Jami Dulaney MD Wellness Podcast

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   My mother used to joke and say she would take my night calls.  She would say take an aspirin and call me in the am.  Is that good advice?  The reality is that there is not a whole lot of good data to support the practice of taking an aspirin to protect against cardiovascular disease.  The reality is  there is not a whole lot of data on a lot of hospital prac...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   Welcome to a tour of your heart anatomy.  Today I will describe how it works and how to keep it working.  Valentine's day is about showing those we love we care.  Today I would ask you show a little love to your own heart and the rest of you for that matter.  Your heart pumps blood into your blood vessels that go to the rest of your body.  Your brain is very...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Did you know you could get medical advice in the self checkout line in the grocery store? It is amazing where people seek advise and from whom they seek it.  With today's lack of trust in the medical industry, I cannot blame them.  I hope to provide some truthful health information in my podcasts.  Thank you for taking a listen. What was the fork in the road...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Do you want to live to 100 or perhaps longer than relatives? Is health span more important than longevity.  How about living well until you die? These are common statements that I hear in my practice.  But rarely do people have a detailed plan to achieve their goals.  I believe most people want to live as long as they can.   While many subscribe to supplement...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  I ran 33 miles out of 100 miles at the Long Haul 100 this past weekend and I am happy.  Last year it would have been a major disappointment not finishing.  This year I am grateful to have ran well and came away stronger than ever.  I will share the nitty gritty details of the weekend in this episode.   There were plant based vegan people running but the major...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   When we think of eye health, the first food that comes to mind is carrots.  We all need Vitamin A and carrots are a great source.  Eggs are also rich in Vitamin A but they are also rich in cholesterol that will not do your eyes any favors.   Did you know your eyes are rich in mitochondria?  Being overweight is a risk for cataracts.   I had a great visit with...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   This has been a year of comebacks and new traditions.  The holidays  can be very stressful partially due to maintaining traditions.  Some of the traditions are not even healthy or even take away from more healthy behaviors.  Taken together with the stress of fulfilling the tasks makes for a not so joyous holiday.  As the minimalists say, does this still brin...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   Today, Andy "Croom" Mathews joins me to talk about his 200 mile ultra run across Florida for his 63 third year of life.  We talk about his running career and how different it turned out from what he thought it would.  Better yet, we talked or he did, about the multiple ultras he has planned for the near future.  To say that we can do more than we think we ca...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  This is podcast 500 for me.  I have tried to average one podcast a week since the beginning.  I have had a few 10 day stretches but for the most part once a week.   The why for my podcast has not changed.  To educate people about a healthy lifestyle with regard to nutrition and exercise.   I became a cardiologist because the people I loved most died from card...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   The holidays are upon us, and the year is coming to the end.  There could not be a more important time for mindfulness.  Where did those holiday foods come from?  What are the ingredients?  A little bite of this or that surely won't hurt you will it?  Some of those little puffed appetizers are packed full of fat and salt.  Buffet tables are full of calorie d...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  I want you to talk yourself into a plant strong Thanksgiving.  I want you to sell it like a used car salesman.  Write your reasons down.  Detail your plan of action now.  Describe the menu in detail.  If you don't know the recipes by heart include them in the details.  Leave nothing to chance.  This takes the guess work and will power out of the equation.  Re...

Welcome and Thank you for listening!  One commercial that sticks in everyone's mind is "Timex, it takes a licking and keeps on ticking".  Resilience does not come from everything going right.  It is developed through life's traumas and failures.  Amazing stories of resilience are admirable and motivational.  However, the big red easy button also seems to catch our attention.   Which statement reso...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   The Austin Ratler 50k is in the books.  More things went right than wrong.  Perhaps the what went wrong makes for a more entertaining story.  We certainly tend to learn more from the what went wrong.  They also give us practice dealing with life's obstacles.  Nothing is perfect, but not right doesn't have to be bad either.  I hope you find this episode enter...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Addie Majnaric, RDN, joins me today to launch our new ebook, Powerful Plates, Fight Breast Cancer with Food.   Rather than buy pink labeled clothing or contribute to so called breast cancer research, why not decrease your own risk of cancer.  One in 8 women will get the diagnosis.  Despite the pink, breast cancer is still very prevalent in the United States. ...

  Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  I hope hurricane Milton was the last one of the season.  I will share our experience and tips for maintaining plant based nutrition when some of life's conveniences are not possible. Some people say aging is not for the weak.  I am hear to tell you that you can write your own story.  Why is your aging style any different than your choice of clothing style o...

Welcome! and Thank You for listening.  Breast cancer awareness is more than just pink ribbons and mammogram scheduling.  It certainly is a scary diagnosis.  Nearly 1 in 9 women will get the diagnosis.  The good news is there are things we can do to prevent it and also things we can do to treat and prevent recurrence. You have a voice in your own healthcare.  We will discuss this as well as gastric...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Autoimmune diseases are often thought to be genetic.  However, there are many people with at risk DNA that never develop the disease.  DNA does not turn on by itself.  There has to be a stimulus and often it is a protein that is the trigger.  Type 1 Diabetes occurs mainly in young children and is the result of pancreatic islet cell destruction by an autoimmun...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   It works.  It really does.  Plant based nutrition and exercise reverses lifestyle diseases and people can achieve a normal BMI.  However, it only works if you do it and do it consistently.  Congratulations  David R for achieving some major health goals.  The struggle is real but once you commit nothing can stand in your way.  Living a healthy lifestyle among...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  What does it mean if you are in that 25% of the population than has an abnormally high Lp(a)? Is it worth loosing sleep over?  I can assure you that will not fix the problem.  So many studies correlate numbers with potential outcomes.  It seems logical, but it often is not the case.  Just ask a 90 year old Italian with a high Lp(a).   Even worry is treated wi...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  48% of adults carry the diagnosis of hypertension.  They are diagnosed and placed on medication usually based on protocols.  Very rarely are people assessed for why they have hypertension.  Certainly, nutrition is a large contributor to elevations in blood pressure both from excessive sodium intake and vascular damage from a high fat diet.  But the reaction t...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  Today I have a plant based strong man on the podcast.   Nathan Majnaric, SCCC, CSCS.  Most plant based athletes lean toward the endurance world so it is great to have the opportunity to speak with a powerlifter, strength coach, and a blue belt in jujitsu that is not only fueled by plants, but has improved on plants.  It was not a compromise but an asset to fu...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.   A New England Journal of Medicine Study looked at how much energy people thought they consumed, and how much energy they actually burned.  They compared two groups of overweight individuals based on reported energy consumption.  Group one had difficulty loosing weight despite a reported 1200 kcal or less consumption of food and vigorous exercise.  There were...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  What are your health goals?  Do you have a bucket list?  My grandmother used to say that if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.  I think there is a lot of confusion between wishing we were healthy and having a plan to do something about it.  We wish there was a magic pill or supplement that would make us young, healthy, energetic, and happy.  It would be...

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  When things are going well, there is a flow state.  We are in "The Zone".  Funny how it does not happen too often.  But when it does, we seem to accomplish our goals with minimal efforts.  The other times we are trouble shooting.  Try anything to make things better.  Force the right gait, the right swing, the right nutrition plan.  We buy hundreds of dollars...

Welcome!  Thank you for listening.   What is a whole food? What is a clean food?  Those terms are thrown around with authority and ultimately blend into just food.  If you ask most people on a diet, they will throw out that they are eating 1200 calories a day.  That seems to be the magic number that has stuck in the diet world.  Apps are available that helps one to prove a point.  They are only as...