Events

Customizing special diets with Julie Matthews and Dr. Kurt Woeller

August 5, 2015 By Trudy Scott 9 Comments

We can all agree how the food we eat has such an impact on how we feel and that “food is medicine.”

We know we all have specific needs, unique biochemistry and very different genes so that is there NO “one-size-fits-all diet. We need to eat according to our own unique biochemistry and this is where BioIndividual Nutrition comes in to the picture.

Customizing your diet and nutrition strategy is essential to an integrative approach.

Julie has spent the past 14 years researching and applying specialized diets and is now teaching this BioIndividual Nutrition approach to advanced clinicians.

I know Julie personally, have read her book, have heard her present at many conferences (and even supported her at a few!) and have done her training. I can assure you that her knowledge in this area takes things to the next level! She is an expert on special diets, teaching about oxalates, salicylates, amines, glutamates, FODMAPs, gluten-free, GFCF (gluten-free-casein-free), GAPS and much more!

I’m sure you remember her from our prior interviews. Here are a few reminders:

She shared this during season 1 of the Anxiety Summit: BioIndividual Nutrition and Special Diets

My book is called Nourishing Hope for Autism, but a lot of people that have other conditions get my book, particularly because I call kids with autism the canaries in the coalmine. They’re the ones that are telling us that our world is too toxic, there’s too many stressors, it’s too deficient in nutrients, and we need to change our ways by adding more nutrition, more absorbable forms of supplements, getting supplements in general, eating good foods that are nutrient dense. These principles are principles that apply, in my experience, to almost all healing. So we learn a lot from the kids with autism on how it might apply to anxiety and other conditions.

And this during season 2 of the Anxiety Summit: Fermented foods and probiotics for anxiety and depression

There was a study done by a researcher named Tillisch and published in 2013 in Gastroenterology. We know a lot about how the brain sends signals to the gut, but she explained that in the study they learned that the gut also sends signals to the brain. The researchers found that with yogurt, they found positive effects on the brain, including sensory processing and those areas associated with emotion and mood.

And earlier this year I interviewed Julie on: Customizing a Low FODMAPS Diet for a Client with Anxiety and/or Depression and we covered

The scientific rationale for recommending a Low FODMAPS (an acronym, deriving from “Fermentable, Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides And Polyols) Diet for someone with anxiety/depression
Defining oligosaccharides (fructans and galacto-oligosaccharides); disaccharides (lactose); monosaccharides (fructose) and polyols (sugar alcohols and more)
What are high free fructose foods and the fructose malabsorption/anxiety and depression connection

As you can see, Julie is up-to-date on the latest research and is very hands-on and super detailed when it comes to teaching and implementing special diets.

In this FREE BioIndividual Nutrition webinar on August 10, Julie Matthews and Dr. Kurt Woeller are teaming up to share what every integrative practitioner or nutrition professional would love to know and should know about customizing special diets to individual needs:

How personalizing food and nutrition strategies help improve patient/client outcomes
Which foods may negatively affect mood, learning, and behavior (Kurt and Julie will share wisdom from their experiences with autism)
The most advantageous special diets for healing: including: GFCF, SCD, GAPS Diet, Paleo diet, low phenol diets, low oxalate, and low FODMAPs
How to AVOID the 3 most common mistakes when making dietary recommendations
How to join the upcoming September “Study Group” at the BioIndividual Nutriton Institute, with Julie Matthews and Dr. Kurt Woeller

If you’re an integrative practitioner or nutrition professional and if you’re making diet and nutrition recommendations to your patients or clients, I highly recommend this upcoming webinar on customizing special diets.

You can register here for this educational webinar on August 10^th at 1pm PST:
https://az184.isrefer.com/go/imweb/TrudyScott

If you can’t make it live, register anyway to get a copy of the recording.

Have you benefited from being on a special diet? Do you currently use special diets with your clients/patients and see symptom reduction/resolution? Please do share in the comments.

