Real Integrative Medicine with Dr. Jordan Robertson ND

There are patterns that people who are successful with nutrition change adopt, and in today’s podcast, I’m sharing the 3 food categories that I want you to include in your kitchen to help you make it through tougher weeks (and help you meet your goals!). It’s common for a new nutrition plan to focus on novelty, new recipes and unique ways of incorporating unique ingredients into your diet. New nut...

Today’s conversation is an important one. On a few levels.  When I sat down to do this podcast I was thinking about the medications for obesity (we’re focusing on Semaglutide/Ozempic today) I was going to focus on the “clinical” discussion. Does it work? Who benefits? What do we expect? Then, that very week, there was a social media explosion about weight loss drugs for adolescents.  And...

Janette Yee, an athletic therapist who supports people after vaginal birth and c-section is a joy to listen to. She’s vibrant, excited and passionate about something that we’ve all kept to ourselves.    How freaking hard it is to recover from birth.    As an athlete herself, Janette gives us the metaphor we’ve been waiting for. Birth is a season ending injury. And yet, while mo...

It’s probably a bit of a stretch that an adult with ADHD who has 17,000 undread emails (at last count) is going to do a podcast about managing your email.    But hear me out.    I think we are in an opportunity to show up with leadership when it comes to both our inbox and our outbox, by breaking down some of the email culture we’re observing out there.    We’re going...

Today’s podcast is an important episode if you exercise, identify as an athlete or have ever skipped a period. We’re talking about the energy it takes to create a menstrual period, and why women who exercise, diet or both are at risk of missing a period.  I’m joined by Dr. Katrina Allison, a Naturopathic Doctor in British Columbia who focuses on supporting female athletes and young women with...

I was inspired by conversations I have seen in academic spaces I belong to about where “responsibility” lies in health change.  Does it lie with the individual (bottom up) or with the government (top down)?  As I was listening to this conversation happen, it made me think about how our health solutions for people are often bottom up, versus top down in their own household.  We ask p...

I’ve always been fascinated by pain. We can’t see it. We can’t measure it with a test.  And in a medical world where we barely listen to the patient experience - this presents a big problem.  The other problem with pain (well, one of the other problems) is that when pain lasts a long time, our brains change.  And in a medical world where you wait months for support - this presents a...

For today’s podcast episode, I was joined by Dr. Shelby Harris, a clinical psychologist and sleep specialist supporting women to overcome insomnia with cognitive behavioural therapy. We discuss her book, A Woman’s Guide to Insomnia , and the unique challenges that women face with their sleep versus men.    Shelby shares tips and behavioural strategies to help you get started on your slee...

It’s been a few years since our podcast on heavy menstrual bleeding (October 2020) and we have had a slew of questions from Instagram followers (follow here if you don’t already) about “is my period normal”. So here we go! In today’s podcast, we cover everything you need to know about whether your period is “normal” or if it’s something that needs treatment. We talk about menstrual variances such...

In today's episode, we tackle weight bias and stigma head-on with a guest Dr. Sylvi Martin, a Naturopathic Doctor, r egistered nurse psychotherapist, certified intuitive eating counsellor, and mindfulness-based eating awareness training (MB-EAT) facilitator who has a dual passion for supporting patients with their eating behaviour while also supporting clinicians to eliminate weight bias in medici...

Have you ever read the reviews of a restaurant that you love and thought “well that person is probably mean, that’s why they rated it a one-star”.    Or have you ever sat in a cold doctor’s office and thought “This person has terrible bedside manner, they can’t be right about what medication I should take”.    Health anecdotes are stories that have a villain, a hero and a battl...

I can distinctly remember whispering to my therapist that I didn’t really like what had happened to me after becoming a parent.  I honestly couldn’t tell if it was my physiology that was failing me, society or my perception of what parenthood was going to look like.  It turns out, it was probably all three.  In today’s episode, I’m joined by Dr. Laura Jasmin and Dr. Carly King, two...

