Curate Your Health with Dr Heather Hammerstedt

Episode 209 of my Curate Your Health Podcast is out! Link below. Dr. Cecily Havert is here today to discuss concierge medicine and what that means to you as a patient.  She has a private practice, which allows the doctors to make the important decisions of how they want to run and manage the practice. She has fewer patients, more accessibility to them and has the time to offer longer appointments....

Episode 208 of my Curate Your Health Podcast is out! Link below.   Hannah Bacaron is here today to discuss how our brain and our body are connected. She talks about our mind and body health and how stress can take such a toll. A physical ailment, such as a stomach issue, may be solved from more than one way and there are alternative treatments to consider. Even if you have good habits, such as eat...

Episode 207 of my Curate Your Health Podcast is out! Link below.   I'm nervous to share! Something just for my listeners…   I've never given away this much for those ready to join our proven, highly supported, Weight Wellness personal coaching program. My best deal ever, best bonuses ever, and your best opportunity ever. Nervous, but so many people need this.   In fact, others who were tired of yo...

Dr. Hammerstedt is joined today by Tina Koopersmith MD who gives a beautiful overview of who we are through our brain and our body. She discusses how our heart energy can be felt six feet away and if we have a positive energy field, people can feel it. Likewise, if you are in a negative environment, the heart rate is lower, and you can feel the negative energy. She talks about healing techniques t...

Dr. Hammerstedt is joined today by Dr. Marion Mass to discuss What You Need to Know About Healthcare Middlemen. She talks in depth about Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) and Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) and all the kick back money that they receive. She gives an eye-opening deep dive into all the money that is being lost in the middle of our healthcare system.    Dr Marion Mass is a pract...

Dr. Hammerstedt is joined today by Dr. Barrie Tan to talk about the wonders of plants. Specifically, one that he talks about is annatto, which is an orange-red condiment and food coloring derived from the seeds of the achiote tree (Bixa orellana), native to tropical America. It is often used to impart a yellow or orange color to foods. He talks about how our bodies and cell walls are functioning....

Dr. Hammerstedt is joined today by Dr. Stella K. Evans, MD to discuss complex care for children with disabilities and their caregivers. She talks about how she is the prime contact for the caregivers, and she helps navigate the best care through their health team. There are a few roadblocks that she wants parents to know about. She stresses that this is not the parent's fault and sticking with reg...

Dr. Hammerstedt is joined today by Sean Lake to discuss how to stay Fit over Forty. He talks about his transition from being an active snowboarder in his 20s - to then being in his 30s, with less activity and not liking the way he felt. He started to exercise realizing that he craved physical activity. He discusses how fitness is a major tool in being able to give you energy to be the parent/ pers...

Dr. Hammerstedt is joined today by Jeff Chilton to discuss the health benefits of mushrooms. Jeff talks about how mushrooms are low in calories, high in fiber, provide no starch, and are low in fats. He thinks mushrooms have been overlooked in the United States. He shares information about how supplementing mushrooms into our diets will stimulate our immune system. He hopes that by further educati...

Dr. Hammerstedt is joined today by Karen Mangum, Wholist's Weight Wellness Coach, and Jennifer Guegen, Wholist's Mindset Coach, to celebrate our 200th episode. For this milestone episode, we opened up the topics and questions from our audience. The coaches answered questions about how to gently pull yourself through a dip to find a healthy and happy self. They also talked about how to make these h...

Rachel Freiman is here today to discuss how to become MindStrong. Her aim is to educate women and to cut through all the conflicting information. She talks about stepping back, wiping the slate clean and starting to approach health and fitness as a life skill. It is important to understand what diets you tried, why it didn't work, be able to release the past, and start with a new skill base. It is...

Jonathan Baktari MD i s here today to discuss Post Covid New Normal. He talks about the vaccines and how it will be a seasonal vaccine moving forward. The vaccines will be especially important, especially with people with risk factors and the elderly. We will need to learn to live with Covid, and it will be part of viruses that people will get. He also mentions how Covid was an accelerator for man...

