To Your Health Podcast

The Sleep Prescription

Do you struggle to get a good night of sleep? More and more research over the last couple decades has shown that bad sleep doesn’t just leave us feeling groggy -- it can leave us feeling more stressed, increase our experience of pain and lower our immunity. It can even lead to bad food choices and affect our ability to lose weight.
In this episode, sleep expert Aric Prather talks with Jennifer Netherby and Lee Thai about the key to unlocking a better night of sleep and why it really matters. (Don’t worry, you don’t have to give up TV, but you might want to pause your nightly scroll.) Prather wrote The Sleep Prescription – 7 Days to Unlocking Your Best Rest, a really fascinating and easy read all about why we need sleep and a step-by-step on how to get it. He is a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at The University of California San Francisco where he treats insomnia and studies the effects of insufficient sleep.

Yes You Can! The Team Hoyt Story

You may have heard of the remarkable story of Dick and Rick Hoyt, better known as “Team Hoyt.”
In this episode of To Your Health, Rick will join us and communicate through his computer to tell us about his love of fitness, overcoming obstacles, and his book “One Letter at a Time.” This book was published to not only share Rick’s voice, but dozens of personal accounts of individuals whose lives were positively impacted by Team Hoyt.
Their motto is “Yes You Can” to promote the message that you can do anything you set your mind to for individuals with or without disability. For the Hoyts, after decades of being told “No you can’t” they wanted to send a different message for others to hear. The Hoyt’s both have received several awards for their efforts to bring the issues of the disabled into the nation’s conscience. These include the induction into the Ironman Hall of Fame; the “Living Legends” award from the Sports Museum of New England; a Certificate of Achievement from the President Council on Sports and Fitness; the Champion Sports Award from the Washington D.C.-based Lombardi Foundation and many others.
Website: https://teamhoyt.com/

The Power of Sound Meditation

Stress is something we all experience at some point in our life. Having tools to manage it can not only bring more ease into our daily life, it can also have a measurable impact on our physical and mental health. In this episode, Beth and Jennifer talk with Guy Douglas about the power of sound meditation to alleviate stress, particularly after the pandemic. Sound meditation is very accessible, even if you’re not a meditator or can’t quiet your mind or don’t know or care what a chakra is. Guy, aka the Gong Guy, is a lifelong musician who began working with gongs and other sound healing instruments to support stress relief and healing in the early 2000s. He plays sound meditations at yoga studios, California beaches, churches and other locations throughout California as well as on the Today Show. He co-founded the Sound Bath Meditation app during the pandemic. In this episode, Guy explains how sound meditation is different from listening to other types of music in the way it is played and its affect on our nervous system, which helps to quiet the mind. At the end of the episode, you’ll get to experience a short sound meditation.

The Obesity Epidemic: A conversation with Dr. Eric Smith from 1,000 Pound Sisters

Today, approximately 70 percent of Americans are overweight or obese, and this extra weight may lead to disease and health problems. In this month’s wellness podcast join Don Anderson and Lee Thai from Pinnacle Health Management as they take over the mic and dive deep into this topic along with guest Dr. Eric Smith.  Dr. Smith, from TLC’s hit show 1,000 lb. Sisters, is very passionate about helping patients change their lives and achieve the healthiest version of themselves.  Dr. Eric Smith is an Ashland, Kentucky native and a board-certified General and Bariatric Surgeon who has been in practice since 2006.
Why is this an important topic to have a conversation around? Because according to the World health Organization, obesity is one of today’s most visible and sadly one of the most neglected public health problems. An escalating global epidemic of overweight and obesity is taking over many parts of the world. If action is not taken, millions or people will suffer from an array of serious health disorders.
Listen into this conversation with Don, Lee and Dr. Smith, as they discuss treatment options, the pros and cons of prescriptions and ways to help develop strategies that will encourage and empower you to make healthy choices that can last a lifetime.
The content in Pinnacle Health Management’s To Your Health podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of such advice or treatment from a personal physician. All listeners are advised to consult their doctors or qualified health professionals regarding specific health questions, especially those taking prescription or over-the-counter medications, and should consult their physicians before beginning any nutrition, supplement, fitness or wellness program.
 
 

Celebrating Healthy Heart Month

For Heart Health Month, Beth & Jen talk to leading functional nutritionist Dr. Peter Osborne about the most effective diet and lifestyle changes you can make for a healthy heart. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States for mostly preventable reasons – yet so many make healthy improvements and still come up short. Dr. Osborne, who is the clinical director of Origins Health Care Center in Sugar Land, Texas, and is sought out by clients worldwide to solve complex health problems. He walks us through the leading contributors to heart disease and why reducing inflammation through diet and lifestyle may be the missing piece in achieving heart health.
To learn more about Dr. Peter Osborne visit him at:  https://www.drpeterosborne.com/about/dr-peter-osborne/
The content in Pinnacle Health Management’s To Your Health podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of such advice or treatment from a personal physician. All listeners are advised to consult their doctors or qualified health professionals regarding specific health questions, especially those taking prescription or over-the-counter medications, and should consult their physicians before beginning any nutrition, supplement, fitness or wellness program.

The Food Is Medicine Approach of Functional Medicine

In this premiere episode of To Your Health, Pinnacle Health Management’s Beth Sims and Jennifer Netherby speak with Dr. Jay Benson of Aspen Health about how and why he practices functional medicine and his approach to different food and lifestyle factors that affect our health. Dr. Benson shares what we all need for a healthy diet and why it’s so hard to make diet changes even when we really want to (It’s not you -- it’s how our brains are designed!) Dr. Benson explains what tests can be beneficial for getting a fuller picture of your health and some great tips we can all use to make healthy lifestyle improvements.
Dr. Benson is Board Certified in family medicine with clinical experience working with individuals with a wide variety of illnesses. He graduates from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, and completed his residency training at Hunterdon Medical Center in New Jersey. He is passionate about prevention and optimizing health in individuals and enjoys teaching. He is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and the Institute for Functional Medicine.
The content in Pinnacle Health Management’s To Your Health podcast is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not intended to provide medical advice or to take the place of such advice or treatment from a personal physician. All listeners are advised to consult their doctors or qualified health professionals regarding specific health questions, especially those taking prescription or over-the-counter medications, and should consult their physicians before beginning any nutrition, supplement, fitness or wellness program.