Dr Leyla Ali

Deprescribing Pharmacist

Health EN ↓ 121 episodes

We are doing a weekly Deprescribing class to help people find better solutions for their health. We are having a weekly topic or guest speakers. Join live on Mondays at 11AM PT.Sign up to receive the zoom link and announcements at https://www.drleylaali.com. Deprescribing: to taper or stop medications with the intention to achieve improved health outcomes. Dr Leyla Ali is a pharmacist and author of: "Off Balance, the American Way of Health, A Pharmacist’s Perspective on Why Drugs Don’t Work" and "The So You've Been Diagnosed with Cancer and Now You're in a Panic Handbook."

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Dr Leyla Ali

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Health

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deprescribingpharmacist.org

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Deprescribing #8 Guest Presenter Dr. Dennis Kinnane, Traditional Chinese Medicine 29.03.2024

Dr. Dennis Kinnane is a former pharmacist and a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner. One Dr. Kinnane’s epiphanies came when he lost a close friend to hepatitis under the care of a prestigious hospital in Los Angeles. He later learned that dandelion root tea could help heal hepatitis. That was one of the incidents that inspired him to leave the pharmacy profession and start a new career. Dr....

Deprescribing #7 Allergies 25.03.2024

Allergies are the 6th leading cause of chronic illness in the U.S. with an annual cost in excess of $18 billion. More than 50 million Americans suffer from allergies each year. Including seasonal allergies, food allergies, anaphylaxis. We will discuss natural ways to address allergies. Discussion includes The Pulse Test, NAET, essential oils, bee pollen, netti pot, probiotics, acupuncture

Deprescribing #6 Alternatives to Pain 18.03.2024

According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)106,699 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in 2021. Opioids were involved in 80,411 overdose deaths in 2021 (75.4% of all drug overdose deaths). If you are in pain and go to a medical doctor, you may get an anti-inflammatory to start, but may eventually be introduced to an opioid like hydrocodone or oxycodone. Yet there are many oth...

Deprescribing #5 Healing Session Emotional Freedom Techinique with Don Milton 11.03.2024

This is an EFT healing session that viewers can watch and participate on their own. Don Milton is a life coach and energy healer who helps individual clients as well as companies achieve goals with efficiency and utmost satisfaction. Don employs a variety of proven methods that help individuals accomplish their dreams and desires. Don focuses on helping clients release the emotional baggage that s...

Deprescribing #4 Emotions and your Health 01.03.2024

Some believe emotions are one of the most overlooked yet important aspects of our health. Yet most of us don’t learn anything about emotions growing up or in school. In pharmacy school, we only learn how to medicate uncomfortable emotions: Depression is treated with Prozac, and anxiety is treated with Valium. Emotions are meant to be expressed and released. Unexpressed emotions can lead to health...

Deprescribing #3 Dr. Bernie Siegel presents 26.02.2024

Dr Siegel, who prefers to be called "Bernie" is a retired pediatric surgeon and author. His first book was Love, Medicine, and Miracles written in 1984 and he has written over 30 books since. He runs workshops across the country and is devoted to humanizing medical care and medical education. In 1978, he originated Exceptional Cancer Patients, a specific form of individual and group therapy utiliz...

Deprescribing #2 Power of the Mind 23.02.2024

A peace pilgrim once said, “If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.” Our minds are more powerful than most of us realize. Our thoughts, beliefs, and our words have more power in creating our life than most of us realize. The so-called experts and doctors will fill our minds with limiting beliefs about what is possible with our health. Many have bee...

Deprescribing #1 Introduction 19.02.2024

Get me off my meds! It is an introduction and overview of the ideas behind Deprescribing. Deprescribing is a relatively new concept, and there is no standardized approach. This is the first of a series where we will look to find alternatives to pharmaceutical drugs. We welcome all approaches to health.

AFLD's Pharmacist Group #14 Robert Lambert, Business Development and Strategies 13.11.2022

Robert Lambert is the founding partner of the Samurai Business Group LLC®, a sales & business development performance firm that has developed revolutionary, results-driven Samurai Sales & Sales Management MasteryTM programs. He has over 40+ years of experience in strategic business development, marketing, and sales for Global 50 and Fortune 500 companies and is the founder of four successf...

