The Dr. Chalmers Wellness Insights Podcast episode features an in-depth conversation between Dr. Matt Chalmers and Scott Richardson discussing Scott's experiences with ketamine therapy following multiple family tragedies. Scott candidly shares his journey through grief, the impact on his mental health, and how ketamine treatments aided his healing process. The conversation delves into setting intentions, dealing with loss, and the profound effect ketamine therapy had on Scott's emotional well-being, offering a glimpse into the transformative potential of this therapy in addressing trauma and mental health challenges.00:55 - COVID pneumonia03:21 - The joyful times that you're supposed to be enjoying in life05:27 - The minimum dosage06:05 - Check your hormones07:15 - A thing called mind-blowing09:54 - How to build that in your mind versus the other ones you did?10:27 - When you have anxiety and you tell it to somebody14:25 - Talking to your subconscious16:04 - Bad part of COVID18:06 - You got to figure out how to set your own intention20:30 - PR surgery22:15 - Psychotherapy or talk therapy23:36 - The Academy thinghttps://pillarsofwellness.com/ (https://pillarsofwellness.com/)As always, if you have any questions, please send them to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you.Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates!On my Wellness Insights, Substack, Comment, Like, and Interact with others on their wellness journey. Communities can make a difference. https://drchalmers.substack.com/ (https://drchalmers.substack.com/)For everything about my TEDx talk go HERE NOW https://pillarsofwellness.com/tedx/

Matt, a first responder, discussed his personal experience with PTSD on the "Wellness Insights" podcast. He emphasized the increased trauma exposure for current first responders and the importance of recognizing and supporting those dealing with significant trauma. Matt also shared his journey through various treatments, including therapy and experimental treatments, and the challenges faced in managing PTSD. The conversation also highlighted the prevalence of trauma and PTSD among first responders and the need for effective treatments.00:16 - The psychological trauma that we get02:24 - Ignorant to PTSD and very naive about it05:34 - The mindset you needed12:00 - Excellent book on trauma, PTSD17:59 - Traditional therapy modalities22:47 -The triggers, the associations31:08 - It's not necessarily a one-and-done lifetime35:30 - The COE and discharging and I started with the doctor38:21 - People are putting on 65 medicationshttps://pillarsofwellness.com/ (https://pillarsofwellness.com/)As always, if you have any questions, please send them to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you.Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates!On my Wellness Insights, Substack, Comment, Like, and Interact with others on their wellness journey. Communities can make a difference. https://drchalmers.substack.com/ (https://drchalmers.substack.com/)For everything about my TEDx talk go HERE NOW https://pillarsofwellness.com/tedx/

#wellnessjourney #holistichealth #mindsetmatters #mindset Highlights of the podcast00:15 - Changing diets and using glycemic function08:53 - Zero cheat meals11:00 - 85 things at the same time13:03 - Preparing the mindset for the mindset change you get with a psychotic drug like a calendar16:05 - The greatest experience of their lives19:20 - Too much of is stress and psychological trauma20:30 - The biggest thing is that when you start looking from a neurologic side21:29 - People don't think that the mindset matters23:48 - tremendous difference in how you're going to go about things25:02 - Get in the right mindset33:09 - Learn how to bring it back to focus36:35 - How you detect and fix diabetes41:28 - Beneficial for fat-burning people44:13 - ATP or any creation of nutrient or any glucose crashes49:40 - Amino acids to go back to the systemhttps://pillarsofwellness.com/ (https://pillarsofwellness.com/)As always, if you have any questions, please send them to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you.Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates!On my Wellness Insights, Substack, Comment, Like, and Interact with others on their wellness journey. Communities can make a difference. https://drchalmers.substack.com/ (https://drchalmers.substack.com/)For everything about my TEDx talk go HERE NOW https://pillarsofwellness.com/tedx/

As I have said in many of my articles and podcasts, weight is not always the key measurement for wellness. In this podcast, I am responding to many questions about hormones, testosterone, estrogen, and three critical wellness techniques. #healthandwellness #weightmanagement #testosterone #podcast 00:51 - How does your body handle sugars or insulin functionality02:48 - The impact of macro sets (high fat, high carb, or even distribution) on metabolic function03:07 - Hormones and their role in metabolism, including testosterone, insulin, estrogen, and thyroid hormones04:34 - Testosterone as the healing hormone.07:12 - Personal examples of incorporating keto-friendly desserts into the diet.07:24 - Impact of seed oils, gluten, glyphosate, and processing on metabolic health.12:40 - Mindset in achieving health and fitness goals.14:11 - Consistency and staying the course in fitness and health journeys.15:47 - The idea that calories are important but chemistry matters more in achieving desired results.https://pillarsofwellness.com/ (https://pillarsofwellness.com/)As always, if you have any questions, please send them to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you.Check out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates!On my Wellness Insights, Substack, Comment, Like, and Interact with others on their wellness journey. Communities can make a difference. https://drchalmers.substack.com/ (https://drchalmers.substack.com/)For everything about my TEDx talk go HERE NOW https://pillarsofwellness.com/tedx/

