S14 Ep13: Palliative Care vs Hospice
This week we will discuss Palliative vs Hospice with Dr. Karl Steinberg. Palliative Care, Hospice Care, End-of-Life Care, Serious Illness Care, and Advance Care Planning/POLST all represent important elements of care for individuals dealing with serious illness, particularly those facing end-of-life situations. These are related but distinct concepts within the healthcare system. Palliative C...
57m Jun 27, 2023
57m
S14 Ep12: Processed Food Addiction
This week we will discuss processed food addiction.  This is a rerun of an episode we posted awhile back. Dr. Ifland has been creating breakthroughs in recovery from food addiction from 1999 with her first popular book to 2018 when her textbook, Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery was released by CRC Press. She founded the online Addiction Reset Community (ARC) in ...
1hr 21m Jun 20, 2023
1hr 21m
S14 Ep11: POTs with Maddie
This week we will discuss POTs once again with a new guest, Maddie Connell. Maddie is a 27 year old who works in Veterinary neurology and neurosurgery studying to become a Veterinary Neurologist herself.  She runs a popular TikTok to raise awareness and provide research based information on Ehlers Danlos, POTs, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and Complex PTSD. ​ Postural orthostatic tachycardia...
36m Jun 13, 2023
36m
S14 Ep10: Crohns Disease and Trauma
This week we are repeating our episode on Crohns Disease and Trauma. Casey Hersch explains how childhood trauma could be the reason your gut is a mess!  We have heard of the brain/gut connection, Casey explains it in some detail on this episode.   Casey Hersch, MSW, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker, author, and founder of www.lightyoursparkle.life. She specializes in integrative trea...
40m Jun 06, 2023
40m
S14 Ep9: Pulmonary Embolism
This week our Co-Host and producer is the guest once again!  The topic for this week is Pulmonary Embolism, which is a blood clot or thrombus in the lung. A pulmonary embolism (PE) is a sudden blockage in a lung artery. It usually happens when a blood clot (https://medlineplus.gov/bloodclots.html)  breaks loose and travels through the bloodstream to the lungs. PE is a serious condition that ca...
18m May 30, 2023
18m
S14 Ep8: Radiology 2nd Opinions
This week we will discuss the topic of Diagnostic Radiology.  The error rate of radiology is 4% world wide which comes out to be 40 million interpretive errors a year.  Errors in diagnostic radiology occur for a variety of reasons related to human error, technical factors and system faults. It is important to recognize that various cognitive biases contribute to these errors. Cognitive biases ...
21m May 23, 2023
21m
S14 Ep7: Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma
This week we will discuss an extremely rare type of cancer that is most often associated with younger children.  When it affects adults it is more difficult to treat. Our guest this week is Wilder McNemar.  Wilder has a decent following on TikTok which is where I found him.  You can follow him here: https://www.tiktok.com/@queerpple?lang=en ​ A Rhabdomyosarcoma is a type of soft tissue sarcom...
54m May 16, 2023
54m
S14 Ep6: HIV and Congenital Heart Defects
This week we will discuss HIV and Congenital Heart Defects.  Seem like an unlikely pair? First we dive deep into the world of congenital heart defects, specifically focusing on the rare and life-altering condition known as Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA). Our special guest, Derek Canas, has not only lived with this complex heart defect but has also experienced firsthand the consequen...
38m May 09, 2023
38m
S14 Ep5: Parkinson's Caregiving
This week we will discuss Parkinson's Disease (PD) from the caregiver perspective with Terri Pease. ​ Before she met her husband (Peter), who already had PD when they met, Terri was working flat-out, traveling around the country, as a trainer and consultant for organizations and staff that support survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence.  She was ready to slow down a little and sta...
31m May 02, 2023
31m
S14 Ep4: Filing for Social Security Disability
This week we will discuss Social Security Disability Benefits with our guest David Dodge. ​David Dodge is the Case Manager at Community Action of Orleans and Genesee in Batavia, NY. Prior to this role, David was an Independent Living Specialist and Facilitated Enroller at Independent Living of the Genesee Region. At Independent Living, David earned his Work Incentive Practitioner credential fr...
