Learn True Health With Ashley James

Jeff Sanders joins us today to speak about his 5 AM Miracle, early morning productivity, personal development and healthy habits. Jeff Sanders is a productivity speaker, creator of the 47 Strategies Productivity Self-Assessment, and author of the best-selling and award-winning book on productivity, The 5 AM Miracle: Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast. Jeff is also the host of The 5 AM Miracle Podcast, which has ranked #1 in iTunes in the Self-Help and Business categories, been nominated for 4 Podcast Awards, and exceeded 2.5 million downloads. He is a 10-time marathon runner, personal development junkie, and passionate raw vegan. Every week you can find Jeff writing and speaking at JeffSanders.com. Jeff has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater and Psychology from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. He has been married to his wife, Tessa for seven years. They live in Nashville, Tennessee with their quirky pug, Benny. For more morning energy Jeff recommends you wake up early with a plan, drink

Kat Elton is an expert in helping those with chronic pain live full and fulfilling lives, regardless of their physical limitations. Having suffered from Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Kat learned to cope with the difficult aspects of living with pain, such as uncertainty, disability, and lack of understanding.  Kat has been in chronic pain for 46 years and uses it as a learning tool to help her evolve and help others find joy in their life regardless of what type of pain they are experiencing. She gained so much first-hand experience for developing strategies for not letting pain stop her, and discipline for self-care to decrease her pain, Kat went on to become licenced in the field as an OT and worked one-on-one with clients for 15 years before retiring as an OT to write her books and focus on coaching and speaking. Kat has earned her BA in Anthropology, MS in Occupational Therapy, She has taken extensive continuing training classes including a week long course in stress management/ stress resiliency at the

Anthony DiClementi is an executive health and fitness coach, biohacker, and specialist in functional medicine. He teaches uncommon strategies to improve energy, cognition, mood, fat-loss, physical performance, and healthspan through a deeper understanding of: Nutritional neuroscience Functional medicine Pharmacology Elite athletics Personalized health Supplementation Exercise physiology Lipidology Biology Peak performance psychology Endocrinology The applied science of longevity Anthony and his team of world-class experts utilize these unique approaches to help executives, entrepreneurs, high-level athletes, and regular men and women to optimize their physical and genetic potential. Perhaps most exciting, Anthony's team has assisted thousands of clients around the world in overcoming chronic and degenerative conditions, where more conventional approaches have failed, including (but not limited to): Thyroid disorders Neurodegenerative conditions (I.e. Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, dementia, cognitive decline)

In this podcast episode, Dr. Megan Saunders shares fundamental information for ending seasonal allergies! Dr. Megan discusses why we suffer from seasonal allergies and what we can do to support our body’s immune response so we no longer have allergies! It will surprise you to learn what really causes allergies and, after applying holistic medicine and dietary changes, how easy it will be to help your body no longer have seasonal allergies! Food can either harm us or heal us. When it comes to our gut health foods that continue to cause harm and inflammation can actually cause us to have allergies and food sensitivities! Those with allergies and digestive issues should absolutely do the elimination diet to help them both determine which foods they should avoid and to help push the reset button. Eight foods account for about 90 percent of all food-allergy reactions: milk, eggs, peanuts, nuts, wheat/gluten, soy, fish, and shellfish. The elimination diet will cut out all common allergens, including:     Glut

Elimination Diet: Reaping The Benefits Of Eating Right  Elimination diet is a means for figuring out what's causing your allergic responses. Through this diet, you can remove allergens harming your body.      Things to Ponder  Hello True Health Seekers! First of all, looking at all the topics we could explore on how you can improve your health, this topic of allergies keeps coming up---seasonal allergies, food allergies, reaction to external pollutants.  Most of the time we resort to just buying over the counter medication to suppress those symptoms. But what is really going on underneath? What is causing all these symptoms?    Going back to our past episodes on Naturopaths, the body speaks to us in symptoms.  Symptoms are actually the language of our body. If we want to master our health, achieve optimal health and learn how to achieve true health, we need to educate ourselves to understand our body.  My Personal Experience  I personally was habituated to all the foods I was eating.  In effect,