Microbiome: A New Frontier in Mental Health with Dr. David Perlmutter

August 3, 2015 By Trudy Scott 2 Comments

Dr. David Perlmutter, MD, is author of the cutting-edge new book Brain Maker and one of the many excellent speakers on the upcoming Mental Wellness Summit

Here are some snippets from Dr. John Dempster’s excellent interview with Dr. David Perlmutter, MD – Microbiome: A New Frontier in Mental Health

with respect to brain health there’s not a heck of a lot that mainstream medicine can offer you once you’ve been given one of these diagnoses, whether it’s Alzheimer’s or even a child with autism [my addition: or anxiety or depression]. There’s no treatment. And I think we’re just beginning to gain some real understanding that the answers to these questions may not be in the brain. It may very well be in the gut.
this is very exciting and very cutting edge information that this microbiome, this collection of living organisms, bacteria, viruses, fungi, that live on us and within us are playing such a huge role in terms of our day-today health, our long-term risk for disease, and even functionality moment to moment, and especially incredibly as it deals with the brain
99% of the DNA in your body is bacteria. We have to pay attention to that big time because …we also fully understand now that the bacteria living within this are also changing the expression of our DNA of the DNA that we inherit from our mom and dad
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen, which is the generic name for many of the products on the market, also found in many cold preparations, for example, are specifically quite toxic to the microbiome and set the stage for troubles in the body with things like inflammation

Dr. Perlmutter also shares fascinating information about C-sections, leaky gut and LPS/lipopolysaccharides, autism and fecal microbial transplants (and a heart-warming success story!), autoimmunity, clostridium difficile/ C-diff and diarrhea, fermented foods and prebiotic foods, and much more

And he has great advice for classically trained doctor/practitioners:

Don’t be down on what you’re not up on. And what I mean by that is these concepts that we’re talking about today are very, very new. And we didn’t learn about this stuff in medical school. We were taught to fear bacteria

Join The Mental Wellness Summit, online, August 10-17, 2015, to hear the full interview and other functional and integrative approaches to root cause resolution of anxiety and depression.

This online event is educational and empowering, covering today’s powerful treatment options, including: specialized diet and improved nutrition, targeted supplementation, integrative medicine, naturopathy and functional medicine, somatic therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture, yoga and meditation, to name a few, are available but rarely considered for treating mental health.

Let’s go beyond just psychiatry and drugs, and explore the best options for wellness in this evolving and very exciting field.

Here are a few of the many other interesting topics that will be covered at The Mental Wellness Summit:

Kelly Brogan, MD: Holistic Medicine and Root-Cause Resolution
Robert Whitaker, PhD: The Perils of Big Pharma
Chris Kresser, MS, LAC: About the Brain-Gut Connection
Ross McKenzie Co-founder of Mental Wellness Summit, Filmmaker of Bipolarized : Journey Beyond Meds
John Dempster, ND, Co-founder of Mental Wellness Summit: Heavy Metal Detoxification and Functional Medicine
Trudy Scott, CN: Anxiety, Pyroluria and Amino Acid Therapy (my interview airs on August 15^th if you haven’t yet heard me speak on this topic)
Mansoor Mohammed, MD: Methylation, Genomics and Mood Disorders (you can read snippets from his interview here)

The Mental Wellness Summit starts soon!

July 27, 2015 By Trudy Scott 10 Comments

The Mental Wellness Summit, online, August 10-17, 2015.

An online educational and empowering experience that explores better ways to approach and treat mental health from a root cause perspective.

Today’s powerful treatment options, including specialized diet and improved nutrition, targeted supplementation, integrative medicine, naturopathy and functional medicine, somatic therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture, yoga and meditation, to name a few, are available but rarely considered for treating mental health. Let’s go beyond just psychiatry and drugs, and explore the best options for wellness in this evolving field.

