Ep 47: Hormones & Endocrine System Primer with Leah Sullivan, NP

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How do the things you’re exposed to—food, environment, emotional experiences—impact your physical and mental health? Hormones and neurotransmitters (like serotonin, dopamine and their friends) play key roles.
This week on A Coach, a Nutritionist, and an Expert Walk Into a Podcast welcome November Expert-in-residence Leah Sullivan, NP as she engages Mike Krause and Dr. Helena Fowler, DCN in a discussion all about the role our hormones and neurotransmitters play in self-awareness, healing, mood, resilience, and physical and mental health.
In this week’s episode:
🎙️What is the endocrine system anyway?
🎙️What are hormones and neurotransmitters? How do they work?
🎙️How the body maintains internal balance and the factors that disrupt that balance
🎙️The role of hormones on mental health
🎙️The necessity of healing the emotional causes of physiological imbalance
🎙️The role of diet, exercise and social interactions on health and wellbeing
🎙️Dopamine and social media
🎙️Interconnectedness of emotional and physical health
🎙The role of pharmaceuticals, diet, lifestyle and therapy in treating mental health
Leah Sullivan is a Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner and a member of the American Academy of Anti Aging Medicine currently serving as the Medical Provider for Optimal Medicine.
Leah graduated Summa Cum Laude from California State University Fullerton with a Bachelors’ Degree in Nursing Science, she then went on to earn her Masters’s Degree in Family Practice from UCLA in 2015, where she specialized in endocrinology and contributed to several research studies including sleep disorders, eating disorders, and treatment resistant depression.
The following six years were spent serving as the Primary Care Provider at a high-volume clinic in Los Angeles County, where Leah used a holistic approach to treat patients with chronic and acute illness, including obesity and metabolic syndrome.
Inspired by the beauty and lifestyle of Central Oregon, Leah relocated to Bend in 2001. The move afforded her the opportunity to further her passion for achieving a higher quality of life for her patients through a combination of lifestyle modifications, peptide therapy, hormone replacement therapy, and a variety of cutting-edge approaches to aging and mental health.
Recognizing that eating disorders are often related to untreated trauma and depression, Leah completed the Ketamine Research Foundations rigorous training for Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in 2022, and has been offering this innovative treatment for depression, anxiety, and PTSD for the past 2 years at her clinic in Redmond.
Leah’s personal passions include studying the benefits of psychedelic medicines, hiking, cooking and integrating her knowledge on a personal and professional level.

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