The Healthy Brain Podcast
The Healthy Brain Podcast is a fun and encouraging place to connect for Real Talk about healthy living, so that you can have the healthiest brain ever for physical stability, mental clarity, and longevity. There’s no sugar-coating here! Certified nutritionist and a daughter of dementia, Carrie Miller hits on hard topics and covers the facts giving you insight into alternative approaches to optimize your brain. It’s time to Take Control of Your Own Health, so that you can enjoy a life full of joy and laughter with your family and friends!
Episodes
Have you been hearing about a Whole Foods, Plant-based diet? Kathy Anne Rodriguez is here to share her amazing story of healing her own body with a Whole Foods, Plant-based dietary plan. As a health coach, she shares with us some key strategies to implement for a healthier lifestyle without the use of prescription drugs. Kathy advocates for others to educate and research for...
As a husband/wife team, Drs. Chawla and Chawla, teach us how they incorporate a whole-food, plant-based diet, and other lifestyle choices with their patients at their Lifestyle Medicine clinic in Bellaire, Texas. Dr. Munish Chawla is a board-certified physician in Diagnostic Radiology and Lifestyle Medicine. A long time practitioner of meditation and yoga, he adopted a plant-based lifestyle in 2013. Upon becoming aware of...
At the age of 27 Katherine Lawrence-Ireland was told she had Stage 4 endometriosis. The doctor said that she had ovarian and uterine cysts, an advanced reproductive disease, and he offered only one option…a hysterectomy. Katherine is a former aerospace engineer and military veteran. She has been teaching nutrition and cooking classes for PCRM and was the national instructor trainer for 11 years now. ...
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Board-certified in internal medicine for both adults and pediatrics, Dr. Felice Howard highly encourages her patients to adopt a whole food, plant-based diet along with other lifestyle changes to improve health and wellbeing. With the epidemic of chronic disease in the U.S., we look at the clear health risks posed by animal products and how the government continues to be swayed by Big Agriculture. Dr. Howard recommends her go-to...
...Karoline Mueller has struggled with obesity and depression for decades while she obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Houston. In 2011, she decided to start actively searching for help, to not only combat her struggles, but also to support a friend who had triple bypass surgery. In 2015, she acquired her certification as a Food for Life instructor, teaching plant-based cooking...
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There is a bigger pandemic out there that has been wreaking havoc long before the coronavirus – the pandemic of chronic diseases that affect not only our bodies but also our brains. There is, however, a way for you to protect yourself and that is not through prescription drugs but through a healthy diet. What could be the healthiest eating plan for your...
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Believe it or not, but your mouth is connected to the rest of you. A recent analysis suggests that bacteria that cause gum disease are also associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease and are related to dementia, especially vascular dementia. In this episode, biological dentist Dr. Kalli Hale sits down with Carrie Miller to talk about the relationship between some dental solutions and having a...
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Music changes lives, literally. This episode’s guest, Hope Young, greatly believes in this, and she joins host, Carrie Miller, to talk about the power of music therapy to help support those patients coping with treatment. Hope is the founder and president of one of the most technologically advanced music therapy facilities in the world, the Center for Music Therapy, Inc. Here, she takes us into the...
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We have been brought up to put so much trust in conventional medicine to cure whatever ails our bodies that we tend to underestimate the power of a healthy lifestyle in preventing disease and promoting a healthy life. Health is what distinguishes thriving from mere surviving. It allows us to feel alive, feel well, grow, expand our horizons and flourish. Naturally, everyone wants...
If you have a loved one in a nursing home or a long-term care facility, it’s probably been about four months since you’ve seen or spoken to them. How are you, and how do you feel about this lockdown? On today’s show, Carrie Miller talks about the unfortunate reality about there being no plan to open up or allow visitation of any kind...
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With everything that is happening in the world today – from a pandemic to civil unrest and corrupt politics – many people are losing hope and asking where God is in all this chaos. The end is at hand, and what we need is a return to spirituality in these chaotic times so that we can be ready for judgment when it comes....
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Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the US, affecting 40 million adults ages eighteen and older. With the COVID-19 keeping us all isolated, depression and anxiety have become even more felt. Addressing this very important conversation that we all need now more than ever, Carrie Miller interviews Amy Lyles—a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, Ropes Course/Challenge...
What has soil got to do with the brain? Cath Conlon, the CEO and Founder of Blackwood Educational Land Institute, sees a direct chain leading from soil health to brain health and advocates using regenerative practices in agriculture to achieve a positive impact on both physical and mental well-being. When you come to think about it, it is hard not to be disgusted when we...
We are in the midst of so much uncertainty created by COVID-19 that nearly half of Americans report that COVID-19 is harming their mental health. A federal emergency hotline for people in emotional distress registers a more than 1000% increase in April 2020 compared to the same time last year. As sad as it sounds, this wave of mental injuries is not going...
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One of the greatest tradeoffs humanity has had to make is between the ability to feed its ever-growing population and the need to protect the planet that sustains that very ability. Regenerative agriculture offers a way to do both by emulating the workings of natural ecosystems to bring back soil health, which ultimately impacts the health of humans who consume its plant and...
One of the heaviest feelings we have to carry is knowing that the only way to remove the bitterness and anger in our hearts towards another person is through forgiveness. It can be so easy to miss all the good things because that hate already clouds our hearts. Bearing her soul in this episode, Carrie Miller shares a touching story between her and her...
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What is a community? According to the dictionary, it is a social group of any size whose members reside in a specific locality, share a government, and often have a common cultural and historical heritage. For us here, that would be America. However, in the current state of the world, do you think we are a community in our country? In this episode,...
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We are fundamentally social animals, so humans, as we are, we naturally crave connection the most. However, we sometimes forget that connection is all-encompassing, that it is not only limited to person to person; it can also be with your pets and even nature. Dedicating this episode in praise of that, Carrie Miller talks about our connection with nature and the reasons why...
We all remember the good times when we would move and groove to the music of youth and innocence. As we age, however, many of us lose that free-flowing connection with physical activity. We go about with our sedentary lifestyles day by day, accumulating stress in our bodies and our minds. Carrie Miller reminds us that neither our brains nor our bodies can...
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Do you have a brain that never shuts off before bed? Do you find yourself often tossing and turning trying to figure out how you can sleep because your mind just never stops with its endless lists of ideas? If so, then this episode is perfect for you. Host, Carrie Miller, continues with the series on brain health by shedding light on how...
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