Rewiring Our Brains By Living Intentionally | Dr. Gregory Hammer

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Lindsey Elmore

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine

5.0 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Greg Hammer, MD is a Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine, pediatric intensive care physician, pediatric anesthesiologist, mindfulness expert, and the author of GAIN without Pain: The Happiness Handbook for Health Care Professionals. A member of the Stanford WellMD initiative, Dr. Hammer is the former Chair of the Physician Wellness Task Force for the California Society of Anesthesiologists. He has been a visiting professor and lecturer on wellness at institutions worldwide and teaches GAIN to medical students, residents, and fellows at Stanford. Dr. Hammer’s clinical focus is in pediatric cardiac anesthesia and pediatric critical care medicine. His research is in developmental pharmacology and immunology, and he has an active laboratory with multiple ongoing studies in these areas. He has published widely on topics related to pharmacology and perioperative care of children undergoing cardiac and thoracic procedures as well as organ transplantation. Dr. Hammer is a health enthusiast and meditator, utilizing a non- duality and mindfulness-based approach, including the GAIN method. Topics covered in this episode: Gain MethodWell MDCultureEfficiencyResilienceIntentionThe Present MomentGoals and IntentionsGratefulnessDiscernmentMeditationNeuroplasticity Pain and JoyMacro and MicroaggressionsNegativityBreathing Referenced in the episode: The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 232 | Finding Balance in an Overstimulated World | Katerina Lengold To learn more about Dr. Gregory Hammer and his work, head over to https://greghammermd.com/ __________________________________________________________ Magnesium is one of my absolute favorite supplements under the sun. Magnesium 7 from Organixx has seven different salts of magnesium so that you can get a full spectrum benefit. Head to http://www.lindseyelmore.com/organixx to pick up their best selling full spectrum daily magnesium supplement, complete with seven forms of elemental magnesium and co-factors to maximize bioavailability. __________________________________________________________ Wellness Made Simple is my functional medicine education website where you can learn the practical skills that you need to build a healthy lifestyle. If you want to live healthy, but you're over temporary diets and exercises, you don't know where to find reliable health information, you don't know what wellness options are even out there, and you definitely don't have enough time to cook or go to the gym every single day, Wellness Made Simple is for you. When you go to http://www.wellnessmadesimple.us and shop the code "Pod", you can save 20% off a monthly subscription or $100 off an annual subscription to Get access to the site, watch the courses, and feel better as you implement simple daily changes that can positively transform your health! ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to today's edition of the Lindsay Elmore show. I talk a lot about the importance of Dr. Rachel Remen's work in my career and how influential she was in reminding me as a healthcare professional that my job is to show up at my best self for my patients.
0:22.2	And in pharmacy school, we didn't talk much about this.
0:26.1	But in functional medicine training, the first step of any patient encounter is to first do,
0:33.3	it's called the go-to-it is the mnemonic that we remember.
0:36.9	And the G, the very first step in the go
0:40.2	to it is to gather and typically we think of gathering is like okay i'm going to gather labs i'm going to
0:46.2	gather vital signs but in functional medicine we also add that and then gather yourself
0:52.7	gather yourself take Gather yourself.
0:54.5	Take a moment.
0:55.1	Take a deep breath before you walk in.
0:57.5	Because once you get on the other side of that door to take care of that patient, it's so
1:01.9	important to be fully present.
1:04.4	And we also know that health care is a stressful work environment to be in and learning how to empathetically
1:14.6	communicate with your colleagues through all of the stress has also been something that
1:19.9	was critically important in my career. So today I am so excited to talk to Dr. Greg Hammer, who wrote an amazing book called
1:31.3	Gain Without Pain, the Happiness Handbook for Healthcare Professionals.
1:35.7	Because listen, burnout's on the rise and we can't afford to ignore it.
1:42.0	When we ignore it, it leads to the rising costs of all of the physician
1:48.9	burnout, nurse burnout, pharmacist burnout, health care professionals sacrifice their health,
1:54.4	their happiness, their relationships, and it's time to find a solution. So we're going to talk
1:59.6	today about a proven path towards personal
2:03.7	resilience, which was designed with healthcare professionals in mind, but can be implemented
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