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Four Patients A Day Beats One Every Ten Minutes
Thirty days of food comes before anything else, and it doubles as her filter. New patients at Simone Medical get one intervention to start: "I don't do anything but change their diet for the first thirty days." Her rule for what goes in the cart is just as short. If it comes in a bag or a box, or the label runs past about four ingredients, it does not belong in the house. And she is willing to lose the patient over it. "I will not do anything for you if you're not pooping every day and if you're still eating garbage. I wanna help everybody, but if you're not willing to make that change, I'm not willing to help you, because I know that it's not gonna work." Why the clinical work turned out to be the easy half. Lindsay was trained to treat people. Nobody trained her to run the thing that lets her treat people. "I've never been trained in business. I went to NC State, I took some economics classes. But that's been the hardest part." Taxes, payroll, the first two hires, the decision to sign a lease on a brick and mortar after years of telehealth: all of it landed on the person who says she just wants to see patients. It is the same wall almost every clinician hits on the way out of employment, and it is worth hearing her say it plainly. Muscle is the insurance policy a GLP-1 does not come with. She prescribes them and she is glad they exist. What worries her is how casually they get handed out. "Everybody wants a shot," she says, and the people who take one without doing the rest are writing themselves a bill that comes due at seventy, in a hip. So strength training is non-negotiable in her program, alongside protein, fiber and creatine. Her line for the patients who resist it: "Muscle is our fat insurance. If you build more muscle, you can eat more food."
The Intelligence of Symptoms Part 4: Fatigue, Water Retention, Depression & Anxiety
On this episode of Vitality Radio, Jared closes out the Intelligence of Symptoms series by looking at fatigue, water retention, depression, and anxiety through a different lens. Could these symptoms be signals that the body is asking for something rather than problems that simply need to be suppressed? Jared explores the roles of sleep, chronic stress, screen time, circadian rhythm, electrolytes, digestion, nutrition, and the gut-brain connection. He also examines the long-standing chemical imbalance theory of depression, discusses MTHFR and folic acid metabolism, and shares Jen’s personal experience with mental health and nutrition. The goal is not to ignore serious symptoms, but to ask better questions about what may be driving them and how supporting the body’s normal function can help restore resilience.
The Five-Day Fast Where You Still Eat Every Day
It is a fast you eat through. Renee explains that ProLon's five-day protocol grew out of Dr. Walter Longo's research into the cellular effects of fasting. You eat a small, set amount of mostly plant-based food each day, which the company says makes it easier to follow and gentler on muscle than a water-only fast. Built for people who can't afford to stop eating. Renee says the fasting mimicking diet was first developed for cancer patients who could benefit from fasting but couldn't go without food or lose muscle. That same design appeals to anyone who finds a water-only fast too drastic, including women whose bodies are already carrying stress. The five-day cycle is used a few times a year. The company recommends one cycle a month for three months when starting, then about every three to four months, with one-day kits to try it out. If you have a health condition, do it with your practitioner, since ProLon is largely shared through clinicians.
The Amino Acids Your Brain Needs To Calm Down
Amino acids are the raw material for mood chemistry. Serotonin, GABA, and dopamine are all built from amino acids. Laurie looks for which building blocks a person is running short on, supports them with single amino acids, and then works on why they ran low in the first place. Her first test takes about five minutes per capsule. Laurie mails clients a kit of nine amino acids. In a session, they open one capsule under the tongue, wait, and notice whether they feel calmer, more focused, or no different, and whatever they respond to becomes the starting point. She plans for the supplements to be temporary. Laurie checks in every seven to ten days while working on protein, sleep, and daily habits. She says many of her clients need fewer amino acids within three to six months, and she teaches them to use them again during stressful stretches.
