360: Dr. Robin Berzin - Transforming Medicine, Balancing A Career & Motherhood, Overcoming Cystic Acne
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Robin Berzin (IG: @robinberzinmd) is a practicing physician and the founder and CEO of Parsley Health.
She combines the best of conventional primary care with a functional approach to health. This means that Robin focuses on getting to the root cause of disease rather than just treating the symptoms.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How Robin became the 1st producer of Dr. Oz’s radio show
- The epiphany that sparked Robin's medical career
- How yoga led to meditation
- Transitioning to eating real food
- Using a holistic approach to medicine to heal chronic illnesses
- Transforming medicine
- Robin developing bad cystic acne during medical school
- Getting to the root of the problem
- Triggers for intestinal permeability (aka leaky gut)
- Testing for food allergies & food sensitivities
- The elimination diet vs. the autoimmune protocol (AIP)
- Sugar is poison
- The personalized medicine approach at Parsley Health
- How Vipassana Meditation transformed Robin’s life
- Balancing a career & motherhood
- Eating healthy is self-care
- Knowing how to feel good and get healthy
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| 0:00.0 | Medications are helpful tools, but they're sort of like pruning the leaves on the tree, |
| 0:04.8 | but if the tree is dying, you don't cut off the leaves, you address what's happening at the roots. |
| 0:10.5 | If you figure it out, any of these things I've talked about, digestive issues, hormone |
| 0:14.3 | imbalances, heart disease, blood sugar problems, almost all the time you can improve the |
| 0:19.2 | condition and a lot of times you can actually reverse it or make it go away completely. |
| 0:24.0 | Hello and welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 360. |
| 0:32.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman. the ultimate health podcast episode 360 |
| 0:33.1 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:35.2 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:38.3 | Each week we'll bring you inspiring and informative conversations |
| 0:41.2 | about health and wellness, |
| 0:42.6 | covering topics of nutrition, lifestyle, fitness, |
| 0:45.9 | mindset, and so much more. |
| 0:48.0 | And this week we're speaking with Dr Robin Burson. |
| 0:51.0 | She's a practicing physician and founder and CEO of Parsley Health. |
| 0:55.2 | She combines the best of conventional primary care with a functional approach to health. |
| 1:00.1 | This means that Robin focuses on getting to the root cause the disease rather than just treating the symptoms. |
| 1:06.0 | And Robin and I get into a far-reaching conversation. |
| 1:09.5 | We get into a lot of her story and cover a lot of ground. I know you're going to love it. |
| 1:13.6 | Some of the highlights include how Robin became the first producer of Dr Oz's radio show, |
| 1:18.8 | the epiphany that sparked her medical career, Robin developing bad cystic acne during medical school, |
| 1:26.2 | how Vapasan meditation transformed her life, and balancing a career in motherhood. |
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