48: Foundations of Health with Dr. Joel Warsh

03/16/23 • 40 min

On this week’s episode of the Soaring Child, Dr. Joel Warsh shares about the foundations of health. In this episode, discover common environmental toxins, the key components to a healthy lifestyle, potential reasons for the current mental health crisis, and specific things parents can do to help their children thrive.

Dr. Joel Warsh is a board certified pediatrician in Los Angeles, California, who specializes in parenting, wellness, and integrative medicine. He grew up in Toronto, Canada, and completed degrees in kinesiology, psychology, epidemiology, and community health before earning his medical degree from Thomas Jefferson Medical College.

He completed his pediatric medicine training at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles and worked in private practice in Beverly Hills before founding his current practice, Integrative Pediatrics and Medicine Studio City in 2018. He has been featured in numerous documentaries, films, summits, podcasts, and articles including CBS, Fox, LA Parent, and many others.

He's also the founder of the Parenting Masterclass series, which can be found at www.raisingamazingplus.com. He is the author of the book, Love Dad, featuring multiple celebrities, which is set to be released in 2024.

Key Takeaways:

[4:32] Foundations of Health and the SEEDS Analogy

[7:41] Reducing the Exposure to Environmental Toxins

[12:28] Advice to Parents about Where to Start

[15:39] Shifting the Focus from Treatment to Prevention

[20:07] What is the meaning of SEEDS?

[20:30] Possible Causes of the Current Mental Health Crisis

[24:26] What Parents Can Do to Help Their Children with Mental Health Challenges

[28:15] What Led Dr. Warsh to Natural Medicine

[31:55] What Parents Can Do to Help Reduce the Amount of Medication

[34:04] Dr. Warsh’s Parenting Masterclass

Memorable Quotes:

“These are things that anybody can do today to help with their overall health and wellbeing.”

“Focus on those foundations of health.”

“I like to call it the SEEDS of health. S for stress, E for environment and toxins. Other E for Exercise, D for diet, and final S would be sleep.”

“Sometimes it can be overwhelming, and that's where I think it's important to start by remembering that there are some things we have some control over, and there are some things that we don't have a ton of control over.”

“There are toxins in the water. There are toxins in our food.”

“When speaking about this to families, it's really important to focus on those things where you do actually have some control.”

“Every decision I make, I put some thought into it...what am I exposing my children to? Every little bit makes a difference.”

“50% of kids or so have a chronic disease. At this point, 70% of adults do. Most are on medication.”

”There's no logical reason not to think about prevention, and there's no logical reason to not think about the root cause of illness. But it's difficult in modern medicine because of the way the system is set up.”

”The system is not going to fix the problem.”

How to Connect with Dr. Joel Warsh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjoelgator/

Website: https://raisingamazingplus.com/

Dana Kay Resources:

Website: https://adhdthriveinstitute.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ADHDThriveInstitute/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adhdthriveinstitute/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ADHDThriveInstitute

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adhd-thrive-institute/mycompany/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ph/adhdthriveinstitute/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adhd_thriveinstitute

International Best Selling Book, Thriving with ADHD – https://adhdthriveinstitute.com/book/

Free Reduce ADHD Symptoms Naturally Masterclass – https://bit.ly/3GAbFQl

ADHD Parenting Course – https://info.adhdthriveinstitute.com/parentingadhd

ADHD Thrive Method 4 Kids Program – https://adhdthrivei...

Key Takeaways:

[4:32] Foundations of Health and the SEEDS Analogy

[7:41] Reducing the Exposure to Environmental Toxins

[12:28] Advice to Parents about Where to Start

[15:39] Shifting the Focus from Treatment to Prevention

[20:07] What is the meaning of SEEDS?

[20:30] Possible Causes of the Current Mental Health Crisis

[24:26] What Parents Can Do to Help Their Children with Mental Health Challenges

[28:15] What Led Dr. Warsh to Natural Medicine

[31:55] What Parents Can Do to Help Reduce the Amount of Medication

[34:04] Dr. Warsh’s Parenting Masterclass

Memorable Quotes:

“These are things that anybody can do today to help with their overall health and wellbeing.”

“Focus on those foundations of health.”

“I like to call it the SEEDS of health. S for stress, E for environment and toxins. Other E for Exercise, D for diet, and final S would be sleep.”

“There are toxins in the water. There are toxins in our food.”

“When speaking about this to families, it's really important to focus on those things where you do actually have some control.”

“Every decision I make, I put some thought into it...what am I exposing my children to? Every little bit makes a difference.”

“50% of kids or so have a chronic disease. At this point, 70% of adults do. Most are on medication.”

”The system is not going to fix the problem.”

How to Connect with Dr. Joel Warsh

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drjoelgator/

Website: https://raisingamazingplus.com/

Dana Kay Resources:

Website: https://adhdthriveinstitute.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ADHDThriveInstitute/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adhdthriveinstitute/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ADHDThriveInstitute

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adhd-thrive-institute/mycompany/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ph/adhdthriveinstitute/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adhd_thriveinstitute

International Best Selling Book, Thriving with ADHD – https://adhdthriveinstitute.com/book/

Free Reduce ADHD Symptoms Naturally Masterclass – https://bit.ly/3GAbFQl

ADHD Parenting Course – https://info.adhdthriveinstitute.com/parentingadhd

ADHD Thrive Method 4 Kids Program – https://adhdthrivei...

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47: Vision Challenges & ADHD with Dr. Bryce Appelbaum

On this week’s episode of the Soaring Child, we are exploring an interesting topic - neuro-optometry and the correlation between vision problems and ADHD.