Maaxx West is a dynamic content creator, influencer, and now the 2023 Miss WBFF Bikini World Champion. In this podcast episode, we talk about Maaxx’s insights to success. Overcoming being teased about how she talked was just the start of her path to mental fortitude. Being strong mentally and physically is part of the path to wellness. In my book “Pillars of Wellness,” I cover how the body and mind have to work as one so that people can enjoy their lives even 20 years from now.Maaxx has succeeded in achieving many goals that may have been unobtainable if not for her insights and learning how to tune her mental and physical fortitude.Her website is madmaaxx.com and has a significant social media reach and impact across TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Her website is madmaaxx.com and has a significant social media reach and impact across Tick Tock, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. madmaaxx.mediaofficialpureblood.comnobloatclub.comAs always if you have any questions, please send them to [email protected] out Chalmers Pillarsofwellness.com for Wellness updates! And ask me any questions you have at [email protected]. I answer all of them and look forward to hearing from you.  Check out everything on my TEDx talk at Pillarsofwellness/tedx.com (https://pillarsofwellness.com/tedx/)The Chalmers Wellness Substack just launched. Comment, Like, and Interact with other people on their wellness journey. Communities can make a difference. DrChalmers.substack.comDisclaimer: This content is for informational purposes only. Before taking any action based on this information you should first consult with your physician or health care provider. This information is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health providers with any questions regarding a medical condition, your health, or wellness.

Check out all things around my TEDx talk at Pillarsofwellness.com/tedx#opiods #cannabisheals #addictionrecovery #tedxtalk This video includes questions- What was the reason I gave my ten-year-old son, why did he have the surgery? - How did I approach the dilemma of using Opioids for my son's pain management?Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] This is Dr. Chalmers. Welcome to Wellness Insights with me. Dr. Chalmers. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:07] How did it affect my son's pain management? A lot. I mean, this is more, and I have all the pictures. If you knew me, you wanted to throw up, but I had to take pictures of it while they were doing it. They did chip the bone off of his plate because of the bone and sort of growing over it. So imagine that they decided this long prior. It opens. They can get to the they can get inside, and they can start working on the actual bones. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:23] And they had to take a chisel and literally like chip away at the bone that's in there before they can even unscrew the screws. When it was done. So you can see the incision, and you can see the bone, and there are holes, there are six holes in the back, like not like small holes, like big old holes where those screws used to be all the way through. And so then they put it back together. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:47] What happened the first time that he had the surgery when they put him in is that he had a reaction to the dissolvable strips, sorry, the dissolvable sutures they used. And so it had opened up. We had this wound issue to him; he had this giant scar. It was like three-quarters of an inch this way by the entire six-inch length of the scar. So what they did was they did a scar revision where they just cut off that scab. So he had to have the bone chipped away. He had six giant holes in the actual bone. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:22] Maybe six inches cut out and then sewn back together. That's that's what the surgery was. So I really understand this was not like pulling a splinter out. This was a major actual surgery, A to a ten-year-old. And then what we ended up doing was we just cut little strips, and I gave him little strips, and he was fine whenever he would be like, Hey, Dad, my arm starting to hurt, I would give him a little strip, and he put it under his tongue. It would dissolve, and he'd be fine. Ten or 15 minutes later, I'd be like, Hey, how's your arm? He's like, Oh, it's fine. And he would go back to reading, and I was making sure that he wasn't getting high because I wanted to make sure the dose was right. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:32] And I would talk to him and stuff like that, and he his normal silly self in anything, nothing I would consider that was an added bonus. No, no, no high issues. So it worked out really, really well. What observations do I make about the son's experience with sublingual strips in terms of psychological effects. This is how I knew that I'd use them on me, and I'd use them on my friends and use them on everybody else. But when I gave them to my son for his issues, that's really when I knew. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:16] I knew for a fact This is our replacement for opioids. This is it. My ten-year-old is not high. He's talking normally. He's reading his book. He's remembering everything he read. He has no pain. This is what we need to be doing. This is it. This is where we need to go. The observation was that we have our solution. I'm done looking. This is it. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:35] We need everybody to know we have a new national conversation about this. We need to be using these in everybody so that we don't have addiction issues. We don't have the death issues and can bring everybody back together. We can rebuild and stabilize our families. So 100%,

