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Death of the Stress Test: Rethinking Heart Attack Prevention
Discover why the classic ‘cholesterol clogs your pipes’ story is outdated, how arteries actually behave like living muscle instead of plumbing, and why focusing only on lowering cholesterol can leave you blind to the real risks. Understand how stress tests, calcium scores, angiograms, stents, and bypass surgeries often miss the plaques at most risk to rupture, and why patients can ‘pass’ their cardiology workup and still end up with heart attacks. Learn how infections, autoimmunity, sugar, lifestyle, and even emotional stress can damage the artery ‘skin,’ and increase the chance of early heart attacks, and why personalized testing, rehab, and nervous system support are key to true prevention.
Your Body Has a Built-In Cannabis System (Endocannabinoid System Explained) #Shorts
Your endocannabinoid system — CB1 receptors, CB2 receptors, anandamide — is the master regulator of every other system in your body. Discovered in 1992. Ignored ever since. This is the cannabis science they never taught you, the nervous system regulation your chiropractor never learned, the plant medicine truth that threatens a billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry. Your brain and body have receptors designed specifically to interface with cannabinoids — both your own endocannabinoids and THC from the cannabis plant. You were born with this. It's encoded in your biology. Alcohol? Zero dedicated receptors. It's a neurotoxin your liver has to filter. Yet alcohol kills 95,000 Americans every year while cannabis remains Schedule I. Let that land in your body. As a chiropractor, I never learned about the endocannabinoid system. Not once. A system that regulates sleep, pain, mood, inflammation, memory, appetite — the master dial for your entire nervous system — and it was left out of the curriculum. Why? Because you can't patent a system your body already owns. You can't sell a pill for what a plant activates for free. Cannabis doesn't "get you high." It talks to a regulator your body built — 600 million years ago, before humans existed. The plant didn't invent the key. Your body built the lock. This is the science they buried. This is why cannabis ceremony works at a level pharmaceuticals can't touch. 📖 Somatophobia — the 660-page Sacred Cannabis Bible that cannabis helped birth → https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVFZ1CB8 🧠 Regulate — Re-Rite your relationship with cannabis in the free Cannabis Lab → https://app.templeoftheoriginalcodes.com Create a free account inside Regulate → https://app.templeoftheoriginalcodes.com https://www.templeoftheoriginalcodes.com Like, Share & Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@TempleOfTheOriginalCodes Somatophobia on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVFZ1CB8 Stay Connected on Telegram: https://t.me/drshellypersad #EndocannabinoidSystem #CannabisScience #NervousSystemRegulation #PlantMedicine #CannabisEducation
Speed to Lead in Healthcare: How Doctors Can Book More Consults
Discover why many practices lose valuable patient leads after spending thousands on ads, websites, and content because follow-up falls through the cracks. Understand why speed to lead matters, especially when patients expect fast, clear communication after requesting information online. Learn how AI texting, real human phone calls, and joyful persistence can help elective healthcare practices nurture leads and book more consultations.
You Think It’s the Heat. It’s Not.
Heat is a trigger, not the cause. The sweat, chlorine, and sun flaring your child's skin right now are revealing an imbalance that was already there, not creating a new one. The skin is a messenger for the gut. When digestion, liver, and lymph get backed up, the skin becomes the overflow valve, which is why calmer skin really does start on the inside. A few simple swaps buy real relief now: replacing the magnesium and zinc lost through sweat, hydrating with electrolyte-rich foods, and using a skin-loving herbal oil before baths and pool time.
How Functional Medicine Is Reshaping Healthcare
Functional medicine is becoming increasingly integrated into mainstream healthcare by expanding into hospitals, universities, and public health initiatives while maintaining its focus on root-cause, whole-person care. Community-centered healthcare—including group visits, patient networks, intergenerational relationships, and stronger social connections—can improve health outcomes, increase access to personalized care, and empower individuals to take ownership of their health. The future of functional medicine depends on balancing technological innovation with human connection, using tools like wearable devices and AI to support, rather than replace, authentic patient-centered care while promoting the body's natural ability to heal through nutrition, movement, stress management, and healthy lifestyle practices.
How Nutrition and Toxin Reduction Can Support Healthier Pregnancies
Discover why preconception care can shape fertility, pregnancy outcomes, and a child’s long-term health trajectory. Understand how sugar, pesticides, glyphosate, ultra-processed foods, and environmental toxins may contribute to inflammation and chronic illness risk. Learn why nutrition, immune support, toxin reduction, and safer pain and fever strategies deserve attention before and during pregnancy.
How Does Physical Therapy Meet Breathwork and Spiritual/Emotional Healing? Cole Thorton from Atman PT
We're built for the wild, not the office chair. Cole calls us "movement generalists" living in modern cages: crawling, climbing, lifting, and carrying are what our bodies still expect. Take those away, he argues, and we get stiff, anxious, and unwell, the same way any animal does in a zoo. Breath is the bridge. It's the rare practice that's physical and inner at once: your diaphragm is a core muscle, and your breath is also a doorway to deep calm. The least flashy version, simply paying attention to your breath, may do the most. We're healers, not mechanics. Bodies aren't cars you drop off for an oil change. Cole makes the case that the best care supports a person's own healing and treats the whole human, especially for the slow, tangled problems that quick fixes tend to miss.
Why Your Thyroid Labs Can Look Normal While You Feel Miserable
Discover why many people experience thyroid symptoms despite "normal" blood work and how reflex testing may provide additional insight into cellular thyroid function. Understand the differences between Hashimoto's disease, Graves' disease, and reverse T3 dysfunction, and why identifying the underlying cause is essential for effective treatment. Learn how thyroid health influences hormones, metabolism, mood, fertility, and quality of life, and why addressing symptoms early may help prevent more complex chronic health issues.
Why Your Thyroid Tests May Be Missing the Real Problem
Discover why many people continue to experience thyroid symptoms despite "normal" blood work, and how reflex testing, symptom patterns, and cellular thyroid function may reveal what conventional testing can miss. Understand the critical roles iodine, adrenal health, reverse T3, and intracellular hormone function play in thyroid performance, energy, metabolism, and overall quality of life. Learn how a comprehensive, personalized approach to thyroid health—including advanced functional testing, nutritional support, and hormone optimization—may help improve symptoms and even support remission in some cases of Hashimoto's disease.
Why Pain Changes Desire In Midlife
If intimacy feels uncomfortable… your body is doing exactly what it’s designed to do. We’re wired to avoid pain. So when sex becomes uncomfortable because of vaginal dryness, pelvic pain, or hormonal changes in midlife… it makes perfect sense that desire changes too. And no, that does not mean something is wrong with you. Sometimes your body isn’t broken. It’s asking for support. This is one of the conversations women deserve to be having more openly. 🎧 Listen to the full episode of Hotness now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. #Menopause #PainfulSex #HormoneHealth #MidlifeWomen #WomenHealth #Perimenopause #VaginalHealth #HotnessPodcast #DrLizLyster #HealthyAging
Why Did I Suddenly Lose My Drive?
This is exactly why I keep saying hormones are about so much more than sex. When women tell me they suddenly feel like they can’t keep up with life anymore… low motivation, low energy, no drive, no bandwidth… we need to ask deeper questions. Sometimes the issue isn’t motivation. Sometimes your hormones are asking for support. Hormone health changes everything when your body finally has what it needs. 🎙️ Full episode of Hotness drops Friday. Listen on Spotify + Apple Podcasts. #menopause #testosteroneforwomen #hormonehealth #perimenopause #midlifewomen #womenshealth #bioidenticalhormones #hormonereplacementtherapy #drli zlyster #hotnesspodcast