Dr. Ban Health Podcast

Topics:1. A 47-year-old woman has begun gaining weight around the abdomen, feels tired in the mid-afternoon, and is experiencing increased pain.2. Explain what happens in a woman’s body around age 45 that triggers this cascade of hormonal imbalance.3. How to reverse or stop this hormonal imbalance to regain health and well-being.

Topics:1.  What is "GLP3"? It has become popular online slang for a new generation of triple-agonist medications that target three key hormone receptors involved in metabolism and appetite control.2. What's the different? Semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) (typically 15–20% weight loss). Tirzepatide (Mounjaro/Zepbound) (often 20–25% in trials). Retatrutide achieved average weight reductions of up to 28.7% in current trial. 3. Examples of patients who had found success. 

Topics:1. Traditional Medical Approaches: intranasal steroid spray and antihistamines.2. Intramuscular injection of "steroid" to help suppress these symptoms3. Alternative Approaches: Xlear and wild oregano*Footnote: my patient called me in the middle of the podcast, and you can hear my ring tone. I'm not re-recording. It's too nice outside. There's allergies to be had. Lol!

Topics:1. Supplements that help improve immunity, and decrease inflammation can help us during winter months (N-acetylcysteine NAC, Vitamin D3/K2, Vitamin C, Essential Amino Acids, Zinc, Selenium, Iron, Magnesium, Tumeric, Probiotics, Omega-3 FA)2. Essential Oils ARE great when you have symptoms, cough, congestion, aches. 3. Nebulization can prevent and help symptoms of infections. Use of hydrogen peroxide, iodine, saline with Dr David Brownstein's approach. 

Topics:1.  62 y/o male who wants to lose weight bc he has indigestion, and not feeling well. What type of diet and exercise?2. 44 y/o female who is very active during her work but has a lot anxiety and depression, and doesn't have energy. She's regaining a lot of weight she has lost last year. Need to figure what brain areas are affecting anxiety and depression, use diet and supplements to help her before trying to deal with her weight. Then use Tirzepatide in this case to help her drop her weight while maintaining her muscle mass.  3. 72 y/o female who has severe arthritis in both hips affecting her mobility, and have sleepless nights due to pain. Her BMI is over 40, and her surgeon won't operate on her unless she drops 30 pounds to get her BMI below 40. She can't really walk, and exercising is very limited. She has a good eating habit because she grow most of her own foods. Her fasting insulin level is close to 30. In this case, Tirzepatide helped her drop her weight while maintaining her muscle mass. 

TOPICS:1. An example of a patient going through magnesium and other macro and micronutrients deficit, and how magnesium supplementation was able to help correct some of the metabolic and brain health issues.2. Why magnesium is so important? There are over 3500 magnesium binding sites that produce over 300 bodily functions. 3. How do we know if we are deficient in Magnesium? What are tips to help assess our need for magnesium? 4. What can we do to increase our magnesium intake? 

Topics:1. Example of patient with low thyroid function struggling with fatigue, elevated blood sugar, poor kidney functions, and fatty liver. 2. What are things that will cause thyroid dysfunction? Higher blood sugar/insulin (insulin resistance), poor liver and kidney functions, deficiency in selenium, zinc/copper, iron, chronic stress, medications, alcohol/smoking, heavy metals, and environmental toxins. 3. What to do when I have symptoms of potentially thyroid dysfunction like fatigue, weight gain, dry skin, losing hair, irregular menstrual, sleeping more, feeling cold all the time, etc...

Topics:1. Why can't we lose belly fat when we get into our 40's? It's the stress hormone (cortisol) and more.2. An example of a mid 40 woman who overcame this issue, and regained her youth body and lost the premenstrual weight3. 5 Tips on how to overcome this problem.

Topics1. 7 examples of patients on medications that resulted in adverse effects.2. Recent Study on JAMA Internal Medicine shows that intensive blood pressure treatment in elderly patients linked to cognitive decline. 3. 4 recommendations to help decrease unnecessary medication use in people.  

Topics:1. Unrealistic expectation: people think by exercising, they will lose weight. Yet, most people will not lose weight especially fat with their exercise regiment. 2. You will lose weight specifically fat if you train like an elite athlete. I give you an example of Ashley "Whiplash" Thiner. Whiplash is the reigning World's Gold Medalist in Muay Thai for the United States, and a professional Mixed Martial Art (MMA) fighter. I described her workout routines daily and when she is in a fight camp. 3. How much you would have to exercise to lose 1 pound of fat as an elite athlete versus an overweight/obese aging individual? The science behind why people are not successful in losing weight when they exercise. Does the type of exercise make a difference? 4. Recommendations: 1. resistance training with lighter weights and more repetitions, 2. incorporate Essential Amino Acids with my training, 3. reduce stress. Insulin resistance is the hallmark to stress response. 