Check out all things around my TEDx talk at Pillarsofwellness.com/tedxIt is rewarding to get feedback and start discussions around the opioid crisis across the nation. As we progress, we will post our interviews and discussions to help bridge the conversations. Please send me your questions at [email protected] about any of the research as you can help with the crisis through your discussions. This podcast features some questions that have been sent in from viewers of my TEDx talk. This podcast features questions.- How much do I Emphasize the Importance of shutting off the Amygdala?- Consider Cannabis as a NutrientThe following is a transcription of this podcast from [email protected]. Matt Chalmers [00:00:03] This. Doctor Chalmers, welcome to Wellness Insights with me, Dr. Chalmers. Which part of the brain is can have the ability to affect and how does this impact anxiety? Well, if you specifically are talking about anxiety, that's the amygdala. So the amygdala is in the temporal lobe and it is responsible for all the bad things in the world. Fear, hate, anger, terror, stress, anxiety, all that stuff. So that's the big issue with how it affects the brain and affects the amygdala. And we want it to affect the amygdala. It does not affect the pons, like I said earlier. So you can continue to breathe as much as you want to. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:32] It has more impact on the temporal lobe than anything else, which is really good because that's where epileptic epilepsy comes from. So we can actually suppress temporal firing, which a so a seizure is abnormal firing in the temporal lobe. Okay. So we can decrease firing in the temporal lobe. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:50] Guess what? All of a sudden we've decreased seizures and that's what we see with all of cannabis in epilepsy. So that's why epilepsy and cannabis works so well together because of that suppression of abnormal firing in the temporal lobe. It does have some suppression function to the frontal lobe. So you're not gonna be able to think nearly as well that, you know, depending on how much you've consumed and where you're at, you know, you might have anywhere from 0 to 10% functional command loss. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:18] I will tell you that as a personal thing, something I'm super not proud of. There's been lots and lots of times in my youth where I would drink too much and then drive home. I know it's stupid. It's the worst thing I've ever done. It's terrible, but I've never consumed cannabis and then thought, you know, I should drive. In fact, there's been a couple of times where I was supposed to leave at a certain time and I went, No, I don't feel like I'm good to drive. I'm going to wait 30 minutes, which has never happened with Canada, with with, with alcohol. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:44] So as far as making bad decisions, I have not seen it. You're going to say to silly stop because that you think is profound. But that's about it. And the worst thing you're going to do is eat too much. That's from what we've seen. That's basically what's going on. How much do I emphasize the importance of shutting out the amygdala? My entire practice is based around the quality of life. Wellness is the quality of life over time. Shutting off stress is the number one thing I try to do. And so shutting down the amygdala, calming it down, the thing that tells you that everything is terrible, that you're you're scared, that you have stress, that you know, all the negative things fear, hate, anger, terror. How about how much how important to shutting that off? Really important. Really important. Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:25] So, yeah, like this is a daily thing. Like, we should start working on this.

Refuting the notion that cannabis produces substantial unwanted psychological effects? Research, included my TEDx talk may be the key. Check out all things around my TEDx talk at Pillarsofwellness.com/tedxA national discussion is needed. There is way too much emotion without looking at facts and the research. Shooting from the hip is ok in a western movie, but not acceptable in the medical profession.  My goal is to help lead the discussions and would welcome people from all sides to send me questions and potential podcast guest on my podcast at [email protected] today’s question there are many facets to cannabis, and stereotyping is one of the biggest hurdles to cross. My question video and full TEDx talk are embedded below. Also listed is some of my research links and articles I have written. The following is an automatic transcription and has been edited only for grammar. What's the advantage of suddenly with stress? It gets in your body a lot faster. You don't have to smoke it, so it doesn't damage your lungs. You don't have vapors, damage your lungs, throat, mouth, and all that type of stuff. And it doesn't go through what's called first pass; it has to go through the liver first. So it's a lot cleaner, a lot safer way of doing it. It's faster, and there's no smoking involved. So it's awesome. Was the typical activation time for Southern well strips compared to other forms of oral stuff that you will do? So gummies, brownies, cookies, and stuff like that. 30 to 45 minutes for you. Getting functional activation strips will take anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes. Just depends. So, under the tongue or on the cheek, if you put them on your tongue, you will swallow most of it. So, under the tongue or on the cheek in the front of the gums also works like a dip. But that's that's how we do that one. How do I refute the notion that cannabis produces substantial unwanted psychological effects? Because all of the research that says it does is bullshit. It is hilarious. I read one about how it causes schizophrenia. What the problem was is that when you read the research, like we had these six people, and they like cannabis, and they'll end up with schizophrenia when they got older. So, you know, is that the cause? It did not discuss any psychological trauma. It did not discuss any genetics. Ron So, like, did the parents have it? Do the grandparents have it or have schizophrenia? There were no studies beforehand. They were just like, hey, we found these kids, and they ended up with schizophrenia, and they liked cannabis. Okay, Yeah. So you took a thousand kids. They all ate cannabis. Six or seven ended up schizophrenic, and you single those guys out and say it was because of the cannabis. IIt's trash. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. There is no real research that shows any deficits because of cannabis. All the ones are trying to say, Well, you know what? These kids smoked a lot of pot when they were 13, and now they're dumb. Okay. But many people I know who were smart when they were 13 are dumb now because they didn't apply themselves. So, trying to say that it was because of the cannabis is foolish. I have tons of people that I know who I think are really smart lawyers and doctors and engineers who've been using cannabis since they were teenagers. So, I have not seen any research, and I read it all the time, and I would 100% not get into it and put my name behind it. If I had read research that said that it did anything negative. One thing we see a lot is if people like it, they like the way they are the person they are in it. They like the way they feel. They think that they're calmer, more relaxed, laugh easier, and think, hey,