Here are a few of the many interesting topics that will be covered at The Mental Wellness Summit:

Kelly Brogan, MD: Holistic Medicine and Root-Cause Resolution
Robert Whitaker, PhD: The Perils of Big Pharma
David Perlmutter, MD: Microbiome: A New Frontier in Mental Health
Chris Kresser, MS, LAC: About the Brain-Gut Connection
Ross McKenzie Co-founder of Mental Wellness Summit, Filmmaker of Bipolarized : Journey Beyond Meds
John Dempster, ND, Co-founder of Mental Wellness Summit: Heavy Metal Detoxification and Functional Medicine
Trudy Scott, CN: Anxiety, Pyroluria and Amino Acid Therapy (my interview airs on August 15^th if you haven’t yet heard me speak on this topic)
Mansoor Mohammed, MD: Methylation, Genomics and Mood Disorders

Here are some snippets from the interview with Mansoor Mohammed, MD: Methylation, Genomics and Mood Disorders

getting our genetic results “moves from being generic knowledge to knowledge that is personalized. And I think that’s where the power is at.”
CNV: copy number variation i.e. we thought we had two copies of everything but some of us have no copies of some genes
were we to know our individual [detox] capacity and capability, we can far better act upon it, far better adjust our diet accordingly, improve our environment
the body uses methylation to reduce a very pro-inflammatory marker, something called homocysteine
in the last several years, there’s been a far better appreciation of the intimate link between [cardio] vascular health and mental health
if you have the version of COMT that is the overly fast version, when you produce dopamine, your dopamine is here one moment and gone the next
the 5-HTTLPR variation…. affects how well serotonin is taken back up into the cells
one of the most exciting genes and variations recently discovered is a gene called ADRA2b – a variation of this gene is intimately linked to how sensitive we stay to emotionally traumatic arousing events – so there are individuals that are way more likely to have that fearful personality, and that anxiety because of the strong mental links they have to certain traumatic events in their lives

Prevent a heart attack! No grains, fix low D/low thyroid, add fish oil, improve gut flora!

July 13, 2015 By Trudy Scott 2 Comments

Dr. Masley’s Healthy Heart Summit starts today! It’s not to be missed!

Here are the speakers for Day 1:

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Here are the speakers for Day 2:

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And some excerpts from the Dr. William Davis interview: The Impact of Wheat on Heart Disease and Health. It’s incredible! Dr. Davis is a cardiologist and the author of Wheat Belly. His focus with his heart patients is: no grains, fish oil, gut flora, fixing low D and addressing low thyroid!

Sound familiar? All of these can also be part of a program for improving mood and ending anxiety

Here are some excerpts:

One of the earliest solutions was a very, very common abnormality in people with coronary disease – an excess of small oxidation prone LDL particles. So I used the data published by people like Ron Krauss in UC Berkeley and some others and took all the grains out of people’s diet. And lo and behold it works like a charm. That became a cornerstone of what I was doing for coronary disease.

People were starting to tell me that the rheumatoid arthritis was going away and that their glaucoma had gone away, and their leg edema, hypertension, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, bowel urgency, funny skin rashes, rosacea, rosacea-eczema, seborrhea, belly fat. All of these conditions reversed with elimination of grains.

When I added vitamin D to the mix about eight, nine years ago, that’s when we saw dramatic reductions

I published some of these data, by the way. [Here is one of his studies: Effect of a combined therapeutic approach of intensive lipid management, omega-3 fatty acid supplementation, and increased serum 25 (OH) vitamin D on coronary calcium scores in asymptomatic adults. It doesn’t get much attention because you know prevention doesn’t get the headlines. But lots of robotic surgery and things like that get the headlines.

Fish oil, of course. Not a huge effect, but it does help. I love it because it reduces the after meal, postprandial flood of lipoproteins. It has a big effect on subduing that effect. Heart disease, as you know, develops in the after-eating few hours, not so much while you’re fasting.

Thyroid normalization. I started paying attention to thyroid based on the Norwegian data suggests that a TSH of 1.4 or greater (in the presumed normal range) could as much as double or triple cardiovascular death. Lo and behold, it became a critical part of the management of coronary disease.

