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Do you want to learn more about acupuncture, nutrition, or mental health? Listen to The Better Life with Dr. Pinkston. I speak with a wide variety of experts, both inside and outside of the medical field. Look below to see the many guests I’ve featured and listen to my show.
Fasting Mimicking Diet: Weight Loss< Longevity, Detox
Prolon Fasting Mimicking Diet
Renee Fitton, MS, RD
RENEE FITTON, MS, RD is a leader in the intersection of nutrition, healthcare, and education. As Director of Education & Healthcare Sales at Prolon, she shapes sales strategies and equips healthcare practitioners with cutting-edge insights into nutrition and longevity. Her expertise in evidence-based practices and nutritional science has made her a trusted authority.
In recent studies, fasting has been shown to support not only weight management but also cellular regeneration and biological age. For midlife women facing unique challenges with metabolism and aging, intermittent and periodic fasting can offer a sustainable approach, providing a more effective, safer, and easier solution than other dietary changes. Fasting-mimicking diets, especially Prolon, stands out as effective, research-backed method that allows individuals to experience the benefits of fasting without restrictive lifestyle changes. Renee can demystify the science and share actionable steps for incorporating these strategies into listeners' lives.
Renee Fitton (@fittonnutrition) • Instagram photos and videos
Candida and Magnesium's Key Role In Menopause and Autoimmune Disorders
Carolyn Dean MD, ND
Dr. Dean is a 50 year veteran of functional medicine and the study and research of how magnesium relates to most all health issues. Her best selling book, "The Magnesium Miracle," combined with her extensive research background and development of her own supplement line, Dr Dean has remarkable answers and solutions to candida overgrowth, menopause, autoimmune illnesses, and more.
Dr. Carolyn Dean developed her diverse medical education by researching nutrients, homeopathy, and other alternative therapies almost 5 decades ago while studying to be an MD at Dalhousie Medical School, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
After she graduated, Dr. Carolyn Dean began to integrate her application of alternative therapies alongside traditional allopathic medicine as she became one of the first functional medicine doctors in Canada. Her credentials included training as a certified dietician-nutritionist, naturopath, and Chinese Medicine herbalist and she used those modalities in her private practice and subsequent work in Canada, the United States, and in the international communities to which she traveled and served.
Dr Dean Podcast is a best selling author and hosts a podcast. Please visit the links below to learn more:
Instagram:
https:// www.instagram.com/
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Facebook:
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DrCarolynDeanMDND
Chronic Pain:
A Call to Action for
Chronic Pain and Disabilities
Chanda Hinton
Chanda is the Senior Executive Director of the Chanda Center for Health, which provides access to holistic, collaborative, accessible and competent healthcare programs to individuals with physical disabilities. In 2009, she led the movement to pass Colorado House Bill 1047, which created the Spinal Cord Injury Waiver (now the CIH Waiver), offering acupuncture, massage, and chiropractic care through Medicaid to evaluate cost-effectiveness and improve quality of life for persons with spinal cord injuries in the Denver metro area. In 2021, the movement evolved and expanded these services legislatively to other diagnoses and to be a statewide benefit.
Chanda Hinton, reviews her inspiring and vulnerable story of spinal cord injury and how she advocated changes to legislation on alternative therapies to treat chronic pain. Chanda, a pain warrior and I review the extraordinary steps she took at a young age to beat contemporary medicines approach to pain. Chanda shares how she overcame the typical use of pharmaceuticals, opioids, and the lackadaisical therapies that often fail pain and disabled patients quantity and quality of life. She shares how she has made a permanent impact on insurance coverage of alternative therapies and how she continues to change the lives of hundreds of thousands in a call to action. Do not miss this episode.