Dr. Bryce Appelbaum is a pioneer in neuro-optometry, passionate about unlocking life's potential through vision. His expertise includes reorganizing the visual brain post-concussion, remediating visual developmental delays interfering with reading and learning, and enhancing visual skills to elevate sports performance.

Dr. Appelbaum is on a mission to change the way the world views vision. He believes there is more to vision than just 20/20 eyesight and has developed programs to retrain the brain and eyes. Dr. Appelbaum has been featured on the front page of USA Today, in The New York Times, and in many others.

In this episode, discover how vision therapy can help children with ADHD.

Key Takeaways:

[3:26] What is vision therapy?

[6:23] How hidden vision problems can mimic ADHD behaviors and dyslexia

[13:35] What is the focusing system?

[16:00] What to do about convergence insufficiency

[21:48] Some exercises to help the eyes

[22:04] The 20-20-20 rule

[25:57] What are the bands for the different ages?

[29:57] Specific supplements that help with eyesight

Memorable Quotes:

“I like to think of eyesight and vision as separate entities.”

“All visual skills are learned skills, and they’re skills that are either learned well or not learned as well as they could be.”

“We learn skills through our life experiences, especially early on. We learn how to integrate both sides of our body, and we learn how to develop the motor foundation from which we then learn how to use our visual system.”

“Dyslexia, by definition, means difficulty reading words.”

“Convergence insufficiency is essentially the brain's ability to use the outside muscles of the eyes to point in the same place to see something single.”

“Treatment options should always start with, ‘Can something be done with glasses to make life easier and to make things more comfortable to close the gap in terms of where they're operating compared to where they want to be?’”

“It's basically brain training for the eyes, which should be individualized and should be based off of all the different metrics that are identified, and should have a nice mix of home therapy with office therapy, where there's reinforcement of what has been learned.”

“95% of people I've seen in the last two and a half years have had an increase in symptoms or problems that they’re no longer able to compensate for, based on this huge introduction of visual stress.”

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How to Connect with Dr. Bryce Appelbaum

Website: https://www.appelbaumvision.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AppelbaumVision

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbryceappelbaum/

Dana Kay Resources:

Website: https://adhdthriveinstitute.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ADHDThriveInstitute/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adhdthriveinstitute/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ADHDThriveInstitute

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adhd-thrive-institute/mycompany/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ph/adhdthriveinstitute/

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adhd_thriveinstitute

International Best Selling Book, Thriving with ADHD – https://adhdthriveinstitute.com/book/

Free Reduce ADHD Symptoms Naturally Masterclass – https://bit.ly/3GAbFQl

ADHD Parenting Course – https://info.adhdthriveinstitute.com/parentingadhd

ADHD Thrive Method 4 Kids Program – https://adhdthriveinstitute.com/packages/

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49: Conception and Beyond - Preparing our Bodies for Optimum Health with Dr. Aumatma Simmons

On this episode of the Soaring Child, my guest is a double board certified naturopathic doctor and endocrinologist in practice for 15 years, Dr. Aumatma. Dr. Aumatma supports couples to create the family of their dreams and also trains doctors who want to specialize in fertility.

She is the best-selling author of Fertility Secrets: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You About Baby-Making, and she's on a mission to help bring healthier, happier babies into the world by creating healthier parents. Dr. Aumatma has been featured on ABC, Fox, CBS, KTLA, Mind, Body Green, and The Bump.

Fertility might seem like an odd topic for the Soaring Child podcast, but there were a lot of amazing tips dropped in this episode that will not only benefit those that are trying to get pregnant, but also those who have had babies in the past.

Did you know the postnatal period lasts for several years?

If you've had a baby in the last four years, this is an episode not to miss. If you are planning to have a baby in the next four years, this is an episode not to miss. And even if you are not planning to have any more children, this is an episode not to be missed.

Dr. Aumatma shares critical tips in this episode that can help us reset the nervous system and maintain optimum health.

Key Takeaways

[7:31] The postpartum period and why it lasts longer than most people assume

[9:45] How to reset our nervous systems

[11:01] Meditation

[12:25] Tips to optimize sleep

[14:25] Melatonin disruptors

[15:28] Favorite supplements to support the nervous system and sleep

[16:46] Appropriate doses of melatonin

[19:02] How to boost oxytocin

[22:20] The importance of asking for support

[24:03] What to do if having trouble conceiving

[28:45] The importance of diet and lifestyle

[34:00] Supplements for optimum health

Memorable Quotes:

“That postpartum period, which generally is thought to be three months, is actually more like three years.”

“Restoring the nervous system is such a big component of this, and there are some really easy things that we can do to help the nervous system.”

“Sunlight in the first 30 minutes of waking up actually supports the production of cortisol. It’s called the cortisol awakening response.”

“Melatonin is thrown off or will not kick into production anytime it sees light.”

“Having that awareness of what is it that we need and how do we get that support, is going to help relax your nervous system.”

“Oxytocin really takes us into parasympathetic mode... It supports the production of serotonin, dopamine, literally all of our inhibitory neurotransmitters, and it's going to help us feel supported.”

“If you are not getting your menstrual cycle yet, then to me that's a sign that your body's not ready to get back into the game of conception.”

“The nervous system is the foundation of everything. So if you take nothing from this interview, then work on the nervous system.”

“We are potentially pinning on age what has to do with diet, lifestyle, lack of nutrients, and lack of honest good support. ”

How to Connect with Dr. Aumatma Simmons

Website: https://www.holisticfertilityinstitute.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/holisticfertilitydoctor/?hl=en

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@holisticfertilitydoctor

Dana Kay Resources:

Website: https://adhdthriveinstitute.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ADHDThriveInstitute/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adhdthriveinstitute/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ADHDThriveInstitute