The Wild Wisdom Show with Dr. Patricia Mills, MD

In this episode, Dr. Patricia takes a deeper dive into the second pillar of Wholistic Health, the Sugar Hormones.  In today's society we have a problem with too much sugar in virtually everything we eat, knowingly and unknowingly. Dr. Patricia discusses a whole host of health issues that arise from too much sugar in your system.  From imbalance in your hormones, damage to your tissues (all the way...

In this episode, Dr. Patricia takes a deep dive into the second pillar of Wholistic Health, the Spiritual Stress Response. Seen as a controversial topic at times, the spiritual is often the missing piece for most people. Dr. Patricia firmly plants and explains the importance of the Spiritual as a pillar of whole-body health. Dr. Patricia opens up about her early years and in retrospect realizes ho...

In this episode, Dr. Patricia takes a deeper dive into the first pillar of Wholistic Health, the Stress Response. The Stress Response is a necessary action in our body. However, the overstimulation of this action can lead to disease. Dr. Patricia has distilled what ancient wisdom, circadian science and cutting edge research have to say about the damage a prolonged stress response can do to you, an...

In this episode, Dr. Patricia discusses her unique method to whole-body health, revealing the four pillars that support her approach to Wholistic Health. Wholistic is described as the interconnection of the WHOLE-BODY, MIND and SPIRIT. In this overview, Dr. Patricia provides insight on how she came to realize how these four pillars are the pathways to whole-body health. Can you guess what these fo...

In this episode Dr. Patricia discusses how for a few affected individuals, the many toxins in our daily lives combined with our unique genetics could contribute to triggering PCOS, as there is not a single factor that universally triggers PCOS. From food to cosmetics to even the lighting in our environment, Dr. Patricia provides critical information on how to combat these factors that could contri...

In this episode Dr Patricia ties all 3 episodes together by explaining that a damaged gut could be the missing link to help women recover from PCOS.  Dr. Patricia discusses the gut pathway, and the research that backs up the theory that healing a damaged gut is critical to reversing PCOS.  She reveals the staggering difference that was found in the gut microbiome of those that have PCOS and those...

“You can’t heal a disease living the same lifestyle that created it”.  Dr. Patricia opens up this episode with this super important message. With her unique gift as a researcher, Dr. Patricia distills the current research on PCOS into actionable data you can understand and choose to implement if you are suffering from some of the symptoms previously discussed in Part 1.  Dr. Patricia never brings...

In this episode Dr. Patricia gives an overview of Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).  PCOS affects many women worldwide that may not have even been identified with it.  Dr. Patricia discusses the symptoms present with the syndrome. Arm yourself with the current research, the root cause(s), and the tools to reverse PCOS.  Dr. Patricia discusses this and much more in this 4 part series.    🌟  Dear l...

In this episode Dr. Patricia is interviewed by Madelaine Golec in her amazing Living A Better Life Podcast, and revisits the all-important topic of balancing hormones. Dr. Patricia discusses normal life stages in a woman’s reproductive life and what normal hormonal changes look like, and what they should NOT look like. She reveals 3 crucial ways our hormones can become unbalanced and cause women t...

In this Bonus episode Dr. Patricia points out that along with what we eat and how we eat, it's so crucial to understand that when we eat is sometimes even more important! Dr. Patricia dives deep into the science of our internal body clocks and how they change and work best at different times through the day - in other words, the circadian science that is informing circadian medicine. This cutting-...

In this 7th part of a 7 part series, Dr. Patricia discusses how infections can lead to inflammatory weight gain.  Meaning the “weight gain” could be a result of not overeating or under exercising.  It could be inflammation from an infection.  As has been previously discussed in this series, your gut microbiome is tied into your immune system, and keeping proper interactions between the two is cruc...

In this 6th part of a 7 part series, Dr. Patricia discusses characteristics of the lymphatic system.  Is it simply a drainage system? Would you be surprised to know that your BRAIN also has a lymphatic system?  How is this related to managing your ideal weight? This podcast will probably change the way you think about your lymphatic system and the role YOU play in maintaining proper function of it...