And then lastly, most recently this notion of cultivating bowel flora. So we use so-called prebiotic fibers or resistant starches to purposely cultivate healthy species of bowel flora. And I’ll be darned. This has proven to be a critical piece.

I’m sure my experience is similar to yours. I haven’t seen a heart attack in years. I used to see a couple of heart attacks a week when I was younger – just telling people to take the statin drug and cut their fat and exercise and eat everything in moderation and all that nonsense.

Wow! This is profound!

They go on to talk about how whole-wheat flour, white flour, and table sugar all have the same glycemic load and blood sugar response – which you know also plays a big part in anxiety.

And then one of my favorite sections is this discussion on opiates:

If you eat the gliadin protein of wheat…same protein, by the way, in rye and barley. It’s called secalin in rye, hordein in barley and zein in corn. Sometimes you partially digest the small peptides about 5 amino acids long. Those peptides have very unique sequences rich in proline that make it very resistant to human digestion. Those five amino acid pieces act like opiates on the human brain.

The effect of the opiates depend on your individual susceptibility. So if you’re a kid with ADHD or autistic spectrum disorder, it causes behavioral outbursts. If you are a paranoid schizophrenic, it causes paranoia and hearing voices. If you have bipolar illness, it triggers the mania, the high. [my addition: if you’re prone to anxiety and depression it can make your symptoms much worse and even be the main cause]

If you have a tendency towards binge eating disorder or bulimia, it causes 24-hour a day food obsession.

Now, in everyday people who don’t have any of those conditions, it only causes appetite stimulation, many many hundreds of calories more per day every day. It causes incessant hunger. You have to eat all the time.

Register at the following link for the Healthy Heart Summit – to hear the whole of the Dr. Davis interview and all the other great interviews: https://ez233.isrefer.com/go/summitreg/trudyscottcn/

If you know you want to purchase the interviews (digital or memory stick), here is the purchase link:
https://ez233.isrefer.com/go/summitorder/trudyscottcn/

Cholesterol Myths and The Healthy Heart Summit (starts next week)

July 6, 2015 By Trudy Scott 6 Comments

The Healthy Heart Summit (ONLINE and FREE) July 13-20, 2015

Dr. Steven Masley created The Healthy Heart Summit to address the great deal of misinformation that exists on lifestyle and heart disease – far too many myths are still believed.

Heart disease is the #1 cause of death for men and women. Yet, it is often addressed with stents and bypass surgeries that only treat the symptoms, not the causes. It’s time to dispel the myths and misinformation about the causes of heart disease, and learn how to give you and your family a long, healthy life together.

Here are some snippets from Dr. Masley’s interview with Jonny Bowden, known as The Nutritional Myth Buster, and author of The Great Cholesterol Myth