Dr. Faryal Michaud is a board certified internist and a palliative care physician that is here today to discuss How To Have a Better Conversation About Your Health. She believes there is a misunderstanding of what palliative care is. She describes this type of care as a layer of support to help through the bumpy road of an illness, and to help families be able to connect to services. The layer of...

Rachelle McCloud joins us today to discuss how to Utilize Your Brain for Opportunity Despite Trauma . She discusses her personal struggles with mental health. She felt as though she was failing to thrive as a woman and a mother. Once she was able to restore her wellness through intervention therapy, she started helping others. She talks about the desire to be free, how to help your brain that may...

Dr. George and Vanessa Naum join us today to discuss how to Strive to Thrive in Your Relationship. As marriage coaches, they discuss the stages of marriage, from romance to raising children together, from finding yourself to getting old together. They help couples find out what they really want and what they need help with. They work with couples to reconnect and how to disconnect from outside str...

Ari Tulla is here today to talk about Precision Nutrition-The What Now. His current company, Elo, was created to help people turn food into medicine so you can live life to the fullest. Elo collects information about your body and uses this data to understand what your body needs. The data is used to deliver the right nutrition so that you get healthy and stay healthy. You can find a link to his c...

Tandy Gutierrez joins us today to discuss Our Bodies as a Fitness Vessel. Fitness can look like many different things—it doesn't have to be boiled down to running long distances or lifting heavy things. Small muscles, slow movements, and rest can all be just as important to our fitness and our results. Noticing what feels good to our bodies can be hard to do but can be so helpful in the long term....

Hope Pedraza is here today to talk about Healing Your Gut for Sustainable Health. The gut microbiome is the bacteria (both good and bad) and enzymes that are living in your gut. There could be connections between gut health and diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and things like mood and anxiety. Gut health is also connected to hormones. So, how do we heal our gut? What does this process lo...

Tammie Chang, MD joins us today to discuss Kind Intentional Boundaries. Boundaries are a relatively new concept that were essentially introduced to the public in the 1990's, so they're not something our parents (for example) grew up with. As women, we were socialized not to talk back or complain and to be caretakers and givers, so this makes the concept of boundaries extra difficult (and potential...

Dr. Latifat Akintade joins us to discuss the topic: Money Fitness Equals Freedom. Financial education can feel overwhelming. How do you know what to do and how do you take care of your family financially? What might your future look like if you're always worried about a paycheck? Dr. Latifat will talk to us about money fitness and share tips on money wellness. She'll also answer questions like, ar...

Dr. Laura Purdy is here today to discuss Telemedicine as a New Way Access Health. Telemedicine is a practice that's not new and has become even more prevalent in the pandemic, but many people are skeptical about it. How can doctors provide quality care over video? How do you choose a doctor you can trust? Dr. Purdy gives us some clear direction and helpful information on telemedicine, as well as t...

Sallyanne Pisk joins us today to discuss Nine Drivers for Eating. We are the experts when it comes to our minds and bodies and what they need in terms of nourishment. We can give ourselves permission to enjoy our food and be nourished. It's possible to start a new relationship with food by developing a mindfulness base to eating and living. Curiosity with mindfulness helps remove the judgment we i...

Marianne Sarcich discusses the topic, All About the Sisters - Breast Health, Breast Cancer, Breast Advocacy. Marianne was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer in 2016 and explains how important it is to know your risk level--don't be dismissed just because of your age. Women under 40 tend to get the most aggressive types of breast cancer! There's an assessment tool online that will create a person...

Dr. Vanessa Calderón, MD, MPP joins us today to discuss Using Neuroplasticity as a Tactic for Stress Response. Neuroplasticity refers to how the brain can shape, shift and remodel based on our perceptions. Our brains are hard wired for us to survive, which causes us to experience stress all day long. We can't change our external environment, so how do we remodel our brains and change our perceptio...

Frank Kilpatrick & Rayko join us to discuss their Gratitude Series - A Musical Path Toward Healing, which includes songs that introduce people to meditations for gratitude. It's so important to find richness in our everyday experiences. For so many of us, meditation can be difficult as it's a challenge to slow down our thoughts and our brains, but music is a way to accomplish this more easily. We...