#43 Talking with Dr. Christina Bjorndal, ND, mental health authority

06/09/21 • 55 min

Dr. Heather Uncensored: focus on trauma - serious, fun, healing

With my book, "Transforming Trauma, a drugless and creative path to healing PTS" coming closely on the heels of "Surviving a Viral Pandemic through the lens of a naturopathic medical doctor" I invited Dr. Christina Bjorndal to share her knowledge and wisdom on mental health.
A licensed naturopathic doctor and established keynote speaker on how to regain your mental health using a naturopathic approach, Dr. Chris, co-founder of Natural Terrain, a naturopathic clinic in Edmonton, she is an authority in the treatment of mental imbalances such as depression, anxiety and eating disorders. She is regularly interviewed for print magazines and online resources as a leader in her field. She is the mother of a 12 year old boy who reacted badly to a vaccine and thankfully recovered due to the efforts of Dr. Chris and her naturopathic and First Nation husband, Michael Mason-Wood.
She has written four books to help others achieve physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. This is her story (abridged from her website, naturalterrain.com):
"While I was doing my undergraduate degree at UBC in the late 1980s, I experienced debilitating depression and anxiety that was difficult to treat. I also had an eating disorder and was not coping with the stress I was under. Like most people, I had not heard about naturopathic medicine or orthomolecular medicine, so I was treated with conventional medications that were ineffective.

"Six months after starting an antidepressant, I spun into a psychotic, manic episode. It took six people to wrestle me into a straight jacket. I was injected with haloperidol and left in a rubber room to come back to reality. When I did, I was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder type 1. Since that time, I have lived in shame because of the label of bipolar disorder. I just wanted to be 'normal.'

"After surviving a suicide attempt (which left me in a coma, on dialysis waiting for a kidney transplant), I finally began the healing process after reading a book called A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson. Up until that point, I’d been living with the shame and stigma of the labels I had been given, and I had not accepted myself. Since reading that book and with the help of many types of practitioners, I have come to realize that there are 10 steps to mental wellness and there are more natural ways to treat mental “dis-ease” as I outline in my book “Beyond the Label: 10 Steps to Improve your Mental Health with Naturopathic Medicine.”

"The sole reason I became a naturopathic doctor is because, when I was struggling with my illness, there weren’t many experts in this field. After attending the Orthomolecular Medicine Society’s Mental Health Regained Public Forum in 1999, I became a patient of Dr. Abram Hoffer

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New book: Transforming Trauma, a drugless and creative path to healing PTS and ACE is published by Hammersmith Books is available globally.
Also Surviving a Viral Pandemic through the lens of a naturopathic medical doctor. On Amazon both paperback and eBook
Flawed, a novel - an eccentric family saga - is on Amazon both paperback and eBook...audiobook coming
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#42 Dr. Heather speaks with Lawrence Palevsky M.D., holistic and outspoken pediatrician

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I am so happy to be interviewing Dr Palevsky at this point in time because of my outrage that we as a society allow our precious children to be injected with toxic particles from experimental gene therapy. It feels like we are in 1930s Nazi Germany because if I thought it was ridiculous if not horrendous three decades ago when I first opened my clinic in Vancouver BC with so many children on antibiotics and/or eustachian tubes and then as the years went by shocked by so many given psychotropic drugs for behavior issues I am now completely and utterly out of my mind disturbed that we are jabbing them for a virus that very rarely affects children, or for that matter, healthy adults. As mRNA technology has never been used in this way, and we know so little about it for viruses, it is very possible this gene therapy - hanging out in our cells perhaps forever - will make people very, very ill over time, reacting to whatever is out there. And now we are giving it to children! Are we completely out of our minds? It is clear that government and the media haven't learned anything about health during COVID-19. It's incredible the high level of ignorance to what natural medicine - organic food, supplements, plants, homeopathy, cold water and so on - can do to help fend off anything untoward that gets past our innate immune system. Yet this is what we must learn or continue implementing as it is the only way to realize a truly healthy body, community and planet. Join us in learning more of what's so wrong right now.
Make sure to purchase Surviving a Viral Pandemic through the lens of a naturopathic medical doctor to keep you and your family safe and toxin-free.
BIO: Dr. Palevsky is a NYS licensed pediatrician, who utilizes a holistic approach to children’s wellness and illness. Dr. Palevsky received his medical degree from the NYU School of Medicine in 1987, completed a three-year pediatric residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC in 1990, and served as a pediatric fellow in the ambulatory care out-patient department at Bellevue Hospital, NYC, from 1990-1991. Since 1991, his clinical experience includes working in pediatric emergency and intensive care medicine, in-patient, and out-patient pediatric medicine, neonatal intensive care medicine, newborn and delivery room medicine, and conventional, holistic and integrative pediatric private practice. Dr. Palevsky is a diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine, and Past–President of the American Holistic Medical Association. He received his pediatric board certification in 1990, and passed his pediatric board recertification exams in 1997, 2004, and 2011.

In his current pediatric practice, Dr. Palevsky offers well-child examinations, consultation

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#44 Speaking with research scientist/methodologist Dr. Paul Elias Alexander

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Dr. Paul E. Alexander, health research methodologist at McMaster University wrote the hot-off-the-press paper, 14 Months Later: A Path Forward, after examining all the data associated with COVID. He will let you know what we all should know now from the point of view of hard science. No BS here! Smart and down to earth you will enjoy his thoughts, a person originally from a small village in Trinidad and Tobago.
Here is his bio:
Paul Alexander holds a masters of science degree in epidemiology and community health from the University of Toronto, a masters of science degree in evidence-based medicine from Oxford University, masters schooling in Health Sciences also at York University, Toronto, and a PhD in evidence-based medicine and research methods from McMasters University, Hamilton. He currently holds a post as Assistant Professor at McMaster’s University in the HEI Research Methods department and completed his doctoral research and post- doctoral work under the founder of Evidence based medicine (EBM), Dr. Gordon Guyatt. He served in the Trump Administration as a senior COVID-19 advisor for the Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, and also worked for WHO and the Pan-American Health Organization in Washington, D.C. from February 2020 onwards as a COVID-19 consultant for research methods and related matters. He also worked for the WHO/PAHO prior to the onset of the pandemic in developing evidence based tools for low and middle income nations.
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