The GetWellBe Podcast

It's that time again! Trying to stay on top of wellness and health news and research can be overwhelming . It's a lot to digest (pun intended). We saved you the trouble. We looked through over 40 studies and here are the 8 things you really need to know for your health from June and July 2019, WellBe-style. Topics include: 1. Processed Food Drives Weight Gain…And Americans Can't Stop Eating It 2....

Dr. Jill Blakeway is British-born, and grew up as a self-described "conventional" girl who once worked for the queen! But since those days, she's forged quite an unconventional path for herself, becoming the first acupuncturist to give a TED Talk at TED Global, and standing at the forefront of energy healing therapy. Adrienne sat down with Jill to  learn about her journey to becoming a doctor of C...

When Joy Fennell was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) back in 2008, the future looked bleak. The New York City-based makeup artist was only in her early 30s, but she suddenly found herself unable to lift her arms over her head or walk without a cane, and the only solution doctors offered was an intensive and side effect-laden drug regimen. After becoming nearly bedridden, she decided to ta...

Mette Dyhrberg was 14 years old when she experienced her first autoimmune symptoms and was diagnosed with psoriasis. She noticed three red dots on her neck, then woke up the next day covered in them. This was the beginning of a decades-long struggle with autoimmune symptoms and chronic illness, which led to five more diagnoses, a ton of drug prescriptions including Humira, and, ultimately, the rea...

After growing up in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, Dr. Robert Graham went on to study internal medicine, public health, and integrative medicine at Harvard. After practicing at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, he saw that by combining the best of these approaches, he could give his patients truly holistic care. That's why he founded FRESH Med in Brooklyn, NY, an integrative health...

June is National Scoliosis Awareness Month so I've decided to share my 20-year journey with Scoliosis and chronic pain. If you have chronic pain or scoliosis, I hope my experience and everything I've learned over the years can be interesting and helpful to you, or at the very least make you think a bit differently about the connections between pain in the body, things that have happened to you and...

Actress Jennifer Esposito spent 30 years dealing with mysterious health ailments including chronic sinus infections, mental illness symptoms, gut trouble, hair falling out, skin and nails coming off and allergies before she was finally diagnosed with celiac disease. In this clip, she tells the story of how her increasingly severe symptoms went undiagnosed, and the moment she knew she needed to tak...

Imagine gaining 40 pounds through the course of a single day. For Amie Valpone, a case of edema— swelling caused by excessive fluid trapped in the body's tissues — started her on a medical journey that took 10 years to resolve. Amie went to top hospitals and doctors to try to figure out what was causing her legs to swell, but no one could pinpoint and resolve the issue. On top of that, her body wo...

It's that time again! Trying to stay on top of wellness and health news and research can be overwhelming. It's a lot to digest (pun intended). We saved you the trouble. Here are 8 things you need to know from April and May 2019, WellBe-style. 1. BCBS Report on Millennials Shows that Health Starts to Decline at Age 27 2. Infections During Childhood Linked to Eating Disorders During Adolescence 3. L...

May is mental health awareness month and also this May 16th would have been my mom's 70th birthday. May is also the month of Mother's Day and New York City  –especially in Central Park which she just loved– bursts with color and life in May after a long, cold winter. All of this is to say that I've been thinking a lot about my mom the past few weeks and decided to share with you an updated version...

In honor of Lyme Disease Awareness month which is May, I've decided to share with you my story of Lyme and Lyme recovery. It's one full of crazy treatments and ups and downs, but I know for many out there suffering and looking for answers, it might provide the hope or inspiration and certainly some ideas about treatments and things to try to heal. In this episode I discuss: -Lyme testing and diagn...

Kelli Tennant began to get sick in 2005 and was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2007 while playing competitive division I volleyball at USC. For five years, she believed she had fibromyalgia, until one day in 2012 she finally decided to go on a journey to figure out what was really wrong with her. What she found was remarkable. Listen to me (Adrienne) interview Kelli as she shares this inspiring ta...

