Quest for Healing: Bi-weekly support and inspiration for your Medical Medium® health journey

#048 - Plant Lady Maria Failla is going to teach you how to start growing herbs at home, especially if you've never tried something like this before.  We cover the gamut of everything you need to know and explored many of the common mistakes as well.  So if you're new to gardening, this episode is for you! You can find Maria at The Bloom and Grow Radio Podcast BloomandGrowRadio.com Faceb...

#047 - Tivon Pennicott is a gifted jazz composer and saxophone player and, this week,  we explore his life-long struggle to overcome eczema and also examine how following the Medical Medium lifestyle, and drinking celery juice specifically, has inspired his music.  Where you can find Tivon: TivonPennicott.com Facebook at Tivon Pennicott Instagram at @tivon_bzz Twitter at @tivon_bzz THANK YOU FOR L...

#046 - Have you been dealing with physical pain symptoms on your health journey that have complicated your efforts to exercise?  This week's guest is Betty Ng, certified personal trainer and Essentrics instructor, and we discuss integrating exercise into your health journey and the physical and emotional benefits of exercise. Betty is a Certified Personal Trainer (NASM), a Group Fitness Instr...

#045 - Lynette Lai struggled with severe eczema, along with other symptoms during her health journey, and she discovered that her biggest trigger was radiation.  In this episode, we delve not only into her story but also she reveals the multitude of precautions that she took to protect herself from invisible and omni-present radiation. You can find Lynette on Instagram at @netspirations THANK YOU...

#044 - This week, veterinarian Dr. Jeff Feinman is back to answer your common pet health questions!  If you missed last week's episode (#43), it may be helpful to listen to that one first so that you can better understand Dr. Jeff's framework for how he thinks about our pets health, before delving into this one.  Dr. Jeff is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, he is on the faculty of Holist...

#043 - This week's guest is Dr. Jeff Feinman.  Dr. Jeff and I talk about how to view our pet’s health holistically and he has a great framework for helping us out with that.  We also talk about how diet and supplementation fit into the picture as well. Dr. Jeff is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and also holds a degree in molecular biology.  He is on the faculty of Holistic Actions!, which is...

#042 - It has taken Emelie Nilsson a long time to improve her crushing chronic fatigue symptoms on her Medical Medium health journey, but she has remained motivated and stayed the course.  In this episode, she talks about what kept her going and some of the important things she learned along the way.  So if you’ve been struggling on your health journey and are frustrated that you haven’t seen the...

#041 - Autumn Blum, CEO of human-safe and reef-safe sunscreen maker Stream2Sea teaches us how to be better skin care products detectives by explaining which skin care ingredients are or may be dangerous and how to identify cleaner formulas.  In addition, she discusses the recent sunscreen recalls, the differences between sunscreens formulas, and the importance of using high quality hand sanitizer....

#040 - This week's guest is Viktor Rajek. Viktor has dealt with a myriad of health issues over time, but the biggest ones were eczema and shingles rashes on large swaths of his body, including his face, chest and arms.  In this episode, we dive deep into his health journey, where he started juicing and eating more of a vegetarian diet and while this was a healthier shift in his eating, it alo...

#039 - Jenn Wulf is a mother of five young children and her middle daughter, Madison started having seizures out of the blue at age 8 and ended up have more than 30 over the next two and a half years.  And at the same time, one of her sons started showing early signs of health issues and Jenn’s health started to decline as well.  This episode explores how she kept digging until she found answers t...

#038 - This week’s guest is Cathy Merkel-Roddy.  Cathy’s health journey absolutely shocked me when I first met her on Clubhouse a few weeks back because she had just regained her ability to speak a couple of weeks before we met, after she had lost her voice for the past three of years after suffering with Spasmodic Dysphonia.  And while this sounds like something that would be tough enough to endu...

#037 - If you're looking to catch-up on your podcast listening while enjoying your summer activities, this week's episode highlights some of the most popular, most helpful, and most important episodes of Quest for Healing in the first half of 2021. Come back to the show notes for links to each of the episodes mentioned. Enjoy your summer! Please hit SUBSCRIBE if you've been enjoying...