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So from a pure weight loss point of view, it doesn’t matter if you eat your meat at McDonald’s or if you eat it from grass-fed Kobe beef from wherever. It probably is a wash in terms of weight loss, maybe not in terms of inflammation. But if you want the health benefits and the weight-loss benefits, then you’ve got to go to what we call smart fats, which are fats that actually support your metabolism, help balance your hormones, creates satiety, and do all the wonderful things that fats do without any of the bad things that what we call mean fat or unclean fat.
Smart fats would include the monounsaturated fats that we see so prevalent in the Mediterranean diet. And that would come from olive oil, macadamia nut oil, a couple of the other nut oils, oleic acid. That’s the monounsaturated fat. That’s a good fat.
Omega-3s, obviously, particularly the ones from fish oil, the DHA and EPA, the long-chain fatty acids have myriad of health benefits on the brain and on visual acuity and on attention and behavior and all kinds of depression (and anxiety). Those are smart fats.
All the recent studies have shown no harm from saturated fat. They’re neutral. For years, we’ve been villainizing them. And all the recent data would say that saturated fat from animal protein, from dairy, from these plant sources (like coconut), it’s harmless.
We now know that there are about 4 or 5 kinds of HDL and about 4 or 5 kinds of LDL. And they don’t all behave the same. And it’s not really 100 percent accurate to say that all HDL is good. Most of it is. But there’s a couple that may be a little inflammatory and some that are less good than others.
There’s a very big distinction between what’s known as LDL-A particles and LDL-B. Now, if you look at LDL-A particles under the microscope, they look like a big cotton ball. And they do just about as much damage. They’re just pretty innocuous. They’re not necessarily beneficial. But they don’t do any harm. It’s like a tennis ball thrown at you. It’s not going to do any harm. The others are like golf balls. And they’re very nasty inflamed oxidized particles. And they can cause damage. Now, the newer more modern tests (advanced lipid profile) looks at these particles.
Stress can cause a heart attack all by itself. We talk about voodoo death and Walter Cannon, the psychologist in the 20s who first discovered this phenomenon. You can die from fear. Your arteries are clear. But stress really can promote heart disease. It can even cause heart disease. So these are things that we don’t tend to look at nearly as much. And instead, we’re obsessively focused on this molecule of cholesterol, which is pretty harmless and very important for the brain and for the heart and for everything else in the body.

So yes, stress and anxiety play a big role in heart disease and this is the topic of my interview: Anxiety/Stress, Depression and Heart Disease

Tune in to hear Jonny Bowden, my anxiety interview and these speakers (and many more):

Steven Masley, MD, FAHA, FAAFP, FACN, CNS – The Optimal Evaluation for Your Heart
Brenda Watson, CNC – A Healthy Gut for a Healthy Heart
Anna Cabeca, DO – Sexual Function and Your Heart
Mark Hyman, MD – Diabesity and Heart Disease
David Perlmutter, MD – How Heart Health Impacts Your Brain
William Davis, MD – The Impact of Wheat on Heart Disease and Health
Susan Albers, PsyD – Mindful Eating for Your Heart
Josh Axe, DC, CNS – The Best Food and Activity for Your Heart

The Depression Sessions, Online event, June 14th to 27th

June 19, 2015 By Trudy Scott 12 Comments

It’s a wonderful FREE online event hosted by my friend Sean Croxton. Click here to register:
https://at105.isrefer.com/go/depreg/trudyscott/

This started earlier this week but looks what is ahead…

These Thursday/Friday interviews air until 8am tomorrow:

Damage Control for Anxiety and Panic Attacks – Dr. Corey Schuler, DC
PMS, PCOS and Postpartum: A Woman’s Guide to Depression – Alisa Vitti, HHC
How to Rewire Your Brain and Beat Depression with Neurofeedback – Nora Gedgaudas, CNS, CNT (I hear this one is very popular!)

Coming up on Saturday/Sunday:

Reframing Depression: A Functional Nutrition Approach – Andrea Nakayama, CNE (I love her functional medicine approach!)
The Microbiome-Mood Connection – Dr. Jillian Teta, ND (gut health is such a hot topic!)
How to Boost Your Mood with Foods and Fats – Dr. Ann Childers, MD (yes!)

Coming up on Monday/Tuesday:

Natural Antidepressant Alternatives – Sayer Ji (I love how he’s on top of the research!)
Depression is NOT a Serotonin Deficiency – Dr. Kelly Brogan, MD (you’ve heard me say why I don’t agree with everything Dr. Brogan says about serotonin and the amino acids)
How to Safely Transition Off of Psychiatric Meds – Dr. Hyla Cass, MD (her information is always great! She is always a favorite on the Anxiety Summits!)

And on Monday I’m doing a live Google hangout Q and A with Sean – once you’ve signed up you’ll just watch for emails from Sean with the details.

If you know you want these videos/transcripts/mp3s, simply go here to order them:
https://at105.isrefer.com/go/deporder/trudyscott/
Prices will increase after the summit.

Got questions? Please ask them in the comment section below.