The MindHealth360 Show
Feb 23, 2021
20: Dr. Don Grant - Healthy and safe use of technology for optimal mental health in the new normal of daily technology dependence
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No Going Back? COVID-19 has changed the future of home-working and home-learning. In this interview with media-psychologist Dr. Don Grant, learn healthy ways to cope with our increased dependence on technology due to social restrictions and lockdowns. Discover some useful ways to set screen boundaries, normalise the abnormal, find human connection and optimise our mental health in an increasingly digital world.
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53: Dr. Robert Hedaya - Combining functional medicine with novel brain therapies to deliver unprecedented mental health recovery
Dr. Robert Hedaya has been practising functional medicine psychiatry for many years, and is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. He is the author of Understanding Biological Psychiatry, The Antidepressant Survival Guide and Depression: Advancing the Treatment Paradigm, and the founder of the Whole Psychiatry and Brain Recovery Center, as well as a faculty member at The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM).
In this captivating interview for The MindHealth360 Show, Dr. Hedaya talks about how he uses Functional Medicine, focusing on nutrition, digestion, inflammation, toxicity, and hormone levels, and combines it with novel brain therapies which he bundles in his pioneering HYLANE protocol, for a truly personalised treatment for mental health and neurological disorders. HYLANE combines hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), qEEG guided transcranial laser therapy, and neural exercises to treat dysfunction in the brain. He has had great successes with treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, neurodegenerative and other brain disorders using this technology, sometimes even when not combined with functional medicine.
He also discusses how our brains can be deeply affected by socio-cultural, environmental factors and trauma, leading to dysregulation of the hypothalamic pituitary and adrenal (HPA) axis and epigenetic mutations which can affect vital functions such as methylation.
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Aug 16, 2023
52: Ben Greenfield - Biohacking for brain health: why simple hacks can help us recover from poor mental health to become boundless in mind, body and spirit
Ben Greenfield is one of the world’s leading biohackers. Voted by the NSCA as America’s top personal trainer, he is also a health consultant, nutritionist, physiologist, competitive athlete, 13-time Ironman triathlete and New York Times bestselling author of 13 books, including the wildly popular Beyond Training: Mastering Endurance, Health, & Life and Boundless: Upgrade Your Brain, Optimize Your Body & Defy Aging.
With a focus on brain hacks for improving mental health, in this fascinating interview Ben explains why rebooting communication between our nervous system and brain is fundamental to our mental health and wellbeing. He discusses why our emotions, intellect, motivations, cravings, focus and ability to feel whole, human and “boundless” can be drastically impacted when communication between our brain and body is poor. The interview packs a punch and covers an extensive discourse on the many biochemical causes of poor mental health (including neurotransmitter and hormone imbalance, insomnia, dysregulated nervous system, poor diet and gut issues), and he suggests surprisingly simple ways we can recover from anxiety, depression, low mood, stress, poor memory, addiction, fatigue, poor motivation etc.
In this lively and incredibly educational conversation, learn why neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopamine, acetylcholine) can drive poor mental health; discover why neurotransmitter testing, DNA testing and hormone profiles offer helpful tools for understanding the root causes of poor mental health; and discover how our diets (protein and amino acid intake, ketogenic diets etc) are the building blocks of our neurotransmitters and our hormones, and why when depleted or dysregulated they are a major cause of poor mental health. Discover how diet, quality sleep, cold therapy, calming the nervous system and taking care of our Soul can hack our brains for greater happiness and health, enabling us to become truly “boundless” in mind, body and spirit.
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Jul 4, 2023
51: Daniel Schmachtenberger - Mental health in global crisis: why our poor mental health is a collective problem and why we need to attend to our planet, society and each other in order to heal
Addressing the survival of our civilization, this is one the most pressing interviews ever featured on the MindHealth360 Show. Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of the most brilliant systems thinkers and social philosophers of our time. Combining astounding intellect and depth of knowledge with profound concern and wisdom, he is tackling the many issues that threaten humanity. Founder of the Civilisation Research Institution (a think tank focused on preventing global catastrophic risks) and founding member of The Consilience Project (which publishes cutting edge research on catastrophic risk), he advises governments and institutions on the risks we face as a species and planet (such as AI, exponential tech, biological warfare, species extinction, climate change, biodiversity loss, dead zones in oceans, and the global health crisis, and is a much sought-after speaker whose interviews regularly reach hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
In this vital and deeply thought-provoking interview, Daniel focuses on the epidemic of poor mental health. He explains why our world system is inherently unhealthy, why poor mental health (anxiety, depression, addiction, ADHD, body dysmorphia, suicidality) is linked to our collective (rather than individual) trauma, and why our health is inextricably linked to the political, economic, sociological structures in which we live, which disregard the true meaning of life and our fundamental wellbeing. An expert in Integrative Medicine through his own struggles with chronic illness, Daniel has helped open several Functional Medicine clinics, and is head of R&D at Neurohacker Collective, which develops high performance nutraceuticals.
With 1 in 5 people on a mental health drug and with suicide rates in the US increasing by 36% between 2000 and 2021, Daniel rightly views the status of our metal health as a catastrophic risk and very real crisis. He looks at our global health from a complex and holistic systems-perspective, and argues that we urgently need to attend to our planet, society and each other in order to heal – and even save – ourselves before it’s too late.
Discover why the world crises we face are impacting our mental health, why a profound shift into modernity (and away from an evolutionary lifestyle based in nature, good nutrition and community) is killing us, and why it ultimately takes a collective, holistic and fundamental redesign of civilization to restore our individual well-being.
It is my longest interview yet, but well worth listening to it in its entirety in its life-affirming, thought provoking, sobering and vital pearls of wisdom from one of the great thinkers of our time.
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