Topics:1. A success story of a diabetic patient who reverse his medical conditions and more in 2 months using one of these diets.2. A Cell Metabolism study that shows insulin response can vary quite a bit in some individuals to macronutrients (carbohydrates, protein, fats). This could affect some individuals success rate when it come to the type of diet they choose. 3. Who would benefit most from carnivore versus keto/low carb versus Plant-based/vegetarian diets. I will provide pros and cons. 4. Summary: tips on how to decrease insulin level, increase nutrients, and eliminate environmental toxins. 

Topics:1. History of Vitamin D discovery, level of toxicity, and conversion from mg to International Units (IU).2. New Guideline by Endocrine Society for Vitamin D3. The Important Functions of Vitamin D in regulating, Skeletal System, Cardiovascular System, Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Prediabetes, Diabetes, Immune System, Cancer, and Brain System.4. Summary and Prediction of Vitamin D use in the future. 

Topics:1. Case example of a menopausal woman and use of Bio-Identical Hormones and Semaglutide.2. Why hormone replacement therapy with Bio-Identical Hormones are so important for women as they age?3. A study of hormone replacement therapy and Semaglutide in helping weight loss and cardiometabolic issues (diabetes, blood pressure, nonalcoholic liver disease)4. Case example when combining the 5 Pillars of Health (Nutrition, Physical activity, stress reduction, Gut health/micronutrients, Bio-identical hormones, and Brain Health) with Semaglutide or Tirzepatide, and the dramatic difference the person looks and feels.   

Topics:1. The History Behind the "Lipid Hypothesis" that start in Russian in the early 20th Century that lead to the discovery of HDL (good cholesterol) and LDL (bad cholesterol) and eventually statin medication.2. The Diet-Heart Hypothesis and the "6 and 7 Countries Studies" that lead to the 1980  "Guidelines for Americans", which lowers fat intake and increase carbohydrate intake. Since that time, we see a tremendous rise in obesity, nonalcoholic fatty liver, and type 2 diabetes. 3. My One Year Journey on the Carnivore Diet, and a careful look at my lipid profile, other labs from before, during and current time on a high animal fat and protein diet. 

Topics:1. A New JAMA Prospective cohort study said there is no association between multivitamin supplementation and decrease mortality in adults. Multivitamin is linked to higher mortality risk (4%).2. Demographics of who uses supplements3. History when and why multivitamins were used by US adults since early 1940's.4. Approaches to Supplementation use. This systematic approach targets people's need more than the shotgun approach of taking a multivitamin once a day for everyone. 

Topics:1. The normal menstrual cycle that women know since their teenage years. What happen when that menstrual cycle changes as they age?2. The change in menstrual cycle and the interaction among different hormones. Estrogen dominance, high/low cortisol, low androgen, low thyroid functions, etc.3. Why do most weight gained occurred at this change in the menstrual cycle?4.  What is the approach to "NORMALIZE" the changes in women's body?

Topics:1. An article was talking about lean muscle mass loss with Ozempic/Wegovy (semaglutide) or Mounjaro/Zepbound (Tirzepatide) even though you lose about 30-50% body weight. Using Selective Androgen Receptor Modulator (SARM) to maintain muscle mass by combining with these medications like Ozempic to help to lose fat mass and maintain lean muscle mass. They are already studying the effects of these drugs combination. Now, it's a race to get out the first medication.2. Stepwise approaches to help lose fat mass and maintain muscle mass.www.Bushidoways.com for Essential Amino Acids and Lion's mane (Strength and Performance). www.ABLmed.com for really good magnesium (Activated Magnesium) and other supplements.3. Examples of 3 patients and approaches in helping them. 

Topics:1. Commit to your goals by having a game plan before going out to eat.2. Be aware of the Don'ts and Do's when you're dining out.3. Strategies when dining at Fast foods, Brewing eateries, Restaurants.

Topics:1. History of the Carnivore Diet2. What are benefits to Carnivore Diet?3. What are some pitfalls to Carnivore Diet?

Topics:1. Benefits - Weight loss, Cancer Prevention, Improve Non-alcoholic liver disease, Prediabetes/Diabetes and other health illnesses?2. Cautions - be care of Medications like Diabetes and Blood Pressure Medications, Keto Flu, Stress, Headaches.3. Stories - Benefits and Cautions from Patients. 75 y/o male who reversed Type 2 Diabetes. 

Topics:1. How about prostate cancer?2. How about diabetes and heart issue?3. What issues to consider when starting testosterone? 

Topics:1. What are some benefits to having more sunlight?2. What does sunlight do to improve Insulin Sensitivity?3. How does Sunlight, Insulin Sensitivity help with Weight Management? 

Topics:1. Different brain areas affect different behavior, do you know your brain type?2. Can different nutrients like Essential Amino Acids, S-adenosylmethionine (SAME), GABA, magnesium supplementation enhance brain function as we age?