#036 - This week my guest is Dr. Anna Khavin and she is a dentist in New York City and today we’re talking all about dental health!  I know that many of you have dealt with dental issues at some point in your life. And some times the issues are straight forward and sometimes they aren’t, and you may have had treatments or work done that didn’t actually help with the problem or even made it worse....

#034 – This week’s guest is Patricia Wagner and she’s going to talk about how myofascial release therapy can be a helpful complement to a health journey.  Patricia is a Myofascial Release Practitioner, a licensed massage therapist and a licensed physical therapist assistant.  Together, she and her husband combined have more than 50 years of experience in myofascial release and run their practice,...

#033 - This week I talk about 10 Uncomfortable Truths that I learned on my health journey with the hope that this will be helpful to you on your own path.  When I look back on the last 6-7 years, while I have learned a lot on my journey, I didn’t have any idea that this is what it would look like.  And sometimes, knowing what the road ahead may look like can remove some of the anxiety and the frus...

#032 - This week’s guest is documentary film-maker Melinda Raebyne, who experienced devastating eczema on the top half of her body, which resulted in her skin being so puffy and inflamed that it would ooze fluids for days at a time.  She sought help from medical doctors, who diagnosed her with an auto-immune condition and said that she would live with this for the rest of her life.  And the treatm...

#031 - This week's guest is Kelley McConnell.  Kelley suffered for years with Breast Implant Illness and didn’t understand, despite consulting with many doctors over the years, the root cause of her crushing fatigue, chemical and food sensitivities, and eventually tremors in her arms and legs which ended up resulting in her just collapsing periodically, all while trying to raise her two small...

#030 - This week's guest is Meltem Evmez.  She experienced a myriad of health issues growing up including  prolonged body pain, increasing food sensitivities, depression and bulimia, which really started to slow her down once she was in her mid-late 20s.  And then it culminated with major jaw surgery that took her out of work – and life – for months.  Then after a trip to Bali in 2018, she re...

#029 – This week’s guest is Anita Su Jiivana and we are going to talk about not only her health journey, which included mystery rashes, mystery nosebleeds, rotting teeth and chronic migraines, all of which landed her on mattress island, but we’re also going to explore how finding Ayurveda, experiencing what she calls a mind fracturing, and then finally finding Medical Medium’s information helped h...

#028 - This week's guest is Dr. Sherri Greene. Dr. Greene is a restorative physician and a Doctor of Podiatric Medicine, based in New York City. We’re going to talk about how she has integrated both conventional and functional medicine into her medical practice, but also how finding Medical Medium’s information has transformed not only how she practices medicine, but also how it influenced he...

#027 - This week's guest is Matt from @MattLovesBananas on Instagram!  Matt’s health journey started early in life when he suffered from Tourette Syndrome. If you’re not familiar with Tourette’s, it is a condition where someone makes repeating involuntary physical movements like eye blinking or shoulder jerking and also repetitive vocal sounds which could include throat clearing or other non-...

#026 - This week's guest is Jennifer Fry and she an amazing healing story, which includes dealing with a myriad of issues, including migraines, early on in life, discovering the impact of healthy foods when she was nursing her young son, and coping with breast cancer in her early 30s with times when it wasn’t clear that she would survive.  Stick around for the end, Jennifer has a truly beauti...

#025 - My guest is Nguyen Phan, M.D.  Dr. Phan is a board-certified doctor of internal medicine.  On this episode, we delve into his journey from practicing internal medicine as a hospitalist to finding Medical Medium information and how that changed Dr. Phan’s approach to helping his patients.  We also talk about some of the challenges and limitations of traditional medical care and some suggesti...

#024 - This week’s episode is the third installment of my three part series on non-toxic ways to Clean Your Home.  This week, I’ll be giving you my 17 best tips for cleaning your bathroom – one of those rooms of the house that can always use a good cleaning!  Since I started my health journey, I have kept digging deeper to find areas where I can better give my body what it needs and to remove more...

#023 - We’re in the middle of a 3-part series on cleaning your home – last week in episode #22, I talked about cleaning the main parts of the home, next week in episode #24, I’ll be talking about cleaning the bathroom, and this week, I’m talking about cleaning the kitchen.  Clearly the kitchen is an important space because it is where we prepare most if not all of our food and I know that you want...