Leland Stillman MD | Secrets of Stress-Disease Connection: The Truth About Psychoneuroimmunology + How To Be WELL For Life
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 567
Why does your body store unprocessed emotions and create a disease?
Leland Stillman MD, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom podcast, episode 567, to discuss the emotional connection to physical pain, how stress affects the body, how your home is making you sick, why your lifestyle habits matter when it comes to your mental and physical health, and what to do about mold.
Eustress and distress are two categories of stress. Eustress makes you stronger because your body has the resources it needs to respond to it. Distress is stress that degrades your ability to perform and long-term is bad for you. - Leland Stillman MD
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In This Episode, Leland Stillman MD Uncovers:
[01:30] The Journey to Medicine + Health
- Leland Stillman MD
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- His issues with sinus infections, ADHD, and breathing.
- What led him to study medicine and become a doctor.
- Why he's investing in a voice coach.
[07:10] Is Your Home Making You Sick?
- The health issues Josh had as a child and now.
- 489 Dr. John Lieurance | It's All In Your Head: How To Relax The Default Mode Network, Endonasal Cranial Therapy + Why Psychosomatics: Transformation (LIVE at RUNGA)
- How Josh found out his sinus issues are related to mold.
- Why Leland can see your health issues just from looking at you.
- How respiratory problems can be related to the patterns we're stuck in.
- Jim Laird
- Sick building syndrome: how your household makes you sick.
- How mold and smart meters affect your health.
[13:30] Mold: Your Immune System + Lifestyle Habits Matter
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- How difficult it is to find mold in your house.
- Why you need to be willing to dedicate time and do many tests in order to heal the disease.
- How past exposures and current lifestyle habits impact mold disease.
- Everyone has mold in their body.
- What role your immune system and immune response play in your health.
[23:00] Your Health + Allostatic Load
- How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! by Paul Chek
- Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes by Claudia Miller and Nicholas Ashford
- Why chemical sensitivities are becoming more common due to allostatic load.
- Theron Randolph
- Toxins and stress reduce your body's response to life.
[27:00] Stress Factors That Make Us Sick
- Stress means to "pull apart."
- Eustress and distress.
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
- Gabor Maté
- Why the mind-body medicine doesn't look at other lifestyle factors.
- How heavy metals start releasing when you begin to heal.
[31:05] The Power of Positive Mindset
- Why a positive mindset is crucial at the beginning of your healing journey.
- Safe People: How to Find Relationships that Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
- Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
- How unhealthy relationships can be driven by a toxic environment.
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink
- Why we need to own our mistakes and decisions and stay positive.
[35:20] How People Store Emotions in The Body
- Why engineers are highly stressed.
- Understanding what your body is telling you through stress.
- Lewis Mehl-Madrona
- The body is where our emotions get stored.
- How professional fighters express their anger through fighting.
[40:05] How Thoughts Become Things
- The Psychic Roots of Disease: A New Medicine by Björn Eybl
- Josh's journey to self-love.
- Why Leland used to find emotions confusing.
- Explaining why emotions can't be turned into a treatment plan.
- What it means to be full of life.
- Why there's no data to analyze for emotions or trauma.
[47:15] How to Avoid Narcissists' Traps
- Why many people lack boundaries.
- The problems with narcissists and psychopats.
- "Don't You Know Who I Am?": How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility by Dr. Ramani S. Durvasula
- How educating yourself can help you avoid being manipulated.
- The crazy-making behavior generated by narcissists.
- 550 Caspar Szulc | NAD+ Conscious Medicine: How Do We Change The Sick-Care System?
[52:00] The Fundamentals of Wellness
- Why gluten allergy can cause gluten psychosis.
- The importance of drinking high-quality spring water.
- Why accountability is key in coaching people.
- What you can get from the Fundamentals of Wellness program with Dr. Leland.
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Power Quotes From The Show
Strategy About Life
"Your strategy for your respiration comes down to your strategy about life. Are you running around always trying to put the fire out? Or are you somebody who know how to switch off and relax and lets somebody let's say take care of you." - Leland Stillman MD
Fighters + Their Negative Emotions
"One of the reasons why contact and violent sports don't embrace things like EMDR and neurofeedback is that once those guys get their demonsr, rage, and anger under control, and they release some of the negative emotions, they don't do their job of hitting and damaging other people as well." - Leland Stillman MD
The Immune System
"A healthy and well functioning immune system isn't not doing anything. It's just catching the problem early so you don't even notice it. The presence of symptoms is not necessarily a presence of bad microorganism." - Leland Stillman MD
Links From Today's Show
- Leland Stillman MD
- The Fundamentals of Wellness - Get up to 50% off with code "JOSH"!
- 489 Dr. John Lieurance | It's All In Your Head: How To Relax The Default Mode Network, Endonasal Cranial Therapy + Why Psychosomatics: Transformation (LIVE at RUNGA)
- Jim Laird
- Fosmon Programmable Digital Timer Outlet
- How to Eat, Move and Be Healthy! by Paul Chek
- Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes by Claudia Miller and Nicholas Ashford
- Theron Randolph
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk
- Gabor Maté
- Safe People: How to Find Relationships that are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
- Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink
- Lewis Mehl-Madrona
- The Psychic Roots of Disease: A New Medicine by Björn Eybl
- "Don't You Know Who I Am?": How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility by Dr. Ramani S. Durvasula
- 550 Caspar Szulc | NAD+ Conscious Medicine: How Do We Change The Sick-Care System?
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About Guest
Leland Stillman MD, was born in New York City and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from Connecticut College with a degree in Environmental Health and a minor in Chemistry.
He received his medical doctorate from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed his residency training at Maine Medical Center.
He now resides in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he focuses on nutrition and hormonal health in his practice. In his spare time, he likes free diving and paddleboarding.
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| 0:00.0 | You stress and distress are the two categories of stress. |
| 0:03.0 | U-stress makes you stronger because your body has the resources it needs to respond to it. |
| 0:08.0 | Distress is stress that actually degrades your ability to perform and long term is bad for you. |
| 0:14.0 | That's a concept that's lost on a lot of people, particularly in the fitness world |
| 0:17.4 | where it's just punished the client more and expect better results. |
| 0:21.2 | The psychological and emotional stress stress even though it isn't |
| 0:24.4 | some kind of physical toxin has the same effect. You'll talk to these people who |
| 0:28.1 | say yeah I never had allergies till my mother died. You know these traumatic |
| 0:32.4 | experiences all this mind-body medicine becomes relevant, but what I take issue with in that world of mind-body medicine is these guys don't look at all at other elements of the case. |
| 0:42.6 | Lots of people come to me and say, yeah, |
| 0:44.3 | they said it was all in my head. |
| 0:45.6 | And I say, yeah, but look at your Moldy HVAC system. |
| 0:48.3 | Look at the tap water you were drinking. |
| 0:49.8 | Look at the well water you were drinking that was contaminated. |
| 0:52.4 | Look at all these heavy metals on your hair test. |
| 0:55.0 | And it's shocking to see how much aluminum or mercury |
| 0:58.3 | or whatever other mineral or heavy metal |
| 1:00.8 | they've got accumulated comes out when they start to really heal and that's why |
| 1:04.4 | every little bit of stress reduction makes a huge difference. |
| 1:08.4 | Come to wellness and wisdom this is Josh Trent your host. This has always been the place |
| 1:14.8 | for you to gather, apply, and embody |
| 1:17.0 | the intelligence you need to live your life well. |
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