Dr. Phil Carson is a pharmacist who thinks outside the box of traditional medicine. He believes in helping people find natural alternatives and integrative medicine solutions to their health problems. He is committed to lead people to find the root cause of their health problems and not just treating the symptoms. Phil is passionate about encouraging and teaching people how to live more balanced, healthier and vibrant lives. A registered pharmacist and Doctor of Pharmacy, with licenses in MS and TN, Phil is a 1985 graduate of the University of MS School of Pharmacy. Since earning his doctorate in pharmacy Phil has been certified as a Compounding Pharmacist, a Diabetes Care Pharmacist, and most recently a Consulting Pharmacist. Phil has also earned certifications in Lipid Management and Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). He has earned numerous certifications in Natural and Alternative Medicine Therapies for weight loss, fibromyalgia, ADD/ADHD, and many other health conditions. - Founder of Carson Natur

Suzanna McGee is a former Ms. Natural Olympia bodybuilding champion, now competitive tennis player, author, speaker, raw vegan athlete, and performance and injury prevention specialist with over 25 years of experience. She is certified by National Academy of Sports Medicine and also holds a Certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from eCornell University. She is an author of “Tennis Fitness for the Love of it” and “The Athlete’s Simple Guide to a Plant-Based Lifestyle.” Suzanna McGee loves to talk about plant-based nutrition for maximum athletic performance, health, and longevity. She has personally experienced the power of plant-based nutrition, and the majority of her clients have also transitioned to a plant-based diet with great results. Suzanna McGee also teaches mindful fitness and injury prevention by recreating musculoskeletal balance in the body. Your Challenge: Add more plants into your diet, preferably in the whole, natural state. Eat as many plants as you can.  Add 5 extra servings of organic fr

Jennifer has helped those in chronic pain experience relief through breath work techniques!  She has even helped those who suffer from MS pain by teaching them these techniques. Jennifer Houghton specializes in yoga for people over 50 years old. Many of her clients are coming to yoga for the first time at midlife seeking ways to deal with pain from arthritis, fibromyalgia, surgery, injury, sciatica, and degenerative conditions. "As a yoga teacher, I specialize in helping people find relief from pain using a unique breathing technique. I put the technique to the test myself last year when I broke a rib and managed to become so relaxed that I fell asleep within minutes!" Because of their chronic pain they are no longer able to enjoy life - they can't be active anymore, their sleep is affected, they suffer from the side-effects of pain medication, their relationships are affected, they worry about who will take care of them as they get older. Breath work is a tool that anyone can use to take control of pain,

Dr. Megan Saunders teaches how to support our body’s “energy hormones” using all natural herbal tinctures. Youngevity has a line of high quality herbal tinctures that contain strong botanical medicine designed to support the body in achieving balance and optimal health. Each herb used in the Good Herbs blends, Dr. Megan explains, are wild crafted or organic, a good indicator of their quality and potency. Dr. Megan explains that herbs are a safe way to stimulate and support the body’s endocrine system while also supporting the body, and it’s systems, as a whole. You will also learn when to take your herbal tinctures, how much to take and, most importantly, HOW to take them! For any questions, or to order high quality supplements that support your adrenal and energy health please visit http://takeyoursupplements.com/

Sherry is a food philosopher, author, chef, and nutritionist.  In Australia Sherry was the Victorian Chair of Nutrition Australia, Melbourne President of Slow Food, Co-Founder of the World Wellness Project, and a TEDxTokyo presenter. Sherry was once twice her size. She practices what she teaches and has obtained amazing health. As founder of the Return to Food Academy, she trains people to become Food Coaches and through her 7 Day Challenge, she helps individuals gain health through learning new ways of eating that are satisfying and healthy. Take Sherry's 7 Day Food Challenge: http://learntruehealth.com/challenge/ Sherry's passion is training food coaches to make a living helping people develop a healthy relationship with food, their body and the planet using the philosophies and strategies that she has developed over the last +30 years. Sherry teaches two lessons from her book during our interview: 1. Nature's Principle - Nutrition that is most present in our life is what we need the most of. Air and w

