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Click here to text us! "You are already whole and complete as you are." Feel the power in those words and let them sink in. This idea of being whole and complete is central to the Ayurvedic arts, and when I first encountered it, I remember feeling like a weight had lifted off of my shoulders. I hope you do too as you listen to this episode! Today, I'm joined by Dr. Rashmi Schramm to...

Click here to text us! I like to think that the holiday season strolls in each year with the best of intentions, but without knowing, it usually brings some baggage that we could do without- especially those of us on our final weight loss journey. There's always an abundance of food and drink, often times there are family stressors, routines change, and all of this adds up to make weight loss...

Click here to text us! Do you think miracle drugs exist? I think most doctors (myself included) would say that they don't exist, but after hearing my guest, Dr. Lina Qazi, talk about some of the weight loss medications out on the market, we can at least say that science has produced some pretty incredible medicine! Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are just a couple of the numerous weight loss me...

Click here to text us! "Sitting is the new smoking."  You've probably heard this before, and I'll admit that it's a bit provocative, but there is a lot of truth to the fact that sedentary lifestyles lead to greater risks of cardiovascular and cardio-metabolic diseases. Now, there's a new study out in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) saying that s...

Click here to text us! Sleep is not just a luxury. It's a biological necessity that keeps us going and allows us to operate at our best. As professional women with careers, families, and hobbies, it's so easy to forget this and let sleep get pushed aside to create more waking hours- which is why I'm so happy to have had Dr. Funke Afolabi-Brown as a guest on the podcast to help us wi...

Click here to text us! I'm sure you all have heard time and time again that it's important to drink water, and this seems obvious, right? It's the healthiest drink option and our bodies need it to perform their basic functions. But when it comes to weight loss, there's so many more benefits that drinking water provides. In this episode, we're going to get into those benefi...

Click here to text us! In this episode, I had a great conversation with Dr. Anshul Gupta about reversing Hashimoto's Disease. Dr. Gupta  is a best-selling author, speaker, researcher, and a world expert in Hashimoto’s disease. He is a Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician, with advanced certification in Functional Medicine, Peptide therapy, and also Fellowship training in Integrative Medi...

Click here to text us! We can all define hunger with our words, but when it comes down to it, can we describe how it feels within our own bodies? As professional women, odds are that our worlds are constantly full of an abundance of food, which also means that we have the opportunity to never feel hungry if we don't want to. So when I tell people to eat 3 meals with proper spacing in-between...

Click here to text us! In this episode of the Vibrant-MD Podcast, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Dana Gibbs to talk about thyroid and weight loss. Dr. Dana Gibbs is a speaker, educator, hormone expert, board-certified ENT, and allergist. She maintains an online education platform where she shares her knowledge of Hormone Management and Allergy treatment methods with other interested p...

Click here to text us! Have you ever wondered where the intersection between alcohol, breast cancer, and weight loss is? For this episode, I sat down with my friend from residency, Dr. Stacey Devine to talk about the ways in which our alcohol consumption impacts weight loss and contributes to our risk of breast cancer. Dr. Devine has been a board-certified family medicine doctor since 2000 and has...

Click here to text us! In this episode, I had a great conversation with Dr. Sadaf Lodhi about sex, intimacy, and body image. Dr. Lodhi is a board-certified OBGYN, an intimacy coach for women, and the founder of the Muslim Sex Podcast. She's been practicing as an OBGYN in New York for over 20 years with the mission of empowering and educating women, however, most recently she opened up a Teleh...

Click here to text us! There are countless weight loss programs out there at every possible price point for women to choose from. It can be tough trying to find the right program, and what I often hear about is someone will try a couple of the cheaper options without any success, and they'll turn to a higher ticket price option with the hope that the higher price will lead to better results....

Click here to text us! As a parent, doctor, and weight loss coach to other parents, I know that it often feels like there's no easy way to interact with our teens. Now factor in trying to talk to them about weight, body image, and health... We all want to good parents to our children, but there's no perfect way to do this. So the question I get frequently from my clients is this: How can...

