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In part three of my interview with Chef AJ we start out by talking about how important it is to stop eating oil and sugar. She learned this from attending lectures by Dr. Esselstyn, who you as you probably know is now President Bill Clinton’s physician.

Chef AJ recommends reading two books. One is called The End of Overeating and you can get Kindle version HERE.

The other book is called The Pleasure Trap. These books explain why these food substances are so addictive.

You can also get it on Kindle here.

She then talks about a noted cardiologist in Texas, Baxter Montgomery, M.D. who talks about genetic diseases. He has an interesting saying which is “it’s not the disease that runs in the family, it’s the recipes! That’s what is running in your family!” [Read more…]

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In Part 2 of my interview with we start out by talking about the ubiquitous olive oil. We get Chef AJ’s perspective on olive oil. Olive Oil is indeed a highly processed food she points out. You can’t just take some olives and press them in your house and get Olive Oil. She points out that we don’t sit down and eat 40 to 50 olives in one sitting which is what it would take to make some olive oil. This is about the Mount of olives in 1 tablespoon of olive oil. That is 120 calories of pure fat which is 14% saturated fat as well.

She further points out in this epidemic of obesity, where it is predicted that 50% of Americans will be obese, why would we want to feed them a food that is 4000 calories per pound? This is the most calorically dense food on the planet, and it doesn’t fill you up! She therefore recommends eating flax seed not the oil, the corn not the corn oil!

Indeed, it Chef AJ points out that it takes 16 ears of corn to make 1 tablespoon of corn oil.
She points out that Dr Esselstyn’ website and you can find the videos talking about the adverse effects of olive oil here [Read more…]

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In this show I am happy to be back after my 10 day meditation retreat in the mountains of New Mexico. We had a record 2400 people come this year and it was extremely powerful that so many people were meditating simultaneously together.

In this day and age when the stresses of the world weigh upon all of us, it is time for all of my listeners to start meditating. I feel very grateful that I found my spiritual teacher Yogi Bhajan, many years ago and have followed the meditation path of Kundalini Yoga. However there are many types of meditation and each person needs to find what is right for them.

In Los Angeles now, I encourage many of my patients to try out Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction which is a powerful and rising form of meditation that is practical for everyone no matter how busy they are.

I mentioned in my podcast a DVD that will lead you in the meditation at home. I  often refer my patients to this, which you can find here, or buy the download  of the video here [Read more…]

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In the second part of my interview with Dr Quiqley we continue to discuss the value of probiotics for our health.

We start with my question on how effective are probiotics for digestive health especially irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). He feels the most benefit of probiotics proven so far is for people with digestive problems. 

We then talk about Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) and whether people with this condition should use or avoid probiotics. You will remember I talked about this in my podcast interview with Dr Mark Pimental and he implied people with SIBO should avoid probiotics. 

Dr Quigley certainly reminds us after using antibiotics for SIBO, probiotics might provide benefit for the patient. 

We then talk about possible side effects of taking probiotics. He points out there may be an adjustment period when you first start probiotics. Dr Quiqley says he has never seen anybody allergic to probiotics.  [Read more…]

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In this podcast I interview world renowned Gastroenterologist Eamonn Quigley M.D. He is a Professor of Human Physiology at the University College in Cork Ireland. Our interview is all about Probiotics.

We all know that probiotics are so important to our health and more and more research is coming out to show that. Health food stores are packed full of many different brands of probiotics and this sometimes makes it hard to decide which one is best to use. 

In this interview we start out by my asking Dr Quigley “What is a probiotic?” and his answer is very straightforward “It is a microbe which is alive and which when given to man transfers a health benefit.” He then goes on to point out that the microbe must “make it” through our gut to get to the large intestine where it is meant to work. 

We talk about how probiotics work and I ask him why we should take probiotics. I also ask if all probiotics are the same and how safe are they to take.

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On this podcast, I am delighted to have my colleague Dr. Walter Crinnion back for part two of our interview about the importance of our mitochondria.

I ask Dr. Crinnion some additional questions including:

1. What can I do with my diet to optimize my mitochondrial function?

2. Are there supplements that will help?

3. Can these help if I already have mitochondria that are not working well?

4. Can I increase the mitochondria that I have and can I make them work better?

We also go on to talk about other questions as well. Dr. Crinnion presents a patient with neurotoxicity in which the patient’s mitochondria were actually poisoned by pesticides and you will find interestingly in the podcast how this patient got so many pesticides.

As I mentioned too, I was just at the Pregnancy Awareness Month event in Los Angeles and I was on a panel with Ken Cook and Alejandro Junger talking about how women can prepare to detoxify before they get pregnant and most importantly to stay clean while they are pregnant. Videos from this event will be on the Pregnancy Awareness Website soon and I will put a link to them when I know that they are up. This podcast has a photo of Ken and I being interviewed by Anya Sarre of Entertainment Tonight show. [Read more…]