Brendan Ridings graduated from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale with a Bachelor’s of Science focusing on Human Nutrition and Dietetics. While attaining his degree, Brendan won the 2007 WABDL World powerlifting championships, the 2008 and 2009 WABDL National Colligate Championships, and currently holds the IL bench press record and deadlift record in 2 weight classes. Brendan went on to attain his Corrective Exercise Specialty from The National Academy of Sports Medicine. Brendan teaches people how to easily reverse chronic pain and correct their posture using simple biomechanics, exercise and a back support device he invented. Poor posture has a stronger correlation to lowered life expectancy than smoking. The majority of osteoarthritis and chronic pain conditions are actually chronic poor posture and bad movement patterns resulting from these postures. Brendan provides simple, actionable steps to feel better, look better, and prevent pain. Brendan Ridings shares that poor postural mechanics resu

Dr. Heidi describes the anatomy of the lungs. At the base of the lungs, down by our belly, is where there is the most amount of blood pulled for O2 exchanged. When we do not breathe correctly, our body cannot get the right amount of O2. Oxygen is how we digest! If you are not getting enough O2 your body cannot do anything else optimally. Literally optimal health cannot be achieved if we are not breathing correctly. And most of us are NOT breathing correctly! The immune system is within our sinuses and throat to aid us in fighting off germs that want to enter our lungs.  Our nasal passages moisten and warm the air which protects the lungs. It's best to breath in through the nose. When we flex our diaphragm, we are pushing the organs in our belly down and out.  By breathing deeply we are also increasing our digestion and healthy movement of our intestines. Proper Full Deep Breath Step One: Breath in through the nose Step Two: Breathe into the belly, feel the belly push outwards and diaphragm flex downwards.

Today's episode is about how our spiritual, mental and emotional health directly affects our physical health. Through an attitude of gratitude today's guest, author, speaker and executive coach, Angus Nelson, shares how we can transform our lives to have more happiness, connection and a stronger sense of purpose and belonging. In the western world, we are taught to focus on goals to achieve. We beat ourselves up for not having the body, the car, the house, the job, relationship or the income we want. Those who find themselves dissatisfied with an aspect of their life end up achieving nothing more than unhealthy levels of stress and inner conflict. In today's podcast interview, Angus teaches how to shift our mindset so we can increase our happiness and become grateful for what we have in the now. This gratitude is just the beginning. It opens our life up to feeling levels of joy, purpose, and inner satisfaction that we have been yearning for. Gratitude fosters generosity within ourselves and for ourselves.

Dr. Heidi Semanie is back on the show to teach us things we didn't know about vitamin D! It's common knowledge that vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin because our body uses the sunshine to make it. And in the winter, we can suffer from Seasonal Affectiveness Disorder (S.A.D.), or low vitamin D levels, which are linked to depression. Dr. Heidi explains that our body needs Vitamin D to utilize Calcium, a major mineral our bones, muscles, nerves and other tissues need to function!  So, without vitamin D, we cannot healthfully use calcium! Vitamin D is also linked to aiding the body in cancer prevention, and in the event the body is fighting cancer, it has been linked to helping the body create healthy tissue. Lower Vitamin D levels are found in those with neurological disorders like MS and Parkinson's as well as in mood disorders like depression. Here’s What You’ll Discover: What key roll our liver and kidneys play in our vitamin D levels Why digestive health is so important in establishing vitamin D levels

Today's interview is dedicated to my mother who passed away from cancer in 2002 when I was 22 years old.  It is her birthday today, May 18th. She would have been 69. My Mom would have LOVED this interview!  Tracy Adams is an expert in helping people achieve their health goals by utilizing the mind-body connection and gaining more emotional satisfaction. If you have any curiosity around wanting to know how to tap into the healing potential of your mind you'll love listening to today's episode! We have all of the resources we need inside of us and hypnosis simply helps us tap into our own resourcefulness to help us overcome our problems we are having trouble solving. Problems that are physical like overeating or pain. Emotional problems like anxiety, fear, and confusion. Hypnosis is a tool you can learn to gain clarity, resourcefulness, and direction which lead to emotional satisfaction in all areas of our life. Here’s What You’ll Discover: Pain can be eliminated using self-hypnosis! Procedures like dental

