The Dr Milli Podcast: Boost & Biohack your health – Details, episodes & analysis

Today I am joined on the podcast by Dr Debie Rice. Debbie  is the Director of Clinical Education at Precision Analytical Laboratory. She gr aduated from NCNM (NUNM) after falling in love with Naturopathic Medicine and pursuing her passion for access and advocacy for health care. She was introduced to Naturopathic Medicine through her own health struggles and after much investigative work, she became a fan of lifestyle evaluation and treatment. 
 
She has worked with communities in need, supporting Natural Doctors International in Nicaragua, as well as the Peace Corps prior to medical school. Given her experience, she also obtained an MPH from Grand Canyon University for a broader understanding of the global health impact. She has worked in many diverse environments including private practice. She is a trained midwife and loves working with hormones and hormone balance. When not digging into the literature with her team at DUTCH, she can be found either in the sun or the river, snuggling her animals, or lying in a blissed out shivasanah after a great yoga practice. 

In today’s episiode, we cover  

1. What is a DUTCH test? 
2. When and who to test? 
3. Is the DUTCH test appropriate if we don't have regular periods? 
4. What the DUTCH test can tell us about metabolism of hormones 
5. Estrogen metabolites – good vs bad 
6. What is oestrogen dominance?  
7. Symptoms related to high oestrogen? (pro inflammatory) ? histamine response? 
8. Where people can get a DUTCH test from? 
9. How can we find a provider? 

You can find Dr Rice on instagram as @drrice.debbie and you can find more information on DUTCH testing on https://dutchtest.com/ 

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Disclaimer: This podcast show has the opinions of Dr. Milli Raizada and her guests. The content should not be taken as medical advice and is for information purposes only. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have any medical questions, please consult your healthcare professional. The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and whilst we ensure all the information shared is content accurate, any feedback suggestions or comments on errors are welcome. Please contact us on www.drmilli.co.uk

 In today’s episode, I am joined by Janice Clyne.  

 Janice is a former research food scientist (BSc Hons, MSc), mum of 4 girls, a passionate foodie, blogger, obsessive fermenter, forager, educator, teacher and advocate of fermented foods and a plant based diet. She founded Nourished by Nature, a space to share unbiased nutrition and health information, empowering people to make better informed choices for their own health. She runs workshops, talks and events on all aspects of fermenting and gut health. She also has a Youtube Channel, plus active Instagram and Facebook accounts. She recently launched her membership website The Wellness Hub and is actively growing an online community of empowered, engaged, informed and inspired people on a personal journey to their best health.

In today’s episode, we cover 

1. What are prebiotics and probiotics  
2. What are fermented food?   
3. Why are fermented foods so beneficial   
4. What can we do at home? How can we ferment?  
5. Sourdough bread?  Why is it so good – is a postbiotic? What does this mean   
6. Foraging – what are the benefits   
7. Farming practices in this country and how this has affected our health and gut microbiome   
8. Top tips to improve our gut health and diversity  in our lifestyle  
9. Why is it important to eat in season    

 You can find Janice on instagram as @benourishedbynature and on her website https://www.nourishedbynature.uk/ 

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Disclaimer: This podcast show has the opinions of Dr. Milli Raizada and her guests. The content should not be taken as medical advice and is for information purposes only. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have any medical questions, please consult your healthcare professional. The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and whilst we ensure all the information shared is content accurate, any feedback suggestions or comments on errors are welcome. Please contact us on www.drmilli.co.uk

Charlotte Hunter is a Registered Nutritionist and Functional Medicine Practitioner specialising in premature, surgical and complex menopause cases. After going through surgical menopause, she launched a Menopause Nutrition business to give women solutions that are sitting in their kitchen, reducing the twists, turns, and loop-the-loops they face riding into menopause. Charlotte has worked for a number of diagnostic laboratories and alongside her busy practice manages a team of therapists and runs the Menopause Mastery Membership. A mentoring space exclusively for other practitioners. In todays episode we cover  

1. The 4 phases of the menstrual cycle and the key contributing hormones involved in this hormone show. 
2. The main symptoms attributable to low estrogen  
3. Identify the different phases in women’s lifespan (pubertal, pregnancy, premenopausal, postmenopausal) 
4. How to eat/fuel and nutritionally support the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle 
5. How to eat/fuel and nutritionally support the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle  
6.  How to nutritionally support the menopausal phase and reasons why –looking at the science and hormonal reasons behind this.  

