Brain Mowll is host of the 4th season of the Diabetes Summit and here are all the speakers and topics in the encore replay line-up (including yours truly).
TRUDY SCOTT, CN: Understanding Anxiety: The Connection to Diabetes
- Learn about the link between diabetes, anxiety, and depression
- Understanding the root imbalances underlying anxiety
- Natural solutions and supplemental support for anxiety
We may need to look at low serotonin as well because we’ve got two kinds of anxiety when it comes to neurotransmitters, the low GABA, which is the physical anxiety, and the low serotonin, which is more the ruminating thoughts, the worry in the head, the reprocessing, the negative self-talk. So we often have low GABA, and we often have low serotonin as well. And both of those have a corresponding amino acid that helps to raise it. With low GABA we use GABA. With low serotonin we use tryptophan or 5-HTP. And we’re going talk about that one in a second. But the interesting thing is I was really excited to see that there’s some really new research on how GABA has some pretty promising benefits in terms of diabetes support as well.
Read some additional snippets from my interview: Diabetes, anxiety and GABA
RAZI BERRY: Using Naturopathic Principles to Prevent Diabetes
- Learning from Razi’s health experience and journey
- How toxins in our environment can disrupt metabolism
- Natural solutions to improve blood sugar and overall health
Read some snippets from her interview here: Anxiety, phenibut, toxins and cold showers for detoxification
ANNA CABECA, DO: Creating Hormone Balance to Optimize Metabolic Health
- The keys to balancing hormones to burn fat and control sugar
- Understanding the connection between menopause and metabolism
- How to optimize hormone levels
Dr Cabeca shares this about the ketogenic diet (for women), going keto-crazy and being like a witch when eating too low-carb:
…if you’re working on a ketogenic diet and lifestyle, check to see your urine. And you’re most likely acidic. But now, get that pH up into an alkaline range, and you’ll see your neurotransmitters will balance. You’ll feel calmer. You’ll sleep better. You’ll start to melt fat away which is huge. And that made all the difference in the world, combing those two.
Read some additional snippets from her interview: Menopause: insulin, cortisol, and oxytocin (an interview with Dr. Anna Cabeca)
TOM O’BRYAN: Autoimmune Disease and the Connection To Diabetes
- Understanding what drives autoimmune disease
- Exploring various toxins that inundate our lives
- How to balance the immune response to allow proper healing
SAYER JI: What the Evidence Reveals About Reversing Diabetes
- What the peer reviewed, medical literature shows
- The best natural strategies to reverse diabetes
- The role of supplements and helpful nutrients
BJ HARDICK: Sugar, Detox, and The Brain: Natural Strategies For Healing
- Understanding damaging foods and how to remove them
- How to properly structure a detoxification program
- Type 3 diabetes and how dysglycemia effects the brain
SACHIN PATEL: A New Model for Medicine, Diabetes, and Blood Sugar Health
- Re-evaluating the healthcare model and redefining our roles
- How to be empowered to control your health as a patient
- A new model for caring for the body and optimizing health
This aspect of why we eat is seldom addressed and it’s profound:
When you are living a life that is on purpose – that requires you to be eating healthy because you’re going to do whatever it takes to eliminate things that are going to impact that purpose.
I also love the analogy of the right fuel in the car but driving in the wrong direction (like hating your job or not having a purpose):
When you are living a life that is on purpose – that requires you to be eating healthy because you’re going to do whatever it takes to eliminate things that are going to impact that purpose
NIKI GRATRIX: The Mind-Body Connection to Metabolic Health
- How to tap into your internal abundance of energy
- Understand ACE (adverse childhood events) score and how childhood events impact health
- Natural techniques and strategies to let go of limits
PETER OSBORNE: The Autoimmune Connection to Blood Sugar and Diabetes
- The connection between autoimmune and blood sugar
- How to test and treat autoimmune disease effectively
- Natural solutions to reduce inflammation and heal the body
MICHAEL MURRAY, ND: The Four Types of Blood Sugar Problems in Diabetes
- Understanding a natural medicine approach to diabetes
- Dr. Murray’s four types of blood sugar problems
- Natural strategies to address the specific blood sugar issues
JOEL KAHN, MD: A Plant-Based Approach to Heart Health and Blood Sugar Health
- Sorting through the confusion about dietary strategies
- Understanding the importance of plant-based foods
- Key nutrients and supplements for heart health
I’d like to add that while I respect Dr. Kahn’s cardiology diet expertise, I am an advocate of quality animal protein and have found that many people with anxiety and depression typically don’t do very well on a vegan diet. His discussion was professional and very respectful and I do wholeheartedly agree with this:
I think whether grass fed beef, free range, omega 3 rich eggs are healthy or not, and that’s probably not possible to solve that question completely, the data’s here, there, or frankly there’s not enough data, just always add these organic brightly colored fruits and vegetables to whatever you’re eating
He also acknowledged Dr. Hyman’s coining of the term, the Pegan diet, which combines the best of a Paleo and vegan diet saying
It’s a useful term. It’s another way to say eat a very clean, very vegetable rich diet with a little wiggle room [i.e. the addition of quality animal protein]
We really do need a study comparing a real foods diet with feedlot meat and farmed fish – with a real foods diet with grass-fed meat and wild fish!
Here is the link to register for the Diabetes Summit if this is the first you’re hearing about it. You can still sign up to listen!
Enjoy these encore day replays!