241: Dr. Aviva Romm - The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution • Permission To Pause • Embracing Adaptogens
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Aviva Romm (IG: @avivaromm) is a Yale-trained MD, a midwife, herbalist, speaker and author dedicated to optimal health for women and children. She's bridged the best of traditional medicine with good science for over three decades. Today we focus on her latest book, The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Living as if poverty was a step away
- We're primitively hardwired to recognize danger
- Thanking your irritating thoughts and fears
- Growing up in a housing project in NYC
- Aviva Romm... midwife, herbalist, & MD
- Going to medical school as a Mom with an alternative way of thinking
- Most autoimmune conditions are anywhere from 7-9 times higher in women than in men
- Exposome science
- Food can switch genes on and off
- Permission to pause
- The things we can do for ourselves are so powerful, simple, and within in our hands
- Treating relaxation like hydrating
- Adaptogens help us adapt to stress
- Don't use adaptogens as a substitute for self-care & rest
- How to incorporate herbs/adaptogens as a beginner
- Bring some herbs into your kitchen
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| 0:00.0 | Some point I actually do have to value my health and value my life and take charge of the fact that stress can and is impacting me and where can I hit the breaks and where can I say no? |
| 0:13.0 | Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 241. |
| 0:20.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:22.0 | and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:25.6 | This week we're with Aviva Ram. She's a Yale trained MD, a midwife, herbalist, speaker and author, |
| 0:32.0 | dedicated to optimal health for women and children. |
| 0:34.9 | She's bridged the best of traditional medicine with good science for over three decades. |
| 0:39.5 | Today we focus on her latest book, The Adrenal Thyroid Revolution. |
| 0:43.2 | It was so awesome having Aviva on the podcast. |
| 0:45.6 | She is a guest that we've been trying to get on for a long time. |
| 0:48.4 | And we're so thrilled because she's got so much knowledge in such important areas that we feel can benefit so many different people. |
| 0:55.0 | Adrenal, thyroid, these are constant issues that are coming up all the time. |
| 1:00.0 | We're getting questions all the time, so we know that this is an episode that's going to |
| 1:03.2 | benefit you and I've linked some of her amazing blog posts in the show note so be |
| 1:07.3 | sure and check those out after the interview those can be found over at |
| 1:10.6 | ultimate health podcast dot com slash 241. |
| 1:13.8 | And Aviva also has a line of adaptogen herbs |
| 1:17.4 | and I'm actually taking one of her tinctures right now |
| 1:19.8 | and I'm loving the way it's making me feel. |
| 1:22.8 | So here's some of what we get into today with Aviva. |
| 1:25.3 | We talk about we're primitively hardwired to recognize danger. |
| 1:29.1 | Aviva talks about thanking your irritating thoughts and fears, |
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