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Episode 75: Self Care is Not Selfish with Dr. Sonal Haerter

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This week’s episode features Dr. Sonal Haerter, an internal medicine physician with a special interest in wellness. She is in the process of completing her culinary medicine fellowship. She discusses the importance is self care especially amongst women. 

From Sonal: I have been actively involved in ‘Wellness in medicine , wellness as a woman in medicine ‘ for almost a decade. I am part of wellness committees at my hospital and presented grand rounds. It’s my mission to help my physician colleagues from burning out and giving up what they sacrificed so much for. In my practice as an internist I focus specifically on mental , physical and spiritual health! I do talk about impact of eating healthy and thinking healthy. Wellness is not one dimensional. It’s multidimensional, it needs to me nurtured. Resilience is a muscle that develops as a result of mindful nurturing of mind , body and soul!

Sonal Haerter , MD Culinary Medicine ( in progress) Academic internist Clinical Skills Co Director Clerkship Director – outpatient IM Assistant Professor Creighton University school of Medicine-Phoenix Wellness chair – IM residency program Dignity Health Medical Group St Joseph’s hospital Phoenix , AZ


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Episode 74: Shed the Shoulds with Dr. Wendy Schofer

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This week’s episode features pediatrician and life coach Dr. Wendy Schofer. We discuss her journey into becoming a life coach after seeing her patients in her practice struggle with obesity. “Should” is a word I’ve tried hard to eliminate from my vocabulary and so this episode really was close to home for me. I hope you all enjoy listening to this episode!


Find out more about Dr. Schofer at http://www.wendyschofermd.com


Dr Wendy Schofer is a pediatrician, lifestyle physician and family life and weight coach. Her 16+ years in clinical practice has taken her from military medical practice around the world, to primary care and then to nonprofit community work. She brings experience having difficulty conversations, supporting parents through emotional and behavioral challenges, transitioning (repeatedly!) in the military, using lifestyle as medicine, and a big dose of fun to coaching. Coaching has brought a new level of personal satisfaction and enjoyment to her clinical practice, and is the elusive missing link for helping families enjoy health at home. She helps parents “shed the shoulds” to address the fears around nutrition and overweight, and become the confident role model for family health.
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Episode 67: Anatomy of Well-Being with Dr. Monisha Bhanote

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This week’s episode features Dr. Monisha Bhanote, who comes onto the podcast to discuss the “Anatomy of Well-Being”. She shares her journey as being a long windy road – from internist, to pathologist, to integrative medicine, yoga medicine therapeutic specialist and culinary medicine – but she shares that the journey has been been well worth it! She discussed what well-being means to her personally as well as for her patients. She sees herself as applying this holistic approach to the concept of well-being and her advice to others is to embrace a growth mindset.


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Dr. Monisha Bhanote, M.D., FCAP, is a triple board-certified physician with expertise in Integrative Medicine, Internal Medicine and Anatomic/Clinical Pathology. She completed training at NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island where she also served as chief resident, followed by three fellowships at New York-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center in Cytopathology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Breast, Bone and Soft Tissue Cancer and a two year Integrative Medicine fellowship at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. She is an accomplished author having written numerous medical articles and a medical textbook Pathology Case Reports, Beyond the Pearls for Elsevier, a leading scientific publishing house.  Dr. Bhanote is a sought after health and wellness expert providing both speaking and written commentary to multiple news media outlets and publications.  Always fascinated by the human body, she has spent the last two decades studying how all systems in our body affect each other both on a cellular and global level, how disease manifests, and what we can and cannot control.  She has additional training and certification in Culinary Medicine, Meditation, Plant Based Nutrition, and Yoga Medicine which she utilizes to apply a whole body approach to healing. She offers integrative medicine consultations and programs in clinical nutrition, mind-body medicine, yoga medicine and culinary medicine with an evidenced based approach (www.drbhanote.com).  

Episode 59: Preventive Cardiovascular Health with Dr. Nicole Harkin

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This week’s episode features board certified cardiologist, Dr. Nicole Harkin, who comes on to share so much information about cardiovascular health, particularly as it pertains to women! She discusses lifestyle modifications such as diet and exercise, and she additionally goes into a discussion on the lipid panel. She moved across the country recently and started her own telecardiology practice, Whole Heart Cardiology, and is currently licensed to practice in New York, California, and Florida. Her advice is to focus on prevention and lifestyle changes now; progress over perfection; lifestyle can dramatically reduce risk even in those with high genetic risk. She can be found on IG @nicoleharkinmd. Visit her website at www.wholeheartcardiology.com to sign up for her newsletter and learn more about her practice.

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FULL BIO: Nicole Harkin, MD, FACC is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology, and Clinical Lipidology. After graduating from Boston University School of Medicine, she attended Columbia University for Internal Medicine residency and New York University for Cardiology fellowship. Upon completion of her Cardiology fellowship, including serving as a chief fellow, she remained on at NYU as an Assistant Attending. In her role as a private practice cardiologist in Manhattan, she helped countless patients treat and prevent heart disease. She is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, as well as a member of the National Lipid Association and American Society for Preventive Cardiology. Dr Harkin recently moved to San Francisco, CA with her family and founded Whole Heart Cardiology, with the mission of providing patient centered cardiac care, evidence-based nutritional guidance, and personalized lifestyle plans for her patients in a modern setting. She takes pride in helping patients achieve their goals, feel better, and thrive. When not doctoring, she spends the majority of her time with her three young children. She also enjoys cooking, yoga, Peloton-ing, hiking, and traveling.

Episode 57: Chronic Stress Management with Dr. Bindiya Gandhi

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Welcome to this week’s episode on stress management! What an important topic especially in the time of COVID-19 when we are all feeling so incredibly stressed in different ways. In this week’s episode, I chat with Dr. Bindiya Gandhi about chronic stress management. She says she’s always known that she wanted to practice more than a traditional medicine practice. She became yoga and Reiki certified in medical school and started learning about integrative medicine while in medical school. After completion of her family practice residency, she completed her integrative medicine and functional medicine fellowships.

During residency, she talks about dealing with stress and the ability to heal herself through her knowledge of integrative and functional medicine. She discusses how chronic stress can be a gateway to other chronic medical conditions, notably decreasing your immune system. How do we react to stress in a positive way? How do we manifest stress in our lives? 

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Find out more about Dr. Bindiya Gandhi on Instagram @DrBindiyaMD website drbindiyamd.com mindbodygreen.com cleanplatesacademy.com 

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FULL BIO: Dr. Bindiya Gandhi is double boarded by the American Board Family Medicine as well as the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Physicians. She completed her family medicine training from Georgia Regents University/Medical College of Georgia June 2014. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of Georgia with Bachelors of Science in Biology and Psychology in 2004 and her Doctor of Medicine at American University of Antigua College of Medicine in 2010. She completed an Integrative medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona with Dr. Andrew Weil in 2016. She also completed Functional Medicine Training with the Institute of Functional Medicine in 2017.

Her interests include integrative, holistic and functional medicine, women’s health, preventative medicine, international medicine and health care reform. She’s also a certified yoga instructor and reiki master. She used to  practice emergency medicine as well. Dr. Bindiya is a media expert and contributor to numerous sites including The Daily Mail, MindbodyGreen, PopSugar, Clean Plated, Well + Good and more! When she’s not working or writing you can find her in the kitchen cooking, doing yoga or enjoying time with her family and pup.