34m Apr 25, 2023
34m
S14 Ep3: CIDP Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
This week we will discuss CIDP with Ashley.  Ashley also know as "Wheelinwoman" on Instagram and TikTok.  "I have a few rare diseases that caused me to have health issues including a spinal cord injury which left me a quadriplegic.  I spread awareness and education on life with Guillian Barre syndrome and CIDP.  And share my journey wheelin' through life as a young woman!" ​ Chronic Inflammat...
14m Apr 18, 2023
14m
S14 Ep2: Autoimmune & Tick Borne Illness
Our guest this week is Dr. Casey Kelley.  Board Certified in Family Medicine, Dr. Kelley was among the first physicians to become Board Certified in Integrative Medicine. She has studied the causes, effects, and treatments of Lyme Disease extensively, and lectures nationally on this and other topics. Dr. Kelley graduated from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed her resi...
29m Apr 11, 2023
29m
S14 Ep1: Recalls and Your Health
This week we will discuss product recalls and your health.  According to WEBMD: A product safety recall happens when a consumer watch group or a manufacturer finds problems with a product. Lots of items can be recalled. Some products that are commonly recalled include: Food products, like meat or vegetables Medication and medical devices Children’s products, like safety seats Car parts ​...
15m Apr 04, 2023
15m
S13 Ep20: AfterCare For COVID With Marci Bene
This week we are revisiting a marvelous guest we had on last year. With Long Covid now dominating the healthcare news, what a great time to get on board with a new protocol to help re-calibrate your nervous system?! ​Marci Bene, is a health coach from Hungary with a focus on the human nervous system and after he suffered through Covid a couple months back he created a protocol to bounce back ...
56m Mar 28, 2023
56m
S13 Ep19: Medical Cannabis (ReRun)
First off, apologies from our team for the late posting, I had a sudden medical emergency myself that put me in the hospital.  But... we are back and will be posting a new episode on that incident in the near future!  Thank you for trusting us to return to show production, even if we are 30 hours late! We are running with back to back reruns based on listeners requests.  For this week's show, ...
13m Mar 22, 2023
13m
S13 Ep18: Cancer Misdiagnosis
Everyone has heard of a misdiagnosis.  Either radiology doesn't catch something on a scan, or perhaps the M.D. misses a lump or a mark during exam.  But when it comes to diagnosing deadly disease like cancer, you don't want it to get missed, especially twice for two different cancers! Cancer misdiagnosis may occur due to human error such as doctor negligence or incompetence when determining ...
1hr 7m Mar 14, 2023
1hr 7m
S13 Ep17: Dysautonomia With Ella Eastin
This week we will discuss Dysautonomia once again. Our guest this week is Ella Eastin, a first-year medical student at Stanford University School of Medicine. She completed her undergraduate education at Stanford and was a member and captain of the Varsity Swim team, where she earned 12 National Championship titles and set 4 American Records. Following her graduation in 2019 with a B.S. in Hum...
53m Mar 07, 2023
53m
S13 Ep16: Dysautonomia and COVID / Vaccine
This week we will discuss a debilitating neurological disorders of COVID-19 syndrome in survivors, the scope of SARS-CoV-2-induced dysautonomia (DNS) is yet to be understood, though the implications are enormous. Our guest today ended up with POTs (a form of dysautonomia) after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.  Chelsea, a 21 yr old former nursing student was diagnosed after havin...
29m Feb 28, 2023
29m
S13 Ep15: Longevity & Regenerative Medicine
On today’s show, we are speaking with Dr. Deepti Agarwal. Dr. Agarwal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, then earned her MD from Stony Brook School of Medicine at the State University of New York (SUNY). She completed her residency in Anesthesiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital Feinberg School of Medicine. Her Fellowship in Pain Management is from Weill Cornell Medical College/...
46m Feb 21, 2023
46m
S13 Ep14: Women and Cardiac Events
This week we are talking once again with Kristal Kent.  If you recall, Kristal has joined us on previous interviews discussing Fibromyalgia and again discussing prepping for surgery as a chronically ill person.  We never really gave Kristal the credit she deserves for being such a fantastic advocate for all Veterans and those with Fibro or other life-long medical conditions.  Allow me to proper...
