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Doctor Anna, MD is your go-to podcast for cutting-edge conversations on treating headaches and pain—designed for healthcare professionals and curious listeners alike. Join Dr. Anna as she dives into the science and strategies behind optimizing health and keeping the body performing at its best.

Doctor Anna, MD is your resource for comprehensive training in chronic pain & headache management.

Dr. Anna Esparham, MD is a trailblazing physician, and educator—quadruple board-certified in pediatrics, integrative medicine, medical acupuncture, and osteopathic neuromusculoskeletal medicine. With additional certifications in clinical hypnosis and aromatherapy, Dr. Anna embodies a rare fusion of modern science and time-honored healing traditions.

Renowned for her transformative work in headaches, chronic pain, and chronic health disorders, she’s not only cared for thousands of patients but has also equipped the next generation of physicians with tools to heal beyond the prescription pad. As a national thought leader and academic innovator, she’s designed breakthrough curricula, courses, and workshops that are changing the way medicine is taught and practiced.

Her research has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals, and her expertise has been featured in major media outlets including The New York TimesShape MagazineHealthy Children, and more.

Physicians across the country look to Dr. Anna as a trusted mentor to help them practice more complete, effective, and patient-centered medicine—and to rediscover their purpose in the process.

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Essential nutrients we can't live without? We don't get enough of these essential fats and proteins by Randy Evans, MS, RD, LD

Master's Level Integrative and Functional Dietitian, Randy Evans, MS, RD, LD lays out the Essential nutrients for mood, gut, brain health and more that we're missing in most of our diets today!

This is a must listen if you want to protect your health and body by giving it the nutrients it needs to perform, heal, and prevent illness. 

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Dietary Supplements that Decrease Cholesterol

Hello Everyone and Welcome to the HIP: Health Is PowHer podcast Episode #32!

This episode I’m soo excited to talk about cardiovascular disease and how we can combine last week's episode on nutrition with dietary supplements that decrease cholesterol to prevent risk of stroke, coronary artery disease, heart attack, hypertension and other complications from high cholesterol and oxidative stress or inflammation.

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How to Decrease High Cholesterol without Medication, Using Nutrition and Diet for Heart Health

Randy Evans, MS, RD, LD

-- (stands for the first and one of maybe 6 Master's Level Integrative Dietitians in the entire COUNTRY - possibly the entire world)--

reveals what the latest evidence says about high cholesterol and why medicine isn't really going to help prevent heart disease and risk of death. Learn how to decrease high cholesterol without medication.

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What You can Do to Prevent Toxic Air Pollution From Affecting Your Health and Protect Your Immune System

Combustion particles -think exhaust, smoke particles, anything that gets set on fire- increases risk of chronic disease! No wonder why people feel sick after sucking in diesel fuel and living near wildfires that plagued many of us this 2020.

Think worse outcomes for heart disease, asthma, migraines, and even more susceptibility to the damage of Coronavirus (COVID-19).

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Natural Treatments to Heal Anxiety and Relieve Stress

Health Is PowHerPodcast Ep. #26

Anxiety is one of the most common symptoms worldwide, where our sympathetic nervous system is in a state of heightened alert!! 

The fight or flight response that is amazing at ensuring our survival.

But it's not so great when it’s constantly turned on. Our bodies can’t go into a rest or relax and chill out state to sleep, focus at work or school, and play with our children, or spend quality time with our families. 

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Best Essential Oils to Use for Pain - Doctor Approved!

We're going to discuss the top and doctor approved essential oils and aromatherapy for headaches, myofascial pain, muscle pain, muscle spasms, muscle tension, and fibromyalgia!

Aromatherapy refers to the therapeutic use of essential oils through topical application or inhalation (not ingestion!!). The current evidence for utilizing aromatherapy to manage pain is growing (Lakhan et al. 2016).

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Healing Moms through Whole Child Wellness

Carissa Stanton, MD is a pediatrician who provides holistic care for children to make them more well, not just less sick. She cares for the whole child by integrating nutrition, functional and general pediatric medicine. She has a bachelors of science degree in dietetics and a medical doctorate degree. She completed a residency and board certification in General Pediatrics.

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How to Get Better Sleep for More Energy and Decreased Pain: Part 2

How To Get Better Sleep To Cure Pain & Increase Energy? So we left off from episode #20 where we discussed how sleep can worsen pain and vice versa, as well as the importance of sleep to ward off and prevent pain. We talked about how sleep and stress are the #1 triggers of pain. But what I may have failed to mention is that stress may be the #1 trigger of sleepless nights! That’s why it’s so important to focus on stress, anxiety, and our mental health in order to achieve the deep and healthy sleep we need to stay healthy.

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Using Companion Archetypes to Heal Chronic Pain and Illness with Stephanie McGuirk, Doctor of Acupuncture and Somatic Healing Expert

Using Companion Archetypes to Heal Chronic Pain and Illness. Over the past 20 years Stephanie McGuirk, Doctor of Acupuncture has studied in the U.S as well as China, grown a thriving private practice worked as the staff acupuncturist at Kansas University Hospital’s Integrative health department. Stephanie has helped thousands of people heal their stressed nervous systems’, improve their performance and experience higher levels of life satisfaction. Her book, TOTEM Companions, Mastering the Archetypes and the five elements within you is available through Amazon books.

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Healing Fibromyalgia: Treatments and Remedies to Heal and Recover from Fibromyalgia

HI Hipsters, welcome to the Health Is PowHer Podcast Episode #19, I’m your host Dr. Anna and I’m super uber excited to talk about fibromyalgia as I have had the most crazy experience dealing with this crazy achey burning muscle and joint pain. In our previous pain episodes, we figured out I developed this immediately after a flu shot likely due to a neuroimmune challenge from my past history with polyglandular autoimmune syndrome. But I had no idea it could be that freaking PAINFUL!

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Benefits of Myofascial Release

The one thing you should start doing every day.

Research on myofascial release is incredible. It has been used by athletes and physical therapists for years to help with pain, injury and muscle tightness, but studies show even more health benefits than that.

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How Hypnosis Helps Heal Chronic Symptoms

#1 Myth of Hypnosis: No one can be hypnotized without wanting to. There is no such thing as mind control. I know many think of hypnosis as someone getting on stage and being “hypnotized” by a performer. While that is fun to watch, clinical hypnosis is something completely different.

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