AFLD's Pharmacist's Group #13 Interview with Pharmacists / Fertility Coach Dr. Katie Wood 17.10.2022

Katie is a pharmacist who was fired for refusing to give the jab to minors. She is now a Cannabis Pharmacist and Integrative Fertility Coach. Katie shares her story about becoming a fertility health coach and how she supports her clients, as well as how she's advanced her business. Her website is Happynourishedmotherhood.com To connect with her - her linktree is linktr.ee/thewellnesspharmacist

AFLD's Pharmacist's Group #12 Interview with Entrepreneur Coach Christina Fontana 19.09.2022

Moving Beyond the Counter: Elevating into Entrepreneurship Christina talks about how pharmacists can expand on their innate gifts, talents, experiences, and life lessons to elevate into entrepreneurship and scale a profitable business. She discusses topics around releasing blocks (imposter syndrome, perfectionism, fear of being seen), owning and communicating your brilliance as a pharmacist entrep...

AFLDs Pharmacist Zoom Meeting #11 Interview with Dr. Joel Wood, Medical Cannabis Pharmacist 29.08.2022

Dr. Joel Wood is a medical cannabis pharmacist who shares his experience working for Vireo Health. He shares the many uses for medical cannabis, which health conditions it is most effective, and the different dosage forms available. He also talks about how other pharmacists can get involved in this expanding industry.

AFLDs Pharmacist Zoom Meeting #10 Interview with Dr. Mark de Dubobvay, chiropactor 15.08.2022

Dr. Mark de Dubovay, is a chiropractor who ran a Wellness Center for many years. He will share tips on info on running a wellness center, as well as info for those who want to start consulting patients. He also will share how he treats some of the health conditions that we learned are long-term or incurable diseases.

AFLD's Pharmacist's Group #9 Interview with hypnotherapist Duncan Tooley 08.08.2022

Duncan Tooley is a former computer programmer and systems analyst for 35 years when he developed neuropathy that was severe to the point he would fall down when he walked. His employers put him on disability. His doctors told him there's nothing they can do for the nerve loss but they would continue to give him drugs to treat the pain. They also put him on biweekly hospital infusion to lessen his...

AFLD's Pharmacist's Group #8 Frank Cousineau, Cancer Control Society President 01.08.2022

Frank Cousineau is the president of the Cancer Control Society, who have been helping people find alternative and natural treatments for cancer for the past 48 years. They hold an annual convention in Los Angeles, and they also provide bus tours to clinics in Mexico where people from all over the world go for their low cost natural cancer treatments.

AFLD's Pharmacist's Group #7 Jared Silver, expert on-screen presentation coach & video consultant 18.07.2022

Leyla is presenting to the AFLDS pharmacists via zoom on Monday evening at 4pm PT and her guest is Jared Silver, expert on-screen presentation coach & video production consultant (more details below). Sharing this invite if anyone wants to join that will be doing educational classes for GoldCare. She will also record and we can share the link if anyone is interested. Our guest presenter for ne...

AFLDs Pharmacists Zoom Meeting #6 Interview with Functional Medicine Pharmacist Pamela Pesta 11.07.2022

Interview with pharmacist Pamela Pesta, who discusses her training, practice, and experience as a functional medicine pharmacist.

AFLDs Pharmacists Zoom Meeting #5 Interview with Amy Boyer Colgan, Essential Oils, Detoxification 26.06.2022

Amy Boyer Colgan teaches essential oils, detoxification, and clean living. Essential Oils are a great way to earn a very decent income, while helping people heal with a product you can be proud of. Amy suffered with misdiagnosed severe chronic pain and hormonal imbalance for 19 years under the care of Kaiser doctors. The pain was so severe that she started contemplating suicide despite having a in...

AFLDs Pharmacist Zoom Meeting #3, Interview with Marie Anne Boularand, Biodecoding Institute Founder 20.06.2022

Founder and manager of the Biodecoding® Institute, she has been practicing and teaching alternative medicine for the past 25 years in France and the United States. Trained by Christian Flèche in 2001, she partnered with him to spread the Biodecoding® method within the international English-speaking community. She is in charge of developing and coordinating the online and residential courses in Eng...

AFLDs Pharmacist Zoom Meeting #2 Interview with Dr. Dennis Kinnane, Traditional Chinese Medicine 06.06.2022

Interview with Dr. Dennis Kinnane who was a pharmacist for over 20 years and left pharmacy to learn and practice Traditional Chinese Medicine / acupuncture.

AFLDs Pharmacists Zoom meeting #1 Intro to Holistic Health Options 23.05.2022

AFLDs Pharmacists 1st zoom meeting 052322 Intro to Holistic Health Options

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