The Art and Soul of Healing

This episode is not an anti-vax screed but simply a request for data so we can approach vaccination for SARS-CoV-2  with full informed consent. Informed consent is the foundation of medical practice. The American Medical Association Code of Medical Ethics Opinion 2.1.1 states, "Informed consent to medical treatment is fundamental in both ethics and law.  Patients have the right to receive information and ask questions about rec...

Mark Houston, MD graduated phi beta kappa and summa cum laude from Rhodes College, with a BA in chemistry and math. He graduated with highest honors and the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary society distinction from Vanderbilt Medical School. He completed his medical training at the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) then return to serve as Chief Resident in Medicine at Vanderbilt Medical Center where he received the Hillman...

In my clinical practice there were people who followed low fat diets or ate highly processed food full of fake fat. This led to skin changes, brain changes, dull hair, low vitamin D, and low sex steroid hormones like testosterone. These are just a few changes that can occur from following low fat diets or eating damaged plastic fats in processed food. Fat is critical to keep the human body held together and running properly. It'...

Carbohydrates are the most abundant organic components in most fruits, vegetables, legumes, and cereal grains, and they are added as simple sugars to many processed foods to provide texture and flavor. The fundamental basic carbohydrate currency is glucose. Glucose serves as a precursor for synthesis of all other carbohydrates that are important components of body fluids, structural matrix, membranes, and cell surfaces.? Carbohydra...

Our guest is Leah Hechtman, a naturopathic physician in private practice in Australia. Leah is an expert in fertility, pregnancy, and reproductive medicine. She is the director of The Natural Health and Fertility Center in Sydney Australia where she has helped thousands of couples conceive often in very difficult situations where they have been told there was no hope left. 

Leah is currently completing her PhD Through the School of ...

Dr. Norling graduated from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and has trained at USC and UCLA. She received her MBA from St. Thomas University. Dr. Norling's expertise is based on her years of clinical experience, being an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School in the Department of OB/GYN, and her own personal research. She is national board-certified in OB/GYN, Integrative Medicine and Medical A...

Dr Brandon Horn is well-regarded in the Los Angeles area where he has been tapped to give lectures at Columbia University UCLA and USC. He also has lectured at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles. What I am most thankful for is his recent contribution to The Textbook Integrative and Functional Medicine Nutrition Therapies where he contributed a chapter on reproductive medicine.

Brandon has had positions at Children’s Hospital of Los ...

The traditional Mediterranean Diet is characterized by a high intake of vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, and mainly unrefined, minimally processed grains like rice and oats; an abundant fat intake from virgin olive oil, through salads, traditionally cooked vegetables, and legumes; a moderate consumption of fish and shellfish, a low consumption of meat and meat products; with the consumption of wine during meals. Fermented dairy p...

Thank you, Coco Newton, for your tenacity and accomplishments in treating ALS! As promised, I will place the website information that Coco mentioned including https://healingalsconference.org/http://www.alsuntangled.com/ associated with Duke University, and the links to the products LEAP and HEAL on the Art and Soul of Healing website. Coco would like me to tell you she has no financial ties to these organizations. She also would l...

FILOMENA TRINDADE, MD, MPH obtained her BA degree in biology and went on to finish a Master’s in Public Health in the area of environmental health and epidemiology before starting medical school. She graduated first in her class in family practice from the University of California Davis School of Medicine and did her residency training in family practice at the U.C. San Francisco/Santa Rosa Program. Filomena has been in clinical pr...

Stefan Leichtle, MD is an Acute Care Surgeon and Associate Professor of Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, VA. His clinical practice focuses on trauma surgery and surgical critical care. Dr. Leichtle received his medical education in Germany at the Technical University Munich, completed his General Surgery residency at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, MI, and underwent fellowship training in Surgi...

Michael Bauerschmidt, MD is a rare physician indeed! Dr Mike brings a unique approach and immeasurable wisdom to the fortunate patients who seek out his care. Dr Mike received his medical degree from Ohio State University followed by a residency in family medicine and board certified in emergency medicine. His medical training expanded after a personal illness and he became an expert in integrative, functional, and environmental me...

Michael Bauerschmidt, MD is a rare physician indeed! Dr Mike brings a unique approach and immeasurable wisdom to the fortunate patients who seek out his care. Dr Mike received his medical degree from Ohio State University followed by a residency in family medicine and board certified in emergency medicine. His medical training expanded after a personal illness and he became an expert in integrative, functional, and environmental me...

Dr Ron has been medical director of Integrated Listening System since its founding in 2007 and with its predecessor, Dynamic Listening Systems, since 2001. In 1989, Dr. Ron was originally trained by the grandfather of neurologic healing through listening, Dr. Tomatis, and opened a center the following year. Dr Ron has dedicated his professional life to the practice of sound therapy in clinical practice with children and adults who ...

Dr Stephen Porges  served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise...

Dr Stephen Porges  served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers across several disciplines including anesthesiology, biomedical engineering, critical care medicine, ergonomics, exercise...

Ralph W. Moss, PhD, has written or edited fourteen books and collaborated on four film documentaries on cancer. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Moss is an honors graduate of New York University and Stanford University. In the 1970s, he was assistant director of public affairs at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, which gave Ralph the beginning and intimate understanding of the cancer industry. His most recent book, Cancer, Inc...

Alpha Fowler III, MD helped define the cellular and molecular inflammatory events that evolve in the pulmonary microvascular and pulmonary alveolar space as humans develop acute lung injury. During his faculty years at Virginia Commonwealth University, his laboratory has been active modeling acute lung injury, carefully defining the molecular phenomena that produce injury while at the same time focusing on interventional therapies ...

Alpha Fowler III, MD helped define the cellular and molecular inflammatory events that evolve in the pulmonary microvascular and pulmonary alveolar space as humans develop acute lung injury. During his faculty years at Virginia Commonwealth University, his laboratory has been active modeling acute lung injury, carefully defining the molecular phenomena that produce injury while at the same time focusing on interventional therapies ...