In this 5th part of a 7 part series, Dr. Patricia discusses how problems with digestive function leads to low absorption of nutrients into your body, which in turn imbalances your hormones and leads to major challenges in maintaining your ideal weight.  Follow these principles to help restore and maintain your digestive function.  Dr. Patricia will reveal key fundamentals from how to properly chew...

In this 4th part of a 7 part series, Dr. Patricia discusses how your body can reach a point in which it can become overwhelmed with the inner and outer sources of toxins, and is no longer able to detoxify these harmful molecules fully and efficiently.  Learn how you can apply simple yet effective daily habits to relieve some of the burden on your detoxification systems, and bring this natural abil...

In this 3rd part of a 7 part series, Dr. Patricia outlines how inflammation can contribute to being underweight or overweight. It’s fascinating how it can actually work both ways!  Discover how the immune system is playing 4 key roles by monitoring the body, protecting the body, healing the body, and cleaning the body.  However inflammation, for various reasons, can get out of control and start to...

In this 2nd part of a 7 part series, Dr. Patricia discusses how the highly processed foods that we are eating cause hormonal imbalances. She discusses what to look for at the grocery store and some basic principles you can follow to avoid the imbalances that can occur. Dr. Patricia also explains the interplay between two hormones that are crucial for weight regulation, insulin and cortisol. We wan...

By popular demand. Dr Patricia takes a deeper dive into how to achieve and maintain your ideal weight effortlessly.  In this first part of a seven part series, Dr. Patricia covers factors that you have to consider, that don't involve calorie counting, that can throw you out of balance in terms of your ideal weight.  The first of which is chemical confusion. Dr. Patricia provides some insight to wh...

In this interview with Dr. Michelle Peris, Dr. Patricia opens up about what events in her life triggered her to look deeper into what it really means to be healthy.  It began with a deceptively simple, yet powerful and not often not asked question, WHY?  Her father, a seemingly VERY healthy man, slowly lost all of his muscle function with the fatal condition Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, or...

In this final part of a three part series Dr Patricia zeros in on the “Toxins Tipping Point”. Dr. Patricia discusses the toxins produced internally in your body, those are introduced by external sources, and what you can do to help support your body's ability to expel these toxins. She will discuss some of the methods your body uses to naturally detoxify, and the key organs involved in this proces...

In this second part of a three part series Dr Patricia ties in an essential part of understanding the interconnectedness of your hormonal messaging and nervous systems, and how you might be getting “in the way” of the relationship between the two. Dr Patricia will provide key insights on inflammation, and the “toxin tipping point” which she will expand on in part three. 🌟  Dear listener, do you l...

In this first part of a three part series Dr Patricia discusses how wonderfully interconnected your body is within, and how understanding some of these links and applying them in your daily life will help you achieve your ideal body weight. You will learn how to modulate the “set point” of your ideal weight by optimizing your hormonal messaging systems. Adopting these habits will make maintaining...

In this episode Dr Patricia shares her hypothesis as to why some women are having a really hard time with hormonal balance affecting everything from fertility to menstrual cycles, menopause and beyond. Dr. Patricia discusses the molecule called lipopolysaccharide or LPS (some aptly refer to these molecules as “Little Pieces of Sh*#t”). This molecule is produced by certain kinds of bacteria that ca...

I am sharing a candid interview I had with Dr. Michelle Peris on The Chemistry of Health in Stressful Times.  We’ve all been through a 2-year period of stressful adjustments during the pandemic.  In this interview, I share how I handled my mental, emotional and physical stress during a period that forced me to change my career trajectory.     Here’s how Dr. Peris describes the interview:   Dr. Mil...

In this third part of this 3 part series Dr. Patricia discusses the link between the health of your gut and specifically inflammation of the gut to the health of your ovaries.  This link is rarely discussed. Did you know the lining of the gut is an endocrine gland and produces hormones like other glands in your body? Did you know when fat cells get inflamed it also produces hormones? Let Dr. Patri...

Have you ever been told that your microbiome lives in your gut? Probably.  Having accepted that, do you realize the microbiome ISN’T actually IN YOU? It is actually the gatekeeper to your health and well being? This podcast should be listened to over and over again. Understanding this data CHANGES EVERYTHING. Your immune system has headquarters in the gut and the microbiome lives in the gut and NO...