Does un-dieting mean throwing in the towel and giving up on life? Absolutely not.  Today I’m joined by my friend and colleague (for a second time) Dr. Jennifer Huber, a Canadian Naturopathic Doctor, Registered Dietician and Intuitive Eating Coach who’s life mission is to help women make peace with food and their body in midlife.  Why does this happen? We share what happens in midlife and...

The research on chronic pelvic pain in women should be changing the way we think about menstrual cramps, and today’s episode will help you question your own cramps, think about possible diagnoses that could be contributing to your cramps (like endometriosis) and give you insight into why we need to take care of your cramps - like yesterday.  Endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain has always be...

The concept of Neurological Reserve is probably new to you, but to Naturopathic Doctor, Dr. Pamela Hutchinson, who works with patients with neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and MS, she is acutely aware of how important neurological reserve is for ALL women.  Our brains are a sensitive but amazing organ that literally runs our lives.  Do we ever stop and think about how thi...

When was the last time you had a biiiiiiiig loooooooong family meal? Do you even remember?  Was it mashed in between days of PB and banana on the way to hockey and a fast french toast dinner because nobody had the energy to make anything good (not that french toast isn’t amazing).  When I wanted to have a conversation about the Mediterranean diet and Slow Food, I knew I had the perfect p...

It’s common for people to think about supplements for joint pain. Maybe you’ve even tried one. The greatest challenge in treating joint pain with supplements is how consistent patients need to be, even if their joints are feeling a bit better.  Nutrition is an amazing opportunity to support joint health and today’s podcast discusses the what and how around food for joint pain. You have to eat...

Even if you’re living alone on a tropical island you’ve likely heard the online trend of syncing your menstrual cycle with your exercise.  Is it real? Or just another way to keep women small? I’ve taken my time bringing this conversation to the stage because I had a single woman in mind to bring on the show to discuss it. Dr. Alyssa Olenick has a Ph. D. in exercise physiology and specifically...

We don’t want you to worry. But if you’re going to worry about something, let’s at least let it be the number one health risk women face in their lifetime.  It’s not breast cancer. It’s heart disease.  In this episode, I’m joined by my good friend and brilliant colleague Dr. Alex Verge, a Naturopathic Doctor who is changing the conversation about heart health for women. In this episode,...

They are calling it a hormone revolution.  With almost half of Canadian women between the ages of 40 and 60, there are just a few of us (myself included) who are embarking on a hormonal transition that few know anything about.  In today’s episode, I clear up what is related to your hormones after 40 (and what isn’t) and what is happening to your body during each transition stage (yes the...

Today’s conversation is about paying for health care, and how you are choosing to approach this conversation may be helping or hindering your own personal progress - whether you agree with paying for health or not.  We talk about the impact of “entry fees” and the communities that are harmed by non-universal health care, but beyond that, we cover the impact of mindset on who is responsible fo...

Do you ever struggle to find the word you were thinking of?  What about walking into a room and forgetting why you were there? What about writing a sentence and then……wait…….what was I saying?  Brain fog is a common symptom that women feel in midlife, and although we think at this moment that midlife-related changes that impact our day-to-day cognitive function do get better with time, t...

In this week's episode I'm joined by my colleague Dr. Alison Danby, a Naturopathic Doctor in Ontario with a clinical and research focus on Autoimmunity.  We cover a few pervasive myths in the wellness space on autoimmune disease and what to look for in a "good" autoimmune health plan.  We answer questions like:  What does remission actually look like? Can you cure your disease? Does...

Logic, science and evidence are not easy to find in the nutrition space online. Especially when looking at the “trends” and “recommendations” for women. Whether you’re trying to lose weight, support your joint pain or improve your mood, the online conversation about nutrition for women is often missing the big picture, focusing on data from test tubes or is just flat out wrong. Holly Baxter is a D...

Did you know that over 50% of women will have hair thinning as they age?    This might be something we need to discuss eh?   In today’s episode, I share what happens to hair as we age, how to tell the difference between types of hair loss and what is possible for us as we age when it comes to our hair.    In this episode we cover: The lab testing you’ll need if you feel li...