InnoVision interviews Keith Berkowitz, MD
In this interview with Sheldon Baker, the founder and director of the Center for Balanced Health in New York City, Dr. Keith Berkowitz discusses GLP medications. He brings his expertise and specialty in metabolic health to talk about how these medications work, the potential side effects, including acid bloating, constipation, and muscle loss, and how to mitigate these potential harmful effects. He explains why patients may see weight loss plateau and how to keep weight off. With these medications’ potential for serious side effects, like stomach paralysis and thyroid tumors, Berkowitz also shares who should avoid the medications and how certain precautions and preventative measures can lower the risk significantly.
InnoVision interviews Nayan Patel, PharmD
Founder and CEO of Auro Wellness and Auro Skincare, Dr. Nayan Patel discusses his life’s work around the antioxidant, glutathione. As the author of The Glutathione Revolution and globally-recognized expert in absorbable glutathione, Patel talks about why he studies this antioxidant, produced abundantly by the body, and how antioxidants play such an important role in wellness and longevity. He shares his advice on wellness, starting with water, sleep, and breathing, and moving on to diet, supplements, and exercise. Patel also discusses how the skin shows the health within and that hydration and feeding the skin with essential nutrients is the true way to care for the largest organ in the body.
InnoVision interviews Dr. Ross Pelton, RPh, PhD, CCN
As more people become aware of the importance of gut health and how the gut microbiome impacts health, Dr. Ross Pelton, the natural pharmacist, director of science and education for Essential Formulas, and clinical nutritionist, explains how postbiotic metabolites are the true secret to human health. Good gut bacteria create these metabolites which are absorbed into your system and influence the health of organs throughout your body. However, taking an oral probiotic will not improve your gut health necessarily. Proper diet that feeds good bacteria along with probiotics that can survive stomach acid that kill most oral probiotics is necessary for balancing your gut microbiome and healing your gut lining. Only then can you regain health and dial back your biological clock.
InnoVision interviews Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland, PhD, FACN, FACB
Continuing his conversation with Sheldon Baker, Dr. Jeffrey Bland shares how his company, Big Bold Health, supports health through the immune system. More than a defense for the body, Bland discusses how the immune system, present in every other organ of the body, is responsible for rebuilding and repairing our body as well. He articulates how the immune system learns and can be taught, allowing us to determine not just our lifespan but our health span.
InnoVision interviews David Perlmutter, MD
We are missing the key ingredients to both Alzheimer’s treatment and prevention, according to board certified neurologist David Perlmutter. In this interview with Sheldon Baker, Perlmutter unpacks the role of immune cells of the brain, microglia, to either nurture and nourish your brain or, when threatened, to destroy and damage brain cells, synapses, and the blood-brain barrier. The factors that influence these cells are within our power to change. Perlmutter shares insights into these immune cells and lifestyle changes to support them that can be found in his book, Brain Defenders.
InnoVision interviews Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland, PhD, FACN, FACB
In this interview with Sheldon Baker, Dr. Jeffrey Bland discusses how his vision for personalized health, which he has promoted and worked for since the 1980s, is now becoming possible because of AI, wearable devices, and biometrics. He examines some of the obstacles to personalized health that existed previously and how AI will allow healthcare to become more personalized, efficient, and more human.
InnoVision interviews Joseph Pizzorno, ND
The founder of Bastyr University, the first accredited institution for naturopathic medicine, internationally recognized naturopathic doctor Joe Pizzorno discusses stepping back into the role of president of Bastyr. He shares why he was asked to retake the helm and how his vision for the university will allow it to flourish again in today’s changing world. Focused on rebuilding trust in the community and faculty, Pizzorno hopes to make Bastyr a center for wellness education and healing.
InnoVision interviews Michelle Simon, PhD, ND
President and CEO of the Institute for Natural Medicine, Michelle Simon shares with Sheldon Baker the changing face of health care and how integrative complimentary medicine practices are becoming more mainstream. While a naturopathic doctor herself, Simon shares how whole-person and patient-centered health is a greater aim than which integrative complimentary approach is used in each health journey. She discusses three goals of INM: to educate the public, to inform and connect health care professionals, and to build research for complimentary integrative medicine.
