to your doctor and they did a medical intake, and talked to you about what was going on in your life, and then they […]
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One of my primary messages is that our environment shapes us. Our environment literally shapes our bodies, our health, our mental state. If you want to change your body, your health, your mental state, you need to change your environment. Over the past year on The Roots of Health, I’ve interviewed a number of guests […]
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Parents, you may have kids at home, and you may recognize a connection between what your child eats, and how they behave. Last week, I did a show about sugar, about all of the names for sugar on a label, about artificial sugars and what they might do to us, about how swapping refined sugar […]
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You know what sugar is, it might even rule your world. You’ve grown up in a world where sugar is cheap and plentiful, it’s awesome sweetness makes you want to eat your food – and the food industry knows this. On the other hand, you’ve probably heard that sugar is poison or that it’s as […]
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I was first prescribed glasses in 3rd grade. They were giant lenses with enough real estate to adorn with stickers. That was close to ~32 years ago, and my prescription has progressively gotten stronger ever since. Up until recently – I thought the only option that I had to correct my vision was corrective lenses […]
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I am a student of Nutritious Movement, a course of study designed by biomechanist Katy Bowman that draws an analogy between the nutrient requirements that humans have from food, and the various loads that human beings require from movement. This is no ordinary study… It recognizes movement ‘macronutrients’ like walking – and movement ‘micronutrients’ like […]
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If it’s one thing that we’re good at doing in our modern environment… it’s not recognizing the effect of noise in our life. I live on a pretty busy road – and I rarely notice the sound of cars driving by. It’s just become part of my environment. At least once a year I get […]
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To me, heavy metal was my music of choice back in the 80’s. But these days, heavy metal means something entirely different. The term ‘heavy metal’ has become synonymous with metallic elements that are toxic to us in relatively low concentrations – or elements that can build up in our system over time. One particular […]
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1 in 4 people over the age of 45 in the US are on cholesterol lowering drugs to prevent heart disease, thought to be caused by high cholesterol in our blood. The National Institutes for Health want to increase that number by decreasing the threshold by which physicians would prescribe cholesterol lowering medications. At the […]
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Picture a classroom. What do you see? Brightly colored walls, books everywhere, buckets of school supplies, a teacher or two, and15-25 kids sitting at tables or desks. Most of us send our kids to school for at least 13 years of their lives and the bulk of their time at school (and at home for […]
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The human species today is captive in a modern environment of its making. It’s like we created a zoo for ourselves by building structures and moving indoors. The bulk of human evolution took place in nature – under a certain set of environment pressures that literally shaped our species. And our modern environment and social […]
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If you asked me what an herb was, I’d tell you that I use them to add flavor to my meals and that my favorites are cilantro, parsley, rosemary, basil, thyme, & bay leaf. I’d actually never think to use them to treat a headache or to breathe better or to soothe my skin. But […]
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Are you walking around with a mouthful of silver amalgams? Would it surprise you to learn that 50% of that material is elemental mercury? Over the years, we’ve been taught to avoid handling mercury – mercury thermometers have been replaced with digital ones, pregnant women & children have been warned against eating too many fish […]
The post The Roots of Health – Removing Amalgams and Detoxing from Mercury with Dr. Alvin Danenberg appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.
Trauma is not a modern issue at all. You can imagine that for as long as humans have roamed this planet, they’ve experienced traumatic situations (although they may not be the same sorts of situations as we face in modern times). In fact, in today’s world, you might even be walking around without recognizing the […]
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Bugs. You might even call them creepy crawlies. On one hand we freak out when we see a cock roach scurry across the floor. On the other hand, we might be fascinated with them, particularly when we’re protected from them, when they are behind glass. We’ve invented bug spray and pesticides to keep them wholly […]
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When you think about bees, do you think about being stung, or having an allergic reaction, or maybe honey? Let’s take a bigger picture perspective and recognize them for the gigantic service they do for us as pollinators. Today, about 1/3 of the produce in our markets is brought to us by the humble honeybee. […]
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Dietary food guidelines are a distinctly modern phenomenon. Why do they even exist? Probably because all of the sudden, consumers have so many choices, that they can no longer instinctually feed themselves… and remain healthy. While the US has been making dietary recommendations to its citizens for over a century, and have updated them every […]
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*This show is more about not driving your family away when you decide to change your dietary choices… but it will equally apply to your friends… carry on. Hi, I’m Meredith, and I was once a jerk – disguised as a health coach. I understand this is a common problem – where one-half of a […]
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Cancer is a group of diseases that is characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells, and the American Cancer Society suggests that it can be treated with things like surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, hormone therapy, immune therapy, and targeted therapy – or drugs that interfere with cancer cell growth. These are the primary options […]