50m Feb 14, 2023
50m
S13 Ep13: Witkop Syndrome/ Ectodermal Dysplasia
This week we will discuss Witkop Syndrome with Cheryl Kingsford. Cheryl is 44.5 years old, from Boise, Idaho, advocate, survivor of trauma, living with ectodermal dysplasia. Single, no kids of her own, but has cute chihuahua.  She rescued Gina August 5, 2020 after fostering her since May 28, 2020. Gina and Cheryl go on a lot of hiking adventures. Cheryl has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology (...
20m Feb 07, 2023
20m
S13 Ep12: Strep, It's Worth Repeating
This week we will discuss Strep once again. Bacteria called group B Streptococcus (group B strep, GBS) commonly live in people’s gastrointestinal and genital tracts. The gastrointestinal tract is the part of the body that digests food and includes the stomach and intestines. The genital tract is the part of the body involved in reproduction and includes the vagina in women. Most of the time ...
19m Jan 31, 2023
19m
S13 Ep11: The Dangers of Iced Foods
This week we will discuss the dangers of eating restaurant ice or any ice for that matter!  Ice handling is part of food safety training.  Without proper ice machine cleaning, your restaurant’s ice maker is at risk from mold, slime, scale, and sediment. ​Slime and mold form because ice machines provide a damp and dark environment where they can thrive. Yeast and dust in the air provide these g...
22m Jan 24, 2023
22m
S13 Ep10: Olfactory Disorders
This week we will discuss olfactory disorders, or problems with smelling either good or bad chemicals, foods, fragrances, and the like.  Did you know your sense of smell also affects your taste? A damaged sense of olfaction is severely disrupting: the joy of eating and drinking may be lost, and depression may result. There could also be dangers associated with the loss of smell, including the i...
12m Jan 17, 2023
12m
S13 Ep9: Meningioma & Hemiplegia
This week we will discuss both Meningioma & Hemiplegia. ​Our guest today is Marjorie Turner Hollman, a freelance writer/ editor who loves the outdoors, uses hiking poles to help keep her balance on the trail, and has completed four books in the Easy Walks guide book series. Her latest book, My Liturgy of Easy Walks, is a memoir, meditations on learning to live with a changed life. A native Flo...
35m Jan 10, 2023
35m
S13 Ep8: RSV /Respiratory syncytial virus
This week we will discuss another respiratory virus that has been really hitting hard here in the United States this season. ​ Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a contagious virus that is usually mild, but can severely affect the lungs and respiratory airways in older adults While you may not have heard of it yet, RSV is not a new virus and may be more of a health concern than you think—e...
18m Jan 03, 2023
18m
S13 Ep7: Winter Safety
With the winter weather now fully upon us we thought it was a good time to remind everyone about winter safety. Hypothermia is a medical emergency that occurs when your body loses heat faster than it can produce heat, causing a dangerously low body temperature. Normal body temperature is around 98.6 F (37 C). Hypothermia (hi-poe-THUR-me-uh) occurs as your body temperature falls below 95 F (35 ...
12m Dec 27, 2022
12m
S13 Ep7: Food Safety at the Holidays
This week we will discuss how you can stay healthy during the upcoming holiday season.  With COVID 19 ramping up once again along with the Flu and RSV you have enough to worry about when it comes to staying safe and healthy as you travel or gather with family or friends.  Food safety shouldn't take a back seat!  No one needs food poisoning to the list of risks this winter!  We all wish you a ve...
13m Dec 20, 2022
13m
S13 Ep5: The Chicago House & HIV Prevention
On today's show we discuss The Chicago House, founded in 1985 during the height of the AIDS crisis, Chicago House initially served as a housing resource for those living with HIV/AIDS. Over the past three decades, they evolved, remaining steadfast in their roots to provide housing for anyone impacted or vulnerable to HIV/AIDS while expanding their services to empower individuals in the greater ...
35m Dec 13, 2022
35m
S13 Ep4: Long COVID and POTs
Our guest today is Chelsea Weaver, a 31-year-old living in Tennessee. She has a beautiful little girl that is just over 2 years old, a wonderful husband, and they all live on a quiet farm property.  Before coming down with COVID, she was a surgical technologist.   She used to assist in open heart surgery as well as some other specialties but hasn't been able to function in her career for about ...
32m Dec 06, 2022
32m
S13 Ep3: Diet, Exercise and Fibromyalgia
This week we will discuss how food and exercise affect Fibromyalgia with Dr. Michael Lenz.  Dr. Lenz is the host of the podcast, Conquering Your Fibromyalgia, where he blends the best of lifestyle medicine and medical management of fibromyalgia and related problems   In years past, depression was often ignored as a “real” problem until finally the medical community acknowledged that this mood d...