Website : https://chandacenter.org/
Social Media:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chandacenter/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chandacenterforhealth/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chandacenterforhealth/
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkfFrHS_XY600aMVT6FYGBg
UNLEASH YOUR INNER WARRIOR: MIND BODY SPIRIT SERIES
Rebecca Fitzsimmons
Rebecca Fitzsimmons is a holistic leadership and mindset coach, podcaster, keynote speaker and author. She helps driven professionals and leaders awaken their inner leader, defy the ordinary and excel in both their careers and beyond. Following about 20 years of global experience — from her time as an Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Special Agent leading teams in high-risk, fast-paced environments, to serving as a senior leader in tech — Rebecca launched her business, Tactical Harmony, to help high performers redefine success on their own terms so they can achieve extraordinary breakthroughs.
"Unleashed: Holistic Leadership Insights from Our Canine Companions"
Available on Amazon here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DP1PPT9M
Podcast:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tactical-harmony/id1729081943
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ZeUPOMfypJYi4fdIJBZD5
iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-tactical-harmony-259404910/
ALWAYS SQUEEZING LEMONS: TOOLS TO RECOVER YOUR SPIRIT
Kayla Logue
Bestselling Author, Nonprofit Founder of Move Into Words, Multi-Unit Franchise Owner of JETSET Pilates, Keynote Speaker & Highl-Level, Early-Stage Entrepreneur Coach
In continuing our mind body spirit series, today's guest, Kayla Logue gives some hard fast tools to self and life improvement. Her book is one of the best books I have read in the self improvement category.In that book,
"Always Squeezing Lemons," Kayla tells her heart felt story of rebirth to success and provides the tools you need for your rebirth. She and I also discuss other books, references and tools for slowing a fast paced life of the mundane to the living your best life starting today.
Bestseller Book On Amazon
Therapeutic Justice: Addiction Solutions
Judge Al Alonso
Zachary Hinson
Drug and alcohol addiction disrupts lives and families and most often those who suffer are treated with disdain of "lock up and throw away the key" mindset. Judge Al Alonso of San Antonio known as "The Father of Drug Court" and his assistant Zachary Hinson visit with me about the notoriously humane and successful court system the honorable judge developed in his life long quest to stop the demonization of addiction and raise awareness of how many lives can be saved. This is an amazing legacy.
Therapeutic Justice Gala
October 3, 2024 6:30pm
Link to purchase tickets
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Dr Margaret Christensen
An Institute for Functional Medicine faculty member for 12 years, Dr. Christensen first became interested in functional medicine 25 years ago when trying to solve the riddle of her and her family’s complex health challenges-- unbeknownst to her at the time were consequences of severe toxic mold exposure. She became intimately familiar with Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Autoimmune, Hormonal, Neurological and Psychiatric consequences of unrecognized Biotoxin illness. A board-certified OB-GYN for 23 years, her initial boutique Functional Medicine practice has grown into The Carpathia Collaborative, a large multidisciplinary, FM Practice based in Dallas and covering the full spectrum of complex chronic disease. The practice provides 360 degree functional lifestyle and nutritional medicine.
Click on the link below to register for this intensely educational summit the hormone and immune system disruption caused by biotoxin exposure!!!
Hormonal Havoc: The COVID Fallout and HOW to FIX IT!
https://hormonalhavoc.byhealthmeans.com/?idev_id=19657e
Vicki DeMark, Certified Personal Trainer
Owner of Vicki D Fitness Therapy, Fitness, nutrition, and weight loss is challenging for anyone from someone new, and just getting started to those professionals who have trained for years. We build our imagination around things that are impossible but fitness is not impossible. My guest, Vicki DeMark, a certified trainer from San Antonio describes how small changes can become big changes for a healthier YOU
Recipe mentioned in podcast
Col Eileen Collins USAF (RET), Astronaut
First Woman Commander of the Space Shuttle
Eileen M. Collins is a former astronaut and a retired U.S.
Air Force colonel. She retired from the Air Force in Jan 2005 and from NASA in May 2006 after a 28-year distinguished career. A former military instructor and test pilot, Collins was the first woman pilot and first woman commander of a space shuttle. Listen to her riveting story of her travels to the Last Frontier, putting her into the history books. Read her amazing story in her book, link below, and watch for her documentary, "Spacewoman" to air late this year.
