Dr. Ben Reebs

If you're looking for a business coach as a wellness practitioner, no doubt one of the very best for integrative medicine practitioners is Katie Corbin.

She has a deep understanding of what wellness practitioners have to go through to integrate the healing arts with systematic business development growth.

She also has an exceptional ability to help clients make decisions they instinctively know they need to make but haven't yet found the clarity to act upon.

With boots on the ground entrepreneurial experience, she has successfully launched her own acupuncture and wellness clinics.

Katie Corbin is a talented business coach who masterfully blends intuitive insight with practical, real-world experience.

I cannot more highly recommend her.

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Deciphering Endocrine Disruption: Navigating BPA's Impact on Health with Kaileigh Lauren | The Modern Vital Podcast S2 Ep.3 [link to the episode in comments]

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🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE ALERT! Deciphering Endocrine Disruption: Navigating BPA's Impact on Health with Kaileigh Lauren | The Modern Vital Podcast S2 Ep.3 [link to the episode in comments]

In this episode of the Modern Vital Podcast, Dr. Ben Reebs interviews Kaileigh Lauren, also known as Coach Kailes, a functional nutritionist and wellness professional. They discuss the prevalence and impact of endocrine disruptors, particularly BPA, on hormone balance, especially in women. Kaileigh shares her observations of clients with hormone imbalances linked to these chemicals and offers practical tips for reducing exposure, such as using apps to scan for healthier product alternatives.

The episode emphasizes the importance of personalized approaches, high-quality testing, and sustainable lifestyle changes to improve overall health and hormone balance.

A lot of these endocrine-disrupting chemicals are found in our water bottles, lotions, and shampoos. They mimic estrogen and can cause stubborn fat.

Our latest episode, 'Deciphering Endocrine Disruption: Navigating BPA's Impact on Health with Kaileigh Lauren' drops this Wednesday.

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Tick Talk: How to Tackle Lyme Disease with Dr. Jaquel Patterson | The Modern Vital Podcast S2 Ep.2

🎙️ NEW PODCAST EPISODE ALERT! Tick Talk: How to Tackle Lyme Disease with Dr. Jaquel Patterson | The Modern Vital Podcast S2 Ep. 2 [link to the episode in comments]

In this episode of the Modern Vital Podcast, Dr. Ben Reebs explores Lyme disease and tick-borne infections with Dr. Jaquel Patterson .physician, a renowned naturopathic physician specializing in Lyme disease, autoimmune conditions, and integrative psychiatry.

Dr. Patterson shares her personal journey with Lyme disease and offers insights into effective treatments, preventive measures, and the role of antioxidants. The discussion covers restoring mitochondrial function, the significance of IgM and IgG antibodies in testing, and therapies such as herbal medicine, dietary changes, and antioxidants.

Whether you're a patient or a healthcare provider, this episode provides valuable information on managing tick-borne illnesses.

Feeling depressed or anxious or extremely fatigued? 😴

It could be that your gut is off, and it’s affecting your brain. 🧠

Here’s why. ➡️

Over 95% of our serotonin and over 50% of our dopamine is made in our gut. 🦠

Serotonin is the feel-good chemical, also intimately involved in memory, learning, and attention. 🌟

Dopamine helps to activate feelings of self-satisfaction around reward and pleasure. 🎉

This means that an imbalance in the microbiome, such as after a round of antibiotics, could lead to a neurotransmitter imbalance, and cause anxiety (low serotonin) or depression (low dopamine). 😟

This also means that when we improve the function of the gut, we also improve neurotransmitter production and balance. 🌱

This is why assessing the gut-brain axis can be critical to health. ⚖️

What Hippocrates forgot to mention is, “All health begins in the gut.” 🍏

Read that again. 👆🏾

What happens in the gut does not stay in the gut. 🌱

That’s why the gut is the gateway to chronic disease as well as optimal health. 🚪

Over 2500 years ago, Hippocrates, who some consider the founder of modern medicine, said, “All disease begins the gut.” 🩺

Today what Hippocrates said is more true than ever before, borne out by thousands of studies on the microbiome, where up to 100 trillion cells and 70% of our immune system resides. 🔬

Checking serum B12 levels is critical to assess gut health as well as to consider bacterial overgrowth. 🔍

Why?

Approximately 20% of gut bacteria can produce vitamin B12 (methylcobalamin). 🦠
, more than 80% of gut bacteria require B12 for their metabolic reactions. 🔄

Though research is extremely limited, what this means is that B12 deficiency or excess can be intimately entwined with microbiome status. 🧬

Vitamin B12 plays a key role in: 🔑

Red blood cell formation 🔴
Neurological function 🧠
DNA synthesis 🧬
Energy metabolism ⚡

Leaky gut isn’t a question of if, it’s a question of when.

Also known as intestinal permeability, leaky gut happens ... to everyone. 🌀

Some common causes:

Diet, such as processed food 🍔
NSAIDs, antibiotics, steroids 💊
Stress 😓
Dysbiosis 🦠
Candida 🍄
Infection 🦠
Inflammation 🔥
Environmental exposure 🏞️

In my opinion, we are wired for intestinal permeability, as an evolutionary safeguard mechanism, in acute cases. 🧬

We’re just not meant to have leaky gut chronically, 24/7.

The truth, though, is that leaky gut is a symptom of something deeper, not a root cause in and of itself.

Treat the cause(s) of leaky gut, not the symptoms, for lasting results. 💡