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Your Health Toolkit: The Neurology Sessions
Welcome to Your Health Toolkit – The Neurology Sessions, hosted by naturopathic physicians Dr. Lauren Young and Dr. Ashley Burkman. This series is all about giving you practical ways to care for your brain. Through conversations with leading experts in neurology, integrative care, and lifestyle medicine, you’ll discover tools to protect memory, sharpen focus, fuel your mitochondria, and even support healing from conditions like Parkinson’s, MS, or Alzheimer’s.
Dr. Young and Dr. Burkman guide you through the latest science and everyday strategies so you can walk away not just informed, but empowered to take charge of your brain health.
If you’re ready to better understand your brain and strengthen it for the future, The Neurology Sessions is your toolkit.
Episodes
27 episodes
Daily Choices for a Younger Brain
Your brain isn’t on a fixed path. In this episode of Your Health Toolkit: The Neurology Sessions, you’ll hear from Dr. David Merrill, adult and geriatric psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and director of the
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What If Alzheimer’s Isn’t Inevitable
Memory loss isn’t always a one-way street. In fact, it can be the first sign your brain is asking for help.In this episode of Your Health Toolkit: The Neurology Sessions, Dr. Lauren Young and Dr. Ashley Burkman sit down with Dr....
Inside the Hidden Heart Brain Connection
Your heart and brain are in constant conversation, and when that connection falters, everything from memory to mood to energy pays the price.In this episode of Your Health Toolkit: The Neurology Sessions, Dr. Lauren Young and Dr...
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Reclaiming Brain Health with Dr. Terry Wahls
What if the key to reversing symptoms of multiple sclerosis, or protecting your brain from fatigue, pain, and fog, was sitting right on your plate?In this inspiring episode of Your Health Toolkit: The Neurology Sessions, Dr. Lau...
Welcome to Neurology and Naturopathic Health
When most people think of naturopathic medicine, the brain isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Digestion? Sure. Hormones? Definitely. But your brain and nervous system are at the very center of it all—and without their optimal function, n...
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Fast Mimicking Diet
A lot of us have heard of fasting. It’s an ancient practice that dates back to the 15th century as a way to alleviate symptoms from certain types of illnesses. Over thousands of years fasti...
Men's Health
Let’s face it. Men are pretty good at taking care of their physical health when they are younger. But as age, time, and priorities start to shift, their overall wellness can take a back seat. As naturopathic physicians, so many of ...
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Heart Health
According to the CDC, about 695,000 people in the United States die from heart disease each year, which is about one in every five deaths total. If that doesn’t concern you, think about this. One person in this country dies from he...
The Poop Episode
Today we are talking about poop, which might seem a little odd but there is a very good reason for it. Last year, the American Gastroenterological Association released
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What's in a Naturopath's Kitchen
If you follow naturopathic health, you’ll know that food is medicine and there is actually some merit to the old saying “you are what you eat”. From Chinese medicine to Ayurveda in India, the significance of maintaining good health through food...
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Managing Anxiety and Depression Naturally
If you’re feeling extra nervous, stressed, or just not yourself these days, you aren’t alone. According to the most recent
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Sleep Better
A good night’s sleep is the foundation of proper health. From our internal organs to the way our brains work, every function of our body relies on rest. But with more demands from world, the gravitational pull of devices, and skyrocketing stres...
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The Magic of Bodywork
Massage, chiropractic care, acupuncture, reflexology. These are just a few examples of bodywork, a commonly known but lesser used therapy that promotes healing in both the body and the mind. From a naturopathic perspective, bodywork...
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Pelvic Floor Health
Difficulty using the bathroom, painful sex, lower back pain? These might sound like average post-partum symptoms or even another delight of aging. But what many people don’t know is that there is another, lesser-known medical issue that could b...
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CBD and THC
If you pay attention to any news about natural health, you probably know a little bit about cannabis and how it’s now being used to alleviate pain and treat other health conditions. The active compounds, called cannabinoids, are of particular i...
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Ketamine and Psychedelic Therapy
Chances are that psychedelic therapy has made its way into your newsfeed over the past few months. From states voting to legalize psychedelics for medical treatment to the
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Menopause and Andropause
Hot flashes, night sweats, irritability. These are just a few of the well-known symptoms that women experience as they begin to enter menopause. But what many people don’t know is the myriad of emotional and hormonal symptoms that can also cree...
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Inflammation
Welcome to the show! Today we are talking about inflammation which is pretty buzzy in the medical world right now. It seems like every ailment we talk about has some kind o...
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Naturopathic Care for Kids
For today’s show, we’re changing gears a bit to focus on one of the most important aspects of our wellness and longevity - our kids. If you’re a parent, you probably work pretty hard to keep your children healthy. But with everything fr...
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Sex Drives and Aging
Today’s episode is about sex drives and aging, a topic that isn’t talked about enough if you ask me. As we age, certain things are expected to wain - our health, our energy, and our desire for intimacy. But for many people, a healthy sex drive ...
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Ticks and Lyme Disease
If you are in the Northeast or upper Midwest areas of the United States, you’re probably more familiar with Lyme disease than most people. With all the research and new information that we have access to, there is still a lot of con...
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Aging Proactively from the Inside
We all know the saying that “beauty is only skin deep”, but with the U.S. cosmetics industry raking in close to a whopping
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Gut Health 101
If you follow any health-related account on social media, you’ve probably seen people talking a lot about their guts recently. The truth is that, as doctors, the gut microbiome is something that’s always on our radar. Our digestive system is ac...
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Fighting Fatigue
Today’s show is all about fatigue, a problem most of us have faced at one time or another. Now to be clear fatigue isn’t just feeling tired. It’s really more of a persistent exhaustion that interferes with our day-to-day lives. If you’ve ever p...
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Boosting Immune Systems
If you feel like everyone around you is sick all the time, you're not wrong. After several years of heightened hygiene and a lot more time in relative quarantine, the post-COVID one-two punch of viruses has made it a lot harder to stay healthy....
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