You can find Charlotte Hunter on her website here: https://charlottehunternutrition.co.uk and on her instagram handle @menopausenutritionist  

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Disclaimer: This podcast show has the opinions of Dr. Milli Raizada and her guests. The content should not be taken as medical advice and is for information purposes only. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have any medical questions, please consult your healthcare professional. The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and whilst we ensure all the information shared is content accurate, any feedback suggestions or comments on errors are welcome. Please contact us on www.drmilli.co.uk

Today my guest speaker is Dr Charlotte Marriott, a Consultant adult NHS Psychiatrist specialising in Early Intervention in Psychosis, a Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician and a nature-based coach. Shes been working in the NHS for nearly 20 years. She likes to inspire and empower people to make small changes to their lifestyles to improve their physical and mental health and well-being.  

In todays podcast we cover  

1. What is the difference between Mental health and mental Illness 
2. How can dysfunction in mental state cause physical symptoms 
3. What can we try to help people improve their mental health? What strategies can they engage in?  
4. How can we harbour a positive mindset- what activities can we engage in? 
5. What aspects of people's behaviour stop them for engaging in activities to help their mental state. 
6. What's forest bathing and shinrin yoku? 
7. How does physical activity improve health? What’s the science behind it and has gut health been implicated 
8. The hormonal effect of exercise – and BDNF aka ‘miracle gro’– what is it and how exercise can boost it?  
9. What is ‘burnout’?  
10. For women who are perimenopausal who get symptoms due to hormonal imbalances and get anxious due to lowering progesterone etc - how can we help this subset of patients? 

 You can find Dr Charlotte on the below handles:

Instagram: @thelifestylepsychiatrist 
 

Website: www.thelifestylepsychiatrist.co.uk 

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If you have any feedback, any specific topic requests or would like to be a guest speaker on my podcast show then you can find me on my handle on Instagram as @drmilliraizada or contact me through the website www.drmilli.co.uk.

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Disclaimer: This podcast show has the opinions of Dr. Milli Raizada and her guests. The content should not be taken as medical advice and is for information purposes only. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have any medical questions, please consult your healthcare professional. The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and whilst we ensure all the information shared is content accurate, any feedback suggestions or comments on errors are welcome. Please contact us on www.drmilli.co.uk

This podcast focuses and discusses the fat facts around obesity and the skinny jab. I am joined by the wonderfully talented guest speak who is also a friend of mine and met when studying for our lifestyle medicine diploma, Dr Sam Robson  

 Dr Sam Robson, medical director of Temple Clinic, qualified as a GP in 1997 and she has been practising aesthetic medicine since 2004. 

Over the last 18 years, she has become one of the leading aesthetic practitioners in Aberdeen, and the multi award winning Temple Clinic now offers a comprehensive repertoire of treatments, including anti-ageing, problem skin, bio-identical hormone therapy, lifestyle medicine and weight management. Her unique weight loss programme, Temple Vie, has gained recognition through publications in international medical journals and she has established herself as a leading Scottish expert in helping to tackle obesity. 

Today we will be talking about  

• Obesity and the some statistics around this chronic condition  
• What factors may have fuelled the obesity epidemic  
• The importance of body composition as a strategy to measure weight as opposed to BMI  
• Hormones and how they can be a factor in weight loss in some women and why 
• What are GLP 1 agonists like the skinny jab: Ozempic 
• Tips and advice on what to do if you are struggling with your weight 

You can find Dr Sam at https://www.templevie.co.uk/ or on instagram @templeaberdeen

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Disclaimer: This podcast show has the opinions of Dr. Milli Raizada and her guests. The content should not be taken as medical advice and is for information purposes only. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have any medical questions, please consult your healthcare professional. The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and whilst we ensure all the information shared is content accurate, any feedback suggestions or comments on errors are welcome. Please contact us on www.drmilli.co.uk

Dr Chang Park (MBBS, MRCGP, IBLM) is a GP, Board-certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician and Yoga Teacher based in London.  Her journeys in both Medicine and Yoga inform each other, believing we nurture optimal health through dedicated attention to our many layers - physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual.  She loves animals, the sea and laughing out loud.