It was an honor to have the opportunity to present a TEDx talk about the opioid crisis, and the talk was about how the solution to a potential 60% reduction in death by opioids. Feedback and interactions have been fantastic. Here is the first question broken out in a video response. Check out all of my research on the solution to the opiod crisis at  Pillarsofwellness.com/tedx.comDr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:00:03] This. Doctor Chalmers, welcome to Wellness Insights with me, Dr. Chalmers. All right, so we talked about this a little bit, my TEDx talk. How do I address the concern about dosing cannabis? So the problem we get into is that if you're just smoking flowers, smoking joints, that type of thing, it's really hard to get five or ten milligrams. [00:00:20][16.7]Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:00:22] Again, the whole joints can hurt you. But if you're a little bit too high to function and you're laughing all the time, you're not going to get through your day. So gummies can do this. Not great. But if you find low-dose gummies, five mg, that type of thing, that's fantastic. But the strips, the sublingual strips that I like. [00:00:31][9.4]Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:00:31] So if you're if you're out and about game eight strips dot com, that's a delta eight strip it is at the moment, legal in 30-something states. So I would grab as much as you can because they're going to make that illegal probably by the end of this year. And they have no plans of making cannabis legal for medical in any of the states where it's going to be illegal. So grab what you can because you're going to need it. [00:01:04][33.2]Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:01:05] The way the strips work is that you can cut them in half in thirds. You can get a 16 to just a little tiny sliver off. And that's that's the way that we dose it because, you know, it's a 20 milligram, 25 milligrams strap depending on what you're getting. So if you cut it in half, so obviously math, if it's a 20 milligram cut in half, it's ten and ten. You can't really do that with gummies, though. The way that it works with gummies is that they kind of clump up the active ingredient, and it comes up. And so if you have a gummy like this and it's all over here if you cut it in half, all is going to be here. None of us can be over here. Or you get 70, 30. It's very, very difficult to dose them with gummies, but with the strips since are evenly applied, you can cut them up like that and be really consistent. [00:01:46][41.0]Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:01:46] So you can. No, I need a third of a strip to go to sleep. I need a quarter of a strip to do this. So that's what's been good. One of the ladies found out that we gave this to. She found out that a third of the strip would have the same pain-fighting power as a ten-milligram oxy, which is pretty impressive because that's ten milligrams of basic heroin. Heroin and oxy are the same strength. They're stronger than morphine. Morphine is a one on the scale, and heroin and oxy are about a six or seven. So it's fentanyl, by the way, is 179. So fentanyl is ridiculously stronger and it's used all the time in hospitals to help knock people out. It is a functional drug. [00:02:28][41.5]Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:02:28] It is needed for surgery. It should never be on the street, though. So that's how we address the dosage piece. Now, the fun thing is, is that so? Let's say that you have a pain and let's say it's in your son, and you give him a little bit, and it doesn't quite cover it. You can give him a little bit more and okay, now I know. Now I know I need to give him a quarter of a strap or, you know, a fifth of a strap or whatever to combat this issue. [00:02:52][23.7]Dr. Matt Chalmers.: [00:02:52] This, you know, that's how we dealt with his surgery. I gave him a little bit. He was like, It helps, but not really.

We have so many problems in day-to-day life, and it is important to always look for solutions. Well, our country is in trouble, and one of the biggest problems is the opioid addiction epidemic. I just did my first TEDx talk, and it was a lot of fun,...