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It’s pretty common for us to associate innovation and technology with human ingenuity. In school, we learned about the industrial revolution, and how from that point forward… the standard of life began to increase consistently for the first time in history. The development of machines to do the physical work of humans not only sparked […]
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One of the basic problems that we face on Earth today as a result of ever-growing population is… how do we feed the world without taxing our natural resources? There’s no doubt that modern approach to raising livestock for food goes against all of the laws of nature – it wastes precious resources while creating […]
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The modern state of our dental health is less than desirable, our jaws are narrow – our teeth are crowded & crooked, we have cavities, gum disease & braces are pretty much a rite of passage… Our approach today is to focus on oral hygiene; brushing, flossing, fluoride treatments, and professional cleanings a couple times […]
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When I was in elementary school in the early 80’s, we were allowed to have peanut butter at lunch, there was no ‘allergy table’ in the cafeteria, and bake sale items didn’t have to come with a list of ingredients. Today – my kids have friends with life threatening allergies – no strawberries in this […]
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Everyone in the United States knows that fluoride makes your teeth strong and prevents cavities, right? Most toothpaste contains fluoride for that very reason… And because of fluoride’s reputation for preventing tooth decay – it was decided long ago to add fluoride to the water supply as a means of protecting the oral health of […]
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This is Part 2 of my interview with Martin Zucker… if you have yet to hear that one, you can catch it here. It’s electricity 101. You ground your outlets to protect yourself and your appliances from stray voltage. It’s exactly what it sounds like. Your wiring is connected to a rod that is embedded into […]
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Have you ever been to the beach? Have you noticed that when you’re out walking on the beach or wading in the ocean that you feel amazing? Maybe it’s because you’re outside inhaling some fresh air or getting some much needed vitamin D, maybe it’s because you’re on vacation and you suddenly don’t have a […]
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There’s nothing like a warm bubble bath to relax you, maybe in a tub surrounded by vanilla-scented candles… And once you’re done, for sure you’ll want to moisturize before you lounge around in your super soft & fluffy bath robe. This sort of self-care is encouraged by health & wellness professionals everywhere. I should know, […]
The post The Roots of Health – The 7 Deadly Estro-Sins with Bonnie Penner appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.
Human beings adapt to their environment. In fact in nature, the process of adaptation enables the fitness and survival of a species. Human beings have successfully adapted to their environment for the past few hundred to few million years (depending on where you interpret the first human species) to populate the Earth. And we have […]
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What would you think if I told you that you could feed yourself a nutritious, seasonal, whole foods diet with no carbon footprint… for free? Maybe you’d think that I’d lost my mind, I do that sometimes, but I assure you – that my mind is with me today. Once upon a time, before the […]
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I have a question for you today. What is it that you do 3-6 times a day that provides information to your body? You eat. You make choices about what foods you put into your body. Eating food provides your body with the raw materials that it needs to run the chemistry of life. Pretty […]
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Do you feel dull, depressed, living life under a set of rules that don’t really exist? Are you annoyed by frivolity? Are you trapped in a state of ‘but-we’ve-always-done-it-that-way’? I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you might just have a raging case of Adultitis. My guest today spends his time creating […]
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We all have stuff, stuff in our garage, stuff in our basement, in our closets, it’s taking up space in our home. We may not even see the ‘stuff’ that’s right in plain sight and we may not even know what is in those boxes in the attic or the basement, at least I don’t. […]
The post The Roots of Health – Your Home Environment and Your Health with Jane Antonovich appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.
Here’s a disconnect for you – I hear this all of the time – I need more hours in a day… and while this is actually an impossibility… the modern solution to this problem is work into the evening, sacrificing time otherwise spent sleeping. AND we don’t really think too much of that – because […]
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100% of my clients can tell me 3 things that they could do to improve their health. I hear things like ‘I need to exercise more’ or ‘I need to eat less sugar’ or ‘I need to get more sleep’ or ‘I don’t drink enough water’… But apparently it’s one thing for yourself to KNOW, […]
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People are often put off by the sticker shock of organic foods. That bag of conventionally grown potatoes is easily half the price of the organic one. What can a financially responsible person do to reap the benefits of naturally grown foods? The solution is easier than you think… stop shopping at the grocery store, […]
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What does it mean to be clean? Our daily routine is strongly influenced by our requirement to be clean… and, why not? If our perception is that clean = healthy – then we’re doing all of the right things, right? Let’s consider this as we walk through a typical morning routine in your house. After […]
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Odds are, you or someone you know has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Cancer of any sort is a scary diagnosis… and for many of us, this diagnosis is synonymous with radiation, surgery, chemotherapy, hair loss, weakness, and a life lived in survival mode. Modern cancer treatments can be so stressful that some people are […]
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Let’s go way back… One of the traits that uniquely separates the human species from other primates is our upright posture where we walk around on 2 legs. We are bipedal. Based on fossil evidence, anthropologists estimate that this bipedalism evolved in early human species maybe 4 million years ago… But another uniquely human trait […]