 In todays show we cover 

• What is yoga? And its definition   
• Different types of yoga eg yoga nidra and hot yoga  
• The benefits of yoga and the science/evidence behind it  
• The hormonal or neural mechanisms about how  yoga is theorised to affect physical health, mental health psychology, autonomic function, self-regulation, resilience etc.  
• Can yoga be used for weight loss 
• The differences between yoga and weight loss  
• Neuroplasticity – what it is and how yoga can help  

You can access and find Dr Chang Park at https://www.changyoga.org 

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Disclaimer: This podcast show has the opinions of Dr. Milli Raizada and her guests. The content should not be taken as medical advice and is for information purposes only. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have any medical questions, please consult your healthcare professional. The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and whilst we ensure all the information shared is content accurate, any feedback suggestions or comments on errors are welcome. Please contact us on www.drmilli.co.uk

In this episode I introduce myself and goals and aims of the podcast show; Boost & Biohack your health. 

I am a UK based medical doctor working as a GP and lifestyle medicine physician. senior Clinical Lecturer in Primary care academia. I’ve over 15 years experience practicing medicine here in the UK and in this time I have realised the importance of self care and self management in our lifestyles to boost and biohack our health.  Biohacking describes how we can change our mind, body and health through tools such as heat and cold therapy, fasting and meditation this pod show aims to bring you practical and DIY tools to boost your health and the name of the podcast show was born. 

I’m going to take my experience and use it to educate and empower people to make better lifestyle choices, looking at the evidence base on how we can prevent, treat and reverse lifestyle-related chronic conditions utilising the pillars of lifestyle medicine; nutrition, exercise, sleep, avoidance of toxic substances, emotional wellbeing and positive psychology. 

I will be having powerful and thought provoking conversations with leading experts in the health circle and other health care professionals on hot topics surrounding health and wellness. I have a special interest in hormonal health and how to eat, fast and train with our menstrual cycle.. Some speakers include Dr Deepak Ravindran, leading author and Pain Consultant on topics related to chronic pain and Dr Emma Short, a consultant doctor with a doctorate in cancer genetics who works in the NHS doctor specialising in gastrointestinal and soft tissue pathology.

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Disclaimer: This podcast show has the opinions of Dr. Milli Raizada and her guests. The content should not be taken as medical advice and is for information purposes only. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have any medical questions, please consult your healthcare professional. The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and whilst we ensure all the information shared is content accurate, any feedback suggestions or comments on errors are welcome. Please contact us on www.drmilli.co.uk

On this podcast, we are joined by Dr Deepak Ravindran and discuss the topic vulvodynia. Deepak has over 20 years of experience in helping people overcome their pain - in the NHS and in private practice. He is one of the few consultants in the UK who possesses dual certification in this area. He has been a consultant in pain medicine for the last 10 years, at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in the UK. He is currently clinical lead for the specialist pain services for all of West Berkshire since 2015. 

 He has written an excellent though provoking book called The Pain-Free Mindset: 7 Steps to Taking Control and Overcoming Chronic Pain. The topic we will be discussing today is vulvodynia. This is such an important but not a widely understood or discussed area in medicine which thousands of women suffering intolerably. It’s a chronic pain condition which can be due to many causes which we will further discuss today; inflammation (from infections such as thrush or allergies which may then lead to nerve proliferation and further pain, hormonal imbalance and changes, dermatology and skin issues such as lichen sclerosis, pelvic floor muscle dysfunction and damage of the nerve supplying the area – the pudendal nerve. The treatment is dependent on the cause and lifestyle measures can be used effectively to help improve pain and reverse some of the hormonal causes. The term neuroplasticity is also discussed which describes how the brain is fluid and how its nerve networks are constantly rewiring and changing and we can use this to try to retrain the brain in how it perceives chronic pain. Today, Deepak and I take a deep dive into this area in more depth.   

Today we cover  

1.     What is vulvodynia 

2.     Why do we not hear much about it? 

3.     The causes of vulvodynia 

4.     What are treatment options in UK for vulvodynia – lifestyle measures, pelvic floor therapy, medical management 

5.     Referral pathways for vulvodynia 

6.   What are the treatment of pudendal nerve issues 

7.   How can we raise awareness of this condition. 

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If you have any feedback, any specific topic requests or would like to be a guest speaker on my podcast show then you can find me on my handle on Instagram as @drmilliraizada or contact me through the website www.drmilli.co.uk.

