Webinars and Podcasts
Brain on Fire Starts In Utero
In this episode, you’ll discover:
What is a Dysfunctional Immune System? (7:03)
Why Synaptic Pruning Matters (9:44)
The Importance of Immune Activation In Utero (13:49)
Some Key Herbs and Nutrients That Modulate The Immune System (18:37)
The Relationship Between Maternal Immune Activation and Autism (24:42)
The Role Autoimmunity Plays (33:51)
Ways To Address The Obstacles in The Way (40:31)
Prenatal Nutrition
Dr. Ari Calhoun joins us this week and is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to preconception, prenatal, and pediatric health. Ari shares her tips for creating not only a healthy lifestyle and body for mom but how that directly translates to the health of a growing baby. Ari shares how most women are not receiving adequate macro and micronutrients and simple things you can look to add into your diet, both food and with supplementing, but also shares that if you have the means to dig deep with a practitioner such as herself, how you can drastically change pregnancy, birth, and pediatric outcomes for you and your children.
Vaccines from a Neurodevelopmental Perspective
Vaccines from a brain development point of view: Our goal was to tease apart the tough decision-making parents either want or have to make for various reasons, and Dr. Ari shares an individualized approach that we wish all families received.
Assessing risk factors for illness, as well as using other methods of risk mitigation, are important parts of this conversation. We discuss vaccination during pregnancy, the immune system’s role in normal neurodevelopment, how the brain gets primed for inflammation, the problems with the current schedule and ways to optimize a delayed schedule, detox, autism, testing, measles, and more. Here we go!
Vaccines – A Doctor Mom‘s Approach
Med School for Moms: On this week’s episode, Dr. Elana interviews naturopathic doctor, Dr. Ari Calhoun on the topic of vaccines. You will learn what a Doctor Mom’s approach to vaccines means and how to ultimately feel empowered making these complex and difficult decisions for your children. Dr. Ari Calhoun is on a mission to stop the exponential rise in chronic pediatric disease and is thus passionate about educating parents on the importance of preconception care, thoughtful vaccination, environmental toxins, and optimal nourishment from the very start.
Webinar: The Vagus Nerve and Polyvagal Theory
A well-regulated nervous system is central to our physical and psychological health and well-being. When our nervous system is dysregulated it manifests in a multitude of ways that can cause a cascade effect of symptoms for you or your child.
We will be discussing 5 ways to help your children (and you!) move out of chronically dysregulated states of being, into more calm, flexible, resilient and socially engaged states.
Baby Brain Support in Pregnancy
On today’s episode of Healthy as a Mother Podcast, we interview Dr. Ari Calhoun, one of the top experts on Autism and other childhood brain development conditions. She helps us unpack this increasingly common diagnosis, and she shares some practical tips on how to support your child’s brain development before pregnancy, in utero, and during early childhood in order to reduce the risks for Autism and other neurodevelopment disorders. You do not want to miss this one!
Childhood Behavior & Preconception Care
On the Primal Kitchen Podcast, Dr Ari discusses childhood neurodevelopment conditions, autoimmune conditions, and the journey through motherhood from preconception all the way until early toddlerhood, using an integrative approach to manage symptoms and empower parents to understand risk factors, while not fearing everything and everything. Listen in as we discuss everything from reducing your toxin exposure while pregnant, essential nutrients during pregnancy, and important baby first foods to try!
A Fresh Look at Autism
In this episode of the Dr. Lo Radio Show, Dr. Lauren Noel interview Dr. Ari on natural solutions to autism. In this episode, you will learn:
- About autism prevalence and how rates of autism have risen over time.
- Factors that have been theorized to contribute to that rise.
- Root causes of autism from the biomedical/functional medicine perspective (including: gut health, toxicity, immune system regulation, mitochondrial health, and nutrient imbalances)
- First signs and symptoms of autism and what steps you should take if you are concerned.
- How parents can take a proactive approach and optimize their child’s neurodevelopment.
How to Make Informed and Empowered Vaccine Decisions
In this episode of the Doctor Mom’s Podcast, Dr. Elana Interviews Dr. Ari on the topic of vaccines. In this episode, you will learn:
- How to be an informed and proactive parent regarding vaccines.
- Resources to help you navigate this complex and controversial topic.
- What type of risk factors could make a child susceptible to disease.
- What type of risk factors could make a child susceptible to adverse reactions.
- How to learn about vaccine laws in your state How to approach your doctor and share your request and plan.
- How to find a doctor who supports your choices
How Genetically Based Nutrient Imbalances Determine Personality Subtypes
Watch to hear more about one of our main approaches for mood imbalances. Dr. Calhoun discusses the main subtypes identified by Dr. William Walsh, the founder of the Walsh Research Institute and further explains how Advanced Nutrient Therapy can be used to correct the root cause of anxiety, depression, OCD, disordered eating, ADHD, behavioral disorders, and more!
Choosing the Best Prenatal
Beyond her work as a clinician specializing in the preconception time period, Dr. Calhoun consults for the supplement company, Needed, which has created an entire nutrition plan for women in the perinatal time period. In this webinar, Dr. Ari Calhoun and her colleague Dr. Leah Gordon take a deep dive into the literature and outline what really needs to be in a prenatal and where there were gaps in the prenatal industry. They discuss why the “essential” mentality leaves women nutrient depleted, and why Needed’s prenatal has been specifically designed to not only nourish baby, but mama too!
Preconception Preparation
Listen in to Dr. Ari Calhoun’s conversation with Dr. Leah Gordon (founder of Tribe Medicine) and Ryan Woodbury (Co-founder of the supplement company Needed) as they discuss practical steps for preconception preparation and real life setbacks they have each experienced on their journey to pregnancy.
Importance of Preconception Care
On this episode, Dr. Ari is interviewed on the Podcast, Helping Children Thrive. Dr. Ari discusses the importance of prenatal health and what parents should do to prepare themselves before they conceive their child.
Through her own battle with autoimmunity, infertility, and other chronic illness, she has come to understand the importance of solid health foundations from as early as the preconception time period. As a parent, Dr. Ari realized just how difficult it can be to raise a child in an environment filled with toxins, electronics, and commercialized junk food.
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