43m Nov 29, 2022
43m
S13 Ep2: C-Diff Can Be Deadly
This week we had the honor to speak with Christian John Lillis. Christian is executive director of the Peggy Lillis Foundation for C. diff Education & Advocacy (PLF), co-founded with his brother, Liam, following the death of their mother from a Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) infection in April 2010. PLF envisions a world where C. diff is rare, treatable, and survivable. In pursuit of its vi...
45m Nov 22, 2022
45m
S13 Ep1: Migraines
On today's show we are speaking with Kathleen J. O'Shea, Professor of English at Monroe Community College, (Rochester, N.Y.) Kathy is a 43-year migraine sufferer, who has taken her passion for literature and her chronic illness to create "So Much More Than A Headache, Understanding Migraine Through Literature" As we know, migraine is so much more than 'just a headache' but possibly a refreshe...
51m Nov 15, 2022
51m
S12 Ep20: Staying Healthy as a Veteran
This week we are talking once again with Dan "Dry Dock" Shockley on "Staying Healthy as a Veteran"  For Veteran's Day this year we are featuring Dan because even though he has been dealt a hard blow with a hereditary colon cancer gene he is not letting that slow him down one bit!  As a matter of fact he is thriving and advocating for others around the globe as a hereditary colon cancer ambassad...
32m Nov 08, 2022
32m
S12 Ep19: Lambert Eaton Syndrome
This week we will discuss Lambert Eaton Syndrome with Latasha Densie DeRamus.  Tasha is 42yrs old, living in Tampa, Fl. with her a daughter Naomi, and a fur baby name Foxy who is 7.  Besides Lambert-Eaton, Tasha also deals with Gastroparesis, non-intractable vomiting with nausea, is underweight due to inadequate caloric intake and acute bronchitis. ​ Lambert-Eaton syndrome, also known as Lamb...
1hr 5m Nov 01, 2022
1hr 5m
S12 Ep18: Autoimmune and The Liver
This week we will be discussing Autoimmune Hepatitis with our guest Michelle Irving. A pioneer in the Chronic Illness space, Michelle Irving is the Queen of the Underworld. She mentors women around the world, teaching them how to create a life filled with love, meaningful work and deep personal power.  She believes we can all have a positive relationship with ourselves even in the midst of exp...
38m Oct 25, 2022
38m
S12 Ep17: Annual Exam
This week we will discuss the annual medical checkup or annual physical exam.  We will not have a guest on this episode but hope you will learn just as much from the discussion based on the research we have done for this episode. ​ Annual Physical Exam: The Basics The physical exam is an essential part of any doctor's visit. Surprisingly, though, there are no absolutes in a routine physical....
23m Oct 18, 2022
23m
S12 Ep16: Functional Cardiology
This week we will discuss Functional Medicine as it relates to Cardiology.  Our guest today is Dr. Trent Orfanos. Dr. Trent Orfanos is the Director of Integrative and Functional Cardiology at Case Integrative Health.  Dr. Orfanos brings decades of experience in both Cardiology and Integrative Medicine. In his own words: "I practiced adult invasive, nuclear, noninvasive, and interventional car...
37m Oct 11, 2022
37m
S12 Ep15: Atrial Fibrillation
This week we are discussing Atrial fibrillation or A-fib.  A-fib is an irregular and often very rapid heart rhythm (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots in the heart. A-fib increases the risk of stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications. During atrial fibrillation, the heart's upper chambers (the atria) beat chaotically and irregularly — out of sync with the lower chamber...
10m Oct 04, 2022
10m
S12 Ep14: Long Covid /Post Covid / Ongoing Covid
This week we will discuss Long Covid or Post-Covid. Post-COVID conditions are a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems that people experience after being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. Most people with COVID-19 get better within a few days to a few weeks after infection, so at least four weeks after infection is the start of when post-COVID conditions could fir...
12m Sep 27, 2022
12m
S12 Ep13: Septic Shock & DIC Amputation
This week we have the honor of speaking with Katy Grainger about septic shock and DIC amputation Four years ago, at the age of 52, Katy Grainger’s life was turned upside down when she nearly died from septic shock because of a small, infected cut on her thumb. Because of sepsis, she now lives as a double below-knee amputee who also lost the tips of most of her fingers.  When she became ill, sh...
