020-My interview with Ashley Koff RD on Integrative Nutrition for Optimizing Health
Ashley Koff RD is a registered dietitian that I have worked with in my office for over five years. Often I give my patient's special diets in order to help improve their health. This can range from a "leaky gut" diet to a diet to reduce overgrowth of yeast in the digestive tract. As a physician, I often do not have the time to go over the details of the diet and certainly do not have the time to help them with direct menu planning. I'm very fortunate to have Ashley working with me to help implement the diets that I ...
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019-Ask Dr Soram – Dr Crinnion and Phthalates Part 2
Happy new year to all my listeners and readers and lets make this a year of Enlightened Medicine, Conscious Living and Compassionate healing. In this part two of my interview with Dr. Walter Crinnion we continue to discuss the ubiquitous phthalates, and how Conscious Living can help us minimize our exposure to them. We talk about several studies that have shown it is easy to reduce your phthalate burden. And a book that shows how the authors were able to reduce their own levels. The book is Slow Death By Rubber Duck or you can get it on Kindle here We also talk about ...
018-Ask Dr Soram—Interview with Dr Crinnion and what are Phthalates?
I am delighted to bring you another interview with my colleague and friend Walter Crinnion, N.D. The subject for this podcast is phthalates. Phthalates are plasticizers and they are used everywhere in our life. From plastic grocery bags to garden hoses to shower curtains to children's toys and food wrapping, we are all constantly being exposed to phthalates. Phthalates are not like other environmental toxins. Most environmental toxins get in our body and are sequestered in our fat and do their mischief that way. Phthalates do not persist in our body and have a very short half-life of approximately one day. Therefore ...
017 Ask Dr Soram –Report on the course I just took from the Institute for Functional Medicine.
I am just back from the Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM) conference entitled Applying Functional Medicine to Detoxification. In this podcast, I share with you my excitement about the many things that I learned that complement what I already do in my practice of medicine. The speakers included Dr. Kristi Hughes, ND, (pictured above with me) who is the Associate Medical Director of the Institute for Functional Medicine. She organized a wonderful conference with three other speakers. The speakers were Dr. Jeanne Drisko MD, Kenneth Bock, MD, and Rick Mayfield, ND. The four doctors taught us about how environmental toxicity is overwhelming our ...
016-Ask Dr Soram-Interview with Dr Neal Barnard on PCRM and its work
I am delighted to bring you this new podcast of my interview with my colleague Dr. Neal Barnard, discussing the organization of which he is the founder and president, The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. (PCRM) They have over 12,000 physician members and over 120,000 lay members. PCRM does clinical research and work with diets to see how diet can benefit diabetes and heart disease and other major diseases. The other side of PCRM is the ethical side. They look at why medical researchers still use animals for experiments that could be better accomplished without animals. After much work, PCRM has virtually eliminated the ...
015-Ask Dr. Soram- Interview with Dr Neal Barnard on the PCRM Nutrition Program
In today's show I have the privilege of interviewing Dr. Neal Barnard, on the subject of a whole food plant based diet. As many of you know, I have been a vegetarian for the last 40 years. But starting May of this year after taking the course at Cornell University for health professionals on a whole food plant based diet I changed to being a vegan. My health improved, my well-being improved, and very importantly to me, my cholesterol improved without the use of pharmaceutical drugs. Dr. Bernard and the organization he founded and of which he is still the president is ...
014-Ask Dr Soram-Vitamin D News and Your Questions
In today's show I review some of the latest findings on the relationship of vitamin D to many increasing problems in our country and the world. As you know the Vitamin D winter has begun for the northern two thirds of the United States and for all of Canada and northern Europe. I am delighted that Fraser health care home residents will now be getting vitamin D on a regular basis. This is a “ nursing home" in British Columbia, Canada. At least 200,000 falls are recorded in seniors each year in British Columbia and they expect that number to double ...
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013 Ask Dr Soram-Environmental Medicine and our Health-An Interview with Walter Crinnion, ND, Part 2
In part 2 of my interview, Dr Crinnion and I talk about harder to get rid of environmental chemicals including solvents and pesticides. Dr Crinnion gives some easy tips on reducing your body burden and we talk about taking certain nutritional supplements to help with keeping the burden down. I am so pleased that Dr Crinnion has agreed to come back for more discussion of environmental medicine. I am hoping to have him as a regular guest on the show. You can buy his book Clean, Green and Lean here. Dr Crinnion’s website is here. Please send questions that you may have for Dr. Crinnion ...
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012 Ask Dr Soram-Environmental Medicine and our Health-An Interview with Walter Crinnion, ND, Part 1
The environment we live in from the air we breathe to the water we drink to the food we eat to the personal-care products that we use on a daily basis is affecting the health of everyone. Every day, in my practice, I work with patients examining and helping them to reduce their body burden of these chemicals in order to help their health. Naturopathic doctors have led the way in our understanding of how these chemical affect our health and how to reduce the load we have already gotten. This is the first of what hope will be a series of ...
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011-Ask Dr Soram-Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Gas, Bloating and SIBO-Part 2
This is part two of my interview with Dr. Mark Pimentel, an Associate Professor of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles California. Dr. Pimentel is the Director of the Gastrointestinal Motility Program and Laboratory at Cedars-Sinai medical center. In the last podcast I talked with Dr. Pimentel about the diagnosis and treatment aspects of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and our current understanding of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth as its cause. In this part two of my interview, I talk with him about the causative factors in this condition, additional aspects of treatment, and the direction that Dr. Pimental's research is taking ...
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020-My interview with Ashley Koff RD on Integrative Nutrition for Optimizing Health
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Ashley Koff RD is a registered...
019-Ask Dr Soram – Dr Crinnion and Phthalates Part 2
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Happy new year to all my listeners...
018-Ask Dr Soram—Interview with Dr Crinnion and what are Phthalates?
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009-Ask Dr Soram-Vitamin D- New Findings -Part 2
Podcast: Play in new window | Download In this podcast I pick up where we left off on the last podcast and talk about the many myths about vitamin D. These are shown in the picture below. I also discuss my seven tips for optimizing your and your families vitamin D. You can also see the video I made of my tips for vitamin D by clicking here. Are... [Read more of this review]
80% of Adolescents in Europe Are Found to be Vitamin D Deficient
Vitamin D is so important during childhood and adolescence because of its important role in cell growth,as well as skeletal structure and development. In addition, as I have discussed in my book, adequacy of vitamin D helps prevent conditions such as coronary heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, infections, and autoimmune disease. My... [Read more of this review]
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Cardiovascular Disease Linked to Vitamin D Deficiency-Again!
As you probably know, I feel strongly about educating others on the important role that vitamin D plays in supporting health. That is why I wrote The Vitamin D Revolution: How the Power of This Amazing Vitamin Can Change Your Life. A few years ago, the typical person didn’t know much about vitamin D, so, in the book, I explained how the sunshine... [Read more of this review]
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