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Disclaimer: This podcast show has the opinions of Dr. Milli Raizada and her guests. The content should not be taken as medical advice and is for information purposes only. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have any medical questions, please consult your healthcare professional. The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and whilst we ensure all the information shared is content accurate, any feedback suggestions or comments on errors are welcome. Please contact us on www.drmilli.co.uk

In today’s podcasts we talk about the gut microbiome and I am joined by Dr Emma Short. Dr Short is a Consultant doctor in the NHS doctor specialising in gastrointestinal and soft tissue pathology. She also has a PhD in cancer genetics. 
  
As a pathologist, Emma spends many of her working hours diagnosing chronic diseases such as cancer. Many of these diseases are preventable. Every day, she sees the effects that people's lifestyles have on their health and wellbeing. As a result, Emma has become passionate about health promotion and disease prevention using evidence-based lifestyle interventions. 
 
 Emma is a qualified fitness instructor, personal trainer and run leader. She has a keen interest in the interaction between the mind and the body, and the impact that mental wellbeing and social connections have on health. Emma is a qualified meditation teacher and is a great advocate of showing kindness in all spheres of life. She loves exploring different aspects of holistic wellbeing and has diplomas in Mindful Nutrition and Shrinrin Yoku. She has written or edited three books about health and wellbeing. 

 
Today we cover  

1. What the gut microbiome is 

2.Why is it important? 

3. What is the estrobolome and it’s role 

3. What health conditions is gut dysbiosis linked with and potential reasons why?  

4. What are prebiotics? 

5. What are probiotics? 

6. What can we do to help and improve/nourish our gut biota? 

7.Why is this a hot topic at the moment? 

 you can find Dr Short on instagram as @dr_emmashort 

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Disclaimer: This podcast show has the opinions of Dr. Milli Raizada and her guests. The content should not be taken as medical advice and is for information purposes only. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have any medical questions, please consult your healthcare professional. The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and whilst we ensure all the information shared is content accurate, any feedback suggestions or comments on errors are welcome. Please contact us on www.drmilli.co.uk

In today’s podcast show I was joined by the esteemed Stacy Sims.  

STACY T. SIMS, MSC, PHD, is a forward-thinking international exercise physiologist and nutrition scientist who aims to revolutionize exercise nutrition and performance for women. 

She has directed research programs at Stanford, AUT University, and the University of Waikato, focusing on female athlete health and performance and pushing the dogma to improve research on all women. 

With the unique opportunities, Silicon Valley has to offer, during her tenure at Stanford, she had the opportunity to translate earlier research into consumer products and a science-based layperson's book (ROAR) written to explain sex differences in training and nutrition across the lifespan. Both the consumer products and the book challenged the existing dogma for women in exercise, nutrition, and health. This paradigm shift is the focus of her famous "Women Are Not Small Men” TEDx talk. 

Her contributions to the international research environment and the sports nutrition industry has established a new niche in sports nutrition; and established her reputation as the expert in sex differences in training, nutrition, and health. As a direct result, she has been named: 

• One of the top 50 visionaries of the running industry (2015) by DMSE Sports. 
• One of the top 40 women changing the paradigm of her field (2017) by Outside Magazine.  
• One of the top four visionaries in the outdoor sports industry (2017) by Outside Magazine - Genius Issue (no electronic version but here is the proof). 
• One of the top four individuals changing the landscape in triathlon nutrition (2017) by Triathlete Magazine 

Dr. Sims has published over 70 peer-reviewed papers, several books and is a regularly featured speaker at professional and academic conferences, including those by USOC and USA Cycling.  

Stacy currently holds a Senior Research Associate position with SPRINZ- AUT University, supervises PhD students, writes academic papers, and is on the advisory board of some cutting edge companies including Tonal Strength Institute, WILD.AI, and EXOS.  She also has her own business (www.drstacysims.com) where she creates and delivers online learning material focused on wo

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Disclaimer: This podcast show has the opinions of Dr. Milli Raizada and her guests. The content should not be taken as medical advice and is for information purposes only. Listening to this podcast does not establish a doctor-patient relationship. If you have any medical questions, please consult your healthcare professional. The opinions expressed in the podcast are our own and whilst we ensure all the information shared is content accurate, any feedback suggestions or comments on errors are welcome. Please contact us on www.drmilli.co.uk