InnoVision interviews John Neustadt, ND
Bone density is not the only consideration in the discussion about osteoporosis. Instead, doctors should prioritize fracture prevention, says Dr. John Neustadt, renowned bone expert, naturopathic doctor, president and CEO of Nutritional Biochemistry, Inc., and author of Fracture Proof Your Bones. In this interview with Sheldon Baker, he encourages health care providers to educate themselves on osteoporosis medications, on how to implement practice where bone health conversations can happen, and to understand contributing factors to bone loss, like medications and inflammation. He discusses the need for a shift in perspective to address the real danger: fracture.
InnoVision interviews Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum
InnoVision interviews Dr. Trevor Cates
InnoVision interviews Cheryl Meyers
In this interview with Sheldon Baker, Chief Science and Education Officer at Europharma Cheryl Myers debunks common myths about curcumin, a powerful supplement that has gained recognition and popularity across the world of medicine. She shares how both the independent scientific research and the patient experience demonstrate the potency of Europharma’s curcumin supplement. Its patented formula overcomes the chief issue with curcumin: absorbency. Myers explains just how powerful curcumin is for health across the body and what to look for when recommending or selecting a curcumin supplement. Myers works with complementary medicine and mainstream medicine doctors, working to overcome misinformation to both protect and enable patient health.
InnoVision interviews Ashley Koff, RD
Registered dietician and author of Your Best Shot, Ashley Koff discusses the crucial shift from weight loss to weight health, which looks under the hood, so to speak, to diagnose the issue rather than simply looking at the number on the scale. In this conversation with Sheldon Baker, Koff addresses the problem with the standard mantra of diet and exercise that has dominated the weight conversation. She also goes into detail on how GLP antagonists, popular new medications often used for weight loss, can be used correctly to optimize hormones, while avoiding the overemphasis on weight loss alone. Finally, she talks about navigating another trend in nutrition, protein, and how supplements can cause problems when used and understood incorrectly.
InnoVision interviews Dr Avishek Kumar
As a board-certified medical oncologist, Dr. Avishek Kumar, shares what makes cancer diagnosis and treatment different than what he calls the geographical way that was used for so long. No longer are cancer diagnosis and treatment limited to location, but instead doctors can identify the molecular and genetic makeup of the cancer. Kumar discusses how this, along with more effective chemotherapies, improved support medications, has allowed many of his patients to continue with life and even achieve remission. He also talks about the value of second opinions and a critical question every cancer patient should ask their oncologist.
InnoVision interviews Dr. Javier Tamargo
InnoVision interviews Dr. Brad Bellard
InnoVision interviews Jama Lambert
As someone who personally benefits from a gluten-free diet and as a someone who worked as vice president of education at a functional medicine lab, Jama Lambert brings both practical wisdom and well-researched science to her two books on living gluten-free. In this interview with Sheldon Baker, Lambert discusses the focus of both her books. Gluten 101: A Survivor’s Guide offers practical, step-by-step information on what to do if you’re just beginning a gluten-free diet. In Gluten 101: What You Need to Know About Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity, she dives into more advanced science and immunology, dissecting what we’ve done to wheat and gluten and how it’s harming our body.
InnoVision interviews Dan Coyle
InnoVision interviews Ralf Jäger and Sebastian Balcombe
InnoVision interviews Lisa Zimmermann, MD
Lisa Zimmermann, functional and regenerative medicine specialist and founder of Zimmermann Modern Wellness, found her way to her specialty in Lyme disease the way many do, through a personal connection when her daughter became seriously and mysteriously ill with Lyme. Switching from her mainstream medicine career in internal medicine, Zimmermann now has built a career and expertise in the most effective ways to treat conditions that mainstream medicine can’t explain, like tickborne illnesses. In this interview with Sheldon Baker, Zimmermann talks about why the mainstream medicine Lyme tests and treatments are not reliable or effective. She explains what makes Lyme such a difficult bacteria to treat and the treatments that she has found most effective: a combination of ozone therapy to modulate the immune system and a new treatment called single oligonucleotide treatment(SOT) which can eradicate Lyme in 80 percent of patients.