Ellie Burrows had a health scare in 2008 that landed her in the office of functional and integrative medicine expert Dr. Frank Lipman. He introduced her to meditation to manage emotional aspects of her health issue and having that de-stressing practice became her anchor. She realized meditation was like going to the gym— if you go consistently, you'll see the benefits. That's when she came to the...

As I alluded to in my impactful changes of 2018 article https://getwellbe.com/adriennes-blog/the-10-most-impactful-health-changes-adrienne-made-in-2018 , I was diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis about a year ago.  As it would happen, I recently had the privilege of sitting down with Aviva Romm, a wonderful functional medicine doctor and author of The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution. This past Janua...

Integrative psychiatrist Dr. Ellen Vora, MD takes a functional medicine approach to mental health, addressing root causes and considering the patient's whole self as part of the diagnosis and care. We talked about: The role sleep plays in mental health The connection between mental health and gut health and diet The root causes and natural approaches to treating anxiety and depression ADD/ADHD and...

In late December, I went through and thought about everything I had done in 2018 to impact my health - most for the better, one for the worse! I decided to detail them for you in this episode to give you some ideas and inspiration about some places to start to improve your health and prevent future chronic disease (or help to reverse it now!) A few of the changes: Dentist / dental habits Finally i...

Dr. Robin Berzin went to medical school at Columbia University with the goal of getting a solid, conventional medicine education that she could use to help patients in a non-conventional way. The combo of studying public health in college and seeing her dad's experience as a primary care doctor showed her that medicine alone wasn't the solution— that things like yoga, nutrition, meditation, and li...

It's that time again! Trying to stay on top of wellness and health news and research can be overwhelming. It's a lot to digest (pun intended). We saved you the trouble. Here are 7 things you  need  to know from February + March, WellBe-style, read to you by me, Adrienne! FDA Commissioner Announces Stronger Regulations on Supplements…Then Resigns HPV Might Be Behind Vocal Cord Cancers in Young More...

Elissa Goodman knew that she needed to make a change in her lifestyle in order to get in control of her mental and physical health. But her real wake-up call came when, at age 32, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. "I knew my life wasn't going in the right direction in a lot of ways, but I didn't really want to focus on it," Goodman remembers. But after her diagnosis, she had no choice but...

Diane "V" Capaldi goes by the moniker PaleoBOSS Lady because she IS a boss. And a lady. After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) at 24, her health declined rapidly for 23 more years, with the multiple sclerosis symptoms becoming more and more debilitating — and the treatment more and more expensive. Then, a life-changing trip inspired her to take things into her own hands, and she began...

You've probably heard about Ayurveda, which is the traditional Hindu system of medicine. It comes from thousands of years of practice in India and is based on the idea of balance in bodily systems and uses diet, herbal treatment, and yogic breathing. In our interview with Ayurveda expert Sahara Rose, author of "Idiot's Guide: Ayurveda, she explains: What the different doshas are What their particu...

When Dr. Taz Bhatia began losing her hair, she'd already completed years of medical school and had begun her residency — but she had no idea what was happening to her body. Ultimately, she was able to get her symptoms under control, but it took going outside of what she'd been taught in med school. This experience opened her eyes to the strengths and weaknesses of conventional medicine, fundamenta...

To anyone who has not been a chronic disease patient, a caretaker of one, or has worked in the healthcare system, it's a confusing mess you hope to never really have to deal with or understand. If you do understand it and have had to deal with it, it's even more complex and confusing. Based on my personal experiences as a lyme disease and then amenorrhea patient, caretaker for my mother when she b...

Since it's cancer prevention month, let's talk about this awful disease. Usually, people go to see a doctor because they're experiencing some symptom that they want to treat. According to Tammy Kohlschmidt, a certified clinical thermographer, that's entirely the wrong approach. As she explained to WellBe, thermography offers a way to catch dysfunction before it becomes symptomatic, helping people...

In honor of Valentine's Day, we're talking about sex today on The WellBe Podcast! Probably the least fun part of sex is the birth control, but it's also certainly the most important part for most of us. At WellBe, we think condoms are one of the best forms of birth control out there for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs or STDs), keeping your body free of synthetic hormones and of c...