DrTalks Podcast

Michael Goran, PhD, explains how excess sugar affects kids’ health and shares practical ways parents can reduce added and liquid sugars. Michael Goran, PhD, explores how excess sugar can affect children’s health and development, from tooth decay to the broader effects of today’s high-sugar food environment. He distinguishes natural sugars in whole fruit from added and liquid sugars, discusses conc...

Dr. Siggie Cohen explains why tantrums happen, how parents can stay calm, set boundaries, and recognize when a child may need added support. Dr. Siggie Cohen explains tantrums as a developmental expression of young children’s limited ability to contain and communicate emotions. She shares how parents can respond with calm, simple language and firm safety boundaries, then reflect afterward to build...

Andy Mant explains how light timing can affect circadian rhythms, sleep, mood, and stress and shares practical ways to improve light hygiene. Light helps set the timing of sleep, wakefulness, alertness, and hormone release. Andy Mant joins Caroline Leaf, MS, PhD, to discuss how natural and artificial light may influence circadian rhythms, sleep, stress, anxiety, and mood. He shares practical ways...

Dr. Miles Nichols examines the gut-brain axis, the psychobiome, and research linking microbial imbalances with mood, stress, and brain health. The gut and brain communicate through more than digestion. In this solo talk, Miles Nichols explores the psychobiome and research connecting gut microbial patterns with mood, stress responses, and neurological function. He examines proposed pathways involvi...

Dr. Mariza Snyder explains how perimenopause can affect mood, sleep, focus, and identity and discusses personalized support for mental health. Perimenopause can feel like losing touch with the person you used to be. Mariza Snyder joins Sharon Stills, NMD, to discuss how hormonal changes may affect mood, sleep, focus, stress tolerance, and emotional resilience. She explains why symptoms differ from...

Shawn Stevenson shares three science-backed habits involving sleep, whole-food nutrition, and shared meals that can support mental health. Protecting your mental health often begins with the habits that shape everyday life. Shawn Stevenson joins Caroline Leaf, MS, PhD, to explain how sleep, nutrition, and meaningful connection may influence emotional resilience. He shares ways to create a screen c...

Michelle Sands, ND, explains how shifting hormones can affect mood, focus, and brain fog and discusses personalized support during midlife. Changes in mood, focus, sleep, and energy during midlife are often treated as separate problems. In this conversation, Michelle Sands, ND, explains how declining and fluctuating hormones may contribute to anxiety, irritability, brain fog, and other symptoms du...

Sarah Close explains how defensiveness can signal hidden vulnerability and become an opening for trauma healing, self-awareness, and growth. Sarah Close explains how defensiveness can emerge when people approach vulnerable parts of themselves during trauma recovery. She explores protective responses such as minimizing, distraction, avoidance, rigidity, and withdrawal, and shows how curiosity can r...

Israa Nasir reveals how to recognize toxic productivity, reduce overcommitment, embrace rest, and build a healthier relationship with achievement. Israa Nasir explains how toxic productivity turns constant achievement into a measure of personal worth, leaving little room for rest, reflection, or genuine connection. She examines how childhood conditioning, workplace urgency, digital metrics, and op...

Eric Robins, MD, explores how emotions, chronic stress, and blocked energy affect the body’s capacity to heal. Eric Robins, MD, explains how unresolved trauma and chronic stress can keep the body in fight, flight, or freeze, disrupting energy, pain regulation, digestion, immunity, and healing. Drawing from medicine, energy healing, and somatic psychotherapy, he discusses sensing emotions without a...

Amanda Wonderland explains how EFT tapping, self-compassion, and daily self-care practices can support nervous system regulation after trauma. Amanda Wonderland shares how EFT tapping helped her connect emotional stress with physical symptoms, process grief, and regain a sense of agency after trauma. She explains the mind-body principles behind tapping, guides listeners through a simple stress-foc...

Irene Lyon explains how somatic trauma recovery restores nervous system regulation, self-awareness, and healthier interpersonal relationships. Irene Lyon explains how unresolved trauma can remain within the body as fight, flight, freeze, pain, anxiety, or disconnection. Drawing from the Feldenkrais Method, Somatic Experiencing, and her work with early and developmental trauma, she reveals why heal...