Link:
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars
Dr. Eric Dorninger, ND
Do you search provider after provider and test after test, feeling you are chasing a mystery illness? The answer may be CIRS or Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, a debilitating disorder from exposure to biotoxins such as mold. Eric Dorninger, ND a naturopathic doctor and founder of Roots and Branches Integrative Healthcare in Colorado shares his passion and vision of helping you find access to answers for your health.
Instagram @drericdorninger
Bill Campbell, PhD
Dr. Bill Campbell has a research and scientific-based approach to body composition. Founder of "The Body of Science," a guide to fat loss and muscle building, for those in the professional realm as well as those just looking for performance in everyday life. What you have learned from the industry about weight loss, the same industry trying to save you, is incorrect; it is the same industry that's trying to kill you. Listen in to this great expert.
Steadfast Sparrows : Michelle Arredondo
Steadfast Sparrows is a unique local San Antonio, TX non profit dedicated to second chances of felony ex-convicts in finding a new life. Created by Jesus and Michelle Arredondo, the non profit supports ex-convicts in a faith based, non-judgement environment of education and family care to positive transformation. Founder and Executive Director, Michelle Arredondo, leads by example having gained her Doctorate, building this non profit to prove there is a second chance for those ready to rebuild their lives. This show is dedicated to those willing to start again, serving as a roadmap to their new life.
Click on their website for all social media links.
Tiffany Jones- Smith
Texas Kidney Foundation, CEO, Founder
Kidney disease is under-recognized, under-diagnosed, and under-treated. This powerful show brings Mrs. Jones-Smith and Dr Pinkston's personal kidney disease experiences to the forefront. We also highlight Mrs. Jones-Smith's exceptional Harvard education and confrontations at the Congressional level to change policy and advocate for the seriousness of this national crisis. Dr Pinkston and Mrs. Jones tackle the myths and lack of appropriate diagnosis and therapy for kidney disease, as well as define multiple resources for patients and families suffering from this under-represented crisis. Mrs. Jones-Smith also hosts a radio show on AM Radio 930 The Answer in San Antonio, TX.
https://txkidney.org/?playlist=29fb93d&video=55c8600
https://www.kidneyregistry.org/
https://930amtheanswer.com/radioshow/on-the-record-with-tiffany
Dr Gordon Crozier
Nationally Recognized Physician and Pioneer in Regenerative Medicine
After witnessing the power of integrative medicine firsthand, Dr. Crozier knew that he had to use what he had discovered to help others. Today, Dr. Crozier is recognized as a leader in both the research and application of integrative medicine and a pioneer in the field of genetics-based medicine. Author of the book "Healing One Cell at a Time," we discuss longevity and neurological regeneration by mode of peptides. Peptides are not well known in the U.S for their amazing healing properties and safe use. Dr. Crozier gives us an introduction into the benefits of peptide use.
Terri Fox, MD
Boulder Holistic Functional Medicine
Dr. Terri Rebibo Fox is a holistic, integrative,
functional medicine doctor in Boulder, Colorado.
She works on her patient’s behalf as a medical
detective searching for the underlying dysfunction,
instead of just treating the symptoms. She has
expertise in fatigue, bio-identical hormones,
sleep disorders, gastro-intestinal dysfunction,
and Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
from mold toxicity and Lyme disease.
boulderholistic.com
https://www.facebook.com/boulderholistic
Order supplements at a 15% discount for my listeners at:
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Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA
Five Journeys
There are many causes of fatigue, foggy brain,
weight gain, and more but todays guest wrote the
book on a cause that plagues many. Metal toxicity is
largely underdiagnosed and misunderstood.
Dr. Wendie Trubow, the writer of the book with her husband, Dr. Ed Levitan, called "Dirty Girl"
that tackles this important topic. Dr. Trubow tells her story of metal toxicity and how you can recognize and seek diagnosis and treatment.
