In this podcast episode #585) and blog, I check with internist, bestselling creator and speaker Dr. Robin Berzin concerning the relationship between GI health and the mind, why so many individuals feel gaslit by traditional medicine, the facility of functional medicine, what’s improper with women’s health, why we want to alter the best way we manage our mental and physical health, and so way more!
Dr. Berzin is the Founder and CEO of Parsley Health, the nation’s leading holistic medical practice designed to assist people overcome chronic conditions. Dr. Berzin attended medical school at Columbia University and trained in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. She has been named as one in every of the 100 most modern women in business by Inc. Magazine and praised by Fast Company for founding one in every of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.
She founded Parsley Health to deal with the rising tide of chronic disease in America through personalized holistic medicine that puts food, lifestyle, and proactive diagnostic testing on the prescription pad next to medications. Since founding Parsley in 2016, Dr. Berzin has seen 80% of patients improve or resolve their chronic conditions inside their first 12 months of care, demonstrating the life-changing value of creating modern holistic medicine accessible to everyone, anywhere.
Dr. Berzin is incredibly captivated with educating people and teaching them learn how to advocate for their very own mental and physical health. Many people feel gaslit by our current medical system, whose focus is commonly on specific symptoms or issues they’re having within the moment somewhat than their whole person or life story.
But 99% of our health is occurring in our lives, not on the doctor’s office! How we live has incredible power over how healthy or sick we’re, which is definitely great news. It signifies that we will be proactive in relation to our own wellbeing. Indeed, contrary to what many individuals imagine, we don’t need to wait till we’re sick or for the “wheels to return off” to start out improving our health. We can learn learn how to create and generate health and wellbeing in our minds, no matter our genetics and environment, which is each empowering and liberating.
This is why Dr. Berzin wrote her amazing latest book, State Change: End Anxiety, Beat Burnout, And Ignite A New Baseline Of Energy And Flow. A state change is a metamorphosis of your emotional and mental health triggered by a change in your physical health. All too often, our mental and physical health are seen as separate—the previous treated by a psychiatrist, the latter by your regular doctor. In this book, Dr. Berzin presents a special approach, one which acknowledges the intricate relationship between our bodies and our minds and the way our physical health impacts our mental health. She shows us how caring for our bodies and understanding our physical triggers can assist us rejuvenate and energize our minds.
Dr. Berzin’s book relies off her own research and work at Parsley Health, where they don’t just treat people’s issues as a one-off thing. Rather, they give attention to the entire person, teaching patients learn how to understand their very own bodies, how their environment impacts their wellbeing, and learn how to advocate for their very own health on a day-to-day basis.
She is particularly captivated with helping women find their voice in relation to their mental and physical health needs. Even though women play such a big role in our healthcare system, each as professionals and patients, it’s estimated that 8 in 10 women delay care until their symptoms worsen or affect their each day lives. Many women find they would not have time to hunt medical take care of their needs as they’re so busy caring for others, and, once they do seek care, they often feel gaslit by medical professionals, who overlook what they are saying, are told that it’s “all of their heads”, or simply offer them one other pill for his or her issues somewhat than truly listening to what they’re experiencing and what they need.
This is why taking a functional, somewhat than simply reductive, approach to medicine is so necessary. We have to give attention to the entire person: what they’re experiencing, who they’re, their environment and so forth, since the mind, brain and body are intricately connected. When medical professionals are trained to take a look at root causes and the entire person, and once they take the time to take heed to what their patients are really telling them (which is what Dr. Berzin’s team does at Parsley Health), they can connect the dots between different parts of a patient’s brain and body in addition to their life, get to the foundation cause, and provides them a roadmap to raised mental and physical health.
A giant a part of this process is the gut-brain connection. Our mouth is a gap to the skin world, and our gut has to interrupt down all the things we eat for energy and knowledge. The gut also has its own nervous system: the enteric nervous system, which is why the gut is commonly called our “second brain”. This is why what we eat, what medications we take, what we drink and other environmental aspects can have an incredible impact on each our mental and physical wellbeing.
For more on the connection between your physical and mental health, take heed to my podcast with Dr. Berzin (episode #585) and take a look at her incredible work. If you enjoy listening to my podcast, please consider leaving a 5-star review and subscribing. And keep sharing episodes with family and friends and on social media. (Don’t forget to tag me so I can see your posts!).
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Originally published by Dr.Caroline Leaf. Used with permission.
