Potcast 253: Live in Harmony With Your Body - A Roadmap to Stop or Reverse Dis-Ease
If you’re looking for natural and holistic approaches to health care, you’re in the right place.
Dr. Sexton with Jo in Lockhart, TX, for a book reading and signing event at So Hum So Well.
On Potcast 253, Dr. Michelle Sexton, a respected expert in the fields of medical cannabis and integrative medicine, joins us to share practical advice on improving sleep, exercise, and diet. And to discuss her new book Eat, Sleep, Relax, Protect, Forget: An Endocannabinoid Guide to Systems Fullness for Women. Though the book focuses on women, this convo is for anyone feeling stuck or stressed. Dr. Sexton explains the role of stress, and how to reduce its impact through understanding and leveraging the ECS. You’ll take away insights on the impacts of stress on your body and mind, and strategies for resilience through natural options like cannabis, yoga, and fasting. We also delve into identifying childhood traumas and managing our stress response for long-term wellness.
Listen to our previous chat on Potcast 214: Cannabis, Menopause, and Women’s Health
Connect with Michelle Sexton, ND
Dr. Michelle Sexton is Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology and incoming clinical faculty at the Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSD. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington in the Departments of Pharmacology/Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, studying the endocannabinoid system and their roles in neuro-inflammation and neuro-degeneration. Dr. Sexton’s clinical practice, research and teaching focus on the endocannabinoid system and potential roles for cannabis across a range of conditions and lifespan.
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Notes from Dr. Sexton
Don't allow yourself to be debilitated by stress. Women are highly susceptible to the effects of stress on overall wellbeing. You can learn to adapt in healthy ways and develop resilience to help set the stage for thriving!
Change is stress and requires the need to be resilient, to adapt! To survive, our biology needs continual adjustments - intended to be temporary and then to return to set points. Our bodies have an exquisite and relatively unknown system that enables this homeostasis, the endocannabinoid system (ECS). This system provides that we: Eat, Sleep, Relax, Protect and Forget. In today's stressful world we can use all the help we can get in restoring our set points: mentally, emotionally and physically.
There is help at hand! In Eat, Sleep, Relax, Protect, Forget, Naturopathic Doctor, researcher and herbalist and women's health specialist of 30 years, Dr. Michelle Sexton, helps you to untangle the roots of 'dis-ease'. These roots often began before you were born as a result of stress or trauma that affected your ancestors- even generations prior to your birth. Using a toolkit of holistic and integrative practices you can go beyond simply surviving to thriving! The endocannabinoid system (ECS) will be your guide to healing the body/mind, treating the cause and addressing the whole person for optimal health across the lifespan.
Inside Eat, Sleep, Relax, Protect, Forget you will find:
Endocannabinoid system 101: Understand this homeostatic system and its many roles in insuring survival.
Health Issues specific to women: How to tone the ECS for thriving, not simply surviving.
Integrative medicine approaches: Develop a well-rounded botanical, nutritional, lifestyle and supplement-based toolkit to enhance your health, prevent illness and promote healthy aging.
Body-Mind fluency: Increase your sense of interoception: the ability to interpret warning signals from inside your body. You can become disconnected from these signals due to past or present trauma.
Homeostasis: Gather a diverse toolkit, available at your disposal, to evaluate your homeostasis, stress resilience and body/mind connection.
Eat, Sleep, Relax, Protect, Forget is a gateway to botanical and natural medicines and approaches that can help bring your systems biology back online. Let this be a first step of your journey from surviving to thriving in the modern world!