Take the Five Journey's Health Quiz at:
www.fivejourneys.com
Dan Capello
Burnout and Transforming Life Decisions
Dan Capello is a recognized expert in personal transformations and is an author, speaker, and consultant. He has produced events for former US Presidents, international ambassadors, Fortune 500 CEOs, US Senators, professional sports figures, and industry leaders. Dan has overseen national culinary competitions apprenticeship programs and is internationally recognized for his work in the culinary and wine & spirits industries.
www.linkedin.com/in/dancapello
Sam Fillingane, DO
Multifunctional Cardiogram "MCG" Reverse and Prevent Heart Disease
Sam Fillingane, D.O., is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at
William Carey University, College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Fillingane is
a graduate of Kansas City University, College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Before joining the staff of WCUCOM, Dr. Fillingane practiced in Jackson,
Mississippi, with his practice devoted to cardiovascular risk reduction. Dr.
Fillingane developed the 8 cardiovascular inflammatory disease state model
over 20 years ago (now 10 disease states) that he has been teaching
nationally for years. In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Fillingane was
the Director of Medical Education and Medical Director of several national
cardiovascular laboratories. Dr. Fillingane hosted a nationally televised
medical show entitled, “Straight To The Heart” that aired on My Family TV
Network, The Retro Network, and Comcast Network, with the show seen all
over the world. Dr. Fillingane regularly took patients with high-grade
coronary stenosis from all over the nation and reversed the occlusive
coronary disease with a very low incidence of failure (1.2 heart attacks per
year during an outside group evaluation of 8 years data). Dr. Fillingane’s
passion is to see cardiovascular disease outcomes improved substantially throughout the world.
Erika La Vella, DO, FASMBS
Metabolic and Obesity Medicine and Surgery Expert
Erika La Vella, DO, FASMBS, is a board-certified general, bariatric surgeon, and gut health expert. She studied nutrition and psychology at the University of Idaho and attended medical school at Pacific Northwest University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
She has long appreciated the direct relationship that food quality, digestion, lifestyle choices, and stress physiology have on wellness. She views food as medicine and promotes the neurodevelopment of the whole human and gut microbiome concepts in conjunction with her surgical practice. During medical school, a functional medicine practitioner diagnosed her with a gastrointestinal parasite. She had co-existing anxiety, depression, and IBS symptoms, now distant memories. Her recovery from this disease process has shaped her holistic view of caring for her patients with gut and nervous system health today.
Dr. La Vella will teach you how your gut and nervous system are connected and how to heal the connection between the gut and brain to achieve actual healing capacity. She is a co-founder of the Art of Bariatrics. An online nutritional support company that aids in mastery of the bariatric surgery process.
2 Part Series-
Part 1 August 6:
Metabolism and Effective Weight Loss Strategies
Part 2 August 13:
Microbiome and Nutrition in Weight Loss
Dr. John F. Freiler
Dr. John F. Freiler, the founder of Premier Allergy TX, is passionate about clinical medicine and proud to use his expertise to offer state of the art allergy and asthma diagnostics and treatments for patients under his care. A decorated Air Force Allergist-Immunologist, Dr. John F. Freiler retired from the USAF in the grade of Colonel in 2021 with 22 years of active-duty military service to serve the San Antonio community.
Dr. Freiler’s distinguished career is notable for having served as the Chief Consultant to the USAF Surgeon General for both Allergy & Immunology and Internal Medicine. Additionally, he was selected to serve as core teaching faculty for the Air Force’s sole Allergy and Immunology Fellowship Program. Dr. Freiler has published numerous peer-reviewed manuscripts and has been active in the mentorship and education of health care professionals throughout his career. He is board certified by the American Board of Allergy and Immunology.
Tosca Reno
Wellness & Wait loss Expert, author, coach and founder of Eat Clean Revolution.
Sonny Melendrez
Madhavi Rudraraju, MD
Pinnacle Research Medical Director & Physician Investigator
San Antonio, TX
Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary, MD
Neurologist, Neuroscientist and internationally recognized expert in the ancient practice of Ayurvedic medicine
Andrew Heyman, MD, MHSA
Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker
OF SURVIVINGMOLD.COM
Laura Lavalle
Clinical Nutritionist
Kyle Sinclair
Pam Smith, MD
Anna Cabeca
DO, OBGYN, FACOG
Anthony Capasso, MD
Dr. Stephen Harrison
Pinnacle Clinical Research
