IHCAN magazine Podcast - S1 Ep 5: 'Menopause Wisdom' featuring Debbie Cotton MA, BHSci, Ad.Dip.Nat

S1 Ep 5: 'Menopause Wisdom' featuring Debbie Cotton MA, BHSci, Ad.Dip.Nat

04/21/23 • 50 min

Are you a nutritional therapist or nutrition professional - you'll love the new IHCAN magazine Podcast.
Presented by the wonderful nutritional therapist Kirsten Chick, we bring you IHCAN content you know and love in easily digestible 45 minute episodes, perfect to listen to on a commute, a dog walk, while cooking or in-between clients 🎧.
In this episode we speak to Debbie Cotton.
Debbie is an impressive combination of naturopath and integrative psychotherapist, and so is well placed to talk with us this week about menopause and perimenopause.
She talks us through the hormones involved, inflammation, stress and useful tests to consider. The microbiome becomes a running frequent theme as we discuss physical and mental health, and Debbie describes a fibre-rich approach as well as the “plant-based paradox” that is easy to get caught up in. We discuss blood sugar, and how to reduce alcohol and sugar if you’re not a natural abstainer. Debbie is generous in providing practical tips, both nutritional and psychological, throughout.
“Give yourself the permission to reach out to other [...] share your experience together and actually also share kind of what works for you and what doesn't. Because I think community is one of the most important things in going through any big transition.”
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S1 Ep 4: 'Wheat and the Brain' featuring Tom O'Bryan DC, CCN, DACBN

Are you a nutritional therapist or nutrition professional - you'll love the new IHCAN magazine Podcast.
Presented by the wonderful nutritional therapist Kirsten Chick, we'll bring you IHCAN content you know and love in easily digestible 45 minute episodes, perfect to listen to on a commute, a dog walk, while cooking or in-between clients 🎧.
Dr. Tom O’Bryan has been educating us about the potential dangers of wheat and gluten for many years, and how eating wheat could potentially develop into autoimmune conditions.
In this episode we focus on wheat and brain health, including Alzheimer’s disease, brain fog and depression. Dr. Tom talks us through the immune response to wheat, via toll-like receptor IV and zonulin in the gut, through to the blood brain barrier and glial cell activity in the brain. He explains why it’s not just the gluten in wheat that’s the problem, what to test for, and why declining brain health is the “canary in the coal mine”.
“There has been, between 2013 and 2017, in a four year period - these are the most recent statistics that I can find - there was a 407% increase in the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in 30 to 44 year olds. Wow. In four years, a 407% increase in 30 to 44 year olds. This is like... can you let that sink in for a minute? What do you think has happened in the last six years now? Since that statistic cameout? Anything changed for the better in terms of air pollution?”
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Want to hear more from Dr Tom O'Bryan? Listen to him live in London at this year's IHCAN Summit on Saturday 24 June.
For more information and to book your place, visit https://www.ihcansummit.co.uk.
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S1 Ep 6: 'Latest science on the Ketogenic Diet' featuring Patricia Daly BA Hons, dipNT, mBANT, mNTOI

Patricia Daly is a nutritional therapist and ketogenic diet expert, specialising in cancer. Most of us have come across at least the basics of the ketogenic diet, but Patricia is able to provide updates and insights that add new layers to its application. Her own experience in both following and supporting people with the ketogenic diet is invaluable, alongside her collaborations with like-minded health professionals.
Patricia explains about ketones and metabolic flexibility, the potential benefits of a ketogenic diet, when you would avoid a ketogenic diet and useful tests to help you figure this out, and some practicalities along the way.
Patricia first came to the diet when she had cancer herself, and refers to this when describing the “privilege of witnessing the transformation of people who come to me”:
“I started my journey in the boot of the car. I didn’t even know, I didn’t want to know what they were going to do to me. Then I moved to sort of the child seat and then to passenger, until I had enough and started to drive. So that’s basically what I love to see in my clients as well, that’s people leaving from the boot to the driving seat.”
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Join us at the IHCAN Summit 2023 live in London on Saturday 24 June.
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It’s infuriating that commercial medicine fails to acknowledge published evidence that integrative health approaches pioneered by Dr Josef Issels, Dr Max Gerson, Dr William Kelley and Dr Nicholas Gonzalez, among others, are effective at curing people with cancer. The late Dr Gonzalez developed a protocol that succeeds, to this day, in bringing cancer patients – even those with pancreatic cancer – into long-term remission, and we’re lucky to have two advocates from the sharp end of nutrition-based treatment to inspire us with case histories and protocols showing just how powerful “our” methods can be.
Book your ticket at ihcansummit.co.uk.

IHCAN magazine Podcast - S1 Ep 5: 'Menopause Wisdom' featuring Debbie Cotton MA, BHSci, Ad.Dip.Nat

Transcript

Kirsten Chick:
Hi, I'm Kirsten Chick nutritional therapist and author. And I'd like to welcome you to series one of the new ICAN Magazine podcast series. And I'm chatting today with Debbie Cotton and we're going to chat on the theme of menopause wisdom. So first of all. Debbie, thanks for joining me today.
Debbie Cotton:
Thank you so much for having me.
Kirsten Chick:
Very welcome. So you are an integrative psychotherapist and naturopath. Can you explain a little bit more about