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Welcome back to Part 2 of my interview about Microbiome Research & Applications with Dr. Embriette Hyde. In Part 1 we learned that our bacterial genome contains roughly 360 times more genes that our human genome, and because our own microbiome is the product of our unique diets, environments, lifestyle, geography, and demographics, it holds […]
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So after last week’s show, you’re no longer walking the earth blissfully unaware of the microbial communities inside of your body. (If you didn’t hear last week’s show – you might want to fire it up and listen to it before you hear this one). But why should you care about these communities? What are […]
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You are likely humming along in your daily life, blissfully unaware of your non-human parts. Yep – you are a superorganism. Roughly 10% of the cells in your body are the cells that make up your human body. So what are the other 90% composed of? Here to acquaint us with the other 90% of […]
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Imagine your great-great-great-great-great-grandmother heading out to the garden to collect some potatoes for dinner. Can you see her with her basket and maybe an apron on to protect her clothes? She digs around for a while to unearth some potatoes and fill her basket and then hauls her potatoes back to the house. Does great-great-great-great-great […]
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Do you sometimes feel guilty for not putting in the recommended 30 minutes of exercise, 5 days a week? Well, let me release you from that guilt… Exercise as you know it is an activity that has been created for us to address a disconnect in our modern environment, an environment that is far removed […]
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In your quest to gain health – you may choose to eat organically grown & GMO-free veggies & meats in order to reduce or eliminate toxins in your diet. That’s great! Now it’s time to consider the effect that your personal care products have on your body. Ingredients that make shampoos lather, that make lotions […]
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In Part 1 of Meredith’s interview with Dr. Aaron Blaisdell, professor in Learning & Behavior and Behavioral Neuroscience in the UCLA Psychology Department and founding member of the Ancestral Health Society they introduce the topic of Ancestral Health, what it is, how a diet may in fact influence motivation, how you should develop your own […]
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The Roots of Health explores the disconnect between our health and our modern environment. In other words, we look through an ancestral health lens to evaluate how we eat, move, sleep, and create community today might be harming our human health, which evolved under a completely different set of circumstances (different foods, movement, sleep, and […]
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From an ancestral perspective (or otherwise, for that matter), it is a huge challenge to nourish your child the way that you want and to maintain any sort of control over what they are eating on a daily basis. It’s healthy for our kids to have a social life, yet when they are at a […]
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Attention parents and teachers of small children. Are you exhausted by your kids? Do they drive you crazy when they don’t sit still or play with their food at the dinner table? Do you feel frustrated by the lack of adherence to your ‘house rules’? Let’s take a step back for a second and observe […]
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We have so many choices these days. When we go to the grocery store, we’re presented with a litany of options. If you’re shopping for meats, you’ll either be leaning over a refrigerated stack of pre-packaged ground beef, steaks, chicken, pork (insert your dinner option here) or peering through a glass display of meats where […]
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In the past few weeks, Meredith has presented a strong case for food as medicine. It’s pretty clear. But there’s another medicine that you may be lacking in your life. Laughter. How often do you laugh these days? You may be among the millions of humans out there with a serious laughter deficiency, and that’s […]
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This week we hear Part 2 of Meredith’s interview with Dr. Terry Wahls (if you’ve landed here and haven’t heard Part 1, click here to hear that first). Last week, we heard Dr. Wahls’ personal story – of reversing the symptoms of her Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis using food as medicine. It is clear to her […]
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To many, food is simply calories. It’s a necessary part of life that prevents us from being hungry and gives us energy. We define food as whatever happens to be for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Food is just what we eat – with little awareness about how it interacts with our bodies. Meredith’s guest today is […]
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We’ve all heard of probiotics, they are beneficial bacteria that you can consume to help your body to digest, assimilate nutrients, create neurotransmitters, and strengthen your immune system. They are all the rage in health communities these days, with good reason. But what comes to mind when you think of them? Chances are you think […]
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Are you prone to illness? Exhausted, headachy, or brain-foggy? The root causeof your illness just might be stress. We all face modern stressors, both good and bad, both acute and chronic. Good stress, also called eustress, is related to getting a job done, or excitement and joy. Good stressors are resolved in some timely fashion. But bad stress, […]
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Despite the fact that there is little solid data out there to support the wholesale demonization of gluten, it remains a hot topic in health and wellness circles. Why is this? It’s simple… many people find relief from headaches, stomach pain, gastrointestinal issues, brain fog, joint pain… the list goes on and on… by removing […]
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‘Health’ is this ideal that many of us seek, but often we are actually harming ourselves in the pursuit of it. The messages that we receive in modern life, messages about beauty, weight, exercise, diets, about how we’re currently not good enough, are messages that we understand to be true and they have a huge […]
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In this first episode of The Roots of Health, Meredith Rhodes Carson shares a bit about her story to inform the listener going forward. Her story is a common one, where she believed that skinny equals healthy, developed un-diagnosable health issues, put all of her faith in her primary doc, and fell victim to conventional health & […]
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