March 12, 2014 — Victoria Maizes, MD with Kelly Brogan, MD View book on Amazon.com This week’s show features an illuminating conversation between two medical doctors, one integrative and the other a functional medicine practitioner, on reproductive health and maximizing the odds of conceiving a healthy child. Show Highlights: 1. Couples can sometimes be too …
The Big (Fertility) Lie — Episode 14
March 5, 2014 — Tanya Selveratnam with Louise Kuo Habakus and Alison MacNeil Download Tanya’s Toolkit HERE View on Amazon.com Hello, Fearless Parent Listeners. I am thrilled to be invited to appear on the show. I was inspired to write The Big Lie after my third miscarriage at the age of 40 in fall 2011. …
GM Food: Failed Promises, Toxic Impacts – Part 2
Yesterday, in Part 1, I covered some of the impacts (none of them positive) of GE farming and Roundup (glyphosate) use on seeds and crops. Today, I am going to cover what I learned from third generation Iowa farmer Howard Vlieger about how they are affecting both animals and humans, in alarming ways. Serious internal …
GM Food: Failed Promises, Toxic Impacts – Part 1
I have a new friend. His name is Howard Vlieger, and he is a third generation Iowa farmer. I started asking him questions about the food I buy in the grocery store to feed my family. Yikes! Much of the knowledge Howard possesses can only be fully grasped after decades upon decades of raising animals …
Meat Me, a Former Vegetarian
There I was, eight coolers filled to the brim with ‘the goods,’ crossing state lines. It wasn’t an illegal pickup, but one almost just as alarming for a former vegetarian. I was transporting a quarter ton of various meat products, including sausage, beef, turkey, pork, and poultry, in my car. It was my turn in …
Our New Partnership with GreenMedInfo!
GreenMedInfo and Fearless Parent are delighted to announce a collaborative strategic partnership. GMI is one of the top five natural health sites in the world (Alexa ranked), internationally recognized as the largest, most widely referenced health resource of its kind, with over one million visitors a month. Sayer Ji, GMI’s founder, has joined our team as a strategic …
A Holistic Psychiatrist on Medicating Children – Episode 13
February 19, 2014 — Scott Shannon, MD with Kelly Brogan, MD See on Amazon Half of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by age 14, says the National Institute of Mental Health. Medco reports that 7% of boys and 5% of girls are using mental health medications. There’s an acknowledged epidemic of childhood mental …
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Kids Do Come With A Manual – Part 2
Second in a series of two posts (Part 1) Yesterday, I wrote about the gift of parental intuition. It’s how we know kids do come with a manual. Today, we’re focused on how to listen to these cues, to become better parents. As a teenager, I was introduced to the philosophy of Carl Jung. It …