Dr. M's Women and Children First Podcast
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Dr. M's Women and Children First Podcast
Providing listeners with cutting edge science based information for maternal and child health
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Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #113: Navaz Habib, DC – Vagal Action and Health
Welcome back to Dr. M’s Women and Children First.
Today, we are joined by one of the leading voices in the world of vagus nerve health,...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 15 – Virus and Food
Should You Feed A Viral Illness?
This Nature news article discusses emerging evidence that eating may acutely enhance immune re...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 14 – The Adult Chair
The Adult Chair, the Adolescent Chair and the Child's Chair
The Adult Chair by Michelle Chalfant is a practical framework for e...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 13 – Birth Order
Birth Order
Birth Order Is Biology, Not Birthright - so says a new paper in MedRxIV (Kramer et. al. 2026)
Here i...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #112: Mona Delahooke, PhD – Beyond Behaviors
Today on Dr. M’s Women and Children First, we welcome one of the most important voices in modern child development and behavioral science, Mona Delaho...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 12 – Creatine and Microbiomes
Creatine and Microbiomes
A new 2026 Cell Metabolism study explores a compelling and increasingly central idea in modern biology...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #111: Duey Freeman, MA – Attachment
Welcome back to Dr. M’s Women and Children First. Today’s conversation moves into one of the deepest layers of human development: attachment, relation...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 11 – Magnesium
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Magnesium
Magnesium is a major cofactor in over 300 enzymatic reactions in the body, less a s...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 10 – Covid 6 Years Later
Covid 6 Years Later
What Should We Remember
The COVID Post-Mortem: What We Missed (and What We Still Can Fix)
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #110: F3 Nation and Fatherhood
Welcome to Dr. M's Women and Children First Podcast. Today’s conversation is a little different.
Six men. One table. No scripts.
...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 10 – Leadership
Brene Brown - Leadership
Tools to Teach Your Children and SELF
“Stand firmly enough to lead, loosely enough to listen.”<...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #109: Nutrition, Epigenetic Change and Childhood Disease
Nothing in biology is random.
Not growth.
Not metabolism.
Not disease.
What we will explore today is the reality that the...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 8 – Systems Biology
THE FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE STORY
DR. JEFF BLAND
"Change occurs from the outside in"
Dr. Bland
Medici...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 7 – Biological Fitness
Elk Antlers - What a Story
After returning from Jackson Hole, Wyoming this week, I was struck by the beauty of the Elk refuge, a place...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #108: Halie Hauser – Storytime
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On today’s episode of Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast, we welcome Halie Hauser, a pediatric clinician, stor...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 6 – Children
Why Don't They Win
There are moments, usually late, usually quiet, when honest thinking can be had. When you zoom out and see the ecos...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 5 – Relationship Balance
Finding Relational Balance
Relational balance falters when one person needs the other to feel safe or whole. A parent in a str...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #107: Sundeep Dugar, PhD – Drug Discovery
On today’s episode of Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast, we welcome a scientist whose work has quietly shaped the cardiovascular health of mill...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 4 – Relationships
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Literature Review:
A) "Establishment of the gut microbiome during early life is a complex pro...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 3 – Beyond Behaviors Chapter 4
Chapter 4 of Beyond Behaviors is often read as a continuation of the neuroscience laid out in the first three chapters. That’s understandable, but it...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #106: Nayan Patel, PharmD – Glutathione
Welcome back to Dr. M's Women and Children Firsts Podcast. Today’s conversation sits at the crossroads of chemistry, skepticism, and clinical innovati...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 2 – School Food
School Based Nutrition - Why is it happening this way?
There is a quiet experiment happening in American childhood, and we should stop...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #105: Carrie Jones, ND – Hormone Literacy
Dr. Carrie Jones, ND, MPH
Hormone Literacy
Welcome back to Dr. M’s Women and Children First, where we step back from sym...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 16 Issue 1 – Beyond Behaviors Part 3, Mona Delahooke, PhD
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Chapter 3 - Individual Differences
Dr. Delahooke starts Chapter 3 by allowing Margaret Mead t...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 32 – Year in Review: 2025
The Year in Review - 2025
Articles and Points of Interest:
1) Microplastics in the Brain - From Science Advances...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #104: SMaeve O’Connor, MD – Allergy and Immune Literacy
Today, I’m joined by Dr. Maeve O’Connor, a board-certified allergist and immunologist practicing in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dr. O’Connor’s t...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 31 – Poly Vagal Theory, Stephen Porges, PhD
I think that this is an important time to pause and relook at Polyvagal Theory before continuing with Beyond Behaviors.
Polyvagal Theor...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #69 Repost – Stephen Porges, Ph.D. – Polyvagal Theory
This week I sit down with Dr. Stephen Porges, a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Trau...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 30 – Beyond Behaviors Part 2, Mona Delahooke, PhD
Review of Chapter 2 of Beyond Behaviors
by Mona Delahooke, PhD
"Social behavior and the capacity to manage challenge a...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #103: Sam Yanuck, DC – Cogence
Today on Dr. M’s Women and Children First, we’re joined by Dr. Sam Yanuck, a clinician-educator who has spent more than three decades translating immu...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #103: Sam Yanuck DC – Cogence
Today on Dr. M’s Women and Children First, we’re joined by Dr. Sam Yanuck, a clinician-educator who has spent more than three decades translating immu...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 29 – Beyond Behaviors, Mona Delahooke, PhD
Review of Chapter 1 of Beyond Behaviors
by Mona Delahooke, PhD
"When we see a behavior that is problematic or confusin...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 28 – Feeding Infants
Food in Infancy
What do we know?
"Humans are the only mammals who feed our young special complementary foods before wean...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #102: Jeremy Goldberg – Life Begins
This weeks Guest is Dr. Jeremy Goldberg. He styles himself as a compassion cultivating day making change agent/empathy collecting not quitting word wi...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue Thanksgiving
THANKSGIVING THOUGHTS
Every year, as the leaves turn and the air gets that crisp bite, I’m pulled back to 1621 in Plymouth, Mas...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 27 – Immune Aging
The Evolutionary Tug-of-War - Inflammation’s Double-Edged Sword
"Environmental factors, particularly infections, have fundamentally shaped huma...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #101: Sandy Newmark, MD; Elisa Song, MD; Leslie Stone, MD – Autism Etiology?
Today’s conversation takes us upstream—to the source—of one of the most pressing and emotionally charged topics in modern pediatrics: the rise in auti...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 26 – Back To Sleep
Back to Sleep and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is defined as “the sudden death of an infant under on...
Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast #100 Wayne Koontz, MD – Vaccines and Disease over 50 years
Today on Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast, we welcome Dr. Wayne Koontz, a founding partner at Salisbury Pediatric Associates in Salisbury Nort...
Dr. M’s SPA Newsletter Volume 15 Issue 25 – Tough Conversations
Speaking Truth in Love: The Weight of Avoidance in Pediatric Metabolic Health
After completing the second round of our Asthma and Obesity Metab...