Patrick McKeown is the Founder and Director of the Training and Education Institute, the Buteyko Clinic International. Throughout his childhood and into his twenties, he suffered from severe asthma, breathing problems, poor concentration and disturbed sleep but Buteyko Breathing Technique changed this.
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“If you ask your patients the right questions, then often they’ll not only tell you what’s wrong with them, but they’ll sometimes even tell you how to fix it. If you’re listening carefully enough.”
I had a mentor 30 years ago, Dr Janet Travell, who said this to me and I still remember and value it to this very day.
This week I had the absolute pleasure of talking with a sleep physician, Dr Dave McCarty. Today we are further highlighting the topic of sleep which is a big and important topic and is always worth revisiting. Join me as we speak about the 4 key questions to ask your patients, sleep-disordered breathing conditions, micropore tape, and many more.
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Dr Dave McCarty attended medical school at Duke University and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine in Boston at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dave began his career practising primary health care, but after a handful of years in practise, he followed in his own words, “My own white rabbit into a whole new world called sleep medicine”. Enjoy!
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This week, we continue to chat without integrative doctors and specialists. Our guest this week was ENT Specialist Dr Jim Bartley. We discussed various subjects like chronic pain management, the three muscles which give the impression of sinus-type headaches, the power of breath, “rest and digest,” nitric oxide, the positive effects of humming, and tinnitus.
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Every time I speak to somebody about breathing, I learn something new. And as the world we live in becomes increasingly more complex, the theme of this podcast is that many of the solutions to enjoying good health are remarkably simple, cheap, accessible, and, most importantly, effective. And what can be more accessible than focussing on breathing?
Dr Jim Bartley is an ear nose and throat specialist with more than 30 years of experience. He is an honorary associate professor in surgery at the University of Auckland. He’s based in New Zealand. He’s written over 60 articles in refereed journals, he’s contributed chapters to 17 books and wrote two books himself. “Breathing Matters” and “Healing Headaches”.
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Why do we breathe? How often? How much? Should we breathe through our nose or mouth? How important is this?
Hello and welcome to another Healthy Bite, although this week it is also an Unstress episode. I spoke to Dr Theodore Belfor, a true pioneer in the dental world about epigenetic orthodontics and the role of breath.
Today, I wanted to stitch in and replay for you a very important episode that we did with James Nestor, who authored the book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art. James’ personal story was the case study that Theodore shared with us. I hope you enjoy this week’s episode.
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Dr Theodore Belfor joins us to talk about epigenetic orthodontics. Sleep and breathing are foundational pillars of health. But what role does the head, the face, the jaw, the airway and the posture play? Well, you will never look at faces the same way again after this conversation.
Can you grow bone once you are classified as a non-growing adult? Using the example of his work with James Nestor, Ted shows us it’s just about creating the right conditions. Ted says that straightening teeth for a pretty smile is 100 years out of date. So why should we straighten our teeth? Tune in to learn more.
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On today’s Healthy Bite, I reflect on my conversation with Jessica Pin, her experience with labiaplasty, societal ideas around “normal”, the role of social media, the lack of medical education around female anatomy (which is shocking) and the importance of really listening to our patients.
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Jessica Pin had a labiaplasty at 18. The surgeon went on to perform an extra part of the operation that she did not consent to…..and things went wrong. Rather than listen to what she was experiencing post-operatively and explore what might have gone wrong, he denied anything physically had occurred and suggested her symptoms were purely psychological.
This led Jessica to question many things; the information she had been given about our ideas around “normal” available to us all on the internet; the medical profession listening to patient real problems; a lack of validation that her symptoms were indeed physical; the medical education system in general and superficially how much does a specialist gynaecologist/obstetrician (even a female specialist) know about the female anatomy. The answers may shock you.
This is an important conversation that also addresses cosmetic surgery, the influence of the internet and social media, the scope of basic anatomy and its role in medical training and clitoracy, a subject every adult, male and female should know about.
In this episode, we discussed her personal experience with labiaplasty, how little to no information the internet and textbooks have about the female reproductive anatomy, and so much more.
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This week on the Unstress podcast I was fortunate enough to speak to Dr Phillip Altman, whom has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for over 40 years.
In today’s Healthy Bite I reflect on our conversation and the topics we talked about including what Dr Altman recognised as the three types of science, the role of the pharmaceutical industry, PCR tests, marketing and a story that is easy to miss but difficult to ignore once you hear it.
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