1hr 13m Sep 20, 2022
1hr 13m
S12 Ep12: Stress and the Immune System
This week we have a brief insight to the fact that stress can play havoc on the immune system and we hope to have a new guest soon to discuss this weighty problem.  If you are a member of the health care community and would like to be a guest on our show to discuss how stress affects the immune system, please drop us a line at PodcastDX@yahoo.com (mailto:PodcastDX@yahoo.com) .  Remember chronic...
7m Sep 13, 2022
7m
S12 Ep11: Cold VS Flu
I can't believe it's almost flu season already!  We still aren't finished with COVID so we thought it would be a good reminder to get your flu shots!! In this episode we discuss the differences between the Flu and the common cold.  The symptoms seem similar when it comes to the common cold and the flu. But there are subtle differences between the two. The experts share how flu differs from a co...
10m Sep 06, 2022
10m
S12 Ep11: Cold VS Flu
I can't believe it's almost flu season already!  We still aren't finished with COVID so we thought it would be a good reminder to get your flu shots!! In this episode we discuss the differences between the Flu and the common cold.  The symptoms seem similar when it comes to the common cold and the flu. But there are subtle differences between the two. The experts share how flu differs from a ...
10m Sep 06, 2022
10m
S12 Ep10: Dysautonomia, Gastroparesis & Gulf War Syndrome
On today’s show, we are speaking with Army veteran and patient advocate Tonya Henry.  Tonya is joining us today to talk about gastroparesis.  Tonya is a disabled veteran who has many illnesses. She was diagnosed with Autonomic Dysfunction secondary to Gulf War Illness. Autonomic Dysfunction causes issues with things such as temperature dysregulation, hypotension, hypoglycemia, orthostatic intol...
29m Aug 30, 2022
29m
S12 Ep9: Polio and Enterovirus (EV)-D68
This week we will discuss Polio and Enterovirus (EV)-D68 ​Most people who get infected with poliovirus will not have any visible symptoms. About 1 out of 4 people (or 25 out of 100) with poliovirus infection will have flu-like symptoms that can include: Sore throat Fever Tiredness Nausea Headache Stomach pain ​These symptoms usually last 2 to 5 days, then go away on their own. A small...
17m Aug 23, 2022
17m
S12 Ep8: Monkeypox Part 2 with Dr. Tiffany
This week we will discuss Monkeypox with Dr. Tiffany Najberg.  Dr. Tiffany Alexis Najberg Pronouns: She/her Physician licensed in the state of Louisiana Dr. Tiffany is a Board Certified Emergency Physician who has served in busy emergency departments and provided prehospital care as well as remote care since 2007. A transwoman currently transitioning herself, she is the first open trans woman ...
29m Aug 16, 2022
29m
S12 Ep7: Caregiving For TBI
This week we have the honor of speaking with  Brenda and Aaron Luter.  They have been married 23 years and live in St. Louis with their 2 sons, Josh and Alex.  Josh was in a motorcycle accident his freshman year of college at SIU Carbondale in April of 2021.  Alex just completed his freshman year at University of Arkansas.  Josh recently came home from the hospital in February of 2022. Josh has...
55m Aug 09, 2022
55m
S12 Ep7: Monkeypox Part 1
This week we will discuss the basics about Monkeypox.  We will have Dr. Tiffany Najberg on the show in two weeks to go more in depth about this new form of pox quickly spreading around the world. Symptoms of monkeypox can include: Fever Headache Muscle aches and backache Swollen lymph nodes Chills Exhaustion Respiratory symptoms (e.g. sore throat, nasal congestion, or cough) A rash...
18m Aug 02, 2022
18m
S12 Ep5: Tick Borne Illnesses
In this episode we will discuss tick-borne illnesses with Dr. Richard Horowitz.  Dr. Richard Horowitz, MD is a board-certified internist with 30+ years of experience treating over 13,000 patients for tick-borne disorders and complex autoimmune conditions. He is the author of two national best-selling books on Lyme disease (Why Can't I Get Better? St Martin's Press, 2013, NY Times Best Seller; H...
48m Jul 26, 2022
48m