Click here to text us! We're in mid-August now, which means most summer vacations are coming to an end, so I thought it would be a good time to talk about something that I know a lot of us can relate to: vacation weight gain. When we're on vacation, we tend to eat and drink more, and our routines go out the window to a large degree. With this in mind, it only makes sense that we might ga...

Click here to text us! Remember Debbie Downer, the old SNL character who had a real pessimistic view of things? Well, after my last couple of podcast episodes where I talked about how the preserved meats on charcuterie boards are bad, and how protein shakes aren't good either, I've been feeling like a Debbie Downer. So in today's episode, I decided to turn things around and tell you...

Click here to text us! Charcuterie boards have been around for a while, but in recent times they've really become popular across social media. And understandably so, right? You can design them to your liking with your favorite fruits, nuts, seeds, meats, cheeses, jams, etc... and they are extremely aesthetically pleasing to look at. In this podcast episode, we'll be talking about the goo...

Click here to text us! In this episode I'm joined by Dr. Malathi Acharya, an integrative medicine physician and founder of Ayur Integrative Medicine. She is passionate about all elements of integrative medicine, including, nutrition, supplements, botanicals, mind-body treatments, and treatments from alternate medical systems. We sat down to chat about antioxidants and where to find them. If y...

Click here to text us!  Night-time eating. We've all been there, right? It's just so easy and comforting to plop down on the couch with a snack and nibble on it, but as far as weight loss goes, it's not doing us any favors! So, if we're on a weight loss journey, how do we cut this behavior out? On this episode, we'll go over the 4 main reasons why people eat during the nig...

Click here to text us! "Breakfast like a Queen, lunch like a princess, and dinner like a pauper." This is widely regarded as a healthy way to eat, and a way to eat that will help you along your weight loss journey. And I'm not going to argue with it! Studies have shown that eating a big breakfast, a medium sized lunch, and a smaller dinner is an effective way to both maintain and lo...

Click here to text us! When you think about summer, I'm sure one of the first things that comes to mind is food. It's seemingly everywhere at picnics, barbecues, holiday celebrations... you name it! And for professional women over 50 who are on their final weight loss journey, it can feel like an impossible task to attend all of these events and not suffer a setback. In this podcast epis...

Click here to text us! Nuts are so nutritious and delicious, but so easy to overeat! We love their protein, fiber, healthy fats, vitamins, mineral, and antioxidants, but we love to eat a lot of them. They are nutrient dense, which is a good thing, but also just plain DENSE. It's hard to stop at one serving with that delectable CRUNCH. Today on the podcast, I let you know how much is a good am...

Click here to text us! Do you have a go-to side dish that you bring to a cook-out? Is it something you would eat on your weight loss journey, as well as delicious? On the podcast today, I talk about the ins and outs of picking a great dish that will serve your weight loss journey, as well as be a hit at the meal your friend's backyard BBQ. Great news for summer! Here's a link for our fre...

Click here to text us! Did things go well on your weight loss journey, but now you've noticed the number bumping up on the scale again? There is help! Alicia Shelly, MD is my guest today and she is an expert on this topic. She shares her wisdom today on the podcast. If you're interested in the great work that Dr. Shelly is doing, check out her social media platforms with the links below:...

Click here to text us! Did you ever go to a party and eat or drink something you didn't want to please your friends? Are you a people pleaser at work? I discuss this today with my friend, and a fellow physician coach, Dr. Mary Leung. Dr. Mary Leung is a physician who is board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology. She is also a certified life coach who is passionate...

Click here to text us! Ever wonder what to eat? Today my guest is Sabrina Falquier, MD, CCMS, DipABLM, who is a culinary medicine doctor, lifestyle medicine doctor, as well as an internist.  She is bilingual and multicultural, born and raised in Mexico City to Swiss and American parents. Dr. Falquier worked as a primary care doctor for over 15 years and in 2020 founded Sensations Salud , which foc...