Sick With No Trauma? This Is For You
You've done the elimination diet. The supplements. The sauna, the detox, the practitioner who was supposed to be different. You've spent money you didn't have. And you're still tired, still sick, and starting to wonder if the problem is you. Elisabeth Carson has tried more than ninety different healing approaches. In this conversation with Dr. Jaban Moore, she talks about what that actually cost her, what she'd spend money on again, and what she wouldn't. Elisabeth is a speaker, transformational coach, and the founder of Enhanced Flow. She hosts the Unlimited podcast, is studying brain health through Amen University, and holds a HarvardX certification in cellular energy and mitochondria. She came to all of it out of her own story – addiction, jail, and rebuilding her entire life from nothing. The second half of the conversation goes somewhere most healing conversations skip: what happens when you're sick and you cannot point to a single thing that happened to you. In this episode: -> How many things she actually tried, and over how many years -> What all of it cost, in money and in everything else -> What she'd spend money on again, and what she wouldn't -> How to tell the difference between something that isn't working and something working slowly -> Whether the order you do things in matters more than what you do -> What she was actually trying to fix underneath all the protocols -> Trauma you can't remember, and why "nothing bad happened to me" doesn't rule it out -> What addiction was regulating for her, and what changed when it stopped -> What a body in permanent survival mode stops prioritizing, and how that shows up -> Why the trauma conversation can quietly turn into blaming sick people for being sick -> What's on her list that costs nothing -> The one thing almost everybody skips -> Who you become when you're no longer the sick one
How Addiction Changes the Brain #science #neuroscience #anatomy
Addiction is not a moral failure. It is a medical condition rooted in changes to the brain’s reward, motivation, and stress systems. Dr. Xavier Jimenez explains how the nucleus accumbens and ventral tegmental area help drive dopamine-based reward, cravings, withdrawal, and the repeating cycle of substance use. Understanding the brain science behind addiction is essential to reducing stigma and supporting effective treatment. #AddictionScience #SubstanceUseDisorder #BrainHealth #Dopamine #BrainBreak
Why Your Brain Reacts Before You Can Think?
What happens in your brain when you sense danger? Dr. Xavier Jimenez explains how the amygdala activates the body’s fight-or-flight response and how the brain’s newer cortical systems can help determine whether a threat is truly dangerous. Understanding this process can help explain fear, anxiety, and why our first reaction is not always the most accurate one. #Amygdala #FightOrFlight #FearResponse #BrainHealth #BrainBreak #science #neuroscience #anatomy
How Your Brain Turns Sight Into Meaning
Seeing is about much more than what enters your eyes. Dr. Xavier Jimenez explains how visual information travels through the optic nerve and multiple processing pathways before reaching the occipital lobe at the back of the brain. Changes anywhere along this circuit can affect how we interpret what we see. That may help explain why two people can look at the same image and perceive something completely different. #VisualProcessing #OccipitalLobe #Neuroscience #BrainHealth #brainbreak
Can Allergies Make Anxiety Worse?
Allergies do more than cause sneezing, itching, and discomfort. They can also contribute to anxiety, stress, hypervigilance, and avoidance. Dr. Xavier Jimenez explains how unpleasant allergy symptoms may activate the brain’s fight-or-flight response, creating a cycle that affects daily life and overall well-being. He also discusses research connecting a high number of documented allergies with higher levels of anxiety. #Allergies #Anxiety #MentalHealth #FightOrFlight #MindingMedicine #science #neuroscience #anatomy #brain
Why Smells Trigger Powerful Memories
Why can one smell instantly bring back a memory or emotion? Dr. Xavier Jimenez explains how scent travels from the nose through the olfactory nerve and olfactory bulb before reaching brain regions connected to memory and emotion, including the amygdala and hippocampus. This close connection helps explain why smells can trigger such vivid associations, feelings, and memories. #SenseOfSmell #OlfactorySystem #Memory #Neuroscience #BrainBreak #science #neuroscience #anatomy
Should Smoking Be Banned for Future Generations?
Could an entire generation grow up without legally buying cigarettes? Dr. Xavier Jimenez discusses the United Kingdom’s proposed generational smoking ban, which would gradually raise the legal purchasing age and prevent younger generations from ever legally buying tobacco. Supporters see it as a major public health step. Critics question personal freedom and whether prohibition is the right approach. Where do you stand? #SmokingBan #TobaccoControl #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy #MindingMedicine #science #neuroscience #anatomy