Forrest Knutson, an expert in Yogic Meditation, is back on the show to teach us all HOW to meditate. He gives us a simple step-by-step method to begin meditating each day, and for those who have been meditating for a while, he covers techniques to go deeper. This particular type of meditation can be a spiritual experience, in that you are encouraged to utilize your spiritual beliefs within your meditation. Christians can incorporate Jesus, Catholics can incorporate Mother Mary or one of their favorite saints. Others may choose Buddha, an angel, Allah or the Divine Light. Whoever you have a personal connection with. Forrest explains how to incorporate your spirituality into your meditation for an inspiring and profound experience. If you do not have a defined spirituality, do not worry, you can still use meditation for its many benefits! Here is a summary of Forrest's step-by-step guide: 1) Quiet Room or corner of your room. 2) Sit on the floor or sit with your back straight on a chair. 3) Straight spine w

Jennifer Saltzman is back on the show to chat with Ashley about nutrition and supplement confusion.  For over 21 years Jen has helped many people find their path to health through the physical medicine of pilates, the healing power of prayer and the nutrifying addition of healthy diet and supplements. Her biggest concern is that people have supplement confusion. Many people believe that supplementing with vitamins, minerals, amino acids, herbs and omega fatty acids is a good thing. The problem is what to take, how much to take and when to take it! Jen offers herself as a Supplement Coach to those who are seeking to finally relieve the confusion and get on the right supplements for them. To reach Jennifer, please email her: Jennifer@takeyoursupplements.com Here’s What You’ll Discover: Eliminate degenerative diseases Prolong life and good health Increase your sense of vitality, energy and stamina Achieve deeper, more restful sleep Health AH-HA Moment: The modern era of convenience, fast food, and reactive medic

Oleg of Green Bloom For Humanity is back on The Learn True Health Podcast.  Oleg is an expert in the healing properties of raw cannabis, and his business, Green Bloom For Humanity, is leading the industry in developing RAW, non-psychoactive cannabinoids. “Don’t get high, get healthy” is Green Bloom’s motto. Oleg shares stories of healing, including his own brother, who cured his liver disease, tuberculosis and drug addiction using raw extracts of the cannabis plant. Pure RAW cannabis has unlimited medicinal value with no side effects. Oleg describes the four different cannabis delivery methods and emphasizes that anxiety and pain can be eliminated quickly and completely while those who can’t sleep will now sleep through the night.   Oleg helps Ashley and his audience understand the significance of cannabis.  The lay person thinks that marijuana is just trouble, causing highs that lead to addiction and run-ins with the law. However, consumed in raw form, it is not just a medicine, it is also a supplement.

Barnetty Kushner is treating her stage 3 breast cancer 100% naturally.  In the Fall of 2015, days after Barnetty held her sister's hand while she died from Uterine cancer, Barnetty was diagnosed with breast cancer. Barnetty, who is only 37 years old, has seen her father also pass away from cancer, or from the effects of the mainstream medical treatments that often do more harm than good. In this interview Barnetty shares her story and why she is fighting cancer naturally. A big inspiration was watching the docuseries The True About Cancer. Here’s What You’ll Discover: Different ways people are reversing their cancer naturally A diet that starves cancer cells The gut is the most important aspect of your health. Without a healthy gut, your immune system is compromised. Health AH-HA Moment: There is no sense of urgency. You do not have to get rushed through the "cut, burn, and poison" treatment. Give yourself time to do your research and get second AND third opinions! Your Challenge: Even if you do not have

What we do in the privacy of our bathrooms isn't normally up for discussion, however, this is a holistic health podcast in which I am committed to bringing you info that will help you achieve optimal health. In this episode, Dr. Heidi shares that our bowel movements are directly connected to our health. If we have constipation or diarrhea it can affect many aspects of our well-being, including our mood, energy, immune system and toxin elimination! You may think you're all set when it comes to your bowel movements but Dr. Heidi teaches how you can achieve OPTIMAL digestive health that will lead to GREAT bowel movements! Please share this episode with those loved ones in your life that you know struggle in the bathroom. Dr. Heidi is passionate about helping everyone achieve the perfect poop for optimal health! Here’s What You’ll Discover: Your gut health plays a direct role in your mood! The average American only poops 1 - 2 times a week! For OPTIMAL health, we should  have a bowel movement 1 to 3 times a D