Beat Autoimmune & Thrive! with Palmer Kippola

Mary Brooks, M.Ed. Nutrition, is a fatigue, gut and thyroid expert. She had her own personal health journey including thyroid cancer and an addiction to sleeping pills. Today Mary is healthy, happy, sleeps well, and takes no prescription drugs.  In this episode we discuss Mary’s healing journey, the role of hormones in sleep, and Mary’s top strategies for getting good sleep. Quote: “Everyone else...

Linda Clark, MA, CNC, holistic health expert, educator and founder of Universal Wellness Associates in Sacramento, CA. Linda is an adjunct professor at John F. Kennedy University where she teaches numerous courses for the Holistic Health master’s program. In this episode Linda shares her personal experience of reversing celiac disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and other autoimmune issues with food...

Dr. Jill Carnahan is a board-certified Integrative Holistic Medicine specialist, known as Your Functional Medicine Expert® and often referred to as "The Sherlock Holmes of Medicine," for solving medical mysteries. She uses state-of-the-art lab testing and biochemical analysis; she helps patients identify the root causes of their illness by identifying nutritional or metabolic imbalances; a...

Cynthia Li, MD, is a doctor and author whose personal healing journey through a disabling autoimmune condition took her from public health in underserved populations to integrative and Functional Medicine. In this interview, Dr. Li shares her own autoimmune healing journey which expanded her beyond her conventional training. I believe her memoir, Brave New Medicine: A Doctor’s Unconventional Path...

Antony Haynes has been in private practice for over 28 years and is one of the most experienced Registered Nutritional Therapists and Functional Medicine practitioners in the UK, having seen over 18,000 clients. He’s a health educator, author, and expert in addressing infections that underlie autoimmunity. In today’s interview we discuss counteracting sarcopenia, age-related muscle decline in mass...

Dr. Mindy Pelz is a women’s health expert who overcame both chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and awful menopause symptoms naturally, and now helps others do the same. She has a terrific book called The Menopause Reset . While this one is mostly for women, Dr. Mindy treats men too, and we can ALL benefit from her wise lifestyle recommendations. Quote: “If you keep asking why, and why, and why, you wi...

Dr. Joan Rosenberg is a cutting-edge psychologist, best-selling author, consultant, master clinician and media host. She’s a professor of graduate psychology at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, and is a two-time TEDx speaker and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders. Her latest book is 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Co...

Dr. Debi Silber is the founder of the Post Betrayal Transformation Institute. She’s a holistic psychologist, a health, mindset, and personal development expert, and author of the book Trust Again: Overcoming Betrayal and Regaining Health, Confidence, and Happiness . Debi completed her PhD study on how we experience betrayal, and how we can move through it to completely heal. She has been called “T...

Dr. Christine Schaffner is a naturopathic doctor who specializes in helping people recover from complex, chronic illness, with a combination of ancient wisdom and cutting edge biological, natural and energy medicine and treatments. In this interview we dig deeply into the lymphatic system, a frequently overlooked area that you don’t want to neglect. The lymphatic system is literally our trash remo...

Susan Blum MD, MPH is a pioneering practitioner of Functional Medicine. She has an illuminating personal story of overcoming stress from a traumatic childhood, later parenting 3 kids, and feeling the mismatch of a chosen career in conventional medicine. Dr. Blum hit rock bottom in her 30s when juggling work and family. She was unhappy and blamed her husband and other external factors. Her true hea...

Terry Wahls, MD, is a clinical professor at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials testing the efficacy of diet and lifestyle to treat multiple sclerosis (MS). She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles. Her protocol emerged from her own quest to slow the increasingly debilitating symptoms she expe...

Ann Louise Gittleman is a nutritional visionary, author, and health pioneer who has fearlessly stood on the front lines of diet and detox, the environment, and women’s health for decades. She is always ahead of the curve and she busts prevailing myths about the underlying causes of weight gain, weight loss resistance, thyroid dysfunction, gallbladder disease, and autoimmunity. In this interview we...

Dr. Pizzorno is a naturopathic physician, educator, researcher, and expert spokesman, and he’s currently chair of the board of the Institute for Functional Medicine. He founded Bastyr University — a leading university for naturopathic medicine –in 1978. He’s the author of the excellent and important book, The Toxin Solution. In this interview we discuss how toxins are driving the autoimmune epidem...

Reclaim your health and your best life with bestselling author and Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, Palmer Kippola. Autoimmune disease may be epidemic but Palmer puts the power to heal and thrive back in your court by bringing you interviews with health and wellness experts, scientists, and people who have successfully beat autoimmune disorders. We dive deep into autoimmune root causes...