Shawn Wells discusses psychedelics, mental health, and why professional guidance and integration are critical to therapeutic experiences. Shawn Wells shares his personal experience with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and suicidal thoughts while examining the emerging use of psychedelics in mental health care. He discusses neuroplasticity, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, and the importance of prepa...

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon explains how exercise and protein-forward nutrition can support skeletal muscle, mitochondrial health, energy, and longevity. Dr. Gabrielle Lyon explains why skeletal muscle plays a central role in mitochondrial health, metabolism, and healthy aging. She discusses how inactivity can impair the body’s ability to use stored fuel and why resistance training should be combined with...

Dawson Church, PhD, examines the science behind EFT, meditation, belief, and their potential effects on stress, the brain, and well-being. Dawson Church, PhD, examines the science behind energy healing practices such as EFT and meditation. He discusses how belief and negative thinking may affect the body, what brain imaging reveals about cravings and meditative states, and how tapping has been stu...

Dr. Evan Hirsch explains why long-haul fatigue can have multiple causes and shares a step-by-step approach to restoring energy and resilience. Dr. Evan Hirsch explains why long COVID may be one part of a larger chronic fatigue picture involving infections, toxins, deficiencies, mitochondrial dysfunction, and impaired circulation. Drawing from his personal recovery, he outlines a step-by-step appro...

Dr. Aimie Apigian explains how trauma becomes stored in the body and why somatic tools can help restore nervous system safety. Dr. Aimie Apigian explains trauma as a biological response to experiences that happen too much, too fast, or provide too little for too long. She distinguishes the energized state of stress from the low-energy collapse of trauma, describes the vagus nerve’s role in shutdow...

Dr. Nafysa Parpia explains why a single infection rarely causes chronic Lyme and how addressing multiple root causes supports lasting recovery. Dr. Nafysa Parpia explores why chronic Lyme disease is often far more complex than a single tick-borne infection. She discusses the interconnected roles of environmental toxins, immune dysfunction, chronic infections, nervous system regulation, trauma, gut...

David "Avocado" Wolfe shares practical strategies for creating your best life through nutrition, fasting, mindset, and reconnecting with nature. David "Avocado" Wolfe explores the connection between nutrition, mindset, and longevity, sharing how whole foods, medicinal mushrooms, fasting, hydration, and time in nature can support vibrant health. He also explains why creating las...

Dr. Margaret Christensen explains how trauma, chronic stress, and COVID can fuel mood disorders and chronic fatigue while sharing practical pathways toward healing. Dr. Margaret Christensen explores how trauma, chronic stress, and the COVID-19 pandemic can influence mood disorders and chronic fatigue by affecting the brain's limbic system, immune function, and overall resilience. She discusses...

Discover how Tami Stackelhouse transformed her fibromyalgia journey into a mission to help others reclaim their health through coaching and self-care. Tami Stackelhouse shares her personal journey from being disabled by fibromyalgia to becoming a certified health coach dedicated to helping others reclaim their lives. She explains why recovery requires education, self-care, lifestyle changes, and a...

Discover how Myriah Hinchey, ND explains botanical medicine, lifestyle strategies, and immune restoration for healing Lyme disease naturally. Myriah Hinchey, ND explains why treating chronic Lyme disease requires a comprehensive approach that extends beyond antimicrobial therapy. She discusses how botanical medicine, therapeutic lifestyle changes, immune restoration, nutrition, detoxification, sle...

Dr. Kevin Conners explains the seven phases of detoxification and how stress, digestion, and elimination influence the body's ability to heal. Dr. Kevin Conners introduces his framework for the seven phases of detoxification, expanding the traditional view of liver detoxification to include bile flow, intestinal transit, elimination, tissue release, and nervous system regulation. He explains h...

Dr. Amy Offutt explores the art of medical detective work and explains why listening to a patient's story often reveals what tests miss. Dr. Amy Offutt shares her approach to solving complex chronic illnesses through what she calls medical detective work. Rather than relying solely on laboratory testing, she emphasizes the value of listening carefully to a patient's story, performing a tho...

Dr. Isaac Eliaz explains how mycotoxins disrupt the body's survival systems, drive inflammation, and contribute to chronic illness. Dr. Isaac Eliaz explores how chronic exposure to mycotoxins can hijack the body's survival systems and contribute to inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, fibrosis, and chronic disease. Drawing from decades of research and clinical experience, he explains t...