Back in Control with David Hanscom, MD

Helping Clients Find a Better Way to Heal

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Charlie Merrill, a physiotherapist, clinician educator and consultant to startup Lin Health. He shares how he has created a practice of treating chronic pain that is based on building a strong and trusting relationship with the patient. He helps patients understand the dynamics of pain by explaining the issue in a systemic way, reduce their fear and establish greater autonomy in their own healing process. Along the way to developing his current approach, he had to unlearn much of his traditional medical education around the treatment of chronic pain. Charlie Merrill is a Boulder, CO based physiotherapist synthesizing mind/body strategies to treat acute and chronic pain symptoms. He supports clients across the life span, including elite athletes, in un-learning symptoms by addressing their fear about the pain itself as well as fear about the emotions related to life stress and change.  In addition to teaching clinicians, Charlie’s work with startup Lin Health is normalizing, scaling, and improving access to the idea and treatment strategies that acknowledge and address the ways in which emotions manifest as physical symptoms. For more information, visit: lin.health.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Unlearn Overeating

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with author and consultant Gillian Riley.  She details the approach she uses to help clients control overeating. Some of the key elements include: getting clients to understand what drives their cravings and why they need to create new neural pathways to control them; developing self-agency and avoiding unsolicited advice; showing them how they can be in charge of their diet and their relationship to food; encouraging them to take small steps and think about how overeating will make them feel afterwards. After teaching a program on quitting smoking for 12 years, Gillian Riley ran her first course on “How to take Control of Overeating” in 1997. She held weekend workshops in London for 20 years, delivered the course through webinars since 2017, and is now about to begin her 18th 6-week online course. Her work has as its focus the extraordinary and often ignored role of the mind in behavior change such as stopping smoking and eating less. For more information, visit: https://eatingless.com/.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taking Charge of Overeating

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with author and consultant Gillian Riley. She explains how we respond to unconscious eating cues with deeply embedded biological responses. She discusses how becoming aware of these hidden cues is the first step to control overeating. Balancing long term and short term rewards is a key to eating less and eating better. A key aspect of her approach is helping clients understand they have freedom of choice over what and how they eat. After teaching a program on quitting smoking for 12 years, Gillian Riley ran her first course on “How to take Control of Overeating” in 1997. She held weekend workshops in London for 20 years, delivered the course through webinars since 2017, and is now about to begin her 18th 6-week online course. Her work has as its focus the extraordinary and often ignored role of the mind in behavior change such as stopping smoking and eating less. For more information, visit: https://eatingless.com/.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How to Say Hello to Good Health

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom continues his discussion with Pam Wirth, a Principal of consultancy Strategic Growth Advisory and founder of Hello Health.  She discusses the founding of her company, Hello Health, and outlines the steps to effectively use supplementation for improved health and treatment of a variety of conditions. These include getting tested to determine your gut health and developing a personalized supplementation profile that yields the most effective results for you. Pamela Wirth is a hockey mom, lifelong learner, Carnegie Mellon trained MBA, former public company executive, management consultant, author and health enthusiast. She is Principal of Strategic Growth Advisory consulting for startups to public companies. Additionally, she founded Hello Health with doctor-formulated supplements following a neurodiversity diagnosis of her son and is dedicated to nutrition, education and building a network to help heal more people - particularly those with Neurodiversity, Autoimmune and Autism syndromes. Ms. Wirth enjoys health and wellness, traveling, and helping others, specifically enabling children to feel better from the inside out. She combined these passions along with her experience while living in Europe and Asia with US doctors and other families to write Hello, Health. Ms. Wirth's consulting, life experiences and attention to detail allowed her to work with a number of people and companies with a passion for helping others. For more information, visit: https://www.hello.health.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Mother’s Self-Healing Journey with Her Child

In this episode, Dr. David Hanscom talks with Pam Wirth, a Principal of consultancy Strategic Growth Advisory and founder of Hello Health. She shares the story of how her 5 year old son developed serious neurologic symptoms from an intense autoimmune response. She chronicles her struggle to get help from an indifferent healthcare system and how she finally discovered the power of diet and supplementation to heal her son’s condition. She details the combination of dietary changes, probiotics and supplements that led to his cure. Pamela Wirth is a hockey mom, lifelong learner, Carnegie Mellon trained MBA, former public company executive, management consultant, author and health enthusiast. She is Principal of Strategic Growth Advisory consulting for startups to public companies. Additionally, she founded Hello Health with doctor-formulated supplements following a neurodiversity diagnosis of her son and is dedicated to nutrition, education and building a network to help heal more people - particularly those with Neurodiversity, Autoimmune and Autism syndromes. Ms. Wirth enjoys health and wellness, traveling, and helping others, specifically enabling children to feel better from the inside out. She combined these passions along with her experience while living in Europe and Asia with US doctors and other families to write Hello, Health. Ms. Wirth's consulting, life experiences and attention to detail allowed her to work with a number of people and companies with a passion for helping others. For more information, visit: https://www.hello.health.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices