DrTalks Podcast

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...

Dr. Greg Eckel explores how toxicants, trauma, and lifestyle factors contribute to neurodegenerative diseases—and what we can do to protect the brain. Dr. Greg Eckel shares both the professional and deeply personal experiences that shaped his work in neurodegenerative disease after losing his wife to a rare and rapidly progressive neurological illness. He explores why rates of Alzheimer's dise...

Dr. Amy Myers shares her personal journey through toxic mold exposure, recovery, autoimmunity, and the hidden emotional impact of mold illness. Dr. Amy Myers shares an unusually personal account of her repeated experiences with toxic mold exposure and the profound effects it had on her health, family, and sense of safety. She discusses mold's connection to autoimmunity, chronic inflammation, c...

Deanna Hansen explores how fascia influences inflammation, pain, detoxification, posture, and healthy aging throughout the body. Deanna Hansen explores the relationship between fascia, chronic inflammation, and overall health, explaining how fascial restrictions may influence circulation, detoxification, posture, and pain patterns throughout the body. She discusses the importance of diaphragmatic...

Dr. Tiffany Caplan explains how autoimmune diseases develop and the root-cause strategies that may help prevent or reverse them. Dr. Tiffany Caplan explores the root causes behind autoimmune disease and explains why genetics alone rarely tells the full story. She discusses the roles of gut health, blood sugar balance, stress, environmental toxins, nutrient status, and lifestyle factors in shaping...

Laura Frontiero debunks 10 common inflammation myths and explains the root causes that may keep chronic inflammation going. Laura Frontiero challenges ten common misconceptions about inflammation and explains why chronic inflammatory conditions often persist despite dietary changes, supplements, or symptom-focused treatments. She explores the roles of infections, toxins, nutrient deficiencies, str...

Discover how Sandra Kaufmann, MD, explains the seven cellular aging pathways and the strategies that may help support longevity and healthy aging. Dr. Sandra Kaufmann introduces the Kaufmann Protocol and its seven tenets of cellular aging, offering a framework for understanding why our cells lose function over time. She explores the roles of DNA damage, mitochondrial decline, inflammation, impaire...

Discover how Sinclair Kennedy explains the hidden role parasites may play in inflammation, digestive issues, and chronic health symptoms. Sinclair Kennedy explores the relationship between parasites, toxins, and chronic inflammation, explaining how modern environmental exposures can disrupt the microbiome and create conditions that favor pathogenic overgrowth. She discusses the importance of gut m...